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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Franck Lepage
- Franck Lepage is one of the founder of Workers' co-operative of Popular education 'Le Pavé' (self-disbanded in 2014).
- An activist of Popular education, he was until 2000, Managing director of programmes in Community Centers and research specialist with 'Institut national de la jeunesse et de l'éducation populaire'.By telling the story of Christiane Faure (the first ever Director of Popular Education in France in 1944), he criticizes vividly the role of Culture and Arts in our society in a conference called Inculture(s) 1 – L'éducation populaire, monsieur, ils n'en ont pas voulu… · , (Inculture(s) 1 – Popular Education, Sir, they did not want any of it...), he played on stage in a « conférences gesticulées » (a new concept of gesticulate conference), that became more and more popular from 2006 to 2014.
- Many people were to follow then on different subjects.In 2010, under the same format conference/one-man-show, Franck Lepage started Inculture(s) – 2, in which he deals with Teaching.
- Then Inculture(s) 5 with Gaël Tanguy, on Social protection, based on the theorytical work of Bernard Friot.
- With the developing network of Workers' co-operatives of Popular Education, especially 'La Grenaille', Le Pavé of Rennes, L'orage of Grenoble, Le vent debout of Toulouse and L'engrenage of Tours, he helps them in creating other gesticulate conferences.
- About a hundred conferences are then created by the end of 2014. The self-disbandment of Le Pavé in December 2014, leads to co-found a new structure of Political popular education « L'Ardeur » (Blazing Heat) with a new group of radicalist gesticulating conference folks.
- Created in 2015 and focused on Trade Unionism, and see a whole lot of new conferences and also the creation of activist workshops.
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