November 18, 2024

MediaBizNet

Complete Australian News World

The next Avignon festival will focus on the English language

The next Avignon festival will focus on the English language

“The Festival d’Avignon is a polyglot gathering that invites languages ​​to converse with each other and supports the joyful disruption of translation. From Avignon, we no longer notice that our world is divided by borders: languages ​​connect the world”, believes Thiago Rodríguez, the new director of this major summer cultural event. This year, the organization has decided to give pride to languages, but especially to the English language, especially many British shows, performed in English, but with subtitles in French.

This is the director Festival He will make the announcement on Wednesday, April 19 at the French Institute in the United Kingdom, where he will be a guest. He will come to present the full program of the 77th edition of Europe’s most important cultural event, which welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors every year to attend shows, plays and performances, which will take place from Wednesday 5 July to Tuesday 25 July, among other original works. The presentation was followed by a conversation between French and British artists presented during this edition.

The event at the institution is free and open to all. However, it takes to record Its location is upstream.

Photo credit: Philip Ferreira

READ  Wendy: He comes forward to learn English thanks to "Game of Thrones" or "Grace Anatomy".