Musiques de Nuit is a not-for-profit association. It is responsible for the artistic project of the Rocher de Palmer, a cultural facility created in 2010, located near Bordeaux in the heart of a working-class district where over 60 different nationalities live side by side.
Le Rocher de Palmer is a facility with 3 performance halls, devoted exclusively to music (all kinds of music), with a co-working space and a cultural business incubator.
A major cultural mediation programme has been put in place with structures in the medical, social and socio-cultural fields, etc.
The My Peace project will be supported by Patrick Duval, the Artistic Director of Le Rocher de Palmer since 2010. He has also been director and founder of the association Musiques de Nuit for 40 years. He is in charge of programming at Le Rocher de Palmer, but also programmes for other festivals in France.
The project is also supported Emma Asensio has been working at the Rocher de Palmer since 2021. She is responsible for concert promotion, communications and public relations.. She also assists Patrick with European projects.
For us, My Peace is an extension of another European project in 2023, G1000, during which secondary school students took part in writing workshops with Souleymane Diamanka, a poet and slammer from a working-class district of Bordeaux, who himself trained in writing workshops in the 1990s.
For My Peace, we are calling on 4 highly motivated young people spotted by Souleymane Diamanka at G1000. For us, it's a way of showcasing the mediation work we've been doing for many years, and making this essential community work visible.
For us, it will strengthen our links with the Cenon high school, which is a vocational high school, and will enable us to develop a discourse promoting the issue of peace based on texts written by young people. We are also interested in establishing links with humanitarian associations and young people, who are often far removed from these concerns.