

THURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2026 · 20:00 (CEST) → Thursday, 1 October 2026
On the ground
Bourse du Travail Lyon · Lyon
Directions ↗Venue location, from OpenStreetMap.
The story
For over twenty years, Médine has been telling the story of the world through its fractures. With Enfants du destin, he returns to one of the most striking series of his work: these tales of children caught in the turmoil of History.
Born with his first album in 2004, these tracks recount destinies shattered by the great movements of the world: colonization, war, slavery, oppression. But behind the events, there is always a face, a first name, an interrupted childhood.
David, Souhan, Kunta Kinte, Nour, or Yasser... Whether real or fictional, the Children of Destiny become the bearers of a collective memory. Through them, a historical fresco is drawn where the violence of yesterday seems to converse with that of today.
In this new stage format, Médine revisits these stories in an acoustic and intimate setup. For an hour and a half, carried by Guillaume Zolnierowsky's piano and guitar, as well as Shéhérazade's voice and cello, he unfolds these stories like a modern storyteller.
On stage, Karinale Lo van Zaouiche steps in with subtle touches, opening breaches in the narrative. In these dialogued interludes, words circulate, question, and doubt. History ceases to be a simple tale of the past to become an interrogation of the present.
Between concert and theater, Enfants du destin invents a hybrid territory. A suspended place. A buffer zone where one comes to catch their breath, heal memories, and question the cyclical brutality of the world.
Organised by HIGH-LO
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