Edinburgh Comic Art Fair: Meet the Indie Creatives

Graphic novel novice or lifelong comics fan? Swing by for a vibrant and inspiring gathering of comics authors, artists and publishers in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book festival!

Given France’s prominent role in the development of bande dessinée, the Institut français d'Ecosse is a fitting place to discover and buy exciting new comics and support and meet the indie creatives behind some incredible work.

Edinburgh Comic Art Fair
Sunday 11 August | 10am-5pm
FREE and drop-in

Institut français d'Ecosse
First floor
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
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Looking for more literary events at the Institut? Come to our rencontres littéraires with French authors throughout the month of August!

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Vive le Fringe ! 2019 Poster Exhibition

The Institut is proud of its local partnerships, including those with Scottish universities. We submitted a design brief to graphic design students from Edinburgh Napier University, asking them to create posters and brochure covers for our Vive le Fringe ! programme.

From around 150 submissions, we selected our 10 favourite, including Rivka Louvart de Pontlevoye’s winning cover design and Daniel Brady’s hand-drawn sketch of our building, to be displayed in a poster exhibition in the Institut’s ground floor lobby throughout the month of August.

Design by Rivka Louvart de Pontlevoye


Design by Daniel Brady

Vive le Fringe ! 2019 Poster Exhibition
Friday 2 - Saturday 31 August 2019

Institut français d'Ecosse (Fringe Venue 168)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

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Quatuor Mona plays Debussy & Beethoven

Vive le Fringe !, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals.

For full programme details, pick up a copy of our brochure at the Institut or consult it online here.

About Quatuor Mona
This young string quartet, founded in 2018, is borne out of the friendship of four former students at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris.

Verena Chen | Violin
Roxana Rastegar | Violin
Arianna Smith | Viola
Caroline Sypniewski | Cello

About the concert
In addition to playing in the Edinburgh International Festival (at the Sir James MacMillan concert at Greyfriars Kirk), Quatuor Mona will be bringing their talents to the Institut français d'Ecosse with a concert featuring Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor and Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 2.

Event Details

Quatuor Mona plays Debussy & Beethoven
Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 8.30pm
Duration: 1 hour

Book your tickets now at tickets.edfringe.com (link forthcoming) or at our online box office
FREE, bookings required

Institut français d'Ecosse (Venue 168)
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
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IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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Ensemble 1880 plays Wagner & Brahms

Vive le Fringe !, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals.

For full programme details, pick up a copy of our brochure at the Institut or consult it online here.

About the concert
Alec Frank-Gemmill (formerly a hornist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) directs Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and the Serenade No 1 by Brahms in its original version for nonet. Ensemble 1880 comprises the best classical musicians Scotland has to offer, performing on instruments of the time.

About Alec Frank-Gemmill
Alec Frank-Gemmill divides his time between concertos, recitals, chamber music and orchestral playing. He was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme 2014-16, appearing as soloist with the BBC orchestras on numerous occasions, including in performances of rarely-heard repertoire by Ethel Smyth, Malcolm Arnold and Charles Koechlin. He is a regular soloist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, performing concertos by Mozart (on the natural horn) with Richard Egarr, Ligeti and Strauss with Robin Ticciati, and Schumann with John Eliot Gardiner. In 2017 Alec gave the premiere of James Macmillan’s Concertino for Horn, conducted by Andrew Manze.

Often invited as a guest principal horn, Alec has frequently appeared with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He also performs as part of period-instrument groups, most notably with Ensemble Marsyas. Their latest album “Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel” was critically acclaimed and singled out for its solo horn playing. Alec is the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship, which enabled him to make two recordings for the BIS label: a disc of 19th Century works for horn and piano with Alasdair Beatson, and baroque concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas McGegan. Both albums have been highly praised in the press.

Alec is Professor of Horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, his alma mater. He also studied in Cambridge, Zürich and Berlin with teachers including Hugh Seenan, Radovan Vlatković and Marie-Luise Neunecker.

Event Details

Ensemble 1880 plays Wagner & Brahms
Directed by Alec Frank-Gemmill
Tuesday, 13 August 2019 at 9pm
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Book your tickets now at tickets.edfringe.com
£10 (£8 conc.)

Institut français d'Ecosse (Venue 168)
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard are fully accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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Worldwidewestern

Vive le Fringe !, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals.

