Fête de la science

Join a bread-making workshop with two bakers and their mobile wood-fired oven! Come and get your hands in the dough and leave with your creation! The insights from researchers at INRAE will shed light on the socio-agronomic issues surrounding bread making. This workshop is co-organized by Agropol’eat, INRAE (Divin Food project), the Montpellier Metropolis (Fibani project), and Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier. 30-minute sessions - Activity for a maximum of 12 participants Find us on the forecourt of the Atrium.

Even though it weighs only about 2% of the body’s weight, the brain is made up (among other things) of nearly a hundred billion neurons, connected by a staggering number of connections. It is the seat of our thoughts and emotions, our memory, our behaviors, and our ability to interact with the world. In short, it is our humanity. Well protected within the skull, it has yet to reveal all its secrets. This year, at Futurapolis Health, researchers, neurologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, and other health professionals will make the latest knowledge about the functioning of this organ and the advances in research accessible. Why and how do we create our inner cinema? How do the brains of expectant mothers and their fetuses evolve during pregnancy and after birth? How do profilers work during criminal investigations? The forum will also dedicate significant attention to the well-being of young people as well as mental illnesses. In particular, it will address treatment-resistant depression and the most recent and effective ways to combat it. Additionally, specialists will explain what can truly be expected from transcutaneous neuromodulation (electric, magnetic, or light stimulation) and which patients are likely to benefit from it. The public will be able to discover, as if they were in the operating room, how to "insert" catheters into a patient’s body by navigating through blood vessels to reach the site of a stroke or an aneurysm and treat it. They will also witness the removal of a brain tumor from a conscious patient, in order to preserve the most useful areas of their brain and thus maintain their quality of life. Fascinating images await. Finally, a health pathway will be offered to you – in addition to numerous workshops and other activities – to test your physical and mental fitness. The two are linked. Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Juvenal declared: "Mens sana in corpore sano". So, meet us at and around the Opéra Comédie on October 9 & 10.

Claire wants to buy an apartment while three chronic illnesses have taken up residence in her body. Life is a party! She must prove to the insurance companies that she is in perfect health, will not get sick, and will never die. She revisits her epic medical journey through multiple characters, searches for a trigger in her story and environment, slams, dances, and humorously narrates her transformation into a superheroine: Hépatik Girl.

The choreographer and performer weaves connections between her life and texts of contemporary feminist poetry, which she conveys directly to the audience with her voice. She seeks to understand through the body the poems of Gloria Anzaldúa, Lisette Lombé, and Marie-Hélène Voyer, based on the emotions these texts evoke in her. Performance to be discovered on the forecourt of the Atrium.