Mois Kréyol Festival

In 2017, the Mois Kréyol Festival was launched with a small team.

Eight years later, and despite the storms, our commitment and determination are as strong as ever. Our desire to promote artists from across the Atlantic, and to bring together artists and cultural associations around a convivial, generous, inventive and protesting highlight is and will remain the foundation of this festival.

For this 8th edition, the festival pays tribute to Maryse Condé, renowned writer and patron of the festival, and puts the spotlight on Guadeloupe and the rhythms of Gwoka percussion.

Gwoka, a true African heritage with its drums, known as "Ka", today extends to the whole of Guadeloupean society and has become a common asset.

Dubbed by some as "the lungs of the Guadeloupean soul", it accompanies gatherings such as rituals for the deceased, political or social demonstrations and carnivals. Several thousand people practise it assiduously every week in schools and dance and music associations. Our drum dances are heard everywhere from the West Indies to Haiti, via the Indian Ocean. It's even found in Japan!

For the past 10 years, this year, its song, rhythm and dance have been inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list.

It's in this spirit of celebration that we invite the public to discover a host of talented artists in a multi-disciplinary program. During our stopovers in France and the French West Indies/Guyana, they will discover dance, music and theater performances, meetings, conferences and film screenings. All these events embody this heritage and contribute to the protection of the intangible cultural heritage of Overseas France and Africa, while also involving the Indian Ocean: Mayotte, Reunion, Mauritius and Haiti.

Program :
October 25 @ 19 h 00 min
Big Sun I Chassol & Aurus Solo
La Sirène - 111 Bd Emile Delmas - Booking

Chassol " Big sun "With Big Sun, his radiant fourth album, Christophe Chassol brings to a close his trilogy of ultrascores (a method of durational harmonization he has developed) begun in Creole New Orleans and continued in India. In March 2014, he left for Martinique, where his family is originally from, those West Indies at the heart of what he wishes to express that is most personal and most universal. With cinematographer Marie-France Barrier and sound engineer Johann Levasseur, they film and record encounters, scenes of daily life, carnival: an impressionistic documentary that forms the matrix of Big Sun. Created in 2024.

November 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Co-plateau : Bayou I Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette & Concerto pour deux danseuses I Cie Tiss N Ko
Mille Plateaux - 14 Rue du Collège - Reservations on the Mille Plateaux website

Bayou is a reflection on métissage, the experience of the black body, its constant state of performativity and transformation. It's a reappropriation of ontology. Poems, chronicles, haikus, performances, choreography, improvisation, BA YOU combines languages, idioms and verbs, bodies, gestures, movements, codes...

Concerto pour deux danseuses (Concerto for two dancers) reflects on the intermingling of classical, contemporary and Guyanese music and dance.
play rhythmically and spatially, evolving from conductor to performer, between music and dance. They offer us a mixed concerto based on body percussion
The two protagonists play rhythmically and spatially, evolving from conductor to performer, between music and dance.

November 17 @ 11 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min
CCN mystery guest
Mille Plateaux- 14 Rue du Collège - Reservations on the Mille Plateaux website

Every year, the Mois Kréyol Festival and the CCN de la Rochelle present a mystery event open to all. Whether it's a singular body practice, the discovery of a dance, a martial art, a waltz or quadrille class, this moment of mystery will delight those who love surprises.

November 17 @ 15 h 00 min
Memory walk
Musée du Nouveau Monde - 10 rue Fleuriau - Reservation 05 46 51 51 45

With songwriter Ti Zorey and the Irawo association.