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The largest Obey retrospective at the Guimet museum
It is a world first, since this Wednesday, March 8, the Guimet museum hosts the largest exhibition ever created around the artist Shepard Fairey, also known under the pseudonym Obey.
This retrospective entitled
1001 Reasons to (dis)Obey
, offers a total immersion in the universe of one of the greatest street artists in history and probably one of the most popular after Banksy.
From Barack Obama's Hope
portrait
to his Marianne named
Peace Girl
, 1000 works, films and objects by the artist, whose work explores the themes of justice, power and minorities, are to be discovered during this exhibition.
Guimet Museum, 28
boulevard des Belges, 69006, Lyon.
From March 8 to July 9, 2023, Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Price: €9 (Students €6 and free for children under 14
).
Spotlight on press cartoons
A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words… So imagine 250 press cartoons!
And at least that was needed for this second edition of the International Meetings of Press Cartoons, which will bring together a crowd of cartoonists this weekend at Lyon City Hall, where 3,000 people flocked last year.
On the program: exhibitions, conferences and round tables around this journalistic genre, its challenges and its authors of course.
In addition to big French names like Willem, Soulcié, Camille Besse or Cambon among others, several foreign designers, from Ukraine and Russia in particular, are invited.
"It is a question of presenting the work of press cartoonists from all over the world, of discovering their profession, but also of questioning the news through their drawings"
, specifies the association Ca Presse, which organizes the event.
With the added bonus of a special Beaujolais cuvée for the event, the label of which was designed by Willem.
All weekend at the Hôtel de ville de Lyon, 1 place de la comedy, 69001 Lyon, Free admission
A night with Leonardo di Caprio
Many have dreamed of it, the Lumière Institute has done it.
Spending the night with Leonardo Di Caprio will be within everyone's reach this Saturday evening in Lyon.
With three films retracing the immense career of the actor up to his long-awaited Oscar.
“A young scam prodigy at Spielberg, a cocaine-filled broker at Scorsese, and a vengeful trapper at Iñárritu,” the institute lists, illustrating the many facets of the Titanic
actor
.
And his collaborations with the greatest.
Aficionados will have recognized the synopses of
Catch Me If You Can
,
The Wolf of Wall Street
and
The Revenant
… The others have the right to come anyway, there is no quiz to access the room.
Saturday March 18 at 8:15 p.m. at the Institut Lumière, rue du Premier film, 69008 Lyon, Night pass: €17 (full price)
Reawakening Lyon's canut heritage
30 years is something to celebrate.
And at least all day.
The Soierie vivant association takes the opportunity to recall Lyon's rich past in the textile industry during an open day.
Two looms will be presented and put into operation.
Obviously with technical and historical explanations in this canut district.
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 21 rue Richan and 12 bis montee Justin Godard, 69004 Lyon, Free admission
A few strides with champions for the environment
This Saturday, put on your trainers for a slightly special jog.
And in good company since the French world champion in the 800 meters Pierre-Ambroise Bosse and the Olympic athlete Bryan Cantero put their bags down in Lyon.
With a very specific goal, that of getting closer to their objective launched last year in Lille: to collect a million cigarette butts, which would constitute a new world record.
After a morning reserved for businesses, meet at 2 p.m. at Place du Maréchal Lyautey in the 6th arrondissement to go hunting for small orange and white polluters.
Saturday 2 p.m., Place Marchal Lyautey, 69006 Lyon, free admission
French song from every angle
The March songs return to Lyon for ten days.
If Pierre de Maere opened this 17th edition with a bang, it is all the diversity of the French-speaking scene that will be celebrated there.
With several concerts on the program this weekend, in particular those of Renan Luce at the Jack Jack de Bron, this Friday, and of Leila Huissoud at the Salle Barbara de Montchat.
On Saturday, the Ô Totem live stage in Rillieux-la-Pape will be hosted by Safia Nolin, Slogan and Mahault.
