Akeance runs for culture

2020 have changed our habits and our way of life. For almost a year now, the pandemic has forced us to restrict our outings and, as a result, our access to culture has been severely reduced.

In this context the cellist Gauthier Herrmann launched the initiative Je cours pour la culture, which has been undermined for several months now. His project is simple: to run across France for almost 900 km in 13 days. It is an opportunity to show his support, but also that of his partners, sponsors, companions and his entourage to all the actors of the culture in France.

Aware of the importance of culture in our world, Akeance decided to support this adventure. Our consultants wanted to mobilize with Gauthier Herrmann and accompanied him on the first ten kilometres of the journey. However, the announcement of the lockdown at the beginning of April forced us to review our support without abandoning it.

Due to travel restrictions, we decided to support culture by maintaining a 10 km race in Paris and no longer from Montgeron as it was initially planned. Following the example of Gauthier Hermann, who symbolically tries to create a link between the different actors of the world of culture everywhere in France, our course connected various Parisian cultural places: the Jacquemart-André museum, the Pleyel room, the Tokyo palace, the Grand Palais, the Orsay museum, the Louvre carrousel, and of course the Garnier Opera!

Our consultants started the race on Sunday morning from the Akeance Consulting offices in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and ran for 10 km in just a hour.

Congratulations to Gauthier Herrmann and the Akeance runners! We hope that this mobilization will allow culture to get a fresh start!

A time for imagination...

Yes! we live in slow motion... Economy as well as friendly meetings. The weekend outings as well as monitoring committees. What to do? We have to admit that here and there, many initiatives are taken.

Let’s go, I tell you everything! A friend of mine, Gauthier Herrmann, cellist, founded Artie's to play Mozart in slums of Bombay and elsewhere. During the Covid period, musicians are at a standstill! Gauthier had the idea to launch a crazy race from Ile-de-France to Aix-en-Provence in 13 days. For the first time, we are going to see an entire chamber orchestra (and many other artists) run tens of kilometres per day! Jecourspourlaculture, this is the name of the initiative of an artist to pay tribute to culture in a difficult situation, but more trivially to offer himself and others a moment of creation of a new kind, a day (or 13 days!) of an unusual diversity.

And at Akeance, what do you do? you might ask

Well, first of all, we also run, in Paris, parallel with the first day of Gauthier. The 10 kilometres race (only...) symbolically runs next to mythical places of music and culture in general, such as the Salle Pleyel, for instance.

In another domain, we decided to take advantage of this slow period of time to renew our website. Of course, it was necessary to modernize our site a little, the supports of communication can also get old. But above all, we wish to better highlight our know-how, our skills, our experiences. Because, for years, we have grown, changed, evolved; because our experiences have allowed us to improve our working methods and tools; because our customers have enriched us with new and original experiences.

Our website is not only our showcase, but it is also our catalogue of competences, or rather: our pride in having accompanied more than 200 clients, who have allowed us to build a dedicated offer, adapted to 7 sectors which are manufacturing, transport & logistics, distribution, real estate, financial services, industrial services, and investment funds.

And then, it was an occasion to imagine new offers, new forms of presentation, to think of the future and not mope in the present.

But it wouldn't be better to directly visit our website, akeance.com? You'll see that we've taken pictures in Cassis, in days that are gone...