Monday, July 6
2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
CAFÉ TANGO • "The 30th anniversary of the only Tango magazine: La Salida"« with Jean-Luc Thomas and France Garcia Ficheux
Price : FREE
From Monday 6 to Saturday 11 July, Café Tango welcomes you to the meeting space of the Ombres Blanches Bookstore for passionate and exciting encounters around tango and its culture, presented by Serge Davy and Solange Bazely.
Take the opportunity to discover and purchase books on tango on site, including of course those by the authors present, who will be happy to sign them for you.
Doors open at 2pm every day.
✦ "The 30th anniversary of the only Tango magazine: La Salida"«
For this first Tango Café, Jean-Luc Thomas and France Garcia Ficheux will discuss the 30th anniversary of the only tango magazine, "La Salida" (more than 140 issues), in the presence of Solange Bazely, who founded the magazine. Through testimonials (photos, videos), they will highlight the most beautiful issues published and also discuss the challenges facing this magazine, which reaches both a readership new to tango and a more experienced one. And as a sneak peek, we might even get a glimpse of what will be happening in Paris to celebrate this anniversary.
Jean-Luc Thomas
Journalist for The Popular Center, The Team from 1987 to 2013, and author.
Since 1990, Jean-Luc Thomas has traveled regularly to Argentina. Since 2010, he has been the editor of the specialized cultural magazine The Exit whose 30th anniversary we will be celebrating this year.
He has written several books on Argentine tango, notably Tango Paths (Ed. Atlantica, 1998) or the very beautiful book Tangos (SOLAR, 2004 – preface by Hanna Schygulla). Her book Footango, the muscles of tango (Atlantica-Seguier, 2002) was published in a revised and expanded edition in Argentina under the title Tangol, extraño conjuro de un amor hecho gambeta (Corregidor, 2016).
Jean-Luc Thomas also wrote and hosted various tango programs with Laurent Valero on France Musique. In 2006, he curated the exhibition At the Heart of Tango at the Issy-les-Moulineaux media library, and in 2014, curator of the exhibition Tango figures at the International Centre for Press Cartoons and Humour in Saint-Just le Martel (Haute Vienne).
His latest project is the making of the documentary film Juárez Suite (2023), for which he wrote the screenplay. He co-directed this feature film in Argentina with Alejandro Venturini. Juárez Suite is dedicated to the singer and bandoneon player Rubén Juárez, a major artist of tango.
France Garcia Ficheux
A professional journalist and proofreader, France Garcia Ficheux naturally offered to contribute to "La Salida". It was after reading Elsa Osorio's beautiful book "Tango" (Ed. Métailié 2007) that she felt the urge to learn this dance.
This is how she met, for classes on Sundays in Paris, the association Le Temps du Tango and of course the magazine "La Salida".
For more than ten years now, France Garcia Ficheux has not only had a proofreading role for the cultural magazine but also signs numerous articles.
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