For full programme details, pick up a copy of our brochure at the Institut or consult it online here.

About Worldwidewestern
No horse, no band of Apache warriors waiting with knives between their teeth, no pretty French cancan dancer for the hero to shag, no grit, dust or duty for historical accuracy. This cowboy doesn’t care. The Wild West is just a click away on the World Wide Web. Fascinated by cowboys’ squinty-eyed looks, and armed only with the savoir-faire of a modern geek, Raphael Gouisset, Associate Artist at La Manufacture Centre Dramatique National Nancy-Lorraine, stars in this digital western lauded for showing ‘theatre and digital technologies can join forces for the best of live performance’ (L'Est Républicain).

Event Details

Worldwidewestern
Raphaël Gouisset / Les Particules

Showtimes
12-13, 16-18, 20-25 August at 7pm | 14 August at 3.30pm
No shows on 15 & 19 August
Duration: 55 minutes

Book your tickets now at tickets.edfringe.com
£10 (£8 conc.)

Institut français d'Ecosse (Venue 168)
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
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IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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Two Johnnies live upstairs

The Institut français returns to the Fringe with this original production created with the Rennes-based company Paroles Traverses / Mythos Festival. Our Georgian building on Randolph Crescent becomes a ‘Breton embassy’ for the summer as it is taken over by the cranky Stanguennec family.

A powerful, experimental piece.
* * * ThreeWeeks
A charming French guide, eccentric characters.
* * * The List

Remember those Johnnies coming from Brittany with their onions? One of them settled in Randolph Crescent a long time ago. His great grandsons still live there and invite you for a tour of the family house.
Ok, we all know it’s not true. But what if it had been for real? The storytellers, comedians, musicians, puppeteers and designers of Paroles Traverses - Mythos Festival (Rennes, Brittany) take over the French Institute’s building to invent this onion Johnnies fantasy. This original Fringe production involves offices turned into bedrooms, striped shirts, onions (obviously) and some very silly stories.

Distribution

Written by Achille Grimaud
Stage design & Coordination Benoit Gasnier
With Achille Grimaud, Morgan Euzenat, Benoit Hattet, Julien Mellano, Nidal Qannari, Charlotte Blin

Show Informations

Genre site-specific promenade / storytelling / puppetry
Preview Friday 5 August, 2:00 pm
Dates August 8-12, 15-19, 22-25 (Monday to Friday)
Times 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm
Suitability U
Duration 45 minutes
Language English
Audience 15 people max
Tickets £10 (£8)
Accessibility walking involved

For this unique occasion the Institut reopens the 'Bistrot’, a licensed café-bar. Open from 10 am until late, le Bistrot and its garden offer a cosy atmosphere to enjoy a drink and typical French snacks, wait for the guide, and maybe catch a glimpse of a ghost or two…

Box Office

Book your tickets from the Fringe box office / from the Institut box office 0131 225 53 66

Sponsors

Région Bretagne
Institut français

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Fringe 2013 at the Institut français

From 2 to 26 August, the Institut français presents the crème de la crème of French performing arts at the Edinburgh Festival fringe.

Visit our Vive le Fringe! website to browse the full programme and check our French recommendations at the Fringe.

You can also follow us on Twitter for more news and updates.

Here’s to a vibrant, colourful, exciting Fringe 2013. Vive le Fringe !

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Take part

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us make this the best year ever. Visit our jobs page for more details.

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Vive le Fringe! 2016

Vive le Fringe! edition 6 is back to Edinburgh Festival Fringe and we are very happy to announce its full programme! With five new theatre and children’s shows from France, Germany, London and Turkey, this year’s programme is the most eclectic and most European Vive le Fringe! to date.

Chiffonnade by Carré Blanc Cie
Children’s show
What hides and moves inside this cocoon? All of a sudden a character appears bringing out of his chrysalis pieces of fabric he takes for a dance. A dreamlike choreographic creation evoking the gentle transition from childhood to adulthood.


The Story of Mr B. by Shake Shake Theatre
Children’s show
This surprise filled puppet show, set in a giant pop-up book, tells of a grumbling character who goes on a colourful journey through the seasons. Played with puppets, animated objects, shadows, tenderness and humour.


The Other by Gaël Le Cornec/Footprint project
Theatre
Gaël Le Cornec returns to Edinburgh with a gripping play based on refugee stories. Join young Mana from the red-yellow planet in a coming of age, darkly comic, twisted fairy tale adventure overflowing with fantasy and poetry.


