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September 30th, 2008

“Nomadic” Baroque at the Villa Medici

The BNP Paribas Foundation and BNL, a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, sponsor Jean-Christophe Frisch and his ensemble le Baroque Nomade.
A French Baroque flautist and conductor, Jean-Christophe Frisch founded the Baroque music ensemble, known as XVIII-21, in 2006, as its musical director. Aiming to fuse different kinds of world music with the music of [...]

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September 30th, 2008

Mobilising against low educational achievement

For the last 10 years, the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting AFEV (Student Foundation Association for the City, or “Association de la Fondation Etudiante pour la Ville”).
On 24 September, the Association launched the first “Mobilising against under achievement in schools” Day. During the event, several debates were held and several films shown as part [...]

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September 16th, 2008

Young performers showcase their talents at the “Piano des Jacobins” Festival

The BNP Paribas Foundation has sponsored the “Piano aux Jacobins” Festival for twenty years. The 29th Festival took place in Toulouse from the 5th to 26th September 2008 in the “Cloître des Jacobins”, a well-known historic venue with very warm acoustics.
The Festival was notable for its many new discoveries of young talent, as well as [...]

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September 15th, 2008

"Water and Sustainable development” at the forefront of the Sargossa exhibit

Until September 14th, the “Cirque Ici Company – Johann Le Guillerm”, supported for the past 10 years by the BNP Paribas Foundation, presents its contemporary circus show called Secret at the French Pavilion of the 2008 Universal Exhibition in Saragossa.
Based on the exhibition’s main theme of, “water and sustainable development”, Secret and the installation called [...]

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September 9th, 2008

The choreographer Mourad Merzouki makes Lyon dance

The choreographer Mourad Merzouki, founder of the Käfig Company, and sponsored by the BNP Paribas Foundation since its beginnings in 1996, presented a new and very well received work at the Biennale de la Danse de Lyon on 7 September 2008.
The choreography was based on carioca dance performed by the Companhia Urbana de Dançar, a [...]

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September 4th, 2008

Contemporary dance for all

Already sponsored by the BNP Paribas Foundation for the past three years, “Le Printemps de la Danse” festival (The Dance Festival taking place in Angoulême, France) took place on 26, 27 and 28 of June 2008 in the courtyard of the medieval castle of Villebois-Lavalette, in Angoulême.
The aim of the founder of the project, Jacques [...]