Mosaique was a pioneering program for immigrant cultures. Watched with family, it could count on 6 million viewers every Sunday morning on France 3 for 1h30 from 1977 to 1987. However, the show was never financed by public television which considered that it was aimed at a specific audience and therefore did not fall within a public service mission. It received financial support from the Ministry of Labor, through its subsidy to the National Office for the Cultural Promotion of Immigrants, ONPCI (which later became Information Culture and Immigration, ICEI, in 1977, then Agency for the Development of Relations intercultural studies, ADRI, in 1982).

Conceived as a show about and for immigrants, striving to provide immigrants with better knowledge of their rights, Mosaïque becomes over the years an open door to the cultures of immigration. The show invited artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, researchers and politicians to debate on set, offering social reports on workers' struggles, schools, housing, the place of women, life in the regions, police violence, or the place and demands of the "second generation". We note in particular the 1h30 program devoted entirely to the March for equality and against racism broadcast on December 11, 1983. Mosaïque wanted, in the words of its founder Tewfik Farès, "to offer a space for expression".

"Before the arrival of parables, our parents only had this program and it allowed them to open up to cultures other than their own. Lots of emotions seeing these images again."
Tewfik Fares.

Tewfik Farès is a director: pioneer of Algerian News but also director of the first color film produced in Algeria, Les hors-la-loi (1969). In 1976, after settling in France and encouraged by his friend Abdelmalek Sayad, he managed to convince Paul Dijoud, the brand new Secretary of State for Immigration, to create a program to meet the needs for recognition and existence. of a population hitherto doomed to silence. Success is immediate. He produces some 800 hours of programs and directs more than half of them.

In the first format, Jean-Michel Dhermay presents the show surrounded by a team of hosts/columnists who speak in their original language: in Arabic for Djelloul Beghoura, in Serbo-Croatian for Mirjana Robin, in Turkish for Kerem Topuz, in Portuguese for Jorge Verissimo and Luisa Lemos Viana, in Spanish for Miguel Pons. Guy Menga represents the different African communities. Another member of the team, Mouloud Mimoun who runs the cultural and cinematographic section and is part of Tewfik Farès' close team.

This is the first show where presenters address viewers in 8 foreign languages. The ICEI (Information culture and immigration) producer, becomes the Adri (Agency for the development of intercultural relations) which itself will be the foreshadow of the National City of the History of Immigration today National Museum of the history of immigration.

The musical part of the show was immediately important, it allowed artists of the first generation to perform and make themselves known, then it allowed the emergence of new musical forms, coming from a new generation of artists. artists, appearing in the 1980s embodied by the unclassifiable Rachid Taha.
Great names in music have passed through Mosaïque, some of whom were their very first appearances on television: Slimane Azem, Warda, Idir, Enrico Macias, Salif Keita, Manu Dibango, Linda de Suza, Paco Ibáñez, Teresa Rebull, Francis Bebey, José Alphonso, Michel Jonaz Miriam Makeba, Residence card, Youssou N'dour, Cheb Mami, Pierre Perret, Dalida, Aznavour, Toure Kunda or even media figures such as Coluche, Jacques Dutronc, Guy Bedos, Isabelle Adjani, Smaïn , Pascal Legitimus, Boujenah, Assia Djebar, Kechiche, Sarah Maldoror, Mehdi Charef...


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