Diary of a Madman by Compagnie des Perspectives
Theatre
Nikolaï Gogol’s masterpiece: the memoirs of a civil servant who speaks dog fluently and is destined for the Spanish throne! Premiering in Edinburgh following its success in France at Avignon Festival. ‘Amazing, disturbing and moving’ (TouteLaCulture.com).


The Empire Builders by Theatre Hayal Perdesi
Theatre
The Dupont family is prompted by an indefinable terror to flee upward from apartment to apartment into ever more constricting circumstances. New production of Boris Vian’s 1959 dark comedy, performed in Turkish with English surtitles. **** (BroadwayBaby.com).

Visit our website Vive le Fringe! for more information about shows, dates and tickets and follow us on Twitter for regular updates!


For the gourmets, don’t forget to pop in at our Bistrot run by Pâtisserie Maxime which will be open all day throughout the festival, from 9.30am to 9pm. Petit-déjeuner, light meals, drinks… Bon appétit!

Vive le Fringe!
5 – 28 August 2016
Box office: 0131 225 53 66 or www.edfringe.com

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Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey

Membre fantôme

Right in the Eye - Live Movie-Concert of Georges Méliès' Films

Vive le Fringe !, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals.

For full programme details, pick up a copy of our brochure at the Institut or consult it online here.

About Right in the Eye
A live trio of French musicians intertwine playful modern compositions and the fantasy of the legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès, one of cinema’s founding fathers and the inventor of special effects. French composer Jean-François Alcoléa and his fellow musicians use sound and image to create a universe as inventive as the filmmaker’s creations were.

It is at once inventive, elegant and moving.
—Chronique, Festival OFF d'Avignon

Creatively intelligent. All the sounds and music brought Georges Méliès’ films to life.
—Houstonian

Event Details

Right in the Eye - Live Movie Concert of George Mélies’ films
Alcoléa & Cie

Showtimes
2-4, 6-10, 12-14, 16-25 August at 1.30pm | 11 August at 8pm
No shows on 5 & 15 August
Duration: 1 hour

Book your tickets now at tickets.edfringe.com
£10 (£8 conc.) | 2 for 1 tickets available on 6 August

Institut français d'Ecosse (Venue 168)
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard are fully accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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Right in the Eye has received financial support from

Photo credit: Alcoléa & Cie

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Institut français d'Ecosse

West Parliament Square

Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Tel: +44 (0)131 285 6030

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The Victor Murphy Trust: Wemyss Ware Exhibition

We are proud to host the Victor Murphy Trust’s exhibition of Wemyss Ware, one of the most important examples of Scotland’s pottery heritage, dating as far back as 1817. The trust holds some 200 pieces of this treasured style of Scottish ceramics.

About Wemyss Ware
Originating in the 19th century in a pottery in Kirkcaldy, Fife, its original and vibrant style was the result of a meeting between Robert Heron, the pottery owner, and Karel Nekola, a decorator from Bohemia, who eventually moved permanently to Scotland to make a life for himself. Wemyss Ware ceramics, easily recognised by the skilful use of colour, interesting shapes and hand-painted details, are among the most collectable and sought-after pieces of Scottish pottery.

Full text available from the National Trust for Scotland

About the Victor Murphy Trust
Established and registered as a charity in Scotland in August 2006 (reg. no SCO37409), the Victor Murphy Trust was named after a Scottish Group Captain in the Royal Air Force who developed a love for Japan in the 1950s when he was stationed in Hong Kong. His positivity and belief in humanity lives on in the Trust, the mission of which is twofold:

• To support public education on relations between Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and Japan in the world of art through the deepening mutual understanding of the subject and exchanging exhibition programs of arts and crafts.
• To encourage the rediscovery of the past heritage of Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and Japan, and recognise the value in the hope of revitalising our present understandings in the belief that this will lead to a wider appreciation of the different cultures where we live.

Event Details

Wemyss Ware Exhibition
Presented by the Victor Murphy Trust
Saturday, 14 September 2019 to Monday, 30 September 2019
FREE | Open daily from 10:00 to 16:30

Institut français d'Ecosse
Salle Jacques Tati (ground floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Jacques Tati are accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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Image and logo: National Trust for Scotland

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Rencontre littéraire : Adélaïde Bon

Rencontres littéraires
Beyond the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Institut is happy to offer visiting French authors a relaxed and intimate atmosphere in which they can meet Francophone audiences and talk about their works in their mother tongue. All events are free, but ticketed and reservations are strongly suggested.