Information and ticket office on the
festival website
Sport makes its festival and its cinema
For its 10th edition, the sports literature and cinema festival organized by the Institut Lumière awaits you on Friday and Saturday for several meetings and screenings.
This will be the case with Nathalie Iannetta, sports director of Radio France this Friday at 6.30 p.m.
The journalist will be present to talk about sport, cinema and the place of women in sports journalism.
A conference that will be followed by the first screening of
Raging Bull
by Martin Scorsese in 4K.
Saturday appointment with the basketball man of Canal +, the immense George Eddy (3 p.m.) and with the former professional cyclist Vincent Barteau (6 p.m.).
The festival will end on Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. with the screening of
La Castagne
by George Roy Hill.
In addition, from March 2 to 26, the Lumière Institute is organizing a photographic exhibition around King Pelé in the Premier-Film Hangar, using photos from the collections of the newspaper L'Équipe.
Institut Lumière, Rue du Premier Film, 69008 Lyon, Screenings: Between €8.5 and €4. Reservations recommended on the
Institut Lumière website for conferences
.
Depardon / Daoud, crossed views on Algeria
Until March 26, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence, the Pôle Pixel de Villeurbanne is organizing the
Raymond Depardon / Kamel Daoud exhibition.
His eye in my hand.
Algeria 1961-2019.
A unique testimony to the Algeria of yesterday and today through the vision of two great artists, one French filmmaker and photographer, the other writer and journalist born in Algeria.
Because in 1961, the very young Raymond Depardon carried out several photographic reports in Algiers, then in Evian, during the first negotiations to put an end to the war in Algeria.
“
Raymond Depardon photographs what he sees at the junction of what he does not see.
I look at what I don't see, thinking I know what it means.
His eye in my hand.
Her body is my memory.
What interests me in the photographer is his body, his wanderings, his journey: I slip into him, I embrace his movements, his gaze, his culture, his prejudices perhaps, but also his singularity.
Wandering from click to click
”, writes Kamel Daoud, in his book
His eye in my hand.
Algeria 1961-2019
.
Exhibition designed by the Institut du monde arabe, based on an original idea by Éditions Barzakh. Pôle PIXEL, 24-26-36 rue Émile Decorps, 69100 Villeurbanne, Full price: 10 euros, Reduced price: 8 euros, Free: under 6 years old, Family pack: 28 euros (2 adults + 2 children).
Marc Riboud, great photo reporter of the 20th century
A hundred shots for a centenarian.
The Musée des Confluences celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of travel photographer Marc Riboud, who was born in Saint-Genis-Laval.
The man who left his factory in Villeurbanne after studying engineering at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon immortalized those of others during reports from around the world for the famous Magnum agency.
Close to great photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson or Robert Capa, he delivered work of great humanity, to be rediscovered.
10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the musée des confluences, 86 quai Perrache 69002 Lyon, 9 euros (full price for access to the whole museum).
The resistant Madeleine Riffaud at the Center of the resistance
Madeleine Riffaud has lived it all and has told a lot.
Young girl and resistance fighter, poet and fighter, woman and monument, tireless storyteller, she recently crossed paths with attentive and passionate authors: screenwriter Jean-David Morvan and cartoonist Dominique Bertail.
Their comic book
Madeleine, Résistante
, volume 1 of which recounts her commitment under the code name "
Rainer
", offers an unforgettable encounter with this great lady.
Based on the original pages of this comic strip, objects and archival documents from the personal collections of Madeleine Riffaud and those of major French Resistance museums, the exhibition proposes to follow Madeleine's journey and her political commitment. unwavering, always relevant.
14 avenue Berthelot - 69007 Lyon, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance to the permanent exhibition
: Full price: €6;
Reduced price: €4.
Combined entry (if temporary exhibition):
Full price: €8;
Reduced price: €6.
Free admission for children under 18, disabled people and their companion, recipients of social minima and non-taxable people.
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