Maison de l'Outre-Mer : activities, programme


Mémoire de l'Outre-Mer : headquarters, board of directors, activities, programme 



Maison de l'Outre-Mer comprises associations run by the French law of 1901, including the association Mémoire de l'Outre-Mer.
It acts on cultural, social, and economic areas, aiming at French overseas departments and territories.

Its activities :

¤ It is a shop window for overseas : proposing information about tourism, products and associative life in overseas departments, organising cultural events, exhibitions, conferences, concerts…
¤ it is an embassy of overseas : receiving personalities, being the main representative of overseas associations, favouring the insertion of people from overseas, welcoming anyone interesting in overseas.

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PROGRAMME OF MAISON DE L'OUTRE-MER

------headquarters 88 Quai de la Fosse, 44100 Nantes-------
tel: 02-40-69-07-50 fax: 02-40-71-76-95 Email : memoire@outremer44.org
Mémoire de l'Outre-Mer (Run by a french law of 1901) has three main missions:

¤ Historical : This task is fundamental for a research of identity of the overseas community		  
¤ Cultural : That important approach allow us to get in touch with local population and to make easier the mutual discovering of cultures. For our community, it is also a mean of public expression, to make oneself known and to go towards one another.


¤ Social : It is a hard task because people from overseas islands suffer the same realities as immigrant people. (employment, housing, formation…) More and more, this function takes an important part of the activity of our
  
association. Indeed, the Loire-Atlantique area becomes more and more attractive for young people from overseas territories.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Library of overseas literature
Documentary collection about Slavery
  
Publication of a quarterly bulletin
Cooperation with a Senegalese village
Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery


¤ Participation in several cultural events in Nantes, such as: 		 
---- International fair of Nantes
---- Bégraissiere Festival in Saint Herblain
---- The Summer festival
---- Les Rendez-Vous de l'Erdre
---- Tissé Métisse Festival

BOARD OF DIRECTORS		  
President : Octave CESTOR , Vice-President : Kwame Steve AMOAH
Treasurer : Christian VAGAO , Assistant Treasurer : Michelle AMOAH born PAILLARD
Assistant Treasurer : Monique BOURDON ,
Secretary : Jean-François DION
Assistant Secretary and Vice-Delegate for Culture : Maguy COQUILLAUD
Delegate for Culture : Jean MARIE-AGNES
 		 
Main Coordinator and Delegate for the Anneaux de la Mémoire : Michel COCOTIER
President of the commission Ndangane Sambou : Alioune DIAW
In charge of Communication : Patricia SALOMON
In charge of Intendancy : Gracieuse DOUCEMENT
Assistant to the person in charge of organisation : Mathieu CARMASOL
Appropriate Adviser : Jean-Michel MACABRE
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