Adélaïde Bon is an actor and writer. When she was nine years old, a stranger followed her home and raped her in the stairwell of her building. Her abuser was eventually condemned to eighteen years in prison without parole in 2016, after a trial where she had to face the man who destroyed her entire life. Her first book, La petite fille sur la banquise (The Little Girl on the Ice Floe) confronts this dreadful journey in a distant, mature and discerning fashion.

Event Details

Rencontre littéraire : Adélaïde Bon
Thursday, 26 August 2019 | 11:00
In FRENCH | FREE, but reservations are strongly suggested

Institut français d'Ecosse
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard are accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

Bookings
Book directly online or contact us at 0131 285 6030 or info ifecosse.org.uk

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
While this event is free and open to all, the Institut programmes many members only events and offers discounted member rates at other events. Find out more about becoming a member of the Institut français d'Ecosse.

Edinburgh International Book Festival
At the EIBF, Adélaïde Bon will be participating in Testimonies of Survival with British actor and writer Rhik Samadder. The two authors will come together to share their tales of survival. Adélaïde Bon’s The Little Girl on the Ice Floe constitutes a courageous account of childhood rape, and a vital addition to the #MeToo movement.

Photo montage: Marie France
Event logo: The Times

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Rencontre littéraire : Annie Ernaux

Rencontres littéraires
Beyond the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Institut is happy to offer visiting French authors a relaxed and intimate atmosphere in which they can meet Francophone audiences and talk about their works in their mother tongue. All events are free, but ticketed and reservations are strongly suggested.

Annie Ernaux grew up in Yvetot in Normandy. From a working-class, but aspirational family, she studied at the universities of Rouen and Bordeaux, eventually passing the agrégation, a challenging and coveted teaching qualification in France. She started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her autobiographical works La Place (A Man’s Place).

Very early in her career, she turned away from fiction to concentrate on autobiography, taking a sociological and historical apporach to writing about her individual experiences. Her 2008 historical memoir Les Années (The Years) is considered by many to be her magnum opus. In this book Ernaux writes of herself in the third person for the first time, providing a vivid look at French society from just after the Second World War until the early 2000s. It is the poignant social history of a woman and of the evolving society she lived in.

Event Details

Rencontre littéraire : Annie Ernaux
Thursday, 22 August 2019 | 11:00
In FRENCH | FREE, but reservations are strongly suggested

Institut français d'Ecosse
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard are accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

Bookings
Book directly online or contact us at 0131 285 6030 or info ifecosse.org.uk

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
While this event is free and open to all, the Institut programmes many members only events and offers discounted member rates at other events. Find out more about becoming a member of the Institut français d'Ecosse.

Edinburgh International Book Festival
At the EIBF, Ernaux will be participating in Remembrance of Things Past, an event dedicated to her 2008 masterpiece, The Years. Though billed as a novel, it’s really a kind of ‘collective memoir’ of post-war France from a lower-middle class perspective: a Proustian rush of memories drawn from a French society increasingly addicted to the cult of consumerism.
Wednesday 21 August, 13:45 - 14:45 | The Spiegeltent | £12 (£10 conc.)

Photo: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images

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Rencontre littéraire : Mireille Gansel

Rencontres littéraires
Beyond the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Institut is happy to offer visiting French authors a relaxed and intimate atmosphere in which they can meet Francophone audiences and talk about their works in their mother tongue. All events are free, but ticketed and reservations are strongly suggested.

Mireille Gansel is a French scholar and poetry translator, mostly working with German and Vietnamese texts. Some of her publications of note are Chants-poèmes des Monts et des Eaux (Editions Sud-Est Asie/Unesco, 1986) and Eclipse de l'étoile de Nelly Sachs (Editions Verdier, 1999). Associated with the Ecole de la paix in Grenoble, she has worked with the musician and philanthropist Yehudi Menuhin and has supported educational and cultural initiatives abroad, such as with Roma communities in Hungary and Romania and with Pomaks in Bulgaria.

