Music, plastic arts, books, theatre, dancing, street arts: numerous players have ongoing exchanges, coordinating Mediterranean networks:

• Docks des Suds, the Médinma network, the Ecume Association (cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean ) through their activities in the field of music

• Friche Belle de Mai, for exchanges in the field of plastic arts, artistic residences.

• Métissons festival, dedicated to diaspora cultures

• Street arts city

• The city's main theatres (e.g. La Criée, partner of the year for Algeria in 2003)

• A highly rich socio-associative network irrigating ongoing exchanges for civil society (Mediterranean women's forum).