Tag: Culture
Blacks in France: the view of the Franco-Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou
What do black French people have in common? Not much, except their skin color and the racism they experience. This is what the documentary “Blacks in France” by French director…
Magali Tosato and Moanda Daddy Kamono, face his “profile”
The playwright and actor Moanda Daddy Kamono performs his introspective text “Profile” on stage at the MC93, directed by Magali Tosato. He looks back on discrimination in the world of…
The strange “visions” of the Senegalese painter Kassou Seydou
This is the first personal exhibition in Europe for the Senegalese painter Kassou Seydou. “ Guiss Guiss » (an expression in Wolof that could be freely translated into French as…
“Lady All Star”, Rhoda Scott’s new album
She is an American jazz musician who settled in France a little over half a century ago to pursue a brilliant career as an organist and singer. Rhoda Scott, 83,…
Jean-Christophe Folly served on a platter
A portrait is not a kindness but an opinion, said a famous photographer. A quote that fits our guest like a white glove, first worn elegantly, then thrown in the…
Pascale Morin, ceramist, transforms earth and emotion between her fingers
Porcelain, memory clay according to Pascale Morin, ceramist. She shapes nature and welcomes us to her Parisian studio where she thinks and intuitively creates mineral and vegetal pieces. She works…
The sound life of Paris in the past
Would you like to travel on the steam trains that still circulated in Paris in the 1930s? Inaugurated in 1852, the railway line of the small belt which circled Paris…
400 years Molière [2/2], both “African” and star in the digital age
Even 400 years after his birth, Molière seems to resist everything. Long spearhead of French cultural colonialism, he then became the voice of the revolutionaries. An emblem of classical theatre,…
An evening with Zentone #dub #hexagon
With Matthew Bablee (Zenzile) and Dom Peter (High Tone). Together and separately… Like the acme of an innovative and progressive thought that conceives the group, the whole without denying the…
“Talashi”, a photo book of Syrians before their exile
Alexis Cordesse, photographer, did not put his own images in his latest book published by Xavier Barral. He collected photos from Syrian immigrants that they took with them before being…