Sorry

This feed does not validate.

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

Source: http://www.wice-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198</id><updated>2024-02-22T22:21:24.906+01:00</updated><category term="Courses &amp; Events"/><category term="Paris Happenings"/><category term="Paris Tips"/><category term="Paris Visits &amp; Museums"/><category term="Photography"/><category term="Creative Writing &amp; Literature"/><category term="Food &amp; Cooking"/><category term="Drawing &amp; Painting"/><category term="Languages"/><category term="Wine &amp; Champagne"/><category term="Membership"/><category term="Art Exhibitions"/><category term="Culture"/><category term="volunteers"/><title type='text'>WELCOME to WICE</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>150</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-6799938670360558913</id><published>2018-03-19T18:03:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2018-03-19T18:03:47.573+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Book Now for Musical Madness!  The International Players&#39; Show This Week!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  4. One of our sister associations is putting on an annual spring show this week!&lt;/div&gt;
  5. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  6. Some WICE members are performing, some attending...good quality entertainment and a lot of fun!&lt;/div&gt;
  7. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  8. Be there!&lt;/div&gt;
  9. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  10. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  11. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  12. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DkQmSPGeP8/Wq_swD7zZ4I/AAAAAAAAB0M/TORbjhNo58AnPQmIXsdkk5Pq_tEaZvCrwCLcBGAs/s1600/musical%2Bmadness.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;650&quot; data-original-width=&quot;460&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DkQmSPGeP8/Wq_swD7zZ4I/AAAAAAAAB0M/TORbjhNo58AnPQmIXsdkk5Pq_tEaZvCrwCLcBGAs/s640/musical%2Bmadness.jpg&quot; width=&quot;452&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  13. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/6799938670360558913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/6799938670360558913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2018/03/book-now-for-musical-madness.html' title='Book Now for Musical Madness!  The International Players&#39; Show This Week!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DkQmSPGeP8/Wq_swD7zZ4I/AAAAAAAAB0M/TORbjhNo58AnPQmIXsdkk5Pq_tEaZvCrwCLcBGAs/s72-c/musical%2Bmadness.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-8624992220626254294</id><published>2018-03-18T11:46:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2018-03-18T21:35:23.394+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Poetry Workshop SPRINGS FORTH Next Month!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  14. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;To borrow from the Good Book, “In the beginning was the Word.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  15. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  16. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  17. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  18. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;Words give sense to things, though we may still be “the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  19. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  20. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  21. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  22. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;In the spirit of meaningful words, &lt;b&gt;next month WICE is offering a poetry “Craft and Inspiration” workshop&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(six Thursday afternoons) led by &lt;b&gt;David Barnes&lt;/b&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  23. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  24. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mERmrh4RWz8/Wq7KcCAt_BI/AAAAAAAABz8/_KKrqSaNqZswWZ7-Y7tFa6me32aBMR2HACEwYBhgL/s1600/david%2Bteaching.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;574&quot; data-original-width=&quot;960&quot; height=&quot;190&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mERmrh4RWz8/Wq7KcCAt_BI/AAAAAAAABz8/_KKrqSaNqZswWZ7-Y7tFa6me32aBMR2HACEwYBhgL/s320/david%2Bteaching.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  25. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;David Barnes of WICE, who loves spoken word poetry&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  26. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  27. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  28. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Originally from Oxfordshire, he&#39;s been involved in the Paris writing scene for 15 years.&amp;nbsp; He says, “The workshop will focus on how to generate material, and craft it into strong poems, drawing inspiration from the groups’ own favorite works of poetry.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  29. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  30. &lt;/div&gt;
  31. &lt;/div&gt;
  32. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  33. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  34. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  35. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Letting the words speak for themselves -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  36. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  37. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;here&#39;s a sample from David’s poem, &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;tidal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  38. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  39. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MTwuIJG5D7k/Wq4g6ckaL2I/AAAAAAAABzc/TNiRB9FAWdYHbL0_mhi4DwxpiyMNzvYNACLcBGAs/s1600/man-sea-water.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1068&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;133&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MTwuIJG5D7k/Wq4g6ckaL2I/AAAAAAAABzc/TNiRB9FAWdYHbL0_mhi4DwxpiyMNzvYNACLcBGAs/s200/man-sea-water.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  40. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&quot;...his thick forearms make their strokes...&quot;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  41. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  42. &lt;br /&gt;
  43. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  44. &lt;i&gt;Though he has not moved from his chair and a moment only has passed,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  45. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  46. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;this swimmer, once the third in France&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  47. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  48. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;seeks his refuge from the memory of his father that moves across his face,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  49. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  50. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;turns aside his large, grey head&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  51. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  52. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;as he says to himself the words his father said,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  53. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  54. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;‘Pour qui tu te prends?’&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  55. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  56. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;He rubs his unused hands on his thighs&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  57. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  58. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;up and down, as if to smear on grease.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  59. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  60. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  61. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  62. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;but then his thick forearms make their strokes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  63. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  64. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;and he returns from submergence far out,&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  65. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  66. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;rolls back in,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  67. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  68. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;his voice loud with deep, French vowels&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  69. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  70. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;‘Pour moi,’ he says. ‘Pour moi. Je me prends pour moi.’&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  71. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  72. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  73. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  74. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;David began writing with workshops at Shakespeare and Company, and later taught short story and poetry writing at WICE.&amp;nbsp; He also started Spoken Word Paris, described on its website as a “pole of a nomadic tribe of people who love poetry, writing and song. A home for creatives and lost anglophones. We do an open mic night called SpokenWord every Monday at Au Chat Noir…”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  75. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  76. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  77. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  78. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Among David’s recent &lt;b&gt;WICE students Denise Mirat&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Here’s part of her poem, &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  79. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  80. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  81. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  82. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ljebOlOwL5Q/Wq5Cyn8T_FI/AAAAAAAABzs/LZl1sh72LGUjQRKjnV2HjBG0qzsXmYvkACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_1605.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;714&quot; data-original-width=&quot;750&quot; height=&quot;190&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ljebOlOwL5Q/Wq5Cyn8T_FI/AAAAAAAABzs/LZl1sh72LGUjQRKjnV2HjBG0qzsXmYvkACLcBGAs/s200/IMG_1605.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  83. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&quot;When&#39;s I going&#39; home?&quot;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  84. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  85. &lt;/div&gt;
  86. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  87. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  88. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  89. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;No more sleeping with Grandma,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  90. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Quilts piled high on a feather bed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  91. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  92. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;No climbing on a chair to help her.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  93. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  94. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;No brown sugar on butter-bread.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  95. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  96. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;No jumping up on the couch&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  97. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  98. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;To shout into the phone&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  99. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  100. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mamma, when you gonna come git me?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  101. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  102. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;When’s I goin’ home?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  103. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  104. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  105. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  106. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;David prefers spoken to written poetry, because, “the human voice adds something so powerful and of the person.” &amp;nbsp; He’s not as interested in slam poetry, because “that’s too formulaic.&amp;nbsp; Slam poetry tends toward funny or social justice subjects designed to appeal to judges in the audience.&amp;nbsp; Our workshops are for all subjects from people of all ages, levels and backgrounds.&amp;nbsp; Everybody can feel safe sharing any kind of work, while getting feedback if they want it.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  107. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  108. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  109. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  110. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;So, that’s not the final word!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  111. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  112. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  113. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  114. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  115. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  116. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  117. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  118. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;For more information on the poetry workshop and all other WICE activities, check out our website, and look out for the &lt;b&gt;Paris Writers Workshop&lt;/b&gt; this spring too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  119. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  120. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  121. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  122. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2754592 (Poetry Craft and Inspiration Workshop)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  123. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  124. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  125. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  126. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;https://spokenwordparis.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  127. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  128. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  129. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;
  130. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  131. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  132. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;WICE Office&lt;br /&gt;
  133. 10 rue Tiphaine&lt;br /&gt;
  134. 75015 Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  135. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  136. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  137. &lt;br /&gt;
  138. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  139. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Telephone&lt;br /&gt;
  140. 01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  141. &lt;div&gt;
  142. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  143. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/8624992220626254294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/8624992220626254294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-poetry-workshop-springs-forth-next.html' title='A Poetry Workshop SPRINGS FORTH Next Month!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mERmrh4RWz8/Wq7KcCAt_BI/AAAAAAAABz8/_KKrqSaNqZswWZ7-Y7tFa6me32aBMR2HACEwYBhgL/s72-c/david%2Bteaching.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-5855780373670119994</id><published>2018-01-31T14:25:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-31T18:21:09.725+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A French Women&#39;s March Took Down a King</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(202, 32, 23); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #ca2017; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  144. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  145. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  146. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The recent turnout of hundreds of thousands of women for the first anniversary of the international Women’s March, makes this an ideal moment to revisit the astonishing victory against tyranny of the Women’s March on Versailles in 1789.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  147. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  148. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  149. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  150. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;This year&#39;s massive anniversary protest comes amidst the huge “Me Too” movement, and an explosion of lawsuits denouncing sexual harassment in the workplace.&amp;nbsp; There is a feeling of being in the midst of bona fide social change that will celebrated on International Women&#39;s Day next month. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  151. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  152. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  153. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  154. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;At the marches in Paris, some protesters waved placards recalling another pivotal march that changed history — an event on a par with the storming of the Bastille.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  155. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  156. &lt;br /&gt;
  157. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  158. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e_uOIGUlLNQ/WnG_lnXJCUI/AAAAAAAABy0/hl7PE8SDdFUDUK2fcPHHODTuDlzxldgiQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0132.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;516&quot; data-original-width=&quot;607&quot; height=&quot;272&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e_uOIGUlLNQ/WnG_lnXJCUI/AAAAAAAABy0/hl7PE8SDdFUDUK2fcPHHODTuDlzxldgiQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_0132.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  159. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Paris protester last year recalls the 1789 march&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  160. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  161. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;Following widespread food riots in Paris, seven thousand women set forth in an armed march to take flour from the king’s stores 12 miles away in Versailles. Revolutionaries seized the moment, and forced the king to sign the recently composed “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” so ending his absolute rule.&amp;nbsp; The king and his entourage were dragged back to the capital as prisoners. It was a turning point, signalling a shift in power from the nobility to the common people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  162. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  163. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  164. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  165. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  166. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;Comparing elements of revolutionary France and current events isn’t so far-fetched.&amp;nbsp; Civil unrest in Paris was fuelled by paranoid plots in the press and fake news, at a time when the cost of bread rose to an average 50 percent of wages.&amp;nbsp; Propaganda accused nobles of starving them deliberately. &amp;nbsp;Misogynist and xenophobic blame lashed against the foreign queen, Marie-Antoinette.&amp;nbsp; She became known as l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;’Autri-chienne&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;, a French play on words referring to her as Austrian bitch, hated for lavish spending during times of public austerity. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  167. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  168. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  169. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  170. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Another factor was the staggering inequality of the &lt;i&gt;ancien régime&lt;/i&gt;, in which the clergy and nobles, or first and second estates, held vast wealth and paid no taxes.&amp;nbsp; The third estate, or 97 percent, was heavily taxed for foreign wars, including the American Revolution which brought France close to ruin. &amp;nbsp;Certain parallels didn’t escape &lt;u&gt;Time Magazine&lt;/u&gt;, displaying Trump as the 2016 “person of the year” on a throne carved with a &lt;i&gt;fleur-de-lis&lt;/i&gt;, the symbol of the French monarchy. The 2017 &lt;u&gt;Time&lt;/u&gt; person of the year cover was a group of women representing the “Me Too” campaign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  171. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  172. &lt;br /&gt;
  173. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  174. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  175. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Ensconced for over a century in the luxurious Versailles Palace, 12 miles from Paris, the nobility had long been isolated from the impoverished city mobs. Because their rulers were so out of touch, the new Assembly’s&amp;nbsp; “Declaration of the Rights of Man” pressed for the king to reside in Paris, in earshot of his subjects’ demands for a constitutional monarchy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  176. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  177. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  178. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  179. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Common citizens discovered a new role in politics.&amp;nbsp; They attacked the Bastille Prison, plundering its arms and gunpowder, dismantling this symbol of despotism stone by stone. Women took part as never before, joining revolutionary crowds, publishing political tracts, and plays with a full range of opinions. Olympe de Gouges wrote the stillborn “Declaration of the Rights of Woman,” that was way before its time.&amp;nbsp; Yet it was illiterate women who led the spectacular charge on the king’s authority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  180. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  181. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  182. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  183. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;On October 5, 1789, a crowd of market women gathered near the city hall to protest bread shortages.&amp;nbsp; To tolling church bells, more poured out from all over the city, swelling the crowd to seven-thousand strong. News that the king was sending troops against them infuriated the fearsome fishmongers, &lt;i&gt;les poissardes&lt;/i&gt;, muscular from carting boxes and wielding fish knives, and others brandishing pikes and scythes. A mob raided the city hall for weapons including several cannons.&amp;nbsp; Shrewd activists shouted, “&lt;i&gt;A Versailles!&lt;/i&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  184. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  185. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  186. &lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0zyq1azqz4/WnHFCX88f9I/AAAAAAAABzA/jdXyLn0A68oyia1w_S0V_Ht-SdZbdSPsgCLcBGAs/s1600/octobre-femmes.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;917&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;183&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0zyq1azqz4/WnHFCX88f9I/AAAAAAAABzA/jdXyLn0A68oyia1w_S0V_Ht-SdZbdSPsgCLcBGAs/s320/octobre-femmes.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  187. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  188. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  189. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;They trudged six hours through the autumn rain, gathering followers, and demanding the capture of Louis and death of Marie-Antoinette. Arriving exhausted at the Palace of Versailles, they laid siege to the court. A delegation of six women accompanied the President of the Assembly to the king’s apartment, where Louis promised a provision of food, but refused an immediate move to Paris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  190. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  191. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  192. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  193. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;As the crowd grew to 60 thousand, the king finally signed the “Declaration of the Rights of Man.” By this time, the Marquis de Lafayette had arrived with an army of men to back the women, who huddled all night by bonfires at the palace gate, some clamoring for blood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  194. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  195. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  196. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  197. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;At daybreak, a wave of women broke through a gate, violence boiling into savagery. They decapitated guards, impaling their heads on pikes. &amp;nbsp;Forcing their way into the palace, they shouted for the queen’s entrails, an arm or leg. If the queen hadn’t fled barefoot to the king’s chambers, she might have been torn apart. Instead, the attackers shredded her mattress. By afternoon, the king and his entourage were en route to Paris, flanked by wagons full of flour for the triumphant marchers, some astride cannons boasting they’d brought back “the baker and the baker’s wife,” who remained under house arrest until their eventual execution. The Assembly hailed the women as “Mothers of the Nation.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  198. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;
  199. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  200. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: &amp;quot;georgia&amp;quot;; font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;Recent women’s activism has been built on and inspired by such acts of continual struggle and courage by ordinary women over centuries to assert the self-evident truth that “women’s rights are human rights.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  201. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: &amp;quot;georgia&amp;quot;; font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #111111; font-family: &amp;quot;georgia&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: 17.899999618530273px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;A reminder of a line-up of events to celebrate WICE&#39;s 40th Anniversary!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  202. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: &amp;quot;georgia&amp;quot;; font-size: 17.9px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  203. &lt;br /&gt;
  204. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  205. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Merde Factor” Theatrical Performance:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  206. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  207. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Date:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; February 12, 2018&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  208. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  209. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;19h - 21h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  210. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  211. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Highlander Pub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  212. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  213. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 8 rue de Nevers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  214. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  215. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 75006 PARIS&lt;/div&gt;
  216. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  217. &lt;b&gt;Metro:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Mabillion&lt;/div&gt;
  218. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  219. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  220. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19pt;&quot;&gt;
  221. &lt;b&gt;Tickets:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;PT&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;€&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;25 for Members and Guests, which includes a glass of wine, beer or a soft drink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  222. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot;&gt;
  223. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  224. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  225. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Book your tickets&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for what promises to be a great night out!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  226. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  227. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  228. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  229. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;For more details about&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/WICE-40&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE&#39;s 40th Anniversary&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and our other courses and events, check out the new&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/WICE-40&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE 40 page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  230. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  231. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  232. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  233. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  234. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  235. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #0000ee; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  236. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot; style=&quot;color: #002a77;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  237. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  238. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;WICE Office&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; style=&quot;color: #002a77;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;75015 Paris&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  239. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  240. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  241. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  242. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Telephone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  243. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5855780373670119994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5855780373670119994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-french-womens-march-took-down-king.html' title='A French Women&#39;s March Took Down a King'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e_uOIGUlLNQ/WnG_lnXJCUI/AAAAAAAABy0/hl7PE8SDdFUDUK2fcPHHODTuDlzxldgiQCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_0132.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-6514925878636839050</id><published>2018-01-15T06:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-31T13:53:42.443+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Meet the author Stephen Clarke - and a Theatrical Performance of his book &#39;The Merde Factor&#39;</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  244. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUN0GERUbM4/WlnGviGrbZI/AAAAAAAAByg/pBjbikTLBUwRtqFqqrzYoD0pGExvN9y8ACLcBGAs/s1600/unnamed.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;310&quot; data-original-width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUN0GERUbM4/WlnGviGrbZI/AAAAAAAAByg/pBjbikTLBUwRtqFqqrzYoD0pGExvN9y8ACLcBGAs/s400/unnamed.jpg&quot; width=&quot;308&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  245. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  246. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;Let’s celebrate 40 years of WICE in 2018!&amp;nbsp; The anniversary celebrations begin with an exclusive opportunity to meet best-selling author Stephen Clarke at special theatrical performance of his book&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;The&lt;i&gt; Merde &lt;/i&gt;Factor&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  247. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  248. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  249. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  250. Who among us WICE English-speakers won’t identify with a British expat’s culture shock of living in Paris when he can’t speak French? Join us for some laughs&amp;nbsp;at the Highlander Pub in Paris, o&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;n February&amp;nbsp;12, 2018, with the&amp;nbsp;author of the&amp;nbsp;acclaimed &lt;i&gt;Merde &lt;/i&gt;series of novels.&amp;nbsp; After &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt; Factor performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;, there will be a Q&amp;amp;A session and book signing with Stephen Clarke.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  251. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  252. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  253. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  254. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;(The following is a summarized&amp;nbsp;version of Stephen Clarke&#39;s text.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  255. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  256. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;When he self-published &lt;u&gt;A Year in the Merde&lt;/u&gt;
  257. in 2004, printing up just 200 copies, Stephen Clarke never dreamed it would become a
  258. worldwide bestseller, translated into more than 20 languages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  259. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  260. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  261. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  262. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Clarke (heavily)
  263. fictionalized his own experiences of settling into real life in Paris, working
  264. for a French company, finding a flat, navigating cross-cultural relationships,
  265. and learning he was so much less sophisticated than Parisians think they are.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  266. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  267. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  268. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  269. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The “&lt;span lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;Merde&lt;/span&gt;”&amp;nbsp;in
  270. the title isn’t France itself, of course – it’s the chaos that ensues when the
  271. novel’s British hero, Paul West, blunders into French culture and tries to
  272. puzzle out what people are saying, and why they’re saying it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  273. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  274. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  275. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  276. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Couple this
  277. with colleagues who work harder at organizing their vacation than doing their
  278. job, girlfriends who expect him to make perfect vinaigrette, and trying to open
  279. an English tea room selling &quot;British cuisine&quot; (for Parisians, a
  280. contradiction in terms), and the result is a novel full of “&lt;span lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  281. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  282. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  283. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  284. &lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EUdXr25YC_c/WlnGySsin-I/AAAAAAAAByk/RjgyjLe2Lqkf-GJ9HSh31KjjgShk2_quQCLcBGAs/s1600/unnamed.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;240&quot; data-original-width=&quot;241&quot; height=&quot;317&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EUdXr25YC_c/WlnGySsin-I/AAAAAAAAByk/RjgyjLe2Lqkf-GJ9HSh31KjjgShk2_quQCLcBGAs/s320/unnamed.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  285. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  286. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;After being
  287. picked up by mainstream publishers,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;italic&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;A Year in the &lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was
  288. shortlisted for British first novel of the year.&amp;nbsp; In the sequel, &lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt;
  289. Actually&lt;/u&gt;, Paul enjoys a typical French summer of apéritifs and family rows
  290. before returning to Paris and opening his English tea room. The book went to
  291. number one in the UK, briefly toppling &lt;u&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/u&gt; from the top spot.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  292. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  293. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  294. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  295. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;What followed
  296. was&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt; Happens&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, about a road trip in a Mini across the USA
  297. from New York to LA, during which Paul tries to sell the UK as a tourist
  298. destination, with his French girlfriend as cynical co-pilot.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  299. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  300. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  301. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  302. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Next came
  303. &lt;u&gt;Dial M for&lt;i&gt; Merde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, a spoof thriller set in the south coast of France, with Paul
  304. migrating from Collioure in the west (one of Matisse&#39;s favourite haunts),
  305. through the haunting weirdness of the Camargue, the idyllic bay of Bandol, to
  306. the farcical snobbery of Saint Tropez.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  307. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  308. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  309. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  310. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;After this,
  311. Clarke decided that Paul West had had enough luxury, and sent him back,
  312. penniless, to Paris, to live in a &lt;i&gt;chambre de bonne&lt;/i&gt; with leaky plumbing, as he
  313. tries to get the stablest job on the planet, as a French civil servant. The
  314. result was&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;DA&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt; Factor&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  315. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  316. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  317. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  318. &lt;/div&gt;
