Ooh La La!

It's only six days into June and already I'm feeling French. Just this afternoon when I was reminded of this month's French fest, I immediately rounded up some fellow cinema art farts at the office and established a viewing schedule with them for this Wednesday. I'll still have to drag someone to come with me to the Fete on June 18 at El Pueblo, though. If anyone out there is planning to do some serious head-bangin' to Frenchy (as well as NoyPi) beats, just holler.



Fête de la Musique

El Pueblo - Ortigas Center
and Metro Manila
June 18, 2005 - 5:00 PM onwards


Introduced in France in 1982 by then Minister for Culture Jack Lang, the Fête de la Musique is an all-day, all-night celebration of music to welcome summer. Musicians, amateurs and professionals perform freely in public places, from parks to street corners, metro stations, trains, not necessarily in concert halls or stages.

It became a very popular event, and through the network of French Embassies and French cultural centers and Alliances Françaises, it easily spread to many countries worldwide. It is now celebrated in simultaneously in more than 120 countries every 21st of June.

In Manila, the Fête has been celebrated since 1994, from Malate to Fort Bonifacio, to El Pueblo and Eastwood, gathering some 10,000 music-lovers in a street party that appropriately closes the cultural season, the French Spring in Manila, and where more than a hundred bands perform in ten stages simultaneously, offering the full spectrum of musical genre from World Music to Rock, Alternative, Reggae, Jazz, Blues, Electronica, Acousitic, Hip Hop and R&B.

In 2005, while the center stage in El Pueblo - Ortigas Center will showcase a selection of musicians of these musical categories, several poles of the city night life join us, like Greenbelt 3, Shangri-La Plaza, Eastwood, The Podium, SM Megamall. Thus, the Fête de la Musique reaches all corners of the capital.

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10th French Film Festival
Panorama of the French Contemporary Cinema
June 03 to June 26, 2005
3-15 Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City
Entrance Fee : Php50

Please check out the link above for the movie titles.

Be seeing you, guys!