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Dancing Nina Simone

Britain’s celebrated modern dance company, Rambert, is celebrating singer Nina Simone with a dance-theatre piece featuring musicians live on stage. Simone, who died in 2003, was one of the great, and unclassifiable, popular singers of the 20th century, and a strong proponent of Civil Rights.

11 Avril 2019

civil rights

dance

music

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Winter is Here

After 8 seasons, "Game of Thrones" is finally coming to an end…. until a series of prequels hit our screens.

11 Avril 2019

books

videos

Series

Screen Tourism: “Game of Thrones” Fans Flock to Northern Ireland

Game of Thrones may be set in the imaginary Seven Kingdoms, but it was filmed in real locations around the world. Many locations, and all the studio work, were done in Northern Ireland and the country is attracting crowds of tourists anxious to walk in the footsteps of their heroes.

11 Avril 2019

books

exhibition

Series

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Discovering Oceania

A new exhibition at the Musée Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac explores the vast continent of Oceania, where water is omnipresent in real and metaphorical senses. The exhibition was originated at the Royal Academy in London to commemorate the journeys of James Cook in search of a mythical southern continent in the late Eighteenth Century. Cook never found the inexistent land mass geographers believed must exist to balance the globe. What Cook and his crew encountered on arrival was a vast number of island civilisations covering almost a third of the world’s surface: from Tahiti in Polynesia, to the scattered archipelagos and islands of Melanesia and Micronesia. The exhibition includes unique historic artefacts from museums collections but also work by contemporary Oceanian artists around the themes of meetings, memories, past and future. Oceania: exhibition trailer from Royal Academy of Arts on Vimeo . The exhibition opens with a section on journeys. From 8000 BC till 1300 AD, skilled South Asian navigators explored the South Pacific and made its islands their homes. Common origins mean there are similarities in the languages and lifestyle of the different islanders but isolation and specific geographical conditions meant that each adapted and adopted its own specific characteristics. The exhibition is full of artefacts from across the region — often examples of indigenous cultures that Europeans collected, while trying to replace the cultures that created them with Christianity and “civilisation”. Past, Present and Future The exhibit isn’t only facing towards the past. It also features many works by contemporary artists from Oceania. A monumental blue "wave" marks the entrance of the exhibition. It is made using a traditional Maori weaving technique but it is woven from blue plastic tarpaulins which are omnipresent in Maori communities. The collective who created it share their stories and experience on the exhibition site. A magnificently carved piano again confronts indigenous and colonial culture, referring to Jane Campion’s film The Piano (1993) based on a classic New Zealand novel where the clash of cultures is exemplified by European missionaries trying to transport a grand piano to a. inaccessible place with a totally inappropriate climate for the sensitive instrument. The work, by Michael Parekowhai, is entitled He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river. The piano, symbol of European civilisation, has been transformed in turn with the technique Maori use for the canoes or wake that transported them thousands of miles over the Pacific. In a video installation, another Maori artist, Lisa Reihana, reinvents a 19th century European representation of exotic Oceania: French artist Jean Gabriel Charvet’s panoramic wallpaper entitled The Savages of the Pacific Sea. Reihana's work, In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) , pictures Captain Cook’s expedition’s encounters with different Pacific peoples. Cook’s expedition was ostensibly a scientific mission to observe the planet Venus. Reihana reimagines the meetings of cultures from the point of view of the peoples of Oceania. Less romantic idyll and more colonial nightmare, with the arrival of infectious diseases brought by the Europeans which decimated local populations. The exhibition closes on a major contemporary problem: rising sea levels threating the future of many island nations. In this video, poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands describes the attachment that island peoples have to their land. She concludes, Tell them we don’t want to leave we’ve never wanted to leave and that we are nothing without our islands. https://youtu.be/w9D88ST9qbw Océanie Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac Till 7 July See our webpicks for some excellent videos exploring works and themes from the exhibition.

08 Avril 2019

art

exhibition

Australia

Oceania Through Videos

The Oceania exhibition that is now on at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris originated at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The RA has a number of videos in English online in connection with the exhibition that are excellent for class work on the topic.

08 Avril 2019

video

art

exhibition

Destination: Moon

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings, take your pupils on a guided visit in English of the Moon exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris before the summer holidays.

02 Avril 2019

NASA

space

astronaut

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Singing the Great Famine

One of Ireland's most popular folk singer-songwriters, Declan O'Rourke, spent fifteen years writing a song cycle of stories about the Great Irish Famine. He'll be presenting his award-winning songs at the Irish Cultural Centre on Thursday 4 April.

