Partners
CDS, with the sponsorship of Paris Mayor City Hall, Association Micadanses, Théâtre Monfort, WebSourd, Association Sourds Verts, works with its collaborators on the realization of the Festival of Silence.
Partnerships with Websourd and the RATP :
As part of this Festival of Silence, partnerships are organized with the RATP (Paris Public Transport System) and the WebSourd Association of Toulouse. They offer an access to national and international news via a website and organize a system of remote interpreting to accompany the deaf in their methods.
These partnerships envisage the use of the advertising support of the RATP (bus) for a poster campaign, and the use of the video and technical means of WebSourd to accomplish a report of one hour over the Festival internet.
This report will be available for free on Internet.
The partners of the Festival :
• Paris Mayor City Hall, Mr Delanoé and his assistant Mrs Pénélope Komites
• Association Micadanses
• Théâtre Silvia Monfort
• Conseil Régional d'Ile de France
• Air France
• SEM Paris Centre
• Direction of the Cultural affairs of the City of Paris
• WebSourd
• Sourds Verts
• UNISDA
• British council
• CAF Paris
• Carrefour
• SERAC
In Figures
4 days in Paris: July 5, 6, 7 and 8, 2006
90-100 dancers, musicians and song-signers from different countries: Bulgaria, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hawaii, Ile de la Réunion, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Russia, United States, Ukraine,
6 performances of « Festival of Silence » at Theatre Monfort
5 short performances at the « Night of Silence »
5 short performances at the « Exposition of Silence »
5 short performances at the « Gala of Silence »
In total, more than 450 minutes of performances in four days.
1000 expected festival participants a day from July 5 to July 8, 2006 : deaf, hearing-impaired and hearing.
50-75 exhibitors at « Exposition of Silence »
3000 expected visitors a day at the « Exposition of Silence » on July 8th, 2006.