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La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes

Installation littéraire téléphonique

Performance / installation

Have you read Olympe de Gouges? Do you know Catherine Colomb? Does Audre Lorde ring a bell?
Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes is a literary installation designed to help you discover or rediscover unknown or forgotten women writers through monologues invented by contemporary authors and delivered over the telephone. Like a call from beyond…
As if these women writers were calling us back from their invisible world to make us want to read them, to spread their texts and their ideas.

 Texts written by Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Valérie Cachard, Jihane Chouaib, Odile Cornuz, Anaïs de Courson, Céline Delbecq, Solenn Denis, Penda Diouf, Latifa Djerbi, Cynthia Edul, Marie Fourquet, Barbara Geib, Julie Gilbert, Douna Loup, Karelle Ménine, Florence Minder, Sarah Jane Moloney, Marie-Louise Mumbu (Bibish), Emmelyne Octavie, Nadège Prugnard, Antoinette Rychner, Marina Skalova, Dorothée Thébert, Salimata Togora, Isabelle Wéry, Hermine Yollo, Patricia Zangaro, Alice Zeniter, Mara Züst.

Duration of each “call”: 6 to 8 minutes

Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes will be open to the public free of charge during opening hours.
The Fahrenheit 451 bookshop will be on hand with books by the women writers featured in Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes.

The program of workshops and meetings of Toute la maison écrivait en moi can be found on this page.

Villa Bernasconi / Lancy


Locations & access

Tickets

Free entrance at the La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes during opening hours

Tuesday, 05 September : 18:00-22:00
Wednesday, 06 September : 12:00-22:00
Thursday, 07 September : 12:00-22:00

Performances in 2023

    Archive — bookings closed.

    Hosted, including a 2023 creation, and co-produced by La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, in co-production with the Villa Bernasconi - Centre d'art de la Ville de Lancy and with the support of the commune of Lancy
    With the support of Fondation Émilie Gourd

    Length 40 x 7' (Possibilité d'écouter un seul ou quelques textes ou tous les textes)

    French

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    Cast & credits

    La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes

    The writers:
    Gaelle Bien Aimé, Valérie Cachard, Jihane Chouaib, Anaïs de Courson, Odile Cornuz, Céline Delbecq, Solenn Denis, Penda Diouf, Latifa Djerbi, Cynthia Edul, Marie Fourquet, Barbara Geib, Julie Gilbert, Douna Loup, Karelle Ménine, Florence Minder, Marie-Louise Bibish Mumbu, Sarah Jane Moloney, Emmelyne Octavie, Nadège Prugnard, Fabienne Radi, Antoinette Rychner, Marina Skalova, Dorothée Thébert, Salimata Togora, Isabelle Wéry, Hermine Yollo, Patricia Zangaro, Alice Zeniter, Mara Zuest

    The readers:
    Christina Antonarakis, Barbara Baker, Rebecca Balestra, Valéria Bertolotto, Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Emilie Blaser, Maya Bösch, Magdalena Bournot, Fanny Brunet, Radhia Chapot-Habbes, Jihane Chouaib, Claire Deutsch, Cléa Eden, Julie Gilbert, Pascale Güdel, Yvonne Harder, Kayije Kagame, Sarah Lecarpentier, Audrey Liebot, Marilú Marini, Mélina Martin, Claudia Mongumu, Olga Mouak, Emmelyne Octavie, Aline Papin, Julia Perazzini, Fanny Pelichet, Lamya Régragui, Jana Rudenko, Nora Steinig, Salimata Togora, Pascale Vachoux, Isabelle Wéry, Delphine Wuest, Hermine Yollo 

    Reference writers:
    Maya Angelou, Ingeborg Bachmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Bessette, Catherine Colomb, Adelheid Duvanel, La Comtesse de Ségur, Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Eberhardt, Buchi Emecheta, Aicha Fofana,, Olympe de Gouges, Anne-Lise Grobéty, Lorraine Hansberry, Françoise Héritier, Marlen Haushofer, Agota Kristof, Audre Lorde, Ulrike Meinhof, Toni Morrison, Paulette Nardal, Marguerite de Navarre, Zora Neale Hurston, Olga Orozco, Anne Perrier, Christine de Pizan, Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Plath, Grisélidis Réal, George Sand, Sappho, Susan Sontag, Fadwa Souleimane, Doris Stauffer, Marina Tsvetaeva, Marianne Van Hirtum, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, May Ziadé

    Idea and design
    Julie Gilbert
    With the complicity of
    Frédéric Choffat
    Installation and technical management
    Philippe Maeder
    Sound editors
    Sarah Imsand, Elena Petitpierre
    Administration
    Mathias Ecoeur
    Graphic design
    Gaia Biaggi

    Production

    Le Bureau des écritures

    Co-production

    Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Sélection suisse en Avignon, Théâtre 140, Bruxelles, Le POCHE /GVE

    Supports

    République et Canton de Genève, Ville de Genève, Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature, Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature, BPEV – Bureau de promotion de l’égalité et de la prévention des violences

    Thanks

    Delphine de Stoutz, Michèle Pralong

    Villa Bernasconi / Lancy


    Locations & access

    Tickets

    Free entrance at the La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes during opening hours

    Tuesday, 05 September : 18:00-22:00
    Wednesday, 06 September : 12:00-22:00
    Thursday, 07 September : 12:00-22:00

    Performances in 2023

      Archive — bookings closed.

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