Our beloved Little Prince, a born globe-trotter, is forever travelling from planet to planet and country to country, and tomorrow he is off to China! As part of the « Festival Croisements », a series of four readings of Le Petit Prince in French and Chinese is being organised by Alliance Française centres in four major Chinese cities: Beijing, Xian, Wuhan and Shanghai.

On stage, two actors: from France, Anny Romand and from China, James Pax. They will read Le Petit Prince, in both languages, naturally: each will respond to the other. Festival Croisements/Jiaoliu is a festival of cultural encounters in which France and China compare and combine traditions and modern ideas, affinities and differences to serve popular creations open to the world. Building on the years of Franco-Chinese cross-cultural cooperation, the festival offers 100 shows and exhibitions centred on the visual arts, theatre, circus, dance and music, to be staged in 10 cities around China.

Find out more: Festival Croisements

The Swiss Association of the Friends of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is organising an afternoon tea and show on 6 June in Geneva, with a one-off performance of Le Petit Prince, directed by Virgil Tanase.

All proceeds from the performance will go to the Association of the Friends of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on behalf of a school and computer project in Kinshasa. The aim of the project is to set up a Saint-Exupéry Computer Centre for the schoolchildren and students of Kinshasa. The centre will help young people learn computer skills that will stand them in good stead when looking for employment.

Wednesday 6 June, from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at the Salle Centrale Madeleine
10 rue de la Madeleine, Geneva.

Bookings:
Migros Genève – Service Culturel
7 rue du Prince
1204 Genève

Let\’s find out more about a travelling exhibition in the land of the rising sun, on the subject of The Little Prince and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry…

The exhibition was unveiled for the first time on 24 April in the Ginza Matsuya department stores in Tokyo. It presented the Japanese with an unusual view of The Little Prince in the form of 15 giant animated books representing the work\’s main themes and revealing some of its secrets.