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This program is indicative. It is intended to evolve with your proposals of communication and participation. It is based on the discovery of an exceptional natural environment, the relationship to nature, conviviality, sharing, commitment, artistic expression, creativity and contemplation. The poets and artists registred will have many moments to express themselves and share their talents with everyone. Freedom of expression in respect of our ethic "culture of peace" is the special guest. This program also will be adapted to the weather conditions.
on 20 July 2008
Welcome : At Tourist Office Chamonix Mont-Blanc, Place du Triangle of Friendship. 19 p.m: Opening Ceremony Interventions of speakers Spectacle welcome: Projections Poetic Photographs of Mary Robert -- "Lights on the Chamonix Valley" -- "Water, source of life, source of peace" Presentation of educational work realised with a group of young people in the valley: poetry, singing, music and dance - and this in the framework of the Decade of Education for peace and non-violence decreted by the United Nations . 21 p.m: Cocktail and buffet The purpose is to know each other, to share and to live a beautiful moment of conviviality. The poetry in all its forms is always invited.
on 21 July 2008
Meeting on the mayor place of Chamonix, at 9 a.m. Discovery of the valley and its villages. The transport will be with the small train of Mont Blanc. In each village, we will walk to go and see some of the treasures of sacred architecture. These chapels and shrines reminder that the sacred dimension, the sacred as a link to life, to the mountains, to the elevation of the soul, is essential in this place, source of inspiration and spiritual nourishment of many artists, poets, writers, painters, musicians Creativity and spontaneity, meetings with residents and tourists are the second objective of the day. The poets will provide a visual signal to express their presence in the valley of Mont Blanc with:
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While moving, they will animate the crossed places, adding new fruits in Chamonix trees and those of villages of Argentiere, The Tour, Vallorcine and Les Houches. The fruits of "poetic dreams " composed by actors and Ambassadors of Peace in motion will be filed in various places of the valley to say the urgency for human beings to make a sensible and harmonious relationship with the earth, our planet, with all living beings and our living environment. Signs made in A3 format will be prepared before the event and made from thoughts sent before May 31, 2008 by the poets and artists present at the event, thoughts from their works printed in their original language, with a translation into french and in English. For lunch, everyone can either bring a picnic or eating on the place. 17.30 p.m: poetic evening at the Church of Chamonix. This evening will be hosted in a collective way around the sharing of our respective wealth. Everyone is invited to discover their talents and to propose its participation before the event so that the program can be established rigorously. The creativity of everyone is sought. The poems can be read, recited several voices, sung or danced.
Guy Créquie, a poet and a singer will sing "Je te salue Marie" for all the women of the creation and others poetic songs. Pierre Meige, a poet and a wonderful musician, will be too with us. And You, what can you propose about your sacred art?
21 p.m: Dinner with entertainment and readings by the poets present. The goal is to know each other, to share and to live together a beautiful moment of conviviality.
on 22 July 2008
Poetry and verticality Topics: the mountains, verticality, nature, commitment. Meeting on the mayor place of Chamonix, at 9 am. Throughout the day, over the displacement, distribution to the tourists of "poetic flames" in the form of 1 / 3 page printed of various thoughts and texts, in various languages. Climb cable to the Aiguille du Midi, 3842 metres altitude. Visit of the site with discovery and contemplation of the Massif: a view of Mont Blanc (roof of Europe: 4810 m.) A 360 °, an exceptional natural panorama awaits us. * Group picture with a backdrop of Mont Blanc. 12.00 : Poetic Surprise Marie Robert recites two of her poems inspired by this wonderful site: "A summit for Peace" written during his first ascent of Mont Blanc on Aug. 24, 1990, "Guide my friend." A poem written in tribute to the mountains and to work as a guide and already staged in 1992 at the 500th anniversary of the birth of mountaineering in Montaiguille Isere and in many other places including the ski and mountaineering national school of Chamonix, and most recently in 2007 into the refuge of the Cross of Bonhomme at a national commemoration of the French Federation of the Hike and the French Alpine Club. Picnic on the terrace facing Mont Blanc and snacks taken on the place Crossing Scenic Valley Blanche in the cabin until Helbronner Italy. Exceptional panorama of the world to contemplate. Back by the Aiguille du Midi and descending through the intermediary, the Plan de l'Aiguille 2317 metres altitude. 18.30 p.m : 20th Anniversary of the creation of the show Escaladanse Elans "Love is vertical" in Chamonix in 1988. This creation is the basis of the "cosmopoétique" philosophy and arts. http://www.marierobert.com/escalade-et-danse-spectacle-experimental-de-Marie-Robert-a-Chamonix.htm
Presentation of the book published in 2008. Screening of the film "memories of an experience" Reading your poems on the mountain 21 p.m: Dinner with entertainment and readings by the poets present. Topics: the mountains, verticality, nature, commitment. The goal is to know each other, to share and to live a beautiful moment of conviviality.
