Sa ou fè from Martinique

22nd Yawl boat race in Martinique.

See it live on line
Committee of Martinique of Tourism (C.M.T.) Website

July 30 – August 06, 2006

Suggested drink:
Ti’Punch
In a small glass,
1/4 sugar syrup
3/4 white rum
small piece of lime squeezed

Drink with moderation

Come and enjoy the Yawl boat race in Martinique.

July 30 – August 06, 2006

Click on the picture or www.yoles-rondes.org for detail information.
Contact information: yolesrondes@wanadoo.fr
Tel: (596) 596 61 48 50
Fax: (596) 596 72 02 53

The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie states:
“celebrating Senghor means honoring Césaire!”

Année Senghor 2006

Click on the picture or here to download
a powerpoint presentation

The celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Léopold Sédar Senghor took place June 2006 in Fort-de France
under the high patronage of President Abdou Diouf
and Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
around the topic:
“Bridge across the Atlantic, a friendship:
Senghor-Césaire, innovators in words and in action.”

Dear all,

Please come and celebrate one of the greatest voices of Martinique!

World renowned martinican writer Edouard Glissant
who has recently been appointed by French President Jacques Chirac, Chairman of the French National Center Dedicated to Slavery, will participate into a reading and discussion of world poetry and postcolonial literature April 27th at 7:00pm.

The discussion will also feature Professor Michael Dash and poet Jayne Cortez.

Location: Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd floor, New York NY 10012.

On April 28th you are invited to Visiting Edouard Glissant,
featuring French jazz composer Bernard Lubat and Jayne Cortez, renowned poet and Jazz performer.

Location: Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue (34th street & Fifth avenue), 7:00pm Elebash Recital Hall.

Admission to both events is free.
Come, tell your friends and do not miss this magnificent archipelago of poetry!

Thursday April 27, 7pm
Archipelagos of Poetry and Politics:
A Reading and Conversation
With Édouard Glissant and J. Michael Dash
Introduction by Jayne Cortez
Readings by Brent Edwards.

Admission Free.
A reading and discussion of world poetry, postcolonial literature, and translation.

Born in Martinique in 1928, Édouard Glissant has emerged as one of the most influential postcolonial theorists, novelists, playwrights, and poets in the Caribbean and French letters.

J. Michael Dash is Professor of French at NYU.

Jayne Cortez is the author of many books and recordings of poetry performed with jazz.

Brent Edwards teaches at Rutgers University.

Presented in conjunction with PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature

Friday April 28, 7 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center of CUNY

With the generous support of the AFAA, the Henri Peyre French Institute, the Services Culturels of the French Embassy in New York, and the Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College of CUNY
The event is free and open to the public. Please note that seating fills up quickly and event begins on time.

The Graduate Center is located at 34th Street and 5th avenue,
365 5th avenue, NY. 10016.
For information, call: 212-817-8365
or contact the French Ph.D. Program at French@gc.cuny.edu

MARTINIQUE CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF CARNIVAL in 2006
(1906 – 2006)

Unlike Elsewhere, Revelry Will Continue

Right Through Ash Wednesday, March 1

Carnival celebrations in such Mardi Gras capitals as Rio, New Orleans and Trinidad are sizzling hot right through Shrove Tuesday, but then fizzle out with the arrival of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Not so in Martinique! While revelers elsewhere in the world are nursing hangovers and having their aching foreheads dabbed with ashes, the people of Martinique are just beginning the final, most exciting day of their celebration. Here Carnival runs at full tilt an extra 24 hours and, with more than 40 marching bands joining the festivities in 2006, Martinique is planning a party of a lifetime!

Mardi Gras connoisseurs from many lands, including the late Truman Capote, himself a native of New Orleans, have praised the uniqueness of the Martinique.
It’s “as spontaneous and vivid as an explosion in a fireworks factory” event, wrote Truman Capote in “Music for Chameleons,” describing his visit to Carnival in Martinique.

Click here to view video.

Martinique’s ultramodern International Lamentin Airport
near Fort-de-France, has regular flights
on AmericanAirlines and AmericanEagle

NONSTOP SERVICE BETWEEN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
AND FORT-DE-FRANCE, MARTINIQUE

From Martinique, American Eagle launched
nonstop service between San Juan, Puerto Rico
and Fort-de-France, Martinique, on December 15, 2005.

The airline operates the flight every Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday
from San Juan to Fort-de-France, using the 64-seat Super ATR aircraft.

Thanks to American Eagle, traveling to and from Martinique will be easier.

For more information on rates and reservations, please visit:
American Airlines’ Web site at www.aa.com.