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Can you explain?... Travel journals

In partnership with the “Il faut aller voir” organisation, the Plein la Bobine festival will take you on a journey across the continents and the Auvergne. Bon voyage!

Exhibitions

June 14 to 19 – at the Casino in La Bourboule

• In the sand of Saqqara…

Catherine Adam is an illustrator for the Cousteau Society and the Musée du Louvre. A genuine archaeology expert, she is one of the two specialists who draw the “pictures” and hieroglyphs from sarcophagi. She works as a guide for the Louvre Museum in expeditions to Saqqara and invites you to discover her original drawings about excavation sites, Egypt and birds – which appear in her travel journal “Dans le sable de Saqqara” (In the Sand of Saqqara).

• "Carnet du Sancy"… A preview!

Annabelle Delage started her career as a painter in urban scenography, then became successively a travel illustrator, a watercolorist and an art teacher. She set up her Clermont-Ferrand-based studio, “Terre de Sienne”, in 2005, relentlessly exploring the beauty of the Auvergne region. Discover her latest work, inspired by the Sancy area, which will appear in her soon-to-be-published “Carnet du Sancy”.

• A journey’s secrets

Samuel Chardon, Céline Roussel and their three daughters, back in the Auvergne fresh from a one-year journey around the world, are proud to present their notes, sketches and drawings made along the way to India. Stopping off in Pakistan, Turkey, Nepal…

• Pupils’ travel journals

-> In coordination with the CRDP d’Auvergne, the “Il faut aller voir” organisation is curating the 9th Travel Journal Competition in for Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and High Schools. During the festival, all prize-winning journals will be exhibited in the presence of representatives from the CRDP.

-> Discover the travel journals made by the pupils of the Auvergne-Sancy Secondary School in Murat le Quaire and the Pavin Secondary School in Besse.

Please note:

Book signing sessions will take place with travel illustrators present at the festival on Saturday 14 June and Sunday 15 June at the Casino in La Bourboule (look for the Rémy bookshop stand).

You will find all books related to the Plein la Bobine festival programmes at the Rémy bookshop from Monday 16 June to Thursday 19 June.

Travel illustrators’ workshops

2-hour workshops, from age 8. Groups only.

• Catherine’s Workshop

Catherine Adam, a renowned and experienced travel illustrator, offers a very special introduction to travel journals through imagination as well as items and materials she brought back from her travels…

Monday 16 June and Tuesday 17 June, 10am and 2pm – Town Hall, La Bourboule

• Annabelle’s Workshop

Armed with paper and pencils, with Annabelle Delage at your side, set out on an expedition behind the scenes of the Plein la Bobine festival and create your own travel journal of a cinema event!

Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Thursday 19 June, 10am and 2pm – at the Casino in La Bourboule

• Céline and Samuel’s Workshop

With Céline Roussel and Samuel Chardon, learn how to create your own travel journal. This comprehensive introduction – texts and illustrations – will teach you the basics… After that, it will be your turn to complete your journal throughout the summer and show it at the Clermont-Ferrand Travel Journal Biennial Festival in November 2008…

Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 June, 10am and 2pm – at the Casino in La Bourboule

A chat with travellers…

• Cameras and pencils, great travellers!

Suitable for children aged 10 and up.

Fixed or animated, pictures inspire us to travel. Catherine Adam (Egypt), Sophie Dupont (Africa), Samuel Chardon and Céline Roussel (India) gather to tell us about their travelling experience and share their emotions. How do written and filmed travel journals complement each other? You are welcome to join the talk, the journey, the dream…

Saturday 14 June, 2:30pm – Video Room of the Casino in La Bourboule

• The Boisseau family – a bike ride across South America…

Suitable for children aged 8 and up.

One day, Mum, Dad and their five children had a crazy idea: exploring South America… on bikes! They got a custom-made tandem and off they went! The Boisseau family will tell you all about their amazing journey with a slide show of breathtaking pictures!

