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City / Cité - Towards Earthly Cities: Where the Rivers Meet

Saturday, October 14, 2023
6:00 pm8:00 pm

Exhibition
Virginie Drujon-Kippelen – Geoffroy Mathieu
Oct 14-22, 2023

Opening on Oct 14 – 6pm
at the Atlanta Design Festival
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Where the Rivers Meet is an exhibition of photographic works by Virginie Drujon-Kippelen (Atlanta) and Geoffroy Mathieu (Marseille), which explores the territory of flowing water in Atlanta and Marseille. The exhibition is accompanied by stories of how local communities have worked to rehabilitate these waterways, also demonstrating how these images reinforce local action.

Free and open to the public. On exhibition from October 14-22. Join us for the opening on October 14 at 6pm!

Full exhibition schedule:
Sat, Oct 14 | 6-10pm
Sun, Oct 15 | 6-10pm
Mon, Oct 16 – Fri, Oct 20 | 3-8pm
Sat, Oct 21 | 10am – 4pm
Sun, Oct 22 | 10am – 4pm

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Where the Rivers Meet is presented by Villa Albertine and the Franco-German Cultural Center of Atlanta, as part of City/Cité - Towards Earthly Cities, the Atlanta Design Festival and France-Atlanta.

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City/Cité – Towards Earthly Cities (Atlanta, Oct 11-22, 2023) is a program inviting professionals from Atlanta and Marseille and the public to learn together about urban ecology and the future of our cities.

Associate curator: Alexandre Field (Marseille).

City/Cité – Towards Earthly Cities is presented by Villa Albertine, in partnership with the Atlanta Design Festival 2023, France-Atlanta, the College of Design at Georgia Tech, the College of Environment + Design at University of Georgia, the Franco-German Cultural Center of Atlanta (Goethe Zentrum Atlanta + Alliance française d’Atlanta), Le Bureau des Guides, the Metropolitan Trails Agency, L’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Marseille, Finding the Flint and the Atlanta Creek League.    

Made possible with the support of the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation, the Institut français, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France), Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence, the Ministry for Culture (France), Air France, Gene Kansas and Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta.   

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