The Fête de l'Humanité (French pronunciation: [fɛt də lymaniˈte]; English: Festival of Humanity) is an event organised annually by French daily newspaper L'Humanité in order to fund itself.
The Fête de l'Humanité (French pronunciation: [fɛt də lymaniˈte]; English: Festival of Humanity) is an event organised annually by French daily newspaper L'Humanité in order to fund itself.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
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02 · Where & name
France
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03 · How it is doing
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Artists involvedMany artists such as Roger Hodgson, Léo Ferré, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, The Who, Deep Purple, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday, Renaud, Chuck Berry, Jacques Dutronc, Leonard Cohen, and Joan Baez have performed at this…
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What is Fête de l'Humanité in plain words?
The Fête de l'Humanité (French pronunciation: [fɛt də lymaniˈte]; English: Festival of Humanity) is an event organised annually by French daily newspaper L'Humanité in order to fund itself.
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The Fête de l'Humanité (French pronunciation: [fɛt də lymaniˈte]; English: Festival of Humanity) is an event organised annually by French daily newspaper L'Humanité in order to fund itself. It is the largest popular gathering in France.
L'Humanité was created in 1904 by French socialist Jean Jaurès, but the first fête de l'Humanité took place in September 1930 to raise funds for the newspaper L'Humanité and 1000 people attended it. In 2010, the festival attracted 600,000 visitors. A new record was set in 2010, when 800,000 visitors participated in the festival.
The festival is organized and held almost exclusively by volunteers, since it exists to fund the newspaper.
Around 400 of stalls are scattered around the venue offering food and drinks with the stall holders coming from all over the world to be part of the event. The fête is a unique mix of politics and entertainment, with concerts happening alongside many debates, art exhibits, movies, etc. Because of the close relationship between l'Humanité and the French Communist Party, most of the volunteers are communists, even though most of the attendees are not.
The festival comprises many stages (Grande Scène (main stage), scène Zebrock (rock stage), scène reggae, P'tite Scène (smaller stage), and tens of smaller stages inside stalls). The Main Stage can accommodate about 100,000 spectators.
Due to its size, this festival is considered the kickoff of the left-wing's "political year" each year in September. 1
Artists involved
Many artists such as Roger Hodgson, Léo Ferré, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, The Who, Deep Purple, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday, Renaud, Chuck Berry, Jacques Dutronc, Leonard Cohen, and Joan Baez have performed at this event. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Fête de l'Humanité”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Fête de l'Humanité is annual fundraising event in France, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 11 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 2
