Numerous events will offer an opportunity to discover or rediscover contemporary women poets. Each artist will discuss the importance of women with a very varied program.
Louis Nucéra Library
2, place Yves Klein – Nice
Auditorium
Friday, March 5, 5 pm
The poetic stopover: Three-voice reading.
With Danielle Lethurgez, Maurice Lethurgez, and Alain Baudemont
Friday, March 12, 5 pm
Reading meeting with Colette Guedj centered on her latest book “The Earwig”.
Saturday, March 13, 3 pm
Reading of texts by women poets, by Friends of the Amourier. Jean-Marie Barnaud, Alain Freixe, Raphaël Monticelli, Daniel Schmitt, Yves Ughes. A sextet of male voices – all poets – to celebrate the thousand shades of the color woman, as depicted from Sappho to today.
Friday, March 19, 5 pm
Woman Blue, landscape between sky and sea, reading by Béatrice Bonhomme
Béatrice Bonhomme, academic and poet, invites you to explore landscapes between sky and sea where the smell of sea spray and the silence of sails reveal the places of a Niçoise childhood with “The horizon available as clarity, the fresh gratitude of the sheets salted by the sea.”
Friday, March 26, 5 pm
Reading of Emily Dickinson’s poems, by Alain Freixe, Chris Farmer, Joëlle Vinciarelli.
One of the greatest and most inventive and modern poets of the 19th century was a woman, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a leading figure this spring colored woman. Her enigmatic personality – dressed in white, she lived voluntarily reclusive for many years. Her work blends intimate feelings and universal themes.
Friday, April 2, 5 pm
Woman Color, reading by librarians.
Text conveyors par excellence, the librarians want to share their own anthology with the public.
Terra Amata Library
1, Corniche d’André Joly – Nice
Tel: 04 97 12 13 07
Wednesday, March 10, 10.30 am
Poetry reading. Young audience
Wednesdays, March 17 and 24 from 9.30 am to 12 pm
Poetry and illustration workshop for young audiences, Woman Color Haikus.
With illustrator Helen Cook
By reservation.
Thiole Library
Villa Thiole – 32 Av. Malausséna – Nice
Tel: 04 97 13 28 18
Wednesday, March 17, 2 – 4 pm
Poetry workshop. Children 8 to 12 years old
By reservation.
All events are free. Free entry subject to available seats. Workshops are by reservation.
Mediterranean University Center
65, Promenade des Anglais – Nice
Tel: 04 93 13 46 10
Monday, March 8, 4 pm
International Women’s Day
Poetic afternoon dedicated to women (featuring student actors from the Pierre Cochereau Conservatoire): poems by women and poems about women.
Staging of texts written by poetesses Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, the first romantic poetess and inspiration to Rimbaud and Verlaine, Louise de Vilmorin (author of numerous works and close to Saint-Exupéry, Alain Cuny, André Malraux…), and Michèle Nguyen (contemporary artist, actress, storyteller…). Discovering a less-known side of Jacques Prévert: his poems dedicated to women.
Tuesday, March 9, 4 pm
“Cocteau, the confidant of women” – Show (texts and music)
Jean-Paul Alimi (pianist performer, composer, director of studies at the Paul Cochereau Conservatoire – and Jean-Louis Châles, actor director, drama teacher at the Paul Cochereau Conservatoire).
Thursday, March 11, 4 pm
“Sheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights” – reading of texts and musical accompaniment of Persian tradition.
Zia Mirabdolbaghi (international zarb concert artist) and Thomas Loopuyt (Mediterranean lute teacher at the Pierre Cochereau Conservatoire).
Friday, March 12, 4 pm
Medieval music and texts in the time of courtly love
Lei Troubaire de Madelano
The two troubadours of this ensemble (a baritone and a lyrical soprano), offer a concert of courtly love songs by 12th-century troubadours as well as their own compositions, in French and Occitan. Courtly love exalts women and adopts the codes of chivalry in winning the beloved.
Saturday, March 13, 4 pm
Afternoon discovering Slam
Conference “What is Slam?” By Jean-Loup Manasséro, co-director of the Loyal Company – Slam demonstration by artists from the Slamuses gueules collective of the Loyal Company: Sofianeslam, Azzarin, Matakos—Open mic for apprentice slammers
Monday, March 15, 4 pm
Award of the “Alain Lefeuvre” prize to Kenzy Dib and poetry reading
The Algerian poet receives the Alain Lefeuvre prize for his poetry collection “South of Our Magnetic Nights.” Cited in the encyclopedia of Algerian poets by Ali El Hadj Tahar, Kenzy Dib regularly publishes his writings in European poetry journals, particularly French ones.
Theatre of Photography and Image
27, boulevard Dubouchage – Nice
Tel: 04 97 13 42 20
Wednesday, March 17, 4 pm
Texts and Poems on the theme “Color Woman” selected and performed by Michel Seyrat, musically accompanied by La Compagnie So What.
