Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: banlieues, France, Hervé Marchal
“Only to speak about the banlieues, for us, I think it is a little bit improper. It’s hellish there, it is really the shit. Something has to be done, otherwise it will burst. Everybody knows that”.
We are in 1995; Vincent Cassel reacts after the end of the film-shoot of “Hate” (La Haine) – a Mathieu Kassovitz movie that takes place in a banlieue in riots. The French actor expresses what he feels after living, sleeping, eating in the banlieue while shooting. He understands the “malaise des banlieues”. Since then, nothing has really changed. It is maybe even worse today.
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: banlieues, France, Haut du Lièvre, Nancy
“I tell you: it is some shit. It is not a neighbourhood, it is absolutely nothing,” nervously yells an elderly woman. Raja, a 25-year-old student at the University of Nancy, calls it Alcatraz. “When we were there, we had only one urge: to escape,” she says.
“If I had to associate a word with it,” explains Zakkaria, a Nancy resident. “It is a word which disturbs me, a word rather negatively connoted, it would be “ghetto”. It is a cliché. You can go there whenever; it is no more dangerous than somewhere else.”
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: banlieues, Culture, France, Haut du Lièvre, Nancy
Slam poetry, classical poetry, improvisation theatre, and music were performed around one theme: the speech. From April 28th to May 2nd 2008, the Festival “Sur un Plateau” had been taking place at the MJC of the “Haut du Lièvre” – Nancy’s local banlieue.
MJC’s (Maisons de la Jeunesse et de la Culture – Youth and Culture Centers) were created to bring youth and culture together. On its side, the Festival “Sur un Plateau” (On a Plateau – due to the up-hill position of the neighborhood) was created and organized by students from the University of Nancy to bring the people from the city and its banlieue together, to build bridges, to help the city speak with its suburb and vice versa.
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: banlieues, Culture, France, Haut du Lièvre, Nancy, Slam
Most of the time, urban forms of art come from US inner city areas better known as the ghettos. It develops there, it crosses the Atlantic Ocean, and then it settles in Europe. Hip Hop, Rap, Graffiti, name it. But each time, these forms of art are modified and tamed by European artists. It is especially true for slam poetry.
“In the people’s slam, we bind ourselves and we rhyme because here we love where that rhymes and that lies. But if we splendidly lie to it, this is because we look there for a brightness of diamond verb. The people’s slam is a tiny and alive treasure with sight on the invisible. Simple.” Mourad, the master of ceremonies or MC, gives the start of the local slam session in Nancy (France) with these few rhymes.
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: Airport, decibels, Hamburg, Noise pollution
A Compromise to Manage Noise Pollution
In these times when most people equate environment with climate change and global warming, noise pollution around airports is a hot-button issue. Unfortunately – like in most cases – people only care when they are touched by the problem. In the case of Hamburg, about 80 000 households, or almost 200 000 inhabitants, are directly affected by noise pollution generated by its airport.
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: Airport, Brussels, Commission, Europe, Noise pollution, Pierre Schellekens
While more and more decisions regarding our everyday life are made in Brussels, the European Commission decided to not decide about noise pollution around Community airports – those having more than 50 000 movements per year and city airports. The Directive 2002/30/EC is inspired by the subsidiarity principle: each decision has to be taken by the local/regional authorities. This is an approach to solving noise problems on an ‘airport-by-airport’ basis.
Classé dans : Articles EitW - English | Mots-clefs: Airport, Gabriele Hartl, Hamburg, Noise pollution, Residents
She goes and comes back from the desk to the computer like planes take off and land at an airport. “Do you know Leo?” she says. “It is my on-line translation “friend” from German to English.” She doesn’t master the English language but she tries to communicate her experience.
Lundi 3 juillet 2006
Quartier Léopold, des parcelles à l’abandon depuis vingt ans. L’Association du Quartier Léopold accule la commune d’Ixelles, propriétaire. L’AQL va demander un permis.
Ça y est, c’est fait ! L’Association du Quartier Léopold (AQL) et la « Fondation Ateliers d’Artistes sans Frontières » ont signalé leur intention de déposer une demande conjointe de certificat d’urbanisme auprès de la commune d’Ixelles. Au plus tard pour le 15 août. Cette demande concernera les dernières parcelles à l’abandon de l’îlot Vautier – Wiertz. Les numéros 21, 23 et 23A. Le but recherché est de mettre la commune face à ses responsabilités.
Samedi 24 juin 2006
Ixelles, une fête organisée avec les commerçants
Pour sa quatrième édition, « Porte de Namur, Matongé en fête et en musique » accueille le Comité des commerçants de la Porte de Namur parmi ses organisateurs. Mais le mot d’ordre de départ reste le même : « Faire avec ce qu’il y a sur place. Utiliser l’énergie du quartier », rappelle Ahmed Zaouli, coordinateur de l’événement. Le but étant de « permettre la rencontre des habitants pour se connaître, découvrir ou redécouvrir ce quartier particulier de la capitale ».
Mercredi 26 juillet 2006
Tourisme Visite panoramique
Chicon ou endive ? Chambre d’hôte ou bed & breakfast ? Vous l’aurez compris, c’est chou vert et vert chou. Depuis quelques semaines, les internautes intéressés peuvent prévisualiser des chambres d’hôte sur un nouveau site (www.bnb360.be). A leur disposition : le panorama virtuel d’une vingtaine de chambres sur l’ensemble du parce que gère Bed & Brussels.
