The festival of words, 8 unique evenings
Michel Boujenah this Saturday July 30, 2022 on the church square in Puget-Thénier, André Dussollier, Astrid Veillon, Gwendoline Hamon (from the “Cassandre” series on France 3) in a few days. The festival of words revives the tradition of storytelling.
The readings are planned in the villages of the department. The theme common to all the evenings is travel.
PODCASTS
Listen, at the microphone of Adrien Mangano, the actors and actresses themselves present the texts chosen for the Festival of Words
Stéphane Freiss is on Friday August 05, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. at Bonson to read excerpts from “Vol de Nuit” by Saint Exupéry:
In South America, at the beginning of commercial aviation, Aeropostale pilots wanted to prove that the plane was faster than the train to deliver mail…”Thus the three postal planes of Patagonia, Chile and from Paraguay were returning from the south, the west and the north to Buenos Aires, where they were waiting for their cargo so that the plane for Europe could depart around midnight.
Three pilots, each in the back of a hood heavy as a barge, lost in the night, meditating on their flight, and, towards the immense city, would descend slowly from their stormy or peaceful sky, like strange peasants. come down from their mountains.”
Denis Podalydès is on Friday August 12 at 9:00 p.m. in Cap d’Ail to read excerpts from “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway:
The old man held the line delicately, supplely, and with his left hand detached it from the rod. Now he could let it slide smoothly between his fingers without the fish feeling any tension. This far, it must be huge, he thought. Eat them, fish. Eat them. Please eat them. Fresh as they are, and you six hundred feet below the surface in this cold, dark water. Take another short walk in the dark, but come back and eat them. He felt the line stretch again delicately then a sharper blow when a sardine head which must have been more difficult to tear off separated from the hook. So nothing more.
Astrid Veillon is on Sunday August 14 at 9 p.m. in Saint-Martin-Vésubie to read excerpts from “La Force du Père” by Raoul Mille:
Raoul Mille is the child of a father born at the beginning of the last century in the North who will cross France to conquer Louise, his mother, a florist in Monaco. Having become a writer, he discovers the true face of his father and invites us, in this tender and intimate book, to share a colorful family saga. A warm story where the novelist Raoul Mille draws on his childhood memories.
“We are reunited, we are together for the first time in our lives. You put on your coat, your cap and you go up to the garden. You have nothing to do there, you go up there to be quiet, to hide your joy and your emotion…”
Gwendoline Hamon is on Friday August 19 at 6 p.m. in Valberg to read excerpts from “Gulliver’s Travels: The Journey to Lilliput” by Jonathan Swift
Behind the fantastic journeys hides a work that is both satirical and philosophical, a reflection on the human condition that escaped the censorship of the time.
Lemuel Gulliver is a naval surgeon. During his travels, he will discover four strange lands, populated by bizarre natives. He first ends up on the island of the Lilliputians, little brawling fellows about fifteen centimeters tall, whose society is divided between those who open boiled eggs by the large end and those who only start it. by little…
Find the complete program of the Festival des Mots 2022 HERE