Meetings with writers and readings in the street, reading walks on two major routes, literary cafés, conferences, photo exhibitions, activities for children, workshops for all audiences and evening concerts await you on July 1st and 2nd in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat!
This first sea festival will welcome:
Yann Queffelec: Saturday and Sunday
Isabelle Autissier: book signing Saturday at 6pm
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor: book signing Sunday at 3pm
The speakers and artists of this first edition will address two themes:
The sea: inner adventure, or How the sea transforms man
Stories of races, stories of lives linked to the sea, stories of maritime places, stories of marine impressions. The invited authors will be these adventurers transformed by the sea.
The sea: mistreated ecosystem, or How man transforms the sea
General overview of the marine environment including notably the conferences of Laurent Ballesta (co-author of Planet Sea published by Michel Lafon), and pending confirmation, the participation of the Oceanographic Museum.
SATURDAY July 1st: From 2pm onwards
Cinematheque
From 3:30pm to 4:30pm Conference/Slideshow “Planet Seas” by Laurent Ballesta
From 4:30pm to 5:30pm Conference “Albert 1st of Monaco, prince, sailor, writer” by Jacqueline Capine-Lancre
From 5:30pm to 6:30pm Conference/Slideshow “Planet Seas” by Laurent Ballesta
Media Library
2pm Opening of the “Mountain Seas” exhibition with photos by Eric Mellis, exhibition of old books from the Villefranche station and presentation of the “sea collection” of the intercommunal media library
From 5pm to 6pm “Tuareg Tales” by Moussa Ag Assarid
The Book Village
From 2pm to 7pm book signings with authors
From 3pm to 6pm Workshops (boat models, marine knots, drawings)
Clemenceau Square and Village
Bar le Cadillac literary café “Fishing, tradition, and stories in the Mediterranean”
From 2:30pm to 4pm Presentation of authors Pierre Blasi, Jean Monot, Yves Paccalet
From 6pm to 7pm Literary aperitif “The sea as horizon: stranded sailors and fragrant corsairs” with Isabelle Autissier, Yann Queffelec
Bar La civette
From 5pm to 6pm Round table “The sea, mistreated ecosystem: inform, warn, today by what means?” with L. Ballesta, M. Aubert, Y. Pascalet, P. Gilleset D. Théron
Streets of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and around the Cape
From 3pm to 5pm “Readings in the era” at 4 locations with amateur readers and classical musicians for a walking audience
From 5pm to 7pm “Reading walk” with the Voix public company at Pointe St Hospice
Community Hall
2pm Opening of the “Jangadas of Brazil” exhibition by Philip Plisson
7pm Festival inauguration
The port
9pm Irish Music Concert Aisling & Neil Mc Lellan Band
Sunday July 2nd: From 10am onwards
The Book Village
From 10am to 7pm book signings with authors (3pm Sunday with PPDA)
From 2:30pm to 5:30pm Workshops (boat models, marine knots, drawings)
From 3:30pm to 5pm Concert “The cruise is fun” Tom Elroy Band, jazzy interludes in literary cafés
Media Library
10am Opening of the “Mountain Seas” exhibition with photos by Eric Mellis, exhibition of old books from the Villefranche station and presentation of the “sea collection” of the intercommunal media library
From 11am to 12pm Writing games “The sea Inspire, Write”
From 3pm to 5:30pm “Marine writing workshop” conducted by Maud Tujagues and Mireille Montagnac
Cinematheque
10am Opening of Jean Claude Fraicher exhibition hall “The Last Hold”
From 11am to 1pm Screening “Alert at the North Pole” a documentary film in the presence of director Adam Schmedès
From 3:30pm to 4:30pm Conference/Slideshow “Planet Seas” by Laurent Ballesta
From 4:30pm to 5:30pm Conference “Albert 1st of Monaco, prince, sailor, writer” by Jacqueline Capine-Lancre
From 5:30pm to 6:30pm Conference/Slideshow “Planet Seas” by Laurent Ballesta
Clemenceau Square and Village
Bar le Cadillac literary café
From 2:30pm to 3:30pm “The sea a shared passion” presented by Philippe Plisson and Yann Queffelec
Bar La civette
From 11:30am to 12:30pm Literary aperitif “First times… How the sea transforms us”: first crossing, first sight of the sea, first storm with Isabelle Autissier, Catherine Chabaud, Pierre-Louis Castelli, Moussa Ag Assarid
From 4:30pm to 6pm Round table “The flavors of the sea” with the chef of the golden sail and Yann Queffelec
Community Hall
10am Opening of the “Jangadas of Brazil” exhibition by Philip Plisson
Street of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and around the Cape
From 10am to 12pm “Reading walk” from the lighthouse to St Jean with the Rouge Ephémère company
From 3pm to 5pm “Readings in the era” at 4 locations with amateur readers and classical musicians for a walking audience
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