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Making a sustainable festival

After thirty years of Le Printemps de Septembre in the fall, Le Nouveau Printemps reinvents itself in style and substance. Given the changes in the artistic, social and philosophical contexts over those three decades, and climatic and environmental stakes that can no longer be ignored, the festival has begun its ecological transition.

A participatory approach, made up of constant dialogue and reappraisal of issues of everyday consumerism and our activities as a festival, has led to a re-evaluation of ways of combining the ephemeral, inherent to a festival format, and the sustainable.The goals laid down by the team involve revisiting our whole operation, limiting negative impacts as well as reinforcing positive impacts on society, with a view to contributing to maintaining habitability conditions on earth. 

For our first edition, several processes have been enacted in pursuit of these goals :