Event Details

Rencontre littéraire : Mireille Gansel
Wednesday, 14 August 2019 | 14:00
In FRENCH | FREE, but reservations are strongly suggested

Institut français d'Ecosse
Salles Boulez (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salles Boulez are accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

Bookings
Book directly online or contact us at 0131 285 6030 or info ifecosse.org.uk

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
While this event is free and open to all, the Institut programmes many members only events and offers discounted member rates at other events. Find out more about becoming a member of the Institut français d'Ecosse.

Edinburgh International Book FestivalEIBF
At the EIBF, Gansel will be participating in Words without Borders, an event with Marek Kohn, which looks at how translation can help bridge a divided world. She will discuss her most recent book, Translation as Transhumance, a lyrical meditation on the act of learning another language, forged in resistance to the Nazi ideology she grew up with.
Thursday 15 August, 10:30 - 11:30 | Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre | £8 (£6 conc.)

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Francophone African Literature with Alain Mabanckou & Gustave Akakpo

We are delighted to welcome internationally acclaimed novelist from Congo-Brazzaville Alain Mabanckou and Togolese author Gustave Akakpo at the Institut français for a conversation on African francophone literature and theatre.

Gustave Akakpo was born in Togo in 1974. He writes plays and novels and organises writing workshops in Africa, France and the Caribbean, especially in prisons. He is associated artist at the TARMAC La Villette theatre in Paris. He has received many awards for his plays and novels, including the junior prize Plumes Togolaises at the Festival de Theatre de la Fraternité in Lomé, Togo, and the SACD dramaturgy prize for his play La Mère trop tôt. Commissioned by the Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis for a play for young audiences, he writes the play Même les chevaliers tombent dans l'oubli, directed by Matthieu Roy - Cie du Veilleur in 2013. The play is premiered at the Avignon IN Festival in July 2014. Translated in English under the title Skins and Hoods, the play is performed as part of our Vive le Fringe! programme with an all-Scottish cast.

Alain Mabanckou is francophone Africa’s best-loved writer. Born in 1966 in Congo, he is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist published in 15 languages. His books include African Psycho, Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Black Bazaar, and Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty. He currently spends his time between Paris, Congo and Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. Winner of prestigious prizes such as the Grand Prix de la Literature Henri Gal for his body of work in 2012 and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine, he was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. His latest book Lumières de Pointe-Noire was translated in English and published by Serpentine in 2015.

Alain Mabanckou will appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival alongside Etgar Keret on Tuesday 18 August at 19:00.

The talk (held in English) will be chaired by Lucie Campos, head of the Book Department at the Institut francais du Royaume-Uni.

ADMISSION FREE
Reservation is compulsory
Please book your tickets here or at our box office : 0131 225 5366

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To make the most of your afternoon, why not book tickets to see the performance of Gustave Akakpo’s Skins and Hoods by Cie du Veilleur at 14:00?
Info & tickets available on www.vivelefringe.org

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Les Écossais, Pieds sur Terre!

We are delighted to host the launch for Les Écossais, Pieds Sur Terre the new book by Etienne Duval, followed by a Q&A with the author.

Etienne Duval was brought up in Paris by a Scottish mother. He was always intrigued by Scotland, a country he often visited as a child, and reported on as a journalist.

After four decades as a London-based correspondent, Etienne has come back for a detailed look at his maternal homeland. Les Écossais, Pieds Sur Terre, written over two years, is a loving but unsentimental journey around Scotland and beyond. It follows a route shaped like a question mark.

Starting in Glasgow, Etienne’s book takes in Edinburgh, the North-East, Shetland, the Western Isles, the community buyout of Knoydart, and Newtonmore, the very heart of the Highlands. Along the way, the author meets Scots both famous and unknown: Alex Morrison, a grizzled Glaswegian boxing coach, Hugh Macleod of Macleod, master of Dunvegan, Liz Lochhead, the Makar, leading historian Tom Devine, a retired fisherman, London exiles who made a fortune (or nearly sank); descendants of the diaspora, and even the ghost of David Livingstone, whose memory is still revered in Malawi.

During his trip through Scotland, Etienne witnesses the extraordinary final days of the referendum campaign. In his book, he shares the despair of ‘Yes’ voters on that September dawn, senses the euphoria of the losing side in the following months, and watches Alex Salmond hand over to Nicola Sturgeon.

He also takes the opportunity to debunk some movie myths about kilts, tartan identity and history. As his account shows, the reality of Scotland is much more thrilling and subtle than any fantasy Hollywood could ever produce.