  319. &lt;div class=&quot;default&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
  320. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The latest in
  321. the series is&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;DE&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Merde&lt;/i&gt; in Europe&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(2016), in which Paul
  322. West works for a French Member of the European Parliament.&amp;nbsp; He tries to
  323. sort out the real issues at stake in the Brexit&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;PT&quot;&gt;debate&lt;/span&gt;, revealing everything
  324. idealistically good, and crazily bad, about the EU. He also examines fake news
  325. being published about Brussels by the British press, from the EU wanting to ban
  326. bagpipes, to a &quot;scientific study&quot; proving that euro banknotes can
  327. make men impotent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  328. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  329. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  330. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  331. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen Clarke’s other books on France: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  332. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  333. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Talk to the Snail, the Ten Commandments for Understanding the
  334. French&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;(2006)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  335. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  336. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;1000 Years of Annoying the French&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;(2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  337. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  338. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Paris Revealed, the Secret Life of a City&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;(2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  339. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  340. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Dirty Bertie, an English King Made in France&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;(2013)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  341. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  342. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;How the French Won Waterloo, Or Think They Did&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;(2015)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  343. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  344. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  345. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  346. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;For more details see: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Hyperlink0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stephenclarkewriter.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.stephenclarkewriter.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  347. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Hyperlink0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  348. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Hyperlink0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post edited by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  349. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  350. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  351. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  352. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Merde Factor” Theatrical Performance:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  353. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  354. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Date:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; February 12, 2018&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  355. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  356. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;19h - 21h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  357. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  358. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location:&lt;/b&gt; Highlander Pub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  359. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  360. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 8 rue de Nevers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  361. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  362. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 75006 PARIS&lt;/div&gt;
  363. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  364. &lt;b&gt;Metro:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Mabillion&lt;/div&gt;
  365. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  366. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  367. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  368. &lt;b&gt;Tickets:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;PT&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;€&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;25 for Members and Guests, which includes a glass of wine, beer or a soft drink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  369. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot;&gt;
  370. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  371. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  372. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Book your tickets &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for what promises to be a great night out!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  373. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  374. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  375. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  376. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;For more details about &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/WICE-40&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE&#39;s 40th Anniversary&lt;/a&gt; and our other courses and events, check out the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/WICE-40&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE 40 page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  377. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  378. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  379. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  380. &lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  381. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: white; color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  382. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot; style=&quot;color: #002a77; text-decoration-line: none;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  383. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(11, 45, 60); background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  384. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;WICE Office&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; style=&quot;color: #002a77; text-decoration-line: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;75015 Paris&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  385. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(11, 45, 60); background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  386. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  387. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(11, 45, 60); background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  388. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Telephone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  389. &lt;div class=&quot;Body&quot;&gt;
  390. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  391. &lt;div class=&quot;Default&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  392. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  393. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/6514925878636839050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/6514925878636839050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2018/01/meet-author-stephen-clarke-and.html' title='Meet the author Stephen Clarke - and a Theatrical Performance of his book &#39;The Merde Factor&#39;'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUN0GERUbM4/WlnGviGrbZI/AAAAAAAAByg/pBjbikTLBUwRtqFqqrzYoD0pGExvN9y8ACLcBGAs/s72-c/unnamed.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4195546354353001145</id><published>2017-12-22T13:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2017-12-22T13:30:33.456+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses &amp; Events"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Creative Writing &amp; Literature"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Drawing &amp; Painting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Membership"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Paris Visits &amp; Museums"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wine &amp; Champagne"/><title type='text'>Come Party With WICE and Celebrate 40 Great Years!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  394. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  395. &lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pmnieuHRh00/WjTV9YngW-I/AAAAAAAABwg/-Zw65GwDcTce9WfTdKc0H8W4kUcnTpwiwCLcBGAs/s1600/Logo%253DWICE%2B40%2BSm.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;669&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;295&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pmnieuHRh00/WjTV9YngW-I/AAAAAAAABwg/-Zw65GwDcTce9WfTdKc0H8W4kUcnTpwiwCLcBGAs/s400/Logo%253DWICE%2B40%2BSm.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  396. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The year &lt;b&gt;2018 marks our 40th anniversary!&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; WICE is one of the longest serving
  397. volunteer-run cultural associations for the international community in
  398. Paris.&amp;nbsp; And like a fine French wine,
  399. we’re just getting better with time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  400. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  401. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  402. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  403. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  404. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Our members, from six continents and from diverse
  405. backgrounds, form lasting friendships at WICE.&amp;nbsp;
  406. Run by volunteers, these dedicated men and women of WICE&amp;nbsp; organize all kinds of learning opportunities,
  407. including languages, Paris tours, cooking, history, writing, photography, film
  408. and the visual arts.&amp;nbsp; Recently,
  409. we’ve added more purely social gatherings, such as our monthly &lt;i&gt;apéro&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;parties. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  410. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  411. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  412. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  413. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;We’ll be celebrating &lt;i&gt;un certain âge&lt;/i&gt; with a host of exciting
  414. events all year.&amp;nbsp; Keep your eyes peeled for new announcements so you can join
  415. in the fun!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  416. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  417. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  418. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  419. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At our relaunched new-look website, you can register for all
  420. activities, across all of our departments.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  421. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  422. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here’s a sneak preview of 2018 courses and events:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  423. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  424. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  425. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  426. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  427. &lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--ESq0cQ20-8/WjTcS29Q15I/AAAAAAAABww/A6y_iKwdGKYCijfI9UOoF6ceD7xO2W7ZACLcBGAs/s1600/unnamed.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;310&quot; data-original-width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--ESq0cQ20-8/WjTcS29Q15I/AAAAAAAABww/A6y_iKwdGKYCijfI9UOoF6ceD7xO2W7ZACLcBGAs/s200/unnamed.jpg&quot; width=&quot;154&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A comedy, “&lt;b&gt;The Merde Factor&lt;/b&gt;”, a special performance adapted
  428. from the novels, with a Q and A and book signing by author Stephen Clarke, on
  429. 12 February at 19H.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Register here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2738831&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Merde Factor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  430. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  431. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  432. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  433. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The 40th destination for WICE Visits will be an exclusive
  434. tour of the &lt;b&gt;Hotel de Lauzun&lt;/b&gt;, a magnificent 17th century residence on the l’île
  435. Saint Louis, which normally is only open by invitation. Register here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2750047&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hotel de Lauzun&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  436. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  437. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  438. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  439. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A creative writing course,&lt;b&gt; Writing the 40-Page Short Story&lt;/b&gt;, with Alecia McKenzie, novelist and
  440. instructor with WICE Creative Writing. Register here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2754596&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Crafting the Short Story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  441. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  442. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  443. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  444. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A playful drawing class,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;40 Pages, 40 Poses&lt;/b&gt;,&amp;nbsp; with Jan Olsson of
  445. Visual Arts. Register here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2757792&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;40 Pages, 40 Poses&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  446. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  447. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  448. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  449. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A discussion series,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Franco-US relations the last 40&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;years&lt;/b&gt;, with John Dean of
  450. Cultural Studies. Register here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2752688&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Franco-US relations the last 40&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2752688&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;years&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  451. &lt;h1 class=&quot;pageTitle SystemPageTitle&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.21; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  452. &lt;/h1&gt;
  453. &lt;/div&gt;
  454. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  455. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Our Membership Bonus!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  456. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  457. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;To commemorate WICE&#39;s 40th
  458. anniversary, throughout all of 2018, WICE&#39;s Under 30 Membership rate will
  459. become WICE&#39;s Under 40 Membership rate.&amp;nbsp; New Members and renewing Members
  460. who fall into the category of under 40 will enjoy the discounted rate of 30
  461. euros per year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  462. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  463. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  464. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  465. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Other Events coming up, with more details coming soon:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  466. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  467. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  468. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  469. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/event-2731237&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Belgian Beer Tasting&lt;/a&gt;: March 8.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  470. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  471. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Trivia Night: March.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  472. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  473. &lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Gala Soiree - Cocktail Dînatoire at the Cordon Bleu: May 15.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  474. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  475. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Friends and Family Picnic: June.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  476. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  477. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Cocktail Tasting class: Fall.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  478. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  479. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  480. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  481. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;From our future in 2018 to our past&lt;/b&gt;…and our roots in the
  482. feminist movement in the United States.&amp;nbsp;
  483. In 1978, a small group of American women in Paris, who were trailing
  484. spouses, set up WICE to help women enter the workforce, and they called their
  485. group the Women’s Institute of Continuing Education, though of course since then for many
  486. years now we have welcomed men and women members and volunteers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  487. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  488. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  489. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  490. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Our &lt;b&gt;Board member, Ombudsman and longest-serving volunteer,
  491. Jill Bordais&lt;/b&gt;, remembers these women as “global nomads, homemakers and mothers
  492. supporting their husbands’ careers and volunteering in schools and community
  493. groups.&amp;nbsp; WICE offered women a chance to
  494. put their skills into a professional context and tailor them into a c.v.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  495. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  496. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  497. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  498. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In 1981, WICE started its Teaching English as a Foreign
  499. Language certificate (TEFL) in partnership with Rutgers University.&amp;nbsp; Later, WICE joined with the University of
  500. Paris to develop certificates in art history and business, and esteemed writing
  501. programs.&amp;nbsp; Jill says, “This training
  502. provided one of the best opportunities for anglophone women seeking employment
  503. in France.&amp;nbsp; Women wanted to get away from
  504. the cooking and fashion courses that are now some of our most popular courses,
  505. and staples of the French experience!”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  506. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  507. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  508. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  509. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;As women established careers, WICE evolved into the cultural
  510. association we know today, a diverse expat community meeting up for continuing
  511. education and socializing with members from all over our fast-changing
  512. world.&amp;nbsp; As we start a fifth decade, we
  513. have a past to celebrate and a future to look forward to, so let’s start our
  514. birthday year with a bang in 2018, and make it the best year ever.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  515. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  516. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  517. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  518. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  519. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  520. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  521. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  522. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;For information about our&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;events and activities, contact:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  523. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;wice@wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  524. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  525. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  526. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  527. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;WICE Office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  528. &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; style=&quot;font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  529. &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; style=&quot;font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;75015 Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  530. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  531. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  532. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  533. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  534. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Telephone:&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 01 45 66 75 50&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  535. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Outside of France: +33 1 45 66 75 50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  536. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  537. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office Hours&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  538. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  539. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  540. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  541. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Closed on public and school holidays&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  542. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  543. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  544. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  545. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  546. &lt;br /&gt;
  547. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  548. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  549. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;
  550. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  551. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  552. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;
  553. &lt;/div&gt;
  554. &lt;/div&gt;
  555. &lt;/div&gt;
  556. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4195546354353001145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4195546354353001145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/12/come-party-with-wice-and-celebrate-40.html' title='Come Party With WICE and Celebrate 40 Great Years!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pmnieuHRh00/WjTV9YngW-I/AAAAAAAABwg/-Zw65GwDcTce9WfTdKc0H8W4kUcnTpwiwCLcBGAs/s72-c/Logo%253DWICE%2B40%2BSm.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4475879329740921636</id><published>2017-12-19T07:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2017-12-19T07:21:49.356+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photography"/><title type='text'>Happy Holidays: Paris in Sparkle Mode</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  557. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DNY9HiLDJUw/WjhgoTc7SoI/AAAAAAAABxA/bRKEhbEDjbEdNw8nkC6LfWWW-oV7aSEHwCLcBGAs/s1600/101_Sarah%2BFauvel.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1067&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DNY9HiLDJUw/WjhgoTc7SoI/AAAAAAAABxA/bRKEhbEDjbEdNw8nkC6LfWWW-oV7aSEHwCLcBGAs/s400/101_Sarah%2BFauvel.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  558. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The Famous Galeries Lafayette Holiday Tree (Photo © Sarah Fauvel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  559. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  560. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  561. Winter weather (snow!) and glittering holiday lights mark
  562. the beginning of the holiday season, when the City of Light starts to really
  563. sparkle. From the joyous department store decorations to festive &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal;&quot;&gt;sapins&lt;/i&gt; in the street to the holiday
  564. fairs in St Germain, La Defense, and Bercy Village, every neighborhood has its
  565. own way of celebrating.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  566. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  567. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  568. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  569. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ucsv-BnQ14g/WjhhEP89Z9I/AAAAAAAABxE/6m-tCbruoTEIkyAHOPZOd5VLBMbX8-TjACLcBGAs/s1600/102_Cassandra%2BParkinson.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1092&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;272&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ucsv-BnQ14g/WjhhEP89Z9I/AAAAAAAABxE/6m-tCbruoTEIkyAHOPZOd5VLBMbX8-TjACLcBGAs/s400/102_Cassandra%2BParkinson.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  570. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Galeries Lafayette Window (Photo © Cassandra Parkinson)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  571. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  572. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  573. Photography instructor Meredith Mullins and a merry band of
  574. adventurous WICE photographers went in search of the essence of the season.&lt;/div&gt;
  575. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  576. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  577. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  578. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  579. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  580. &lt;/div&gt;
  581. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  582. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--eVC8R3kIUU/WjhihUb_4rI/AAAAAAAABxU/tp3h3SKlTMQbs5WPmFJhTeJTebw7jm61QCLcBGAs/s1600/109_Rick%2BBraswell.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1067&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--eVC8R3kIUU/WjhihUb_4rI/AAAAAAAABxU/tp3h3SKlTMQbs5WPmFJhTeJTebw7jm61QCLcBGAs/s400/109_Rick%2BBraswell.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  583. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photographer Cassandra Parkinson Takes Aim (Photo © Rick Braswell)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  584. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  585. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  586. They captured candid street moments, the beauty of moving
  587. lights (with camera twirls and zoom bursts), lively store windows, and the glory
  588. of the Galeries Lafayette traditional tree (well, not so traditional this
  589. year).&lt;br /&gt;
  590. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  591. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  592. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  593. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  594. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  595. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  596. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gICJLPOKe9Q/WjhiFpOLNxI/AAAAAAAABxQ/1sJuI_eJLEs1tKRt9l9klo9YmgMMP4yAACEwYBhgL/s1600/103_Christina%2BSepulveda.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1067&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gICJLPOKe9Q/WjhiFpOLNxI/AAAAAAAABxQ/1sJuI_eJLEs1tKRt9l9klo9YmgMMP4yAACEwYBhgL/s400/103_Christina%2BSepulveda.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  597. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Holiday Tree Swirl (Photo © Christina Sepulveda)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  598. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  599. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  600. After their night on the town, the photographers submitted
  601. their favorite photos for the Holiday Sparkle competition, juried by visiting
  602. luminary Jerry Fielder (Curator and Director of the Yousuf Karsh Estate).&lt;/div&gt;
  603. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  604. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  605. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  606. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  607. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  608. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Z94J8EIjTU/WjhizGKCckI/AAAAAAAABxc/l8o8lufdhTs0QrYQgdFK2lPBJzoN05jRwCLcBGAs/s1600/104.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;423&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Z94J8EIjTU/WjhizGKCckI/AAAAAAAABxc/l8o8lufdhTs0QrYQgdFK2lPBJzoN05jRwCLcBGAs/s400/104.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  609. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Famed Portrait Photographer Yousuf Karsh with Curator &lt;br /&gt;
  610. (and Holiday Sparkle Juror) Jerry Fielder&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  611. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  612. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  613. “A difficult choice,” Jerry said, but a final selection was
  614. made. He complimented the group on their mastery of difficult lighting
  615. situations, something that is prevalent in night photography, especially during
  616. the holiday season (with bright lights and deep shadows).&lt;/div&gt;
  617. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  618. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  619. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  620. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  621. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  622. And the winner is … (drum roll please) … Tracey Benneweis. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  623. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  624. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  625. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  626. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jL9UjQeSHZk/WjhjEUHqkWI/AAAAAAAABxg/u6lfHDdtSOURM4BmOUNaq_f9jkujCChEQCLcBGAs/s1600/105_Tracey%2BBenneweis.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1086&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;271&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jL9UjQeSHZk/WjhjEUHqkWI/AAAAAAAABxg/u6lfHDdtSOURM4BmOUNaq_f9jkujCChEQCLcBGAs/s400/105_Tracey%2BBenneweis.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  627. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The Holiday Sparkle Winner (Photo © Tracey Benneweis)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  628. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  629. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  630. Congratulations to Tracey for her image of Place de Saint-Germain-des-Près,
  631. with dramatic lighting and just the right touch of human presence and mystery.&lt;/div&gt;
  632. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  633. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  634. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  635. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  636. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  637. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_K_Eu7LNCY/WjhjVye9I3I/AAAAAAAABxo/NVaUNZzu81k4gMKpmS0Ol5VjKes-DVpIwCLcBGAs/s1600/106_Johanna%2BFrench.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_K_Eu7LNCY/WjhjVye9I3I/AAAAAAAABxo/NVaUNZzu81k4gMKpmS0Ol5VjKes-DVpIwCLcBGAs/s400/106_Johanna%2BFrench.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  638. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Honorable Mention Award (Photo © Johanna French)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  639. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  640. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  641. Honorable Mention Awards go to Johanna French for her image
  642. of the glittering corner near Galeries Lafayette, Rick Braswell for his image
  643. of life in the street during the holiday shopping season, and another of
  644. Tracey’s images capturing the black-and-white mood of the Galeries Lafayette rooftop
  645. (The Cube Bar).&lt;/div&gt;
  646. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  647. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  648. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  649. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  650. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  651. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hBW87Vw8qL8/Wjhjj5i_fiI/AAAAAAAABxs/3kieKlG5FV8L9rWOT6bO-DrDEF8ZeseawCLcBGAs/s1600/107_Rick%2BBraswell.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hBW87Vw8qL8/Wjhjj5i_fiI/AAAAAAAABxs/3kieKlG5FV8L9rWOT6bO-DrDEF8ZeseawCLcBGAs/s400/107_Rick%2BBraswell.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  652. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Honorable Mention Award (Photo © Rick Braswell)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  653. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  654. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  655. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  656. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  657. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bk7LoIpVOG4/Wjhjzj4rveI/AAAAAAAABxw/ESAbpqQ3lsgFt72NT87denU9yWbgEVfawCLcBGAs/s1600/108_Tracey%2BBenneweis.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1135&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;282&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bk7LoIpVOG4/Wjhjzj4rveI/AAAAAAAABxw/ESAbpqQ3lsgFt72NT87denU9yWbgEVfawCLcBGAs/s400/108_Tracey%2BBenneweis.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  658. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Honorable Mention Award (Photo © Tracey Benneweis)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  659. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  660. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  661. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  662. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  663. Two &quot;People&#39;s Choice&quot; Awards go to Sarah Fauvel and Tracey Benneweis.&lt;/div&gt;
  664. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  665. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  666. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  667. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DTJpwrY-CEU/WjhpugsQ0VI/AAAAAAAAByM/wxaRDWop9Kos3MLlS0eS9VW1cwTspnM8QCLcBGAs/s1600/sf_6864-6.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;616&quot; data-original-width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DTJpwrY-CEU/WjhpugsQ0VI/AAAAAAAAByM/wxaRDWop9Kos3MLlS0eS9VW1cwTspnM8QCLcBGAs/s400/sf_6864-6.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;311&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  668. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;People&#39;s Choice Award (Photo © Sarah Fauvel)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  669. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  670. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  671. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f8BS2NYQ9lQ/Wjhp9WT4f_I/AAAAAAAAByQ/MR5C7byvs-Y_RFyhQjSwf0sSlezmaOX8gCLcBGAs/s1600/tb2.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;480&quot; data-original-width=&quot;637&quot; height=&quot;301&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f8BS2NYQ9lQ/Wjhp9WT4f_I/AAAAAAAAByQ/MR5C7byvs-Y_RFyhQjSwf0sSlezmaOX8gCLcBGAs/s400/tb2.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  672. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;People&#39;s Choice Award (Photo © Tracey Benneweis)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  673. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  674. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  675. We applaud all the photographers and wish everyone a happy
  676. holiday.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  677. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  678. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  679. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  680. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qILQveuOEus/WjhkIe9YX4I/AAAAAAAABx4/DIbyRzMT4lEA68gb9LyAViKPZCytVZ0IgCLcBGAs/s1600/110_Meredith%2BMullins.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1155&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qILQveuOEus/WjhkIe9YX4I/AAAAAAAABx4/DIbyRzMT4lEA68gb9LyAViKPZCytVZ0IgCLcBGAs/s640/110_Meredith%2BMullins.jpg&quot; width=&quot;460&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  681. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The Sparkle Team (Photo © Meredith Mullins)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  682. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  683. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  684. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  685. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  686. And, we look forward to your joining us in a &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/photography&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2018 Photography Course.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  687. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  688. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  689. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  690. Joyeuses Fêtes et Bonne Année.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  691. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  692. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  693. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  694. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dqQl3Xgam84/WjhkgTV1F-I/AAAAAAAABx8/N0_N-XkqnX4myRp17sN19LDsurpwTs2bgCLcBGAs/s1600/111_Meredith%2BMullins.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1068&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dqQl3Xgam84/WjhkgTV1F-I/AAAAAAAABx8/N0_N-XkqnX4myRp17sN19LDsurpwTs2bgCLcBGAs/s400/111_Meredith%2BMullins.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  695. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;© Meredith Mullins&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  696. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  697. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  698. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  699. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  700. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  701. &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
  702. &lt;o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt;
  703.  &lt;o:AllowPNG/&gt;
  704.  &lt;o:PixelsPerInch&gt;96&lt;/o:PixelsPerInch&gt;
  705. &lt;/o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt;
  706. &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;
  707.  
