Tag: Cultural meeting
The exhibition “Musicanimale – the great sound bestiary” at the Philharmonie de Paris
It is a symphony of animals offered by the Philharmonie de Paris. More than 200 art objects and musical works respond to the sounds of some forty species in Musicanimale…
Cinema release of the first Ukrainian film “The Oath of Pamfir”
Theatrical release of Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s first Ukrainian feature film, which made an impression on film fans when it was screened at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The Oath of Pamfir mixes…
“Black Indians”, at the origins of the black carnival of New Orleans
While part of the planet celebrated Halloween last night, let’s take a look at another style of disguise, that of the Black Indians, these parades of the African-American community in…
Exhibition: in Paris, street-art has blended into the decor for 60 years
Art has appropriated for several decades the largest museum in the world: the street. A new generation of artists has invested the public space between freedom of expression, urban poetry…
“The Cartographer of Absences”, new novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto
He is one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, his name has circulated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mozambican Mia Couto publishes The Cartographer of Absences. This…
Cinema: “The Cairo Conspiracy”, by Tarik Saleh
A spy thriller at the heart of a religious institution? This is what the movie offers The Cairo Conspiracy, screenplay prize at Cannes. The Swedish director of Egyptian origin, Tarik…
Music: Simple Minds, like in the good old days, with nostalgia
Return to grace of rock veterans Simple Minds. The sixty-year-old Scots, with their worldwide popularity intact, return with Direction Of The Heart. A solid 18th rock album enriched with new…
“Fela, afrobeat rebellion”: portrait of an activist musician at the Cité de la Musique
The exhibition is an event: it is the first in Europe entirely devoted to the Nigerian Fela Kuti. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, afrobeat rebellion, which opens to the public this Thursday…
Cinema: “EO”, the tribulations of a donkey in Europe
It is one of the most audacious films of the last Cannes Film Festival, from which it left with the jury prize, and is being released this week in cinemas.…
The Nyege Nyege festival returns after a three-year hiatus
In Uganda, the Nyege Nyege festival (“ the uncontrollable urge to dance ” in Luganda) is back from this Thursday, and until Sunday, September 18, after two editions interrupted by…