As every year, the city of Menton is associated with Printemps des Poètes to offer various events in the main cultural venues of the city. These meetings will take place from 5 to 20 March, at the Jean Cocteau Museum, Séverin Wunderman collection, at the Palais de Carnolès Fine Arts Museum and at the Odyssée municipal library.
Through poetic creations, poetry readings, lectures, conferences, events and shows, one hundred years of poetry will be celebrated with "Le Grand 20è" of the 18th edition of the Printemps des poètes (Poets' Spring).
On the agenda
Saturday 5 March at 2.30 pm - Musée des Beaux Arts - Palais de Carnolès
It is with the poets that the Palais de Carnolès will show some of his rarely shown works. The paintings and drawings of Valadon, Gen Paul, Delvaux... will find correspondences in the images and music of Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Prévert, Carco... The volunteer participants will bring their sensitivity by becoming readers for a walk in words, shapes and colours
Saturday, March 5 at 4 p.m. - L'Odyssée Bibliothèque municipale
Katherine Mansfield lectureby Dominique Gorzalas under the aegis of the Cercle Blasco Ibanez
Sunday 6 March at 3pm - Musée Jean Cocteau Séverin Wunderman collection
This year, the association "France Russie - Menton Sotchi" joins the museum for a presentation by Gilles Montelatici of an exceptional collaboration between painter and poet, the book "Prose du transsibérien" by Blaise Cendrars, illustrated by Sonia Delaunay.
Wednesday, March 9 at 3pm - L'Odyssée Bibliothèque municipale
Poetry by the Society of Art and History of the Menton Country. Mentonians will read their own poetic creations as well as famous poems.
Saturday March 12 at 4pm - Musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wunderman
Poetry and music unite to offer the public a journey into the world of the German composer Robert Schumann, who will transport you into the sonic beauty of Romantic Love in both the feminine and masculine with these two famous Lieder cycles. Around Robert Schumann's "Amours du poète" and "L'Amour et la vie d'une femme" by the Conservatory singing class of Michel Géraud and Rachel Vuitton, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Negrel, baritone; Isabelle Sikora, piano
Monday March 14 at 4pm - Musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wunderman
Students from the Rusca School of Saint-Dalmas de Tende will come to the museum to offer poetry readings.
Wednesday, March 16 at 3pm - L'Odyssée Bibliothèque municipale
"We can now say that the 20th century was a major century of poetry for our country and the French-speaking world. After the Dadaist and Surrealist explosion that produced an unprecedented formal invention and re-founded the existential and subversive stakes of poetry, perhaps never before has so many works been produced that are considerable in their scope and singularity". Jean Pierre Siméon
The students of the drama class of the municipal conservatory will deliver their precious booty collected during the miraculous fishing in the teeming panorama of the poets of the 20th century.
Saturday, March 19 at 3 p.m. - L'Odyssée Bibliothèque municipale
The magic of the verb by the Arthélème company is a very atypical animation-show built around the fables of La Fontaine.
After asserting that cinema was not invented by the Lumière brothers but by La Fontaine, an actor, equipped with various high-tech instruments, demonstrates the miracle of this ingenious poetic work by systematically using the grammar and vocabulary of cinema. Digital tablets, video projector and mini-speakers all contribute to the (re)discovery of this unique art form, which reveals, with incredible refinement, the film of the great century. The aim of the project is to show that access to these masterpieces (and to poetry in general) is as easy as that of the cinema... as long as you have the right keys!
Information :
Free admission for all animations
The Odyssey Public Library
8 avenue Boyer
Open every day from Tuesday to Saturday, except Thursday mornings and public holidays
Information: 04 92 41 76 60
Jean Cocteau Museum Séverin Wunderman Collection
2 quai de Monléon
Open every day except Tuesday, from 10am to 6pm
Information: 04 89 81 52 50
Museum of Fine Arts - Carnolès Palace
3 avenue de la Madone
Open every day except Tuesday and public holidays, from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm
Information: 04 93 35 49 71
