At the 17th festival in 2014 – the fifth to be held in Sète – Voix Vives is staging more than 650 poetry and music sessions with poets from more than 38 different countries who represent the Mediterranean in its different expressions. The guest artists will be involved in a host of workshops, actions, art installations, street performances, concerts and shows. All these events will take place in special places – a distinguishing feature of the festival – such as poetry readings in parks and private gardens, aboard sailing boats and small fishing boats, on the beach by candlelight and even atop Mount Saint Clair. The general public will thus have the chance to enjoy a unique experience that comes not only from the content of the poems but also from the outstanding settings where the readings take place.
In addition to these activities, the festival also includes a book fair that brings together more than 100 publishers and brings out an annual anthology of the festival (together with the Bruno Doucey Publishing House) and five bilingual collections (with the Al Manar Publishing House).
Through the PICE mobility grants, AC/E is supporting the participation of poets Manuel Vilas, Dani Orviz and Anna Rossetti, who are taking part in various festival activities.