Educational activities
Each year, more than 2500 schoolchildren and students from the region participate in the mediation and educational activities projects (meetings with authors, readings of guest books, writing competitions, Great Urban Investigation in the city) offered by Quais du Polar. One The training day is also offered to teachers, librarians and librarians.
The Great Investigation for Schools
Two days of investigation entirely reserved for schoolchildren!
This “treasure hunt” allows students to discover certain districts and cultural places of the city of Lyon in a fun way, by gleaning clues along the way to solve a starting riddle.
Every year, Quais du Polar organizes the Great Investigation for schools. This event, open to all, is extremely popular with all schools, colleges and high schools in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. Due to this high demand, we limit registration for the Great Investigation to two classes per school in order to allow participation in the event to as many people as possible and are forced to refuse certain requests. In this context, we remind you that any registration is only effective once validated by the Quais du Polar team and that it is equivalent to a commitment on your part. If you cancel the following year, you may not be given priority the following year.
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Cultural mediation
Noir behind bars
Initiated in 2002 by the Rhône-Alpes Agency for Books and Documentation, Quais du Polar took over this organization in 2012, supported by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. Several of the festival’s guest authors go to different prisons in the region, in order to strengthen the “inside/outside” link, to (re)discover black and detective literature to inmates, and to raise their awareness of this genre.
The Readers’ Prize Mention Polar behind bars
Created in 2003 on the initiative of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes – Livre et lecture (formerly ARALD), Savoie-biblio and Ocre Bleu, the prize is awarded by the inmates of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region’s prisons, responsible for designating “the” French-language crime novel of the year from a selection of 6 novels chosen by the festival’s partner booksellers.
Since 2012, the prize has been coordinated by the Quais du Polar association, in collaboration with teams seconded from partner municipal and departmental libraries, the National Education Department and cultural associations, which run reading circles within the establishments, in conjunction with the Prison Integration and Probation Services (SPIP), so that prisoners can (re)discover black and detective literature.
Quais du Polar in hospital
For several editions, Quais du Polar has initiated and developed a close collaboration with the cultural services of several hospitals, such as the Saint-Luc Saint-Joseph center, the Medical-Surgical Center for the Rehabilitation of the Massues or the Ferme du Vinatier.
Contact
mediation@quaisdupolar.com
09 83 22 33 47