European capital of culture 2028 : a candidate city, Bourges wants to become " a laboratory of ideas and innovations "
Agility will allow the city to develop the prototype, and to become a laboratory of ideas and innovations to provide solutions to the culture in the Union of the Twenty-first century to a particularly dense network of cities of its size and situation of the periphery comparable across the continent
Knowledge of the Arts
BOURGES 2028, Territory of the future
ECOC are unique projects to develop a systemic and long-term vision of the development of a territory, involving all stakeholders in the same process. At the time of covid and climate change, we are convinced that Europe and culture are the best tools of development for Bourges.
EcocNews
Announcement of the Candidature
The Printemps de Bourges was the occasion to announce, on June 26, 2021, the official launch of Bourges’s candidacy.
The World
Avignon supports Bourges'' candidacy to become European Capital of Culture in 2028
In the framework of a displacement of the Avignon Festival, Yann Galut, Mayor of Bourges met Cécile Helle, Mayor of Avignon on Friday, 16 July 2021. This last has officially announced its support of the nomination “Bourges European Capital of Culture in 2028”.
Eurotribune
Bourges Contemporary
This summer, under the “Bourges Contemporain” stamp, Berry has become a constellation of fourteen exhibitions where works, in particular sculptures, meet from the heart of the city to the most remote barns of the region in rurality : (re)discovery of a territory, (re)discovery of artists.
Artpress
Bourges 2028 at COP26 Lydie Lescarmontier, patron of the candidacy
Lydia Lescarmontier, godmother of the application of Bourges 2028 attended an event of the european Commission in the framework of the COP 26 in Glasgow around the question : “How education can support the transition for the company to reach the goal of carbon neutrality and climate ?”
Glasgow COP26