  708. &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
  709. &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;
  710.  &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;
  711.  &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;
  712.  &lt;w:TrackMoves/&gt;
  713.  &lt;w:TrackFormatting/&gt;
  714.  &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;
  715.  &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;
  716.  &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;
  717.  &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;
  718.  &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;
  719.  &lt;w:DoNotPromoteQF/&gt;
  720.  &lt;w:LidThemeOther&gt;EN-US&lt;/w:LidThemeOther&gt;
  721.  &lt;w:LidThemeAsian&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeAsian&gt;
  722.  &lt;w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;
  723.  &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;
  724.   &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;
  725.   &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;
  726.   &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;
  727.   &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;
  728.   &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;
  729.   &lt;w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/&gt;
  730.   &lt;w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/&gt;
  731.   &lt;w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/&gt;
  732.   &lt;w:OverrideTableStyleHps/&gt;
  733.  &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;
  734.  &lt;m:mathPr&gt;
  735.   &lt;m:mathFont m:val=&quot;Cambria Math&quot;/&gt;
  736.   &lt;m:brkBin m:val=&quot;before&quot;/&gt;
  737.   &lt;m:brkBinSub m:val=&quot;&amp;#45;-&quot;/&gt;
  738.   &lt;m:smallFrac m:val=&quot;off&quot;/&gt;
  739.   &lt;m:dispDef/&gt;
  740.   &lt;m:lMargin m:val=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;
  741.   &lt;m:rMargin m:val=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;
  742.   &lt;m:defJc m:val=&quot;centerGroup&quot;/&gt;
  743.   &lt;m:wrapIndent m:val=&quot;1440&quot;/&gt;
  744.   &lt;m:intLim m:val=&quot;subSup&quot;/&gt;
  745.   &lt;m:naryLim m:val=&quot;undOvr&quot;/&gt;
  746.  &lt;/m:mathPr&gt;&lt;/w:WordDocument&gt;
  747. &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
  748. &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=&quot;false&quot; DefUnhideWhenUsed=&quot;false&quot;
  749.  DefSemiHidden=&quot;false&quot; DefQFormat=&quot;false&quot; DefPriority=&quot;99&quot;
  750.  LatentStyleCount=&quot;382&quot;&gt;
  751.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;0&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Normal&quot;/&gt;
  752.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 1&quot;/&gt;
  753.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  754.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 2&quot;/&gt;
  755.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  756.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 3&quot;/&gt;
  757.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  758.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 4&quot;/&gt;
  759.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  760.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 5&quot;/&gt;
  761.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  762.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 6&quot;/&gt;
  763.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  764.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 7&quot;/&gt;
  765.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  766.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 8&quot;/&gt;
  767.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;9&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  768.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;heading 9&quot;/&gt;
  769.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  770.   Name=&quot;index 1&quot;/&gt;
  771.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  772.   Name=&quot;index 2&quot;/&gt;
  773.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  774.   Name=&quot;index 3&quot;/&gt;
  775.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  776.   Name=&quot;index 4&quot;/&gt;
  777.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  778.   Name=&quot;index 5&quot;/&gt;
  779.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  780.   Name=&quot;index 6&quot;/&gt;
  781.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  782.   Name=&quot;index 7&quot;/&gt;
  783.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  784.   Name=&quot;index 8&quot;/&gt;
  785.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  786.   Name=&quot;index 9&quot;/&gt;
  787.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  788.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 1&quot;/&gt;
  789.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  790.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 2&quot;/&gt;
  791.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  792.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 3&quot;/&gt;
  793.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  794.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 4&quot;/&gt;
  795.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  796.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 5&quot;/&gt;
  797.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  798.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 6&quot;/&gt;
  799.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  800.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 7&quot;/&gt;
  801.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  802.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 8&quot;/&gt;
  803.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  804.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;toc 9&quot;/&gt;
  805.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  806.   Name=&quot;Normal Indent&quot;/&gt;
  807.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  808.   Name=&quot;footnote text&quot;/&gt;
  809.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  810.   Name=&quot;annotation text&quot;/&gt;
  811.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  812.   Name=&quot;header&quot;/&gt;
  813.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  814.   Name=&quot;footer&quot;/&gt;
  815.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  816.   Name=&quot;index heading&quot;/&gt;
  817.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;35&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  818.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;caption&quot;/&gt;
  819.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  820.   Name=&quot;table of figures&quot;/&gt;
  821.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  822.   Name=&quot;envelope address&quot;/&gt;
  823.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  824.   Name=&quot;envelope return&quot;/&gt;
  825.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  826.   Name=&quot;footnote reference&quot;/&gt;
  827.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  828.   Name=&quot;annotation reference&quot;/&gt;
  829.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  830.   Name=&quot;line number&quot;/&gt;
  831.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  832.   Name=&quot;page number&quot;/&gt;
  833.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  834.   Name=&quot;endnote reference&quot;/&gt;
  835.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  836.   Name=&quot;endnote text&quot;/&gt;
  837.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  838.   Name=&quot;table of authorities&quot;/&gt;
  839.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  840.   Name=&quot;macro&quot;/&gt;
  841.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  842.   Name=&quot;toa heading&quot;/&gt;
  843.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  844.   Name=&quot;List&quot;/&gt;
  845.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  846.   Name=&quot;List Bullet&quot;/&gt;
  847.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  848.   Name=&quot;List Number&quot;/&gt;
  849.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  850.   Name=&quot;List 2&quot;/&gt;
  851.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  852.   Name=&quot;List 3&quot;/&gt;
  853.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  854.   Name=&quot;List 4&quot;/&gt;
  855.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  856.   Name=&quot;List 5&quot;/&gt;
  857.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  858.   Name=&quot;List Bullet 2&quot;/&gt;
  859.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  860.   Name=&quot;List Bullet 3&quot;/&gt;
  861.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  862.   Name=&quot;List Bullet 4&quot;/&gt;
  863.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  864.   Name=&quot;List Bullet 5&quot;/&gt;
  865.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  866.   Name=&quot;List Number 2&quot;/&gt;
  867.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  868.   Name=&quot;List Number 3&quot;/&gt;
  869.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  870.   Name=&quot;List Number 4&quot;/&gt;
  871.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  872.   Name=&quot;List Number 5&quot;/&gt;
  873.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;10&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Title&quot;/&gt;
  874.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  875.   Name=&quot;Closing&quot;/&gt;
  876.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  877.   Name=&quot;Signature&quot;/&gt;
  878.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;1&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  879.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Default Paragraph Font&quot;/&gt;
  880.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  881.   Name=&quot;Body Text&quot;/&gt;
  882.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  883.   Name=&quot;Body Text Indent&quot;/&gt;
  884.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  885.   Name=&quot;List Continue&quot;/&gt;
  886.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  887.   Name=&quot;List Continue 2&quot;/&gt;
  888.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  889.   Name=&quot;List Continue 3&quot;/&gt;
  890.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  891.   Name=&quot;List Continue 4&quot;/&gt;
  892.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  893.   Name=&quot;List Continue 5&quot;/&gt;
  894.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  895.   Name=&quot;Message Header&quot;/&gt;
  896.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;11&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Subtitle&quot;/&gt;
  897.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  898.   Name=&quot;Salutation&quot;/&gt;
  899.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  900.   Name=&quot;Date&quot;/&gt;
  901.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  902.   Name=&quot;Body Text First Indent&quot;/&gt;
  903.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  904.   Name=&quot;Body Text First Indent 2&quot;/&gt;
  905.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  906.   Name=&quot;Note Heading&quot;/&gt;
  907.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  908.   Name=&quot;Body Text 2&quot;/&gt;
  909.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  910.   Name=&quot;Body Text 3&quot;/&gt;
  911.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  912.   Name=&quot;Body Text Indent 2&quot;/&gt;
  913.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  914.   Name=&quot;Body Text Indent 3&quot;/&gt;
  915.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  916.   Name=&quot;Block Text&quot;/&gt;
  917.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  918.   Name=&quot;Hyperlink&quot;/&gt;
  919.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  920.   Name=&quot;FollowedHyperlink&quot;/&gt;
  921.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;22&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Strong&quot;/&gt;
  922.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;20&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Emphasis&quot;/&gt;
  923.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  924.   Name=&quot;Document Map&quot;/&gt;
  925.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  926.   Name=&quot;Plain Text&quot;/&gt;
  927.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  928.   Name=&quot;E-mail Signature&quot;/&gt;
  929.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  930.   Name=&quot;HTML Top of Form&quot;/&gt;
  931.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  932.   Name=&quot;HTML Bottom of Form&quot;/&gt;
  933.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  934.   Name=&quot;Normal (Web)&quot;/&gt;
  935.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  936.   Name=&quot;HTML Acronym&quot;/&gt;
  937.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  938.   Name=&quot;HTML Address&quot;/&gt;
  939.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  940.   Name=&quot;HTML Cite&quot;/&gt;
  941.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  942.   Name=&quot;HTML Code&quot;/&gt;
  943.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  944.   Name=&quot;HTML Definition&quot;/&gt;
  945.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  946.   Name=&quot;HTML Keyboard&quot;/&gt;
  947.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  948.   Name=&quot;HTML Preformatted&quot;/&gt;
  949.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  950.   Name=&quot;HTML Sample&quot;/&gt;
  951.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  952.   Name=&quot;HTML Typewriter&quot;/&gt;
  953.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  954.   Name=&quot;HTML Variable&quot;/&gt;
  955.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  956.   Name=&quot;Normal Table&quot;/&gt;
  957.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  958.   Name=&quot;annotation subject&quot;/&gt;
  959.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  960.   Name=&quot;No List&quot;/&gt;
  961.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  962.   Name=&quot;Outline List 1&quot;/&gt;
  963.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  964.   Name=&quot;Outline List 2&quot;/&gt;
  965.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  966.   Name=&quot;Outline List 3&quot;/&gt;
  967.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  968.   Name=&quot;Table Simple 1&quot;/&gt;
  969.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  970.   Name=&quot;Table Simple 2&quot;/&gt;
  971.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  972.   Name=&quot;Table Simple 3&quot;/&gt;
  973.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  974.   Name=&quot;Table Classic 1&quot;/&gt;
  975.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  976.   Name=&quot;Table Classic 2&quot;/&gt;
  977.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  978.   Name=&quot;Table Classic 3&quot;/&gt;
  979.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  980.   Name=&quot;Table Classic 4&quot;/&gt;
  981.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  982.   Name=&quot;Table Colorful 1&quot;/&gt;
  983.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  984.   Name=&quot;Table Colorful 2&quot;/&gt;
  985.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  986.   Name=&quot;Table Colorful 3&quot;/&gt;
  987.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  988.   Name=&quot;Table Columns 1&quot;/&gt;
  989.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  990.   Name=&quot;Table Columns 2&quot;/&gt;
  991.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  992.   Name=&quot;Table Columns 3&quot;/&gt;
  993.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  994.   Name=&quot;Table Columns 4&quot;/&gt;
  995.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  996.   Name=&quot;Table Columns 5&quot;/&gt;
  997.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  998.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 1&quot;/&gt;
  999.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1000.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 2&quot;/&gt;
  1001.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1002.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 3&quot;/&gt;
  1003.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1004.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 4&quot;/&gt;
  1005.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1006.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 5&quot;/&gt;
  1007.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1008.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 6&quot;/&gt;
  1009.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1010.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 7&quot;/&gt;
  1011.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1012.   Name=&quot;Table Grid 8&quot;/&gt;
  1013.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1014.   Name=&quot;Table List 1&quot;/&gt;
  1015.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1016.   Name=&quot;Table List 2&quot;/&gt;
  1017.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1018.   Name=&quot;Table List 3&quot;/&gt;
  1019.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1020.   Name=&quot;Table List 4&quot;/&gt;
  1021.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1022.   Name=&quot;Table List 5&quot;/&gt;
  1023.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1024.   Name=&quot;Table List 6&quot;/&gt;
  1025.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1026.   Name=&quot;Table List 7&quot;/&gt;
  1027.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1028.   Name=&quot;Table List 8&quot;/&gt;
  1029.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1030.   Name=&quot;Table 3D effects 1&quot;/&gt;
  1031.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1032.   Name=&quot;Table 3D effects 2&quot;/&gt;
  1033.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1034.   Name=&quot;Table 3D effects 3&quot;/&gt;
  1035.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1036.   Name=&quot;Table Contemporary&quot;/&gt;
  1037.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1038.   Name=&quot;Table Elegant&quot;/&gt;
  1039.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1040.   Name=&quot;Table Professional&quot;/&gt;
  1041.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1042.   Name=&quot;Table Subtle 1&quot;/&gt;
  1043.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1044.   Name=&quot;Table Subtle 2&quot;/&gt;
  1045.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1046.   Name=&quot;Table Web 1&quot;/&gt;
  1047.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1048.   Name=&quot;Table Web 2&quot;/&gt;
  1049.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1050.   Name=&quot;Table Web 3&quot;/&gt;
  1051.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1052.   Name=&quot;Balloon Text&quot;/&gt;
  1053.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; Name=&quot;Table Grid&quot;/&gt;
  1054.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1055.   Name=&quot;Table Theme&quot;/&gt;
  1056.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1057.   Name=&quot;Note Level 1&quot;/&gt;
  1058.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1059.   Name=&quot;Note Level 2&quot;/&gt;
  1060.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1061.   Name=&quot;Note Level 3&quot;/&gt;
  1062.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1063.   Name=&quot;Note Level 4&quot;/&gt;
  1064.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1065.   Name=&quot;Note Level 5&quot;/&gt;
  1066.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1067.   Name=&quot;Note Level 6&quot;/&gt;
  1068.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1069.   Name=&quot;Note Level 7&quot;/&gt;
  1070.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1071.   Name=&quot;Note Level 8&quot;/&gt;
  1072.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1073.   Name=&quot;Note Level 9&quot;/&gt;
  1074.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Placeholder Text&quot;/&gt;
  1075.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;1&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;No Spacing&quot;/&gt;
  1076.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading&quot;/&gt;
  1077.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List&quot;/&gt;
  1078.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid&quot;/&gt;
  1079.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1&quot;/&gt;
  1080.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2&quot;/&gt;
  1081.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1&quot;/&gt;
  1082.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2&quot;/&gt;
  1083.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1&quot;/&gt;
  1084.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2&quot;/&gt;
  1085.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3&quot;/&gt;
  1086.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List&quot;/&gt;
  1087.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading&quot;/&gt;
  1088.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List&quot;/&gt;
  1089.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid&quot;/&gt;
  1090.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1091.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1092.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1093.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1094.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1095.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1096.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Revision&quot;/&gt;
  1097.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;34&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1098.   Name=&quot;List Paragraph&quot;/&gt;
  1099.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;29&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Quote&quot;/&gt;
  1100.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;30&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1101.   Name=&quot;Intense Quote&quot;/&gt;
  1102.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1103.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1104.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1105.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1106.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1107.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1108.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1109.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1110.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1111.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1112.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1113.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1114.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1115.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1116.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1117.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1118.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1119.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1120.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1121.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1122.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1123.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1124.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1125.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1126.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1127.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1128.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1129.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1130.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1131.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1132.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1133.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1134.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1135.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1136.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1137.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1138.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1139.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1140.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1141.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1142.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1143.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1144.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1145.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1146.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1147.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1148.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1149.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1150.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1151.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1152.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1153.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1154.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1155.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1156.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1157.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1158.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1159.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1160.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1161.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1162.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1163.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1164.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1165.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1166.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;60&quot; Name=&quot;Light Shading Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1167.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;61&quot; Name=&quot;Light List Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1168.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;62&quot; Name=&quot;Light Grid Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1169.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;63&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 1 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1170.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;64&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Shading 2 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1171.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;65&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 1 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1172.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;66&quot; Name=&quot;Medium List 2 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1173.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;67&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 1 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1174.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;68&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 2 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1175.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;69&quot; Name=&quot;Medium Grid 3 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1176.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;70&quot; Name=&quot;Dark List Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1177.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;71&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Shading Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1178.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;72&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful List Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1179.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;73&quot; Name=&quot;Colorful Grid Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1180.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;19&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1181.   Name=&quot;Subtle Emphasis&quot;/&gt;
  1182.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;21&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1183.   Name=&quot;Intense Emphasis&quot;/&gt;
  1184.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;31&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1185.   Name=&quot;Subtle Reference&quot;/&gt;
  1186.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;32&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot;
  1187.   Name=&quot;Intense Reference&quot;/&gt;
  1188.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;33&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Book Title&quot;/&gt;
  1189.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;37&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  1190.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;Bibliography&quot;/&gt;
  1191.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;39&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot;
  1192.   UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot; QFormat=&quot;true&quot; Name=&quot;TOC Heading&quot;/&gt;
  1193.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;41&quot; Name=&quot;Plain Table 1&quot;/&gt;
  1194.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;42&quot; Name=&quot;Plain Table 2&quot;/&gt;
  1195.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;43&quot; Name=&quot;Plain Table 3&quot;/&gt;
  1196.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;44&quot; Name=&quot;Plain Table 4&quot;/&gt;
  1197.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;45&quot; Name=&quot;Plain Table 5&quot;/&gt;
  1198.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;40&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table Light&quot;/&gt;
  1199.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light&quot;/&gt;
  1200.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2&quot;/&gt;
  1201.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3&quot;/&gt;
  1202.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4&quot;/&gt;
  1203.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark&quot;/&gt;
  1204.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful&quot;/&gt;
  1205.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful&quot;/&gt;
  1206.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1207.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1208.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1209.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1210.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1211.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1212.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1213.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1214.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1215.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1216.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1217.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1218.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1219.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1220.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1221.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1222.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1223.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1224.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1225.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1226.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1227.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1228.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1229.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1230.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1231.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1232.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1233.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1234.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1235.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1236.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1237.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1238.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1239.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1240.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1241.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1242.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1243.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1244.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1245.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1246.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1247.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1248.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1249.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1250.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1251.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1252.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1253.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1254.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1255.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1256.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1257.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1258.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 2 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1259.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 3 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1260.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 4 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1261.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1262.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1263.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1264.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1265.   Name=&quot;Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1266.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light&quot;/&gt;
  1267.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2&quot;/&gt;
  1268.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3&quot;/&gt;
  1269.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4&quot;/&gt;
  1270.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark&quot;/&gt;
  1271.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful&quot;/&gt;
  1272.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful&quot;/&gt;
  1273.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1274.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1275.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1276.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1277.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1278.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1279.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1280.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1281.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1282.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1&quot;/&gt;
  1283.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1284.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1285.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1286.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1287.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1288.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1289.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1290.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1291.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1292.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2&quot;/&gt;
  1293.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1294.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1295.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1296.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1297.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1298.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1299.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1300.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1301.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1302.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3&quot;/&gt;
  1303.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1304.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1305.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1306.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1307.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1308.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1309.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1310.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1311.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1312.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4&quot;/&gt;
  1313.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1314.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1315.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1316.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1317.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1318.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1319.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1320.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1321.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1322.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5&quot;/&gt;
  1323.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;46&quot;
  1324.   Name=&quot;List Table 1 Light Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1325.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;47&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 2 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1326.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;48&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 3 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1327.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;49&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 4 Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1328.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;50&quot; Name=&quot;List Table 5 Dark Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1329.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;51&quot;
  1330.   Name=&quot;List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1331.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; Priority=&quot;52&quot;
  1332.   Name=&quot;List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6&quot;/&gt;
  1333.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1334.   Name=&quot;Mention&quot;/&gt;
  1335.  &lt;w:LsdException Locked=&quot;false&quot; SemiHidden=&quot;true&quot; UnhideWhenUsed=&quot;true&quot;
  1336.   Name=&quot;Smart Hyperlink&quot;/&gt;
  1337. &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt;
  1338. &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;
  1339.  
  1340. &lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;
  1341. &lt;style&gt;
  1342. /* Style Definitions */
  1343. table.MsoNormalTable
  1344. {mso-style-name:&quot;Table Normal&quot;;
  1345. mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
  1346. mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
  1347. mso-style-noshow:yes;
  1348. mso-style-priority:99;
  1349. mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;
  1350. mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
  1351. mso-para-margin:0in;
  1352. mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  1353. mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  1354. font-size:12.0pt;
  1355. font-family:Calibri;
  1356. mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
  1357. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1358. mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
  1359. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
  1360. &lt;/style&gt;
  1361. &lt;![endif]--&gt;
  1362.  
  1363.  
  1364.  
  1365. &lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;
  1366.  
  1367.  
  1368.  
  1369.  
  1370.  
  1371.  
  1372.  
  1373.  
  1374.  
  1375.  
  1376.  
  1377.  
  1378.  
  1379.  
  1380.  
  1381.  
  1382.  
  1383.  
  1384.  
  1385.  
  1386.  
  1387.  
  1388.  
  1389.  
  1390.  
  1391.  
  1392.  
  1393.  
  1394.  
  1395.  
  1396.  
  1397.  
  1398.  
  1399.  
  1400.  
  1401.  
  1402.  
  1403.  
  1404.  
  1405.  
  1406.  
  1407.  
  1408.  
  1409.  
  1410.  
  1411.  
  1412.  
  1413.  
  1414.  
  1415.  
  1416.  
  1417.  
  1418.  
  1419.  
  1420.  
  1421.  
  1422.  
  1423.  
  1424.  
  1425.  
  1426.  
  1427.  
  1428.  
  1429.  
  1430.  
  1431.  
  1432.  
  1433.  
  1434.  
  1435.  
  1436.  
  1437.  
  1438.  
  1439.  
  1440.  
  1441.  
  1442.  
  1443.  
  1444.  
  1445.  
  1446.  
  1447.  
  1448.  
  1449.  
  1450.  
  1451.  
  1452.  
  1453.  
  1454.  
  1455.  
  1456.  
  1457. &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1458. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1459. &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal;&quot;&gt;Blog Post by Meredith
  1460. Mullins &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1461. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4475879329740921636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4475879329740921636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-holidays-paris-in-sparkle-mode.html' title='Happy Holidays: Paris in Sparkle Mode'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DNY9HiLDJUw/WjhgoTc7SoI/AAAAAAAABxA/bRKEhbEDjbEdNw8nkC6LfWWW-oV7aSEHwCLcBGAs/s72-c/101_Sarah%2BFauvel.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4533962222851735650</id><published>2017-11-29T23:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-31T14:38:12.547+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Put It In Words, At WICE!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1462. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1463. &lt;div&gt;
  1464. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1465. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;I&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;n 2018, the&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Paris Writers Workshop is back!&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; And centre-stage for the special festivities of &lt;b&gt;the 40-year anniversary of WICE.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1466. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1467. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1468. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1469. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The WICE Paris Writers Workshop, our flagship event that runs in late spring every two years, has long been the cornerstone of our program.&amp;nbsp; The quality of instruction in craft, technique, critiques, discussions and seminars for 48 writers has attracted candidates from the US, other countries around Europe, and right here in Paris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1470. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1471. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1472. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1473. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dimitri Keramitas, Director of WICE creative writing programs,&lt;/b&gt; aims to bring some synergy&amp;nbsp; between this year’s Workshop and the rest of our writing courses.&amp;nbsp; The range of both includes creative non-fiction, short stories, novels, and a new focus on poetry. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1474. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1475. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1476. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iUFwwY0TQe0/WnHGZJmU99I/AAAAAAAABzM/7jVUMHxIaSMmj2ZCUo9J1wK7EZXIK8ATACLcBGAs/s1600/DSC_3711.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1063&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iUFwwY0TQe0/WnHGZJmU99I/AAAAAAAABzM/7jVUMHxIaSMmj2ZCUo9J1wK7EZXIK8ATACLcBGAs/s200/DSC_3711.JPG&quot; width=&quot;132&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1477. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1478. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1479. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A Greek-American in love with Paris since the 1980’s, Dimitri has a degree in literature from the University of Hartford, in French from the Sorbonne, and law at from the University of London.&amp;nbsp; He raised a son and daughter here, now students themselves. &amp;nbsp;
  1480. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1481. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1482. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1483. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1484. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Dimitri first joined WICE through taking part in the prestigious Paris Writers Workshop four times before eventually leading the organising committee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1485. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1486. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1487. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1488. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;For Dimitri, the priority is balance.&amp;nbsp; For his own career, he’s balanced his solitary writing and translating activities with getting out and about teaching law and literature at universities, &lt;i&gt;grandes écoles,&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;écoles de commerce. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1489. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1490. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1491. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1492. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1493. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  1494. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WkWzh_mux-c/WiDTFbpVPYI/AAAAAAAABwM/fVl1Chs6NZgGrPgxKzK3LeNzj9WcPosYQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_6155.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;446&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;139&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WkWzh_mux-c/WiDTFbpVPYI/AAAAAAAABwM/fVl1Chs6NZgGrPgxKzK3LeNzj9WcPosYQCLcBGAs/s200/IMG_6155.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1495. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;For your novel or story - get writing!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1496. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1497. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;He says,&lt;i&gt; “&lt;/i&gt;I wanted a balance between the sedentary and quiet writing life with the more active and sociable teaching.&amp;nbsp; I also wanted a balance between writing fiction and non-fiction, and I try to bring that type of balance to our creative writing programs.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1498. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1499. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1500. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1501. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;He’s published short stories and completed a novel, set in Greece where he has a second home.&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, he’s lingered in some of the most iconic arthouse cinemas of Paris, preparing essays for scholarly publications and books on such subjects as racial stereotypes and the treatment of war in film, among other non-fiction work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1502. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1503. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1504. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1505. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Dimitri feels there’s no better setting for writers from around the world than Paris, long a muse city and world cultural hub.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1506. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1507. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1508. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1509. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;“We wanted to bring the city of Paris as a central theme, so last year we had a course on Paris vignettes and travel blogging, and this year on memoirs, to encourage people to focus on their personal lives and their surroundings.&amp;nbsp; The fiction approach is to relate your outside world experience as refracted from your own inner vision.&amp;nbsp; It’s about making use of where you are!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1510. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1511. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1512. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1513. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;“We are of course non-profit, and our writing programs are very affordable while keeping a distinguishing commitment to quality.&amp;nbsp; We limit participation to 12 people for each of the 4 Paris Writers Workshop seminars, and 8 for our writing classes, to ensure that quality. &amp;nbsp; We want the program to be adapted to the ways things are changing in the cultural context and the evolving publishing world of ebooks, self-publishing, and blogging.&amp;nbsp; The content will be up-to-date and relevant with both the classic workshop structures and what’s new — back to my old theme of balance!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1514. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1515. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1516. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1517. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Previous venues have been the University of Paris or UNESCO.&amp;nbsp; Dimitri says, “Our search for the next venue has led to &lt;b&gt;Forum 104&lt;/b&gt;, in the heart of Paris.&amp;nbsp; That’ll be a comfortable space for sharing manuscripts, reading and exchanging for five days with four lecturers.&amp;nbsp; We’ll keep you posted on the deadline so you can prepare your manuscripts to apply for what we hope to be an exciting program for our anniversary year!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1518. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1519. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1520. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1521. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;For a full list of creative writing courses throughout the year, see our website!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1522. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1523. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A discounted early bird rate will be available for the Paris Writers Workshop...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1524. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1525. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1526. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1527. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1528. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(11, 45, 60); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1529. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;WICE Office&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1530. &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1531. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;75015 Paris&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1532. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(11, 45, 60); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1533. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1534. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(11, 45, 60); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1535. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Telephone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1536. 01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1537. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;
  1538. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1539. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1540. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1541. &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;min-height: 14px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1542. &lt;/div&gt;
  1543. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1544. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1545. &lt;/div&gt;
  1546. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4533962222851735650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4533962222851735650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/11/put-it-in-words-at-wice.html' title='Put It In Words, At WICE!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iUFwwY0TQe0/WnHGZJmU99I/AAAAAAAABzM/7jVUMHxIaSMmj2ZCUo9J1wK7EZXIK8ATACLcBGAs/s72-c/DSC_3711.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-36586936810554355</id><published>2017-10-15T23:03:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2017-10-18T09:11:39.682+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Theatre du Champs-Elysées: Nijinsky</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  1547. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3mDG-GagydY/Wdp2aq-_38I/AAAAAAAABug/paaU7Ux67xsPXLLLRnK5rY_2xuGWb8gvQCLcBGAs/s1600/Nijinsky_OK.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;474&quot; data-original-width=&quot;710&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3mDG-GagydY/Wdp2aq-_38I/AAAAAAAABug/paaU7Ux67xsPXLLLRnK5rY_2xuGWb8gvQCLcBGAs/s320/Nijinsky_OK.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1548. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Scene from &lt;u&gt;Nijinksy,&lt;/u&gt; representing &lt;u&gt;The Afternoon of a Faun&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1549. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1550. &lt;style&gt;
  1551. &lt;!--
  1552. /* Font Definitions */
  1553. @font-face
  1554. {font-family:Times;
  1555. panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1556. mso-font-charset:0;
  1557. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1558. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1559. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1560. @font-face
  1561. {font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1562. panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1563. mso-font-charset:128;
  1564. mso-generic-font-family:roman;
  1565. mso-font-format:other;
  1566. mso-font-pitch:fixed;
  1567. mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
  1568. @font-face
  1569. {font-family:Verdana;
  1570. panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
  1571. mso-font-charset:0;
  1572. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1573. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1574. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1575. @font-face
  1576. {font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;;
  1577. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1578. mso-font-charset:0;
  1579. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1580. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1581. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
  1582. @font-face
  1583. {font-family:Cambria;
  1584. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1585. mso-font-charset:0;
  1586. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1587. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1588. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
  1589. /* Style Definitions */
  1590. p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
  1591. {mso-style-unhide:no;
  1592. mso-style-qformat:yes;
  1593. mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;
  1594. margin:0in;
  1595. margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  1596. mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  1597. font-size:12.0pt;
  1598. font-family:Cambria;
  1599. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1600. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1601. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1602. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1603. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1604. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1605. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1606. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
  1607. mso-ansi-language:FR;}
  1608. .MsoChpDefault
  1609. {mso-style-type:export-only;
  1610. mso-default-props:yes;
  1611. font-family:Cambria;
  1612. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1613. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1614. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1615. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1616. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1617. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1618. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1619. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
  1620. @page WordSection1
  1621. {size:8.5in 11.0in;
  1622. margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
  1623. mso-header-margin:.5in;
  1624. mso-footer-margin:.5in;
  1625. mso-paper-source:0;}
  1626. div.WordSection1
  1627. {page:WordSection1;}
  1628. --&gt;
  1629. &lt;/style&gt;
  1630.  
  1631.  
  1632.  
  1633.  
  1634.  
  1635.  
