With the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the Association des Centres culturels de rencontre (ACCR) coordinates the Odyssée residency programme. This programme is aimed at foreign artists, researchers and cultural professionals who are not resident in France and who wish to develop projects in French Centres culturels de rencontre.
The ACCR is pleased to announce the names of the 62 laureates of the Odyssée 2025 programme:
Abbaye aux Dames (Nouvelle Aquitaine)
CHIEJINA Francesca – Music - Sarambeque!
PETERS Isabelle – Music - Sarambeque!
FRANKE Jens - Music - Sarambeque!
Maison Maria Casarès (Nouvelle Aquitaine)
SACKO Fama Mademba - Playwriting - ‘Minyamba ou le devoir de
naissance’
BRDAR Iva - Playwriting - ‘Tous les oiseaux, brûlés’
Clarenza, Bastide de l'oralité (Nouvelle Aquitaine)
LEE Yully - Relational art - Choir project
Château de Goutelas (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
HOUT Ali – Music - original craft, yet traditional sound rooted in the Lavatine
KADDOUR Farah – Music - original craft, yet traditional sound rooted in the Lavatine
BOULMONA Samah – Music – original craftsmanship, yet traditional sound rooted in the Laventine tradition
Château de l'Esparrou (Occitanie)
KURPNIECE Baiba – Music – Art of intimate dialogue
Saline royale (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
GUEYE Idrissa – Climate Justice Festival
POTAPOVA Olga – Theatre - A nature writing project in the form of a garden walk script
ADJAHUIME François Arnaud – Photography - Sacred Remains: Whispers of Time
Les Arts Florissants (Pays de la Loire)
KODZAS Ela – Baroque music - Transfigured concert
MONDRY Nathan – Baroque music - Transfigured concert
ZANUTTINI-FRANK Daniel - Baroque music - Transfigured concert
TAYLOR Edmund – Music - Bellot Ensemble
MURPHY David – Music - Bellot Ensemble
PETRYSZAK Olivia – Music - Bellot Ensemble
GIORGETTI Nathan – Music - Bellot Ensemble
BROWN Matthew – Music - Bellot Ensemble
AHAPONOVA Olga – Visual arts – Pastels and gardens
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (Pays de la Loire)
MAGNUSKA Marta - Animated film - ‘Very flexible girl’
JEONG Dahee - Animated film - “Invisible”
KUMP Ricardo - Animated film - ‘The factory beyond the hill’
ABRAHAO Lucas - Animated film - ‘The factory beyond the hill’
RAMIRES Alexandra - Animated film - ‘Labor from here’
PLAZA Patricio – Animated film – ‘Beack Diaries’
GONZALEZ Florentins – Animated film – ‘EL Enhambre’
PIERCE Joseph – Animated film – ‘How the dead live’
Cité du Mot, Prieuré de la Charité sur Loire (Burgundy-Franche-Comté)
OROBITG Ferran – Street arts and literature – ‘Le mot a l'échelle de la ville’
VENDRELL Sara – Street arts and literature – ‘Le mot a l'échelle de la ville’
ARIA (Corsica)
REICHMANN Llewellyn - Theatre-Dramaturgy - ‘Poetic Anger’
ALQQADI Hazem – Theatre-Dramaturgy – ‘Poetic Anger’
Chartreuse de Neuville-sous-Montreuil (Hauts-de-France)
BEN AMARA Hanen – Visual arts – Fusion between abstract painting and immersive technologies
AL TAWEEL Adel – Visual arts – Sculpture, engraving and printing techniques project
Sylvanès Abbey (Occitanie)
BESSALA Joseph II - Opera singing - Promoting opera singing in Cameroon
HALPERN Yuval – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
ALBERS BEN CHAMO Avi – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
MANSOURI Hemad – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
SALKHORDEH Jawad – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
NASIRI Maryam – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
ABRAMOV Omri – Music - LAS - The Voice of Resistance
Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (Occitanie)
FINANOU DADJEODI Hélène – Theatre - Writing a play about domestic violence
Lagrasse Abbey (Occitanie)
OLASIUK Alona - Visual arts - ‘Fragments of identity’
Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde (Ile-de-France)
IDZKOWSKI Marcin – Photography – Watermarks
BOUSSETTA Nadia – Theatre and visual arts - ‘Ladybug’
KHANFIR Ahmed Mourad - Theatre and visual arts
Dominicans of Haute-Alsace (Grand Est)
LUND Nancy – Music and cabaret – ‘An evening with the Dames’
TCHEGNON Brice Jimmyl – Music, comics, and visual arts – BIOWA, comic book concert
BONI OBINTI Faki Babatoundé – Music, comics, and visual arts – BIOWA, comic book concert
KITI Akpeedje Brigitte - Music, comics, and visual arts - BIOWA, comic concert
ATCHO Yaovi Emmanuel - Music, comics, and visual arts - BIOWA, comic concert
TOTIN Gbètoho Emile - Music, comics, and visual arts - BIOWA, comic concert
SOHRET Nur - Multidisciplinary performance - Musical creation for a multimedia show
Cross-residencies:
Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (Occitanie) & Maison Maria Casarès (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
BASSEEK Fils Miséricorde - Theatre writing - ‘Les Femmes ne Mangent pas le gésier’
Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (Occitanie) & Abbaye de Lagrasse (Occitanie)
BOVET Florence - Theatre-Dramaturgy - ‘La mécanique du deuil’
ACCR & la Saline royale (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
KHAZENI Pouya – Photography and literature - Urban Palimpsest
Noirlac Abbey (Centre), Château de l'Esparrou (Occitanie) & Villefavard Farm in Limousin (Nouvelle Aquitaine)
HUAMANI Jose – Music - Migrant Voices
Sylvanès Abbey (Occitanie), Dominicans of Haute-Alsace (Grand Est) & ACCR
TOGBE Camille Désir - Culture and Digital Innovation - Analysis of the involvement of digital technology in cultural projects
ACCR, the Royal Saltworks (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) & the Cité du Mot (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
ASHOUR Ahmad - Cultural Management - Methods for creating an appetite for reading among young people
ACCR, La Saline Royale (Burgundy-Franche-Comté) & Château Mercier (Switzerland)
ABASSI Benyamin – Literature – Writing, political essays and short stories
ACCR, La Saline Royale (Burgundy-Franche-Comté), Abbaye de Lagrasse (Occitanie) & Château Mercier (Switzerland)
ARAMESH Negin – Literature – Finalising the writing of a novel
Due to the large number of applications, we are unable to send individual replies. If your name does not appear on this list, unfortunately your project has not been selected. We thank you for your understanding and wish you every success in the future.