Libre comme l'Art

Non-profit association «LILA»

LILA is a non-profit organization, under French law 1901, declared and funded in 2005. We promote Arts and Artists, as well as access to technics and knowledge for everyone.

The association has its headquarters at 7 bis, rue Saint Hilaire in Poitiers. If you like what we do, do not hesitate to send postcards or other nice mail! 🤗

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Opening of the exhibition "Les Traits du Japon" on thursday, July 13

The association LILA welcomes you to the exhibition "Les Traits du Japon" ("Strokes of Japan") from 14 to 31 July 2017.

Exhibition "Les Traits du Japon" in July 2017 at LILA

Exhibition "Les Traits du Japon" in July 2017 at LILA

The opening will be held on Thursday, July 13 from 18h30.

Where and When

Address:

Association LILA
31, avenue Parmentier
75011 Paris
Métro Saint Ambroise

Dates: from 14 to 31 July 2017, from 15h to 19h (every day from 15PM to 19PM except Mondays)

Opening: July 13 from 18h30

Who?

Mixing photography and calligraphy, this exhibition presents 2 artists, each with their own stories of Japan, whose path crossed in Paris:

  • Hysao Takagi: Japanese calligrapher from Fukushima. For Hysao, calligraphy is personal and the expression of her own research.
  • Nadia Boukouti: photographer, bringing her poetical vision of Japan from her travels.

You are invited to the opening this thursday, July 13, from 18h30. We will be waiting for you!

New workshop for the "Libre Sticker Album"

Note: this news is about a workshop series which will be done mostly in
France. This may not be of much interest to read if you are not there!

If you are interested, please read the French news with all the details (and if you can't read French, unfortunately you are not the event's target. But don't worry, we will also have other more international events soon!).

» The news in French «

The Libre Sticker Album is back

Note: this news is about a workshop series which will be done mostly in
France. This may not be of much interest to read if you are not there!

You remember the Libre Sticker Album project? Well it's back. If you are interested, please read the French news with all the details (and if you can't read French, unfortunately you are not the event's target. But don't worry, we will also have other more international events soon!).

» The news in French «

Activity report of LILA in 2015

After our general assembly meeting on 2016 March 1, we updated the association status and produced a report on our activity in 2015. All documents are in French only:

Thanks to our membres, our many supports and our Board 2015. The new board is composed of:

  • Grégoire Coustenoble;
  • Lionel Ngo.

No Libre Calendar 2016 ;-(

We have been asked several times by email or social networks whether we were planning a Libre Calendar 2016 (see Libre Calendar 2015).

Unfortunately we are not. This is for the official announcement. ;-(

"Fishing Night", by Aryeom Han (Creative Commons by)

Credit: Cover of the 2015 calendar ("Fishing Night", by Aryeom Han, Creative Commons attribution)

The reason is simple: we could not make the time. Our association is very small, and mostly hold by a handful of people. With our current projects (in particular ZeMarmot), adding the weight of an additional print project, however fun it is, was not possible.

This said, it is very heart-warming to know that people really loved the Libre Calendar (to be fair, we already knew so since we received several happy messages last year, after the calendar got delivered) and really wanted a new one for 2016. So we will definitely try to revive the project next year!

Note also that we are always open to volunteers to help us. It is too late this year to prepare a calendar now (if we want to do it well), but we would absolutely welcome new hands for next year!