9:10 a.m. The guest: Perrine Desproges, director of the Beacon in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
– Julien gazeau
New inter-municipal performance hall in Vendée (Country of St Gilles Croix de Vie), La Balise was due to open in April 2020. Despite the ballotages and its early youth, La Balise has shown itself to be tenacious at the mercy of the too many postponements and uncertainties that each one crossed.
Modular room with 634 seats, 1600 standing, the program will offer the public shows from all disciplines, artists and talents known or to know, the opportunity to discover behind the scenes and the professions hidden there …
The opening finally took place on September 25, 2021, with the transvestite cabaret Madame Ose Bashung which brought together 450 people.
La Balise already boasts 800 subscribers!
– Jonathan grimaux
Thomas Pesquet listened to it repeatedly during his stay in the international space station: Back to the moon, the latest album by saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery, an artist hosted in residence last April at La Balise, the new performance hall in Saint -Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. After the residency, he returns to give two concerts on November 12 and 13. Info here
9.15am Pizza / Netflix night on Jean-Jacques Lester’s sofa (!) To watch the film Hypnotic
9:25 am The crush of Christel Rafstedt, bookseller at the Book in the Teapot in Rocheservière: the latest novel by Laurent Petimangin Thus Berlin, published by La Manufacture de Livres.
The story
As the war has just ended, in the rubble of Berlin, Käthe and Gerd engage in the construction of the new world for which they fought. They imagine a program where the children of the intellectual elites, withdrawn from their families, raised far from any sentimentality, would form a generation of superior individuals ensuring the future of East Germany. But, west of the rising wall, a woman has other ideals and dreams of renewal. Liz, an American architect, intends to do everything to defend the values of the Western world. When Gerd meets Liz, the strength of his convictions begins to falter …
So Berlin, Laurent Petitmangin’s second novel, confirms the immense talent of its author for probing the nuances and contradictions of the human soul. With his hero torn between two women, tossed about by history, standing between two facets of Berlin, two worlds, the author draws the duel between feelings and ideals, an eternal battle waged against oneself.