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Local Show Mar 12,2022

Spotlight on France

Dissecting the nationalist and racist language of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, France's push to label nuclear energy as green. And the origins of family aid policies that have supported France's high birth rate for over 90 years.

One of France's 12 presidential candidates is the unashamedly xenophobic, anti-Islam writer and political pundit Eric Zemmour, whose popularity partially stems from his way with words. Using literary and historical references, he puts a positive spin on some of France’s more difficult historical moments, praising colonialism or claiming the Vichy regime protected French Jews. Semiologist Cécile Alduy (@cecilealduy), author of La langue de Zemmour (The language of Zemmour), has dissected the structure of his discourses. She talks about how this enables him to advance his political and ideological ambitions and how he has differentiated himself from the other far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Listen to this week’s episode

by The WRP Team

Local News Mar 12,2022

Rosetta Beaugendre – Centre Culturel Irlandais

Patricia Killeen went to meet Rosetta Beaugendre, Head of Communications at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, (CCI) in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, during the Saint Patrick’s festival (10-20March).

Rosetta manages a small team of dedicated colleagues with whom her main responsibility is to communicate bilingually the breadth of the CCI’s activities to members of the public, journalists, artists, partners and cultural peers. A notable part of her job is looking after the image and brand of this unique institution that combines the historical with the contemporary, the diplomatic with the trail-blazing.

Patricia and Rosetta spoke about the many wonderful events including two Irish centenary exhibitions, two St. Patrick’s Day party events on Sunday’s 13 and 20 March, the KILA concerts (in partnership with Tourism Ireland) and the “2022 Congress for Ireland” event, Saturday 12 March at 7h30pm. This panel unites four inspiring speakers; Panti Bliss (acclaimed human rights and LGBTQIA+ activist and drag queen) as well as Richard Kearney, Sean Binder and Catriona Crowe. These renowned Irish thinkers and activists will share their aspirations for contemporary Ireland and comment Ireland’s 100-year history of social justice and human rights, history, philosophy, and religion.

For more information:

https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en-ce-moment/expositions-evenements/st-patricks-festival-4

by The WRP Team

Mar 11,2022

On France’s War on Woke with Cole Stangler

With less than three months to the French presidential election, there are a number of worrying discussions taking place online and in the media that risk distracting from the most pressing issues for French citizens but have taken up considerable airtime. In 2020, that was the controversial idea of islamo-gaucmhisme, or islamo-leftism. Since, the buzzword in heavy rotation trotted out by talking heads and politicians has become wokism, a term that has become completely bastardised and distorted from its original meaning, weaponised in political discourse and used pejoratively to condemn both political correctness and perceived excesses of social and racial justice movements. All across Europe, the anti woke brigade has been in full force and that includes France.

To talk about this term, how we got here, how it has been weaponised, what it means moving forward, particularly as we anticipate election debates, I’m joined by Cole Stangler, a French-American journalist who regularly covers labor and politics.

Photo by Guillaume Didelet on Unsplash

by The WRP Team

Local Show Mar 10,2022

Saint Patrick’s day event in Paris this Sunday

In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen chatted with Paul Lynch who along with working for Eurocontrol, is also President of the “Irish in France Association”.

He was also one of the founding members of the Paris Gaels GAA, an Irish Athletics Sports club, which is still going strong.

Over the years he has been very active fundraising for charity in the Irish community in France. The glamorous Paris “Goal Balls” he organised over a number of years generated mega funds and he has raised more than €360,000 for Irish charities.

In 2017 Paul founded the Irish in France Association which is the biggest ever Irish association in France. Along with organising the Saint Patrick Day Parades in Paris in 2018 and 2019, the Irish in France organise events throughout the year.

Paul has also proposed ideas to the Irish Government, on how the Irish Diaspora could vote at home. The Irish, like Germans, Maltese, Cypriots and Danish people living in France, are ineligible to vote in parliamentary elections both here in France and in their home countries.

Paul is inviting WRP listeners to a great Saint Patrick’s Day party organised with the Centre Culturel Irlandais, in its courtyard in the 5th arrondisement, on Sunday 13 March from 1PM onwards. This is part of the Centre Culturel Irlandais’ Saint Patrick’s Day festival which runs from 10 to 20 march inclusive, offering wonderful daily exhibitions and events.

More info: https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/exhibitions-events/c%C3%A9il%C3%AD-mor-paname-connection-ceilidh-band

Turning Points hosted by Patricia Killeen

by The WRP Team

Mar 7,2022

Alison Grace Koehler shares the world of Stained Glass making in Paris!

Alison Grace Koehler is a stained glass poet, originally from Chicago and currently living and working in Paris, France. Her windows and glass installations can be found in private and public spaces around the city, as permanent fixtures and in temporary exhibitions. She fuses stained glass with poetry in her windows, hangings, and glass portraits, as well as in video and performance art pieces. Her first collection of poems, entitled Stained Glass Poetry, has recently been published by Paris Heretics.

http://alisonkoehler.com/

https://www.instagram.com/alisongracekoehler/

https://www.facebook.com/AlisonGraceKoehler

poetry book : http://alisonkoehler.com/stained-glass-poetry/

Instagram: @alisongracekoehler

Facebook: @alisongracekoehler

Twitter: @AGraceColor

by The WRP Team

Mar 4,2022

Liv Monaghan on Turning Points

In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen speaks to Liv Monaghan, vocalist and songwriter based in Paris.

Her music pulls threads from Jazz, Soul, Rock, and Romanticism to create an alternative, sometimes experimental, often poetic and always original sound.

Lover of the left-behind, of old things of letter-notes and half-light ghosts which get stitched, strung or typed back up together to make something new.

Liv’s next concerts in Paris are :

March 23 – 38 Riv – https://yurplan.com/event/Liv-Monaghan-trio/80217#/

April 26 – Sunside Jazz Club – https://www.sunset-sunside.com/2022/4/artiste/2680/8158/

by The WRP Team

Feb 28,2022

French-American General Store Shopping with Landline

At the very end of 2021, one of the highlights was getting to meet a whole new batch of readers when I did a book signing for The New Parisienne at the home goods store Landline which I discovered during the lowest moments of Covid. This is in the 11th arrondissement which is an area I know intimately. The French American owner Caroline Morrison opened the doors to her nostalgic general store at the end of 2020 and has become, like the most charming independent bookstores and thoughtfully designed toy stores of yesteryear, a space I not only feel joy being in but can also feel good about buying from.

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