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BlogTV: A Rock Festival for the Children

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Is Santa Claus a rocker? It definitely seems to be the case in Lille!
“Père Noël est-il un rocker?” is an annual rock festival created and run by students from the Edhec Lille business school, to help share some Christmas spirit with disadvantaged families in the region. The idea is not to raise money, but presents—a [...]

BlogTV: A new roof for Africa

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“The Nubian Vault” is an organization that provides an alternative to the rare wood and inappropriate sheet metal that usually constitute the roofs of the houses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
They employ an ancient African technique to construct timber-free vaulted roofs made of clay. In doing so, they are able to use local raw materials instead of [...]

BlogTV: A neighbourhood expresses itself

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Take a trip to the heart of Marseille, to the neighbourhood known as le Panier (which literally means “the basket”), where the association Tabasco Vidéo zooms in. Founded in 1999, this community organization brings together film professionals who want to share their tool with everyone, to give them a voice through images.
Tabasco aims to make [...]

BlogTV: Lutherie Urbaine makes new music with old objects

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You like music, but you don’t dare sing outside the shower? You think that playing an instrument would be too much of an investment, or that it’s just not your thing? Then you are the ideal target for Lutherie Urbaine, an association that opens its doors to everyone, bringing together people all ages and levels [...]

Ischia Global Film & Music Fest, Take 3!

BNL’s summer of cinema continues. For its third year in a row, the bank is “Special Partner” of the Ischia Global Film & Music Fest, an event that brings high-calibre artists and entertainers together on Ischia, in the north of the Gulf of Naples.
From July 10-17, the volcanic island is abuzz with premiers of full-length [...]

BlogTV: Solidarity and disease prevention with Pesinet

Setting up a system of prevention and early detection of childhood diseases in countries lacking proper medical resources: this is the vision of Pesinet.
Since its creation in 2007, this organization has built a team of 7 employees who are in the field, committed to implementing a procedure that helps quickly identify benign diseases in [...]

A summer of cinema

Find out more about the Nastri d’Argento and the CinemadaMare, a festival for young filmmakers in the south of Italy. [...]

BlogTV: A weekend of growth with Grandir

Every year, the members of the “Grandir” association go on a weekend retreat in the French countryside. The organization’s goal is to provide information to the parents of children with Growth Hormone Deficiency, as well as to give them support and advice in both medical and personal domains.
And so kids, parents, association members and experts come [...]

BlogTV : An online archive for dance

Imagine an online platform that brings together video materials for dance across the world, a massive inventory and classification of performances, documentaries, original creations…everything related to dance that has been captured on video over the past 30 years!
This lofty goal has been accomplished by one Charles Picq, a lover and connoisseur of dance and commissioned [...]