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  • Opus Pocus – Sélène Saint-Aimé “Creole Songs”

    Creole Songs is included because the Léspas page frames the concert around créolité and explicitly links the repertoire to Louisiana, the Antilles and La Réunion. The event also features Bino Waro on percussion, giving the Saint-Paul date a direct island connection inside a wider Creole jazz conversation. Rather than presenting it as a generic jazz concert, the publication row emphasizes the exploration of Creole memory, traditional repertoires and the way La Réunion enters the performance through both theme and guest musician.

  • Mariaz Tangaz at Léspas

    Mariaz Tangaz is a strong regional theatre and humour event because its plot is built from recognisable Réunion social codes: a wedding, a Malbar family, a tense meeting of households, the salle verte, marmites noires and a sharp local comic language. Léspas lists the production by Hémisphère event and names Jean-Laurent Faubourg, Marie-Alice Sinaman and Thierry Jardinot in the writing credits. The publication angle is therefore not simply a comedy night, but a stage portrait of island family negotiations, class tensions and Creole humour.

  • Le vidéoclub des Cinéastes de La Réunion – Benoit Marcel

    This Léspas cinema evening is kept because it is explicitly built around Les cinéastes de La Réunion and the work of Réunion director Benoit Marcel. The programme places his short film À l’abri, set during a stormy stay on the island, alongside atmospheric and unsettling short films that shaped his style, then opens the room to a discussion with the filmmaker. It is a compact but credible cultural event: local cinema, a named Réunion artist, a public debate and a Saint-Paul venue all support a useful regional identity signal.

  • Cirquons Flex – Reskapés at Léspas

    Reskapés is a strong publication candidate because it combines a Réunion-based company with a story that speaks to the Indian Ocean. Léspas presents Cirquons Flex in a tragi-comic circus fable about two survivors of a floating big-top shipwreck, left with bamboo, debris, memories and imagination. The official text connects the show to migration in the Indian Ocean, while the production notes identify Cirquons Flex as a company supported by La Réunion cultural institutions. The result is local contemporary circus with a clear regional lens.

  • Francofolies de La Réunion 2026

    Les Francofolies de La Réunion return from 1 to 6 September 2026, with the Guide Réunion page confirming the dates and the Saint-Paul / La Saline-les-Bains setting. The festival is a broad music event, but it is kept in the curated base because the Réunion edition has become part of the island’s public cultural season and includes local access formats such as Francofolies Dann Sin Zil. Its value is the meeting point it creates between francophone music, island audiences, Saint-Paul venues and the west-coast festival atmosphere. The listing is written as a Réunion cultural rendezvous shaped by local audiences, venues and island festival practice.