Estelle Amy de la Bretèque
Sylvain Dubret
CLOSING | THE CAVE
with
the interwar rebetiko duo
Vocal: Estelle Amy de la Bretèque
Guitar: Sylvain Dubert
THE FESTIVAL OF THE MUSIC
June 21st 7:30 PM
An intimate program that brings together a voice and a guitar around rebetiko, a musical genre stemming from Greek popular music of the interwar period. These songs poetically evoke universal themes such as exile, love, and human relationships.
Estelle Amy de la Bretèque is a singer and percussionist. She has been trained since childhood in various musical traditions from Indonesia and the Mediterranean basin. She sings in several languages but has a particular affection for repertoires in Greek, a language she speaks fluently.
Sylvain Dubert studied guitar with renowned musicians from the Greek music scene: Theodora Athanassiou (rebetiko guitar), Ourania Lampropoulo (santur), and enriched his musical palette by also studying jazz guitar with Pierre Perchaud at the CMDL (Didier Lockwood Music Center).
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek". Joseph Campbell
2024 Nausicca
© Roberto Frankenberg
AUTHOR COMPOSER PERFORMER
After studying philosophy, Nausicaa went to New York to study opera singing and attend classes at the Actor Studio. She then sang and wrote songs in various R&B, Folk, French, and English bands.
She created her first comic opera show, "La Comtesse," in Paris in 1995, directed by Caroline Loeb, which toured small Parisian venues and barges for 5 years.
Following that was the very exotic and moving "Oceania," where she embodied and performed the ethnic songs of a woman on Earth, a personal creation and research.
After singing the beautiful words of Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, and Charles Aznavour, or to the divine music of Mozart or Offenbach, she wrote her own songs, produced and recorded 4 albums: "Chansons Vapeurs N°1" and "Chansons Vapeurs N°2," "Le Marin," and the highly acclaimed "Religieuse," where she depicts life and people with the poetry of her tender and quirky gaze.
Her influences include Thomas Fersen, Souchon, Arthur H, Émilie Simon, the Beatles, Beth Gibbons, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Bowie, and the Kriill.
She also supports others in their radiance, balance, and creativity as a coach and therapist.
NAUSICAA
nausicaa@vivoix.fr
From May 24 to 22 Juin 2024
Mémoire de l'Avenir will host an exhibition
by Suki VALENTINE
Titled THE CAVE
PREVIEW
THE CAVE
"The first impulse to create this exhibition arose in response to the erosion, abuse and the banning of women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy in the USA and in other places in the world. With this display, I delve into the breadth of this narrative, pulling in content of misogyny and its amplification when it intersects with racism, classism, ableism and/or hatred toward LGBTQIA+ communities".
Through using materials as diverse as encaustic paints, metals and silver sterling, the cyanotype print and text, Suki Valentine is telling a story about the struggles for bodily freedom that half of humanity continues to fight for in various ways, across our small planet.
Through five groupings of work Suki Valentine expose her inquiry on the above subjects :
- Breaker's Dozen is in the heart of the show. The majority of the other works are in relationship to this main group. It is comprised of 13 metal sculptures-
- He Said, She Said He Said is a group of ink paintings compromised of twenty paintings: a reflective dialogue with the Breaker's Dozen and the The Confessional Kept Its Peace.
- The Cave are 13 watercolour paper cyanotype prints.
- The Confessional Kept Its Peace is comprised of 25 miniature pottery.
- Promises Promising Promises are 14 pieces of "gilded eggshells" paired with the Breaker's Dozen.
REFERENCES
Suki Valentines
1. Adam Liptak, Nov. 2, 2022, In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights, available at www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-overturned-supreme-court
2. Moya Zakia Bailey, « Race, Region, and Gender in Early Emory School of Medicine Yearbooks », Early Emory School of Medicine Yearbooks, 2013, p. 26
3. Sarah Hurtes, 2023, Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe, Available at www.nytimes.com, 2023,
4. PLATO, 380 bce, The Allegory of the Cave, Translated by Shawn Eyer, Copyright © 2016 Plumbstone Books,
PERFORMANCE
NAUSICAA
Suki Valentine
If you wish to submit a project or activity for our Live Performance Satellite Events, please contact us via email at contact@memoire-a-venir.org
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Suki Valentine is an artist, activist, writer and poet whose work has been described by critics as astonishing, luminous and fantastical.
Their work has exhibited internationally across three continents, and has been covered by such publications as Naja21 and Paris LightsUp in France, and Art Blog and Time Out New York in the US.
Born and Raised in New York City, Suki Valentine currently divides time a few rivers south, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and across theocean in Paris, France.
OPENING
24 MAY 2024
PRESS 12H30
PUBLIC 18H - 21H
PERFORMANCE 20H
SUKI VALENTINE
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