The Fête de l'Humanité is moving.
At the start of the school year, the traditional musical and political meeting of the left leaves Seine-Saint-Denis for a former air base in Essonne, where all the partners of the new left alliance Nupes should meet.
On September 9, 10 and 11, this 87th edition should be the occasion for a common debate between the different political forces of Nupes (LFI, EELV, PS, PCF, Generations), as proposed by the communist leader Fabien Roussel.
Given the
“political conditions in which we find ourselves”
, Fabien Gay, director of the daily Humanity told AFP, this year will be all the more
“exceptional”
.
“Very likely, it will be the first time that the entire left will be represented by a stand, that of Nupes
,” he added.
In terms of music, several stages will host nearly forty-five artists, with headliners such as singers Benjamin Biolay and Camélia Jordana, the father-son duo Dutronc & Dutronc, rappers Sexion d'Assaut and Laylow, and DJ Kungs.
After twenty-two years spent in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Fête de l'Huma was forced to leave its mythical playground which will host the media village of the 2024 Olympic Games. destined to become permanent.
The event, launched in 1930 by Marcel Cachin, then director of the left-wing newspaper l'Humanité, will take up new quarters in the southern suburbs of Paris.
Drop in attendance
According to the organization, it took two years of research to find a place capable, and willing, of hosting an event that brings together an average of 500,000 visitors each year.
It will therefore be at Base 217, a former air base between Brétigny-sur-Orge and Le Plessis-Pâté (Essonne), that nearly 270,000 visitors are expected in early September.
A drop in attendance justified, according to the organization, by
“the change and the remoteness”
of the place, located about 35 km from Paris, as well as by a difficult post-pandemic recovery for festivals.
These three days of festivities will also be an opportunity to celebrate peace.
Note, on the event poster: a dove.
Not without an echo of the war that has been raging in Ukraine since February.
