B7L9 Art Station
The B7L9 is the first art station in Tunis located in a rural suburb that offers a full annual programme of artistic and cultural events accessible free of charge to all. As the first permanent location of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, the B7L9 is a tool that promotes the implementation of the foundation's missions and actions to, on one hand:
- to provide a place for artists to experiment, develop and exhibit their practice, or conduct research
- to provide the artistic and scientific community with a place for exchange, sharing, meetings and debates to explore new ideas and concepts
- to experiment and create new networks and new ways of collaboration between different communities
And, on an other hand
- democratize contemporary art and cultural provision in general by encouraging guest artists to interact with local communities through workshops, seminars, events or outreach programmes
- to reinforce social cohesion by promoting the plurality of speakers (artists, thinkers, citizens, researchers, etc.) and therefore cultural diversity and the mixing of audiences
- contribute to the integration of populations of foreign origin - Bhar Lazreg has a large population from sub-Saharan Africa.
- creating social and economic impact in disadvantaged areas through art and culture
- changing the relationship between centre and periphery, regional and international
- to trigger an intercultural dialogue with local and global institutions and actors