With some friends, we’re happy to invite you to Sahara Rocks! Festival. Two days of concerts, lectures, films, around contemporary saharan youth culture. 29-30/05/2010
More: www.sahararocks.com
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MEMORY BABE, A TRIBUTE TO JACK KEROUAC
A project by Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister
To celebrate the 50th years of publication of On The Road by Jack Kerouac
23 of september 2007, Paris, France
Le Cabaret Pirate ( ex-Guinguette Pirate)
During the afternoon and all night long, Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister organize Memory Babe, A Tribute To Jack Kerouac, an artistic installation including films, music, photography, films, lectures, texts, performances, to enlight this great american writer, at the Cabaret Pirate (Dame de Canton), in front of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Few monthes before, Arnaud Contreras sent a call for contributions by Myspace and different medias. All those contributions, videos, mails, letters, from all over the world, are now displayed in the installation Tribute to Jack Kerouac.
° Exhibition and videos by Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister
° Concerts by Elioth Murphy, Tony Truant, Didier Malherbe (Gong / Hadouk), Gunpowder ( 1/2 CQMD -1/2 Têtes Raides), Hakim Hamadouche (Rachide Taha’s oud), Laurent Petitgaud.
° Lectures by Katia Medici, Jean-Luc Debattice, Martine Guillaud, Yves Buin, Alain Dister, Ingrid Thobois, Pierre Mikaïloff.
° Projections of beat films
° Performance”On the road again”, by Laurent Laurent.
Memory Babe, A tribute to Jack Kerouac is supported by Agnès b, Gallimard, The Beat Museum / San Francisco, The Allen Ginsberg Trust, Roadbook, Paris Breton, La Capsule.
More: www.myspace.com/tribute2kerouac