  1636. &lt;br /&gt;
  1637. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1638. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;There was a standing ovation for the ballet &lt;u&gt;Nijinsky&lt;/u&gt;,
  1639. an exciting début to this season’s impressive lineup of symphonies and dance
  1640. performances at the&lt;i&gt;Théâtre des Champs-Elysées&lt;/i&gt;, The ballet follows the iconic
  1641. early 20th century dancer&#39;s rise as the muse and lover of Sergei Diaghilev of
  1642. the &lt;i&gt;Ballets Russes&lt;/i&gt;, to his eventual tragic descent into mental illness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1643. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1644. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1645. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;&quot;&gt;The
  1646. &lt;i&gt;Théatre des Champs Elysées &lt;/i&gt;hosted the Ballets Russes for its first
  1647. season in 1913, staging the première of the &lt;u&gt;Rite of Spring,&lt;/u&gt;
  1648. with&amp;nbsp;avant garde movements and music that shocked the Paris audience. The
  1649. jeers and catcalls were so deafening Nijinsky stood on a stool in the wings
  1650. shouting to the dancers to carry on and counting the beat as Stravinsky hung
  1651. onto his coat. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;There was an allusion to this
  1652. historic scene at the very same theater&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;just over a century later
  1653. with the&amp;nbsp;performance by the &lt;i&gt;Ballet National du Canada of &lt;/i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nijinsky&lt;/u&gt;,
  1654. a piece created by American choreographer John Neumeier in 2000. &lt;/span&gt;
  1655.  
  1656.  
  1657.  
  1658. &lt;br /&gt;
  1659. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1660. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1661. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1662. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style&gt;
  1663. &lt;!--
  1664. /* Font Definitions */
  1665. @font-face
  1666. {font-family:Times;
  1667. panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1668. mso-font-charset:0;
  1669. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1670. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1671. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1672. @font-face
  1673. {font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1674. panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1675. mso-font-charset:128;
  1676. mso-generic-font-family:roman;
  1677. mso-font-format:other;
  1678. mso-font-pitch:fixed;
  1679. mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
  1680. @font-face
  1681. {font-family:Verdana;
  1682. panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
  1683. mso-font-charset:0;
  1684. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1685. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1686. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1687. @font-face
  1688. {font-family:Verdana;
  1689. panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
  1690. mso-font-charset:0;
  1691. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1692. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1693. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1694. @font-face
  1695. {font-family:Cambria;
  1696. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1697. mso-font-charset:0;
  1698. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1699. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1700. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
  1701. /* Style Definitions */
  1702. p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
  1703. {mso-style-unhide:no;
  1704. mso-style-qformat:yes;
  1705. mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;
  1706. margin:0in;
  1707. margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  1708. mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  1709. font-size:12.0pt;
  1710. font-family:Cambria;
  1711. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1712. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1713. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1714. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1715. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1716. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1717. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1718. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
  1719. mso-ansi-language:FR;}
  1720. .MsoChpDefault
  1721. {mso-style-type:export-only;
  1722. mso-default-props:yes;
  1723. font-family:Cambria;
  1724. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1725. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1726. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1727. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1728. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1729. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1730. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1731. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
  1732. @page WordSection1
  1733. {size:8.5in 11.0in;
  1734. margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
  1735. mso-header-margin:.5in;
  1736. mso-footer-margin:.5in;
  1737. mso-paper-source:0;}
  1738. div.WordSection1
  1739. {page:WordSection1;}
  1740. --&gt;
  1741. &lt;/style&gt;
  1742.  
  1743.  
  1744.  
  1745.  
  1746.  
  1747.  
  1748. &lt;br /&gt;
  1749. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1750. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s a clever pastiche of his personal story,
  1751. hallucinations and flashbacks, as well as his most famous roles in a short but
  1752. spectacular career (&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Arlequin&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Spectre de la rose&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Scheherazade&lt;/u&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Petrushka&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,
  1753. &lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;L&#39;Oiseau&amp;nbsp;du feu&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;). &amp;nbsp;Mixed in with these tableaux are
  1754. elements of dance history and costumes inspired by the originals.&amp;nbsp; The
  1755. music comprises works by Chopin, Schumann, Rimski-Korsakov, and Shostakovich,
  1756. under the direction of David Briskin of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Orchestra Prométhée. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1757. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1758. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1759. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1760. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Vaslav Nijinsky (1889 to 1950) was the son of two
  1761. Polish dancers. &amp;nbsp;He became wildly famous internationally for his
  1762. virtuosity, intensity and athleticism.&amp;nbsp; He could dance&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;en pointe,&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;a
  1763. rare skill among male dancers, and was admired for his seemingly
  1764. gravity-defying leaps&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;androgynous body, with large thighs and
  1765. delicate arms.&amp;nbsp; He joined the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Ballets Russes&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;in 1909,
  1766. becoming lovers with Diaghilev, 18 years his senior.&amp;nbsp; An impresario,
  1767. Diaghilev conquered Europe and the world with his&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Ballets Russes&lt;/i&gt;, a
  1768. creative movement that drew together the greatest musical, theatrical and
  1769. artistic talents of the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1770. &lt;div style=&quot;font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1771. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1772. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1773.  
  1774.  
  1775.  
  1776.  
  1777.  
  1778.  
  1779.  
  1780.  
  1781.  
  1782.  
  1783.  
  1784.  
  1785. &lt;style&gt;
  1786. &lt;!--
  1787. /* Font Definitions */
  1788. @font-face
  1789. {font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1790. panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1791. mso-font-charset:128;
  1792. mso-generic-font-family:roman;
  1793. mso-font-format:other;
  1794. mso-font-pitch:fixed;
  1795. mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
  1796. @font-face
  1797. {font-family:Verdana;
  1798. panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
  1799. mso-font-charset:0;
  1800. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1801. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1802. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1803. @font-face
  1804. {font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;;
  1805. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1806. mso-font-charset:0;
  1807. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1808. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1809. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
  1810. @font-face
  1811. {font-family:Cambria;
  1812. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1813. mso-font-charset:0;
  1814. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1815. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1816. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
  1817. /* Style Definitions */
  1818. p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
  1819. {mso-style-unhide:no;
  1820. mso-style-qformat:yes;
  1821. mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;
  1822. margin:0in;
  1823. margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  1824. mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  1825. font-size:12.0pt;
  1826. font-family:Cambria;
  1827. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1828. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1829. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1830. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1831. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1832. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1833. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1834. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
  1835. mso-ansi-language:FR;}
  1836. .MsoChpDefault
  1837. {mso-style-type:export-only;
  1838. mso-default-props:yes;
  1839. font-family:Cambria;
  1840. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1841. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1842. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1843. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1844. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1845. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1846. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1847. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
  1848. @page WordSection1
  1849. {size:8.5in 11.0in;
  1850. margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
  1851. mso-header-margin:.5in;
  1852. mso-footer-margin:.5in;
  1853. mso-paper-source:0;}
  1854. div.WordSection1
  1855. {page:WordSection1;}
  1856. --&gt;
  1857. &lt;/style&gt;
  1858.  
  1859.  
  1860.  
  1861.  
  1862. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt;&quot;&gt;A lead dancer, Nijinsky expanded his repertoire
  1863. and experimented with&amp;nbsp;choreography.&amp;nbsp; One of his most famous
  1864. works,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;L&#39;Après-midi d’un faune (&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;1912) was inspired by Greek
  1865. vases and Egyptian frescoes. The ballet introduced new concepts of
  1866. two-dimensionality, stylized postures and pauses, and even more shocking at the
  1867. time, a sexual scene over a scarf. &amp;nbsp;This dance&#39;s odd movements and steamy
  1868. sensuality permeate the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Ballet du Canada&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;production as well.
  1869. &amp;nbsp;Contemporaries&amp;nbsp;in the arts thought Nijinsky was strangely
  1870. inarticulate and inept at teaching his dances, and perhaps even mad as well as
  1871. a genius. &amp;nbsp;They turned out to be right.&lt;/span&gt;
  1872.  
  1873.  
  1874.  
  1875. &lt;/div&gt;
  1876. &lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1877. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1878. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnimD-1BMVM/WePCH7sQtWI/AAAAAAAABvg/KmPT6weCWNgIgBqc0lBH1HKGoYwMJdmhwCLcBGAs/s1600/quote-on-nijinksy-ah-he-took-my-breath-away-the-body-that-man-had-the-controlled-power-the-dagmar-godowsky-119-56-23.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-width=&quot;850&quot; height=&quot;186&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnimD-1BMVM/WePCH7sQtWI/AAAAAAAABvg/KmPT6weCWNgIgBqc0lBH1HKGoYwMJdmhwCLcBGAs/s400/quote-on-nijinksy-ah-he-took-my-breath-away-the-body-that-man-had-the-controlled-power-the-dagmar-godowsky-119-56-23.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1879. &lt;style&gt;
  1880. &lt;!--
  1881. /* Font Definitions */
  1882. @font-face
  1883. {font-family:Times;
  1884. panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1885. mso-font-charset:0;
  1886. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1887. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1888. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1889. @font-face
  1890. {font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1891. panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
  1892. mso-font-charset:128;
  1893. mso-generic-font-family:roman;
  1894. mso-font-format:other;
  1895. mso-font-pitch:fixed;
  1896. mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
  1897. @font-face
  1898. {font-family:Verdana;
  1899. panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
  1900. mso-font-charset:0;
  1901. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1902. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1903. mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
  1904. @font-face
  1905. {font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;;
  1906. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1907. mso-font-charset:0;
  1908. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1909. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1910. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
  1911. @font-face
  1912. {font-family:Cambria;
  1913. panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
  1914. mso-font-charset:0;
  1915. mso-generic-font-family:auto;
  1916. mso-font-pitch:variable;
  1917. mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
  1918. /* Style Definitions */
  1919. p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
  1920. {mso-style-unhide:no;
  1921. mso-style-qformat:yes;
  1922. mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;
  1923. margin:0in;
  1924. margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  1925. mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  1926. font-size:12.0pt;
  1927. font-family:Cambria;
  1928. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1929. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1930. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1931. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1932. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1933. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1934. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1935. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
  1936. mso-ansi-language:FR;}
  1937. .MsoChpDefault
  1938. {mso-style-type:export-only;
  1939. mso-default-props:yes;
  1940. font-family:Cambria;
  1941. mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
  1942. mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1943. mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;ＭＳ 明朝&quot;;
  1944. mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
  1945. mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
  1946. mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
  1947. mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
  1948. mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
  1949. @page WordSection1
  1950. {size:8.5in 11.0in;
  1951. margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
  1952. mso-header-margin:.5in;
  1953. mso-footer-margin:.5in;
  1954. mso-paper-source:0;}
  1955. div.WordSection1
  1956. {page:WordSection1;}
  1957. --&gt;
  1958. &lt;/style&gt;
  1959.  
  1960.  
  1961.  
  1962.  
  1963.  
  1964.  
  1965. &lt;br /&gt;
  1966. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1967. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;In 1913, Nijinsky married Hungarian Romola de Pulszky
  1968. while on tour in South America, with whom he had two daughters.&amp;nbsp; The marriage
  1969. caused a break with Diaghilev, who angrily dismissed him from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Ballets
  1970. Russes&lt;/i&gt;, leaving Nijinsky deprived of opportunities to dance and under
  1971. mental strain. After being interned in Hungary during World War I,
  1972. he&amp;nbsp;moved to&amp;nbsp;Switzerland, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in
  1973. 1919. He was in and out of asylums over the next 30 years, never dancing again;
  1974. but he remains a legend of ballet and source of fascination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1975. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;&quot;&gt;
  1976. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1977. There are other exciting productions at the&lt;i&gt;Théâtre des Champs-Elysées c&lt;/i&gt;oming
  1978. up&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;this season, so&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;s&gt;t&lt;/s&gt;ake
  1979. advantage of your WICE member discount, and enjoy some of the most renowned
  1980. performers of our generation, in the tradition of this theater. Upcoming
  1981. performances include&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;the American diva Renée
  1982. Fleming, a Mozart Gala, and the &lt;i&gt;Orchestre National de France--&lt;/i&gt;so take a
  1983. look and book!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1984. &lt;/div&gt;
  1985. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1986. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1987. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1988. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  1989. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1990. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/&quot;&gt;www.theatrechampselysees.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1991. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1992. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1993. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1994. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1995. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1996. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  1997. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1998. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1999. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;For information about our&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2000. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;events and activities, contact:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2001. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;
  2002. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2003. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;WICE Office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2004. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;br /&gt;
  2005. 75015 Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-size: small; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2006. Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2007. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  2008. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;Telephone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2009. 01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2010. &lt;div&gt;
  2011. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #e8e8ee;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2013. &lt;/div&gt;
  2014. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;
  2015. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2016. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2017. &lt;/div&gt;
  2018. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2019. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2020. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2021. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2022. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2023. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2024. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2025. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2026. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2027. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/36586936810554355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/36586936810554355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-theatre-du-champs-elysees-nijinsky.html' title='The Theatre du Champs-Elysées: Nijinsky'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3mDG-GagydY/Wdp2aq-_38I/AAAAAAAABug/paaU7Ux67xsPXLLLRnK5rY_2xuGWb8gvQCLcBGAs/s72-c/Nijinsky_OK.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-2868362934091240483</id><published>2017-09-09T10:40:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2017-09-09T20:28:14.373+02:00</updated><title type='text'>WICE Open House Coming Soon!  Be There...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2028. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2029. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;Calling all WICE members and wannabes…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2030. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2031. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2032. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2033. &lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;We’re taking a running start to Rentrée 2017 with a new venue for our Open House, Tuesday, 19 September, 3 to 7 PM, at the Gare de Marlon Gallery (in the 4th, metro Pont Marie). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2034. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2035. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2036. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  2037. &lt;/div&gt;
  2038. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2039. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Quit the rat race and join the top non-profit English-speaking cultural and social group in Paris!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2040. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2041. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2042. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;color: #222222; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2043. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ievJYcRd95U/WbOkl2VRBPI/AAAAAAAABuM/9M8tDTtlQb0-624p0W8H0CBytZupU5LhQCEwYBhgL/s1600/Wice%252520Open%252520House%2525202016%252520by%252520RAYE19_zps4s3amx27.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;684&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1024&quot; height=&quot;133&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ievJYcRd95U/WbOkl2VRBPI/AAAAAAAABuM/9M8tDTtlQb0-624p0W8H0CBytZupU5LhQCEwYBhgL/s200/Wice%252520Open%252520House%2525202016%252520by%252520RAYE19_zps4s3amx27.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2044. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;WICE members, by RAYE&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2045. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2046. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2047. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Come along with friends, family, and colleagues and get half off our bargain 50 euro membership when you sign up for a class or event!&amp;nbsp; Sip a glass of wine and connect with like-minded people, new and old members, and our many volunteers and instructors. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2048. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2049. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2050. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2051. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;You could be the lucky one to walk away with prizes including tickets for the Lost in Frenchlation cinema, the Théatre des Champs Elysées, and Improfessionals; classes with Studio15 Pilates; vouchers with the concierge service Savoir Faire Paris; and offers from WH Smith.&amp;nbsp; Register now at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wice-paris.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=iNZkHF3CcHKhNlK5bxAQ%2bo27ezqtaQePthnMr8xAG53DOekIULSWOZnturkcvwPWKtZ0MQYMiYt1fFRpvDddxBdl8WarNHoYAGP0VxALit4%3d&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); color: #1155cc;&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris/openhouse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to be eligible for the lucky draw!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2052. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2053. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2054. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2055. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Don’t forget — many cultural venues offer WICE members discounts year-round.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2056. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2057. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2058. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2059. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2060. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2061. At the Open House, you’ll meet dynamic people from all over the world and hear about our huge range of events and classes, free social gatherings, and volunteer opportunities.&lt;/div&gt;
  2062. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2063. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2064. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2065. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;For the full list of our exciting classes and events, see our website, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Here’s a tantalising selection…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2066. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2067. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2068. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2069. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Want to cook for health at Le Cordon Bleu?&amp;nbsp; Whip up a Thai Fish Curry for guests? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2070. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2071. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2072. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2073. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;OK, you don’t want to invite him for dinner, but you can follow “In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan,” and then go zen to study Indian painting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2074. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2075. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2076. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2077. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Are you into fact or fiction??&amp;nbsp; History buffs can discuss with experts such topics as “French War Brides” and American soldiers, and bookworms will love our Bilingual Book Group, which already has a great line-up of books translated into French and English this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2078. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2079. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2080. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2081. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;We’ve all been told to “take a walk” and why not?&amp;nbsp; Discover the Camille Claudel Museum, the history of universities in Paris, and the architecture of the Théatre des Champs-Elysées.&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2082. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRubGo7dtXE/WbOk5Ls5dyI/AAAAAAAABuU/fU7eKFv-DPAZ1FA8CoU5auyLRaKQJ0GxgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Wice%252520Open%252520House%2525202016%252520by%252520RAYE45_zpsyvdbdz71.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;706&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1024&quot; height=&quot;220&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRubGo7dtXE/WbOk5Ls5dyI/AAAAAAAABuU/fU7eKFv-DPAZ1FA8CoU5auyLRaKQJ0GxgCEwYBhgL/s320/Wice%252520Open%252520House%2525202016%252520by%252520RAYE45_zpsyvdbdz71.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2083. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;WICE members, by RAYE&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2084. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2085. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2086. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2087. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2088. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2089. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Dare to put pen to paper?&amp;nbsp; Get inspired by our classes in poetry, short story, or essay writing. &amp;nbsp;If that’s not your thing, why not try photography, studio art, printmaking, or website design?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2090. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2091. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2092. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2093. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;One of our best known programs is languages, so why not improve your French or English, or pick up Spanish or German?&amp;nbsp; Guided discussion groups require a small fee, French-English discussion groups are FREE!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2094. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2095. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2096. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2097. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Maria Lilley of WICE Social Events, who organized this year’s Open House, said, “The Gare de Marlon Gallery is a great new venue.&amp;nbsp; It’s on two levels, with a big space for meeting people or stepping aside to take a proficiency test for language classes.&amp;nbsp; And if you want to carry on socializing afterwards, there are lots of nice cafés you can try. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2098. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;
  2099. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2100. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2101. “We’re making our biggest effort ever to make a warm welcome, register members efficiently, and get enrollment under way for our amazing lineup of classes and events this year.&amp;nbsp; Everyone should check out our revamped website and Facebook page!&amp;nbsp; This is one of our major events of the year so we hope for a great turnout!”&lt;/div&gt;
  2102. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
  2103. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2104. &lt;i style=&quot;color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  2105. &lt;i style=&quot;color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2106. &lt;i style=&quot;color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Thanks to RAYE for photos from last year&#39;s Open House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2107. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  2108. Check out our exciting 2017-18 course list on our website,&lt;br /&gt;
  2109. like and follow us on Facebook!&lt;br /&gt;
  2110. Make this a great rentrée....see you on the 19th,&lt;br /&gt;
  2111. Gare de Marlon Gallery, near Metro Pont Marie.&lt;br /&gt;
  2112. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2113. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2114. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Our contact info:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2115. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  2116. www.wice-paris.org&lt;/div&gt;
  2117. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2118. &lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #e8e8ee; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;WICE Office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #e8e8ee; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;br /&gt;75015 Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2119. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2120. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #e8e8ee; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;Telephone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #e8e8ee; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;&quot;&gt;01 45 66 7550&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2121. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  2122. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  2123. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  2124. &lt;br /&gt;
  2125. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2126. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2127. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2128. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2129. &lt;/div&gt;
  2130. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;
  2131. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2132. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2133. &lt;/div&gt;
  2134. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2868362934091240483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2868362934091240483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/09/wice-open-house-coming-soon-be-there.html' title='WICE Open House Coming Soon!  Be There...'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ievJYcRd95U/WbOkl2VRBPI/AAAAAAAABuM/9M8tDTtlQb0-624p0W8H0CBytZupU5LhQCEwYBhgL/s72-c/Wice%252520Open%252520House%2525202016%252520by%252520RAYE19_zps4s3amx27.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-5227224227656734060</id><published>2017-07-07T22:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2017-07-08T14:04:53.850+02:00</updated><title type='text'>THE WICE BILINGUAL BOOK GROUP: BETTER THAN EVER</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;background: white; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2135. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;Dear
  2136. Readers. Consider the attractions of a free monthly book club for WICE members,
  2137. from all over the world, with the occasional appearance of some of the authors
  2138. at the meetings! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2139. &lt;div style=&quot;background: white; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2140. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;You can avail of this and many other WICE activities by
  2141. joining up for half-price at our next Open House at a great new venue (only 25
  2142. euros!), 28 rue du Pont Louis Phillipe in the 4e, 19 September 2017 – put that
  2143. in your agenda!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2144. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2145. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2146. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AiOIl7GbHLc/WWDHymk9EOI/AAAAAAAABro/iA_354rup_YorNgQge6WWYYHCBNDK6H8QCLcBGAs/s1600/book%2Bclub%2B1.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AiOIl7GbHLc/WWDHymk9EOI/AAAAAAAABro/iA_354rup_YorNgQge6WWYYHCBNDK6H8QCLcBGAs/s200/book%2Bclub%2B1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;112&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2147. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Catherine Field&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2148. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2149. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;The Bilingual Book
  2150. Group has enjoyed a major makeover this past year with international journalist
  2151. Catherine Field, from New Zealand, and Canadian photographer Tracey Bennewies
  2152. taking charge. &amp;nbsp;They revamped the Books Group’s webpage and got their own
  2153. email address.&amp;nbsp; Regular attendance
  2154. doubled to its current limit of 10 people, with a second group possible as
  2155. demand warrants. &amp;nbsp;Another innovation? &amp;nbsp;They brought in coffee and tea
  2156. to make the meetings more convivial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2157. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2158. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2159. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DxdgUC4kmyw/WWDH-_NliAI/AAAAAAAABrs/_GzpriXkQT0PM5qkPfqnk6e7JWEHyYRLgCLcBGAs/s1600/book%2Bclub.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;794&quot; data-original-width=&quot;596&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DxdgUC4kmyw/WWDH-_NliAI/AAAAAAAABrs/_GzpriXkQT0PM5qkPfqnk6e7JWEHyYRLgCLcBGAs/s200/book%2Bclub.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2160. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Tracey Bennewies&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2161. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2162. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;“It’s amazing that
  2163. something as simple as bringing in hot drinks would change the atmosphere so much,”
  2164. says Catherine Field, who appreciates most the cosmopolitan nature of the club.
