Cultural Actions
Between entertainment and poetry, cultural action at La Belle Électrique is accessible to all, through encounter and practice, by making the public the own actors of cultural creation in their school, their neighborhood, their city...
Cultural Actions
At the heart of the Belle Électrique project since its inception, cultural activities take various forms to offer the widest possible audience access to artistic experiences!
We encourage everyone to express themselves, discover, learn and share through encounters with artists and contributors from a variety of disciplines. Through our cultural activities, we promote individual fulfilment and empowerment for all audiences.
Implementation
Visits, introductory music workshops, parties for children and adults, participatory creation... Each proposal is tailor-made! Our projects are co-developed with one or more artists and our partners, in accordance with their wishes and needs, combining encounters, practice and audience experience whenever possible.
In an effort to reach as many audiences as possible across a wider area, our activities take place both inside and outside our walls!
Audiences
At the crossroads of audiences, we work with more than thirty partners each season and engage with:
- school audiences, from nursery school children to students
- early childhood and families
- popular education organisations
- social action organisations
- medical organisations
- prisons
- the general public, people of all ages and backgrounds!
Current projects
Astroficus and Sumac Dub with the Grésivaudan music schools
This season, La Belle Électrique is joining forces with Le Grésivaudan – Communauté de communes and the Department of Isère to launch a major project! Two bands from Grenoble, ASTROFICUS and Sumac Dub, have been invited to share their musical world with around fifty local schoolchildren. Following several workshops focusing on reinterpreting their songs, an enhanced concert will be organised to round off the project!
Join us on Saturday 18 April at the Espace Bergès in Villard-Bonnot to experience this extraordinary concert!
A project funded by the Grésivaudan Community of Communes, the Department of Isère, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC) and La Belle Électrique.
Hip-hop drop-in session
Building on the success of its first series, the Hip-Hop Workshop is back for a second season at the Labo de La Belle Électrique!
Designed as a genuine space for creativity and knowledge-sharing, this series of six sessions, held on Thursday evenings, invites young people aged 15 to 25 from the Hoche neighbourhood and the wider metropolitan area to immerse themselves in the heart of hip-hop culture.
Guided by a rapper and two sound engineers, participants explore every stage of music creation: writing lyrics, composing beats, working on flow, and recording in the studio. Comprehensive support to experiment, find your voice and develop your creativity in a supportive and stimulating environment.
Over the course of the sessions, everyone is invited to find their own style, share their influences and experience a collective immersion in the world of rap.
The experience will be extended with a tour of La Belle Électrique and its backstage areas, as well as a session at Game A Production studio, offering a chance to discover a professional studio and record under real conditions!
Project in partnership with the City of Grenoble’s Youth Department, CODASE, Game A Production studio and the Pied Mère association. With the support of the DRAC Auvergne Rhône Alpes.
Music and dance at Simone Lagrange School
La Belle Électrique and Point d’Eau: a collaboration that’s going from strength to strength! Our shared goal: to bring to life a collective, people-centred and deeply inclusive musical project.
Alongside professional musicians Arash Sarkechik and Benoît Hazebrouck, a group of around ten participants from the community supported by Point d’Eau is embarking on a unique artistic adventure: to imagine, compose and build an original repertoire together.
Driven by the richness of the participants’ backgrounds, ages, languages and cultures, this project is above all a space for encounter and expression. Everyone finds their place, their voice and their rhythm within a collective dynamic where differences become a creative force.
The musical creation is built upon the group’s suggestions, guided by Arash and Benoît: rhythms, melodies and soundscapes gradually blend together, accompanied by percussion, guitars, keyboards and other instruments, giving rise to unique pieces, collectively crafted.
The adventure is set to continue to Avignon, for a performance as part of the C’est pas du luxe! festival in September, before a concert at Point d’Eau in the autumn.
An artistic and human project, where music becomes a shared language, supported by the Fondation pour le logement des défavorisés, Emmaüs Solidaire, the DRAC Auvergne Rhône Alpes, La Belle Électrique and Point d’Eau.
Music isn't a luxury!
The partnership with Simone Lagrange School, located on the Presqu’Île, continues this season with two renowned local artists: dancer and choreographer Sylvie Guillermin and musician Arash Sarkechik, an artist supported by La Belle. Two primary school classes and two nursery school classes will be exploring the performing arts on the one hand, and discovering music on the other. The aim with Arash is to collectively create a piece that will bring all 80 pupils together on stage! This adventure will culminate on Wednesday 3 June in front of families and friends at La Belle Électrique.
