The 2023 edition

Echo Culture Awards Ceremony

On 18 April, in Paris, Chaumet celebrated women who are promoting culture everywhere and awarded the winners of the first edition of the Echo Culture Awards, with members of the jury and friends of the Maison in attendance.

Prize-giving ceremony at the Philanthro-Lab in Paris

This first French edition, chaired by the actress Sandrine Kiberlain, awarded four cultural and artistic projects led by women. Each of them received a sum of money that allowed them to support concrete action to further develop their projects.

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The Prizewinners

Discover the four winners and their projects out of over 150 applications.

Chaumet Echo Culture Awards Claire Gibault Paris Mozart Orchestra

First Category

Claire Gibault won the first category prize for her project Paris Mozart Orchestra which defends classical music, creation and decompartmentalisation of the arts through ambitious musical programmes.

Based in Bourges and its surrounding region, this association aims to give all audiences access to music through three programmes:

- La Maestra, master classes organised with winners of the International Competition for Women Conductors;
- Orchestre au Bahut project, which allows students to meet, collaborate, create and exchange on an equal footing with professional artists and musicians;
- Solidarity initiatives in prisons, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, to improve the well-being of everyone.

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Second Category

The La Caravana Obscura project led by Lolita Bourdet won the second category prize. This immersive, educational and mobile facility offers an introduction to photography in a trailer transformed into a film development laboratory.

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Third Category

The third category prize was won by Marion Curtillet for Les Jeunes Prodiges, which accompanies young people aged 12 to 16 in their passion for writing, right up to the sale of their books.

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Chaumet Echo Culture Awards Amandine Nana Transplantation

Jury's Special Encouragement Prize

The jury's Special Encouragement Prize was also awarded to Amandine Nana for the project Transplantation: an artistic library dedicated to diasporic art.

Transplantation aims to be a cultural place of proximity and international influence within a working-class district of Paris, offering a convivial reading space accompanied by an artistic programme geared towards promoting the creative work of young French artists and popular education.