CALEM    Shelter

For this year, during our June festival (AOZIZ, June 8-10, 2023), LGBT + migrants and others from Marseille participated in the creation of the very beautiful photographic exhibition of the artist Adel Nouar :

"ORDINAIRES"

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This exhibition of about fifteen portraits is intended as a modest glimpse of the “normality” that refugees, in a situation of migration, manage to install in their lives in Marseilles, and who have to face the experience of uprooting.

Of course, the path of its travelers remains strewn with pitfalls and the difficulty of daily life remains for the vast majority of them a major problem in their life here, in France.

A problem that is up to us too, inhabitants of Marseille, to question in order to be able to meet those who share our city.

Nevertheless, behind complicated destinies, to put it mildly, there are ordinary people, with universal aspirations: peace, security in all its forms, happiness.

Thus, this photographic work, composed of both portraits taken on the spot and poses in places that have a particular meaning for the models, proposes to discover "comers" in search of stability, caught up in the construction of a normality that best matches the contours of their status.

The exhibition, to reflect this quest for stability, consists of three parts.

A first entitled “C’est la fête” offers an immersion in a festive moment within the CADAAG (in French / in English) in rue Saint Basile. A central component of the exhibition, the photographs offered here highlight the work of the AUP.

Indeed, on the occasion of a Christmas diner co-organized with CALEM and more broadly the AOZIZ Festival, I was able to seize this moment of conviviality rich in smiles and good humor which are so many victories in the quest for a

better life. This fresco of happy fragments will weave a strong story of artistic but also intellectual value. It will be offered to the public as a visual and sound challenge, an invitation to reflect on the lives of people who struggle day to day for the respect of their rights and their dignity.

The second part of the exhibition focuses on individuals who do not belong to the CADAAG of rue Saint Basile, they are free electrons that I had the pleasure of meeting at the CALEM institute, during

an improvised shoot, the idea was to capture candid and personal portraits of these individuals who are taking their new life in Marseille head on. Several of them have formed strong friendships, which is why this segment is titled “Me, you, together”.

Finally, the third part of the exhibition is based on a collaboration with the Sindiane project, it is a question here of highlighting women and people from the LGBTQIA+ community, in order to highlight important issues, which are also universal, in the conquest of a more stable life.

The title of this segment will therefore be: “them” (iels in France, inclusive wording).

Finally, each shot is accompanied by a QR code allowing the public to put a voice and a story on each face.

This interactivity was very modestly thought out as a way to cross the wall that separates us from these women and men [and others] that we meet every day.

Sustain the inclusive migrants here

 

CALEM    Institute

This year again
(September 2022 to May 2023)
The CALEM Institute provides its training, on the basis of renowned scientific research, in particular for progressive imam-es from France, 
Europe and beyond:

In addition, as every year, we organize an integration weekend, where we pray together and share meals and theological reflections, at the CALEM premisses (13003). Come many and more! At the program (latest August weekend):

- sharing and conviviality
- inclusive workshops
- energetical healing sessions (#Reiki)
- cultural tours and walks in tyhe nature around

Our other publications online here

La Revue Dessinée is an innovative project combining news and comics, paper and digital. We are also currently witnessing a revival of the comic book magazine, of which La Revue Dessinée is a fine example of success.

In the digital age and with strong questioning about the future of books, it is the authors themselves who invent, imagine and create or reinvent new models.

The story of this project is an adventure which, in itself, deserves to be told, because it shows the vitality of creation, the desires of the authors and also demonstrates that paper and digital coexist and finally that readers follow.

CALEM    Cabinet

We have been honored again this year (sometimes still online) to facilitate the blessing of couples, in France and elsewhere. Learn more here

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