For this special issue of the LCD Cahiers — Fight against Discriminations- around cultural rights, we wanted an artistic, activist and reflexion perspective to be fed into general analysis. To this end, we have contacted the community to decolonise the arts, as it seems obvious that on these issues it has become indispensable. According to their own presentation, ‘decolonising the arts is an association of comedia and comedia, authors and authors, stadiers and scenes, choreographs, audiovisual staff, cultural journalists from minorities, plasticians, born and living in all regions of France. They have set themselves the objective of questioning the cultural circles in France about the infinitesium presence of artists from minority populations on theatre and dance plateaux, television, cinema and plastic arts. They also want to question dominant narratives in theatres and want to contribute to a better representation of entire parts of the history of our country, from past centuries to contemporary history”. David Bobée was our first interlocutor. Since September 2013, David Bobée has been running the National Dramatic Centre in Normandie-Rouen, the first CDN with a transdisciplinary purpose. Engaged in an original theatre research, he works jointly with scenography, dramaturgic writing, sound, image and body work. His creations combine theatre, dance, circus, music, video, light and play anywhere in France and abroad. David Bobée is a member of the Diversity College, set up in December 2015 by the Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin, following the Diversity Assises, which aimed to identify good practices in culture. He is also the initiator, in particular with comedy Yann Gael, romancière Gerty Dambury or researcher Françoise Vergès, of the association decolonising the Arts, set up in December 2015 ‘by artists and professionals from the world of culture’, who holds his first public meeting in April 2016 in Chaillot theatre. In particular, stating ‘racism in French theatre’, he argues that ‘language must not be excluded’ and defends an intersectional approach to diversity, and the introduction of ethnic quotas. In May 2016, David Bobée, together with Yann Gael and on behalf of the collective, published on the Télérama.fr website a tribune titled Les Moires de la shame denouncing the under-representation of people of diversity among the nominees at the 28th Molials ceremony.