Sunday 15 June, 2:30pm – at the Casino in La Bourboule

A performance

• ZIGZAG – a dance journey for children from the age of 2…

Sometimes getting about can be an adventure in itself. A body’s very first walking journey through a Japanese world of sounds and pictures.

Saturday 14 June, 3:30pm and 5:30pm – Community Room in Le Mont-Dore

Books and film: exhibitions

14 to 19 June – at the Casino in La Bourboule

From strip to silver screen

An exhibition created by Alain Lorfèvre, film critic for La Libre Belgique, and produced by the General Commission for International Relations of the French-speaking Community of Belgium/Wallonia-Brussels. A presentation of animation cinema from the pioneers to the new generation, with a focus on comic strips and how film has offered our comic heroes a new life – Tintin, the Smurfs, Blake and Mortimer… From the 9^th art to the 7^th art in a single strike of the pen!

During this exceptional event, you can find illustrations of works by the directors of some of the films from the “Focus on Belgian Cinema” programmes or in competition: Benoît Feroumont, Vincent Patar et Stéphane Aubier, Eric Blésin…

Géraldine Alibeu’s World

A graduate of the Decorative Art School of Strasbourg, Géraldine Alibeu started her career as a children’s book illustrator. Inspired by William Kentridge’s animation films, she ventured into filmmaking. She is the author of two short films and several children’s books, and currently has a residency in Billom, in the Auvergne. You are kindly invited to discover her work in progress.

Book signing session on Wednesday 18 June at the Casino in La Bourboule

Music and film

The Marode/Gherbi Jazz Trio in concert

• Concert

Formerly a duo, winner of the prestigious Sunside trophies 2005, the Gherbi brothers are now a trio: a double bass, drums and a piano for quite a colourful night.

Wednesday 18 June, starts 10pm at the Café de la Plage in La Bourboule

Two films will be shown before the concert: Djembefola by Laurent Chevallier, and Return to Gorée (Retour à Gorée) – a documentary about Youssou N’Dour’s journey in the steps of African slaves and the music they invented – jazz.

• Cinema in concert

For all ages

Closing ceremony with the prize-giving ceremony for the three short film competitions, followed by a screening of silent films with live music by the Marode/Gherbi Jazz Trio.

During four burlesque short films by the great Buster Keaton, the Trio revives the magic of early cinema. As the three talented musicians play an original jazzy score with room for improvisation, we are taken back to the screening conditions of the time – and cinema retrieves its original entertainment purpose.

Double bass, piano and drums – a very refreshing line-up for all ages!

Buster Keaton is one of the biggest names in burlesque cinema and was often cited by Charlie Chaplin as his master.

The Paleface (1921)

Cops (1921)

Coney Island (1917)

The Blacksmith (1922)

Thursday 19 June, 6pm, at the Casino Theatre in La Bourboule

Playing and learning

All welcome, from 13 to 19 June, 9:30am to 6pm.

At the Casino in La Bourboule.

• The Book Corner

A space for discovery and fun where children can leaf through quality books.

• The Artists’ Corner

Coloured pencils, marker pens, paint, clay… for the children to express on paper their emotions as festival-goers and bring home souvenirs from the festival.

Activities

Throughout the festival, various educational and recreational activities around the theme of travelling will be offered to children, with a link to film, literature and arts.

• How was your trip? – a scriptwriting workshop

Inspired by the game of consequences, groups of children will successively write a scene for a script. Each scene will be filmed, edited and shown to the public during the closing ceremony.

• Activities at the Artists’ Corner

Every day, creative and playful activities are offered for young festival-goers to travel around the globe and come back with their hands full of little treasures and their heads full of memories.

• Activities at the Book Corner

Georges invites you into his yurt to discover his world and his passion for books.

Children can also take a trip to “Mondo’livres” where fun, educational activities around books will take place.

• Playing cinema

With the Folimage learning material about animation cinema, children will find an answer to the question: how does animation cinema work?

And with the “Anim’image” workshops, they will experience what it’s like to be... behind the camera!

• Guided exhibition tours

The “Tant qu’il y aura des livres” organisation invites you on a tour to present and explain the work of illustrators to children.