Launched over 20 years ago, the Festival of Solidarities is an international event that promotes and celebrates solidarity that is open to the world and to others.
Every year in November, associations, local governments, schools, socio-cultural organizations, social economy actors, citizen groups, etc., organize more than 4,400 friendly and committed activities to inspire citizens of all ages to take action for a just, united, and sustainable world.
The 2024 edition will take place from Friday, November 15 to Sunday, December 1!
The activities take place all over France, as well as in other countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal, Togo…
The Festival of Solidarities is a project led by CRID (Centre de Recherche et d’Information pour le Développement).
An event with many faces
The richness of this event lies in its ability to adapt to the territory where it is organized. Festisol is a common framework, which each structure or collective of structures is free to use to tailor according to their themes, event types, and target audiences, within the framework of a charter that guarantees the defended values.
Fighting poverty, food, health, education, fighting inequalities, climate and environmental protection, peace… These themes are global issues defined by the UN’s 2030 Agenda. We advocate a global solidarity vision, both local and international.
Read the positioning text of the Festival of Solidarities members
As for the proposed events, they are diverse: public space activities, theater performances, awareness-raising games, film screenings with debates, exhibitions, shared meals, solidarity markets, concerts, dance shows…
Being in solidarity means choosing to defend human rights and to carry values of openness, mutual aid, justice, and peace everywhere.
Festival of Solidarities
A project turned towards the world
A birth under the sign of international solidarity
This major mobilization event was launched in 1998 under the name The Week of International Solidarity. In 2017, after two years of collective reflection and consultations, the event was renamed Festival of Solidarities. This evolution highlights the necessary continuity between local and international levels and the desire to emphasize the friendly and festive dimension of the different forms of solidarity.
A resolutely educational festival
At the heart of our action: citizenship education and international solidarity (ECSI), an educational approach that helps to better understand the world around us, become aware of interdependencies, and choose to act to evolve societies towards more solidarity while protecting the environment. There is no age limit to becoming in solidarity!
ECSI contributes to providing everyone with the tools to develop a critical mind towards a dominant development model that produces inequalities and exclusions. It aims at social transformation and the collective construction of other development modes that respect human rights and the environment. It values ongoing alternatives worldwide. It promotes living together and personal fulfillment.
Excerpt from the Educasol charter, the ECSI platform in France
Talking about Festisol
Do you want to talk about the Festival of Solidarities to potential actors, partners?
- Download the presentation brochure.
Previous editions
- Check out the Festisol 2023 report
- Check out the Festisol 2022 report
- Check out the Festisol 2021 report
- Check out the Festisol 2020 report
- Check out the Festisol 2019 report
- Discover the Festival of Solidarities in images
- Discover the main elements of the Festisol 2022-2024 strategy
Photo credits: (c) Remi Deprez – Festisol