Cultural meeting
This is a first: in 2022, a city will be labeled “French Capital of Culture”. And it is Villeurbanne, 153,000 inhabitants, near Lyon, in the south-east, which was chosen. No less than 300 shows, 30 festivals and three major exhibitions are scheduled throughout the year in this working-class town, land of immigration, laboratory of cultural decentralization, half of whose population is under 30 years old. It is therefore not surprising that young people are among the priority audiences for this pioneering initiative, some of whose achievements will last beyond this year.