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In Meiji period (1868-1912), period of all the revolutions for Japan - Hair cut themselves, sabres line up, the British fashionable mustache soaks into the miso soup, Henry-BLACK will write certain popular tales become immortal today.
Although recognized for his talent, the one that we nicknamed “the storyteller with the blue eyes” died in the forgetting.
The storyteller Stéphane FERRANDEZ - Prize-winner of the villa Kujoyama on 2009, Kyoto, Japan - offer its body and its voice, 100 years later, to return the scene to this artist and make you discover a Japanese art of the word which we call Rakugo.

The Space of the Arts Mitsukoshi-Etoile proposes an exhibition of ceramic created by the family CHIN, one of the biggest lineages of potters whom counts Japan. Through her, it is one of the Japanese major arts that is put in evidence.
Gathering 100 parts, the exhibition is really historic. It redraws, through the creations of 15 generations of masters craftsmen of the family CHIN Jukan, the evolutions brought for 400 years in ceramic.

During 2nd meet of the comic strip of Bourg-lès-Valence, a selection of the photography of Didier-Lefèvre is exposed to the Mediathèque La Passerelle.

Hippodrome Paris-Vincennes

Subway: Line 1 - Château de Vincennes
RER: Line A - Joinville-Le Pont / Bus: Line 112 - Joinville-Le Pont-RER

Théranga

Subway: Line 1 - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile

The Espace Mitsukoshi-Etoile announces:
“Later about 20 years of presence in Paris, 46 exhibitions, and numerous cultural events, we regret to stop our activities.
It was a beautiful adventure, punctuated with fruitful exchange. Our ambition was to bring always the best of what seemed to us essential in our culture.
In 1992, by opening Mitsukoshi-Etoile, we were lucky to be one of precursors, by creating a large-scale independent exhibition centre. It was unique in Paris in the time, and we were happy to be able to present number of masters in our artistic specificities, and proud to see how much public French appreciated their art.
Our wish is to have been able so to sow a few with this tolerance necessary for the peace and for the understanding of the peoples.
We are sure that the future will allow prolonging these exchanges between our country and France, so that deepen our links, and our mutual curiosities.”
Paris, March, 2011.

MUSEE GUIMET - Galeries du Panthéon Bouddhique

Ofuda appears mostly under the shape of a page of printed paper which, thanks to the central presence of an image or sometimes simply an inscription, embodies a being worshipped in the Buddhism or, more rarely, in the Shintoism. This one, distributed to the believers, is quite at the same time support of private worship and talisman meaning the active presence of the divinity.

In Rakugo which means literally “word which has a fall”, the storyteller sat on knees uses a range and a tissue to reproduce all the situations of the stories. These stories fallen from a range are the ones of Henry Black, rakugoka the era Meiji, of English origin and Japanese of adoption to which the storyteller Stéphane FERRANDEZ offers his body and his voice.
Of funny tales where you will see a hermit on pilgrimage with his wife, a rogue to try to swindle a trader of noodles and a good drinker to take up the challenge of its life...
Show supported by the French Institute and the French-Japanese Sasakawa foundation.