Le Festival

There is no doubt about it. The team responsible for Le Festival really do not take non* for an answer.

As we all know, the arts has taken an absolute hammering during Covid and events are folding de tous les côtés*. But the organisers of the biggest French festival in Australia? Ils refusent*!

So what did they do? Firstly, instead of cancelling the event, they postponed it to October. Next, they launched a crowd-funding campaign to ensure that come October they were sufficiently financial to actually run the 10th édition* of the much-loved event. Not stopping there, they added a fantastic raffle as a way to promote their partners and raise additional funds.

Finally, a surprise announcement raised the bar in a major way. Le Festival Director, Betty Moinet, and her team, still wanting to celebrate La Fête nationale* with the people of Brisbane, have organised a series of free cultural conferences. The lineup has to be seen to be believed. There is something for absolutely everybody and you can sign up to as many sessions as you like. The amount of work that would have gone into organising this series of events is phenomenal and, under the current circumstances particularly, speaks volumes about the passion Betty and her team of volunteers bring to putting this event on for us, the French-loving public of Brisbane.

Let's support them by getting involved in any way we can. Allez!*

*no | *left and right | *They refuse! | *year | *Bastille Day | *Let's go!