Estivada

Recognized as the Occitan festival reference to its multidisciplinary nature and uniqueness of interregional festival Occitan cultures, Estivada tent, its arts and culture as its practical proposals to break the representations "folklore" too often attached to languages and cultures called regional. Clichés, we have a modern, universalist vision of our identity, which is not resigned to silence and looks that Occitan re-found the place that should be his: language of life and not only memory .
All programming of Estivada is built around the Occitan language, minority language throughout the southern half of France, as well as some areas of neighboring countries (Spain and Italy). We seek to show in the best, and to anchor our history in the twenty-first century. This obviously does not prevent us from having friendships, heart strokes, solidarity with other artists, other languages, other peoples.
Occitan be a matter of choice, a deep conviction of ours, and that does not allow neutrality: the Occitan language is still an "undocumented" and Occitan exists only if, each generation of men and women recognize Occitan. Far from imposing anything, we propose to open new readings spirits language, culture, society, for everyone to consciously recognize, find, discover, share ...
We want things happen, and those 20 years are an opportunity to say that we claim for our language, Occitan, a status that allowed him a normal place every day ... and normalcy through the crumbling walls of certainty that have always surrounded minoritized cultures stereotypes, shortcuts, discounts ... But we take care not to let anyone on the wayside: the Estivada sectarianism is not appropriate. You will always find someone or something to help you in discovering the language and Occitan culture: artists, volunteers, associations stands, trainers, Survival Guide, documentation ...