Join us for a special night with a screening of the Parole de Femmes TV Show (The Voice of Women TV Show), a collaborative short-film led by women from the Emmaüs community, and a solidarity dinner for Congo organised by We Sell Reality. The screening will be followed by a talk with the creators of the movie and dinner. Speakers will then share about the current situation in Congo, where people are losing their lives and being displaced from their homes by an ethnic war. An issue that needs urgent attention. In return for a donation of €15, visitors can eat and drink. A third of the sum will go to a grassroots organisation in Congo.

For 70 years, Emmaüs communities in France have been places for life and solidarity activities where each person welcomed (called a companion) is both helped and helps to offer the possibility of communal living, creating social bonds and solidarity-based activities. Since 2018, the ‘asylum and immigration’ law states that after 3 years in an Emmaüs community, companions can apply for a residence permit. This concerns many people in the community, since two thirds of those welcomed today are exiled from their home country.

Parole de Femmes TV Show is a collaborative short-film that offers a generous, joyful and locally anchored collective narrative that amplifies the voices of women from these Emmaüs communities in Brittany. This film is the result of a collaborative effort between the group Parole de Femmes de Bretagne (self-led discussion group in chosen non-mixity), and the team at the Observatoire d’Emmaüs France. It is part of an action-research project led by sociologist Alix Douillet, with the support of artist-designer Jado Herbert, which is part of the Club Sauvage de Création Communautaire (Wild Club of Community Creation) that aims to recognise, archive and activate the histories and communal forms of knowledge from these communities.