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The Jungle Book on Stage

Robert Wilson's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book will be on in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Clermont-Ferrand over the next few months. The visually striking production combines dialogues in French and original songs in English. Wilson created the show with Cocorosie, a music group composed of two American sisters based in France. The show follows the "man cub" Mowgli from his arrival in the jungle, where he is accepted into a family of wolves, until he comes of age and has to leave the only place he has known as home to enter the world of humans. https://youtu.be/xo8-i9UV2qk Jungle Book Théâtre de la Ville – 13e Art 30 avenue d'Italie 75013 Paris 6 October to 8 November From age 8 Tickets 10-28 euros Part of the Festival d'automne Grand Théâtre de Provence , Aix en Provence 17 to 22 December La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand 22 to 24 January 2020

30 Septembre 2019

théâtre

music

India

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Orange Shirt Day

In Canada, 30 September is marked as Orange Shirt Day, in support of the generations of First Nations children who were separated from their families and sent to Residential Schools where they were banned from speaking their languages or following their cultures. This resource accompanies "Shine Bright 2de" Snapfile 11 First Nations Territories. It includes a website text and the trailer and an extract from the film "Indian Horse".

20 Septembre 2019

film

Canada

indigenous people

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Downton Abbey: Masters and Servants

This document aims to allow you to work on the trailer of the upcoming movie "Downton Abbey" at a B1 level. "Downton Abbey" was originally a British historical period drama television series that aired from 2010 to 2015. It was set as a fiction based in a historical landscape between 1912 and 1926, in the post-Edwardian era where historical events had a real influence on the British social hierarchy. The movie takes place after the end of the last season. Fans will definitely recognise the famous characters.

20 Septembre 2019

video

film

Cinéma

Sélection culturelle

Downton is Back

Britain’s favourite aristocratic household is back — this time on the big screen. Downton Abbey is a flurry of activity in preparation for a royal visit.

20 Septembre 2019

video

film

Cinéma

War Horse Play in Paris

One of the biggest successes in British theatre in recent years will be on stage in Paris for the first time in November and December. The National Theatre’s production of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo is an emotional rollercoaster of a story about a teenage boy and his horse during the First World War. The award-winning production will be performed in English.

20 Septembre 2019

play

paris

World War I

Celebrate Scotland in St-Germain-en-Laye

St-Germain-en-Laye in the Yvelines has a long historic connection with Scotland, and is twinned with the Scottish seaside town of Ayr. For the weekend of 21-22 September, St Germain will be taken over by kilts and bagpipes for a Highland Games.

20 Septembre 2019

music

Scotland

St Germain en Laye

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Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" on Screen

The Goldfinch is a stunning coming-of-age story set in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam. Donna Tartt’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been adapted for the screen.

19 Septembre 2019

film

American literature

novel

Sequel to "The Handmaid’s Tale"

The literary event of the year in the Anglophone world is Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale 34 years after the original.

19 Septembre 2019

literature

TV series

Canada

Rendez-vous

Word of the Moment: Prorogation

The noun prorogation and the verb prorogue were not part of most British people's vocabulary until August 2019. Now, they're the words on everyone's lips.

13 Septembre 2019

Brexit

word of the moment

Boris Johnson

Sélection culturelle

Women's Voices at Deauville 2019

The 45th Deauville American film festival, taking place from 6 to 15 September, has a particularly feminine slant this year, with a large number of female-directed films, and two women jury presidents, Catherine Deneuve for the competition jury, and Anna Mouglalis for the revelation jury.

04 Septembre 2019

film

Cinéma

festival

Sélection culturelle

Bend it Like Bruce

The latest film by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha is Blinded by the Light, the story of a teenager in Thatcher-era northern England whose life is changed by the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen. The coming-of-age story is based on the real-life experiences of Safraz Manzoor, growing up a first generation Pakistani-Briton and trying to form an identity between his parents’ expectations and his own desires.

