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Message by the Mayor of Lyon: culture is more essential than ever
Because culture is essential for taste of freedom and for understanding the world, because it offers “the resources to face difficulties, to find new inspiration”, the city of Lyon, led by the Mayor Grégory Doucet, is mobilizing the city’s cultural institutions in order to maintain the link between the public and the access to culture, creation and knowledge.
Many initiatives during the lockdown
Visit culture.lyon.fr to discover how cultural places maintain a link with the public: through virtual tours, podcasts and online festivals, everybody can spend their time enjoyjing culture and always learning something new.
Furthermore, municipal libraries also offer many digital recorces already online on their site. And from next week, a “Ready to Go” (click & collect) system for municipal library subscribers will be set up. It will be possible to reserve books online, and to collect documents from one of the open libraries within a few days.
The flame of the Festival of Lights does not go out either and the citizens of Lyon are called up to illuminate the windows of Lyon with thousands of candles.
The Lights of the Heart, this year for the benefit of the Petits frères des pauvres, will also take place. These candles are available in points of purchase but also online from November 23.
Each candle purchased will symbolically participate in the collective creation of a huge fresco made up of 20,000 candles. It will take shape on the evening of December 8, live but behind closed doors to avoid any gathering.
The Fourvière hill will be illuminated from the bedside of Saint-Jean cathedral, the buildings on the banks of the Saône and the Palais de Justice up to the apse of the Basilica and the gardens.
The whole announcement of the Mayor is available on this link.
