FUNERAIRE PARIS 2009 Rites & Roads Forward
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Press release – September / October 2009 FUNERAIRE PARIS 2009 Rites & Roads Forward Funéraire Paris 2009 will take place from 19 to 21 November next in Le Bourget, a trade-show venue outside Paris. It is this trade’s national and international benchmark gathering, and the one that professionals come to because they want to stay abreast of developments, exchange and think about their business, and about what families perceive and expect. CONFERENCES, DEBATES… AND EXHIBITIONS This 12 th Funéraire Paris trade show will be an opportunity for debates and other attractions focusing on the big issues today, and to showcase funeral professionals’ initiatives: Thursday 19 November 2009 F UNÉRAIRE P ARIS 2009 opening ceremony by the Interior Ministry’s Local Community Agency (pending confirmation) 2.00 – 3.30 pm A conference on the 19/12/2008 law on funerary services and its bylaws, with the CPFM (Confédération des Professionnels du Funéraire et de la Marbrerie/Marble and Funeral Professional Confederation) • Simpler police checks and the new fee schedule • Administrative authorisations • Cremation services and dealing with ashes • Cemetery management: - Compulsory “funerary sites” in communes with more than 2,000 inhabitants - Cremating exhumed remains - The procedure for monuments threatening collapse • Templates to draw up funerary-service quotes • Professional funerary degrees • Reviving and refreshing the funeral contract and national records 3.30 – 6.00 pm “Funerary sites in the limelight”, a conference organised by Funéraire Magazine and chaired by Olivier Gehin to present the results of the cremation-professional survey on organising funerary memorials, and more. Followed by the Funerary Memorial award ceremony. The Musée National Funéraire’s society of friends will be running two guided tours of Père Lachaise cemetery during FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 (Thursday 19 November at 4.00pm and 5.00pm.
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Press release – September / October 2009
FUNERAIRE PARIS 2009Rites & Roads Forward
Funéraire Paris 2009 will take place from 19 to 21 November next in Le Bourget, atrade-show venue outside Paris. It is this trade’s national and internationalbenchmark gathering, and the one that professionals come to because they wantto stay abreast of developments, exchange and think about their business, andabout what families perceive and expect.
CONFERENCES, DEBATES… AND EXHIBITIONS
This 12th Funéraire Paris trade show will be an opportunity for debates and otherattractions focusing on the big issues today, and to showcase funeral professionals’initiatives:
Thursday 19 November 2009
FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 opening ceremony by the Interior Ministry’s Local CommunityAgency (pending confirmation)
2.00 – 3.30 pm A conference on the 19/12/2008 law on funerary services and itsbylaws, with the CPFM (Confédération des Professionnels duFunéraire et de la Marbrerie/Marble and Funeral ProfessionalConfederation)• Simpler police checks and the new fee schedule• Administrative authorisations• Cremation services and dealing with ashes• Cemetery management:
- Compulsory “funerary sites” in communes with more than2,000 inhabitants- Cremating exhumed remains- The procedure for monuments threatening collapse
• Templates to draw up funerary-service quotes• Professional funerary degrees• Reviving and refreshing the funeral contract and national
records
3.30 – 6.00 pm “Funerary sites in the limelight”, a conference organised byFunéraire Magazine and chaired by Olivier Gehin to present theresults of the cremation-professional survey on organising funerarymemorials, and more.
Followed by the Funerary Memorial award ceremony.
The Musée National Funéraire’s society of friends will be running two guided tours of PèreLachaise cemetery during FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 (Thursday 19 November at 4.00pm and5.00pm.
Friday 20 November 2009
2.00 – 3.00 pm The results of CREDOC’s* third survey on “The Frenchand Funerals”This vast CSNAF initiative goes back several years, andaims to improve consumer satisfaction by running anextensive qualitative and quantitative sociological surveyspanning a 1,000-respondent sample. The results will bereleased at Funéraire Paris 2009.
* Centre de Recherche pour l’Étude et l’Observation des Conditions deVie, a research centre focusing on living conditions.
3.00 pm A conference on developments in the nationalthanatopractice professional qualification (for a fast-changing trade), in association with CPFM:
- The national thanatopractice degree,- Practical training assessment
André Chabot will be at the La Mémoire Nécropolitaine stand signing the first copies ofhis “Dictionnaire Illustré de Symbolique Funéraire” (illustrated dictionary of funerarysymbols). La Mémoire Nécropolitaine (Paris) and Mémogrames, Les Éditions de laMémoire (Brussels) published this reference book spanning the full spectrum of signsfrom cemeteries around the world.Mémoire Nécropolitaine will also be organising a photographic exhibition for this event.
Last but not least, FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 will be featuring a 110sqm area focusing onfamily-reception architecture, and on an innovative, inviting concept to facilitate familyreunions and promote exchanges and services in “rest” areas, “interaction” areas (books,audio, video, etc.) and “traces” areas (books, personal items, etc.).
Nathalie Doriac, a young set designer, foundthe challenge exciting: “I really loved working onthis project. There was a lot of feeling involved,especially when I met the people I talked towhile I was doing my research.” “I wanted tosubmit the project as a “catalogue” thatprofessionals could use to pick and mix theoptions that would make their family-receptionareas smarter and more human, to providethree universes where grieving families can gettogether and get back in touch, remember thedeceased, and live, eat, drink, wait, talk andgrow.”
INTERNATIONAL VILLAGES AND FOREIGN VISITOR GROUPS
FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 will be featuring international pavilions (Germany, China, Spain,Finland, the UK, Italy, Poland, Sweden, etc.) to boost exhibitor exposure. It is alsorunning a reception programme, and a business-matchmaking service for foreign visitorswho want to meet exhibitors.
FUNÉRAIRE PARIS 2009 is intent on addressing all the issues that the trade is dealing withtoday, encouraging exchanges, spurring debate and showcasing professional expertiseand creativity in efforts to develop sensible and sensitive services for families.
Press contact:
Virginie Taverne+33 (6) 63 13 95 [email protected]
www.salon-funeraire.comwww.csnaf.fr
