For this month of October, the culture selection takes you on a journey. From Italian or Algerian literature to Ukrainian songs, including Spanish cinema and a photography festival in Mulhouse.
European Fantastic Film Festival, Musica, Ideal Libraries… The big cultural events of the back-to-school season have passed. But the month of October is also marked by its share of festivals and other promising shows. The urban culture festival Opération Quartiers Populaires (OQP) has already started at the Point d’Eau in Ostwald. This is followed by the architecture days on October 13, 14 and 15, then by 32nd national edition of the Science Festival from October 6 to 16. Below, our cultural selection of the month, which takes on a travel feel, from Italian or Algerian literature to Ukrainian songs including the tenth anniversary of the Mulhouse photography biennial.
FemiGouin’Fest highlights queer and feminist cinema
The Strasbourg lesbian and feminist film festival is scheduled from October 4 to 10 at Cinémas Star and Cosmos. The opportunity to repeat some classics, but also to discover some gems. Starting with the opening film, Orlando, my political biography, directed by Paul B. Preceiado. This experimental documentary, directed by a key queer artist and thinker, is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando. In this work, the main character changes gender. Paul B. Preceiado’s documentary continues this story outside of fiction. Twenty-six trans and non-binary people, aged 8 to 70, play the character of Orlando during the story. One of the actresses, Naelle Dariya, will be present for the occasion!
The FemiGouin’ Fest is being held this year from October 4 to 10 at Cinémas Star and Cosmos (Photo ACC / Rue89 Strasbourg)
In addition to films, the festival is diversifying this year by offering meetings, notably with Alice Coffin on Saturday October 7 at 5:30 p.m. for a conference entitled History, perspectives and issues of lesbian visibility in cinema.
Sunday will take place under the sign of astrology in the Cosmos. With an astro bingo hosted by Madame de Kurbis, drag monster and Mizkeen, drag-queer, to do while watching the film Girlfriends and girlfriends by Spanish director Zaida Carmona.
Le Maillon gives a voice to women victims of war in Mothers
To inaugurate its season, the Maillon is offering a work particularly anchored in current affairs. Mothers. A song for wartime by Marta Górnicka, performed in the main hall of the theater on October 4, 5 and 6, gives voice to the victims of the war in Ukraine. Taking the form of a singing choir, 25 Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish mothers recount in their language (the show will be surtitled in French) their experiences, but also their fight against destruction. The chorus takes on a political dimension while recalling popular Ukrainian songs like the chtched drink.
Mothers. A song for wartime by Marta Górnicka will be performed in the main hall of the theater on October 4, 5 and 6, (Photo Michał Rumas)
This is not the first time that Marta Górnicka, singer and director, is scheduled at the Maillon. She has already presented Magnificat in 2012, Requiemmachine in 2014 and Hymn to love in 2018. For this show, she drew on a recent personal experience. For several months, the artist organized workshops in Warsaw with exiled Ukrainian women, victims of the war, and Belarusians and Poles who welcomed them into their country. What emerged was the importance of the Ukrainian voice, culture and songs, particularly as a means of expression.
“They are refugees, witnesses to violence and bombings. Those who fled with their children to Poland, to Warsaw or to other cities in Europe and elsewhere, want to speak today, to use the power of their voice to name what cannot be named,” explains she said in an interview conducted as part of the Avignon festival. Mothers. A song for wartimewas produced in co-production with the Maillon, which is hosting its French premiere in October.
At TNS, La Tendresse questions masculinity
“What have young men inherited from their fathers’ ways of thinking and education? What relationship do they have with women, especially after the #MeToo movement? What contradictory injunctions weigh on them? » Here are some of the questions addressed Tendernessthe first show of the 2023 season offered by TNS, from October 4 to 14. In this piece directed by Julie Berès, eight actors and dancers attempt to discover together, with their words and their bodies, what it means to belong to the “group of men” today.
La Tendresse is played at TNS from October 4 to 14 (Photo Axelle De Russé)
A practitioner of stage writing and collaboration with playwrights, writers and choreographers, Julie Berès called on playwrights Kevin Keiss and Lisa Guez as well as author Alice Zeniter. Together, they first drew on sociological and philosophical essays and documentaries questioning different masculinities. They then met around forty young men from different backgrounds. It was about desire, sexuality, inheritance, money, feelings, tenderness… Then the writing was finished on set, after choosing eight performers.
