OPENNESS

‘La Loco’ is back especially for the festival, and this local initiative is expanding once again. This year, a whole market of craftspeople, producers, artists, designers and associations from the Bocage Bourbonnais will be on hand to help you discover local initiatives.

At the grocery shop, you’ll find everything you need to cook and eat (fruit, vegetables, cheese, bread, etc.), as well as health and wellness products. At the rest of the market, you can learn pottery, taste spirulina, make soaps, meet eco-lieu residents and weave wool.

The Soudicy, the local currency of the area, will be the only currency used at the market. You can come along to their stand at the heart of the market to exchange your €€€ for Soudicy and support this initiative.

The Soudicy and Karton Blanc associations, who are co-sponsors of this project with us, are putting in place a blueprint for an alternative economy and sharing during this festive occasion. Because it’s also through ephemeral events that we need to experiment with alternative practices to initiate a real transition towards a way of life that is mindful of its environmental, human and territorial impact.

For those of you motivated by La Loco, head over to the Soudicy box office to get in on the action.

This ‘Soudicy’ currency will be in circulation at ‘La Loco’, the local market in the village. It will also be available at our bar (where you can buy drink tickets), and at the food stands and sales outlets that have volunteered to take part in this initiative.

After conversion:  1€ = 1 S.

These can be exchanged for euros at the exchange counter at the end of the festival. The Soudicy ticket office will be on hand at the local market.

At the end of the festival, this money will be reinjected into the local economy, promoting a short circuit approach and encouraging local producers and service providers.

What is a local currency :

The SOUDICY local currency, like 80 other local citizen currencies, aims to promote short circuits and proximity between players in a given area (for us, the Allier), to limit environmental impact and to develop an economic alternative. As a currency, it gives those who use it the opportunity to develop an alternative model, particularly in its ecological and social aspects. At the same time, it can raise our awareness of the economic model that governs us and how to improve it.

After your festival, if you have a few days left. Don’t forget that the Bocage Bourbonnais has other surprises in store: sporting activities, historic sites or culinary discoveries, there’s plenty to choose from. And what better way to find out than to come along to the La Loco market to talk things over with the Tourist Office, who’ll be able to point you in the right direction.

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And for those who have fallen under the spell of the lake and its surroundings, you can even meet people from the Bocage Bourbonnais community of communes to talk about a possible project to settle in the area. It’ll be a shorter journey to Hadra Trance Festival 2024!

We are developing a partnership with the Sagess association, which organises educational work placements for young people in difficulty throughout the year. The idea is to offer them a work placement at the festival, and to give them a new insight into the community and festive scene by helping to organise the event both upstream and downstream. In all, around ten young people will be taking part in tasks such as signage, catering, preparing the artist reception and supporting the Agama team’s environmental and social missions.

Boasting a large number of festive events, the Bocage Bourbonnais region welcomes 45,000 festival-goers over the course of these annual highlights and has decided to launch its ‘Le Bocage Festif’ brand.

The operation brings together 8 major events: the Ygrande Carnival, Jazz dans le Bocage, Classique en Bocage, Tronget en Fête, the Légendes & Détours sound and light show and the Château de l’Augère, the Go Ba’s festival and the Hadra Trance Festival.

Bocage Festif is above all a human collaboration that could be described as unique. It is rare for a local authority to bring together its event organisers to propose a joint initiative. In fact, the essence of the partnership is to be a human adventure in which the logistical and human aspects of organising events are encouraged. The brand’s objective is also to highlight the involvement of volunteers, the families and friends who bring the region to life. In short, Bocage Festif is a festive and social showcase for the Bocage Bourbonnais, enhancing the pride of its inhabitants.

The Hadra association is keen to get involved in the town’s cultural life. For example, the association will be taking part in the Vieure music festival in 2022. During the weekend, the team will be holding a public meeting and a DJing discovery workshop for children, as well as a one-day retrospective exhibition entitled ‘Hadra 20 years’.

In 2023, our decorating teams took advantage of a week’s work on site to initiate the children of Vieure in a set design workshop. The creations were then installed during the festival.

Since 2016, the Hadra TranceMission cluster has been developing a number of projects in the Bocage Bourbonnais to meet the growing demand from our partners and audiences in the area, but also to reach out to new audiences and meet new local players.

WITH ADEQUAT

The Hadra association’s TranceMission branch is working in partnership with the Adéquat leisure centre run by the Communauté de Communes du Bocage Bourbonnais (Allier – 03), offering children from the Adéquat leisure centre in Bourbon-l’Archambault workshops on electronic music during the holidays.

The aim of the initiative is to introduce children to the artistic disciplines championed by Hadra and to get involved in the local community beyond the festival itself. Led by two of Hadra’s artists, the week-long workshop gave children a chance to take part in the process of creating a piece and performing it using the machines, instruments and sounds that surround us.

WITH GO BA’S KID

Following a request from the Adéquat leisure centre in Bourbon-l’Archambault and a number of workshops held over the last few years, TranceMission ran a free introductory M.A.O. workshop at Go Ba’s (Kid) during the day organised by and for children on Sunday 21 August prior to the Hadra Trance Festival. The workshop featured:

• Discover the M.A.O. and its instruments
• Recording sounds from the festival (sound walk)
• Composition

Intervenor: Benjamin Dacunka: Artist producer