27 Mars 2019

Ireland

Irish history

music

Save the Date: Rockwell in Caen

To commemorate the 75th anniversary the D-Day landings, the Mémorial de Caen is hosting a touring exhibition dedicated to Norman Rockwell's depictions of President Roosevelt's vision of a post-war future.

26 Mars 2019

WWI

human rights

civil rights

4

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Don McCullin: War Photographer

Although Don McCullin hates to be described as a war photographer. Yet his black-and-white photographs bear witness of the major conflicts the world has been experiencing for the last 60 years. From Cyprus to Syria, from Vietnam to Biafra. A retrospective at Tate Britain will allow students to think about the impact of press images on public opinion, using a written interview, slideshow and video. B2 level.

26 Mars 2019

war

exhibition

photojournalism

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Short Stories on Stage Paris, Angers, Nancy

For 25 years, San-Francisco-based theatre company Word for Word has been putting on innovative productions of prose pieces performed as theatre. And each year, they do a small tour of France, giving audiences in Paris, Angers and Nancy the chance to experience their unique style of theatre. They’re back in April and May with two stories by American short-story greats Tobias Wolff and George Saunders.

25 Mars 2019

théâtre

paris

short stories

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Fabulous Irish Music in Rennes and Colomiers

Stretch St Patrick celebrations for one more night with traditional Irish band Altan, in concert in Rennes on 19 March. They’re also in Colomiers on 13 April.

19 Mars 2019

Ireland

folk music

St Patrick

Rendez-vous

Christchurch Students Perform Haka for Shooting Victims

Students from across the New Zealand city gathered for a vigil in honour of those who were killed or injured in the Christchurch mosque shootings. They performed an emotional haka together. The vigil, one of several which have taken place, was organised by Okirano Tilaia , the Head Boy of nearby Cashmere High School. At least seven people connected with the school, including three current students, are believed to have been killed or injured. Thousands of students came together to chant karakia, Maori prayers, and sing a waiata, or mourning song, before performing a haka. Although it is often described as a war dance, hakas are regularly performed to honour the dead at funerals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqskKalF5Pw Students from different high schools joined in. The prefects at St Margaret's College had made paper chains. A student representative explained that they represented the idea the gunman had "tried to tear a city down like paper, but he didn't realise that we are linked".

18 Mars 2019

school

protest

New Zealand

Rendez-vous

School Strike for the Planet

A quiet revolution is building momentum around the world as school pupils strike and march to try to get their elders to take serious measures to limit climate change.

15 Mars 2019

Australia

protest

ecology

Explore English Through Shakespeare

A free online course from the British Council lets you, and your students, explore Shakespeare's plays and language.

14 Mars 2019

literature

MOOC

Shakespeare

Rendez-vous

Happy Birthday World Wide Web

It’s the thirtieth anniversary of the conception of the World Wide Web. In seems incredible to imagine that something billions of us use hundreds of times a day was the brainchild of one man trying to solve a practical problem.

12 Mars 2019

digital

EMI

science

Green Book: Online Resources

"Green Book"— winner of the 2019 Best Picture Oscar —is a road movie about friendship and race relations in the 1960s American South. The film takes its title from a guide book published for almost thirty years from 1936: The Negro Motorist Green Book. These online resources will help you explore the real Green Book.

28 Février 2019

books

film

civil rights

Love in Harlem: Teaching Tools

If Beale Street Could Talk, a love story set in 1970s Harlem, is the first English-language film adapted from one of James Baldwin’s novels. This video and interactive book can be used in class to explore Baldwin's work and the film.

27 Février 2019

U.S.A.

video

film

6

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Two Queens

This B1+-B2 article explores the fates of two queens who reigned in neighbouring kingdoms in the 16th century. Both linked and opposed, they had to rule in a man’s world, in a conflict-ridden society, where religious and political unrest were rife and conspiracy and treason were the norm. Through the new biopic, "Mary Queen of Scots", we ask pupils to think about how, and why, we remember historic figures, and how we reinvent them for our own needs.

27 Février 2019

video

film

biography

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Queens on Screen

Films about Stuart queens are like buses — there are none for ages, then two together, just in time for the Oscars. Mary Queen of Scots and her descendant Queen Anne are both gracing our screens in radically different biopics, both diverging from history as it has traditionally been portrayed.

21 Février 2019

film

biography

British history

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Love in Harlem

If Beale Street Could Talk, one of this year’s Oscar-nominated films has impeccable credentials: the first English-language film adapted from one of James Baldwin’s novels, it was both adapted and directed by Barry Jenkins, who won the 2017 Best Picture Oscar for Moonlight.

