Franck Lepage

Franck Lepage is one of the founders of Workers' co-operative of popular education 'Le Pavé' (self-disbanded in 2014) in France. Franck was an activist of popular education, until 2000 director of programs at the French Federation of Youth and Culture Centers and associate research fellow at the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education.

He criticises the role of Culture and Arts in French society in a conference called "Inculture(s) 1 – L'éducation populaire, monsieur, ils n'en ont pas voulu…" (Inculture(s) 1 – Popular Education, Sir, they did not want any of it...)- He also played on stage in a "conférence gesticulée" (a new concept of gesticulate conference), that became more and more popular from 2006 to 2014.

In 2010, under the same format as one-man-shows, Franck Lepage started "Inculture(s) – 2", in which he touches on teaching, and then on social protection in "Inculture(s) − 5" with Gaël Tanguy, based on the theoretical work of Bernard Friot. With the developing network of Workers' co-operatives of Popular Education, especially 'La Grenaille', Le Pavé of Rennes, L'orage of Grenoble, Le vent debout of Toulouse and L'engrenage of Tours, he contributes to creating other gesticulate conferences. About a hundred conferences are then created by the end of 2014.

The self-disbandment of Le Pavé in December 2014, lead Lepage to co-found a new structure of political popular education "L'Ardeur" (Blazing Heat) created in 2015 with a new group of radicalist gesticulating conference folks. It focused on Trade Unionism, and brought on many new conferences and the creation of activist workshops.

Biography Born in Paris on the 17th November 1954, he studied at Sciences Po,

In 2012, he defines himself as a political activist: "I am a political activist, not an artist. […] Artist, is a social status. But the system refuse to see me as an activist". "I'm a "French comedian". Art and Culture destroy Politics.

He quits SCOP Le Pavé in April 2012 in order to fully train people of the networks, especially with La Grenaille.

Publications Report on popular education or labour in Culture in the Political and Social transformation context,