ARTS THAT CITY HALL SPONSORED OR THAT YOU DISCOVER BY CHANCE

THE 13TH'S PROGRESSIVE EMPHASIS IS PART OF CITY-WIDE POLICY

Showing how well it works is what one unexpectedly comes upon 

FOR OR AGAINST / greening and pedestrianizing 500 small streets / Vote March 23

BUDGET 2025 a cantine fee from 0.13€, unchanged for 10 years

BUDGET 2025 / TRANSPORT PASS REIMBURSED FOR UNDER 18s, SENIORS AND HANDICAPPED

A center for city-wide youth opened in the 13th in March, 2025

A few of its aspects in the 13th

• Among the official announcements (in the bulletin of June 2025)

FESTIVAL OF ECOLOGICAL COMBAT, Accent on the ocean!

(Third edition, June 14-21, 2015) 

Pillow Fight Championship / June 7 2025 at the mall / Music in the streets for Fête de la Musique

   EXHIBIT OF ARTISTS OF LA GLACIERE (part of the 13th) / Until June 13th at City Hall

Dance performances at the Conservatory

• Events that I ran into (in 2022-2024)

• In front of the mall

The sculpture became more noticeable after it was colored.

• At the enclave of the Asian district

-- Courant d'art frais ("Breath of Fresh Art")

For a marching band in front of City Hall, please click

• At parc de Choisy

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Specific to the 13th:

Parks that replace abandoned industry

THE CITY'S MAY DAY PARADE STARTS IN FRONT OF CITY HALL

 

DRUMS AND SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION HEARD HALF A MILE AWAY

Police vans line avenue de Choisy that leads to City Hall. 

Arrive a place d'Italie: crowd too great to proceed toward City Hall or to see the signs shown in televised reports (which themselves did not show those below).

Participant carries sign with anti-war messages on both sides.

 "In Palestine. In Ukraine. In the world.  PEACE!"

The flag represents indigenous people of the Andes

"Women in Struggle:" Part of the Andean demonstration

 

"May 1: LONG LIVE THE WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE !"

Young men selling the newspaper of Lutte ouvrière, a working-class party

T-shirt sticker: "Capitalism is war. If you want peace, prepare the revolution!"

A  brawl led to two arrests lower down on this street, but here police and demonstrators chat amicably. 

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After two hours of celebration

the demonstrators marched through the eastern city

gathering even more participants.

They arrived another huge open space

 built for massing troops,

place de la Nation.

Participants listening to speech by the leader of France insoumis ("France unbowed") / zoom

Police and union crowd size estimates differ as usual,

but media stated a crowd twice as large

 as in 2024.

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VIII,

More gifts from City Hall