Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 30 November 2023 > Shine Bright Collège Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Black Legends is a musical comedy that traces more than a century of African American music along with landmarks in the civil-rights movement and Black American history. We know some of you took classes when it was on last year. It’s back on in Paris until at least the end of January. The musical doesn’t … Continue reading “Black Legends”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 29 September 2023 > Pedagogy
Radio France has an amazing website that provides resources for teachers wanting to have their pupils sing. Logically most of the songs are in French, but there are four in English and several in German. If you check out the songs available on the Ma chorale voix interactive site, click on “plus de filtres” and … Continue reading “Free Resources for Class Singing”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 09 August 2023 > What's On
After being the guest of honour at the 9th Festival of Cinema and Film Music in La Baule, Kyle Eastwood will now be attending at Deauville. On the same day as the release of his new album (Eastwood Symphonic) dedicated to the music of his father’s greatest films, he will be invited to participate in … Continue reading “Deauville 2023: Eastwood, A Family Affair”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 08 June 2023 >
Everybody (or almost everyone) has heard of Andy Warhol, but not all students will be familiar with Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York artist whose lively and colourful paintings are on display in Paris, either paired with music or in a display of works produced with Warhol. These two exhibitions are not only windows into his … Continue reading “Basquiat, Music and Warhol”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 26 May 2023 > In the News
Tina Turner, celebrated for her incomparable voice, electrifying stage presence, and resilient spirit, passed away on Wednesday 24 May at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, near Zurich. She was 83. Turner durably marked the music industry. Born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November , 1939, in Nutbush, Tennessee, to a poor sharecropping African-American family, Tina … Continue reading “Tina Turner : A Star is Dead”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 09 May 2023 > Shine Bright Collège Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Two exhibitions in Paris celebrate the life and legend of the first African-American artist to become an international star. Jean-Michel Basquiat, an African-American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, was born in New York in 1960. He began spray painting graffiti slogans on walls and doorways in the city’s Lower East Side in 1979. … Continue reading “Exhibitions: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Music and Warhol”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 January 2023 > Pedagogy
Our challenge last year was to get 4e students interested in musicals! As we couldn’t take them abroad on an exchange, we felt like taking “a bit of abroad” to them, through musicals. You can read what we planned to do here, and below you’ll find our conclusions about what worked and what didn’t. Though … Continue reading “Assessing musicals with 4e euro”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 04 November 2022 > Shine Bright Collège Webpicks
The This is England short-film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for collège classes covering topics from bullying to helping the community, living in a divorced family to trying to find a way to fit in. If you sign up for a collège showing, your students will see eight films ranging … Continue reading “This is England 2022 collège films”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 21 June 2022 > Celebrate
France’s Fête de la Musique is 40 years old this year, and it has inspired other countries to celebrate music on the longest day of the year, 21 June. Make Music Day, as it’s dubbed in English, made it to New York 15 years ago and has spread across North America, helped by a non-profit, … Continue reading “World Music Day”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 26 May 2022 > What's On
An evening at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris will provide lots of insights on Northern Ireland, a nation with a still fluctuating identity and status 101 years after its creation. Activist art, thought and song will all combine on 8 June. The Government of Ireland Act that came into force on 3 May 1921, … Continue reading “Everything You Wanted to Know about Northern Ireland”
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