Moleskine ® - Legendary notebook - Eighth edition of the Biennale of Carnet de Voyage

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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