- Follow Point at the Nice Book Festival
LThe Nice Book Festival is back on the French Riviera, led by Giuliano da Empoli, author of Le Mage du Kremlin and Honorary President of that edition. The author, who will be interviewed on June 2 at 4 p.m. by Étienne Gernelle, director of Le Point (music kiosk in the Albert I garden), is a symbol of Garibaldi’s birthplace with its Italian softness, European atmosphere and European humanistic conviction and one of the most literary in France when its precious feast begins with the rays of the summer sun. More than two hundred authors are expected at the event, including Franz-Olivier Giesbert, editor at Le Point, who will be the artistic director.
Among them Enki Bilal (screening meeting at L’Artistique, June 3, at 2:30 p.m., with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, deputy editor of Le Point and guest author), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Virginie Grimaldi, Douglas Kennedy , Andrei Makine and Christiane Rance. Philippe Besson, winner of the Nice Baie des Anges prize for this 27th edition, will also be present, as will comedian-writers Marie-Christine Barrault, Philippe Torreton, Patrick Chesnais and Murielle Mayette-Holtz (at the TNN newsstand, where ). The trial of Charlotte Corday) for eagerly awaited readings, and also the great mischievous star of children’s literature Susie Morgenstern.
Nice book festivalfrom June 2nd to 4th, 2023, all places with free access, program and information to be found here.
- We celebrate 10 years of Mucem in Marseille
Marseille’s magnificent museum, with a building designed by Rudy Ricciotti, has been in existence for ten years. This first weekend of June marks the beginning of a year of celebrations until June 2024. It’s time to enjoy the exhibitions for free and go from surprise to surprise: sardine bench outside and puppet monument in the lobby, introduction to hip-hop, film screenings, storytelling series 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 full of 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 2nd, pyrotechnic show on Saturday June 3rd and to end on Sunday with the Grand Baleti of the Cité de la Musique in Marseille (Place d’Armes), the Grand Bal raï, danced (ruling court), the hip hop ball with the company 6e Dimensions (J4 terrace). However, this is only a temporary closure, as until June 2024, ten major events will mark the museum’s program, from the opening of the “Fashion Folklore” exhibition to “Images of the Mediterranean” in a year, in the blue mirror of a beautiful museum adventure.
10 years Mucemfrom June 2nd to 4th, 2023 and until June 2024. Information and contacts on mucem.org
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- Escape Madagascar in Bertrand Campillos
Seven years after the shock 120 beats per minute (Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival), which narrated the daily lives of Act up Paris activists during the dark years of AIDS, Bertrand Campillo is back Red Island. The director, who lived as a child in Madagascar at the military base 181 in Ivato, where his father was a corporal, immerses us in the reality of a French presence in the early 1970s, still marked by persistent colonialism. With his child’s gaze, both naive and lucid, curious and dreamy, Campillo tells of daily life on the base, a kind of island within an island, of the brutality of the army, of the relationships between adults who live almost imprisoned , of fear and love. His hiding place, where he likes to kill time, sheltered from the humidity of the garden, is like a control tower from which he can observe sensations, lights, quarrels, doubts, joys and the emergence of feelings. . Accompanied by dreamlike vignettes with Fantômette, the heroine from the nights of little Robin, The Red Island is an ode to childhood and the ambivalence of nostalgia.
The Red Island, by Robin Campillo. In the room
- Find Jean Louis Murat
By an amazing coincidence and as if to commemorate his prolific work, on May 26th the Pias record label released a compilation by Jean-Louis Murat, who had passed away the day before. The sober title The Best of (1981–2021)commends long-term work spanning some forty years. Murat was a conscientious and inspired craftsman, capable of recording an album each year, setting the rhythm of his final days. However, the majority of the songs compiled here date from around 1989 (Cheyenn fall) to 2004 (A bird on a pear), probably the most accessible in Auvergnat. The proof with some delicate little things gathered on this CD like “Roman Crowd”, “Au mont sans-souci”, “Keep you close to me”, “The fallen angel” … Murat died on May 25th still alive on 26.
The Best of (1981-2021) Jean-Louis MuratWashbasin, 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 18the), Camille Laurens, member of the Goncourt Prize, Lyonel Trouillot from Haiti and the Mozambican Mia Couto (via videoconference), this is already the winning bet of the second edition of the Haiti Monde Festival, whose director Sadrac Charles says that “yes, we are alive for literature and for what it allows us to imagine, to dream, to bring about encounters between worlds, to articulate memories, to dissolve them.”
The Haitians Makenzy Orcel, Guy Régis Jr., Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Jean D’Amérique, James Noël, Philomé Robert, to name but a few, will therefore be associated with Gisèle Sapiro, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Julien Delmaire, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Gael Octavia, Jean Luc Raharimanana. We celebrate 20 years of publishing Mémoire d’encrier and the art of storytelling with Jude Joseph and Muriel Bloch. A poetic and musical evening completes the event, which puts Haiti at the center of the world of letters.
Haiti Monde, shared memoryGoutte d’Or district, Paris 18thefrom 1Is to June 4, 2023, detailed program of the event to be found here.
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