As each year, the eighth
Biennale of carnet de Voyage returns to populate the streets of
Clermont-Ferrand, a pleasant French town. The event is scheduled from the 16th to the 18th of November and will be held in the new
Polydome, constructed specifically to stage the whole event under one roof, and offer, both to the authors and to the public, a bigger and more welcoming place; the extra rooms mean that there can be many more meetings with the authors and different
workshop lit up by the "carnettistes".
There are more than a thousand works to admire, over
130 authors both French and International: from The United States to England, from Spain to Italy, from Germany to Switzerland and Belgium.
The programme for this eighth edition is full of events to see and this year the most important displays are dedicated to India. There are thirty artists among whom three Indians who have come especially for the Biennale and decided to dedicate their work to this country. Many of them have already published books on India. Allowing us to discover, through very different styles, the reality of a modern country whose roots are firmly embedded in a history of a thousand years of tradition. And many of the debates on the programme are inspired by the contrast of modern and traditional India. Some short films on this country are also planned, as well as special conferences by important authors such as Anne Deriaz, Swiss author who, with her book "Chère Ella, Elegie pour Ella Maillart "pays homage to the great female explorers (1903 -1997); Irma Kennaway who returns to talk about the age of British colonization; Roland and Sabrina Michaud, two globetrotters who have been travelling round the world together for the last fifty years and the Indian artist Viyay Soni, specialized in miniatures. Moreover, dance shows by a group of young Indian dancers have been planned, the dancers are originally from Salford in England, the town twinned with Clermont-Ferrand.
In the "Année des Poles", International Polar Year frame, the biennale has dedicated plenty of space to the ice continent, through the photographs taken by Louis Gain and Yules Rouch at the beginning of the last century.
Amongst the artists who are taking part in the biennale is Stefano Faravelli (winner of the last Biennale edition) with a notebook dedicated to India and published by EDT .
The artist also participated in Detour New York.
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• La route des carnets - This year many events have been planned which are included in the
programme of the Biennale, but are held outside the Polydome and not
only in Clermont - Ferrand. Some of them began in October, some will end
at the beginning of December.
• Vincent Besançon - "Festival de la Chaise Dieu" : from 17th to 25 November at Espace Culturel des Ramacles in Aubière.
• Véronique Baudin
- "Une rive, l'autre" : from 18th November to 2nd December at Lycée
d'enseignement des métiers de la restauration, de l'hôtellerie et du
tourisme di Chamalières.
• Marie-Isabelle Merle des Isles - "Antarctique", from 23rd October to 10th November at Espace Victoire in Clermont-Ferrand.
• Jean Morachini - "Le Caire", from 1st to 18th November at Le Cadre et l'image in Clermont-Ferrand.
• Pierre Mérat - "Carnet de voyage au Nunavut", from 26th November to 7th December at Centre Georges Brassens in Clermont-Ferrand
• Hippolyte - "L'aventure des pôles", from 26th November to 14th December at Centre Camille Claudel in Clermont-Ferrand
• Troub's - "Chine / Australie", from 16th November to 10th December a Un Air de Voyage di Cournon
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