2023-05-31 10:14:00
- Follow Point at the Nice Book Festival
Lhe Nice Book Festival is back on the Côte d’Azur, headlined by Giuliano da Empoli, the author of Le Mage du Kremlin, honorary president of this edition. The writer, who will be interviewed by Étienne Gernelle, director of Le Point (music kiosk in the Albert-I garden, at 4 p.m. on June 2), is quite a symbol for the birthplace of Garibaldi, with its Italian softness, European and humanist conviction, and one of the most literary in France when its precious festival arrives with the rays of the summer sun. More than two hundred authors are expected for the event, including Franz-Olivier Giesbert, editorial writer at Le Point, who provides artistic direction.
Among them, Enki Bilal (screening meeting at L’Artistique, June 3, at 2:30 p.m., with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, deputy editorial director of Le Point and guest author), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Virginie Grimaldi, Douglas Kennedy, Andrei Makine and Christiane Rancé. Philippe Besson, winner of the Nice Baie des Anges prize for this 27th edition, will also be there, as will comedian-writers Marie-Christine Barrault, Philippe Torreton, Patrick Chesnais, Murielle Mayette-Holtz (at the TNN kiosk where The trial of Charlotte Corday) for highly anticipated readings, and also the big mischievous star of children’s literature Susie Morgenstern.
Nice Book Festivalfrom June 2 to 4, 2023, all places with free access, program and information to be found here.
- Celebrating 10 years of Mucem in Marseille
Ten years of existence, already, for the magnificent Marseilles museum with a building designed by Rudy Ricciotti. This first weekend of June marks the launch of a year of festivities until June 2024. It’s time to enjoy the exhibitions for free and to go from surprise to surprise: bench of sardines outside and puppet monumental in the lobby, introduction to hip-hop, film screenings, successions of tales drawn from both The thousand and One Nights than in Greek mythology, concerts with gypsy sounds, dancing on all floors, readings of true stories from the Mediterranean by Daniel Mesguich, Grégory Montel and Sophie Cattani. And Fort Saint-Jean is overflowing with musical, botanical and fun offerings with two petanque courts and table football.
And for the evenings? Rap with Black M, Alonzo and Soolking on Friday June 2, pyrotechnic show on Saturday June 3 and closing Sunday, it’s going to dance with the Grand Baleti of the Cité de la Musique in Marseille (place d’Armes), the Grand Bal raï (court of the order), the hip-hop ball with the company 6e Dimensions (J4 terrace). But this is only a temporary closure since, until June 2024, ten major events will punctuate the museum’s program from the opening of the “Fashion Folklore” exhibition to “Images of the Mediterranean” in a year , in blue mirror of a beautiful museum adventure.
10 years of the Mucemfrom June 2 to 4, 2023 and until June 2024. Information and contacts on mucem.org
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- Escape to Bertrand Campillo’s Madagascar
Seven years after the shocking 120 beats per minute (Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017) which told the daily life of Act up-Paris activists during the dark years of AIDS, Bertrand Campillo is back with Red Island. The director, who lived as a child in Madagascar, on military base 181 in Ivato where his father was a non-commissioned officer, immerses us in the early 1970s in the reality of a French presence still marked by persistent colonialism. Through his child’s gaze, both naive and lucid, curious and dreamy, Campillo recounts the daily life of the base, a sort of island within an island, the brutality of the army, the relationships between adults who live almost confined, fear, love. His hiding place, where he likes to kill time sheltered from the dampness of the garden, is like a control tower, from where he can study the sensations, the lights, the disputes, the doubts, the joys, the birth of feelings… Punctuated with dreamlike vignettes featuring Fantômette, heroine of the nights of little Robin, The Red Island is an ode to childhood, and to the ambivalences of nostalgia.
The Red Island, by Robin Campillo. In room
- Find Jean-Louis Murat
By an astonishing coincidence, and as if to salute his prolific work, the Pias record company published, on May 26, a compilation of Jean-Louis Murat, who died the day before. The sober title, Best of (1981-2021), hails a long-term work, spanning some forty years. Murat was a conscientious and inspired craftsman, capable of recording an album a year, which was the rhythm of his last days. However, the majority of the songs compiled here date from the 1989 period (Cheyenn Autumn) to 2004 (A Bird on a Pear), probably the most accessible in Auvergnat. The proof with some delicate nuggets gathered in this disc, such as “Roman Crowd”, “Au mont sans-souci”, “Keep you close to me”, “The fallen angel”… Murat died on May 25, he was still living the 26th.
Best of (1981-2021) Jean-Louis MuratSinks, May 2023, €18.99.
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- Meet Haitian authors and many others
Gather on the same stage, in the heart of the Goutte d’Or district (Paris 18e), Camille Laurens, member of the Goncourt Prize, Lyonel Trouillot, from Haiti, and the Mozambican Mia Couto (by videoconference), this is already the successful bet of the second edition of the Haiti Monde festival, whose director, Sadrac Charles, says that “yes, we live for literature and what it allows us to imagine, to dream of, to bring about encounters between worlds, to articulate memories, to decompartmentalise them”.
The Haitians Makenzy Orcel, Guy Régis Jr, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Jean D’Amérique, James Noël, Philomé Robert, to name a few, will thus dialogue on the theme of memory with Gisèle Sapiro, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Julien Delmaire, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Gael Octavia, Jean-Luc Raharimanana. We will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publishing house Mémoire d’encrier, and the art of storytelling, with Jude Joseph and Muriel Bloch. A poetic and musical evening will close the event which places Haiti at the heart of the world of letters.
Haiti Monde, shared memoryGoutte d’Or district, Paris 18efrom 1is to June 4, 2023, detailed program of the event to be found here.
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