To women everywhere committed to growing culture
To continue and enrich its long-standing commitment to art and culture, Chaumet is creating a new engagement programme: the Echo Culture Awards.
This Prize aims to support women who, through their action in the field, are committed to passing down culture, so that it can be circulated and shared. The projects of these “purveyors of culture” create meetings, bring people together, and shape dynamics, encouraging curiosity and exchange.
Discover the Echo Culture Awards
With the belief that culture is a powerful means of creating links, with this Prize, the Maison Chaumet will shine a light on three practical, cultural projects, conceived by women who act daily for change.
The Chaumet Echo Culture Awards reward cultural projects that create social links and diversify audiences, with a real and measurable impact in their field. They are intended to be long-term, recurring or permanent.
Projects may pertain to any creative field, such as visual arts, design, literature, crafts, built heritage preservation, teaching, performing arts and more!
The Chaumet Echo Culture Awards reward cultural projects that create social links and diversify audiences, with a real and measurable impact in their field. They are intended to be long-term, recurring or permanent.
Projects may pertain to any creative field, such as visual arts, design, literature, crafts, built heritage preservation, teaching, performing arts and more!
Through the Echo Culture Awards, the Maison wants to help these projects, from all areas of culture, to come to life, grow and succeed.
How do I apply?
Candidate projects can either be new projects, to be implemented in 2023, or existing ones, to be expanded and strengthened.
The projects must be carried out in France and must be supported by an organisation through which the project leader applies. The organisation must not have more than 20 employees and its headquarters must be located in France.
Applications must be submitted by 11pm on 10 March 2023.
The projects must be carried out in France and must be supported by an organisation through which the project leader applies. The organisation must not have more than 20 employees and its headquarters must be located in France.
Applications must be submitted by 11pm on 10 March 2023.
DISCOVER THE JURY
The members of the jury are qualified individuals, chosen for their involvement and commitment in all areas of culture and impact.
Sandrine Kiberlain
ACTRESS AND PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
ACTRESS AND PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
“Culture and art are most often the result of teamwork. A team that unites those in the shadows and in the spotlight. This personal adventure with Chaumet allows me to take advantage of my exposure to shed light on those who, hidden, make artistic and cultural projects come to life.
This project is very close to my heart and I am delighted to serve as its president.”
This project is very close to my heart and I am delighted to serve as its president.”
ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTIST
François Alu, a multidisciplinary artist-entrepreneur, joined the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet at the age of 16. In 2022, he was appointed Principal Dancer of the Paris Opera.
He co-created with Samuel Murez the one-man show “François Alu – Completely thrown”. At the same time, he wrote, acted in and produced his first short film L’échappée in 2020 and then La Source in 2021.
Accolades: Awarded the French National Order of Merit
FOUNDER OF THE MOBILE MUSEUM
Ingrid Brochard is a female entrepreneur committed to the French cultural scene.
In 2010, she imagined MuMo, the mobile museum, a travelling museum designed to reach out to children, especially those who are the furthest from access to culture.
In 2020, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, she created another mobile museum that travelled with works from the Centre’s collection.
Accolades: Awarded the French National Order of Merit and the Order of Arts and Letters
Mercedes Erra is Founder and President of the BETC Group, France’s leading advertising agency and one of Europe’s top three. She specialises in building major brands and their strategic shifts (Danone, Air France, Evian, etc.).
Mercedes is committed to numerous causes in support of human and women’s rights and has chaired the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Immigration History in Paris since 2010.
CHIEF CURATOR AT THE CAPC MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF BORDEAUX
Since September 2021, Cédric Fauq has been Chief Curator at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux, where his most recent projects include the group exhibitions Barbe à Papa (Candy Floss) and Le Club du Poisson-Lune (The Moonfish Club), as well as the never-ending festival L’Académie des Mutantes (The Mutant Academy).
From 2020 to 2021, he was curator at the Palais de Tokyo, where he developed the exhibitions Antibodies and Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema. Prior to this, he was a curator of the exhibition department at Nottingham Contemporary where he worked on exhibition and performance projects as well as publications.
CEO OF CHAUMET
“I have often been struck by the quality, the generosity and the clarity of projects which, far from the big institutions, are committed to helping people discover culture, so that it remains a wonderful opportunity to forge much-needed links and solidarity. As I wanted to know more about the people behind these initiatives, it occurred to me that this word was very often written in the feminine form in French.
This is why Chaumet is launching the Echo Culture Awards programme, so that the voices of all these women can be heard.”
CO-FOUNDER / SO GOOD PUBLISHING
Loïc Yviquel began his professional career as a marketing and sales manager, first with the French Athletics Federation and then with Lille OSC (LOSC). He then founded a sports communication group (Sportlab, Sponsorise.me and SLevent). In 2018, he sold Sponsore.me to Ulule and became COO before founding So Good.
