This competition is to challenge the testimony or production of imaginary stories (from 3,000 to 15,000 characters) tell a different sensory experience that involves visual or non visual descriptions of characters, objects or places. It aims to engage the sensibilities of writers and readers blind, visually impaired and blind about what is qu'entendre, touch, smell or taste.

How do we know the world and we feel life other than by sight? What do we know about the city or the nature of the succession of their sounds, their scents and their contact? What can we say, sound, smell and touch objects that we handle, the food we prepare, plants in our care ...? What do people a voice, a handshake or a hug?
Below the objectivity of things and abstract ideas, it is this silent face of reality that is explored.


     So that the blind can read and write in braille, it took three men to be particularly attentive to the other side of reality: Valentin Haüy understood that the letters could be affected, Charles Barbier tactile alphabet that could have a different from the visual alphabet, Louis Braille and the letter should have the relief surface of the sensitive pulp of the finger.
And if history reversed? And if the blind restored to the blind desire and pleasure to cultivate the four other senses that we can share? Indeed, except for the taste, which the French speaking, society relegates to the accessory or the anecdotal listening, sensitivity and olfaction. Telling the non-visual, it will lie to the adage of pigeon of La Fontaine: "Whoever does not has little to say."

For the visually impaired, listening, touch and smell are functional necessities they internalize to the point that they almost never mention the. The photographer Bavcar Evgen blind writing, however, that "ownership of Louis Braille writing also means the possibility to give the blind more own words to speak and write in the name of their own identity .
For the non-blind people, in a growing flow of images and icons, focus on other sensations, is to put distance that modern life has a dummy and return the original or the universal closer to home. Writers such as Noëlle Châtelet, Gaétan Soucy or Muriel Barbery, for example, already show the fruitfulness of this approach.


     On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Braille, the best works of authors who are blind or visually exploring non-visual side of reality will be published as a collection. Readings will be to exchange data around the other way to live and tell the human experience.
 

 

 

A cycle of lectures by CINAL initiated in collaboration with the CRTH:
The first cycle, 21 March 2009, is presented in partnership with the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information

Selection of texts for Bertrand Verine CINAL
Art Direction Parsat Pascal
Players from the school O Clair de la Lune *
Music Pierre Jeannot

 

The Association of blind and sighted intellectuals (GIAA) organized on the occasion of the bicentennial, a writing contest for authors to interact visually sighted and blind people around the sensitive inputs of touch, hearing, of smell and taste.The competition brought together 135 texts, testimonies or fiction, tell a visual experience or not giving a visual description of characters, objects or places.

Excerpts of the text are read by students of the Workshop Reading aloud from school O Clair de la Lune: founded in 2004 and developed by the Center Theater Disability Resources (CRTH), l school enables everyone with a disability or not, access to the practice and the theater, from 8 years. His pedagogy is part of the overall mission of that document CRTH theater accessible to all.

Word of the Artistic Director :

 

"In 1993 I started the theater in full black. So it was natural that I wanted to join in the action initiated by the scope and CINAL by Bertrand Verine. Reflection of the senses other than visual, is a source for me to listen, but also resonances, sensations, where the voice can be fully activated in a world free from dependency on other regards ... "
 

 

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