The City of Nice is enhancing the 8th national edition of the Spring of Poets. From March 4 to March 11, 2006, poets and artists from all disciplines will meet at the Theater of Photography and Image and at the Louis Nucéra Library. During free events, they will share poetry in all its forms on the theme “The Song of Cities.”
Poets and artists blend poetry with other arts.
With the arrival of spring, poetry blossoms in Nice. Each day (except Sunday, March 5), a poet and an artist from another discipline, unite to merge their art. From this encounter between the language arts and the visual arts, a unique work is born where reading is mixed with performances, with materials, to sensitize both an informed and uninformed audience. Freed from the page, poetry appropriates all forms: dance, song, photo, sound, video, installation, and performance. It is presented to be read, seen, and heard.
The Spring of Poets focuses on the city.
This year, the Spring of Poets is themed around the city. Places of perpetual metamorphoses, of celebrations and revolts, of passage as much as rooting, privileged sites of the unknown, of vertigo, of coexistence, of opposites, cities have always been one of the raw materials of poetic imagination.
The poets and artists who will work during this week dedicated to poetry all have a connection with Nice. They were born there, live there, or work there. The city of Nice is sometimes present in the background of the event and all the poems will be imbued with an urban atmosphere. The performances create a city atmosphere where the audience can be involved. Poetry invites itself into the public space for the enjoyment of all.
Program:
Fnac of Nice – 5:30 PM
Thursday, March 2: Meeting and presentation of the event in the presence of the authors.
Theater of Photography and Image – 6:30 PM
Saturday, March 4: the poet Daniel Biga and the artist Noël Dolla
Monday, March 6: the poet Katy Remy and the artist Anne Pesce
Tuesday, March 7: the poet Joëlle Basso and the artist Luc Boniface
Wednesday, March 8: the poet Olympia Alberti and the artist Bruno Mendonça
Thursday, March 9: the poets Alain Freixe, Raphaël Monticelli and the artist Frédérique Nalbandian
Friday, March 10: the poet Joseph Mouton and the artist Eric Duyckaerts
Saturday, March 11: the poet-photographer Jérôme Bonnetto and the poet-artist Gilbert Casula
Louis Nucéra Library (Auditorium)
Wednesday, March 8 at 4 PM: the poet Patrick Joquel and the dancer Sara Pasquier
Saturday, March 11 at 3 PM: meeting-reading around the book by Bernadette Griot “111 City Rumors” (eds Certu) by poets Alain Freixe, Raphaël Monticelli, Daniel Biga, Katy Remy, and Sophie Braganti.
And other reading-meetings…
Friday, March 3 at 5 PM: Poetic Stopover with poet Maurice Lethurgez and actor Alain Baudemont.
Wednesday, March 15 at 4 PM: Poetic show for young audiences with actress Claire Bartoli.
Friday, March 17: Reading-meeting with François Garros in partnership with the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and the journal NU(e).
Saturday, March 18 at 3 PM: Reading-meeting with Béatrice Bonhomme.
Friday, March 31: Reading-meeting with Philippe Raymond-Thimonga in partnership with the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and the journal NU(e).
Furthermore, the Les Moulins-Alain Lefeuvre library invites readers throughout the month of March to submit their favorite poems for display.
The Saint-Roch library offers writing workshops for young people aged 8 to 10 on Wednesdays March 22, 29 and April 5 and 12 at 2 PM.
The Fontaine du Temple, Thiole, and Les Moulins-Alain Lefeuvre libraries will host a poetic and musical show for an adult audience.
Free entry
Information: 04 97 13 23 95
Website: [www.printempsdespoetes.com](https://www.printempsdespoetes.com)
