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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
The third Passage Blues festival promises to put electricity in
your bones, with performances from (to name a few) the
Honeymen and the Electric Kings. Saturday March 24 will
swing with the Nashville Blues
Review with Charles Walker, and later
on a jam session from Nashville and
the Harlem Horns. George Brock and
the Blues Station band will get you
dancing, and the stage is also given
over to Mary- Ann Brandon, a tortured
artiste with a jewel of a voice. Then
there’s Terry Evans, the bluesman who
tinted the musical palette of the likes
of John Lee Hooker.
Two days of rhythm ’n’ blues, rock
and soul at Le Passage, when you can,
in the words of Terry Adams “live like
a hurricane”, and enjoy the show.
March 23-4 Le Passage, Lot-et-Garonne. Ticket prices
vary from €12 to €25, book before March 18 for reduced
prices. 05 53 40 72 14,
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
The new Préfet of the
Dordogne Jean-François
Tallec took up his post on
Monday February 12, in a
ceremony at the place
Tourny, Périgueux. M. Tallec
laid flowers on the war
memorial, to the sound of
military music and the
Marseillaise, with maire
Xavier Darcos by his side.
Jean-François Tallec
assured those gathered that
he has a practical background which will serve him well in his
new role. Among other things, he has spent two years in the
Outre-Mer ministry where he was in charge of the reconstruction
of Guadeloupe; he has also sesved as Préfet of the Indre
and Yonne.
Tallec admitted that so far he only knew the Dordogne
through files given to him by the secrétaire-général. But he
declared his intention to get to know the area better, and stressed
the importance of “getting out and meeting people”.
He was looking forward to the inevitable courtesy meetings
as he takes on his new role, meeting “the main institutions, the
people who are important for the département, the unions and so
on”. The inevitable buffets would be a pleasure, since he
described himself as “fond of good things”.
Regarding his role as Préfet, Tallec said: “Social cohesion
is one of the priorities we must aim for.”
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
Good news for motorists
fed up with traffic jams
around La Roche-sur-Yon
during rush hours and the
summer tourist season. Work
is to start in March on the
northern bypass. This will be
the last link of the A87
motorway, linking Angers to
Les Sables-d’Olonne.
Work will begin on the
underpass envisaged at the
Atlantique roundabout this
month, and should be finished
for the start of 2008. It is
hoped that this will relieve
some of the current
congestion.
The next major phases will
be a bridge over the gyratory
system at Établières and
another underpass at
Oudairies. Once finished, the
journey time to les Sablesd’Olonne
will be drastically
shortened.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
The Vendée’s main hospital,
the Centre Hospitalier in
La Roche-sur-Yon is to be
extended and refurbished.
Work will begin in
November this year and will
take until 2014 to complete, at
a cost of €150 million.
Built in 1977, there has
been no major extension or
modernisation since then. Now
it is time for major
improvements to meet the
needs of the ever-increasing
population and to cater for
advances in medical and
surgical techniques.
The first phase, which will
take three years to complete,
will be the construction of new
blocks mainly at the back of
the existing building.
A large building shaped
like a banana will house
paediatrics, obstetrics and
gynaecology. There will also
be a new wing adjoining the
current main building with a
helipad on top of it. The
Intensive Care Unit will be
doubled in size and the Day
Surgery Unit will be
refurbished.
Once this phase is
complete, patients will be
moved into the new parts from
the main hospital building to
allow refurbishment to begin
there, one half at a time.
Priority will be given in
the second phase to the
extension of accident and
emergency services which are
currently stretched. The
number of patients’ rooms will
be increased from 395 to 584,
many of which will be single
rooms.
Parking remains a
problem. The current 1,200
places are already saturated as
many visitors are aware.
Another car park is to be
made, but will only take an
extra 278 cars.
“We are concerned that
the work is going to take so
long, but we hope the patients
will be understanding,” said
Dr Michel Wiesel, president of
the hospital’s medical
commission.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
Hailed by the ‘Lyon Figaro’ as the
Rhône-Alpes’ most important
contemporary literature festival,
the 21st Fête du Livre de Bron expects to
welcome 56 authors from the world over.
They will represent a range of
disciplines, from historians, sociologists,
and philosophers to novelists including
Geneviève Brisac, Javier Cercas and
Marie NDiaye. The event is coordinated
by the association Lire Bron.
Writers are not always given enough
prominence in today’s world yet what
they have to say is crucial, argues Brigitte
Giraud, event programmer. The works
presented have been chosen around two
themes. The first is the ‘intimate to the
political’, examining how writers question
our social and political structures and how
the world and its chaos penetrate the
intimate sphere. Secondly, the tumultuous
relationship between men and women is
explored, the bitter sweetness of love, the
rapture of meeting and the
sadness of loss.
The organisers hope to offer a place
for quiet reflection but also debate
between readers and both established and
new authors.
The programme includes up to 40
talks by guest writers. The first is to be
given by the authors of ‘Une année en
France’, examining the three firm nons
proclaimed by the French on the
European constitution, the fires in the
banlieues and the anti-CPE movement.
Writer and editor Yves Pags and
journalist Joseph Confaureux are to
introduce their joint effort, ‘La France
invisible’, exposing groups in French
society which they think will soon be
outcast. Their investigation encompasses
the unseen lives not only of the homeless
and immigrants but also of banlieusards,
housewives and people in debt.
Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet,
who jointly compiled journals by
Marguerite Duras written between 1943
and 1949, are scheduled to give precious
autobiographical insight into the writer’s
work at the start of her literary career.
And while the grown-ups share their
ideas in literary debates or stroll round the
sizeable bookshop, organisers say the
children won’t miss out. Their very own
Village jeunesse together with free crêche,
story-telling and entertainment for all
ages should keep them entertained. They
will have the chance to meet childrens’
authors such as Sara, writer and
illustrator, who plans to interact with
budding artists to show them how to make
images as powerful as words.
The riotous adolescent world is also
to be delved into by writers Geneviève
Brisac and Jérôme Lambert who, by
means of their work, will discuss with
teenagers their conflicting desires and
mood swings.
Reading a wide variety of literature
helps to better understand our lives and
the world around us: where language and
reality are often confused, even eradicated
by the omnipresence of media and
political discourse, the writer offers an
alternative where the search for truth and
the willingness to explain and question
the world exist side by side.
March 9-11 , hippodrome de Parilly, Bron.
www.fetedulivredebron.com
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