  2165. &amp;nbsp;“We have people from the US., India, Ireland and France, some with expat
  2166. and military experiences in Algeria or Beirut. &amp;nbsp;The different
  2167. international perspectives make this book club very special.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2168. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2169. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;Here’s how it works:
  2170. books on the reading list must be published in English and in French, and
  2171. members read the monthly book and discuss it in their preferred
  2172. language,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;&quot;&gt;under the guidance of a team of moderators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;. Members suggest books for the reading list, which is devised at the start of the year. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;Catherine worked incredibly hard vetting the
  2173. books reading about 40 to see if they were the best 10 for the club, with help
  2174. from partner Tracey who Catherine describes as “a real bookworm.” &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2175. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2176. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2177. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2178. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2179. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;“We don’t just want good
  2180. books, we want good Book Group books. &amp;nbsp;That means having something you can
  2181. discuss, with strong characters or a moral or political message, that you can
  2182. sink your teeth into and get you thinking,” says Catherine. &amp;nbsp;“More
  2183. recently, Tracey has started showing video clips from movies made from the
  2184. books, which made for stimulating conversation.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2185. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2186. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;Meetings are held on
  2187. the second Friday afternoon of every month, with 1 hour 45 minutes for the book
  2188. discussion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2189. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2190. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bz03epoz0Tc/WV_gyBRWJaI/AAAAAAAABrY/X2cb9lhzbxYy6vkSQ6A4mCijkNpCnlpRwCLcBGAs/s1600/wice%2Bbook%2Bgroup.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;768&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1024&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bz03epoz0Tc/WV_gyBRWJaI/AAAAAAAABrY/X2cb9lhzbxYy6vkSQ6A4mCijkNpCnlpRwCLcBGAs/s320/wice%2Bbook%2Bgroup.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2191. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Author Noreen Riols joining the WICE Book Group discussion of her work&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2192. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2193. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2194. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;But most exciting are
  2195. some personal appearances by authors. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A highlight of the year was
  2196. the visit of Noreen Riols, the author of &lt;u&gt;The Secret Ministry of Ag. And
  2197. Fish: My Life in Churchill’s School for Spies.&lt;/u&gt; &amp;nbsp;She’s 90 years old and
  2198. still in good form. &amp;nbsp;In October, WICE’s own Alecia McKenzie, creative writing
  2199. instructor, will be speaking about her book &lt;u&gt;Sweetheart&lt;/u&gt;, and other
  2200. appearances are in the works. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2201. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2202. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;Books that made for
  2203. great conversation included &lt;u&gt;The Vegetarian&lt;/u&gt;, by Korean writer &lt;span style=&quot;background: white;&quot;&gt;Han Kang, about the male patriarchy from the point of
  2204. view of a woman we never hear speak. &amp;nbsp;Other good talks centered on &lt;u&gt;The
  2205. Meursault Investigation&lt;/u&gt;, an Arab riposte to Camus’ &lt;u&gt;The Stranger&lt;/u&gt; by
  2206. Kamel Daoud; &lt;u&gt;Des Hommes&lt;/u&gt;, by Laurent Mauvignier about post-traumatic
  2207. stress disorder in the Algerian war, and &lt;u&gt;The Harder They Come&lt;/u&gt;, a book
  2208. about American violence by T.C. Boyle. &amp;nbsp;A few ideas for your summer
  2209. holiday reading list?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2210. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2211. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;The
  2212. first book of the &lt;i&gt;rentrée&lt;/i&gt; will be &lt;u&gt;The Gathering&lt;/u&gt;, or &lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Retrouvaille&lt;/u&gt;s&lt;/i&gt;,
  2213. a Booker Prize winner by Irish author Anne Enright. &amp;nbsp;The meeting is
  2214. scheduled for Friday, 15 September from 2:00 to 4:00pm and the discussion will
  2215. be led by Pamela Soyer &amp;nbsp;It’s open to all members but registration is
  2216. required as seats are limited, (unless there are enough new members next year
  2217. to split the book club into two groups). &amp;nbsp;So don’t hesitate to register!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2218. &lt;div style=&quot;background: white; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2219. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;See you at the fall Open House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;, 28 rue du Pont
  2220. Louis Phillipe in the 4e, on 19 September 2017,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;where
  2221. you can find out all about WICE’s many courses and cultural offerings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2222. &lt;div style=&quot;background: white; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2223. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2224. &lt;div style=&quot;background: white; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2225. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;calibri&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;&quot;&gt;Post
  2226. by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2227. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2228. &lt;span style=&quot;background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;Book club meetings at the WICE Office&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;the second&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;aBn&quot; data-term=&quot;goog_799765053&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;&quot; tabindex=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aQJ&quot; style=&quot;position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;&quot;&gt;Friday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of each month&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;aBn&quot; data-term=&quot;goog_799765054&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;&quot; tabindex=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aQJ&quot; style=&quot;position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;&quot;&gt;2pm - 4pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2229. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  2230. &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.fr/maps?q=10+rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;client=firefox-beta&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France&amp;amp;gl=fr&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=16&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;color: #2e3192; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;10 rue Tiphaine 75015 Paris France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2231. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;Tel: 01.45.66.75.50&lt;br /&gt;
  2232. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:wice@wice-paris.org&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;color: #2e3192; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;wice@wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2233. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2234. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2235. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2236. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2237. &lt;br /&gt;
  2238. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2239. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2240. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2241. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2242. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5227224227656734060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5227224227656734060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-wice-bilingual-book-group-better.html' title='THE WICE BILINGUAL BOOK GROUP: BETTER THAN EVER'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AiOIl7GbHLc/WWDHymk9EOI/AAAAAAAABro/iA_354rup_YorNgQge6WWYYHCBNDK6H8QCLcBGAs/s72-c/book%2Bclub%2B1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4662998845971722359</id><published>2017-06-06T20:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2017-06-06T20:50:30.912+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A WICE Writing Teacher Wins Another International Prize</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2243. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2244. &lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_0c_sxKwIJE/WTb291neayI/AAAAAAAABrI/l8Y5pvqHPsIMxm-93S-RMzNIjKOuVQI1QCLcB/s1600/Alecia%2BMcKenzie%2Bpic%2B%25281%2529.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1368&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1298&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_0c_sxKwIJE/WTb291neayI/AAAAAAAABrI/l8Y5pvqHPsIMxm-93S-RMzNIjKOuVQI1QCLcB/s320/Alecia%2BMcKenzie%2Bpic%2B%25281%2529.jpg&quot; width=&quot;303&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2245. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Jamaican
  2246. author and journalist Alecia McKenzie has just won a second prize for her first
  2247. novel, after Commonwealth accolades for her short stories.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2248. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2249. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Sweetheart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Trésor&lt;/i&gt; in French) has been awarded the
  2250. 2017 &lt;i&gt;Prix Carbet des Lycéens&lt;/i&gt;. It’s a literary
  2251. competition, judged by French-Caribbean high school students, to highlight the
  2252. best writing by authors from the entire Caribbean region.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2253. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2254. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;“I was
  2255. moved and honored that the book was chosen by students, although I’d previously
  2256. considered it a work for the over-16s,” says Alecia.&amp;nbsp; “It touches on heavy themes including death
  2257. and incest which require a certain maturity.&amp;nbsp;
  2258. It’s about a Jamaican artist who dies in unclear circumstances, and the
  2259. reader learns about her life from people who knew her, and who talk about her.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2260. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2261. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Through
  2262. the different narratives, readers learn, among other things, about the life of
  2263. the artist’s Jewish grandfather. Jamaican-Jewish?&amp;nbsp; “Yes, there’s a sizable community of people
  2264. whose ancestors were Jewish in Jamaica. My primary school was near one of the
  2265. oldest synagogues in the region.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2266. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2267. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;On the importance of the setting, Alecia says: “This is an essential element
  2268. of storytelling.&amp;nbsp; If I didn’t tell the
  2269. truth about the setting, I would feel I were betraying readers, my country. &amp;nbsp;How can you write about a place if you don’t
  2270. know the setting?&amp;nbsp; It has to be
  2271. authentic. I try to put that across when teaching my students short-story
  2272. writing at WICE”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2273. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Although
  2274. she has spent chunks of time in several other countries, she seizes every
  2275. opportunity to return to the place that rules over her imagination.&amp;nbsp; “Jamaica is a part of me,” she says. “It’s as
  2276. James Baldwin put it: you have to take your homeland with you, or you end up
  2277. homeless.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2278. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2279. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;For &lt;u&gt;Sweetheart&lt;/u&gt;,
  2280. she draws both on her knowledge of this setting with her experience in painting
  2281. when writing about the life and death of an artist.&amp;nbsp; “One thing people might not realize is how
  2282. physically tiring painting can be!”&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2283. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2284. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Alecia
  2285. knows this from her sideline as a painter who has exhibited in Kingston, Singapore,
  2286. New York, and here in Paris.&amp;nbsp; Another
  2287. activity is live readings of her work at various venues, in France and
  2288. elsewhere, where she partners with a jazz singer or guitarist for accompaniment.
  2289. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;One such performance on
  2290. June 7 forms part of France’s annual &lt;i&gt;Semaine
  2291. de l’Amérique latine et des Cara&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;ϊ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;FR&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;bes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2292. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white;&quot;&gt;
  2293. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Alecia
  2294. is a regular teacher of short-story writing at WICE, a vital center for English
  2295. creative writing in Paris, particularly celebrated in our Paris Writers
  2296. Workshop.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2297. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2298. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white;&quot;&gt;
  2299. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Our
  2300. six-week short story course with Alecia was too short,’ said student, Monique
  2301. Amaudrey.&amp;nbsp; “She has a soft-spoken
  2302. approach albeit one can sense her strong will to push us in the right direction.&amp;nbsp; My best memory of the course was when she
  2303. struck a match and lit a candle to inspire a story. It led me down memory lane
  2304. …”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2305. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2306. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white;&quot;&gt;
  2307. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;In
  2308. her teaching, Alecia draws on a lifetime of experience.&amp;nbsp; She started out publishing poems in local newspapers
  2309. while in high school in Kingston.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Her
  2310. first short story collection, &lt;i&gt;Satellite
  2311. City&lt;/i&gt;, won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.&amp;nbsp; Other works include &lt;i&gt;Stories from Yard, Doctor’s Orders&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;When the Rain Stopped in Natland.&amp;nbsp;
  2312. &lt;/i&gt;Alecia holds an MSc from Columbia University in New York, and taught
  2313. Communications and Creative Writing at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in
  2314. Belgium for 12 years.&amp;nbsp; She continues to
  2315. write articles on cultural issues, the environment and other subjects.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2316. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2317. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;&quot;&gt;Alecia believes her rather itinerant life has strengthened her writing
  2318. and her outlook. But she says that the strongest influence remains her
  2319. homeland.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2320. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2321. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2322. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2323. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2324. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Be sure to look out for upcoming WICE writing
  2325. and literature courses in our 2017-2018 program.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2326. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2327. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2328. &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:wice@wice-paris.org?subject=Enquiry%20from%20website&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-SG&quot; style=&quot;color: #2e3192; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;wice@wice-paris.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-SG&quot; style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2329. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2330. &lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #e8e8ee; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;WICE Office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2331. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+Paris,+France&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=64.409204,64.160156&amp;amp;oq=10+ru&amp;amp;hnear=10+Rue+Tiphaine,+75015+Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: rgb(232 , 232 , 238); color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;10 rue Tiphaine&lt;br /&gt;
  2332. 75015 Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2333. Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2334. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2335. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #e8e8ee; color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;Telephone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b2d3c; font-family: &amp;quot;verdana&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2336. &lt;span style=&quot;background: #E8E8EE;&quot;&gt;01 45 66 75 50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2337. &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2338. &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2339. &lt;br /&gt;
  2340. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  2341. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2342. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4662998845971722359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4662998845971722359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-wice-writing-teacher-wins-another.html' title='A WICE Writing Teacher Wins Another International Prize'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_0c_sxKwIJE/WTb291neayI/AAAAAAAABrI/l8Y5pvqHPsIMxm-93S-RMzNIjKOuVQI1QCLcB/s72-c/Alecia%2BMcKenzie%2Bpic%2B%25281%2529.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-252973105513206095</id><published>2017-05-12T18:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2017-05-14T09:54:41.454+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Close Up on a WICE Street Photography Course</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2343. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2344. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2345. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2346. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_sv8a0HkcFQ/WRXg9LSqMRI/AAAAAAAABqc/w9yBq1HaXuc2yNFuJnehVrFJowkYxVQyACLcB/s1600/meredith.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_sv8a0HkcFQ/WRXg9LSqMRI/AAAAAAAABqc/w9yBq1HaXuc2yNFuJnehVrFJowkYxVQyACLcB/s200/meredith.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2347. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Meredith&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;© Lauren Gezurian-Amlani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2348. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2349. Now’s your chance to snap and chat with WICE photography
  2350. pro, Meredith Mullins.&lt;br /&gt;
  2351. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2352. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2353. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2354. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2355. In her upcoming 4-session Exploring Course, she’ll take you
  2356. to some of the most photogenic places in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
  2357. &lt;br /&gt;
  2358. Each session begins with
  2359. essential photo tips in a café of the chosen neighborhood.&amp;nbsp; Then students are sent out with a choice of
  2360. assignments that equate to “purposeful wandering.”&amp;nbsp; Afterwards, they gather in a specially chosen
  2361. restaurant for a review of their images.&amp;nbsp;
  2362. With Meredith’s techniques, you’ll move from selfies to artistic self-expression in no time!&lt;br /&gt;
  2363. &lt;br /&gt;
  2364. “There’s nothing like the beauty of Paris as a backdrop. As
  2365. I turn every corner I feel lost in time. I want all my students to be inspired
  2366. by the city, and communicate through images what they’re thinking or feeling,
  2367. and what they’re attracted to,” Meredith explains.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2368. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2369. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2370. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2371. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2372. “It always amazes me that the members of our group can be
  2373. wandering the same streets during the same few hours and, yet, the resulting
  2374. photographs are totally unique. Everyone has a unique style, and sees the
  2375. quartier a little bit differently. &amp;nbsp;That is what the art of photography is
  2376. all about.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2377. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2378. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KGOWUxKL-sk/WRXhwdwYz4I/AAAAAAAABqk/Lf829HYQkK8PfeiKMWy3AYlf4f3PtPKPACLcB/s1600/swan%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KGOWUxKL-sk/WRXhwdwYz4I/AAAAAAAABqk/Lf829HYQkK8PfeiKMWy3AYlf4f3PtPKPACLcB/s320/swan%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2379. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The swan: © Nola Erhardt&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2380. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2381. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2382. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2383. “We also have a great heritage in the city,” she continues.
  2384. “We can’t forget we’re walking in the footsteps of the iconic 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; &amp;nbsp;century Paris street photographers, such as
  2385. Cartier-Bresson, Ronis and Doisneau, who famously said, “&lt;span class=&quot;m3365647979384854853quotetext&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;&quot;&gt;The marvels
  2386. of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that
  2387. you find in the street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;-webkit-standard&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2388. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;-webkit-standard&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2389. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2390. Some students might be timid about photographing people, but
  2391. Meredith helps them get over it. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2392. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2393. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2394. “People might be the most interesting subjects, so they have
  2395. to be in the repertoire, and sometimes I give the assignment of finding
  2396. interesting characters in the streets. But I might also assign the theme of
  2397. water in its different forms, depth perspective, motion, or lighting
  2398. techniques. The group choses what to work on before we meet up again to see and
  2399. discuss the results as a class.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2400. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2401. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2402. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2403. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BCNPrs32o4w/WRXmSVl9p2I/AAAAAAAABqw/KhaWP_04yM0Y9rkRbECjpHPddcaKDfbQQCLcB/s1600/water%2Bstudent%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BCNPrs32o4w/WRXmSVl9p2I/AAAAAAAABqw/KhaWP_04yM0Y9rkRbECjpHPddcaKDfbQQCLcB/s320/water%2Bstudent%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2404. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Rain Reflections: © Eva Ferziger&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2405. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2406. &lt;br /&gt;
  2407. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Meredith arrived in Paris to stay 11 years ago, and soon
  2408. after published her award-winning book of stories and photographs, &lt;u&gt;In a
  2409. Paris Moment&lt;/u&gt;. &amp;nbsp;As soon as she settled
  2410. on the Ile Saint Louis, she discovered the language courses at WICE, which were
  2411. an immediate source of enduring friendships. She soon found herself bringing her
  2412. 40 years of teaching experience to the program, initiating the exploring class
  2413. of secret hideaways to inspire great pictures, as well as new ways of seeing
  2414. the well-known places and monuments.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2415. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2416. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2417. She has an impressive résumé, with a publishing career and
  2418. more than 40 photography exhibitions and showings in galleries and museums in
  2419. France and the US to her credit. Among her prizes are the &lt;i&gt;Concours&lt;/i&gt; Photo sur Paris, Px3, Worldwide Gala Awards, and
  2420. Photographer’s Forum, and she co-founded and directed the International Fine
  2421. Art Photography Competition.&lt;br /&gt;
  2422. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2423. She claims to be one of the last die-hards to have left the
  2424. dark room for digital, but now thinks the new age is better. She says at Paris
  2425. Photo, the International Fine Art Photography Fair in November, she saw trends
  2426. of big photos with vibrant color, some very conceptual and some not at all, but
  2427. she also noticed that black and white photography is coming back with a new
  2428. richness all its own.&lt;/div&gt;
  2429. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2430. &lt;br /&gt;
  2431. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2432. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eC2MbhVvsVQ/WRXmiMAvujI/AAAAAAAABq0/I95SQooTBdQFmVHQTgQ36BUXg0N6QdkKACLcB/s1600/student%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eC2MbhVvsVQ/WRXmiMAvujI/AAAAAAAABq0/I95SQooTBdQFmVHQTgQ36BUXg0N6QdkKACLcB/s320/student%2Bphoto.jpg&quot; width=&quot;211&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2433. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Fondation Louis Vuitton: © Gerry Fisher&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2434. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2435. In a fast-changing world, what better way to slow things
  2436. down than with a still photo that records one instant, and one perspective in
  2437. these rushed and distracted times? And then, having a focused moment to talk
  2438. about your photos with an expert…. Take a look at her website at
  2439. https://meredithmullins.artspan.com/&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2440. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2441. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2442. &lt;br /&gt;
  2443. &lt;u&gt;Photo credits:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2444. Meredith&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;© Lauren Gezurian-Amlani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2445. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;&quot;&gt;
  2446. The swan: © Nola Erhardt&lt;/div&gt;
  2447. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;&quot;&gt;
  2448. Rain Reflections: © Eva Ferziger&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  2449. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;&quot;&gt;
  2450. Fondation Louis Vuitton: © Gerry Fisher&lt;/div&gt;
  2451. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2452. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2453. &lt;i&gt;Post by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2454. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2455. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2456. REGISTER NOW!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2457. &lt;a data-saferedirecturl=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;amp;q=https://wice.wildapricot.org/event-2411479&amp;amp;source=gmail&amp;amp;ust=1494795987568000&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2E8WYwp4yMKZQwiVEAm6LWWjSog&quot; href=&quot;https://wice.wildapricot.org/event-2411479&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://wice.wildapricot.org/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;event-2411479&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2458. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2459. WICE Office&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2460. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2461. 10 rue Tiphaine&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2462. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2463. 75015 Paris&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2464. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2465. Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2466. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2467. From inside France&amp;nbsp; 01 45 66 75 50&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2468. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2469. wice@wice-paris.org&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2470. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2471. SY232 Exploring Paris Through the Lens&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2472. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2473. 23 May to 13 June, Tuesday Mornings 10 to 1 PM at&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2474. &lt;br /&gt;
  2475. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  2476. At instructor’s Studio, Isle Saint Louis and various locations
  2477. around Paris&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2478. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/252973105513206095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/252973105513206095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/05/close-up-on-wice-street-photography.html' title='Close Up on a WICE Street Photography Course'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_sv8a0HkcFQ/WRXg9LSqMRI/AAAAAAAABqc/w9yBq1HaXuc2yNFuJnehVrFJowkYxVQyACLcB/s72-c/meredith.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4043235137215491588</id><published>2017-04-30T09:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2017-05-12T22:58:32.650+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Not YOU for the WICE Board of Directors?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2479. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sl-1lSBGy4/WQWSOZglNmI/AAAAAAAABqM/w5ddnOy5BrwB427KllFdKJImefdAH2GoACLcB/s1600/veronica.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sl-1lSBGy4/WQWSOZglNmI/AAAAAAAABqM/w5ddnOy5BrwB427KllFdKJImefdAH2GoACLcB/s320/veronica.png&quot; width=&quot;261&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2480. Calling all WICE members to step up and volunteer, and why not start at the top?  Nominations are under way now for the Board!  Join now to help steer us into the future…&lt;br /&gt;
  2481. &lt;br /&gt;
  2482. There are ten people at the helm, directing such areas as Programs, Marketing, Finance, Volunteers, Facilities, “Upstairs at Duroc,” and the Paris Writers Workshop, as well as governing the organization.  &lt;br /&gt;
  2483. &lt;br /&gt;
  2484. Veronica Pollard is the Board leader in charge of growing and maintaining membership.   &lt;br /&gt;
  2485. &lt;br /&gt;
  2486. In 2013, she had no idea when her plane from New York hit the tarmac in Paris for a dream retirement that she would participate in the French-English conversation groups at WICE and end up on the Board.&lt;br /&gt;
  2487. &lt;br /&gt;
  2488. “Our WICE members come from countries on six continents, but especially the US, UK, Australia, and of course France.  Recently, we have been inviting members to small informal gatherings at the home of WICE President Mary Sipper to get a better understanding of the areas of strength for WICE and what needs improving.  Many seem to want us to have a more social presence and offer opportunities for friendship.  So that has become part of our vision going forward.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2489. &lt;br /&gt;
  2490. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2491. There is a time commitment to the Board, depending on your role, which Veronica says amounts to a monthly meeting and a few hours a week of service.  She has no regrets.&lt;br /&gt;
  2492. &lt;br /&gt;
  2493. “This work has let me engage in my new city in unexpected ways and learn how people adapt to life here.  The Board members are of various nationalities and each of us brings his or her own personal and professional experiences as we bring new ideas for strengthening our courses and programs and managing our organization.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2494. &lt;br /&gt;
  2495. Veronica came to WICE after a high-octane career in the corporate and non-profit worlds, spanning the media, automobile industry, and international humanitarian agencies, all while raising a child.  Her work on non-profit boards includes a stint at the Museum for African Art in New York and the National YMCA of the USA.  She has served in top marketing and communications roles for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Save the Children, Toyota and ABC, Inc.  Previously she was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.  In Paris, she has slowed down a bit, but serves on a second Board at L’ENVOL, a French non-profit that provides residential camp opportunities for seriously ill children.  &lt;br /&gt;
  2496. &lt;br /&gt;
  2497. Do not be discouraged by that impressive pedigree!  Veronica says you don’t have to come from the corporate elite to be on the Board.  “Any professional experience is helpful as long as it comes with enthusiasm!  And this could be a great opportunity for a first board experience,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;
  2498. &lt;br /&gt;
  2499. Where does she see WICE in five years’ time?  “Our surveys show that most members find us on the internet, many through a search for language programs and conversation groups.  We want to have an even stronger internet presence to make WICE more attractive than ever.  We hope to bring in younger members.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2500. &lt;br /&gt;
  2501. It’s not all work and no play for Veronica, who can be found with her Haitian-American journalist husband in bistros all over Paris, discovering the special charm of each arrondissement. “We also like to take a train ride at least once a month to discover other French cities.  France is home now!”&lt;br /&gt;
  2502. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  2503. &lt;i&gt;by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2504. &lt;br /&gt;
  2505. &lt;b&gt;APPLY NOW!&lt;br /&gt;
  2506. WICE Office&lt;br /&gt;
  2507. 10 rue Tiphaine&lt;br /&gt;
  2508. 75015 Paris&lt;br /&gt;
  2509. France&lt;br /&gt;
  2510. Office Hours&lt;br /&gt;
  2511. Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;
  2512. Closed Public holidays and school holidays&lt;br /&gt;
  2513. &lt;br /&gt;
  2514. Telephone&lt;br /&gt;
  2515. From inside France  01 45 66 75 50&lt;br /&gt;
  2516. Outside of France  +33 1 45 66 75 50&lt;br /&gt;
  2517. Email&lt;br /&gt;
  2518. General Inquiries: wice@wice-paris.org&lt;br /&gt;
  2519. Volunteering:   Volunteers&lt;br /&gt;
  2520. &lt;br /&gt;
  2521. &lt;/b&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4043235137215491588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4043235137215491588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-not-you-for-wice-board-of-directors.html' title='Why Not YOU for the WICE Board of Directors?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sl-1lSBGy4/WQWSOZglNmI/AAAAAAAABqM/w5ddnOy5BrwB427KllFdKJImefdAH2GoACLcB/s72-c/veronica.png" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-5466338466128618001</id><published>2017-04-18T19:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2017-04-20T15:00:54.403+02:00</updated><title type='text'>WICE Presents a Screenwriting Workshop with a Hollywood Pro!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2522. &lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0mf5DN7AXWM/WPZTr4pQ68I/AAAAAAAABp8/9ECgolwGZzMLRXCMbouTQMYkyFym4tocACLcB/s1600/john%2Bjacobsen.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0mf5DN7AXWM/WPZTr4pQ68I/AAAAAAAABp8/9ECgolwGZzMLRXCMbouTQMYkyFym4tocACLcB/s320/john%2Bjacobsen.png&quot; width=&quot;219&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2523. WICE is thrilled to present a one-week screenwriting workshop for 12 people this summer with the Emmy Award winning &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnejacobsen.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;John Jacobsen&lt;/a&gt;.  This chameleon of every aspect of the American film industry for over thirty years, will teach you the craft of character, dialogue, theme, writing visually, and the wisdom that in this genre, “less is more.”  Whether you have the germ of an idea or a finished screenplay, John’s first workshop in Paris is an unmissable opportunity.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2450415&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sign up now&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, July is coming soon! (see event details below)&lt;br /&gt;
  2524. &lt;br /&gt;
