Solidarity commitment
The association
Musiques et Solidarités en Hautes-Pyrénées
– Through solidarity ticketing, with free performances: 20% of the capacity of each concert is reserved for the disabled and their companions if necessary. Access is offered to both independent people and those living in structures, in which case partnerships are set up, with adapted shuttles thanks to a partnership with the APF and a dedicated welcome from our volunteers. The festival’s artistic program strives to find venues that go well beyond the statutory PRM capacity, and even to adapt the venues themselves.
– Through open rehearsals reserved for those unable to attend a full concert. These rehearsals are particularly well-suited to people with cognitive disabilities, and provide an opportunity for intense exchanges with the artists involved.
– By recording and broadcasting concerts to people who are totally unable to move around, in partner healthcare establishments. Our volunteers provide technical support.
– Through the participation of disabled people in the creation of the festival: ADAPEI via ESAT (Établissement et service d’aide par le travail) prepares the cocktails or provides us with flooring when necessary.
Music therapy sessions throughout the year, sometimes in parallel with physiotherapy sessions, facial treatments and/or wellness massages, sophrology and perfume workshops, all these activities encourage letting go, relaxation, well-being, memory retrieval, the return of the forgotten, the reactivation of mental circuits that sometimes see a return to speech for some, a calming of body and mind – a plethora of little miracles that never fail to surprise the caregivers.
The team of professionals working with the association:
Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
Réda, music therapist
Florence Bonis, socio-aesthetician and wellness masseuse
But also, during the festival:
Hélène Facenda, sophrologist
Mme Ramond, perfume workshops
The association’s volunteers in charge of the people with disabilities department:
Françoise Cambianica, Yves-Pol Hémonin, Françoise Mauvezin
Testimonial from Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
“Since the Festival’s first session, we’ve built up a relationship of trust with medical facilities. Today, the mission of using music to support people losing their physical and/or mental autonomy is a dynamic one. The managers of the institutions are sensitive to the continuity of this service. I manage to set up a therapeutic and musical follow-up with structures lacking financial means. These services of music therapy and bodily relaxation accompanied by music provide support to medical teams concerned with the well-being of their patients.
Leaders and department heads have seen the psychological, physical and social benefits of these workshops. They have also noticed that some residents want and need to take part in the Festival to attend the prestigious concerts offered by the L’Offrande Musicale program.”
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Testimonials from caregivers
“Residents suffering from apathy-type disorders showed behavioral and/or emotional reactions. Others suffering from agitation disorders felt calmed for the duration of the workshop.” (EHPAD La Résidence du lac d’Orleix)
“Concerts and rehearsals where, as always, we are welcomed, recognized and expected… What for the association is a simple welcome, becomes for us and for the people we accompany an extraordinary welcome. To be seated in the front row and not in a corner, to be accompanied to our seats with a smile, not to be surrounded by ignorance or fear. To listen and vibrate together to the sound of classical music. Then come back to the foyer and tell the others what you’ve seen and heard.” (Camille Gallego, ASEI Jean Cadorne, Tournay)
The festival also undertakes mediation activities for youngsters, in schools, to introduce them to classical music, as well as to authors.
– Meet the authors invited to the festival:
2021 : Virginie Reisz, meetings with schoolchildren from Barbazan-Debat, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud; from Tarbes, Théophile Gautier, on the theme of “Writing and disability”.
2023 : Philippe Besson: meeting with students from Jean Dupuy high school in Tarbes, on the theme of “Difference”.
– Classical music listening sessions with music therapist Emmanuelle Yvars: Jean Bousquet nursery school in Séméac, Jean de La Fontaine nursery school in Tarbes, Saint Joseph and Théophile Gautier elementary schools in Tarbes, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud elementary schools in Barbazan-Debat, Jeanne d’Arc middle school in Tarbes,
2021: Around the show for young audiences.. “Le Carnaval des Animaux”
2022: Around the show “Water Music”
2023: Around the show for young audiences “Le Roi qui n’aimait pas la Musique”
– Olfactory workshops led by Marie Ramond, retired representative of renowned perfume houses, on the link between “smells, memories and emotions”:
2021/2022/2023 : Nursery and elementary schools in Séméac and Tarbes.
– Through solidarity ticketing, with free performances: 20% of the capacity of each concert is reserved for the disabled and their companions if necessary. Access is offered to both independent people and those living in structures, in which case partnerships are set up, with adapted shuttles thanks to a partnership with the APF and a dedicated welcome from our volunteers. The festival’s artistic program strives to find venues that go well beyond the statutory PRM capacity, and even to adapt the venues themselves.
– Through open rehearsals reserved for those unable to attend a full concert. These rehearsals are particularly well-suited to people with cognitive disabilities, and provide an opportunity for intense exchanges with the artists involved.
– By recording and broadcasting concerts to people who are totally unable to move around, in partner healthcare establishments. Our volunteers provide technical support.
– Through the participation of disabled people in the creation of the festival: ADAPEI via ESAT (Établissement et service d’aide par le travail) prepares the cocktails or provides us with flooring when necessary.
Music therapy sessions throughout the year, sometimes in parallel with physiotherapy sessions, facial treatments and/or wellness massages, sophrology and perfume workshops, all these activities encourage letting go, relaxation, well-being, memory retrieval, the return of the forgotten, the reactivation of mental circuits that sometimes see a return to speech for some, a calming of body and mind – a plethora of little miracles that never fail to surprise the caregivers.