It’s a fascinating, funny and surprising romp around Scotland and its history, and gives quite a few clues about what makes it different.

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Etienne Duval, who was educated in France and Britain, is a Franco-Scottish journalist based in Edinburgh and London. He started at the BBC World Service, and has reported all over the world for major French, Belgian and Swiss radio and TV stations. He still works as a TV reporter, and trains TV journalists and private clients in several countries. He also works as a consultant manager for two London-based Scottish charities.

Les Écossais, Pieds sur Terre! is published by Ateliers Henry Dougier, in the “Lignes de vie d'un peuple” collection.

Talk in French by Etienne Duval
Followed by Q&A in French and English
ADMISSION FREE
PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE: 0131 225 5366 or info ifecosse.org.uk

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Café Littéraire: Jean-Christophe Rufin

In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Jean-Christophe Rufin, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for a ‘café littéraire’ at the Institut

Jean-Christophe Rufin has several hats. He is a French diplomat, historian, novelist and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). He was the former president of Action Against Hunger and became the second youngest member of the Académie française in 2008. He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010. Jean-Christophe Rufin is also a globetrotter and his exploration of the world is transmitted to the public through his books, which include The Abyssinian, Brazil Red, The Red Collar, and many more.

At the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Jean-Christophe Rufin will discuss with journalist Bee Rowlatt his latest book published in English, The Santiago Pilgrimage, translated by Malcolm Imrie & Martina Dervis and published by Quercus.

His following visit at the Institut français will be the occasion to talk about his many different lives, his experiences, and everything in between.

You can read the full portrait of Jean-Christophe Rufin on the French Book UK blog on Culturetheque.

Talk in English
Admission free
Booking is essential : 0131 225 5366 or by email

Image: © François Bouchon

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Café Littéraire: Tahar Ben Jelloun

In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Tahar Ben Jelloun, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for an informal and open discussion at the Institut.

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fez, Morocco in 1944, and emigrated to France in 1971. He is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic and poet. He won the Prix Maghreb, the Prix Goncourt (the first North African to win France’s top literary prize), and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He is regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his work has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He received the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 2008. He lives between Paris and Tangier.

Tahar Ben Jelloun will present his book About my Mother, translated by Ros Schwartz and recently published in the UK by Telegram, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 28th at 12:30.

We are delighted and honoured to welcome him around the corner just after that for a ‘café littéraire’ !

To read the full portrait of Tahar Ben Jelloun, please visit the French Books UK blog on Culturethèque.

Talk in English
Admission free
Booking is essential: 0131 225 53 66 or by email.

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Café Littéraire: Faïza Guène & Sarah Ardizzone

Please note that the café littéraire will start at 14:00.


In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Faïza Guène, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for an informal ‘café littéraire’ at the Institut.

Born in 1985, Faïza Guène is the child of Algerian immigrants and lived during her childhood in a council house in Pantin, near Paris. She started writing when she was 19 to talk about the lives of young people in the French suburbs. In 2011, she was selected by UNESCO as one of fifteen artists under 35 years to be awarded the title of “Young Artists for Intercultural Dialogue between Arab and Western Worlds”. In 2004 she directed and wrote the script of her short film named Nothing But Words. She continued writing and published books such as Just like tomorrow and Some dream for fools.

Guène will be at Edinburgh International Book Festival on Sunday 14 August, in conversation with her translator Sarah Ardizzone to discuss her new novel Men Don’t Cry.

At the institut français, they will continue the discussion and talk about Guène’s other books and their long-standing writer-translator relationship.

Learn more about Faiza Guène on theFrench Books UK blog on culturetheque.

Talk in English
Admission free.
Booking is essential: 0131 225 5366 or by email

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Café Littéraire: Adrien Bosc

In partnership with the Book Department of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, we are delighted to welcome Adrien Bosc, guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, for a ‘café littéraire’ at the Institut.

Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Éditions du Sous-Sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton. Last January, he was appointed deputy director of the Editions du Seuil - a major French publishing house. His success as a publisher echoes his success as a writer: Constellation, his first novel, was a literary sensation in France. The book is now available in the United Kingdom thanks to translator Willard Wood and publisher Serpent’s Tail.