Payback for Slavery

Students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, have voted to pay reparations to the descendants of 272 slaves sold by the Jesuit university in 1838. A long-running campaign by students has identified descendants of the 272, who were sold to plantations in Louisiana. A student referendum voted for each student to pay a small amount each semester into a charitable fund.

16 Août 2019

civil rights

U.S. politics

U.S. history

On Route 66

Route 66 has mythical status in the U.S.A. and around the world. It’s been immortalised in songs, novels and films. Although it’s no longer a major highway, it still draws visitors keen to experience the iconic home of the road trip. Every September, enthusiasts gather in Springfield, Illinois, for the Mother Road Festival, using the nickname coined by novelist John Steinbeck for Route 66. For a weekend, Springfield echos to the sound of vintage cars from the road's heyday , not to mention Nat King Cole urging them to "get your kicks on Route 66". Probably the most famous road in the world, Route 66 has been in terminal decline since the 1980s. But like all good myths, it lives in the hearts and minds of people across the U.S.A. and beyond. Route 66 ran 2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. It’s always described in that direction, as if it was fundamentally linked to the country’s historical expansion west. In fact Cyrus Avery, an Oklahoma businessman who had been instrumental in getting the highway built, had travelled west in a wagon train as a boy. Avery was one of the people pushing for a decent road network to match the increase in cars on the roads. There were half a million registered motor vehicles in the U.S.A. in 1910. That rose to 10 million ten years later. The first sections of Route 66 opened in 1926. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, it saw the hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl in the Mid-West who were immortalised in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath . Ironically, it was finally completely paved between 1933 and 1937 by the unemployed given work by Roosevelt’s New Deal solution to the Depression. Trucking and Tourism In the early days of the road it was adopted by the new road cargo industry that was taking over from trains in the movement of freight. The diagonal route of Highway 66 linked agricultural producers in the Midwest with the booming urban centers of California. It avoided the northern routes that were prone to bad winter weather. From the outset, Route 66 was a leisure and tourism destination. In 1927, just a year after it opened, the U.S. Highway 66 Association was founded to boost tourism. Soon cabin camps, motels, diners and eccentric roadside art were put up to cater to tourists. After World War II, as prosperity to returned to the country, Americans loved to spend their hard-earned cash and leisure time on road trips. For the Beat Generation, that desire for movement seemed to become an end in itself. It was immortalised in Jack Kerouac's On The Road , published in 1957 but based on diaries of his road trips from the late 40s. The Beginning of the End Route 66 was born out of one technological revolution and eclipsed by another. Trucks and automobiles had become so much part of American life that they were literally destroying the highways that hadn't been designed for this enormous increase in volume. During the Cold War, President Eisenhower advocated developing a modern highway network modeled on the German Autobahns he had seen used to great effect to move troops during World War II. He believed it was critical to be able to move troops rapidly in the event of attack. So he persuaded Congress to pass the Federal Aid Highway Act in 1956, financing a new network of four-lane Interstates. It was the death knell for Route 66 and it’s like. In 1985, Highway 66 was finally decommissioned, meaning the state wouldn't ensure its continued upkeep. Nevertheless, the road remains imprinted on the American psyche and still attracts visitors from far and wide. Various schemes are trying to protect part or all of the road. Parts of it are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, or as National Scenic Byways. When Congress passed the Route 66 Study Act 1990, mandating the National Park Service to consider plans to preserve the road, it recognized that Route 66 had, "Become a symbol of the American people’s heritage of travel and their legacy of seeking a better life." You can download this poster for your class. Have a good trip! You can find documents on Kerouac's On th e Road, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath , Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl migrant photos and Route 66 in Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 4: "On the Road".

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

1

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On Route 66 Poster

Celebrate the Mother Road festival in September with this illustrated Route 66 poster has lots of interesting landmarks to be found along "American's Main Street". You can download it for class use.

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

Illustrated Route 66 Poster

To accompany Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 4: "On the Road, you can download this Route 66 poster illustrated with lots of interesting landmarks to be found along the Mother Road.

