Port-sur-Saône. Festival of World Spectacles: a 35th edition under the best auspices

Sun and crowds in full view, shimmering colors, representation of the five continents and erased borders: at a time when the planet is frozen by wars and global warming, Port-sur-Saône is an island. A blatant example, this Sunday, at the church, during a mass that could not have been more universal and joyful.

This 35th edition will retain the presence of representatives from Papua New Guinea, but all the other groups brought their warmth and pleasure to be there. Photo Patrick Bar — This 35th edition will feature representatives from Papua New Guinea, but all the other groups brought their warmth and pleasure to be there. Photo Patrick Bar

Who has ever had the opportunity to attend a Christian celebration orchestrated by a priest from Chad, surrounded, among other things, by Mexican sombreros, Taiwanese singers with angelic voices, in front of a barefoot Papuan tribe, anchored to the ancestral flagstones of an 18th-century church? It happened this Sunday to a few dozen privileged people, Christians and non-Christians, gathered in the Saint-Etienne church in Port-sur-Saône, for the traditional mass that punctuates the Spectacles du Monde festival. In light of global news, the moment was literally suspended and...

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