What's up in Paris : November 2017

Welcome to the November 2017 issue of “What’s up in Paris”.
This monthly magazine is dedicated to everything you need to experience, see, listen to and do in Paris!
So stay with us and discover the “What’s up in Paris” selection of the events you shouldn’t miss in November 2017!

Experience:
If you’re keen on arts and crafts, head for the Carrousel du Louvre! From 2 to 5 November, the “Salon du Patrimoine Culturel” (Cultural Heritage Show) will be there for its 23rd year. The event, organised by “Ateliers d’Art de France” is set to attract over 350 artisans to the Carrousel to represent the renewal of international cultural heritage and know-how. Visitors will discover a wide range of traditional trades, hidden aspects of French culture and part of what goes on behind the scenes in the production of many monuments in France.
Practical information: www.patrimoineculturel.com
For its second year, “Nuit de la Poésie” (Poetry Night) will take place at the Institut du Monde Arabe on Saturday 11 November, from 7.00 pm to 8.00 am. This free night-time event offers a number of readings, concerts and many other poetic performances with well-known guests such as Dominique Blanc, Charles Berling, the singer Camelia Jordana and the poet Mohamed Hmoudane. Visitors are also free to visit the museum’s temporary exhibitions. The whole programme on: www.imarabe.org

See:
“The most authentic thing is the face. I believe that photography is best placed to perpetuate its image”. From 20 October to February 2018, the Cartier Foundation is offering a retrospective exhibition as a tribute to the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, who died a year ago. Over 250 photos are on show – including some that have never been shown to the public. They offer an immersion in Bamako night life, with the changing nature of African youth dancing to the rhythm of the rock and the twist of the 60s, along with a series of studio portraits: a work half-way between tradition and the birth of a new fashion and a new life.
Information: www.fondationcartier.com
Looking for something out of time from another world? Then head for the Musée des Arts Forains (Fairground Arts Museum), which is opening once again for the All Saints’ holiday period. Until 5 November, adults and children can take a guided tour to discover the most beautiful old fairground rides and games. Devised by private collector Jean-Paul Favand, the exhibition is organised around themes such as curiosity cabinets, the Venice carnival, extraordinary gardens and the funfair of the “Belle Epoque”.
Entry by reservation only, online on www.arts-forains.com or by telephone on 01 43 40 16 22.
Finally, the “Cité des Sciences” will be taking children aged 7 to 11 on a magical journey combining science and fairy tales with its “Il était une fois” (Once upon a Time) exhibition. An entertaining, highly interactive way of tackling physical, chemical and mathematical concepts through the prism of children’s literature classics. For example, the “Big Bad Wolf” video is used to explain the biology of the wolf (sight, hearing, diet, sense of smell), while “The camera that lies” teaches children that you mustn’t always believe what you see and hear as, unlike Pinocchio, people’s noses don’t grow longer.
Practical information: www.cite-sciences.fr

Listen:
If you haven’t heard of him, go and see him! The talented, enigmatic Benjamin Clementine is back for a concert in Paris, at the Grand Rex, on Tuesday 7 November 2017. You’ll be able to hear the top tracks from his first album “At Least for Now”, which came out in 2015, and the single from his second work “Phantom Of Aleppoville”.
On the classical music front, Berlioz comes to the “Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet” (MNAAG – Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts). “Compositions Persanes”, “Les Flûtes Enchantées”… Organised in collaboration with the Côte-Saint-André Berlioz Festival, several concerts of the composer’s music will take place on 3 and 4 November 2017, as part of the “Enquêtes vagabondes” exhibition portraying Emile Guimet’s travels in Asia.
Concerts at 4.00 pm and 8.30 pm, as per programme available on www.guimet.fr

Faire :
Tradition oblige, the “Grande Roue de la Concorde” (Big Wheel) in Paris will be back from 17 November. What fun to have a bird’s-eye view of the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries during the Christmas festivities! The Big Wheel has been part of the Paris skyline for 23 years now. Introduced by Marcel Campion, the initiative has been copied worldwide. Nearly 130 cities now have one.

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