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Timothée de Fombelle has a habit of leaving his readers on the edge of their seats with his vivid portrayal of radically different worlds and characters: from a huge oak inhabited by tiny humans, a zeppelin soaring across the globe, and, about to be published in France, the high seas between Africa and the Caribbean on slave trading boats in the 19th century.
Here he discusses the power of imagination and essential sense of adventure in children’s books with his translator, Sarah Ardizzone. 

Watch out for the interview:

Timothée de Fombelle reads an excerpt in French from Alma, Le vent se lève:

Sarah Ardizzone reads an excerpt in English from Alma, Le vent se lève:

Related / Latest Publications:

	Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Walker Books, 2010).
	Timothée de Fombelle, Vango, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Walker Books, 2010).
	Timothée de Fombelle, The Book of Pearl, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Walker Books, 2016)

« Who owns culture ? – On appreciation, adaptation and appropriation »

Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo meets every Saturday. 
Send an email to books@institutfrancais.org.uk if you wish to take part in this philosophical Zoom session, and details will be sent to you. 

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Cross Channel Theatre is thrilled to introduce this rehearsed staged reading of Fists, by the established French writer Pauline Peyrade, translated and directed by Keziah Serreau, read by Alex Austin, Akiya Henry and Kandaka Moore.

Translated and directed by Keziah Serreau, Pauline Peyrade’s play takes us through five moments of an abusive relationship, from the first meeting to the break up. Highly rhythmic and partly written like an electro score, Fists was originally conceived for a musician, an actor and a circus performer. Each moment is an attempt to flee from obsession and dependence and to fight to reclaim one's self. To exhaust oneself in order to reawaken, to destroy to rebuild, to reinvent to understand and to distance in order to get closer to oneself. Each experience explores a heightened state that reveals the relentless strength of refusal and resistance that we carry deep within us, like an eye that never lowers its gaze, like a strongly clasped fist.

Directed by Keziah Serreau

Distribution
Akiya Henry will read ME
Kandaka Moore will read YOU
Alex Austin will read HIM

As part of Cross Channel Theatre - The Best of French New Writing

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On 8 March 2008, the Italian artist Pippa Bacca undertook an unusual and symbolic journey: her aim was to promote the cause of peace by hitchhiking from Milan to Jerusalem, wearing a white wedding dress.  In telling the young woman’s story, which overwhelms her and inexorably draws her in, Nathalie Léger recounts the different stages of her research and strikes upon something fundamental within Bacca’s performance: the desire to remedy the unfathomable nature of violence and war.

Nathalie Léger on the strong female figures that inspire her:

Writer and critic Jonathan Gibbs reviews The White Dress:

Reading of The White Dress by Natasha Lehrer:

Related event:
• The Bride
  

Related / Latest Publication:

The White dress (Les Fugitives, 2020)