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Inspired by exceptional men and women, by the world’s great iconic figures, and
the imagery of poets and dreamers, Jean Pierre Blanchard combines this greatness
with a seemingly random spot of colour, with the indescribable IT that is everywhere,
in nature, in the street, and in the smallest of stones. His sources of inspiration are
not just the well known and extraordinaire but the not famous too.
His art is continuous poetic research. “For the artist”, he says, “All thoughts, all
matter, all techniques are a pretext for this creative research.The truth is in the
passion that one puts there.”
Twenty-five paintings of Jean-Pierre Blanchard will be exhibited at the newly
renovated tcc 51 Circular Road “The Gallery” from May to August 2009. This will
be his first exhibition in Asia.
www.thecoffeeconnoisseur.com
Venue: tcc – the coffee connoisseur “The Gallery” 51 Circular Road
Time: 11a.m. – midnight (Sunday – Thursday & Public Holidays), 11a.m. – 2 a.m. (Friday, Saturday & Eve of Public Holidays)
Ticket Prices: Free Admission
Ticket Bookings : info@art-management.com (+65) 6479 2445
Presenter: tcc – the coffee connoisseur |
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Dive into the heart of Van Gogh’s paintings. For the first time, discover in IMAX the fantastic colors and passionate brushwork of a great genius as they take on a new life before our eyes.
Relive Vincent’s life journey through his letters, see the places that inspired him, and the paintings.
We will meet Vincent. During this journey he will join us, reacting to the pictures, telling us what his is opinion today. He will be looking at Peter Knapp, a man who is working today on a documentary about Van Gogh’s techniques, and at Ellen, a researcher in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. She is studying his notebooks and letters. They give evidence of the fire and passion of a man who painted as he loved, who loved as he painted. And Vincent, as if he were seated next to us, will tell us the truth about his works and life. This is a chance to discover a Van Gogh we’ve never seen before: serene and radiating with love of life.
This passionate voyage, this new closeness to Van Gogh – the masterpieces and the man – open up a world of unexpected, intense emotions on the giant screen. The film offers us the unique joy of seeing and getting to know, with ever increasing admiration, the man whose energy and freedom are intrinsically bound to the great beauty of his work.
www.omnitheatre.com.sg
Venue: Omni Theatre, 21 Jurong Town Hall Road
Time: Log on to www.omnitheatre.com.sg for show time
Ticket Prices: $8 (adult), $5 (child 3-12) Info line: 6425 2500
Presenter: Omni-Theatre |
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Direct from Italy, this world acclaimed exhibition produced by Grande Exhibitions, the Il Genio de Leonardo da Vinci Museo and Pascal Cotte brings to life Leonardo's genius as an inventor, artist, scientist, anatomist, engineer and architect. Displaying interactive and life-size machines crafted by Italian Artisans from his codices; studies of his most famous renaissance art; anatomical sketches as well as 3D animations of The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, and Mona Lisa, this last of which now includes new and revealing secrets behind the famous painting. Da Vinci - The Genius is the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled on the greatest mind that ever lived - an amazing experience and inspiration for the whole family.
For more information visit the website at www.davincithegenius.com
Venue: Science Centre Singapore, The Annexe 15 Science Centre Rd Singapore 609081
Time: Operating hours 10 am to 6pm ( closed on Mondays except school and public holidays)
Ticket Prices: $10 child( 3-16 yrs old ), $15 adult
Ticket Bookings : Infoline: 6425 2500
Presenter: Science Centre, Max Entertainment & Mediacorp VizPro. Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute |
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Francoise Huguier is one of the great reportage photographers, winning the World Press Photo Prize in 1993. She travels the globe documenting the everyday rituals of the peoples of the world. In March/April 2009, Huguier did a residency in Singapore to develop her latest series. She has raised the question of whether a uniquely Singapore modernity exists. She has found expressions of a modern Singaporean identity in the form of the HDB dwellings in which the large majority of Singaporeans live.
www.phish-comms.com
www.lasalle.edu.sg
Venue: Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Lasalle College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street
Time: 12 p.m. – 7 p.m. (Tuesday to Sunday), Closed on Monday
Ticket Prices: Free Admission
Presenter: PHISH COMMUNICATIONS for MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY ASIA |
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This exhibition of 26 photographs by eight French and Chinese photographers from the collection of the Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC) showcases works by Bertrand Meunier, Jiang Jian, Xing Danwen, Johann Rousselot, Samuel Bollendorf, Johann Rousselot, Thierry Girard and Muchen & Shao Yinong. Coming from diverse backgrounds, these photographers have documented the changing social and geographical landscape of China and India and provided their own insights into questions of identity, society and community, as well as the role of traditions and cultural practices in our contemporary environment.
