After two years of absence due to covid, the Caen student carnival is back strong this year. The 2023 edition is already in the pipeline. The organizers are meeting students and looking for volunteers.
Like the phoenix of the University of Caen, the student carnival, according to legend the largest in Europe, made a flamboyant comeback in 2022, after two years of absence due to covid. 34,000 participants in the streets of the city and an illustrious surprise guest, Orelsan, the child of the region, who came to shoot part of his film in the crowd. The sequence opened and closed the second part of the documentary “Never show it to anyone”.
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Invited as a surprise to the Caen student carnival, Orelsan came there to shoot part of his film.
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However flamboyant, this return was not taken for granted a few months earlier: uncertainties about the evolution of the health situation but also about the financing of the event which has continued to grow over the editions. “We take care of private security (watches), the installation of cameras on the route which are monitored by the security headquarters in the prefecture where the gendarmes, national and municipal police officers meet, as well as civil protection, i.e. rescuers (including the Red Cross and the SNSM)”, recalled Nathan Courbet, president of the carnival at the time. The budget allocated to this office, in agreement with the prefecture, was 30,000 euros. However, awith the crisis, several partners were missing. The organizers have therefore launched a call for donations. A call that is relaunched this year as the date of the 2023 edition is revealed. It will be Thursday 30 March.
In addition to financial donations, it is possible to help the Caen student carnival in another way. The organizers are looking for volunteers to ensure the upstream preparation of this great meeting but also “lend a hand on D-Day and the day after“.
