HÖFN is member, as an association, of the Northern districts' inhabitants' cooperative HÔTEL DU NORD. As such, and for several months, it has fully participated in preparing this special evening.
The artist Jårg Geismar imagined it within the huge exhibition project Le Pont, and it took shape, little by little, thanks to a beautiful coordination between the association RIPOSTE 15, several members of the HÔTEL DU NORD cooperative, and the association HÖFN.
The community garden(s): ÇA COULE DE SOURCE (literally; it flows from the spring, a French expression meaning: it's so obvious), in the middle of the council estate; "les Aygalades", is (are) not new born......
Dominique Santiago, and the whole team of RIPOSTE 15 dreamt about it, created it, developed it and brought it to fruition for some years already.
It indeed became a place for shared gardens but is much more than that:
a sort of little oasis perfect for resting, meeting friends, playing all possible games for the little ones, "pétanque" balls for all, music, often...
One can have a drink at the association bar, chat, take the last born for a walk, organise a ... garden party, dance...
AND THERE IS A SPRING, UNDERNEETH THE ACTUAL PLACE... AND EVEN, NOWDAYS, A SMALL FOUNTAIN!
NOW, an illustrated description of THAT evening...
Playing guitar and singing (flamenco) in the garden, besides the building... just for fun , at the end of the afternoon
Dominique Santiago (« Doume ») explains to some guests ALL about the social garden « ÇA COULE DE SOURCE »
kids play bowls (pétanque as we say in Marseilles) as long as not so very many people have arrived in the garden
a group is rehearsing (between jazz and gispsie music)
Arianna, Italian ethnologist, (HĂ´tel du Nord's member) will collect and record dreams until 9pm
(recent night dreams, or any reccurent or striking night dreams people want to tell her),
and make them listen to other person's dreams under the old olive tree in the garden.
Arianna and the first very willing woman who'll tell her about her dream(s)Â !
Slowly, peacefully, people are coming... it's about 7pm. They are from Marseilles but also from far away in France...
tourists who've heard through HÔTEL DU NORD about this special evening at the social garden ÇA COULE DE SOURCE in the "cité des Aygalades"
A bevy of pretty girls from the neighbourhood who asked to be photographed!
Little by little , more and more people coming...
« village fête » atmosphere !
A family on the spot
THE ÇA COULE DE SOURCE bunch.
Their association is called  RIPOSTE 15Â
(RIPOSTEÂ : RETORT, or COUNTERATTACK, in English)
More and more people … between 8 and 9pm...
The bar opens ! (spicy merguez, sausages, minced meat in bread, ships...
and anything you'd want to drink for kids as for grown ups!)
Big girls dance on stage (their own choregraphy).... Little boys watch them...
the little boys are not the only spectators though !
The building next to the garden at night fall.
Waiting for the group (gypsie-funk-jazz music) to start playing... as there is no electric system working on the stage all of a sudden!
The « bar tenders »
Beginning of the slideshow.
The slideshow, from JĂĄrg Geismar's original painted slides: "AQUA III"
(The artist, finally, could not be with us in Marseilles...
HĂ–FN became responsable of the projection).
QUITE LATER ON...
three inseparable brothers showing off in front of the camera
Still dancing at 1 am...