Wednesday 22 April

9:00-9:30 Welcome

9:30-9:45 General introduction

9:45-10:45 Keynote 1: Zeev Gourarier: De la foire à la fête foraine (Chair : Anna Stoll Knecht)

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Session 1: Diverse sounds on the fairground (chair: Nele Wynants)

Agnès Curel: Le bonisseur et ses boniments dans les fêtes foraines : exploration d’un univers sonore (1870-1914)

Sarah Kirby: ‘A Band of Fair Performers’: The Viennese Ladies’ Orchestra in British Fairgrounds, 1885–1895

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 2: Early cinema and audiovisual media (chair: Marco Ladd)

Arnaud Le Marchand: Un monstre sous la tente : évolution du cinéma forain

Matt Lawson: The Audiovisual Role of Fairground Music in Film, TV, and Games

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-16:30 Gergely Loch: Belgian Fairground Organ in the Soundtrack of a Hungarian Cartoon

18:00-20:00 Fairground and Barrel Organ Demonstration by Ursula Bürgisser, Peter X. Bürgisser, Ueli Temperli and Willy Bourquin at the Espace Jean Tinguely - Niki de Saint-Phalle