Jean Blaise (born 1951) is a French artistic director for special events.
Blaise was born in 1951 in
Algiers
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. His family left
Algeria
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for the Parisian suburbs and settled in
Ris-Orangis
Ris-Orangis () is a Communes of France, commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris.
Inhabitants of Ris-Orangis are known as ''Rissois''.
History
The commune of Ris-Orangis was creat ...
.
In 1976 he received his Licencié en lettres and became head of a cultural center in the
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
region, then another in
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
, and a third in 1980, in
Guadeloupe
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.
In 1982–1983, he founded the
Centre de recherche pour le développement culturel, or Research Center for Cultural Development, in
Nantes
Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...
.
In 1990, he created the festival Les Allumées in Nantes.
In 1997 the festival Fin de Siècle took the baton from Les Allumées.
In 2000, he created
Le Lieu unique in Nantes.
In 2002, he became the artistic director of the first
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche () (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city. A Nuit Blanche typically has museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the ...
, in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
.
In 2007 he organized the cultural event
Estuaire 2007.
References
External links
Projet EstuaireJean BlaiseLa biennale Estuaire
1951 births
Living people
French theatre directors
People from Algiers
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