Extra !

Rendez-vous singulier et original créé au Centre Pompidou en septembre 2017, le Festival Extra ! se place au croisement de la littérature et de l'art contemporain et s'intéresse à toutes les formes que prend aujourd'hui la création littéraire : lectures, performances, littérature exposée, visuelle ou numérique, poésie sonore, rencontres publiques… Car on assiste aujourd'hui à la diffusion massive de pratiques littéraires qui amènent la littérature à sortir du livre pour se créer et se diffuser ailleurs et autrement : sur scène, dans la rue, en public, sur nos écrans, mais également dans les musées et les espaces d'exposition. Loin de déplorer la fin de la littérature, le Festival Extra ! veut au contraire célébrer l'extraordinaire vitalité d'une création littéraire qui dépasse largement le champ littéraire traditionnel.

Implanté début septembre, le Festival prend place au tout début de la rentrée littéraire, et s'accompagne de la remise du prix littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou, qui récompense lui aussi des figures remarquables de la littérature hors du livre. 

 1ère édition : 5-9 septembre 2017

2e édition : 6-10 septembre 2018

3e édition : 11-15 septembre 2019

Direction artistique : Jean-Max Colard, Responsable du Service de la Parole au Centre Pompidou.

Soutiens et partenaires : Fondation Jan-Michalski, Fondazione Bonotto, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard pour l'art contemporain, Maison des Ecrivains et de la Littérature (MEL), Salon du Livre et de la Jeunesse de Montreuil, Université Paris 8, RATP…

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A unique and original event created at the Centre Pompidou in September 2017, the Festival Extra! is at the crossroads of literature and contemporary art and is interested in all the forms that literary creation takes today: readings, performances, exposed literature, visual or digital, sound poetry, public meetings… Because today we are witnessing the massive diffusion of literary practices that lead literature to emerge from the book to create and diffuse itself elsewhere and otherwise: on stage, in the street, in public, on our screens, but also in museums and exhibition spaces. Far from deploring the end of literature, the Festival Extra! wants to celebrate the extraordinary vitality of a literary creation that goes far beyond the traditional literary field.
Established at the beginning of September, the Festival takes place at the very beginning of the literary season, and is accompanied by the presentation of the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou literary prize, which also rewards outstanding figures in literature outside the book. 
 1st edition: 5-9 September 2017
2nd edition: 6-10 September 2018
3rd edition: 11-15 September 2019
Artistic director: Jean-Max Colard, Head of the Speech Department at the Centre Pompidou.
Support and partners: Jan-Michalski Foundation, Fondazione Bonotto, Ricard Corporate Foundation for Contemporary Art, Maison des Ecrivains et de la Littérature (MEL), Salon du Livre et de la Jeunesse de Montreuil, Université Paris 8, RATP…
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A unique and original event created at the Centre Pompidou in September 2017, the Festival Extra! is at the crossroads of literature and contemporary art and is interested in all the forms that literary creation takes today: readings, performances, exposed literature, visual or digital, sound poetry, public meetings… Because today we are witnessing the massive diffusion of literary practices that lead literature to emerge from the book to create and diffuse itself elsewhere and otherwise: on stage, in the street, in public, on our screens, but also in museums and exhibition spaces. Far from deploring the end of literature, the Festival Extra! wants to celebrate the extraordinary vitality of a literary creation that goes far beyond the traditional literary field.
Established at the beginning of September, the Festival takes place at the very beginning of the literary season, and is accompanied by the presentation of the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou literary prize, which also rewards outstanding figures in literature outside the book. 
 1st edition: 5-9 September 2017
2nd edition: 6-10 September 2018
3rd edition: 11-15 September 2019
Artistic director: Jean-Max Colard, Head of the Speech Department at the Centre Pompidou.
Support and partners: Jan-Michalski Foundation, Fondazione Bonotto, Ricard Corporate Foundation for Contemporary Art, Maison des Ecrivains et de la Littérature (MEL), Salon du Livre et de la Jeunesse de Montreuil, Université Paris 8, RATP…