Tag: Culture
Show: Michel Fau seizes Molière and his comedy-ballet “George Dandin”
Molière was not only an author, director and actor, he was also the inventor of a new genre: the comedy-ballet. In complicity with the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was born, in…
“Hong Kong, Fallen City”, by Lau Kwong-Shing, a critique of repression
Comics Hong Kong, Fallen City, published by Rue de l’Échiquier, questions with acuity the shift from democracy to dictatorship. It is a manifesto in favor of freedoms and human rights,…
#Live session Étienne M’Bappé with his new NEC+ trio
and the release of the album Time will tell (Sunset Records/Baco). Is the Salty Kiss the adventure has begun: the NEC+ trio was born in April 2019, on the stage…
Melchiade Domond, color juggler
A painter against oblivion, Melchiade Domond, who defines herself above all as a pictorial poet, invents a painting imbued with freedom which gives a second life to the Heroes of…
My neighbor, the travel writer: meeting with Bernard Ollivier
An apostle of slow travel, a former French journalist and late travel writer, Bernard Ollivier created the association Seuil in 2000, an association for the reintegration of young people in…
Fally Ipupa & Roga Roga, the two Congos reunited to celebrate Rumba
On the occasion of the entry of Rumba into the intangible cultural heritage of Unesco, Urban Legends brought together two montages of the musical genre, Fally Ipupa from the DRC…
Theatre: “Gulliver’s Travels” adapted by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text…
10 years ago, Etta James left us …
On January 20, 2012, singer Etta James passed away at the age of 73. This major personality of African-American popular culture was a formidable performer of the Soul repertoire, but…
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the big bath challenge
Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is publishing a jubilant new novel freely inspired by the fate of Eric Moussambani, a young Guinean swimmer who marked the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. We…
a historic support plan for some 2,000 artists
In Ireland, the Minister of Culture has just announced a new support plan: by spring, around 2,000 artists will receive a basic income for three years. The aim is to…