The team of professionals working with the association:
Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
Réda, music therapist
Florence Bonis, socio-aesthetician and wellness masseuse
But also, during the festival:
Hélène Facenda, sophrologist
Mme Ramond, perfume workshops
The association’s volunteers in charge of the people with disabilities department:
Françoise Cambianica, Yves-Pol Hémonin, Françoise Mauvezin
Testimonial from Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
“Since the Festival’s first session, we’ve built up a relationship of trust with medical facilities. Today, the mission of using music to support people losing their physical and/or mental autonomy is a dynamic one. The managers of the institutions are sensitive to the continuity of this service. I manage to set up a therapeutic and musical follow-up with structures lacking financial means. These services of music therapy and bodily relaxation accompanied by music provide support to medical teams concerned with the well-being of their patients.
Leaders and department heads have seen the psychological, physical and social benefits of these workshops. They have also noticed that some residents want and need to take part in the Festival to attend the prestigious concerts offered by the L’Offrande Musicale program.”
»
Testimonials from caregivers
“Residents suffering from apathy-type disorders showed behavioral and/or emotional reactions. Others suffering from agitation disorders felt calmed for the duration of the workshop.” (EHPAD La Résidence du lac d’Orleix)
“Concerts and rehearsals where, as always, we are welcomed, recognized and expected… What for the association is a simple welcome, becomes for us and for the people we accompany an extraordinary welcome. To be seated in the front row and not in a corner, to be accompanied to our seats with a smile, not to be surrounded by ignorance or fear. To listen and vibrate together to the sound of classical music. Then come back to the foyer and tell the others what you’ve seen and heard.” (Camille Gallego, ASEI Jean Cadorne, Tournay)
The festival also undertakes mediation activities for youngsters, in schools, to introduce them to classical music, as well as to authors.
– Meet the authors invited to the festival:
2021 : Virginie Reisz, meetings with schoolchildren from Barbazan-Debat, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud; from Tarbes, Théophile Gautier, on the theme of “Writing and disability”.
2023 : Philippe Besson: meeting with students from Jean Dupuy high school in Tarbes, on the theme of “Difference”.
– Classical music listening sessions with music therapist Emmanuelle Yvars: Jean Bousquet nursery school in Séméac, Jean de La Fontaine nursery school in Tarbes, Saint Joseph and Théophile Gautier elementary schools in Tarbes, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud elementary schools in Barbazan-Debat, Jeanne d’Arc middle school in Tarbes,
2021: Around the show for young audiences.. “Le Carnaval des Animaux”
2022: Around the show “Water Music”
2023: Around the show for young audiences “Le Roi qui n’aimait pas la Musique”
– Olfactory workshops led by Marie Ramond, retired representative of renowned perfume houses, on the link between “smells, memories and emotions”:
2021/2022/2023 : Nursery and elementary schools in Séméac and Tarbes.
The events
of l'Offrande Musicale
The events
of l'Offrande Musicale
Behind the Festival, the Musiques et Solidarités en Hautes-Pyrénées association and its volunteers organize year-round initiatives to help people with disabilities. These new Rencontres are an opportunity to bring this behind-the-scenes work to the fore. Conferences, debates, artistic proposals and shows by and for disabled people. In particular, the show “Le Silence de Nuit”: “a text by the Mother, Mylène Souyeux, and Nuit, Yuna Buron, to tell the story, bear witness, laugh and cry out from difference”. A day of sharing, following a first Rencontre de L’Offrande (06/17) dedicated to the artistic practices of people with disabilities.
July 6 at Haras National, Tarbes
2:30 pm – round-table discussion with Arnold Munnich, geneticist and sponsor of this 4th edition
4 p.m. – artistic proposal with Jeanne Borgel, dancer,
Anja Linder, harpist, Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
7 p.m. – “Silence de Nuit” show by Cie Et Puis Aussi
“They thought they were beautiful, we thought they were beautiful”, says a special educator who visited the exhibition with the disabled people she accompanies. Together, they had become models for the Festival photographer in a series entitled “Harmonies”. Some thirty photographs taken with an emblematic camera from the 1970s, the Mamiya RB67, provide a close-up view of the intimacy between a disabled person and his or her caregiver. This exhibition, created in 2023, will be hung this year in the heart of Lourdes, around the Médiathèque hall.
Behind the Festival, the Musiques et Solidarités en Hautes-Pyrénées association and its volunteers organize year-round initiatives to help people with disabilities. These new Rencontres are an opportunity to bring this behind-the-scenes work to the fore. Conferences, debates, artistic proposals and shows by and for disabled people. In particular, the show “Le Silence de Nuit”: “a text by the Mother, Mylène Souyeux, and Nuit, Yuna Buron, to tell the story, bear witness, laugh and cry out from difference”. A day of sharing, following a first Rencontre de L’Offrande (06/17) dedicated to the artistic practices of people with disabilities.
july 6 at Haras National, Tarbes
2:30 pm – round-table discussion with Arnold Munnich, geneticist and sponsor of this 4th edition
4 p.m. – artistic proposal with Jeanne Borgel, dancer,
Anja Linder, harpist, Emmanuelle Yvars, music therapist
7 p.m. – “Silence de Nuit” show by Cie Et Puis Aussi
“They thought they were beautiful, we thought they were beautiful”, says a special educator who visited the exhibition with the disabled people she accompanies. Together, they had become models for the Festival photographer in a series entitled “Harmonies”. Some thirty photographs taken with an emblematic camera from the 1970s, the Mamiya RB67, provide a close-up view of the intimacy between a disabled person and his or her caregiver. This exhibition, created in 2023, will be hung this year in the heart of Lourdes, around the Médiathèque hall.