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“The song of the living”: repairing the wounds of exile

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Cecile Allegra and Sherif.

© Thibault de Lavigne - TS Production

By: Pascal Paradou Follow

1 min

Crossing deserts or seas, imprisonment, torture, time in prison… the majority of the exiled people who came suffered from serious psychological trauma.

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Since 2016, the Limbo association has organized stays in Aveyron every year to "repair" these traumas through writing, singing and Art Therapy.

Stories and voices intertwine on the path to resilience.  

Guest:

Cécile Allegra

, journalist, director of the documentary

“Le chant des vivants” 

which will be broadcast on Monday June 13, 2022 on France 3 at 11:20 p.m.  

And the

column Elsewhere

in St Louis in Senegal at

Villa St Louis Ndar

with Isabelle Boiro-Gruet, Deputy Director of the French Institute in Senegal, who will present the residency program at Villa Saint-Louis Ndar, whose appeal for applications closes on July 3, 2022. All information is

available here.

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