Musical reading as part of the Book Festival

Musical reading of «La femme brouillon« with writer Amandine Dhée and cellist Timothée Couteau.

Writer and feminist, Amandine Dhée sheds political light on an intimate experience: motherhood. She talks about the new identity she has to come to terms with, with no real family model. Pregnant and then a young mother, the author recounts the norms that people try to impose on her every day, and her struggle to preserve her emancipation: her political awakening and her creativity. She sees motherhood as revealing a dominant and institutionalised discourse. She questions the perception of her own body, her sexuality, the distribution of roles within the family, transmission and her own contradictions... In La femme brouillon, Amandine Dhée claims a form of freedom, the freedom not to be a perfect mother: La mère parfaite is one of the Great Useless Projects that must be denounced.

Timothée Couteau Timothée, armed with his cello, accompanies Amandine's voice, digressing and creating the soundscape of La femme brouillon. As accomplices, Amandine and Timothée arrange to meet and improvise. They invite the audience to create their own images, and to walk through the text with them.

I write with chalk...« competition»

Enter the competition «I write with chalk...» and give free rein to your creativity on the pavements of Montataire! Chalk, Write down your favourite quote, a poetic phrase, or (for children) draw an ephemeral work that will embellish our streets.

Libraries lend chalk to help you create your own creations.

Try to win the honour of seeing your work become the new library bookmark and vouchers to the «Le Verbe à l'Objet" bookshop ".

Terms and conditions :

• The competition is open to everyone.
• Productions should be returned to the library.
• Drawings must be submitted no later than Wednesday 13 June.

The authors