“La Tendresse is a political show but not militant. He speaks of a desire of this generation to have the right to access its tenderness, its weakness, the admission of its failures, its fragility, its emotion – the right to be able to admit what makes it suffer. »
Julie Berès, in an interview with Fanny Mentré
Second edition of the festival to combat street harassment
Discussions, workshops, festive moments… For the second year, feminist activist Emanouela Todorova offers five days of festival against harassment in public spaces, from October 9 to 13. The one who runs the DisBonjourSalePute account on Instagram, which has become an association fighting against sexism, is offering a second edition of her festival after the success of the first dedicated to consent. A mobile stand will evolve over the days from the Krutenau district to the station via Cronenbourg, the orangery and the Illkirch-Graffenstaden campus.
The author and inclusiveer Camille Aumont Carnel will be present on October 12. Last year, she had a full house with a meeting rich in discussion with the public. (Photo ACC / Rue89 Strasbourg)
Among the events not to be missed, the House of Marley drag show which will take place during the opening ceremony at 8 p.m. at the Milano Torino Mito, the round table What measures are applied in Europe Thursday October 12 at 6 p.m. and reading/meeting with Emanouela Todorova around her book Say Hello Dirty Whore. Although most events are free or at an open price, it is strongly recommended to book each event on helloasso. Most of the previous year’s meetings were sold out!
The Strasbourg – Mediterranean Festival evokes the literature of exile
L’association Stras-Méd offers around twenty events until December to highlight Mediterranean culture and oral traditions as well as the literature of exile in a series of meetings, walks and shows.
This year, Sedef Ecer, Assia Djebar, Hala Mohammad and Frantz Fanon will be in the spotlight. (DR Stras-Med)
Not to be missed, the book show National treasure, by the Franco-Turkish novelist Sedef Ecer. It will take place on October 5 at 8:30 p.m. at the Cheval Blanc in Schiltigheim and will offer a dive into the golden age of Istanbul cinema, in the footsteps of an actress and a country marked, between 1960 and 2016, by four coups d’état.
Then, head to Italy on October 20, with the proposed meeting at the Italian Cultural Institute and the poet, teacher and translator Rossana Jemma. In his collection The road to singingit evokes uprooting, the risk of losing one’s identity, but also the cathartic power of poetry.
Finally, to be completed independently, the route through Strasbourg proposed to pay tribute to the Algerian Assia Djebar, academician and woman of letters who was in residence in Strasbourg. Having fallen in love with the city, she made it the subject of a novel, The nights of Strasbourg, published by Actes Sud. The festival offers to retrace the steps of its heroine with a circuit, from the old prison on Rue du Fil to the spire of the Cathedral.
Exhibition on the relationship between photography and the contemporary world in Mulhouse
For the tenth anniversary of the Mulhouse Photography Biennale (BPM), the exhibition “10 years / 10 photographers” will begin on Saturday October 7 at the Maison des Bergers, along the Quai des Cigognes in Mulhouse. Until November 13, it will bring together ten photographers who have participated in the five previous editions of the festival. For the opening on Saturday at 2 p.m., a visit will allow you to meet the photographers Pascal Amoyel, Christophe Bourguedieu, Nathalie Wolff and Matthias Bumiller. The organization of a round table at 4 p.m. at the Grand’Rue library will then question the issues and perspectives of photographic festivals.
Visitors will be able to observe the exhibition of Céline Clanet, The fierce islets at the Maison des Bergers in Mulhouse. (Photo Céline Clanet)
The guiding principle of the event: the possibility or impossibility of inhabiting the world transformed by human activity. According to Anne Immelé, artistic director of the BPM, the programming will highlight “the relationship of photographic production to its contemporaneity”. The photographs exhibited will offer “sensitive and political approaches to the contemporary world”, they will question “the tension between nature and humans, the borders and contradictions of post-capitalist society or even the relationship of individuals to their territory of life” .
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2023-09-30 07:07:55
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