THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXTRA ORDINARY TEXTILES
The Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires (FITE) offers this unique meeting by creating a international scene in order to show off textiles which have a strong cultural or patrimonial meaning.
Clermont-ferranD 2022 - lituanie 2023
The Fite, is all year long
Since the first edition of the FITE in 2012, the Musée Bargoin and the agency HS Projets have joined forces in order to create the Festival International des Textiles Extra ordinaires (the International Festival of Extra ordinaries Textiles) along with the City of Clermont-Ferrand, soon joined by Clermont Auvergne Metropole. Since its very first édition the festival has been supported by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d'Auvergne Rhône Alpes (Regional cultural affaires directorate). The conseil départemental (department council) and the région Auvergne Rhône Alpes are also supporting the festival.
The Festivals
values, Visions &
missions
The Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires (FITE) offers this unique meeting by creating a international scene in order to show off textiles which have a strong cultural or patrimonial meaning. The idea is to invite all the 5 continents, to make craftpersons, designers, creators, artists and more from differents countries meet each other. This event wants to show the human issues, the economic issues and the ecologic issues inseparable from extraordinary textiles.
WHERE & WHEN ?
One theme is voted for 2 years !
Après « Métamorphoses » ; « Renaissance » ; « Rebelles » et « Déviations », c’est le thème « Love etc. » qui est exploré sur les éditions 2020 et 2021. Durant cinq jours, de nombreuses actions, expositions, spectacles, ateliers vous seront proposés. Les années paires, le Festival se tient à Clermont-Ferrand, en Auvergne ; les années impaires, il s’envole à la rencontre d’autres peuples. A Hué (Vietnam) en 2013, puis à Manille (Philippines) en 2015, à Mexico (Mexique) en 2017 et enfin en Roumanie en 2019. Le FITE devait se rendre à Dakar pour l’édition 2021, mais au vu de l’impossibilité de certaines collaborations, le festival a été annulé. Le reste des projets qui avaient commencé à voir le jour sur le territoire dakarois (Enfants Ambassadeurs, Laboratoire du FITE, etc.) restent tout de même d’actualité et seront présentées à l’édition 2022 du FITE à Clermont Ferrand. L’édition 2023 se tiendra quant à elle en Lituanie (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda).
WHOM ?
Association under the 1901 Law. International actors of textiles : artists, designers, dancers etc. The association works to structure exchanges and cooperation between regional, national, european and international actors by organizing events such as the FITE.
WHOM ?
Which candidate to be the european capital of culture for 2028, support the Festival initiative which add value to a locan and international project about textile.
WHOM ?
The Museum Bargoin
Whose collections are unique in France, pursue a remarkable work on extra-european textiles invite us to an unseen travel.
WHOM ?
Clermont auvergne
métropole
Urban community, work for the reinforcement of the intercommunalitiy to make things better together, especially as part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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