This project is supported by the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.
Techno rodéo #2
Following the success of the first edition of the ‘Techno Rodeo’ project in collaboration with Hadra, we’re doing it all again! Residents of the Foyer des Béalières in Meylan are set to take part in seven workshops on music creation and performance at the Labo de La Belle with artists Hamcat and Dïa. Writing a song together, working on their voices, choosing a track to cover, discovering electronic music, learning to perform on stage in front of an audience – in short, preparing for a concert – these are the goals for 2026. And the participants are really keen!!
After the terrace of the Bar de La Belle last year, this season you’ll be able to see them… on the stage of the Guinguette Électrique! Stay tuned
Small sound steps and artistic whispers • Electro music for young and old alike
The music programme for young children in Sector 1 is back! This winter, the focus will be on electronic music. Artist Digital Ethnics will be running discovery workshops for children and parents at the Mille Pattes early childhood education centre and the Pom, Flore et Alexandre parent-run nursery. To kick things off, the Zen-so-riel workshop will introduce participants to sounds through the use of conductive materials (water, modelling clay, skin, etc.)! Next, we'll move on to Digipads to create melodies, and we'll finish with Boocles to create a piece with the whole group! A performance is even planned to have fun, share and conclude this first introduction to electronic music.
This project is supported by the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.
Backstage
Our desire to be as close as possible to our audiences is expressed in many ways at La Belle, and the En coulisses program is one of them. These regular gatherings enable us to meet the artists programmed in the venue, to visit the building and to attend the sound check, a stage of work usually closed to the public.
So it is that a singer like Faada Freddy decides to improvise a composition accompanied by 6th graders, that the Usine à jazz composer begins to give “tips” to high school music students, or that the singer HK embarks high school students on a real fake demonstration...
These privileged moments blur the boundary between artists and spectators, and offer a unique insight into the world of music. Most of the time, the artists are not to be outdone in their curiosity: they love these encounters and ask lots of questions in return...
La Belle outside the walls
Because not everyone can get to a cultural venue, La Belle Electrique reaches out to those who don't necessarily frequent its concert hall by organizing showcases, 45-minute mini-concerts followed by a time of discussion with the artists. So it's that after lunch, EHPAD residents regularly see a technician transforming the refectory into a warm and inviting place to listen to music, or the sound of music at the end of a corridor in the St-Egrève public mental health facility, or a festive moment at the Point d'Eau association, a day care center for the underprivileged. Alone or in small groups, the artists surprise the site's users by offering a musical interlude and a close encounter with the public!
Past projects
Music of nature • Musical creation by pupils at Diderot School
This autumn, the two classes of older and middle school pupils at Diderot School met the artist Léonino and his tenor guitar. Together, they set themselves the challenge of creating a song about nature, using sounds recorded outdoors! Working in small groups, the pupils began by creating a sound bank, capturing sounds themselves using a zoom. Pebbles clattering, leaves rustling, branches creaking, the wind blowing, birds chirping... At each session, between learning a melody, listening and recording sounds, the children's ideas flowed! The next step is to transform this sound material into an original musical creation that celebrates nature in all its diversity.
Come and discover it on 20 January 2026 at the Belle Électrique bar, during a sound-themed afternoon tea with the children and Léonino.
Project supported by the Diderot school, the city of Grenoble and SACEM as part of the Fabriques à musique initiative.
Olympic ringtones • Ringtones created by secondary school pupils
The five Year 9 classes at Collège Olympique are diving into the world of electronic music and computer-assisted music (CAM) thanks to musician Augustin Garnier. Their mission? To create future ringtones for their school! On the agenda: discovering Ableton Live software, an introduction to electronic composition techniques and first steps in mixing and mastering. At the end of the workshops, several original ringtones will be created. They will be put to a vote by all the school's pupils and teachers, and the two winning creations will become the new ringtones heard at every break and change of class.
The students will also enjoy a tour of La Belle Électrique, where they will get a behind-the-scenes look at a concert hall.
Project supported by SACEM as part of Les Fabriques à musique.
Voix Intérieures • A podcast made in Varces prison
Last July, La Belle Électrique set up shop in the prison for two fantastic concerts by Lwanbé. Now we're back for the second part of the partnership: a project to create a music podcast!
From September to December, Erwan Flageul (musician) and Clémentine Méténier (freelance journalist) will accompany a group of inmates in the production of an original radio programme, combining sound creation and journalism. Over the course of the sessions, the participants will take on a collectively chosen editorial theme and carry out all stages of production: writing, research, interviews, as well as sound design and radio formatting.
