The announcement of the recovery of gauges for cultural events makes it almost impossible to organize the international comic event.
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Planned for 27 to 30 January 2022, Angoulême International Cartoon Festival (FIBD) International Festival should take charge of new restrictions aimed at curbing the progression of the pandemic of COVID-19 and its variants. “We are probably will not be able to hold the next festival,” says Franck Bondoux, the General Delegate of the most important European event on the ninth art. Announced by the government Monday, December 27, the new gauges for sports and cultural events – set at maximum 2,000 people in the interior enclosures and 5,000 for external structures – make it almost impossible to organize the event, mix literary lounge (exhibitions, conferences …) and books (stands, signatures …).
Even even the measures in question are only planned for a period of three weeks from the beginning of January, “the risk of seeing them prolonged is considerable,” says Franck Bondoux. This cancellation would be the second in a row for the FIBD which, in 2021, had considered postponing the festival at the beginning of the summer, before giving up again, under the sanitary pressure.
From the new known restrictions, the direction of the event has initiated consultations with its private and public partners to examine a postponement in the course of the year 2022. “The ideal would be to reproop the festival quite quickly , before the first round of the presidential election [on April 10, 2022], at the end of March, either any earlier April, “still specifies a FIBD boss particularly discredited:” Unlike 2021 where the cancellation had been announced sufficiently upstream , the 2022 edition is ready to be delivered on a purely organizational plan. The entire budget has been initiated in its outfit. “
And Franck Bondoux to claim, from now on, exceptional assistance to the State, on the model of those having been allocated by the Ministry of Culture, in 2021, through the “Festival Festival Funds” (total of 30 million euros). “This event, which radiates in the world, needs special attention from the ministry. It is its sustainability, especially in the perspective of its fiftieth anniversary, planned in 2023. The hour is serious, it is necessary Save the Soldier Festival “, Assembled the General Delegate of FIBD.