In person(s)

“At the four corners of the word” with Jérôme Rouger, Valentine Bonomo and Captain Alexandre

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From left to right, comedian Jérôme Rouger, Valentine Bonomo, from the Papier Machine collective, and Capitaine Alexandre, at the Festival aux Quatre Coins du Mot, at Charité-sur-Loire.

© Guillaume Ploquin / RFI

By: Pascal Paradou Follow

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Second program at the Cité du mot, with three guests of the “Aux quatre coins du mot” festival, who explore the French language, each in their own way, at Charité-sur-Loire, in Nièvre, proclaimed “capital of the word” since 2005.

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Guests

- Captain Alexander

,

by the collective

On a slamé sur la Lune

, which opened the festival with the show 

Expoésie: Transmission

.

- Valentine Bonomo,

from the Belgian collective

Papier Machine

, publisher of an eponymous magazine which “ 

welcomes all those who want to interfere politely (or noisily) in the interstices of language and the French language

 ”.

The collective will give a reading-performance,

Du coq à l'âne

, this Friday, May 27, as part of the festival.

- Jérôme Rouger

, actor, storyteller, author of the play

Why chickens prefer to be raised in batteries

, and organizer of the "Reading Rally" 

Dis-donc Molière!,

played this Thursday, May 26 as part of the festival.

With a report on 

the Ouscrapo, " 

workshop of poetic scrabbology

 "

, of the Bigre Company!

Ouscrapo is a giant board game, mixing scrabble and Oulipo.

© Guillaume Ploquin / RFI

Also to listen

 : 

See you at the Festival "Aux quatre coins du mot"

, our first program dedicated to the 2022 edition.

Musical programming

 :

Captain Alexandre & Kalimat - Coming to Words

► 

Go further

 :

Discover the full festival program

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