Tag: Cultural report
The “REEF”, cinema festival and walks in Akkar
Direction Lebanon, where takes place until Monday, September 4, in Akkar, the isolated and rural north of the country, a festival which offers cinema and nature walks. This is the…
Venice Film Festival: The impact of the strike of Hollywood actors and screenwriters on the festival
The Venice Film Festival, the dean of film festivals, has experienced many insults in its long history. But the scenario this year is new. This 80th edition is the first…
Rock en Seine: the Franco-Cameroonian NKA enters the dance
For twenty years, Rock en Seine, one of the biggest summer events in France, has been one of the unmissable European festivals. With its rich program of 70 artists this…
Music: Horace Andy, the seventy-year-old Jamaican genius
Horace Andy has been a living legend of reggae since the 1970s. A visionary artist from sound systems in Kingston, Jamaica, he is also the precursor and instigator of musical…
Lebanon: in Hammana, the summer festival brings together artists from all over the world
It is in Hammana, a village in the Lebanese mountains perched at 1200 meters, that the 8th edition of the summer festival organized by the Kahraba collective is currently being…
“Mothers, A Song of Wartime”, a work based on testimonies of Ukrainian exiles in Avignon
At the end of the Avignon festival, Ukrainian refugees are on the front of the stage with a reading of Mothers, A Song of Wartime, in French “Mothers, song of…
Chad at the center of the 23rd edition of the Africajarc festival
The culture report of the day takes us to Cajarc in the south-west of France. For 24 years, this multicultural festival has put Africa in the spotlight. The village is…
Exhibition: Matisse in China, the leader of Fauvism, brings color back to Beijing
For the first time, the works of Matisse are presented to the Chinese public. The exhibition Matisse by Matisse opened its doors this weekend at the UCCA Contemporary Art Center…
Chaillol Festival, musical roaming in the Hautes-Alpes
Head for the Hautes-Alpes where one of the most traveling festivals in France opens this Saturday, July 15. The Chaillol Festival travels from village to village to celebrate the diversity…
Cannes Film Festival: focus on the new territories of the seventh art
Head to Cannes for a daily postcard from the international film festival. The programmers of the various selections work each year to bring out new countries on the world map…