Cyril Takayama Zippo Belt

at the Odeon

of 3 to 7 May 2010

Odeon Theatre 6 & 17 ° Ateliers Berthier

Monday May 3 to Sunday, May 30

Photo exhibition "Colors of the Sun" Raed
Bawayah, Palestinian photographer, exhibits his series Romania, 2007. Born
in Palestine in 1971, Raed Bawayah studied photography at art school in Jerusalem Israeli Musrara until 2004, and currently lives in Paris.
Working in many countries, it always takes into consideration the people that the national and / or international do not see. In the tradition of Diane Arbus whom he claims, Raed Bawayah likes people say "marginalized": "At a time when the overwhelming majority of Palestinian photographers is in the grip of photojournalism and provides daily coverage the conflict in the occupied territories, I adopt another approach, "he says to justify the bias of its standard. His frontal framing generally focus on the whole figure and its surrounding sphere around which it revolves with discretion. Because the subject must not ask, but be entered in a natural attitude. Raed Bawayah wants and give voice to the "silent solitudes," bring them into resonance with the public by the size of a square format.

"In 2007 Romania would join the European Union. Also imbued with hope that this moment might be, he would take with him a whole universe. A world ruled by the seasons, the cycle of plants, the hungry animals, with celebrations and rituals would fall over. Towards what? Many did not know. The summer of that year I went to live for a month among the people of a traditional village in the north. Children, parents and grandparents, I accompanied them in their play, work and rest. In their presence, memories of moments in my village in Palestine came back to me in spirit. I found the same love of some men toward what gives them life, the integrity of a handful of peasants to give body and soul to work their fields and livestock for their livestock. Old pictures came to meet new and vice versa. Point of nostalgia! Point back! I found just the simplicity and dignity of mankind everywhere who care about the country or across borders, and nestled in a direct and vivid, sometimes brutal, sometimes tender, between man, land, environment and his fellows. To honor these people, this documentary is an attempt to perpetuate those moments of work, marked by simplicity and quiet before they go off permanently. "Raed
Bawayah

With the support of Hotels Paris Rive Gauche and Fetart.

> Theatre Odeon - Studios and Gemier Serreau / 6e
Free


Tuesday 4 to Thursday, May 6 at 18:30
Plays in French and Arabic
"The poem, land of the Arabic language"
(for an anthology Arabic poetry)
Choice of texts and coordination in collaboration with Wissam Arbache Hala Omran.
"Arabic poetry is a legendary geography, rich, vast and sometimes complex. It goes back to the dreams and images repeatedly cross the turning of dreams East. Seductive and sensual, musical or classical, it is the crucible of a language still alive and still impregnated his poem. If today the report of one who speaks Arabic with her poetry is so narrow, it is without doubt that the poem has its place in the heart of the language. And this place is history, stories.
My desire to build this research for an anthology of Arabic poetry is born of the fact that even today all around the Mediterranean, are very popular forms of poetry living legacy of an ancient time which seems that of a dream. So began the desire for a journey through the geography, the desire to cross roads or roads already many times over.
For this first stop, I wanted to go back to the sources of this poetry and rhythmic improvisation. She finds an origin in the word of Al Andalus. It's the end of Umayyad rule in Damascus, the central government moves to Baghdad. Al Andalus increases its power. Each empire has its Arabic poetry, poets. It seems that Al Andalus was the birthplace of Zajal, mouachah of these poems in classical Arabic and sometimes rhythmic, sometimes colloquial language, containing transcripts of worms in some novels, as if language were rubbed, recovered a new territory for s impose. And this poem has imposed to find a place still alive in the Arab culture.
It will be heard through a non-exhaustive selection of poems from the period Al Andalus or today, familiarity and the inclusion of this popular form in the movement of Arabic poetry. Hear the "sound of the language" Arabic, the closeness of the relationship of man and his poem. The three evenings are a beginning. Since the beginning of a journey that will follow three stopovers. Appointment made for next season. "Wissam
Arbache

> Théâtre de l'Odéon - Salon Roger Blin / 6e
Single rate € 5. Reservations 01 44 85 40 40


Friday, May 7 at 20h
Meeting and projection
The spirit and poetry, Mahmoud Darwish
Meeting hosted by Farouk Mardam-Bey (editor, editor of the Sindbad Actes Sud) with Nasri Hajjaj (Palestinian writer and director), Rachid Koraïchi (painter, sculptor), Ernest Pignon-Ernest (plastic) and Elias Sanbar (author, translator).
Visual artists, painters, photographers, filmmakers, translators take over the poem, interpreting it, make it live beyond its own author. Exceptional meeting in connection with a news editorial major and a preview screening will demonstrate the vitality of the work of Darwish.

Just Released:
• A nation in exile. The hymns engraved followed Qasida Beirut, poems of Mahmoud Darwish, Rashid Koraïchi prints (Actes Sud).
• The dice thrower and other poems of Mahmoud Darwish, photographs by Ernest Pignon-Ernest (Actes Sud). • Dictionary
love Palestine Elias Sanbar (Plon).

"As the poet said" Projection
preview of the film Nasri Hajjaj, course in poetry Mahmoud Darwish. duration 58 minutes
A visual journey through the life and poems of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
It is a poetic approach to the poet's life during which the camera takes us through the towns, houses, theaters, writers who knew and loved the poetry of Darwish. Throughout the film, we are guided by the voice of Darwish and other poets around the world reading his poetry. Nasri Hajjaj

, Palestinian writer and filmmaker, was born in 1951 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El Helweh (Lebanon).
1989: Thus Spake the Intifada Documentary
1990: Question mark, short film animation, Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Festival, JCC - Tunisia
1991: The Green Oak, documentary, Majdi Al-Omary
2007: The Shadow of the absence, documentary, Bronze Muhr Festival Dubai International

With the support of the General Delegation of Palestine in France.

> Ateliers Berthier / 17th
Single rate € 8. Reservations 01 44 85 40 40


Ateliers Berthier, corner of rue Andre Suares and Bd Berthier, Paris 17 °, Metro (line 13) and Porte de Clichy RER C

Theatre de l'Odéon, Place de l'Odeon Paris 6, Métro Odéon (line 4 and 10) RER B Luxembourg