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

3

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The Great Hack

The Great Hack is a new documentary made for Netflix on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal over the use of social-media users' data to potentially manipulate the outcome of elections including the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum. This B1-level resource based on an interview with the two directors of the documentary is a great complement to the documents on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and whistleblowers in Shine Bright 1e File 13 Digital Democracy.

01 Août 2019

Brexit

documentary

education aux medias

Language and Literature: English Speciality

Are you going to be teaching LLCER this year? We can help! Shine Bright 1e has four sequences covering both themes. Look out for LLCER resources on Speakeasy-news. And in October we’ll be publishing reading guides to four of the literary works on the curriculum. Watch our video to find out more!

31 Juillet 2019

literature

Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

Rendez-vous

Boris Johnson at Number Ten

Britain has a new Prime Minister. After a two-month voting process following Theresa May’s resignation, the Conservative Party announced the name of its new leader on 23 July. On 24 July the Queen invited Boris Johnson to form a government.

24 Juillet 2019

Brexit

politics

UK

6

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Rip van Winkle

This A2 activity is based on a short presentation of Washington Irving’s short story Rip Van Winkle, which was first published in 1819, two hundred years ago. Although it was inspired by a German traditional story, Irving gave it a clearly American context as the eponymous Van Winkle magically falls asleep for 20 years, completely missing the War of Independence, and is bemused by the changes that have taken place in his absence. It has become a classic, often considered the first American short story.

19 Juillet 2019

audio

U.S. literature

Rip Van Winkle

Keith Haring: Fast Art

Keith Haring grew up in small town Pennsylvania reading, watching and drawing cartoons. When the 20-year-old arrived in New York City to study art in 1978, his fast, cartoonish style was soon recognisable all over the city. A retrospective at Tate Liverpool, then going onto Brussels, shows the astonishing output of his short life.

18 Juillet 2019

art

exhibition

cartoons

Take Your Classes to the Cinema in Dinard!

The 30th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will take place in the Breton town from 25 to 29 September. The films in competition haven’t been announced yet, but you can get ready to sign up your classes to see some of the best British films from the last year at special schools showings. It’s a big year for biopics with Mary Shelley, Mary Queen of Scots and Bohemian Rhapsody. There are up to 4 showings a day from Monday 16 to Tuesday 24 September. Reservations open on Thursday 29 August but you can already decide what interests you. The films on offer are: Primary and Collège Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by David Yates The first instalment of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter spin-off series. Our A2 Ready-to-Use Resource will help you prepare classes. Collège & Lycée Mary Shelley by Haifaa Al Mansour The biopic of the Frankenstein author's early life. Don’t miss our audio interview with the director . Lycée Bohemian Rhapsody by Bryan Singer Rami Malek's Oscar-winning performance as Freddie Mercury in the biopic commissioned by the remaining members of Queen. Mary Queen of Scots by Josie Rourke The theatralised story of the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England. Our Ready-to-Use Resource will help give classes some background to the complex history. Reservations open at 8 a.m . on Thursday 29 August by telephone on 02 99 16 86 96. The showings cost 4 euros per pupil.

18 Juillet 2019

film

Dinard

festival

Singing for Freedom

South African singer, musician, dancer and activist Johnny Clegg has died at the age of 66. His music was an influential part of his participation in the anti-Apartheid campaign.

18 Juillet 2019

protest songs

South Africa

Nelson Mandela

Digital Democracy in Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong citizens have been protesting for weeks against a law they say would stifle political opposition by allowing activists to be extradited to mainland China for trial. In the face of surveillance, activists in the former British colony are turning to web apps to anonymously organise protests, or even vote on their next actions.

17 Juillet 2019

activism

social media

democracy

Landing on the Moon

NASA is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first Moon landings. Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, and 47 years after the end of the Apollo program, the U.S. space agency is preparing to go back to the Moon by 2024.

