On 22 October, we brought together art and vegetables for this first edition of Bol Bol Bol. In the Planoise district, on the Place de l’Europe, numerous activities and events took place around food and creation.

For the occasion, the artist Ju Hyun Lee imagined and conceived a scenography all in bowls and vegetables to dress up this space for a day. With the three forms of bowls, Ju Hyun Lee highlights our cultural differences in our food practices. While in France, soup is eaten in a hollow plate, in Asian countries it is a deep bowl that is used to hold the often very liquid soups.

These giant bowls have also become vegetable dryers, a widespread practice in South Korea, the artist’s country of origin, in order to preserve food throughout the year.

These vegetable skewers coloured the different animation zones of Bol Bol Bol. On the programme:

A soup competition brought together 16 teams, who presented original soups of various origins.

Miroirs du Monde and the Pari association proposed collective cooking moments to prepare the soup and bread, tasted by everyone in the evening around a big table.

The Maison de Quartier de Planoise, Le Fablab des Fabriques, ADDSEA, the Nelson Mandela Media Library and the City of Besançon’s waste management department ran creative workshops on food and ecology.

With the support of the Besançon-Planoise Citizens’ Council and Unis’cité, the Senegalese association for talibé children and Loge GBM.

The artist Eric Van Osselaer presented his Carotte Quantique, a musical intervention using fresh vegetables and fruit.

The day ended with the show Monument by Collectif Protocole, presented by Les 2 Scènes.