Jazz music written and improvised to accompany the texts chosen and interpreted by Michel Seyrat. So What offers you a loving stroll with its scents of women. If they sometimes shout the beauty of words, rest assured, these are only cries of love reinforced by written and improvised music that accompanies, sometimes substitutes, and even knows to be silent to listen to the music of the texts!
Friday, March 19, 5 pm
“Maison Ritournelle”, musical and poetic show by the L’Autre Lune company.
In a surrealist atmosphere of fervent musician workers of a song-making workshop. They are tailor-made according to orders and seasons. Throughout the show, we discover a repertoire of ten songs where the instruments waltz and the verses of Rimbaud, Eluard, and Tardieu resonate.
Museum of Fine Arts Jules Chéret
33 Avenue des Baumettes – Nice
Tel: 04 92 15 28 28
Wednesday, March 10, and Thursday, March 11, from 8 am to 12 pm
Poetic encounters with writer and poetess Olympia Alberti and students from the Roland Garros College
Friday, March 19, from 12 pm to 6 pm
“Poetic Museum” by L’Attraction Company. Interventions and wanderings.
With Maija Heiskanen, Sophie Lievre, Frédéric de Goldfiem, Jonathan Gensburger. Spatial arrangement by Jean Jacques Minazio.
To the visitor’s reverie and curiosity is added the quiet but twirling presence of poetic characters. Games of hide and seek, appearances, brushes, gazes cast, whispered words, murmured poetry. Visual and sound parentheses with a cyclical fluidity reminiscent of rings in the water, revealing in counterpoint the poetic essence of the place and its frequenters.
Théâtre de la Semeuse
2, Montée Auguste Kerl – Nice
Tel: 04 93 92 85 00
Saturday, March 20, 7.30 pm
Les Z’humains, “Hymn to the Earth”
Theater hall.
Les Z’humains consist of Fabienne and Lohey, the alliance of an actress-author and a composer. Through her voice, Fabienne delivers a universe peppered with love, awareness, and commitment to a more vibrant humanity. Cultural and humanistic creativity, Lohey accompanies this testimony on the guitar.
Duration: 30 minutes in 10 poems
Free entry.
“Poet, Poet Days”
The City of Nice supports the 4th edition of the “Poet, Poet Days” organized by “A Little Voice Told Me” from March 13 to 21, 2010. A diverse program of poetry events and performances for all audiences.
Sunday, March 14, from 11 am to 1 pm
“Your skin here”, street poetry. Poet Maxime Dejoux-Guidot, Cie L’Amôscope, Avignon Festival 2009.
In the streets of Old Nice.
Sunday, March 14, 4 pm
Theater & poetry, “the unexpected” by the Acte III company followed by a discussion drink on the theme Color Women and “theater/poetry”.
At the MOMA, Nice Valrose.
Monday, March 15, from 10 am to 12 pm
Interventions in post offices: Poet Clown in line.
Tuesday, March 16, 7 pm
Writing workshops: “World Travelers”, rue Maréchal Joffre, Nice
Roundtable of poets “From Here and Elsewhere”, conducted by André Chenet. Guests from Belgium, Montpellier, Italy, and Nice. C.E. Andersen poet and traveler (Belgium). Tristan Cabral, poet and traveler (France). Flaviano Pisanelli, poet, writer, wanderer, and academic (Italy). Paul Mari (Nice County).
Wednesday, March 17, 2 pm
FNAC space’s awakening and games. Musical and poetry activities for children. With Mariella Fiordaliso.
Wednesday, March 17, 8.30 pm
One poem said = One glass offered
Cave Romagnan, 22 rue d’Angleterre
SLAM evening, Pascal Giovannetti.
Thursday, March 18, 5.30 pm
FNAC Forum, Nice. Current Music & Poetry
Thursday, March 18, 8 pm
Research on two axes: “Technology and poetry,” “cosmopolitan.” Nice/Berlin “Cross Border poetry” performance. Performance publication by Pascal Giovannetti.
MUSEAAV, Place Garibaldi.
Thursday, March 18, 10 pm
Sound and graphic poetry performance, improvisations Raphael Weifel, cello / projections Emeline Ulasien. DJ evening Florian Combe of the Scandium label.
Hi Hotel, avenue des Fleurs in Nice.
Saturday, March 20
From 10 am to 12 pm
Place Garibaldi. Outdoor writing workshop.
4 pm
Poetry reading by students from the Performing Arts Section of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Med Arts Association).
Privat Sorbonne Bookstore, rue Hôtel des Postes
5 pm
Reading of Love letters collected and read by actor François Voisin.
Privat Sorbonne Bookstore, rue Hôtel des Postes.
8.30 pm
Closing evening at the Soardi Gallery.
“Human Vernissage” orchestrated by Clément Althaus.
Sunday, March 21, from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm
“Poems at the Call” by all artist singers and actors, poets.
Cours Saleya, Old Nice.
