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Haiti - Culture : Fortnight of activities for the 80 years of Frankétienne
12/04/2016 10:23:33

Haiti - Culture : Fortnight of activities for the 80 years of Frankétienne
As part of the 80th anniversary of the famous playwright, actor, writer and painter Haitian Frankétienne, the Monique Calixte Library, presents, from April 12 to 23, 2016, a fifteen of activities.

This fortnight will begin Tuesday, April 12 with an exhibition of books of Frankétienne and on Frankétienne, texts retracing the writer's journey as well as texts on the "spiralisme" literary movement founded in 1965 which is one of the leaders. Documents in the form of scripts will also be presented at the CD terminal of the library.

Wednesday, April 13 at 5:00 p.m. Room FOKAL UNESCO (Free admission)
Screening of the documentary "Traversée des mondes de Frankétienne" (French subtitles) attended by the director Arnold Antonin (86mn, 2014) This film is a journey through the worlds of Frankétienne, the largest creator Guede of this country. It takes us into the mysteries of his poetic creation, literary, dramatic and plastic. Frankétienne appears as a high flying poet, musician, actor, imprecator in Nobel hunter and director of his own death.

Thursday, April 14 at 5:00 p.m. Room FOKAL UNESCO (Free admission)
Screening of the documentary "Une étrange cathédrale dans la graisse des ténèbres" by Charles Najman. Documentary, 2011, 77 min, France Haiti, producing Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète (FOKAL), La Huit, in co-production with Productions Fanal and Trace TV.

The film evokes the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince January 12, 2010, through the voice of the greatest living Haitian poet, Frankétienne, and his prescient piece "Le piège". Shot in the great cathedral in ruins of Port-au-Prince, the film is a song of life and death, a poetic response to the tragedy and despair of a people.

Friday, April 15 at 5:00 p.m. Room FOKAL UNESCO (Free admission)
Screening of a video portrait of Frankétienne directed by Gessica Généus with Frankétienne, Michèle Pierre-Louis, Wilson Paulemond and Paula Clermont Péan.

After the screening, Michèle Pierre-Louis will evoke her path with Frankétienne. Wilson Paulemond, professor of philosophy, normalien supérieur and Master 2 in Philosophy as part of the partnership between the ENS and Paris 8, will present the work of Frankétienne from three angles - philosophical, scientific and literary - and analyze his work on words as particles of pleasurable pleasure, Gordian knots of the spiral. Paula Clermont Péan, director of the Cultural Center Pyepoudre, actress and director then will talk about her theatrical experience around the work dramaturgical, Frankétienne will then take the floor. The meeting will conclude with a discussion with the audience. Meeting moderated by Michèle Pierre-Louis

Friday, April 22, the Book Club of the BMC will hosts Garnel Innocent for a chat on Frankétienne.

To close the fortnight, the BMC this Saturday, April 23, at the corner of the children, "Frankétienne raconté aux enfants", an activity for schoolchildren who have the opportunity to get to know the author and ask him questions about his work and his life as a writer.

Learn more about Frankétienne :
Born on 12 April 1936 at Ravine Sèche, communal section Poteneau of the commune of Grande-Saline in the Artibonite Department, whose real name is "Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent" (Frankétienne) is a poet, painter, actor, and co -founder of the literary movement "spiralisme" [founded in 1965 by Frankétienne, René Philoctète ater joined by Jean-Claude Fignolé].

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