What is the Solidays festival and what is it for ?
The first edition of the Solidays festival took place at Longchamp in 1999. In spite of meteorological conditions, more than 50,000 festival-goers respond to the call from « Solidarité Sida » to do noise against AIDS. Solidays has counted three days of festival since 2003, that will be beneficial for the the festival which will be full this year for the first time. Many years later, for the fifteenth edition, Solidays welcomed 2 millions of festival-goes, which was a record. In 2014, Solidays received the President’s exceptional visit and welcomed Bill Gates. Solidays has become the appointment of every generation who comes from everywhere to celebrate the solidarity against AIDS in music.
« Solidarité Sida » makes the choice to federate and mobilize good energy around festive and solidary big events. Motivated youth, artists who are involved, form together an exceptional chain of support with main ideas such as mutual aid, tolerance, pleasure and sharing. Sensitizing youngsters, introducing innovatice approaches to prevention among a young public and sometimes uninformed public about sexual risks, talking with them without taboos and secrets, are the ambitions that Solidays wants to achieve. More than just entertainment, this meeting is also a debate, dialogue and involvement.
When is the festival taking place and who is participating?
This year, Solidays ran from 23 to 25 June 2017. From Friday to Sunday, concerts, conferences and expositions took place.
On Friday you could attend the concerts of many artists: Mac Miller, Wax Tailor, The Pirouettes, DJ Pone, Rocky, The Dizzy Brains, Georgio, Boulevard des airs, Kungs, Silent Disco, Bon entendeur, Tale of Us, The Prodigy, The Noface and many others, and conferences by Camille Emmanuelle, Jean-Christophe Rufin and the team of the film "A voix haute". But also, expositions; "The Patchwork of Names", "Sex in the city" and "Happy sex".
On Saturday, Cocoon, L.E.J, Barrio Luna, Birdy Nam Nam, In the can, Killason, Boris Brejcha, Mai Lan, Kery James, Féfé, Dirthyphonics and many more were present. You were also able to participate in the conferences by Guillaume Capelle, Cynthia Fleury, Edwy Plenel, Michèle Boccoz and Luc Barruet. But also, the same expositions that Friday were always opened and that until Sunday.
Finally, on Sunday, you were able to watch Motivés!, Flatbush Zombies, Electro Deluxe, Apollo Kid's Party, Vald, Petit Biscuit, Imany, Tony Saint Laurent and many others artists and the conferences by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Ryad Boulanouar, Laurence Tubiana and Bobby Demri.
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