Monaco Now - Green Shift Festival: changing minds to change the world

The Green Shift Festival promotes and supports new and positive ecological narratives.

The festival is based on the concept of ecological transition and the principles of accountability and collective intelligence. For the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, which launched the initiative, it is essential that citizens want to work towards a sustainable world – there is no Planet B. The project is ambitious, and seeks to: “raise awareness, train, bring people together, but also pave the way to bigger things and suggest ways to take action for all those who want to build new ecological narratives”, says Olivier Wenden, Vice-President and CEO of the Foundation. “It is high time we existed together differently; not against but with the living world”.

To create these new ecological narratives together, the Green Shift Festival suggests that we replace “prevailing doom-mongering and moralistic narratives” with “positive stories carrying hopes and dreams” and collective stories. “Art, cinema, music and literature have an essential role to play in re-rooting us. It is high time we existed together differently; not against but with the living world”, says Olivier Wenden. For this reason, the Green Shift Festival, a forum of open-air discussion and idea sharing, includes artistic events – music, documentary screenings, performances, readings – to enrich the dialogue with other forms of expression that embody the emergence of new narratives of commitment.

The first Festival, held in 2023, hosted Cyril Dion, director, writer, poet and environmental activist; Magali Payen, expert in citizen mobilisation, founder of ‘On est prêt (‘we are ready’), Chair of Imagine 2050 and co-founder of Newtopia; as well as Charles Carmignac, a former member of the musical band Moriarty, who now heads the Fondation Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles. It was organised in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Philosophical Encounters of Monaco, the Fondation Carmignac, Imagine 2050, Time for the Ocean, Agir pour le Vivant and the Monegasque Marine Academy.

The Green Shift Festival returns in June 2024 with the same partners, a revamped stage and an enriched program based on three unifying themes: “(Re)connecting to Life”, “Imagining the Sea” and “Ecology & Pop culture”. Visitors to the festival can: (re)discover the philosophies of indigenous peoples, plunge into the creative worlds that the ocean inspires in artists, writers and adventurers, as well as sail, dance, and revisit the link between ecology and pop culture. Highlights will include artist Laure Prouvost’s parade-choir as part of the “Mo-Mo” artistic project (for Monaco – Molenbeek). This year, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has joined forces with the Pavillon Bosio art school in Monaco to work on the festival’s layout, stage area and design.

Find out more: https://www.fpa2.org/fr/evenements/The-Green-Shift-Festival-017

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