  2525. Talking to John quickly reveals his energy, creativity, and empathy, the font of his many successes in screenwriting, directing and film production.  An educator, he has founded several university film programs.  For the broader public, he hosts the popular PBS program &lt;i&gt;The Artist Toolbox&lt;/i&gt;, talking to a pantheon of other master artists on their creative process in the worlds of fashion, film, theater, architecture, design, ballet and more.  “What they all have in common,” says John, “is their obsession to perfect their work,” by endless practicing--as he does from 6 to 9 a.m. every day.&lt;br /&gt;
  2526. &lt;br /&gt;
  2527. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2528. John will bring to WICE his own artist’s tools, breaking down the essentials of character, dialogue, theme, and most of all structure.  He says, “When projects fail, be they screenplays, books, or plays, 90 percent of the time it’s because of the structure. I could take you through 500 good films and show you they all share the same structure, even Grimm’s Fairy Tales.  An example of a film where it works is &lt;i&gt;Shakespeare in Love&lt;/i&gt;, you could watch it over and over again.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2529. &lt;br /&gt;
  2530. Another vital element to a good screenplay is story. “Story is the is the currency of all human exchange. Through putting a character under duress, we see their choices. When they are vulnerable, without their suit of armor, it reveals who they really are and if we see ourselves in them.  An authentic story is what we crave so badly.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2531. &lt;br /&gt;
  2532. John grew up in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., trained in Hollywood and later moved to Seattle to raise his family outside the excesses of the industry.  Like most artists, he had to persist.  He wrote seven screenplays before selling his first one.  But he says you don’t have to be a pro to have your work see the light of day either: I’ve seen success come out of nowhere!”&lt;br /&gt;
  2533. &lt;br /&gt;
  2534. “For a screenplay, you have to be able to write visually.  The screenplay is the blueprint for the story.  Every part of it should move the story on. Sometimes this is without dialogue, or with descriptions of places that reflect a mood but don’t give too much detail.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2535. &lt;br /&gt;
  2536. Good work comes out of Hollywood, he says, but when it becomes formulaic it loses the authenticity that constitutes art. “Some of the best writers sell their work to Hollywood and the film that comes out is junk!  The target audience seems to be teenage boys.  The minute you start writing or producing just for money the art is over.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2537. &lt;br /&gt;
  2538. He maintains his dedication to real art, having just completed a series on the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, relating the many heroic adventures she had in the Underground Railroad, women’s suffrage and the Civil War.  This represented an enormous amount of historical research but for John it is a passion to bring this story to the screen.  “I like both producing this kind of creative work and helping people.  That is why I teach.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2539. &lt;br /&gt;
  2540. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnejacobsen.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.johnejacobsen.com/ &lt;/a&gt;    Posted by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;br /&gt;
  2541. &lt;br /&gt;
  2542. Event sponsored by WICE and the Paris Writers Workshop&lt;br /&gt;
  2543. &lt;br /&gt;
  2544. &lt;h3&gt;
  2545. &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2450415&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Register to the course now&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with WICE:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  2546. &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;4 - days Paris Screenwriting Workshop&lt;br /&gt;2 to 7 July, 9a.m. to 1 p.m.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2547. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2450415&quot;&gt;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2450415&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2548. &lt;br /&gt;
  2549. WICE, 10 rue Tiphaine, 75015 Paris: métro La Motte Piquet Grenelle&lt;br /&gt;
  2550. &lt;br /&gt;
  2551. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5466338466128618001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5466338466128618001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/04/wice-presents-screenwriting-workshop.html' title='WICE Presents a Screenwriting Workshop with a Hollywood Pro!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0mf5DN7AXWM/WPZTr4pQ68I/AAAAAAAABp8/9ECgolwGZzMLRXCMbouTQMYkyFym4tocACLcB/s72-c/john%2Bjacobsen.png" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-5218511378622787498</id><published>2017-03-26T21:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2017-04-18T20:05:57.767+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Do You Speak Wine?  Here&#39;s an Exclusive WICE Event to Learn How!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYRIYG2qncA/WNgRi6Tf3nI/AAAAAAAABpk/uQa3forUMm0OGxRwG-VS8m1He7dntmYfACLcB/s1600/Helene-new.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYRIYG2qncA/WNgRi6Tf3nI/AAAAAAAABpk/uQa3forUMm0OGxRwG-VS8m1He7dntmYfACLcB/s320/Helene-new.jpg&quot; width=&quot;229&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This spring, WICE offers members a bouquet of wines!  Paris wine expert Hélène Goble will help spare you those awkward moments puzzling over wine lists, and help you choose favorite wines at any budget with confidence.&lt;br /&gt;
  2552. &lt;br /&gt;
  2553. Hélène’s small and personalized company, “Do You Speak Wine?” operates by word of mouth, but you can join an exclusive WICE wine tasting at her elegant Paris apartment on 27 April.  Along with her class on a Lalande de Pomerol (Bordeaux) wine, she will be sharing dinner, and plenty of special tips on French savoir-faire.&lt;br /&gt;
  2554. &lt;br /&gt;
  2555. Helène grew up with grapes, on a Bordeaux vineyard run by her aristocratic parents.  After a stint working in the Paris wine trade, she took up training at London’s prestigious Wine and Spirit Education Trust.  She later marketed &lt;br /&gt;
  2556. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;aroma boxes called &lt;i&gt;Le Nez du Vin&lt;/i&gt;, which help people assign descriptions to wine aromas.  Ever since, she has been mixing business with pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
  2557. &lt;br /&gt;
  2558. Totally unpretentious, she nevertheless insists there’s no excuse for drinking bad wine.  “&lt;i&gt;Non&lt;/i&gt;! Even a first quality wine at five euros can be well balanced and drinkable!”&lt;br /&gt;
  2559. &lt;br /&gt;
  2560. “You don’t need to know the 297 Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée in France!  You must try to know which grapes and varieties you like.  It might be Chardonnay or Sauvignon, Pinot Noir or Merlot.  Then you need to know yourself, if you like your wine acidic, tannic, supple, old or young.  This is just a matter of having confidence about your taste.  Sometimes, people need to just stop, and concentrate on what they smell, because about 70% of taste is olfactory.  There is no right or wrong!  I just want to demystify this for people. “&lt;br /&gt;
  2561. &lt;br /&gt;
  2562. The first thing to demystify was the difference between a “horizontal” and “vertical” wine tasting.  Helène’s next event for WICE is vertical, because it focuses on wines of different years from one Château.  Horizontal tastings offer wines of the same vintage but from several vineyards.  &lt;br /&gt;
  2563. &lt;br /&gt;
  2564. She finds endless possibilities for wine events for her clients, who are mainly eager-to-learn expatriates.  One group later in the year will bundle into her car to go truffle-hunting at a château, where her tour will pass from the dark cellars to the sunlit ranks of vines in the fields.&lt;br /&gt;
  2565. &lt;br /&gt;
  2566. Hélène can advise expats on how to enjoy wine without attracting shocked stares.  Here in France, it’s a no no for a woman to serve herself more wine when her glass is empty.  A man must do it, old-fashioned though it may be.  Says Helène, “It is much ruder to leave a woman with an empty glass than for her to serve herself. But I tend to make a joke of it, and say, “’&lt;i&gt;La marée est basse&lt;/i&gt;,’ or, ‘the tide is low.’  That usually works!” &lt;br /&gt;
  2567. &lt;br /&gt;
  2568. Posted by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;br /&gt;
  2569. &lt;br /&gt;
  2570. Helène Goble can be reached at: helene@goble.info &lt;br /&gt;
  2571. &lt;br /&gt;
  2572. Register for the next wine tasting and dinner with Helène Goble:&lt;br /&gt;
  2573. Vertical Wine Tasting of Bordeaux Lalande de Pomerol Chateau, 27 April 2017, 7:30 to 10:00 PM, private apartment, metro Boissière.&lt;br /&gt;
  2574. &lt;br /&gt;
  2575. Other wine events coming up:&lt;br /&gt;
  2576. LA211 Tasting Evening of the South West Region&lt;br /&gt;
  2577. 21 Apr 2017 8:00 PM • Private tasting room, 75005 Paris: Metro Jussieu &amp;amp; Cardinal Lemoine&lt;br /&gt;
  2578. LY115 Art of the Apéro Dinatoire&lt;br /&gt;
  2579. 11 May 2017 7:30 PM • Private apartment, 75016 Paris: metro Boissière&lt;br /&gt;
  2580. LY191 Tastes from the Loire&lt;br /&gt;
  2581. 19 May 2017 8:00 PM • Private tasting room, 75005 Paris: Metro Jussieu &amp;amp; Cardinal Lemoine&lt;br /&gt;
  2582. LU015 Champagne Region Visit&lt;br /&gt;
  2583. 01 Jun 2017 8:00 AM • Reims: full details provided on registration&lt;br /&gt;
  2584. LU161 A Taste of Italy&lt;br /&gt;
  2585. 16 Jun 2017 8:00 PM • Private tasting room, 75005 Paris: Metro Jussieu &amp;amp; Cardinal Lemoine&lt;br /&gt;
  2586. &lt;br /&gt;
  2587. If you are not a WICE Member, join our community today for lifelong learning. &lt;br /&gt;
  2588. &lt;br /&gt;
  2589. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5218511378622787498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/5218511378622787498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/03/do-you-speak-wine-heres-exclusive-wice.html' title='Do You Speak Wine?  Here&#39;s an Exclusive WICE Event to Learn How!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYRIYG2qncA/WNgRi6Tf3nI/AAAAAAAABpk/uQa3forUMm0OGxRwG-VS8m1He7dntmYfACLcB/s72-c/Helene-new.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-3932315832412185062</id><published>2017-03-17T16:42:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2017-04-18T20:06:28.226+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hail to the Chef!</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Meet WICE Cooking Instructor, Randall Price&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2590. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/cooking&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8ipNLrqOYS3dG_8CbL8SmhE4-wXdqmQrRffVapPdnN3p9bZYHXqXdizcZKbtMY0s3zz7XCeeCe8fPkklH985bzGcz_xYcYWrg6_oNcoZvil28d_p7v2LnPq2UgMTGf4wlSA9blzUEbY/s200/randall.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Do you dare try a sauce Béarnaise?  Do you dream of making a savoury tart adapted from an 18th century recipe?  Or a light vegetable medley that will impress your summer guests?  There are just a few spots left for three cooking classes this year with &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/cooking&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE cooking&lt;/a&gt; instructor, Randall Price, born in Ohio, and now a distinguished chef in the food capital of the world. &lt;br /&gt;
  2591. &lt;br /&gt;
  2592. His popular cooking lessons for WICE members, full of witty commentary, center on a two-course meal with clear, written recipes.  They are in the French tradition of fresh and seasonal ingredients, with some &lt;br /&gt;
  2593. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;updated versions of the great classics.  “I learned all those by going through the recipes of Julia Child one by one, long before the &#39;Julie and Julia&#39; blog made a fortune.”  He never guessed he would one day meet Julia Childs herself, and compare notes on being American chefs of French cuisine!  The culmination of decades of catering for chateaux and restaurants, studying food history and teaching comes through in his WICE courses, but he&#39;s no chef diva.&lt;br /&gt;
  2594. &lt;br /&gt;
  2595. “I want to offer classes where people can cook with ingredients they can find in their local supermarket, without searching all over for something exotic. I know that watching food programs and  cooking competitions are popular.  But there’s a lot of disinformation out there.  I see the same recipes copy-pasted in lots of blogs, full of mistakes.  My recipes and techniques are genuine, and the classes are about sharing real food with friends.  It’s not about bragging--it’s about bringing pleasure to other people.  It’s about love.”&lt;br /&gt;
  2596. &lt;br /&gt;
  2597. His modest manner and dulcet Midwestern accent don’t give away Randall’s remarkable career.  After taking a literature degree, and working in a restaurant to pay his grad school fees, he discovered his penchant for cooking.  How did he end up in France?  &quot;It was all because of a chocolate cake,&quot; he says, laughing.  His recipe won &lt;i&gt;Chocolatier&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Magazine&lt;/i&gt;&#39;s&amp;nbsp;top prize of a trip to La Varenne cooking school in Paris, where he took the professional&lt;i&gt; Grand Diplome&lt;/i&gt;, and later returned as a chef-teacher and director of the testing kitchen for 12 years.     &lt;br /&gt;
  2598. &lt;br /&gt;
  2599. Over three decades, he has been the chef to embassies and restaurants; catered for royalty and Presidents; and written his own cookbook contributions and a comic book series, &lt;i&gt;Chef &amp;amp; Chat&lt;/i&gt;. &amp;nbsp;He penned his memoire, &lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Chroniques Culinaires et Caustiques d’un Cuisiner Américain au Fin Fond de la France&lt;/u&gt;,&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;about his experiences catering every summer for the many lavish parties at artist Joy de Rohan-Chabot’s chateau in the Auvergne.  In addition, he hosted the Travel Channel’s “Europe’s Classic Inns,” and has made numerous other media appearances.  His diverse career has left him with many anecdotes, such as trying to outwit a Yugoslavian prince who had an uncanny ability to identify every ingredient in any dish.&lt;br /&gt;
  2600. &lt;br /&gt;
  2601. France is the only country whose cuisine is registered on UNESCOS’s world heritage list.  Randall Price says this success is due to high-quality, seasonal ingredients, but also such contributions as Georges August Escoffier’s 1923 work, &lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Le Guide Culinaire&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which codified sauce-making, kitchen management, and other techniques.  Randall says it’s the Bible of classic French cooking, and he couldn’t be without it.  Come join a WICE course with Chef Randall Price in this private Paris kitchen, and savor more of his secrets of the finest French cookery.&lt;br /&gt;
  2602. &lt;br /&gt;
  2603. Posted by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;br /&gt;
  2604. &lt;br /&gt;
  2605. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqPDHfDq0mM9swREq4xao-FmEeY38facGf_ktHxwDHkJ3apcIIa-x0szDfnKT5ONsH0jnwBatgFrPAKN-dN4_9pd6mQaeAMJVMCfQVbHlyZXumF725Ydsl7ORso-4Spx3C5g433S-vgY/s1600/00+WICE+kitchen.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqPDHfDq0mM9swREq4xao-FmEeY38facGf_ktHxwDHkJ3apcIIa-x0szDfnKT5ONsH0jnwBatgFrPAKN-dN4_9pd6mQaeAMJVMCfQVbHlyZXumF725Ydsl7ORso-4Spx3C5g433S-vgY/s1600/00+WICE+kitchen.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Book for the next cooking demonstration classes with Chef Randall Price on:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;22 March: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Fois Gras-Filet Mignon-Sauce Béarnaise-Mousse au Chocolat &lt;br /&gt;
  2606. | &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/event-2398225&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Click here to register&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  2607. &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;19 April:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; Savory Tart Luncheon and Tarte Tropezienne &lt;br /&gt;
  2608. | &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/event-2398224&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Click here to register&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  2609. &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;17 May: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Spring Vegetable Starter and Escabeche Marinated Fish &lt;br /&gt;
  2610. | &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/event-2398229&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Click here to register &lt;/a&gt;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  2611. &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;If you are not a &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/member&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WICE Member,&lt;/a&gt; join our community today for lifelong learning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2612. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/3932315832412185062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/3932315832412185062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/03/hail-to-chef.html' title='Hail to the Chef!'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8ipNLrqOYS3dG_8CbL8SmhE4-wXdqmQrRffVapPdnN3p9bZYHXqXdizcZKbtMY0s3zz7XCeeCe8fPkklH985bzGcz_xYcYWrg6_oNcoZvil28d_p7v2LnPq2UgMTGf4wlSA9blzUEbY/s72-c/randall.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-2071872281020851357</id><published>2017-03-08T19:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2017-04-18T20:10:38.439+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Art Exhibitions"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Culture"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Paris Visits &amp; Museums"/><title type='text'>Louvre Islamic Collection: Peace Through Art</title><content type='html'>While the U.S. struggles with the controversy over the ban on travelers from seven mainly Muslim countries, France provides a source of cross-cultural diplomacy at the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre, the most visited museum in the world.&lt;br /&gt;
  2613. &lt;br /&gt;
  2614. This initiative was the brainchild of President Jacques Chirac, who vigorously opposed the Iraq invasion, and called for a “dialogue of cultures” to break down misunderstandings between the West and Muslim world with its petroleum rich regions.  &lt;br /&gt;
  2615. &lt;br /&gt;
  2616. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVackqeKVkPtYaVWbw4aC_bYV5Yw7oxxndTiL2nUl9fsmSQiK6Oz5tCi_3v1AmDgq_DQl2biGBhWJKTCVfYZWFtO7H9Nto110HKdJD6p5W89YwZMtdbxTGs4EX2ZIZEt0dzIdO5xFYI-g/s1600/1.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVackqeKVkPtYaVWbw4aC_bYV5Yw7oxxndTiL2nUl9fsmSQiK6Oz5tCi_3v1AmDgq_DQl2biGBhWJKTCVfYZWFtO7H9Nto110HKdJD6p5W89YwZMtdbxTGs4EX2ZIZEt0dzIdO5xFYI-g/s320/1.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The new wing opened in 2012, at a cost of a hundred thousand euros, co-funded by Arab states.  Like the glass pyramid, the project came as a shock, thrusting together the medieval Western style and a contemporary design in a powerful frisson.  A vast, undulating canopy of steel, glass and perforated aluminium hovers over 3000 works, the best Islamic art in Europe.  Technology and art converge in poetry that suggests the rolling dunes of the Middle Eastern landscape, the veils of dances or even a flying carpet!&lt;br /&gt;
  2617. &lt;br /&gt;
  2618. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2619. The architecture itself asks how we combine the old world and the new?  The West and the East?  It also supplies the answer that in a cosmopolitan world capital, diversity is welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
  2620. &lt;br /&gt;
  2621. International commerce has always caused cultures to mingle as the collection shows.  It is an Aladdin’s cave of ivory, stone, glass, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, carpets and manuscripts.  Since the glory days of Islamic art, countries were bound together on the trade routes from the Silk Road, and the Persian Royal Road that ran from China to Egypt and brought together Arab, Spanish, Chinese, Indian, Maghreb, and Byzantine motifs.&lt;br /&gt;
  2622. &lt;br /&gt;
  2623. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUww38n0pAQe0pKOOnONvn8sU_js0leWBcXqGu77mcqMItB_VE4AaCZUTdPjRev_NLnTXM0DjdHkQRPlOeMGDzDreQcHLdwbodTmFXi5VlVLq_3CTU7A4u21GXovyXZikqFK5N_xnX1g/s1600/2.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUww38n0pAQe0pKOOnONvn8sU_js0leWBcXqGu77mcqMItB_VE4AaCZUTdPjRev_NLnTXM0DjdHkQRPlOeMGDzDreQcHLdwbodTmFXi5VlVLq_3CTU7A4u21GXovyXZikqFK5N_xnX1g/s200/2.png&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One example of trade influences between East and West was the tulip motif, and trade in the bulbs.  The tulip stands for Allah, the its yielding stem also represents worshipers at prayer. The name tulip probably comes from the Turkish word tuliban, meaning turban, (tulipa in Latin) since the blooms resemble an inverted turban.  Originating in Pakistan, but domesticated in Turkey, tulip bulbs were exported to Holland and by the early 17th century became all the rage. During the time of “tulip mania,” Dutch prices for bulbs reached extraordinary levels and crashed.  There was also vigorous trade in these beautiful ceramics depicting tulips and other symbols of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;
  2624. &lt;br /&gt;
  2625. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMn_oiPsvLMUIQQdPkinQrcj5y6eg7ME1O6NXap6EjTQWwU1iDwKXLgcR_D_8nLzbYlax9QXguRLVLuYQxuJ-FuALhPlmHNE1oaitnadTnSWA7FC7_-9FzbgF_7UMYPTwuKMqOFOgmJw/s1600/3.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMn_oiPsvLMUIQQdPkinQrcj5y6eg7ME1O6NXap6EjTQWwU1iDwKXLgcR_D_8nLzbYlax9QXguRLVLuYQxuJ-FuALhPlmHNE1oaitnadTnSWA7FC7_-9FzbgF_7UMYPTwuKMqOFOgmJw/s200/3.png&quot; width=&quot;149&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Both Islamic and Christian motifs adorn a masterpiece 14th century brass basin inlaid with silver and gold.  It started as as a Mamluk banqueting bowl, only to find itself later in France, where it was used to baptise French royal children.  The French may not have known that the fleur-de-lis and hunting scenes were as symbolic to Islam as the French monarchy.  The basin was used to baptise King Louis IX, later Saint Louis, himself an embodiment of the Church and monarchy.&lt;br /&gt;
  2626. &lt;br /&gt;
  2627. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5b5Q5K4sIaS_LEZPdA-UD4p2KgI02QxLn_XlzqXCUh1MV4p2e4K1Ud6hd_Zd2vhpqXejnqXyB0xXy3N91eJ150_V2A3oKAQNLbs7wPcZiA-sOotZgqXK_CZHhz-lPKL47glM3pLkv4U/s1600/4.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5b5Q5K4sIaS_LEZPdA-UD4p2KgI02QxLn_XlzqXCUh1MV4p2e4K1Ud6hd_Zd2vhpqXejnqXyB0xXy3N91eJ150_V2A3oKAQNLbs7wPcZiA-sOotZgqXK_CZHhz-lPKL47glM3pLkv4U/s200/4.png&quot; width=&quot;111&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At this Louvre collection, there is plenty to capture the imagination and shared humanity.  Admiring a display of elegant, elongated Persian vials curiously meant for holding tears, a woman next to me said, “I could fill all of those.”   Her recognition of despair and empathy in these ancient objects shows how art transcends centuries, religions, differences of opinion, borders East and West, and shows our essential longing for harmony, creativity and peace among people.&lt;br /&gt;
  2628. &lt;br /&gt;
  2629. Posted by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;br /&gt;
  2630. &lt;br /&gt;
  2631. &lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #3d85c6;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2632. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6;&quot;&gt;Save on Louvre visits with special Amis du Louvre Museum membership when you&#39;re a WICE Member&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;This card entitles you to unlimited access to the Louvre, access to other museums on special Amis du Louvre days, reduced rate on the Musée d&#39;Orsay&#39;s Carte Blanche, as well as discounts on lectures, conferences, concerts, films, books and restaurants. The special WICE member price is €70 for a single membership and €100 for a joint membership (as of January 1, 2012). For more details, please refer to your membership package. Please contact the &lt;b&gt;WICE office on 01 45 66 75 50 or &lt;a href=&quot;http://wice-paris.org/member-discounts&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to subscribe.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2633. &lt;br /&gt;
  2634. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2071872281020851357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2071872281020851357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/03/louvre-islamic-collection-peace-through_8.html' title='Louvre Islamic Collection: Peace Through Art'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17750602140235199015</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVackqeKVkPtYaVWbw4aC_bYV5Yw7oxxndTiL2nUl9fsmSQiK6Oz5tCi_3v1AmDgq_DQl2biGBhWJKTCVfYZWFtO7H9Nto110HKdJD6p5W89YwZMtdbxTGs4EX2ZIZEt0dzIdO5xFYI-g/s72-c/1.png" height="72" width="72"/><georss:featurename>75001 Paris, France</georss:featurename><georss:point>48.8606111 2.3376439999999548</georss:point><georss:box>23.3385766 -38.970950000000045 74.3826456 43.646237999999954</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-2144277863698005192</id><published>2017-02-22T16:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2017-04-18T20:07:31.195+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Membership"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="volunteers"/><title type='text'>Let me introduce to you one of our first WICE members, Jill.</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
  2635. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}
  2636. &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
  2637. &lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2638. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7NUzYP31E6I/WKzGd2GzD-I/AAAAAAAABnk/OaakqV7bseQD4Hrk3TOQhTUr7a2vZAd3wCLcB/s200/Jill%2BWICE.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2639. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;Jill Bourdais | WICE Board Member | © Meredith Mullins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2640. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jill Bourdais&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;has been a leading member of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;WICE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;since its founding in 1978. &amp;nbsp;Decades on, she is still bringing her ample energy and initiative to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/board&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;WICE Board&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;where she has served in many top positions. &amp;nbsp;Jill has seen this cultural association in the heart of Paris blossom from a small group of American women wanting to get back to work to a diverse expat community of both genders meeting up for high quality continuing education opportunities and new friendships.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2641. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2642. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;WICE was founded by three American women, inspired by the feminist movement in the United States, to help expat women transition to the workplace after their experience as global nomads, homemakers and mothers. “These women had experience organizing community groups as volunteers, hosting events to support their&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2643. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;husbands’ careers or assisting at their children’s schools. WICE helped them realize that the skills they had acquired could be useful in a professional context and taught them how to tailor them to produce a functional resume rather than the traditional chronological one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2644. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jill herself is American with a successful career. &amp;nbsp;Her Bachelor’s degree in French came in handy when she later married a Frenchman, and &amp;nbsp;after several years working for various magazines, she trained as a psychologist and has been practicing as a psychotherapist since settling in Paris.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2645. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Her own career secure, Jill worked with WICE to help other women find work. &amp;nbsp; In 1981, WICE started its Teaching English as a Second Language certificate (TEFL) in partnership with Rutgers University. “WICE-trained teachers of English were soon very sought after by companies,” she explains. &amp;nbsp;“providing one of the best opportunities for women seeking employment in France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2646. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Courses in visual and applied arts, personal development and creative writing also helped women develop professionally, as did certificates in business and art history developed in conjunction with the American University of Paris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2647. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jill laughs as she recalls another evolution in the courses offered by WICE. &amp;nbsp;“In the early days, WICE turned its nose up at cooking or fashion courses; that was what women wanted to get away from. Now that most expat women have careers, we’re seeing people very interested in cuisine and wine – staples of the French cultural experience!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2648. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Over the past six years Jill, has found another project into which to pour her prodigious energy: the combat against domestic violence for English speaking women in France. &amp;nbsp;In 2011, inspired by Paula Lucas, who started the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.866uswomen.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center&lt;/a&gt; after escaping with three young children from a violent husband in Dubai,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;Jill took up the cudgel, creating an informational website and launching an English speaking women’s support group for victims. &amp;nbsp;To date she has offered her expertise to some 100 women of at least 25 different nationalities . &amp;nbsp;As in her decades of work with WICE, Jill remains a dedicated leader for women’s causes, and doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2649. &lt;br /&gt;
  2650. Posted by Elizabeth Bouché&lt;br /&gt;
  2651. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2652. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Join our WICE community - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/&quot;&gt;www.wice-paris.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
  2653. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}
  2654. span.s1 {font-kerning: none}
  2655. &lt;/style&gt;   </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2144277863698005192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2144277863698005192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/02/let-me-introduce-to-you-one-of-our.html' title='Let me introduce to you one of our first WICE members, Jill.'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7NUzYP31E6I/WKzGd2GzD-I/AAAAAAAABnk/OaakqV7bseQD4Hrk3TOQhTUr7a2vZAd3wCLcB/s72-c/Jill%2BWICE.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><georss:featurename>10 Rue Tiphaine, 75015 Paris, France</georss:featurename><georss:point>48.8489441 2.2951530000000275</georss:point><georss:box>48.681794599999996 1.9724295000000276 49.0160936 2.6178765000000275</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-9147489750146008036</id><published>2017-01-03T23:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2017-02-22T00:57:31.094+01:00</updated><title type='text'>&#39;FRENCHLATION&#39; SHOWS WAY TO FATHOM FRENCH FILMS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2656. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;For movie
  2657. fans who don’t speak French, going to the cinema in Paris can be a limiting
  2658. experience. Do you stick to films made in English, with French subtitles, or do
  2659. you brave the screening of a French film, with no English subtitles – hoping
  2660. you’ll at least get some of the dialogue?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2661. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2662. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2663. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2664. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Happily,
  2665. there’s another choice: you can go to the special events of Lost in
  2666. Frenchlation – a company that presents recently released French films with
  2667. English subtitles, and which now has a partnership with WICE.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2668. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2669. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2670. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2671. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SotP9IEXJ0/WGwz6cDJ6qI/AAAAAAAABnM/ZANl0gx7VrkO4AU5SP_Fpxq8HAlzjQhUACLcB/s1600/lost%2Bin%2Bfrenchlation.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SotP9IEXJ0/WGwz6cDJ6qI/AAAAAAAABnM/ZANl0gx7VrkO4AU5SP_Fpxq8HAlzjQhUACLcB/s320/lost%2Bin%2Bfrenchlation.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2672. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Matthew Bryan and Manon Kerjean,&lt;br /&gt;
  2673. the co-founders of Lost in Frenchlation.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2674. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2675. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2676. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;At these screenings,
  2677. spectators not only get to watch the films, but they also have the opportunity
  2678. to meet other movie-goers in a convivial atmosphere. That’s because Lost in
  2679. Frenchlation provides an added social component, enabling ex-pats living in
  2680. Paris to meet over cocktails after the movie.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2681. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2682. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2683. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2684. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Started in
  2685. 2015 by French and Australian friends, Manon Kerjean and Matthew Bryan, the
  2686. initiative was born from the wish to be able to see the same films together.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2687. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2688. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2689. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2690. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2691. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Manon is
  2692. passionate about film, but we could never go together to see a French film
  2693. because there were no subtitles in English,” Matt recalls. “The idea really came
  2694. when we couldn’t find a cinema showing a subtitled version of a movie that we
  2695. really wanted to see. And besides, we believe that French cinema is a part
  2696. of France’s culture, so it’s important to have access to this.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2697. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2698. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2699. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2700. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The two met
  2701. as Erasmus (year-abroad) students in Berlin, Germany, in 2014 and developed the
  2702. idea for Lost in Frenchlation on Manon’s return to Paris, where Matt also lived
  2703. for several months -- he now shares his time between the French capital and
  2704. London. They said they decided to focus mostly on independent, art-house films.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2705. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2706. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2707. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2708. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nQd04jP8UI/WGw0WlnSVHI/AAAAAAAABnQ/SHe_o13dxbgZ6f8zU7uHZQwxBU30BPS0QCLcB/s1600/Demain%2BTout%2BCommence%2Bposter.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nQd04jP8UI/WGw0WlnSVHI/AAAAAAAABnQ/SHe_o13dxbgZ6f8zU7uHZQwxBU30BPS0QCLcB/s400/Demain%2BTout%2BCommence%2Bposter.jpg&quot; width=&quot;262&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2709. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Poster for &lt;i&gt;Demain Tout Commence&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2710. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2711. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2712. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;If such
  2713. movies have been shown in international festivals, there’s usually a subtitled
  2714. version, and it is this that they work to obtain for the screenings. “We try to
  2715. show movies close to the national screening date, so that English-speakers see
  2716. it nearly at the same time as other cinema-goers,” Manon says.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2717. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2718. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2719. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2720. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Their team provides
  2721. two screening per month, in Montmartre and in the 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;
  2722. arrondissement, with shows in Paris’s oldest cinema, Studio 28. They’ve shown
  2723. films such as &lt;i&gt;Mon Roi&lt;/i&gt;, the highly rated &lt;i&gt;Divines&lt;/i&gt; – set in a Parisian suburb
  2724. – and the moving &lt;i&gt;Réparer les vivants&lt;/i&gt; (Heal the Living), all of which had packed
  2725. houses.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2726. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2727. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2728. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2729. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;On Jan. 6,
  2730. they will screen &lt;i&gt;Demain Tout Commence&lt;/i&gt;, starring popular French actor Omar Sy.
