The Women Get Involved festival, Caillebotte’s men from Orsay, Sandrine Bonaire as Duras… Our 5 cultural must-sees

Women Engaged Festival

With a prestigious opening (the magnificent Kim Gordon, ex-Sonic Youth, on October 23rd at the Elysée Montmartre), the Les Femmes s’en mingent festival celebrates its storied 25th anniversary. Pioneering and activist, the event, which takes place from November 9th to December 1st in Paris and across France, gives pride of place to the artists, solo or in groups, who are writing the female pop of today and tomorrow. Planned for a 2024 release: Habibi’s Amerindian Rock or Melenas’ Spanish Rock, or Kaki King and Miriam Gendron’s People. On the French side, the mutant pop of Bonnie Banan, the songs of Emilie Loizot, the rap of Marguerite Thiam, the Afropunk of Tschegue… Without forgetting workshops, conferences and meetings to support women’s musical creativity.

The women are engaged from November 9 to December 1 in Paris and on tour throughout France.

Gaëlle Choisne, 24th Marcel Duchamp Award

The Marcel Duchamp Award was awarded to Gael Shoyan on October 14. The winner was chosen from among the finalists of Abdelkader Benchama, Angelica Dettanico, Raphael Laine and Noémie Goodall, selected by the ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French Art), whose works are exhibited at the Center Pompidou. Gaëlle Choisne, born in 1985 in Cherbourg to a Haitian mother and a Breton father, is a sculptor and video artist. Interacting with contemporary social issues (disaster of exploitation of resources or remnants of colonial rule), his large installation on the floor of the museum combines creole traditions, literary imaginations, folk beliefs. Age of Aquariusa landscape we can walk on, bringing together memories of crossed landscapes, broken chains of lost objects… Also a way to imagine a more refined and unified life.

Until January 6, 2024 centrepompidou.fr

Sandrine Bonnaire is playing The English lover

The English lover Duras plays on the mark with this title; English mint is a plant that Noofley grew in his garden and offered as a coupon to his friends. Duras, who loved news, was inspired by the true story of Amelie Rabillou, who killed her husband, dismembered the body and scattered the pieces, throwing them off a bridge into various trains. As often Duras returns to the motif, writing first a play, then a novel, before turning it back into a play. In her fiction, Claire Lannes kills her deaf and mute cousin, her husband Pierre Lannes survives, and the third character is the interrogator who tries to understand the incomprehensible. After looking at Beckett, director Jacques Osinski begins this other writing of silence. And to play the Durasian heroine, he chose Sandrine Bonnier, a sublime actress.

The English loverdirected by Jacques Osinski. theater-atelier.com from October 19, 2024

“Dreamtime” at the Musée des Confluences

Figures show that human beings spend a third of their lives sleeping and a significant portion of their time dreaming. The Confluences Museum in Lyon attempts to define the phenomenon of dreaming through different cultures, from ancient times. The “Dreamtime” exhibition, inspired by theater that blurs the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness, reality and fiction, features nearly 200 objects and numerous audiovisual works. History, psychology, ethnology, neuroscience research are called upon, as well as Freud, who in his dream interpretation In 1899, he defined the dream as “the royal road to the unconscious.” From Greek temples to neuroscience laboratories, through the psychoanalyst’s couch, we approach “this adventurous journey every evening,” as Baudelaire described it.

From October 18, 2024 to August 24, 2025, museumesconfluences.fr

Caillebotte and Men at the Musée d’Orsay

Did we know that 70% of Caillebotte’s figure paintings are men, and that he was interested, unlike his co-religionists Manet Degas or Renoir, in the masculine side of Modernism? Based on this observation and in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the artist’s death (1848-1894), the exhibition interrogates his figures and portraits in the light of a new art historical perspective on 19th-century masculinity. The exhibition, built around large paintings, includes around 144 works. Both chronological and thematic, the route is divided into 10 rooms, the intimacy of a family and its brothers, city workers, public space with its passers-by, men on the balcony, indoors or in the naked toilet, athletes. and boating, portraits of his Parisian friends… A multifaceted portrait of Caillebotte emerges. There are challenges in this genre.

“Walker. Painting Men”. Until January 19, 2025, musee-orsay.fr