The Paralympic Video games are being held in Paris from twenty eighth August – eighth September 2024, and the Pantheon, actually simply in entrance of the Lodge des Grands Hommes and Lodge les Dames du Panthéon, has a brand new exhibition explaining the pretty current creation of the video games and their significance for the inclusion of otherwise abled folks in society.
Chances are you’ll not know (however you’ll quickly study for those who attend this exhibition) that it was the Second World Warfare that inadvertently helped delivery the Paralympic Video games, created for former troopers confined to wheelchairs after being injured in battle. Later, within the Seventies, the video games would turn out to be extra open, accepting different types of motor, sensory or mental handicaps.
Additional advances got here within the following a long time, and it was solely in 2012 for the London Video games that the occasion began clearly advocating for a extra inclusive society.
From the picket leg race in 1894(!) to the primary Paris Paralympic Video games, the exhibition appears on the even’s evolution (and that of society), reveals the range of sports activities on supply and provides perception into the opposite occasions for the otherwise ables, such because the Deaflympics and Particular Olympics.
The exhibition’s format has been rigorously designed to be as accessible as attainable, with the peak of displays lowered and display screen inclinations tailored. There are tactile drawings and objects to the touch, audiodescription for content material, movies with worldwide signal language…
The go to of the monument’s crypt has additionally been had its data tailored for these with decreased mobility.
Linked with the exhibition, on Saturday seventh September to mark the top of the Paralympic Video games, two concert events (6.30 and 9pm) and being carried out by Paris Chamber Orchestra. Seat are 10-50€, and also you’ll discover extra information in French and on-line tickets gross sales right here.
And as a substitute of a list, you should purchase a field set of twelve 3D plaques describing the video games by way of contact – the sports activities, the passing of the torch, the opening ceremony…
The set prices 60€ right here at your native Amazon.
The exhibition Paralympic Historical past: From Integration in Sport to Social Inclusion (1948- 2024) is on the Pantheon (right here) till twenty ninth September 2024
Open each day from 10am-6.30pm. Final ticket 45 minutes earlier than closing
Pantheon admission (together with the exhibition): 13€
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