www.phish-comms.com
www.alliancefrancaise.org.sg
Venue: SG Private Banking Gallery, Alliance Française de Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road
Time: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. (Monday to Friday), 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Saturday), Closed on Sunday
Ticket Prices: Free Admission
Presenter: PHISH COMMUNICATIONS for MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY ASIA |
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Marc Riboud, best known for his extensive reports on the East, has seen the atrocities of war (photographing from both the Vietnam and the American sides of the Vietnam War), and the apparent degradation of a culture repressed from within (China during the years of Chairman Mao). One of the few Europeans to photograph in China in 1957, Riboud has witnessed the many changes that the country has undergone over the last five decades, from the Cultural Revolution to its contemporary economic revolution. This exhibition of 28 photographs from the prestigious collection of France’s Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC) traces a small part of Riboud’s journeys into China between 1957 and 2002 and portrays its changing geographical, social and economic landscape.
www.phish-comms.com
www.cathay.com.sg
Venue: The Cathay Gallery, The Cathay Building, 2 Handy Road
Time: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Ticket Prices: Free Admission
Presenter: PHISH COMMUNICATIONS for MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY ASIA |
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With At-Sunrice tried and tested recipes for successful team building all year round, this programme offers up to the most exotic sensations, lively merriment and glorious outdoor fun. Go for an adrenaline rush and discover exactly what it takes to pool your team resources together to go for a rousing spice hunt right in Singapore’s oldest 1822 Fort Canning Spice Garden. Then, get immersed and relaxed with a delightful tea reception for an enriching experience. And just before you sit down for a delectable alfresco French cuisine dinner, complete the fun and enjoy getting creative as you plate your dishes and submit them for a wildly funny plating competition.
www.at-sunrice.com
Venue: At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy, Fort Canning Centre, Fort Canning Park
Time: 4 hours per session
Ticket Prices: $120++ per guest (Minimum 20 guests)
Ticket Bookings : 6877 6990 fenni_wang@at-sunrice.com Advance booking is required, 2 weeks before event date.
Presenter: At-Sunrice GlobalChefAcademy |
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Be enchanted by the melodious voices of the “Little Singers of Monaco” (LSM)
rendering in sweet harmony sacred music, Renaissance music, works of early
master composers, French chansons and songs from Monaco. With their
message of peace and goodwill, LSM is internationally renowned for their musical
sensitivity and rich traditions of European royal choirs. The LSM have also been
associated with the Monte-Carlo Opera and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic
Orchestra, winning critical acclaim and fans wherever they perform.
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Place, Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore 179558
Time: 8pm
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $35, $25, 10% off* for all OCBC cards, students and senior citizens. Keppel Nights 50% subsidy. *Terms and conditions apply.
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC website: www.sistic.com.sg SISTIC hotline: 6348 5555 and all SISTIC authorized agents
Presenter: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) In aid of NAFA Student Relief Fund www.nafa.edu.sg |
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Tanguy: (French, with English subtitles)
In this intelligent and extremely witty social commentary, Edith (Sabine Azema) and Paul (Andre Dussollier) are the parents of a 28-year-old PhD candidate, Tanguy (Eric Berger). A master of Chinese and Japanese language, culture, and history, Tanguy teaches classes at the university, receives highly respected research grants, and has an excellent way of communicating with people. He is graceful, reserved, expressive, and altogether a delightful young man. The only problem is that he still lives at home, with no plans of moving out or getting his own apartment any time soon. Edith and Paul are well-to-do professionals who treat their son with respect and kindness, but their patience is wearing thin. Unable to confront him about the idea that they wish he’d move on, they concoct a hilarious plan to sour his experience of living at home. Director Etienne Chatiliez presents this excellent comedy, which balances an outrageous script with impeccable performances from Azema and Dussollier as overly polite parents who just want their little “poulet” (an incredibly ironic Berger) to fly the coup. This film was included in the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2002 festival organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.
Whatever You Say: (French, with English subtitles)
Bastien is a twentysomething assistant to Philippe Letzger, the host of an exploitive and grotesque talk show. When Bastien gets an idea for a new show that Letzger takes credit
for, he decides to go to the head boss, Jean-Louis Broustal, with the truth. Broustal invites him to his lush country estate to work on a template for the new show. There he finds himself
in over his head, between the demands of his boss for the show and the demands of his boss’ wife in the bedroom.
