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

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Right in the Eye has received financial support from

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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
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IFE Membership and Discount Rates
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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.

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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.)

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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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