  2731. The film, about a playboy character who suddenly finds himself with a baby that
  2732. he might have fathered, is a comedy as well as a tear-jerker, and it raises
  2733. relevant issues about the notion of family in contemporary society. Those who have
  2734. already seen the film in its original version might also gain added insight
  2735. from the English subtitles.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2736. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2737. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2738. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2739. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“We’re
  2740. opening up the world of French cinema to the international community in Paris,”
  2741. Manon says. “This is a part of French culture, and you can also make friends
  2742. while having a great night out.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2743. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2744. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2745. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2746. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;For more information and to book tickets for screenings,
  2747. see:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostinfrenchlation.com/&quot;&gt;http://lostinfrenchlation.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2748. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/9147489750146008036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/9147489750146008036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2017/01/frenchlation-shows-way-to-fathom-french.html' title='&#39;FRENCHLATION&#39; SHOWS WAY TO FATHOM FRENCH FILMS'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SotP9IEXJ0/WGwz6cDJ6qI/AAAAAAAABnM/ZANl0gx7VrkO4AU5SP_Fpxq8HAlzjQhUACLcB/s72-c/lost%2Bin%2Bfrenchlation.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4974207695688757410</id><published>2016-11-29T11:24:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2017-02-22T00:36:43.618+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A BRIEF AUTUMN TALE OF WICE AND GOOD WINE, IN PARIS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2749. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It was a brisk, dark evening in the 5th arrondissement of
  2750. Paris, but from inside a shop with wooden floors and beams on the ceiling,
  2751. lights beckoned.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2752. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2753. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2754. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2755. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The lights … were in the shape of wine bottles. And so began
  2756. the introduction to Thierry Givone’s “Wine Tasting in Paris”, a company that
  2757. partners with WICE to offer courses in appreciating and recognizing different
  2758. kinds of wine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2759. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2760. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2761. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2762. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1GY3wLvxlmE/WD1RFXQJXyI/AAAAAAAABmM/tafRcopOYBEHFzVveM8ckM32CNlTqjExgCEw/s1600/Wice%2Bwine%2B4.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;271&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1GY3wLvxlmE/WD1RFXQJXyI/AAAAAAAABmM/tafRcopOYBEHFzVveM8ckM32CNlTqjExgCEw/s320/Wice%2Bwine%2B4.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2763. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Thierry Givone pours a Beaujolais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2764. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2765. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2766. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;On this particular night, Nov. 18, Givone focused on the
  2767. Beaujolais region for a course that comprised tasting seven very different wines,
  2768. including two types of Beaujolais Nouveau. This is of course the most known
  2769. wine from the area located just south of Burgundy, and the course took place a
  2770. day after its official release and national fete, with people filling cafés for
  2771. a glass or two. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2772. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2773. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2774. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2775. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2776. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In fact, much of the Gamay wine that Beaujolais produces is sold and drunk before the harvest year is over. But what can be confusing to new
  2777. drinkers is the disconnect between Beaujolais’ image and the taste of its top
  2778. wines – whose producers aren’t too enamoured of the stereotypical
  2779. representation, Givone hinted.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2780. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2781. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2782. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2783. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;So, along with the “nouveau”, WICE members got to sample a
  2784. Julienas and two surperb Morgons, among others. They additionally learned about
  2785. the producing region, its history, and the kind of grape involved (gamay).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2786. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2787. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2788. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2789. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8msIXVghUIc/WD1SNpaj_FI/AAAAAAAABmU/fcvck2WxaRUkg066RsSG5u5e6mZi8_EpgCLcB/s1600/IMG_8549.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8msIXVghUIc/WD1SNpaj_FI/AAAAAAAABmU/fcvck2WxaRUkg066RsSG5u5e6mZi8_EpgCLcB/s320/IMG_8549.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2790. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Givone describes the region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2791. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2792. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2793. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;“For me, it’s an interest and a passion,” Givone said of the
  2794. initiative he launched two-and-a-half years ago, after working for 20 years in
  2795. marketing. “I hope those who participate in the course will develop this
  2796. passion too, and remember everything that I explain to them.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2797. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2798. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2799. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2800. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;His wine-tasting “school” consists of a shop-cum-office
  2801. decorated with neatly stacked bottles of wine and publications about the
  2802. beverage. Light-hued wooden floors and dark beams on the ceiling add to the
  2803. cosy atmosphere in the room reserved for tasting, where course participants sit
  2804. on high stools at a long wooden table. Buckets are there for those who wish to
  2805. spit out the wine after tasting.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2806. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2807. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2808. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2809. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;“I never spit out good wine,” commented one course participant,
  2810. and indeed some of the wines presented were excellent, totally &quot;unspittable&quot;. Most members agreed that
  2811. only one – a Beaujolais Nouveau&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;was not up to scratch. With its candy-sweet
  2812. taste and artificial aroma, it was “not at all recommended”, Givone said frankly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2813. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2814. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2815. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2816. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LtOzu7P2PXk/WD1SlJBcHoI/AAAAAAAABmY/grS-y8H4wy4Ub-HbjUeD1b287hiX2Fy9gCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BWine%2B9%2B-%2BTracey.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LtOzu7P2PXk/WD1SlJBcHoI/AAAAAAAABmY/grS-y8H4wy4Ub-HbjUeD1b287hiX2Fy9gCLcB/s320/Wice%2BWine%2B9%2B-%2BTracey.jpg&quot; width=&quot;234&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2817. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;WICE member Tracey samples the wine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2818. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2819. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2820. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In contrast, participants were soon raving about an organic Beaujolais&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;cru&lt;/i&gt; (superior wine) from the small region of Regnié, and about a Morgon that
  2821. was produced at one of the best vineyards in the area, located 350 meters above
  2822. sea level. Givone said the latter could be kept for up to 10 years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2823. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2824. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2825. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2826. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;“It’s a spicy, peppery, full-bodied wine with great aging
  2827. potential,” he told participants, teaching them the vocabulary as well for
  2828. describing the wine. He also offered &lt;i&gt;saucisson &lt;/i&gt;(sausage)&amp;nbsp;and bread as accompaniment to
  2829. the wines, apparently a perfect combination for Beaujolais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2830. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2831. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2832. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2833. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The nibbles were a
  2834. welcome idea, because after tasting, and swallowing, sips from seven bottles of
  2835. wine on an empty stomach, the average person could become quite light-headed, not to mention light-hearted. In fact, at least one participant had to resist the temptation to giggle all
  2836. the way home (via public transportation, naturally).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2837. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2838. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2839. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2840. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Givone is one of two instructors that partner with WICE for a
  2841. wide range of wine-tasting sessions, and each has different approaches to the
  2842. world of wine, according to Andrew Hunt, the director of WICE’s Living in
  2843. France section.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2844. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2845. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2846. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2847. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;“We hope participants will benefit from the knowledge that
  2848. the instructors impart and from the joy of tasting different wines each month,”
  2849. Hunt said. &quot;Cheers!&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2850. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2851. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2852. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2853. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;The next wine-tasting courses take place on Dec. 1 and 16,
  2854. focusing on champagne – how to pair it with foie gras and how to appreciate the
  2855. full “bubbly” experience. For registration information: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2267862&quot;&gt;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2267862&lt;/a&gt;
  2856. and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2267878&quot;&gt;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2267878&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2857. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2858. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2859. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2860. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rf85w9uNS1o/WD1S4rkyzLI/AAAAAAAABmg/kJ7lNcGhcs06T9KTIhDvr74sdfNItadHgCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BWine%2B2%2B-%2BTrascey%2527s%2Bphone.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rf85w9uNS1o/WD1S4rkyzLI/AAAAAAAABmg/kJ7lNcGhcs06T9KTIhDvr74sdfNItadHgCLcB/s640/Wice%2BWine%2B2%2B-%2BTrascey%2527s%2Bphone.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2861. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Thierry Givone with WICE members after the wine-tasting course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2862. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2863. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4974207695688757410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4974207695688757410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-brief-autumn-tale-of-wice-and-good.html' title='A BRIEF AUTUMN TALE OF WICE AND GOOD WINE, IN PARIS'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1GY3wLvxlmE/WD1RFXQJXyI/AAAAAAAABmM/tafRcopOYBEHFzVveM8ckM32CNlTqjExgCEw/s72-c/Wice%2Bwine%2B4.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-3534183193019902525</id><published>2016-11-17T16:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2017-02-22T00:37:58.905+01:00</updated><title type='text'>THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES: MUSIC AND A PARIS SAGA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2864. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It’s the theatre where American icon Josephine Baker
  2865. performed in a variety of revues and where Russian dancer and choreographer
  2866. Vaslav Nijinsky caused an uproar in 1913 with&lt;i&gt; Le Sacre du Printemps&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;The Rite
  2867. of Spring&lt;/i&gt;), a ballet set to the music of Igor Stravinsky. The story goes that
  2868. the reaction to the ballet was so intense that spectators came to blows – a
  2869. battle between those who adored the show and those who despised its
  2870. “avant-gardeness”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2871. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2872. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2873. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2874. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BPqsjxMG-lo/WC3LJn6e_OI/AAAAAAAABls/k1LX3est2TYHpTs70IYPPIBsWO2dHMkOACLcB/s1600/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B2.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;239&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BPqsjxMG-lo/WC3LJn6e_OI/AAAAAAAABls/k1LX3est2TYHpTs70IYPPIBsWO2dHMkOACLcB/s320/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B2.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2875. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The concert hall at the theatre.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2876. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2877. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2878. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Such sensational times may now be the stuff of legend, but
  2879. the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is still putting on exciting and thrilling concerts, with
  2880. internationally renowned artists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2881. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2882. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2883. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2884. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The current season
  2885. features recitals, concerts by resident and visiting orchestras, chamber music
  2886. performances, dance, and famous opera productions, among other events. Earlier in
  2887. November, the illustrious Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra played to a
  2888. packed house, with the musicians and French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  2889. receiving enthusiastic applause for their virtuosity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2890. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2891. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  2892. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2893. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2894. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Concert-goers get not only the performance on stage but also
  2895. the unique atmosphere of a theatre rich in the history of France’s capital
  2896. city. The current location on Avenue Montaigne was at the time of the theatre’s construction (1911 to 1913) quite a different place from the street of luxury brands that it is
  2897. today.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2898. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2899. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2900. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2901. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CFo28jdrj6g/WC3M8pE8JJI/AAAAAAAABl0/jPHn47JICL0eDasdYep4hnPCXCMsHo3ZQCLcB/s1600/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B3.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;162&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CFo28jdrj6g/WC3M8pE8JJI/AAAAAAAABl0/jPHn47JICL0eDasdYep4hnPCXCMsHo3ZQCLcB/s320/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B3.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2902. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Yuri Temirkanov, conductor,&lt;br /&gt;
  2903. The Saint Petersbourg Philharmonic Orchestra&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2904. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2905. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2906. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;According to a theatre historian, this area was on the
  2907. “periphery of Paris” back then, close to the red-light district, so
  2908. prospective concert-goers were not at all impressed when the site was acquired
  2909. by founder Gabriel Astruc, a man of various professions including journalist.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2910. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2911. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2912. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2913. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The first drawings of the building were thought to be too “Germanic”
  2914. (on the eve of World War I), so the originally contracted architect, the
  2915. Belgian Henry Clemens van de Velde, was soon replaced, while observers wondered
  2916. if the project would ever get off the ground. His successor was the
  2917. Brussels-born French architect Auguste Perret, who with his brothers decided on
  2918. simple clean lines, a striking departure from ornate theatres such as the
  2919. Palais Garnier. Also brought in were the artists Antoine Bourdelle – who
  2920. created a bas relief for the façade and frescoes for the atrium – and Maurice
  2921. Denis, who painted the ceiling of the main concert hall.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2922. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2923. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2924. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2925. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wwHq9OZ8OyI/WC3OEADXyYI/AAAAAAAABl4/nAKalTMK3EMTBsG0Nip8_IekrSXdLDZ6gCLcB/s1600/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B1.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;214&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wwHq9OZ8OyI/WC3OEADXyYI/AAAAAAAABl4/nAKalTMK3EMTBsG0Nip8_IekrSXdLDZ6gCLcB/s320/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B1.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2926. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A view of the theatre&#39;s foyer.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  2927. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2928. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2929. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Even the latter was not without controversy, as Denis
  2930. depicted members of his family for the portrayals of mythological scenes, including a nude picture of his second wife among the characters; she was
  2931. recognizable to concert-goers of the time and is still clearly visible on the
  2932. domed ceiling.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2933. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2934. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2935. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2936. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;All this added to chatter about the theatre, which was
  2937. inaugurated in 1913 and later came to be considered Paris’ first Art Deco
  2938. building – although that movement didn’t really come into being until the
  2939. 1920s. The fact that Astruc’s dream was built of reinforced concrete signified a
  2940. remarkable achievement as well, and that sense of &quot;solidity&quot; was important in uncertain
  2941. times.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2942. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2943. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2944. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2945. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Art was also an essential part of the theatre’s interior
  2946. design, and the foyer still contains the works of female artist Jacqueline
  2947. Marval, who produced a series of paintings based on the Greek story of Daphnis
  2948. and Chloe. Meanwhile, though now faded, the frescoes of Bourdelle continue to evoke a
  2949. certain ambience in the atrium, where one can sip champagne or wine while
  2950. waiting for the show to begin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2951. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2952. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2953. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2954. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;As for real-life pictures, concert-goers can sign up for a
  2955. tour and get to see original posters and press photos of “La Baker”, Nijinsky
  2956. and other stars who have played a part in the history of this Paris institution.
