Vive le Fringe !, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals. For full programme details, pick up a copy of our brochure at the Institut or consult it online here. About Right in the Eye It is at once inventive, elegant and moving. Creatively intelligent. All the sounds and music brought Georges Méliès’ films to life. Event Details Right in the Eye - Live Movie Concert of George Mélies’ films Showtimes Book your tickets now at tickets.edfringe.com Institut français d'Ecosse (Venue 168) Access Details IFE Membership and Discount Rates Right in the Eye has received financial support from Photo credit: Alcoléa & Cie from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Right-in-the-Eye-Live-Movie.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186629596372
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Institut français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square Edinburgh EH1 1RF Tel: +44 (0)131 285 6030 Click here to write an email to Institut français d'Ecosse. from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Institut-francais-d-Ecosse,1202.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186376262697 We are proud to host the Victor Murphy Trust’s exhibition of Wemyss Ware, one of the most important examples of Scotland’s pottery heritage, dating as far back as 1817. The trust holds some 200 pieces of this treasured style of Scottish ceramics. About Wemyss Ware Full text available from the National Trust for Scotland About the Victor Murphy Trust
Event Details Wemyss Ware Exhibition Institut français d'Ecosse Access Details IFE Membership and Discount Rates Image and logo: National Trust for Scotland from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/The-Victor-Murphy-Trust-Wemyss.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186359109532 Rencontres littéraires Adélaïde Bon is an actor and writer. When she was nine years old, a stranger followed her home and raped her in the stairwell of her building. Her abuser was eventually condemned to eighteen years in prison without parole in 2016, after a trial where she had to face the man who destroyed her entire life. Her first book, La petite fille sur la banquise (The Little Girl on the Ice Floe) confronts this dreadful journey in a distant, mature and discerning fashion. Event Details Rencontre littéraire : Adélaïde Bon Institut français d'Ecosse Access Details Bookings IFE Membership and Discount Rates Edinburgh International Book Festival Photo montage: Marie France from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Rencontre-litteraire-Adelaide-Bon.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186332698407 Rencontres littéraires Annie Ernaux grew up in Yvetot in Normandy. From a working-class, but aspirational family, she studied at the universities of Rouen and Bordeaux, eventually passing the agrégation, a challenging and coveted teaching qualification in France. She started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her autobiographical works La Place (A Man’s Place). Very early in her career, she turned away from fiction to concentrate on autobiography, taking a sociological and historical apporach to writing about her individual experiences. Her 2008 historical memoir Les Années (The Years) is considered by many to be her magnum opus. In this book Ernaux writes of herself in the third person for the first time, providing a vivid look at French society from just after the Second World War until the early 2000s. It is the poignant social history of a woman and of the evolving society she lived in. Event Details Rencontre littéraire : Annie Ernaux Institut français d'Ecosse Access Details Bookings IFE Membership and Discount Rates Edinburgh International Book Festival Photo: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Rencontre-litteraire-Annie-Ernaux.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186331911067 Rencontres littéraires Mireille Gansel is a French scholar and poetry translator, mostly working with German and Vietnamese texts. Some of her publications of note are Chants-poèmes des Monts et des Eaux (Editions Sud-Est Asie/Unesco, 1986) and Eclipse de l'étoile de Nelly Sachs (Editions Verdier, 1999). Associated with the Ecole de la paix in Grenoble, she has worked with the musician and philanthropist Yehudi Menuhin and has supported educational and cultural initiatives abroad, such as with Roma communities in Hungary and Romania and with Pomaks in Bulgaria. Event Details Rencontre littéraire : Mireille Gansel Institut français d'Ecosse Access Details Bookings IFE Membership and Discount Rates Edinburgh International Book FestivalEIBF Photo montage: Bookblast.com from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Rencontre-litteraire-Mireille.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186330099472
Gustave Akakpo was born in Togo in 1974. He writes plays and novels and organises writing workshops in Africa, France and the Caribbean, especially in prisons. He is associated artist at the TARMAC La Villette theatre in Paris. He has received many awards for his plays and novels, including the junior prize Plumes Togolaises at the Festival de Theatre de la Fraternité in Lomé, Togo, and the SACD dramaturgy prize for his play La Mère trop tôt. Commissioned by the Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis for a play for young audiences, he writes the play Même les chevaliers tombent dans l'oubli, directed by Matthieu Roy - Cie du Veilleur in 2013. The play is premiered at the Avignon IN Festival in July 2014. Translated in English under the title Skins and Hoods, the play is performed as part of our Vive le Fringe! programme with an all-Scottish cast. Alain Mabanckou is francophone Africa’s best-loved writer. Born in 1966 in Congo, he is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist published in 15 languages. His books include African Psycho, Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Black Bazaar, and Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty. He currently spends his time between Paris, Congo and Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. Winner of prestigious prizes such as the Grand Prix de la Literature Henri Gal for his body of work in 2012 and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine, he was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. His latest book Lumières de Pointe-Noire was translated in English and published by Serpentine in 2015. Alain Mabanckou will appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival alongside Etgar Keret on Tuesday 18 August at 19:00. The talk (held in English) will be chaired by Lucie Campos, head of the Book Department at the Institut francais du Royaume-Uni. ADMISSION FREE To make the most of your afternoon, why not book tickets to see the performance of Gustave Akakpo’s Skins and Hoods by Cie du Veilleur at 14:00? Image Alain Mabanckou: © Caroline Blache 2012 from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Francophone-African-Literature.