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EMMANUELLE MARION
ESCALES
Exhibition.
Born in Dijon (France), Emmanuelle Marion studied the
English language, International Business and Arts Management.
She came to Ireland 4 years ago and entered the Irish artistic
milieu through her involvement in the
Franco-Irish Literary Festival,
organized by the Alliance Française Dublin. After three
festivals and a position as the Arts Officer of the French
Embassy to Ireland, Emmanuelle decided to concentrate on oil
painting.
The pieces presented in this exhibition were painted between
April and July 2006 after travel memories,
Irish landscapes and dreams. Drawings were made in
August at an artists residency in the Languedoc-Roussillon
region. Her technique consists in taking mental pictures of
places, memorizing atmospheres, then painting them on the
canvass after they went through the filter of memory. Notes
replacing sketches witness the changes in the various aspects of
the subject.
emmanuelle's myspace.com
Opening
9 November at 6pm
9 – 23 November 2006
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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EXODUS /
GRAND JUNCTION
Festival.
Dance Theatre of Ireland
presents a double bill featuring two beautiful new works:
Exodus, is a new creation by Robert Connor
& Loretta Yurick with stunning World music. In a context
where “immigration” has come to mean “border control”, people
are moving (legally or illicitly) all over the world. In the
state of human transience what do we bring with us ? How do we
encounter another ? Their poetic vision is delivered in finely
etched, highly charged, multi-disciplinary reflections on human
frailty and strength featuring an international cast of dancers,
original music and digital scenography.
Grand Junction is a signature work by eminent UK
choreographer Charles Linehan acclaimed for its eloquence
and masterful attention to detail.
Three French dancers will be performing in these shows: Lise
Manavit, Melanie Nezereau and Karl Paquemar.
www.dancetheatreireland.com
Bookings: (01) 231 2929
8 – 11 November 2006
Pavilion Theatre
Premiere Dun Laoghaire, D
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BESSORA - FROM
BANKING TO WRITING
Conference.
Bessora, is an author from Gabon and Switzerland
writing in French. She was born in Belgium in 1968, to a
Gabonese father and a Swiss mother. She spent her childhood
growing up in Africa, Europe and the United States of America.
Since 2000, she has been living in Paris where she studied for
her Doctorate in Anthropology, having completed a business
course and worked as a banking consultant.
She will answer questions in French and English after the talk
and read passages of her work.
Wednesday
8 November,
6.30pm
More information: (01) 708 8305
or contact
fconnoly@ambafrance.ie
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Festival.
The French Embassy in Ireland and the Irish Film
Institute have co-produced this 7th
edition of the festival with Carte Noire as
the main sponsor.
Over ten days the festival will
provide a snapshot of the very best of both art-house and
mainstream French cinema, among them price winners of
Cannes and Venice festivals and recent French productions.
Jean Claude Carrière,
scriptwriter of many famous films who worked several times with
Louis Buñuel, will attend the festival as special guest.
This will be the biggest
celebration of French cinema in Ireland and we expect many
other stars from the French cinema to come.
21 – 30 November 2006
Full programme will be available soon
www.ifi.ie /
www.ambafrance.ie
Irish Film
Institute
6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, D2
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SIBELLY -
TOBIAS, GEORGE & THE FISH
Exhibition.
Tobias left his village in search of a cure for his
father Tobit who had lost his eyesight. He hired a travelling
companion who turned out to be the Archangel Raphael, disguised
as a man named Azarias. As they stopped along the Tigris River
(in today’s Iraq), a giant fish attacked them. Tobias caught the
fish and hauled it to the riverbank.
Azarias instructed Tobias to take the fish's heart, liver and
gall. The hired companion proved very knowledge-able and
explained that smoke made from burning the liver and heart of
the fish would drive away evil spirits. Moreover, the gall was
useful for healing blindness.
I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully
–
George W. Bush, Sept. 29, 2000.
In light of these two statements and the current state of
relations between the “West” and the Muslim World I visited
Iran, Syria, Libya and Lebanon. My
quest was for answers to the many questions raised: is there a
fish that protects from evil spirits and cures blindness ? Is
there any of these fishes left in Iraq ? Or elsewhere ? Can
fish and human beings really coexist peacefully ?
I decided to photograph fishermen (the French word for
fisherman, pêcheur, also translates as “sinner”) and
analyze their relationship with the inhabitants of the seas.
24 November – 20 December
Opening Friday 24 at 6pm
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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ALL HAWAII ENTRÉES /
LUNAR REGGAE
Exhibitions.
The selection of artists in the major contemporary group
exhibition portrays the diversity of approach which is
representative of art practice today.
The artists, whose practices are
informed by everyday life, address current issues such as
ecology,
technology,
popular culture and
globalization.
The exhibition will include some
20 works in a variety of media from film and video to
painting and installation, and will comprise new
and recent work sourced directly from the artists’ studios and
selected for private international collections. Artists from
right across Europe, the USA, Central and South
America will expose their works.
France will be represented by
artists like Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
and Anri Sala.
The exhibition is curated by
Rachael Thomas (Senior Curator,
Head of Exhibitions, IMMA) and the French artist
Philippe Parreno.
More information : 01-6129900
or
info@imma.ie
www.imma.ie
30 November 2006
2 February 2007
Irish Museum of
Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
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