Priceless: (French, with English subtitles)
Directed by Pierre Salvadori, this delightful French comedy features AMELIE star Audrey Tautou and the charming Gad Elmaleh (THE VALET). Jean (Elmaleh) is a hardworking employee at one of southern France’s elite resort hotels. He is known for his excellent work ethic, but that changes after a chance encounter with sexy hotel guest Irene (Tautou). Bored with her wealthy and much older boyfriend/benefactor, Irene is looking for some excitement. She finds it with Jean, whom she believes to be another guest at the hotel. When she discovers that he is merely an employee there, she is furious, and wants nothing more to do with him. Jean tries to rekindle their affair, but Irene lets him know that she is only interested in men with money--lots and lots of money. Jean is broke and brokenhearted, until he crosses paths with another hotel guest--this one an older woman of considerable means. He soon finds himself living the high life alongside Irene and her own rich patron. But Jean is far more interested in romance than in riches, and the glitzy fun and games quickly come to a head.
Paris Je T’aime: (French, with English subtitles)
Paris, je t’aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weaving a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There’s a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all.
Venue: Screening Room, 12 Ann Siang Rd
Time: Tuesday July 7th: Tanguy @ 8pm, Wednesday July 8th: Whatever You Say (Mon idole) @ 8pm, Thursday July 9th: Priceless (Hors de Prix)@ 8pm, Friday July 10th : Paris Je T’aime @ 9:15pm, Saturday July 11th: Paris Je T’aime @ 9:15pm
Ticket Prices: $20 nett each
Ticket Bookings : +65 622 11 694 info@screeningroom.com.sg
Presenter: Screening Room |
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Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan,
Mathieu Simonet, Benoît Giros, Mélanie Laurent, Antoine Chappey, Assaad Bouab
1944-1945... The liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, the Vosges and
Alsace marked vital stages in the Allied victory... and in the place that France was able
to take among the Allies following the Armistice. This victorious and bloody march on
Germany was carried out by the 1st French Army, recruited in Africa to sidestep the German
occupiers and the officials of the Vichy regime: 200,000 men, including 130,000 “natives”
comprising 110,000 North Africans and 20,000 Black Africans... The rest of the force was
made up of French North Africans, for two-thirds, and of young Frenchmen who had fled
the Occupation. ‘Days of Glory’ is the story of these “forgotten heroes”.
Rating: NC16 – war violence
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2006, Colour, DTS/Dolby Digital, 128 min
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Cathay |
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Directors: Tom Tykwer, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Grander Chadha, Alexander
Payne, Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo
Natali, Olivier Assayas, Sylvain Chomet, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas,
Bruno Podalydès, Christopher Doyle , Gérard Depardieu , Frédéric Auburtin
Cast: Fanny Ardant , Juliette Binoche, Javier Camara, Éric Caravaca, Sergio Castellitto,
Willem Dafoe , Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal , Bob Hoskins, Yolande Moreau, Nick
Nolte, Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Ludivine Sagnier, Gaspard Ulliel, Leonor Watling
Back by popular demand.
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitate, sucked dry, reinvented or awakened... Internationally renowned directors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love. Most of the directors have written their own pieces, and they range from whimsical to romantic, to dramatic and tragic.Rating: NC16 – some coarse language
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2006, Colour, Mono, 110 min
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Festive Films |
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Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neil, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling
Based on the novel by British author Elizabeth Taylor, set in England, 1905. Angel
Deverell is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what
will happen if all her dreams come true? Angel is a destitute-but-determined
young woman living in turn-of-the-century England who ascends the social ranks
after authoring a series of successful romantic novels. This is the story of a young
woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world about her,
and creates her own realities.
Rating : M18 – Sexual scene
In English
Belgium/England/France, 2006, Colour, 134 mins
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing: wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Festive Films |
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Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou
Jean, a shy waiter working in a grand hotel, is mistaken for a young millionaire
by beautiful, scheming adventuress Irene. When she discovers his lowly status,
Irene beats a quick retreat. But love struck Jean has no intention of letting her
escape, and pursues her to the Cote d’Azur. Quickly running out of money, he
adopts his beloved’s lifestyle, setting himself up as a gigolo and moving into a
magnificent luxury hotel. Irene at last accepts this new Jean. She starts to give
him advice, she grows closer and closer to him, not realizing that love is working
its subtle magic on her too.
Rating: NC16 – brief nudity
In French with English Subtitles
France, 2006, Colour, Mono, 104 min
Venue: Alliance Française Theatre, Level 1, Alliance Française. 1 Sarkies Rd
Time: 8.00pm
Ticket Prices: $5.10 (Members) and $7.20 (Non-members). Prices are inclusive of GST but exclude SISTIC fee per ticket
Ticket Bookings : SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile Ticketing:wap.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Hotline: 6348 5555 or SISTIC outlets islandwide
Presenter: Alliance Française de Singapour in association with Festive Films |
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