DMeetings, screenings, workshops, visits and many other activities to celebrate books and literature: the second edition of the Senlis book fair will be from Wednesday October 2 to Sunday October 5. And it will start with a show for young audiences on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the cinema, Ariol Show: Bastien Lallemant, guitarist, will join Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant for a joyful reading of the adventures of the little blue donkey. This will follow, Thursday at 8 p.m., a Lebanese evening, still at the cinema, with the reading of Olivier Ka’s cartoons, Beirut, Return to a forgotten land (entry €5 for the benefit of UNICEF). The author will be present for a meeting with the public. Then on Friday, the screening at 6 p.m. of Et si on lelevait les yeux, (entrance €5) a documentary by Gilles Vernet (also present) who carried out a unique experience with his CM2 class: for a year, he exchanged with his students, their parents and specialists on the place of screens in our society, before taking them for ten days of disconnection in the great outdoors.
But the big part of the show will obviously be the weekend: the Media Library, the Saint-Pierre bookstore, the Verbe et l’Objet bookstore open the doors of the Espace Saint-Pierre for two days of meetings with the authors, dedications and events. More than thirty different authors (children’s and adult literature) will be present every day.
It will also be possible to visit Senlis in the footsteps of the great writers that the city has inspired: Gérard de Nerval, Alexandre Dumas, Henri Leblanc… (registration with the Senlis/Chantilly Tourist Office). But also to visit the heritage funds of the media library, normally inaccessible to the public. Children will not be forgotten with “Baby-Touch – I simulate my senses” workshops led by Les Fingers Qui Rêves, an associative publishing house which meets the needs of visually impaired children for access to reading. But also with stories, a writing workshop with the screenwriter Anne Didier and another with the designer Brigitte Lannaud Levy.
