Mugogo!: electronic music from the coast of Kenya
When Swiss beatmaker Flexfab was doing a set in the coastal town of Kisili, Kenya, a young Kenyan rapper Ziller Bas grabbed the mike and delivered his "Swengflow". The chemistry was immediate and six...
View ArticleFrench book prize winner Anne Pauly says comedy helped her face father's death
The 46th edition of the Prix du Livre Inter book prize has been awarded to French author Anne Pauly pour her first novel "Avant que j'oublie", her way of mourning the illness and death of her father.
View ArticleQuai Branly museum in Paris reopens to public after Covid-19 lockdown
More French museums and galleries are reopening this week, after the lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus. One of them is the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, which will...
View ArticleLondon Fashion Week opens online as coronavirus shakes up industry
London has become the first of the four fashion capitals to take its runway shows online due to Covid-19 physical distancing. For the first time, womenswear and menswear shows were merged as the...
View ArticleThe Eddy: a love letter to jazz in modern, multicultural Paris
There are big names in The Eddy, a Netflix series about a struggling jazz club in Paris. But the real star is jazz. And since coronavirus is depriving us of the thrill of live music, the jazz sessions...
View ArticleThe Sound Kitchen: Iraq's first prime minister in six months
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Iraq’s new prime minister. There’s “On This Day”, which features a little history lesson about the Marquis de La Fayette...
View ArticleCovid-19, ecology and revolt on the menu for 'Visa pour l'image festival'
The 32nd edition of Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival will be held in early September in Perpignan in the south of France.
View ArticleAriana Vafadari breathes life into Anahita, Persian goddess of water
After exploring Zoroastrian chants on her 2016 album “Gathas, songs my father taught me”, mezzo soprano Ariana Vafadari puts femininity to the fore with the heart-wrenching “Anahita”, inspired by the...
View ArticleThe Sound Kitchen: How the Cannes Film Festival reinvented itself under Covid-19
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the organisation which helps young filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, “Ollia’s...
View ArticleKurt Cobain's 'Unplugged' guitar sells for record $6 million
The guitar that grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain played during his 1993 MTV 'Unplugged' performance sold for a record 6 million dollars. The instrument is the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.
View ArticleCannes kicks off virtual marketplace, key hub for international cinema
The Marché du Film, the professional branch of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway on Monday in the first ever edition to be held entirely online. For five days, producers, distributors and...
View ArticleMusée d'Orsay first major Parisian museum to reopen
The Musée d'Orsay has become the first major Parisian museum to reopen. It welcomed back the public after three months of closed doors with a retrospective of the 19th century painter James Tissot.
View ArticleCinema's budding new talents converge on Cannes online market
La Fabrique Cinema, a mentoring programme created by the Institut Français, and closely supported by the Cannes film festival, has selected ten projects by young filmmakers which will attempt to grab...
View ArticleThe Molières: 'The Fly' among winners at France's theatre awards
The winners of the prestigious Molières ceremony, a key event in the annual theatre awards calendar in France were announced on Tuesday evening, during a prime time television broadcast. Christian Le...
View Article'Black Lives Matter', and songs are showing it's a fact
Inspiring speeches are great, but a song can travel and connect people like nothing else. After the tragic death of George Floyd, musicians are helping to bring issues of police violence and social...
View ArticleThe Simpsons: White actors stop playing non-white characters amid racism debate
"The Simpsons" - America's most famous cartoon family will no longer have white actors to voice non-white characters, according to production company Fox. The move follows years of pressure about...
View ArticleGeorge Orwell finds a home in France's prestigious Pléiade literary collection
The groundbreaking novel 1984 by British author George Orwell and some of his other works are to be included in a respected literary collection known as the Pléiade, a branch of the French publishing...
View ArticleBeyoncé takes the protest route
American R ‘n’ B superstar Beyoncé has become one of the world’s top-selling artists by celebrating black culture and identity in her music. Her latest work Black Parade is a full-blown protest song.
View ArticleRemains of hundreds of guillotined French Revolution figures found in chapel...
French experts have discovered the remains of as many as 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution in the walls of a listed building in Paris.
View ArticleParis's Pompidou reopens with exhibition dedicated to 'wrap' artist Christo
The Pompidou centre of modern art in Paris is to reopen after a three-month delay due to Covid-19 with an exhibition dedicated to the late artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude. One of the art...
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