After two major milestones in 2023 and 2024, the project Towards an International Assembly of Rivers... is growing and transforming. Still led by writer, researcher, and artist Camille de Toledo, the public is invited this year to form THE GRAND ASSEMBLY to collectively discuss the “laws to come.”
Much like parliamentary debates that often stretch well past midnight, this final highlight at the Lieu Unique in Nantes will begin at 4:00 PM and continue late into the evening and night.
After calling, in Highlight I, for nature’s entities to be recognized as “legal subjects” and “working bodies” fighting for their survival;
After exploring, in Highlight II, global cases in which rivers, lagoons, and other natural entities have been granted the status of “legal persons” with rights —
the time has now come for decision-making.
Join us for THE GRAND ASSEMBLY, a historic gathering where the “Council of Witnesses” — a group of twelve citizens from the Nantes region — will present and publicly debate their proposed laws to grant rights to natural entities and recognize the Loire River and its estuary as the first legal natural entities in France.
From 4:00 PM to midnight… Only at the Lieu Unique.
4:00 PM to midnight
Le Lieu Unique, at Nantes
