24 June
After Metz, the Abalone Heart settled for at least 6 months in Bordeaux.
After Nantes and Metz, our operation “A Gesture for the Planet, a Heart all in Cans” knows a new stage. L' Abalone Heart is now unveiled in Bordeaux, in the heart of the Parc Bordelais, a green setting of 30 hectares and a true lung of the Gironde city.
To make the heart beat all summer long, actions organized by the association Les Baskets Roses will also be on the program around the work, with the inhabitants of Bordeaux and visitors to the park.
Abalone Heart: the journey continues in Bordeaux
Because the project is citizen and participatory, it is normal that the fruits of the massive collection of cans are exposed to everyone's eyes. After a first stage in Nantes, where we invited citizens to "complete" the work by writing benevolent messages on the cans in white felt-tip pens, then a first installation in Metz at our partner Advanced Mediomatrix, the Heart is temporarily settling in Bordeaux, in the 2nd city park.
Abalone Heart: a whole program
The Bordeaux association The Pink Sneakers, chaired by Murielle Nguyen, creates meetings between families and the public weakened by the pandemic (parents, children, students) with its operation “Cultivons le lien”. Writing and composition workshops, meetings with local clubs and high-level athletes ... A program in the form of workshops around well-being through sport, care, meeting and sharing for different audiences including mothers and their children or students. The main objective is to recreate the link between individuals, fundamental links which have been weakened by the Covid-19 pandemic, and to invite the public to reconnect with their peers.
Every first Wednesday of the month, Les Baskets Roses is suitable for Olympic athletes, such as Sandra Ribeiro (pole vault), as part of an action called "1 woman, 1 sport" to educate women and young people in a fun way. women in various Olympic sports.
Through this partnership with Les Baskets Roses, Abalone marks its commitment to supporting the public most affected by the current health crisis, and reaffirms its desire not to let anyone withdraw into themselves.