Beyond technical and creative learning, this project aims to give prisoners the opportunity to take full control of their choices and expression, while promoting access to artistic creation in a collective and supportive environment.
The result will be presented to the public, and we will be sure to keep you informed!
A project within the framework of the Culture & Justice programme, supported by the Ministries of Justice and Culture, in partnership with the SPIP in Grenoble.
Les Petites Cosmogonies • Soundscapes in nurseries and kindergartens
After an initial round in the spring with two nursery classes from Simone Lagrange School and the Chorier-Berriat Early Childhood Education Centre, Bertille Puissat and Franck Litzler are returning to the neighbourhood. In connection with the show Cosmogonie de poche, which will be presented at La Belle on Wednesday 1 October, the Duende collective is offering a series of workshops based on a range of instruments combining world instruments and loopers. Children from the Charrel and New York nurseries will have the opportunity to experiment with music before discovering the show!
This journey through the elements, combining soundscapes and lullabies from here and elsewhere, will be presented in three performances at La Belle, to the delight of young and old alike!
This project was made possible thanks to the support of the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.
At home in Saint-Bruno • A project with Terrenoire
The profound changes in our society and the social and climate challenges we face are prompting us to rethink our practices. How can we forge links with the regions we visit on tour? The solution: taking our time. The Saint-Étienne-based duo Terrenoire decided to stay for several days before their concert in each of the regions they will visit during their ‘protégé.e’ tour.
La Belle Électrique offered them a series of writing workshops with different audiences, culminating in a live radio broadcast on New's FM. For a week, the artists met with users of the PAGI, students from the Starter class, undocumented families supported by the Social Centre and the Maison des Familles, as well as local residents. The aim was to create a space for discussion on the theme of ‘At Home in St Bruno’. This goal was achieved with a live radio show at the Gisèle Halimi Library, which brought together local actors, residents and artists, and brought the project to a successful conclusion on 7 November!
In partnership with the Chorier-Berriat Community Centre, the Chorier-Berriat Social Centre, Cap Berriat, the Starter programme, Média major and the Gisèle Halimi Library. A big thank you to them, as well as to the associations Cuisines sans frontières, Beyti ma maison and Histoires de.
Maria Luma • A musical and puppet show to mark the start of the new school year at Joliot-Curie School
The Parents' Association of the Joliot-Curie school approached us this year for a festive event: to organise a back-to-school concert for the children and their families. We jumped at the chance and suggested that our most cheerful artist perform in Vizille! Maria Luma enchanted young and old alike with her Brazilian sound garden, but that wasn't all... A small band of animal puppets had also invited themselves along. Carried by six children, the wolf, monkey, frog, dolphin, parrot and panther came to life in a magical parade. There was also plenty to eat and drink at the association's crêpe bar.
In short, it was a truly successful first event that got the school year off to a joyful start.
Radio Project at Fantin Latour Secondary School • Transition Town: secondary school pupils take to the microphone
As part of the Transition Towns Biennial, two classes from Fantin Latour Secondary School are taking part in a radio project run by La Belle Électrique. Year 9 pupils are conducting investigations into water: vox pops, interviews with researchers, visits to the Radio Campus Grenoble studios, etc. Year 7 pupils are imagining the city of 2050 through audio fiction combining storytelling, sound effects and musical creation. Combining journalism, science and artistic creation, they are exploring the possible transformations of their environment. Come and discover the results on Friday 16 May at Parc Paul Mistral, during a live radio broadcast as part of the ‘Ville en Transition’ Biennale.
Project supported by the Department as part of Isère Collégiens.
Adèle & Robin • Music workshops in Tullins
Accompanied artists, Adèle & Robin are also involved in cultural action! Since January, they have been working regularly in Tullins on a 100% music project with the pupils of 2 CM2 classes and students from the music school. The project has several objectives: to compose a song, from lyrics to musical composition, as well as to rearrange two songs by Adèle and Robin. These different sessions between students and artists will cover all the stages involved in creating a song, culminating in a performance in front of what we hope will be a large audience! On Tuesday April 1 in Tullins, professional artists and amateurs will share the stage, and you're all welcome!
This residency was made possible thanks to the “residency for creation and cultural action” scheme funded by the CNM and the Département de l'Isère.