15 Juillet 2019

myths and heroes

NASA

Mars

Virginia Woolf Love Story

A new biopic, Vita and Virginia, tells the story of author Virginia Woolf's relationship with aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, which resulted in one of the most innovative novels of the early twentieth century, Orlando . Apart from an interest in literature and writing, nothing destined Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West to meet, never mind form a relationship. Vita was a bubbly, well-connected socialite, daughter of a baron. Her real name was Victoria, but that was far too staid for a modern age that was turning its back in Victorian morals. She wrote novels, which sold reasonably well, and designed gardens. Woolf meanwhile was a much more introverted character from an upper-middle-class background. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , when her half-brother tried to introduce her to London society, “It was a failure: at social events Virginia would know and speak to nobody all evening and would stand, crushed by the crowd, against a wall. On one occasion she managed to read Tennyson behind a curtain.” She and her husband Leonard were leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group of modernist writers and they ran an avant-garde publishing company, the Hogarth Press, which championed T S Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Katherine Mansfield, E M Forster, and published their own work. Virginia’s work included novels, where she used stream-of-consciousness narration, biography and many essays, particularly on feminist themes. Vita & Virginia is adapted from a play of the same name by Eileen Atkins, which was based on correspondence between the women. Both left enormous archives of letters and diaries. Vita’s earliest relationships had been with women. Her marriage was one of convenience — her husband was more interested in men. Virginia also had many friendships with women, though her sexuality was permanently marked by sexual abuse she suffered from her half-brother as an adolescent. The women’s relationship was more intellectual than physical, with Virginia watching in awe as Vita, bold, androgynous, adventurous, did all the things that Virginia didn’t dare to do. She showed this vicarious imagination in Orlando (1928), inspired by Vita, whose titular character is so "larger-than-life" that he/she survives more than 300 years from Elizabethan time, changing gender several times. https://youtu.be/vJzT1xawcUU Biography of a biographer Woolf was well-schooled in biography. Her father was the founder editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Woolf herself wrote many biographical essays about women not recorded or under-recorded in “official” history. Vita and Virginia director Chanya Button points out, “The nature of biography is one of the themes of the film. She could have written a traditional biography of Vita Sackville-West, but she didn’t. She wrote Orlando, which was an imaginative novel. One that has a protagonist that travels across 300 years of history and morphs from male to female.” Vita and Virginia On general release 10 July This film makes a good addition to Shine Bright 1ère Advanced File 1: "Brave New Women", a sequence for Spécialité LLCE on ton women and dystopias. It includes an extract from Woolf's A Room of One's Own where she imagines what life would have been like for Shakespeare's imaginary sister.

10 Juillet 2019

film

love

biography

3

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WWI: They Shall Not Grow Old

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Peter Jackson has restored old black-and-white archive footage of British servicemen’s life in the trenches. "They Shall Not Grow Old" takes its title from a 1914 poem and this resource fits perfectly into Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 2: "War will Not Tear Us Apart", a sequence for Spécialité LLCE on the effect of WWI on human relationships.

10 Juillet 2019

conflict

war

commemoration

Visible Woman

Caroline Criado Perez's thought-provoking book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men does exactly what it says: shows the hundreds of ways in which the needs of women (and anyone who isn't a 1.77m tall, 76kg white male) are ignored in all aspects of our society. The author will be giving a reading in Paris on 16 July.

09 Juillet 2019

women

book

gender equality

4

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Invisible Women

Invisible Women sets out to show that we live in a world that is literally made for men. And the results of that vary from annoying to downright dangerous. This B2-B2+ resource based around a review of the book fits well into the Shine Bright 1re Advanced file 1 for LLCER: Brave new women, on women and dystopias. What if real life was dystopian?

09 Juillet 2019

women

book

gender equality

Amazing Grace

Forty-six years after it was filmed, an extraordinary documentary has been released of Aretha Franklin recording her most popular album, and the biggest selling gospel album of all time.

08 Juillet 2019

documentary

U.S. culture

music

Rendez-vous

Winners!

At the end of the most-watched Women's World Cup ever, an exciting final pitted the Netherlands against reigning champions the U.S.A. The Oranje held off the Stars and Stripes for the first half, but in the end the experience of the American team showed as goals from Rapinoe and Lavelle gave them their fourth World Cup title.

08 Juillet 2019

sport

U.S.A.

gender equality