Overview
The Cultural Activities Office (Service universitaire de l'action culturelle – SUAC) is responsible for promoting culture and the arts within the university community and beyond its campuses, while encouraging learning and supporting creative practices and initiatives.
The Cultural Activities Office works at the intersection of education, research, art and culture. Its activities include:
- Organising artist residencies, events and workshops with university structures, student associations and regional cultural partners
- Offering cultural workshops to students as elective (optional) courses
- Managing student-artist status
- Coordinating the Carte Culture scheme in the Bas-Rhin region of France
- Delivering the La Pokop – Paul Collomp Theatre artistic programme, dedicated to the work of emerging artists, in partnership with Crous
- Contributing to artistic research and creation through the Cryogénie, an interdisciplinary research space bringing together research and art, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Laboratory for Contemporary Approaches on Creation and the Artistic Process (laboratoire Approches Contemporaines de la Création et de la Réflexion Artistique – ACCRA)
Alongside the Jardin des Sciences – the University of Strasbourg's science outreach centre that connects research with the public – the Cultural Activities Office is also involved in the CréaLab. This is part of the Open University of Strasbourg (OPUS) Initiative and supports art-science projects at the university, particularly art-science co-research.
Each season, the Cultural Activities Office invites an artist to “reside at the university.” Through creation, teaching, workshops and organising cultural events, the artist-in-residence brings creativity to the heart of university life.
The work of the Cultural Activities Office is supported by the Student and Campus Life Contribution (Contribution vie étudiante et de campus – CVEC), the Grand Est Regional Cultural Affairs Agency (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand Est – DRAC), the Investments for the Future programme (IdEx) and local authorities.
The Cultural Activities Office carries out its activities in line with the Service Public + framework.
2025-2026
Season editorial: Interstices
"Finish your bac first". "And what about your driving licence, have you got that yet?" "And your BAFA? It might come in handy". Ahead of you lies a path as straight as an arrow, the path well travelled, leading to... To where, exactly? To success? To glory? To the future? You...
A.Close your eyes, and feel your way forward
B. Scratch your head, frown, hesitate. You want to follow your own path, even if you have to map it out yourself; it may not exist, not yet at least; a path to explore (chopping down the ivy, slicing away at the fern), not to disfigure the landscape but to leave your mark upon it; a path that leads to yourself. You…
A. Get in line, follow what's promised. It has worked well for others.
B. Veer off the path well travelled, convinced that, in the interstice you're about to carve in time, another path is possible. You hum softly, then sing at the top of your lungs, determined to make yourself heard, however dissonant it may be.
The Cultural Activities Office invites you to map out your own interstices through a season of meetings, performances and exhibitions – each an invitation to step off the beaten track.
Sylvain Diaz, Head of the Cultural Activities Office