SA celebrated in France

After a French Season in South Africa which featured more than 100 events throughout South Africa from July to November 2012, the South African Season in France will take place from May to December 2013 in more than 100 cities throughout France and in the Reunion Island.

 

A Season that will unfold on an exceptional scale in the whole of France.

 

This Season will provide the French public with an unprecedented opportunity to discover the dynamism of the culture and contemporary society of this emerging power which is a BRICS and G20 member country, through:

 

 30 exhibitions 

 

 35 workshops 

 

 40 artists’ residencies 

 

 50 films 

 

 100 concerts 

 

 150 South African wines to sample

 

 250 dance and theatre shows 

 

 800 artists, researchers and other participants

 

Official opening week

 

From 27 May to 2 June, the official opening week will launch the Season by, in particular, illuminating the Eiffel Tower with the colours of the South African flag.

 

A Robyn Orlin show will also be featured at the National Chaillot Theatre (by invitation) and in Ris-Orangis, as well as an exhibition at the Paris City Hall from 30 May to 6 July to pay an original tribute to Nelson Mandela who was recently made an Honorary Citizen of the City of Paris.

 

A wide-ranging and multidisciplinary programme

 

Highly prestigious festivals and institutions, as well as more modest structures will strongly highlight that great country’s contemporary creation in all its diversity, including: the performing arts, the visual arts, literature, music and cinema, as well as gastronomy, tourism and sport.

 

Nelson Mandela International Day

 

The Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated worldwide each year on 18 July. This initiative started in 2008 on the occasion of his 90th birthday. 

 

As Nelson Mandela has devoted 67 years of his life in the service of justice, on that day he called on each and every one of us to devote 67 minutes of our time to a selfless action in the service of the community. This call was relayed by the United Nations in November 2009 in a resolution that officially designated 18 July as Nelson Mandela International Day (A/RES/64/13).

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Yahoo News