23 Juillet 2008
Poetry and Culture of Peace Themes: peace between the peoples of the United Nations, the water at the heart of life. Meeting to the mayor place of Chamonix, at 9 am. This day will be devoted to the visit of the Mer de Glace, ascent to the site by the Montenvers cog railway. Visit of the temple of nature and conference about culture site : history about this place, the source of the economy Chamonix, residents, muleteers and guides, visitors famous and unknown, writers, tourists. * Photo group in front of the hotel Montenvers Flot Poetry spilled on the flow of tourists descending trains to recall that the mountain is primarily a space that re-examines the heart and soul of the human re-questioning his eyes, that the mountain is an area where nature itself expresses its poetry and it is enough to open our eyes to gather inside. * Photo group with the Drus Run for a picnic on the Mer de Glace, easy initiation at crampon walking. On the Mer de Glace, round with flags of the Peoples of the United Nations. This round choreography designed by Marie Robert express, with powerful symbols, the friendship of the peoples of the earth and their common desire to build a lasting peace with each other and with their environment including water. May this peace be active in the villages that have the territorial proximity and the Massif du Mont Blanc as a subject, object and space of creative human relations. Whether active between individuals, between families, villages, peoples, nations. We will live the friendship between the poets of the world, the friendship of creative individual messages of beauty for now and for the children of the future Everyone will bring from his country, his city, his continent, his people, one or several flags. Everyone will be able to make if he so desires "a poetic flag ". Size advised: 2m wide x 1m50. Photos and video of the round. Sharing and Reading universal text ABOUT HARMONY. Then we will invest the mythical Hotel Montenvers for an exceptional evening and night in a refuge: - Visit hotel and installation in the dormitories and rooms - Sunset contemplation on the mythical "Drus" and "La Verte" - Savoy Dinner shares with readings by present poets . Animation and musical improvisations with Guy Créquie and Pierre Meige.
Theme: harmony with nature. - To listen to the silence of humans, life and the nature of glaciers, listening to the "Words of Nature" before bedtime: crackles, waterfalls, blowing wind, birds and so on.
on 24 July 2008
- Sunrise at dawn. Ascent with the dawn to signal (3 / 4 hour walk), exceptional view to admire the way to lifting of sunlight on the "Aiguilles de Chamonix" and on the Mer de Glace. - Tea friendly at signal - Back in the hotel, breakfast and Down in the valley in the morning - Visit to the Museum of crystals Free lunch - Poetry and music parade in Chamonix (all sound instruments bells, rainsticks, gong…) - Distribution of thought and poetic excerpts to announce: - Dedicating of our books 15 to 20 hours on the Place de l'Hôtel des Alpes, and 20 to 22 h. in the evening at the Salon du Majestic. 21 p.m: Cocktail and last dinner
on 25 july 2008
Day hike with picnic proposed Lake. The view is magnificent on Aiguilles de Chamonix and Mont-Blanc massif. Or for those who prefer not to walk: Visit Alpine Museum - Natural Reserve of the Aiguilles Rouges - round about alpine flora and fauna.
Throughout the event, EXHIBITION Photographs and Poetry
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