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186328845882 We are delighted to host the launch for Les Écossais, Pieds Sur Terre the new book by Etienne Duval, followed by a Q&A with the author. Etienne Duval was brought up in Paris by a Scottish mother. He was always intrigued by Scotland, a country he often visited as a child, and reported on as a journalist. After four decades as a London-based correspondent, Etienne has come back for a detailed look at his maternal homeland. Les Écossais, Pieds Sur Terre, written over two years, is a loving but unsentimental journey around Scotland and beyond. It follows a route shaped like a question mark. Starting in Glasgow, Etienne’s book takes in Edinburgh, the North-East, Shetland, the Western Isles, the community buyout of Knoydart, and Newtonmore, the very heart of the Highlands. Along the way, the author meets Scots both famous and unknown: Alex Morrison, a grizzled Glaswegian boxing coach, Hugh Macleod of Macleod, master of Dunvegan, Liz Lochhead, the Makar, leading historian Tom Devine, a retired fisherman, London exiles who made a fortune (or nearly sank); descendants of the diaspora, and even the ghost of David Livingstone, whose memory is still revered in Malawi. During his trip through Scotland, Etienne witnesses the extraordinary final days of the referendum campaign. In his book, he shares the despair of ‘Yes’ voters on that September dawn, senses the euphoria of the losing side in the following months, and watches Alex Salmond hand over to Nicola Sturgeon. He also takes the opportunity to debunk some movie myths about kilts, tartan identity and history. As his account shows, the reality of Scotland is much more thrilling and subtle than any fantasy Hollywood could ever produce. It’s a fascinating, funny and surprising romp around Scotland and its history, and gives quite a few clues about what makes it different. Etienne Duval, who was educated in France and Britain, is a Franco-Scottish journalist based in Edinburgh and London. He started at the BBC World Service, and has reported all over the world for major French, Belgian and Swiss radio and TV stations. He still works as a TV reporter, and trains TV journalists and private clients in several countries. He also works as a consultant manager for two London-based Scottish charities. Les Écossais, Pieds sur Terre! is published by Ateliers Henry Dougier, in the “Lignes de vie d'un peuple” collection. Talk in French by Etienne Duval from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Les-Ecossais-Pieds-sur-Terre.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186328845777 In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Jean-Christophe Rufin, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for a ‘café littéraire’ at the Institut Jean-Christophe Rufin has several hats. He is a French diplomat, historian, novelist and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). He was the former president of Action Against Hunger and became the second youngest member of the Académie française in 2008. He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010. Jean-Christophe Rufin is also a globetrotter and his exploration of the world is transmitted to the public through his books, which include The Abyssinian, Brazil Red, The Red Collar, and many more. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Jean-Christophe Rufin will discuss with journalist Bee Rowlatt his latest book published in English, The Santiago Pilgrimage, translated by Malcolm Imrie & Martina Dervis and published by Quercus. His following visit at the Institut français will be the occasion to talk about his many different lives, his experiences, and everything in between. You can read the full portrait of Jean-Christophe Rufin on the French Book UK blog on Culturetheque. Talk in English Image: © François Bouchon from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Cafe-Litteraire-Jean-Christophe.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/186328845662 In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Tahar Ben Jelloun, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for an informal and open discussion at the Institut. Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fez, Morocco in 1944, and emigrated to France in 1971. He is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic and poet. He won the Prix Maghreb, the Prix Goncourt (the first North African to win France’s top literary prize), and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He is regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his work has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He received the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 2008. He lives between Paris and Tangier. Tahar Ben Jelloun will present his book About my Mother, translated by Ros Schwartz and recently published in the UK by Telegram, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 28th at 12:30. We are delighted and honoured to welcome him around the corner just after that for a ‘café littéraire’ ! To read the full portrait of Tahar Ben Jelloun, please visit the French Books UK blog on Culturethèque. 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