Olympe de Gouges Days 2024

01/03 to 30/03 – Maison du Crieur

Astonishing relief paintings. Rare are the artists who invent their own creative technique. Françoise Amadieu is one of them. She cuts, folds and sculpts an unusual material to apply her oil and acrylic colors. The support for her work is corrugated cardboard, usually destined for the garbage heap. The recycled cardboard is treated, varnished, waterproofed and made solid and durable using an original technique. Her paintings are colorful bas-reliefs in a figurative style of great sensitivity and freshness. Sensuality, movement, play with light and shadow, her paintings are both painting and sculpture.

Free admission Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

From 01/03 to 16/03 – Galerie de l’Arlequin

By Florian Mollet – Exhibition proposed by Le Théâtrophone and Damien Hermellin From Olympe de Gouges to Simone Veil, a comic strip artist’s caustic look at a dozen of the great female figures who have marked history, but also at the invisible heroines: women who take on the greatness of everyday life, far from the spotlight of fame. They too make history.

Free admission Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm

From 02/03 to 30/03 – Ancien Collège

Women scientists don’t get the notoriety they deserve because the importance of their contribution has been downplayed or, worse, misappropriated by their male colleagues. Highlight eight women whose work has led to spectacular scientific advances in their field.

Designed by CNRS Occitanie Ouest, Quai des savoirs and Femmes&Sciences.

Free admission Monday to Saturday, 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm.

From 02/03 to 31/03 – Around the Ancien Collège and the Kiosque

Exhibition created by the MJC Montauban comics workshops Comics as a medium for freedom… The number of heroines in comics is increasing all the time, and their role is growing all the time – and so much the better over the decades… From Bécassine to

Miss Marvel, Esther and her notebooks or Mafalda, comics are a symbol of escape, emancipation and freedom.

These short comics, ranging from 3 or 4 panels to 1 or 2 pages, created by members of the Montauban MJC, deal with freedom in the broadest sense of the term, the rejection of slavery, women’s rights and equality between men and women.

From 05/03 to 30/03 – Autour de l’Ancien Collège – sous la Chapelle

Exhibition organized by Espace Bourdelle Sculpture. An exhibition of sculptures by women who are free and committed to their own personal and poetic direction. Through the works presented here, the public discovers the singular universes of assertive female sculptors: freedom of expression, material as a guide to inspiration and orientation, exacting and rigorous creative action.

Working together in the studio, sharing and exchanging ideas opens up a dialogue, with these universes responding to each other, as if echoing the beauty suggested. Women’s perspectives on a world in perpetual upheaval.

Free admission Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

From 05/03 to 30/03 – Autour de l’Ancien Collège – sous la Chapelle

Exhibition created by the Montauban MJC pottery workshops. Freedom through the prism of clay sculpture: in the form of paintings or one-off works, the artists of the MJC pottery workshops give free rein to their imagination to illustrate freedom, particularly women’s freedom, in all its forms.

As long as hands remain free to create…

Free admission Monday to Saturday, 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm

05/03 to 30/03 – Mémo Médiathèque

Exhibition organized by the Mémo- Eleven works that explore questions of gender and the role of women in comics.

Free admission, information: 05 63 91 88 00

www.mediatheque-montauban.com

From 06/03 to 30/03 – Ancien Collège – Salle Pawhuska

Exhibition proposed by the Direction de l’Enfance/ Service Animation / Accompanied and guided by professional illustrator Laurent Noblet, children from the Accueil de Loisirs du Ramierou have created illustrated plates based on two key characters: “Liberté”, a statue by Marc Dautry, and Olympe De Gouges. They imagined a conversation between the two women, with the idea of tracing the progress of women’s rights and the road still to travel…

Free admission Monday to Saturday, 10am to 12pm

and 2pm to 6pm

From 08/03 to 30/03 – Ancien Collège – Salle de réception

Freedom as seen by children

To mark the Journées Olympe de Gouges 2024, CLAS (Contrat Local d’accompagnement à la Scolarité) children from Montauban’s social center took part in a philosophy workshop, before letting their imaginations run free to draw their own definition of freedom.

Olympe de Gouges, women and fundamental freedoms

In September 1791, Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens. In it, she called for the same rights for women as for men. Through selected articles from this text, the women of the Centre social and Espace de Vie Sociale

(EVS) examined the fundamental freedoms cherished by Olympe de Gouges, and gave free rein to their imagination to artistically present their reflections. In partnership with CDAD 82.