07 Février 2019

U.S.A.

film

literature

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All About the Royals

The next "Talk in English" at the British Council in Paris will be on Thursday 21 February and will be on a popular topic: the British Royal Family.

05 Février 2019

video

British Council

British culture

Safer Internet Day Communication Activity

International Safer Internet Day on 5 February encourages everyone to learn good online habits. A downloadable activity from Microsoft is perfect for language learning. It combines arts and crafts, English and Internet safety in one simple package.

01 Février 2019

imperatives

Internet safety

online safety

6

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Waitangi Day, New Zealand's National Day

In this A2 article your students will learn about the population of New Zealand and its national day, Waitangi Day on 6 February. You can decide to work on it either at the beginning of February to match the celebrations or as part of a unit devoted to national days in English-speaking countries. Although this will obviously not be a starting point for a discussion of imperialism given the age and general knowledge of the students, the article allows for a few hints to avoid showing an idyllic vision of the Maoris' situation.

01 Février 2019

history

celebrations

geography

Black History Month in Rennes

In honour of the Black History Month, the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes has two events centered around author James Baldwin, just in time for the release of the Oscar-nominated "If Beale Street Could Talk".

30 Janvier 2019

Martin Luther King

civil rights

documentary

8

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The Hate U Give

"The Hate U Give" is a bestselling young-adult novel and now a new film. The carefully nuanced novel, written in part from experience by young African-American author Angie Thomas, gives a fascinating insight into the life of a teenager caught between two worlds: the mostly black neighbourhood where she lives and the mostly white private school she attends. The delicate balance she has achieved is destroyed when she is witness to a police shooting of a childhood friend. This B1/B1+ level article can be used to trigger class discussion. The resource also includes several videos, including an interview with the author.

29 Janvier 2019

video

film

literature

3

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complémentaires

Andy Warhol: From A to Z

Andy Warhol remains one of the most famous and iconic American artists. He contributed to bridge the gap and blur the boundaries between pop culture and fine arts and his work is a wonderful way in into American 20th century history, culture, and values. Some thirty years after his death, the New York Whitney Museum of American Art has organized the first major retrospective of his work in the U.S. B1-B2

29 Janvier 2019

video

art

exhibition

Dorothea Lange Winners Collège and Seconde

We had so many fabulous entries to our Dorothea Lange creative writing contest that we've chosen 30 winners instead of 10. Here are the winning texts from collège and Seconde pupils, in alphabetical order except where we've regrouped texts about a single photo.

29 Janvier 2019

exhibition

documentary

creative writing

Dorothea Lange Winners Première

We had so many fabulous entries to our Dorothea Lange creative writing contest that we've chosen 30 winners instead of 10. Here are the winning texts from Première pupils, in alphabetical order except where we've regrouped texts about a single photo.

29 Janvier 2019

exhibition

documentary

creative writing

Dorothea Lange Winners Première LVA and Terminale

We had so many fabulous entries to our Dorothea Lange creative writing contest that we've chosen 30 winners instead of 10. Here are the winning texts from Première LVA and Terminale pupils, in alphabetical order except where we've regrouped texts about a single photo.

29 Janvier 2019

exhibition

documentary

creative writing

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On the Road with the Green Book

"Green Book" — winner of the 2019 Best Picture Oscar —is a road movie about friendship and race relations in the 1960s American South.

29 Janvier 2019

film

civil rights

biography

Professeurs documentalistes Collège

Dancing Nina Simone

Winter is Here

Screen Tourism: “Game of Thrones” Fans Flock to Northern Ireland

Discovering Oceania

Oceania Through Videos

Destination: Moon

Singing the Great Famine

Save the Date: Rockwell in Caen

Don McCullin: War Photographer

Short Stories on Stage Paris, Angers, Nancy

Fabulous Irish Music in Rennes and Colomiers

Christchurch Students Perform Haka for Shooting Victims

School Strike for the Planet

Explore English Through Shakespeare

Happy Birthday World Wide Web

Green Book: Online Resources

Love in Harlem: Teaching Tools

Two Queens

Queens on Screen

Love in Harlem

All About the Royals

Safer Internet Day Communication Activity

Waitangi Day, New Zealand's National Day

Black History Month in Rennes

The Hate U Give

Andy Warhol: From A to Z

Dorothea Lange Winners Collège and Seconde

Dorothea Lange Winners Première

Dorothea Lange Winners Première LVA and Terminale

On the Road with the Green Book