Playbill of events

For the past ten years, the Radio Live project has brought young people together on stage to discuss questions of commitment and identity.

For the 2025 edition of the Avignon Festival, the radio producer and journalist Aurélie Charon has handed the microphone to individuals from France, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, Lebanon, Rwanda… Each night, in groups of three, they share how the violence of war has upended their personal, familial, social, artistic, and activist spaces.

It is a journalistic investigation that reinvents itself with each performance through live drawing, video and live music.

But it is also a reflection on friendship as a collective force, and an invitation to gather with those who are different from us.

Aurélie Charon: Producer at France Culture for L’Avant-scène and coordinator of the radio creative space L’Expérience:

A graduate from Sciences Po Paris, Paris III and New York University, she has been directing since 2011 documentary series on activism, commissioned by Radio France, including Underground Democracy in Gaza, Tehran, and Algiers. She has been involved in a long-term work on French youth with Une série française (2015 France Inter), Jeunesse 2016 (France Culture) and the film La Bande des Français directed by Amélie Bonnin for France 3 (2017). She recounts her travels in the book C’était pas mieux avant, ce sera mieux après, published by L’Iconoclaste. She created with Mathilde Gamon radio live production structure that accompanies Radio live shows and workshops around self-narratives.

Gala Vanson, illustrator:

Trained at the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Gala Vanson’s practice is at the crossroads of painting, writing and graphic design. She collaborates as a designer with Le BAL, the national scene Châteauvallon-Liberté, Radio France or the Centre Pompidou. Inspired by documentary form and social themes, her work links the intimate to the collective in search of common languages. She has published the album Catcheur d’Amour, published by Seuil Jeunesse, and the comic strip La Boucherie parisienne published by L’Association.

Emma Prat, musician:

Trained in vocal jazz at the Conservatoire de Lille, Emma Prat is interested in the techniques and practices of vocal improvisation and the work of the voice in all its forms. A graduate with a master’s degree in humanities and social sciences in Lille, she joined the team of a neighborhood webradio in 2020 where she designs, animates and sets up radio shows. Since 2020, she is author, composer and performer in the trio LUNAR (Sabina Por Aqui Public Prize in Ubeda, Spain, 1st EP, Promesa, 2020). In 2023, she founded Aâma, a jazz quintet combining sounds from Central Africa and the Middle East. She makes the music for several shows on guitar, keyboard and vocals: Radio Live (Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin), The Black Intore (Yannick Kamanzi), and musical readings designed with Amandine Dhée and Léa-Anaïs Machado.