Mothership • DIY or the art of sound synthesis
Mothership, the latest musical project from rock band MNNQNS, celebrates an electronic musical instrument that's making a comeback: the modular synthesizer. More than just a concert, the musicians of MNNQNS are offering workshops to learn how to build a module of the instrument and explore the world of sound synthesis. Guided by Robin (sound engineer) and Grégoire (drummer), some fifteen participants will learn the basics of sound design, assemble modules and explore a world of new sounds! As a result, some of the pieces composed in the workshop may well be included in the concert on the big day!
To find out more about Mothership, come along to L'Ampérage on Friday, February 21!
Cie Les Entêtés • Cultural action residency at the college
From October 2024 to January 2025, students in 6ᵉ4 and 5ᵉ4 at Lucie Aubrac middle school enjoyed a unique artistic experience: composing their songs and putting them into images! Guided by 3 professional artists, they explored all the creative stages. With Vincent, it was songwriting: theme, lyrics, rhymes, melody. With Mathieu, they used body percussion to give rhythm to their songs. Then, thanks to Elise and her camera, their songs were brought to life in video clips. A screening at La Belle in January, shared with pupils from Les Buttes school, celebrated their creativity and talent as they put the finishing touches to their work!
The project was spearheaded by the Lucie Aubrac secondary school teaching team: Noémie Pinéro, Katy Magnasco and Jimmy Dorelon, the Les Entêtés company and La Belle Électrique, and was supported by Isère Collégiens, Cité Educative and Pass Culture.
Digital symphony
Strongly committed to schemes linking Culture and Health, we are continuing our partnership with the Centre Hospitalier Alpes-Isère through an ambitious project: Symphonie numérique. With the aim of discovering two artistic disciplines, digital arts and electronic music, two artists will accompany participants in the creation of a visual and sound work tailor-made for a hospital building.
Since June, Johanna Rousseau and James Leonard have been running participatory workshops open to all CHAI patients. The result will be a monumental sound and light projection that will bring the chapel's façade to life! We look forward to seeing you in December...
With the support of the Agence Régionale de Santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Département de l'Isère, as part of the Culture et Santé regional program run by interSTICES.
40 guitars on a drunken boat
Bringing together 40 electric guitars on a contemporary score inspired by Rimbaud's poem Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is the crazy challenge launched by Gilles Laval in Grenoble and Chambéry! For almost six months, 20 musicians from each city will rehearse in parallel, then together, to give two exceptional concerts in June 2024. Initially composed for 100 guitars, this "eco-poetic" musical creation explores the theme of the ocean, and invites us to use the guitar in different ways (with the help of wooden chopsticks, for example...). We can't wait to see the finale of this wonderful adventure!
An adventure led by the APEJS, the Chef Menteur association and La Belle Electrique, supported by the DRAC AuRA and carried out in partnership with the CROUS de Grenoble, the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne, Savarez Electric and Ebows.
Funk at the Petites Roches with Cocotte !
This spring, we invited the musicians of our favorite band Cocotte to get some fresh air and a bit of height! Direction: Saint-Bernard du Touvet. The group will be stopping off there in April and May to take over the "Foyer des Petites Roches", an associative dance, theater and music school. For this creative and cultural residency, the members of Cocotte composed a song especially for the school's contemporary music section, and invited the students to produce their own video clip! To find out more about this work, come and see us in June, when we'll be holding a concert and projection to round off the project!
Cocotte is supported by La Belle Electrique and Les Abattoirs. This project was financed as part of a residency for creation and cultural action supported by the Département de l'Isère and the CNM.
Harmonies contées
For the past few weeks, a strange project has been brewing at the EHPAD du Bon Pasteur in Saint-Martin d'Hères. Milena, a Franco-Armenian pop artist, Alderaan, a psytrance DJ, a dozen residents and lots of equipment: microphones, guitars, controllers, zoom recorders, computers, word boxes... Between discovering electronic music, writing and singing, the EHPAD is hosting 6 workshops to create a sound composition around the theme of the seasons! After exploring the acoustics of the chapel, capturing the sounds of the garden and recording at Le Labo, the residents will present their work accompanied by our two artists on Friday April 26 over an aperitif...
A project supported by the ARS, DRAC, Département de l'Isère and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, as part of the regional Culture and Health program run by interSTICES.
Get in touch with Émeraude
Are you an artist, a social structure or part of an association ? Are you willing to organise a tour of La Belle Électrique, to build a project together or simply talk to us ?
Émeraude will be pleased to discuss with you!
- Émeraude Gomes, Cultural Actions Manager
- action.culturelle@la-belle-electrique.com
- 04 69 98 00 33
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