Events

Film Screening: Le Roi et l’Oiseau – 16th Mar, 2016

Initial release: 29 May 1953 | Director: Paul Grimault Scenario: Jacques Prévert | Running time: 1h 27min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all Plot: One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a journey across mountains and jungles to search for her father, who is …

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Exhibition: Man is a Funny Bird: 16th Mar – 25th Feb 2016

Rudi Pillen (1931-2014) is one of Belgium’s leading contemporary artists, whose outstanding activity stretched over 50 years. Several of his paintings belong to major private collections in Europe, the USA and Asia, as well as museums and public buildings, like the Bangkok Metro where his largest fresco was unveiled in 2001 by HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium. There’s also one …

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Film Screening: Mia et le Migou – 16th Mar, 2016

Initial release: 15 Nov 2008 | Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd Running time: 1h 32min | French with English subtitles Free Entry. Open to all  Plot: One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a journey across mountains and jungles to search for her father, who is trapped in a landslide …

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Talk: Gender Parity – The politics and the construct of it

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Ciné-Club: Direction Home – 10th Mar, 2016

  Initial release: 2015 | Director: Hilary Silver English | Free Entry. Open to all When an emergency shelter is demolished, what happens to the homeless people who lived there?  DIRECTION HOME follows seven chronically homeless people over seven years until they attain secure housing. The film also chronicles the struggles of activists and service providers who organize tent cities, conduct sit-ins …

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STREET SHOW: THE HORSEMEN: 3rd March 2016

A show which mixes performance, comic and visual. Three very smart French riders on horses, to prepare the next Olympic Games, make a demonstration of training. Even if, sometimes, they are a bit ridiculous, they always keep “The French Attitude” This show is played in English Language in France, and half English, half French when it’s played outside. The Horsemen …

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Ciné-Club: Le Salaire de la peur – 3rd Mar, 2016

Initial release: April, 22nd 1953  Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Running time: 2h11min Grand prix – Festival de Cannes 1953  | Golden Bear – Berlin Film Festival 1953 French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all   Plot: – In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. …

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Exhibition: ABOUTTURN : 27th February 2016

This independent project, experimental and enquiry based in nature saw the coming together of young creative persons from various mediums over a blog that was initiated by two young art practitioners, Nilanjana Nandy and Anni K Sharan (https://aboutturnproject.wordpress.com/). The Blog has served both as a platform for the participating artists to deliberate, discuss, debate and as the essential sketchbook, information …

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It’s Carnaval Time : 2016

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Ciné-Club: Jacquot de Nantes – 25th Feb, 2016

Initial release: 1991 | Director: Agnes Varda Running time: 1h58min | French with English subtitles Free Entry. Open to all The film is a portrait of the making of an artist; recreating the early life of Varda’s husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his interest in the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. …

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