Originally published by Stock in France in 2014, it was awarded the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française 2014, the Prix littéraire de la Vocation 2014, the Prix Gironde Nouvelles Écritures 2014, and the Prix Paris Diderot-Esprits libres 2015… And it received an English Pen Award here in the UK.

Sat 13 Aug 12:00pm - 13:00pm he will be at the Institut francais for a free and informal discussion about narrative non-fiction before heading to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, in discussion with Miriam Moss

Read more about Adrien Bosc on the French Books UK blog on Culturethèque.

Talk in English
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Booking is essential : 0131 225 5366 or by email

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Vive le Fringe! 2019 at the Institut français d'Ecosse

Vive le Fringe!, now in its 9th year, is the Institut français d'Ecosse’s celebration of Edinburgh’s August festivals. Those who attended in 2018 will note that we have invested heavily in our main performance space. Now equipped with retractable raked seating for 80, a suspended truss, and improved light and sound equipment, the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard is set to become one of Edinburgh’s finest and most flexible venues for music, cinema, dance, and theatre. Our 2019 programme reflects this with a varied lineup of live performance, digital media, and classical music.

And while Vive le Fringe! evokes the name of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, it also celebrates and promotes France’s official participation in the capital’s other major festivals: the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. So dive into this guide and discover what France and the Institut français d'Ecosse are bringing to Edinburgh.

Long live the Fringe!

“Worldwidewestern”
Raphaël Gouisset / Les Particules

No horse, no band of Apache warriors waiting with knives between their teeth, no pretty French cancan dancer for the hero to shag, no grit, dust or duty for historical accuracy. This cowboy doesn’t care. The Wild West is just a click away on the World Wide Web. Fascinated by cowboys’ squinty-eyed looks, and armed only with the savoir-faire of a modern geek, Raphael Gouisset, Associate Artist at La Manufacture Centre Dramatique National Nancy-Lorraine, stars in this digital western lauded for showing ‘theatre and digital technologies can join forces for the best of live performance’ (L'Est Républicain).

Times and dates
Length: 55 minutes
12, 13, 16-18, 20-25 August at 7pm
14 August at 3.30pm
Institut français d'Écosse | salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (1st floor)
£10, £8 (concession), £6 (family)

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Right in the Eye - Live Movie-Concert of Georges Méliès’ Films
Alcoléa & Cie

A live trio of French musicians intertwine playful modern compositions and the fantasy of the legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès, father of cinema and the inventor of special effects. French composer Jean-François Alcoléa and his fellow musicians use sound and image to create a universe as inventive as the filmmaker’s creations were. 'It is at once inventive, elegant and moving’ (Chronique, Festival OFF d'Avignon). 'Creatively intelligent. All the sounds and music brought Georges Méliès’ films to life’ (Houstonian).

Times and dates
Length: 1 hour
2-4, 6-10, 12-14, 16-25 August at 1.30pm
11 August at 8pm
Institut français d'Écosse | salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (1st floor)
£10, £8 (concession), £6 (family)

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Wagner and Brahms - Classical Music Concert
Alec Frank-Gemmill

Alec Frank-Gemmill directs Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and the Serenade No 1 by Brahms in its original version for nonet. Ensemble 1880 comprises the best classical musicians Scotland has to offer, performing on instruments of the time.

Times and dates
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
13 August at 9pm
Institut français d'Écosse | salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (1st floor)
£10, £8 (concession), £6 (family)

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Debussy and Beethoven - Chamber Music Concert
Quatuor Mona

This young string quartet, founded in 2018, is born out of the friendship of four former students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. In addition to their participation to the Edinburgh International Festival, they will offer a rendition of the Debussy Quartet and of the Beethoven op. 59 no. 2 at the Institut.

Verena Chen, violin
Roxana Rastegar, violin
Arianna Smith, viola
Caroline Sypniewski, cello

Times and dates
Length: 1 hour
18 August at 8.30pm
Free

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Institut français d'Ecosse
Venue 168
Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (first floor)
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF

Access Details
The Institut français d'Ecosse and the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard are fully accessible with step-free access available at West Parliament Square and George IV Bridge.

IFE Membership and Discount Rates
The Institut programmes many members-only events and offers discounted member rates at other events. Find out more about becoming a member of the Institut français d'Ecosse.

Photo Credits
Raphaël Gouisset / Les Particules; Alcoléa & Cie; Alec-Frank Gemmill; ProQuartet centre européen de musique de chambre.

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