Thought it might be interesting to have a thread on what's happening in the entertainment business and other related cultural stuff to do (music, museums, plays, festivals, etc). All countries are welcomed of course. just make sure you mention where it's happening. I'll start.
Dublin - A fabulous opportunity to listen to beautiful French and interact with great minds!
http://www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/
The Franco-Irish Literary Festival is the result of successful collaboration between the Alliance Française and the Cultural Service of the French Embassy. It has been supported to great effect by such Irish organisations as The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge among others. Irish and French sponsors such as Ireland Fund of France, Dublin City Council, Irish Distillers, Servier Laboratories … and the Irish press.
The Festival has, since its inception in 2000, become a significant date (springtime) in the annual literary calendar of Dublin.
The Coach House and the Chester Beatty Library, both situated in Dublin Castle, are the venues for the Festival and help to create the uniquely “convivial” atmosphere of the event.
The Festival’s aim is to widen and enhance the long-standing friendship that exists between Ireland, France and other French-speaking countries. It welcomes writers in both the English and Irish languages, together with writers of the wider francophone world and other European literatures. In doing so it provides an opportunity to showcase a wide selection of Irish and French writers before the Irish public.
The programme and selection of authors is made by a Franco-Irish Committee including important personalities of the Literary, Academic and Publishing world and Irish institutions such as Poetry Ireland, Ireland Literature Exchange, Irish Writers’ Centre…
Each year the festival presents a central theme and writers from different languages and cultures, are given the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas around this theme in an informal setting. Debates, interviews, "cafés littéraires", readings, book sales and signings take place over the three days of the festival.
Among the celebrities invited since 2000 the festival has welcomed such French writers as J.M.G. Le Clézio, Michel Déon, Noelle Chatelet, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Amin Maalouf, Azouz Begag, Jean-Paul Kauffmann... and such Irish writers as Joseph O’Connor, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Hugo Hamilton, Brian Keenan, Patrick McCabe, Sebastian Barry, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill…
The Franco-Irish Literary Festival offers a rare opportunity to spend three days in an exciting and stimulating literary environment.
All events open to the public and free with simultaneous translation provided in English and French. Since 2006, the Festival is organising a Book Crossing, a treasure hunt of a new kind, one month before and after the Festival.
For every edition a special website is created with its own design, programme, biographies. You can consult the previous editions websites here (http://www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/ )