  2957. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2958. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2959. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2960. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2961. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has partnered with WICE to
  2962. offer discounts to members. Below are the details for shows in December and January.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2963. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2964. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2965. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2966. &lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eYcUeyd_DIw/WC3J0M5RkqI/AAAAAAAABlk/zrZ4Z_Hgv3048egUsc6zV4zb9IHgzNRdACLcB/s1600/Theatre%2Bde%2Bchamps%2Belysees%2Bposter.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eYcUeyd_DIw/WC3J0M5RkqI/AAAAAAAABlk/zrZ4Z_Hgv3048egUsc6zV4zb9IHgzNRdACLcB/s640/Theatre%2Bde%2Bchamps%2Belysees%2Bposter.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2967. &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
  2968. &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2969. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; width: 450.0pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;600&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  2970.  &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2971. &lt;/td&gt;
  2972. &lt;/tr&gt;
  2973. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  2974. &lt;/div&gt;
  2975. &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  2976. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2977. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  2978. &lt;/div&gt;
  2979. &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
  2980. &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  2981. &lt;tbody&gt;
  2982. &lt;tr&gt;
  2983.  &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; width: 150.0pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;200&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  2984.   &lt;tbody&gt;
  2985. &lt;tr&gt;
  2986.    &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 2.9pt 0cm 0cm;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  2987.     &lt;tbody&gt;
  2988. &lt;tr style=&quot;height: 136.7pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;&quot;&gt;
  2989.      &lt;td style=&quot;border-top: solid #E6E6E6 6.0pt; border: none; height: 136.7pt; padding: 5.75pt 2.9pt 0cm 2.9pt; width: 99.45pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;133&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 6.9pt;&quot;&gt;
  2990. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;Mozart&#39;s Don Giovanni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2991. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 6.9pt;&quot;&gt;
  2992. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;5 to 15 /12&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2993. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.05pt;&quot;&gt;
  2994. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;30% discount&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2995. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.05pt; mso-line-height-alt: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  2996. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;101€ -73€ - 52€ - 24€ instead of 145€ - 105€ - 75€
  2997.      -35€&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  2998. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  2999. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;Reserve here :&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=nu4vbGVqjdHRAUBiHFnr6nUWVbF7LvqW%2fGidNb16na1NsRjSfmLdAQu%2bZjzOSClZw9QLa67C2EnwHGD5jKBdNlba40jD67skDWpO5Eyr%2fmw%3d&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #196ad4; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;http://www.forumsirius.fr/orion/tce.phtml?offre=GIOTEX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;·&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3000. &lt;/td&gt;
  3001.     &lt;/tr&gt;
  3002. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3003. &lt;/td&gt;
  3004.   &lt;/tr&gt;
  3005. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3006. &lt;/td&gt;
  3007.  &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; width: 150.0pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;200&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  3008.   &lt;tbody&gt;
  3009. &lt;tr&gt;
  3010.    &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 2.9pt 0cm 2.9pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  3011.     &lt;tbody&gt;
  3012. &lt;tr style=&quot;height: 154.35pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;&quot;&gt;
  3013.      &lt;td style=&quot;border-top: solid #E6E6E6 6.0pt; border: none; height: 154.35pt; padding: 5.75pt 2.9pt 0cm 2.9pt; width: 97.55pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;130&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 6.9pt;&quot;&gt;
  3014. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;Bach&#39;s Weihnactsoratorium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3015. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 6.9pt;&quot;&gt;
  3016. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;6 /12&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3017. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.05pt; mso-line-height-alt: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  3018. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;15% discount&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3019. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.05pt; mso-line-height-alt: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  3020. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;72€ - 55€ - 38€ - 25€ instead of 85€ - 65€ - 45€ - 30€&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3021. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  3022. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;Reserve here :&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=8wZx%2bWJfphBSiOZgHihXN2Z4uxSuWRdgspzMbMdapwRu7TT7bqiT68dOMrexlWLhna0OlJ0ZtD4W5QLyDCKFYhfPshfdYH8raX4q2R%2bDJgY%3d&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #196ad4; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;http://www.forumsirius.fr/orion/tce.phtml?offre=ORA0612&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3023.      &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3024.      &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3025. &lt;/td&gt;
  3026.     &lt;/tr&gt;
  3027. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3028. &lt;/td&gt;
  3029.   &lt;/tr&gt;
  3030. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3031. &lt;/td&gt;
  3032.  &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; width: 150.0pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;200&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  3033.   &lt;tbody&gt;
  3034. &lt;tr&gt;
  3035.    &lt;td style=&quot;padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 2.9pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormalTable&quot; style=&quot;mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;&quot;&gt;
  3036.     &lt;tbody&gt;
  3037. &lt;tr style=&quot;height: 147.45pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;&quot;&gt;
  3038.      &lt;td style=&quot;border-top: solid #E6E6E6 6.0pt; border: none; height: 147.45pt; padding: 5.75pt 2.9pt 0cm 2.9pt; width: 99.85pt;&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;133&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12.1pt; margin-bottom: 8.05pt;&quot;&gt;
  3039. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;Philharmonia Orchestra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3040. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 8.05pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.2pt;&quot;&gt;
  3041. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;28/01&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3042. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 9.2pt; margin-bottom: 8.05pt;&quot;&gt;
  3043. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;30% discount&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3044. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 8.05pt; margin-bottom: 8.05pt;&quot;&gt;
  3045. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;59€ - 45€ - 31€ - 21€ instead of 85€ - 65€ - 45€ - 30€&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3046. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 8.05pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;
  3047. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.0pt;&quot;&gt;Reserve here :&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=%2b2VonEkFrs%2bi74itFQfJ0SP5FYpDQ9uQtAxlOLeTK%2b5FMlsmffCA8MRZe3br%2fKrFYO%2bS%2f30%2bvW%2f6TFw6UdlE4CX1sSrGGgg8Lblhby4h0Dg%3d&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #196ad4; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;&quot;&gt;http://www.forumsirius.fr/orion/tce.phtml?offre=PHIL2801&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3048. &lt;/td&gt;
  3049.     &lt;/tr&gt;
  3050. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3051. &lt;/td&gt;
  3052.   &lt;/tr&gt;
  3053. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3054. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3055. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3056. &lt;/div&gt;
  3057. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/3534183193019902525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/3534183193019902525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/11/theatre-de-champs-elysees-music-and.html' title='THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES: MUSIC AND A PARIS SAGA'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BPqsjxMG-lo/WC3LJn6e_OI/AAAAAAAABls/k1LX3est2TYHpTs70IYPPIBsWO2dHMkOACLcB/s72-c/Theatre%2Bde%2BChamps%2BElysees%2B2.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-4570598663065303516</id><published>2016-10-27T17:08:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2017-02-22T00:38:57.323+01:00</updated><title type='text'>PARIS COMPANY HELPS THOSE LOST IN INCOMPREHENSION</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3058. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“It’s probably more
  3059. entertaining when you can understand what’s going on.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3060. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3061. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3062. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3063. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;This thought has doubtlessly occurred to many theatre-goers,
  3064. especially if they&#39;ve had to sit blankly through the uproarious laughter of other
  3065. audience members and deal with the frustration of having completely missed the
  3066. joke.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3067. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3068. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3069. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3070. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2hJ8wVqtTY/WBISvi2do6I/AAAAAAAABkc/-kY41GKX5xERTWXfC19oBm5y0TmSsog5QCEw/s1600/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B2%2BCopyright%2BEmmanuel%2BMurat.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2hJ8wVqtTY/WBISvi2do6I/AAAAAAAABkc/-kY41GKX5xERTWXfC19oBm5y0TmSsog5QCEw/s320/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B2%2BCopyright%2BEmmanuel%2BMurat.JPG&quot; width=&quot;271&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3071. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A scene from &lt;i&gt;Anything You Want&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  3072. (Copyright Emmanuel Murat)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3073. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3074. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3075. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;But missing out because of the language barrier is not an
  3076. inevitable experience – translation, if done well, can make a big difference
  3077. between enjoyment and befuddlement at the theatre. One just has to attend a show in Paris of the hit
  3078. comedy &lt;i&gt;Tout Ce Que Vous Voulez&lt;/i&gt; (Anything You Want) to understand how elevating
  3079. subtitling, or &quot;surtitling&quot;, can be.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3080. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3081. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3082. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3083. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;As the play unfolds in French, the dialogue is projected in
  3084. English on the horizontal bar high above the stage, with French colloquialisms and
  3085. idioms transformed into the equivalent expressions. This is of great assistance to
  3086. English-speakers, as could be seen from the reactions of a group of New Yorkers
  3087. on one particular night. The visitors were able to chortle right along with the
  3088. Francophone viewers and to clap with real enthusiasm at the end, because the
  3089. brilliance of the play wasn’t lost in translation, or incomprehension.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3090. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3091. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3092. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3093. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3094. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The surtitling of &lt;i&gt;Anything You Want&lt;/i&gt; and several other plays
  3095. is provided by Theatre in Paris, a company that partners with top productions
  3096. to offer this service to theatre-lovers who aren’t necessarily proficient in
  3097. French. But it works even for those fluent in the language, as what is said at
  3098. a live show can so easily slip past spectators in a moment of distraction.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3099. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3100. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3101. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3102. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wLQKKr1Ja_0/WBIWCK10ZTI/AAAAAAAABks/5kHvRqCGLkEaquxZLu7J-AF35uZWF7ugQCEw/s1600/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B1.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wLQKKr1Ja_0/WBIWCK10ZTI/AAAAAAAABks/5kHvRqCGLkEaquxZLu7J-AF35uZWF7ugQCEw/s320/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;213&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3103. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The poster for the play.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3104. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3105. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3106. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Founded in 2014, Theatre in Paris works with a bilingual
  3107. team of translators, says their Communications Spokesperson Jessica Gilligan. The
  3108. group offers a personal welcome at the selected theatre, a pre-show
  3109. introduction to the play or musical, and particular seats that make it easy to
  3110. read the surtitles.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3111. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3112. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3113. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3114. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Spectators also receive a special programme in English, with
  3115. a synopsis of each show. (The current productions include &lt;i&gt;Oliver Twist, The Musical&lt;/i&gt;; &lt;i&gt;The Cid&lt;/i&gt;; &lt;i&gt;Summer &#39;44&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;with Marisa Berenson; &lt;i&gt;Cyrano de Bergerac;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;i&gt;I Love Piaf&lt;/i&gt;.) &amp;nbsp;The brochure for&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Anything You Want&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;includes information on the cast, director and writers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3116. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3117. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3118. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3119. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Starring the award-winning French actress Bérénice Bejo, the
  3120. play is a cleverly written romantic comedy about … writing a play. Successful
  3121. author Lucie (Bejo) is dealing with writer’s block because she’s too happy with
  3122. her newfound life. Her main source of inspiration previously came from her
  3123. struggles and inherent angst. So what can she do now?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3124. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3125. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3126. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3127. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Enter an annoying new neighbor named Thomas (Stéphane De
  3128. Groodt), who has all kinds of ideas for how she can overcome her lack of
  3129. creation. The development of their relationship, through twists and turns, makes for an entertaining play, with superior acting and a credible, creative set.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3130. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3131. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3132. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3133. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GwkfbxYoLBk/WBIXF8i7AHI/AAAAAAAABk4/0xmcxjm6-YIDOB1OEfaLx67y-LGtDRmDgCLcB/s1600/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B-%2BThe%2BCid.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;242&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GwkfbxYoLBk/WBIXF8i7AHI/AAAAAAAABk4/0xmcxjm6-YIDOB1OEfaLx67y-LGtDRmDgCLcB/s320/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B-%2BThe%2BCid.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3134. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Cid&lt;/i&gt; also has surtitles.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3135. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3136. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3137. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Directed by Bernard Murat, and written by Matthieu Delaporte
  3138. and Alexandre de la Patellière, the play’s ingenuity comes across clearly in
  3139. the English surtitles. A word might be omitted here or there so that readers
  3140. can keep up with the pace, but this is a minor detail.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3141. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3142. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3143. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3144. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The only other issue would be if the actors
  3145. began improvising with their dialogue, but then &quot;that&#39;s theatre&quot; and all part of the experience. &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3146. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3147. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3148. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3149. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Anything You Want” runs through 28 January 2017, at the
  3150. imposing Théâtre Édouard VII in the 9th arrondissement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;WICE is offering its members a special Theatre in Paris
  3151. evening to see the play, with discounted tickets, and a complimentary glass of wine, on Nov.
  3152. 18. For further information and registration:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2268639&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;http://www.wice-paris.org/event-2268639&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3153. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  3154. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Theatre in Paris has also offered prizes to WICE members (see
  3155. article on the WICE Fall Open House), and winners will get to attend a
  3156. production of their choice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3157. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  3158. &lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;More information about the productions: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatreinparis.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;www.theatreinparis.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3159. &lt;b&gt;
  3160. &lt;/b&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4570598663065303516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/4570598663065303516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/paris-company-helps-those-lost-in.html' title='PARIS COMPANY HELPS THOSE LOST IN INCOMPREHENSION'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2hJ8wVqtTY/WBISvi2do6I/AAAAAAAABkc/-kY41GKX5xERTWXfC19oBm5y0TmSsog5QCEw/s72-c/Theatre%2Bin%2BParis%2B2%2BCopyright%2BEmmanuel%2BMurat.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-266169157584782867</id><published>2016-10-08T15:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2016-10-13T22:43:49.353+02:00</updated><title type='text'>LE CORDON BLEU SPICES UP A WICE ‘PRIZE’ EVENING</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3161. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HMninf1Dqtg/V_jovEtNHTI/AAAAAAAABiQ/S9_rHOebRSAJKqN9ly81i6hv67L1yImwwCLcB/s1600/Cordon%2BBleu%2B11.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HMninf1Dqtg/V_jovEtNHTI/AAAAAAAABiQ/S9_rHOebRSAJKqN9ly81i6hv67L1yImwwCLcB/s640/Cordon%2BBleu%2B11.JPG&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3162. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Chef Didier Chantefort at Le Cordon Bleu Paris (Photo: McK)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3163. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3164. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3165. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;To look and feel young, make sure you enjoy “red wine, love
  3166. and travel”. That was just one of the many memorable quotes from Chef Didier
  3167. Chantefort, who gave WICE members a private course at the famous Cordon Bleu
  3168. cooking school on Sept. 29.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3169. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3170. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3171. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3172. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The course attracted some 40 participants, most of whom had
  3173. won a prize at the WICE Fall Open House for this exclusive demonstration.&amp;nbsp;Amid witticisms, life lessons and responses
  3174. to questions, Chantefort showed guests how to prepare a perfect “pike-perch
  3175. with hazelnut crust, carrot cream and red wine sauce”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3176. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3177. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3178. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3179. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szFm-6YvJuk/V_jpdjcJCiI/AAAAAAAABiY/tEoyOAePqu47ppxl8XxrxZ9tSDxiLNxpgCLcB/s1600/Cordon%2BBleu%2B2b.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szFm-6YvJuk/V_jpdjcJCiI/AAAAAAAABiY/tEoyOAePqu47ppxl8XxrxZ9tSDxiLNxpgCLcB/s320/Cordon%2BBleu%2B2b.JPG&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3180. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Chantefort answers a question.&lt;br /&gt;
  3181. (Photo: McK)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3182. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3183. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3184. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Without missing a beat, he chopped, stirred and tasted (“ah,
  3185. c’est excellent”), while WICE members took notes and looked forward to sampling
  3186. the masterpiece themselves. And it was indeed a work of art that Chantefort eventually
  3187. presented – ladling food onto two regular platters at first, then on little
  3188. plates for all to enjoy. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3189. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3190. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3191. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3192. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It looked almost too good to eat: the portion of baked fish
  3193. sitting on a rich mousse of carrots in a ring of wine sauce, and topped by
  3194. multi-hued greens. But that didn’t stop participants from clearing their
  3195. plates.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3196. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3197. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3198. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3199. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The delicacy of the dish was of course to be expected from Le
  3200. Cordon Bleu. Since its founding in 1895, the name of the institute has become
  3201. synonymous with superior cooking, and it now has over 35 schools in 20
  3202. countries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3203. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3204. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3205. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3206. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;According to its Marketing and Communications Manager Sandra
  3207. Messier, the group trains 20,000 students of more than 100 nationalities every year.
  3208. In addition to guiding professionals in the culinary arts and hospitality management
  3209. fields, Le Cordon Bleu offers a “wide range of culinary workshops in French
  3210. and English … for private individuals, groups of amateurs and professionals”. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3211. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3212. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3213. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3214. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_uRDN8nFaMg/V_jp66638kI/AAAAAAAABik/EgVlgl2uLBUzOcIZr1cZkliOU5DLD-aHgCLcB/s1600/Cordon%2BBleu%2B%2521A.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_uRDN8nFaMg/V_jp66638kI/AAAAAAAABik/EgVlgl2uLBUzOcIZr1cZkliOU5DLD-aHgCLcB/s320/Cordon%2BBleu%2B%2521A.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3215. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Sandra Messier, LCB&#39;s marketing and communications&lt;br /&gt;
  3216. manager, and Camille Jullien, sales and development&lt;br /&gt;
  3217. manager. (Photo: McK)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3218. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3219. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3220. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;These lessons take the form of either visual demonstrations
  3221. or practical workshops, Messier said. For WICE members, the private course
  3222. qualified as a demonstration as the chef and his assistant did the preparing
  3223. and cooking, while an interpreter translated the lesson into English throughout
  3224. the various steps.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3225. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3226. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3227. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3228. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;But members also got a chance to see the facilities designed
  3229. for practical workshops, as Messier and her colleague Camille Jullien later led
  3230. them on a tour of the new campus overlooking the Seine. The impressive features
  3231. included huge kitchens with gleaming counters and utensils for creating pastry,
  3232. baking bread, tasting wine and producing complete dishes. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3233. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3234. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3235. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3236. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Among the courses available in these classrooms are: the art
  3237. of French cuisine, the art of cooking like a chef and the art of making sauces
  3238. and jus. Furthermore, those who have always dreamed of being a pastry master
  3239. can learn to make macaroons, tarts and cakes, while wine buffs can become
  3240. skilled in food and wine pairing, for instance.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3241. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3242. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3243. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3244. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ODdW7J8K46g/V_jq4a8yveI/AAAAAAAABiw/bYPV8ZNOjP0joZfDIfQ6NX-xB5lROEP-wCLcB/s1600/IMG_8409.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ODdW7J8K46g/V_jq4a8yveI/AAAAAAAABiw/bYPV8ZNOjP0joZfDIfQ6NX-xB5lROEP-wCLcB/s320/IMG_8409.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3245. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Creativity is key in cooking.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3246. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3247. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3248. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Children also have their place at Le Cordon Bleu, with
  3249. tailor-made workshops for those aged 8 to 12 as well as for teens from 13 to 17
  3250. years old, Messier said. These youngsters get to work under the supervision of
  3251. a chef and can take home their culinary or pastry dishes after the workshop.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3252. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3253. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3254. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3255. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Apart from the food, what many participants in the courses
  3256. will leave with is the knowledge that cooking is an art, where creativity is of
  3257. paramount importance.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3258. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3259. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3260. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3261. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Just as you can pair a pink tie with a green shirt in
  3262. fashion, it’s the same in the kitchen,” Chantefort told WICE members. “Dare to
  3263. be different.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3264. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3265. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3266. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3267. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AN39KHl40DE/V_jrgMrT0PI/AAAAAAAABi8/uKIn-HK_Co8rPbO8cyAiPNwMxfZeJ5nqgCLcB/s1600/Cordon%2BBleu%2B9.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;368&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AN39KHl40DE/V_jrgMrT0PI/AAAAAAAABi8/uKIn-HK_Co8rPbO8cyAiPNwMxfZeJ5nqgCLcB/s640/Cordon%2BBleu%2B9.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3268. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;WICE members watch Chef Chantefort in action at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. (Photo: Sipurzynska)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3269. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3270. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3271. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IEMZCXJvghg/V_jrUT45ixI/AAAAAAAABi4/qIDG-XjG7gEXLbGe1HhDLqrFbBYlBDr0ACEw/s1600/Cordon%2BBleu%2B17.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;608&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IEMZCXJvghg/V_jrUT45ixI/AAAAAAAABi4/qIDG-XjG7gEXLbGe1HhDLqrFbBYlBDr0ACEw/s640/Cordon%2BBleu%2B17.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3272. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Members sample the finished dish: pike-perch with hazelnut crust, carrot cream and red wine sauce.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3273. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3274. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3275. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3276. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/266169157584782867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/266169157584782867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/le-cordon-bleu-spices-up-wice-prize.html' title='LE CORDON BLEU SPICES UP A WICE ‘PRIZE’ EVENING'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HMninf1Dqtg/V_jovEtNHTI/AAAAAAAABiQ/S9_rHOebRSAJKqN9ly81i6hv67L1yImwwCLcB/s72-c/Cordon%2BBleu%2B11.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-9094376014312928722</id><published>2016-09-30T13:17:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2016-09-30T13:17:48.179+02:00</updated><title type='text'>WICE OPEN HOUSE: WINE, WALKING, WRITING, WINNING</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3277. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;WICE’s Fall Open
  3278. House attracted a dynamic group of people interested in learning more about the
  3279. organization’s cultural activities and its wide range of acclaimed courses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3280. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3281. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3282. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3283. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Held
  3284. at Dorothy’s Gallery in Paris, on Sept. 20, the event brought together members
  3285. and newcomers, for a fun-filled evening of wine-tasting, prizes and course presentations.
  3286. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3287. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3288. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3289. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3290. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;The latter included
  3291. classes on cooking, creative writing, languages, wine tasting, the visual arts
  3292. and cultural studies, while visitors also received information about WICE’s guided walks and tours of France’s cultural institutions. Several lucky
  3293. guests went home the winners of exclusive prizes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3294. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3295. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3296. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3297. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Here are some
  3298. pictures of the Open House, taken by WICE photographer RAYE. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3299. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3300. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3301. &lt;div&gt;
  3302. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3303. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uk4H__B_viI/V-5BU2aMFSI/AAAAAAAABhQ/jiLQz_KJpK0M2uOyI59YmYzuMu_mjMz0QCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;425&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uk4H__B_viI/V-5BU2aMFSI/AAAAAAAABhQ/jiLQz_KJpK0M2uOyI59YmYzuMu_mjMz0QCLcB/s640/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3304. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;WICE members check out the wine list at Open House. (Photo by RAYE)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3305. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3306. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3307. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rcEABIYwizQ/V-5BbXH338I/AAAAAAAABhY/vIW7EmkEhV8uSE-Mq5NGIpxqRnL8-yIUQCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE5.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;426&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rcEABIYwizQ/V-5BbXH338I/AAAAAAAABhY/vIW7EmkEhV8uSE-Mq5NGIpxqRnL8-yIUQCLcB/s640/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE5.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3308. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A visitor signs up at reception, entering the draw for prestigious prizes. (Photo by RAYE)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3309. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3310. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3311. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--LmI5kXRCyY/V-5BfIk9lOI/AAAAAAAABhc/7EUgI4RnW3IK4KIdJsGjyCYe7WVdihWlQCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE7t.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;452&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--LmI5kXRCyY/V-5BfIk9lOI/AAAAAAAABhc/7EUgI4RnW3IK4KIdJsGjyCYe7WVdihWlQCLcB/s640/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE7t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3312. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Members of the WICE Board pose for a picture. (Photo by RAYE)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3313. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3314. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3315. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-36YYmINUWzA/V-5BkDU5BbI/AAAAAAAABhg/gTEUNeQuieUZ_J-992bcPBWxEiYbpH21gCLcB/s1600/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE44.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;426&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-36YYmINUWzA/V-5BkDU5BbI/AAAAAAAABhg/gTEUNeQuieUZ_J-992bcPBWxEiYbpH21gCLcB/s640/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE44.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3316. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Visitors receive information about courses and activities. (Photo by RAYE)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3317. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3318. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  3319. &lt;/div&gt;
  3320. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  3321. &lt;/div&gt;
  3322. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3323. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XbNntCrksog/V-5Izr-7PTI/AAAAAAAABh4/hnRs4mrgM6gZN9ynD186ngUhFJVglpDJACLcB/s1600/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE35.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;328&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XbNntCrksog/V-5Izr-7PTI/AAAAAAAABh4/hnRs4mrgM6gZN9ynD186ngUhFJVglpDJACLcB/s640/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE35.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3324. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A few of the many volunteers at Open House. (Photo by RAYE)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3325. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3326. &lt;/div&gt;
  3327. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/9094376014312928722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/9094376014312928722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/09/wice-open-house-wine-walking-writing.html' title='WICE OPEN HOUSE: WINE, WALKING, WRITING, WINNING'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uk4H__B_viI/V-5BU2aMFSI/AAAAAAAABhQ/jiLQz_KJpK0M2uOyI59YmYzuMu_mjMz0QCLcB/s72-c/Wice%2BOpen%2BHouse%2B2016%2Bby%2BRAYE.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140871513323957198.post-2211633822526299567</id><published>2016-09-12T15:22:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2016-09-13T19:35:12.622+02:00</updated><title type='text'>WICE’S FALL OPEN HOUSE: AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
  3328. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3329. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3330. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pnyAJwLHyqc/V9fuh5L_MeI/AAAAAAAABgo/IBkWKdP3e0kAdxHYlJUKNsFAsCwXV5wmgCLcB/s1600/WICE%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bopen%2Bhouse%2Bblog.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;425&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pnyAJwLHyqc/V9fuh5L_MeI/AAAAAAAABgo/IBkWKdP3e0kAdxHYlJUKNsFAsCwXV5wmgCLcB/s640/WICE%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bopen%2Bhouse%2Bblog.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3331. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Fun with WICE (Photo: Raye)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3332. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3333. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  3334. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Exciting
  3335. courses. Membership discounts. A chance to meet new friends. An invitation to
  3336. expand personal and professional horizons. And loads of prizes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3337. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3338. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3339. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3340. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;These are just
  3341. some of the attractions of WICE’s Open House, taking place Sept. 20. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3342. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3343. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3344. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3345. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Those who
  3346. register to attend, and actually turn up on the day, stand a chance to win an
  3347. exclusive cooking demonstration at the famous Cordon Bleu school, which has a
  3348. gleaming new campus by the Seine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3349. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3350. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3351. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3352. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;This prize, valued at around 95 euros per person, is among several that will be on offer at Open House for which participants will be entered in the draw. Additionally, visitors will learn about WICE and its extensive range of
  3353. programs.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3354. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3355. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3356. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  3357. &lt;/div&gt;
  3358. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3359. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  3360. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w39YP7j0oHM/V9g1rWQZvHI/AAAAAAAABg8/pVn33XcEGk4hcYCXU-yOxvU5I7qv_RwUgCLcB/s1600/WICE%2B-%2BMary%2BSipper%2B2.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w39YP7j0oHM/V9g1rWQZvHI/AAAAAAAABg8/pVn33XcEGk4hcYCXU-yOxvU5I7qv_RwUgCLcB/s320/WICE%2B-%2BMary%2BSipper%2B2.JPG&quot; width=&quot;213&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3361. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;WICE President Mary Sipper&lt;br /&gt;(Photo: Meredith Mullins)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  3362. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  3363. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&quot;Attending
  3364. WICE&#39;s fall Open House is a great way find out about WICE&#39;s many cultural and
  3365. educational offerings and to get to know the people – WICE’s dedicated team of
  3366. volunteers and instructors – who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make them
  3367. happen,” says WICE President Mary Sipper. “I hope to see you there.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3368. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3369. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3370. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3371. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Participants
  3372. at the event can browse information about classes on cooking, wine tasting,
  3373. creative writing, cultural studies, languages, and the visual arts. They will
  3374. equally learn about guided walks and visits to France’s numerous cultural
  3375. institutions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3376. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3377. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3378. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3379. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;And they will be entered in draws for these other impressive prizes: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3380. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3381. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3382. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3383. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;- An
  3384. opportunity to win a Paris Day Bike Tour for Two, courtesy of Fat Tire Tours, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fattiretours.com/paris&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;www.fattiretours.com/paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3385. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3386. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3387. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3388. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;- A Picnic to
  3389. Go for two people plus a 30-minute Photo Session at either the Eiffel Tower,
  3390. Tuileries Garden, or Notre Dame area, with Pictours Paris, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pictoursparis.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;www.pictoursparis.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3391. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3392. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3393. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3394. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;- A chance to
  3395. own a hand-colored etching, numbered and signed by the artist Nancy Wilson,
  3396. from Maison Conti, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.maisonconti.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;www.maisonconti.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3397. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3398. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3399. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3400. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;- Vouchers for
  3401. the My American Market store, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myamericanmarket.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;www.myamericanmarket.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3402. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3403. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3404. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3405. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;- Two
  3406. complimentary tickets from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées – a stunning art deco
  3407. theater that puts on opera productions and concerts during the year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3408. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  3409. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;- Two tickets for a theatre production with THEATRE IN PARIS , a company that presents French plays with English subtitling,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatreinparis.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;http://www.theatreinparis.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3410. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3411. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3412. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3413. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Those who sign
  3414. up for a course during Open House will receive 50% off their WICE Membership
  3415. fee (terms and conditions apply).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3416. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3417. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3418. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3419. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Open House
  3420. takes place from 3 pm to 7 pm at Dorothy&#39;s Gallery, 27 rue Keller, 75011 Paris.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3421. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3422. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3423. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3424. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;As one current
  3425. WICE member emphasizes, it’s an event not to be missed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  3426. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  3427. &lt;br /&gt;
  3428. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  3429. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5mfLK1CM-7U/V9fvi0s8WfI/AAAAAAAABgs/XHv3OUq-02ocGZvsKG3xkDMKiOnz_my8ACLcB/s1600/WICE%2B-%2Btable%2Bopen%2Bhouse.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;424&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5mfLK1CM-7U/V9fvi0s8WfI/AAAAAAAABgs/XHv3OUq-02ocGZvsKG3xkDMKiOnz_my8ACLcB/s640/WICE%2B-%2Btable%2Bopen%2Bhouse.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3430. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  3431. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  3432. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3433. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  3434. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  3435. &lt;/div&gt;
  3436. </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2211633822526299567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/140871513323957198/posts/default/2211633822526299567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wice-blog.blogspot.com/2016/09/wices-fall-open-house-event-not-to-be.html' title='WICE’S FALL OPEN HOUSE: AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pnyAJwLHyqc/V9fuh5L_MeI/AAAAAAAABgo/IBkWKdP3e0kAdxHYlJUKNsFAsCwXV5wmgCLcB/s72-c/WICE%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bopen%2Bhouse%2Bblog.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></entry></feed>

Home · About · News · Docs · Terms

 
Copyright © 2002-9 Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda