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Sam Craft is the founder of Sweet Crude, an indie pop and rock band, formed in 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In this sextet, Sam is the violinist and singer. Alexis Marceau is he lead singer and plays percussions. 

Their songs combine English and Louisiana French, a dialect spoken by singer Alexis Marceau's family members. The band released their debut album, Créatures, early in 2017 and toured in festivals including Les Francofolies de La Rochelle. In 2019, Sweet Crude released their second album and major label debut, Officiel/Artificiel. In 2022, Sweet Crude released the song Take it back in collaboration with Big Freedia.

Sam Craft and Alexis Marceau performed at the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York on March 21, 2024 in a concert co-organized with the International Organization of the Francophonie . 

Sam Craft if the guest of this episode of La Culture Oui But Why? 

Sam Craft est le membre fondateur de Sweet Crude, un groupe de pop et de rock indépendant formé en 2013 à la Nouvelle-Orléans, en Louisiane. Dans ce sextet, Sam est le violoniste et chanteur et la chanteuse principale est Alexis Marceau. 

Les paroles de leurs chansons combinent l'anglais et le français de Louisiane, un dialecte parlé par les membres de la famille de la chanteuse Alexis Marceau. Le groupe a sorti son premier album, Créatures, début 2017, promu dans une tournée qui les a amenés aux Francofolies de La Rochelle. En 2020,  ils ont sorti leur deuxième album.

Sam Craft et Alexis Marceau se sont produits en concert au Centre Culturel du Lycée Français de New York le 21 mars 2024 dans le cadre d'un concert organisé avec l'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. 

Sam Craft est línvité de cet épisode de la Culture Oui,  But Why? 

Musicians: Alexis Marceau, Sam Craft

French photographer Denis Darzacq was born and raised in Paris, a city in which he still lives and works today. He graduated from the ENSAD (French National School for Decorative Arts) in 1986 and started his photographic career following the French rock scene.

In 1994, he began a series exploring the nocturnal life of Parisians titled “Only Heaven”, which he exhibited at various photo festivals. In 1999, the French Ministry of Culture commissioned him to work on French youth. The interaction between man and urban space and, more precisely, the suburbs have been a driving force in his recent work.

Darzacq won the 2007 World Press Photo prize in the “Arts & Entertainment” category for his series “La chute”.

He has published a number of books including “Act (2011), "Hyper” (2009),“La Chute” (2007), “Bobigny centre ville” (2006, co-author Marie Desplechin), “Le ciel étoilé au-dessus de ma tête” (2004), “Ensembles 1997/2000” (2001).

Exhibited extensively throughout France and internationally, his work is also held in both public and private collections, including the Pompidou Center, the FNAC (French National Contemporary Art Fund), the Nicéphore Niépce Museum, and the Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration.

He is represented by Laurence Miller Gallery in New York.

French jazz singer and 2023 Best Vocal Artist Camille Bertault, has released her fifth album. In this episode, she talks about her new work, her musicians, and her projects. She will be in concert on Thursday, January 18 at 6.30 pm at the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York. She will interpret songs from her new album "Bonjour mon Amour" with her New York musicians Cameron Campbell (piano), Eduardo Belo (double bass), Franco Pina ( percussion), Julién Alour (trumpet) 

To buy tickets, go to culturalcenter.lfny.org

Matthews Caws is the lead singer on songwriter for the Rock group Nada Surf which was started in 1995 in New York. Remember their title "Popular"?

Nada Surf will be releasing its 9th album in the weeks to come and start touring Europe and the US.

Matthews Caws is an alum from the Lycee Francais de New York and has something to say about bilingualism and creativity.

He will perform at the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York on November 18, 2023, at 6 pm. Check here

Mostly in English some French.

Music by Nada Surf: Popular, Inside Love, Friend Hospital

Maxime Boublil and others.

French Professor of Orthopedic and Trauma surgery, Professor Saillant was dean of the faculty of medicine and head of the department of Orthopedic, trauma, and reconstructive surgery at the hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. Professor Gérard Saillant is one of the most eminent sports medicine and spine surgery specialists. He is also President of the FIA ​​Medical Commission, President of the collective “For a France in shape” which works with the committee organization of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, for the legacy of the games in France, and co-founder and President of the Paris Brain Institute.

He was President of the Scientific Council of the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy, Advisor to the French Minister of Sports, and the official doctor of the French Olympic team at the Olympic Games. He is a member of the Paris Saint-Germain medical staff.

As part of a partnership signed last spring between the Brain Institute in Paris and the Lycée Français de New York, we invited Professor Gérard Saillant to talk to the students.

French actress Elsa Zylberstein, starring in Simone, The Woman of the Century, is our guest for the first episode (Season 4) of La Culture Oui, But Why?

Elsa Zylberstein began her film career in 1989 and has appeared in about 50 films. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008).

Recently, she played French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil (13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) in an Olivier Dahan movie (2022). Simone Veil, Minister of Health in France, played a major role in French history and politics and helped vote for the eponymous law, Loi Veil, allowing abortion in France in 1975.

Simone, The Woman of the Century was screened on September 6th at the Lycee Francais de New York Cultural Center.

For this episode, we asked Tatyana Franck, Director of the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York, to interview Zylberstein.

Actor Jean Reno, (His real name is Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez) was born in 1948 and raised in Morocco, then a French protectorate. Ever since appearing in The Big Blue in 1988, a cult movie by Luc Besson, he has worked in the U.S. and in France and in international productions, including Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, Les Visiteurs, The Big Blue, or Léon: The Professional, and many more.

As a parent at the school, he took some time this year to preside over the Lycee Francais de New York Theater Festival, Première Scène, and give a masterclass to the students.

In this episode of La Culture Oui, But Why? he recalls his training and lengthy career and gives tips to the young aspiring actors.

Mostly in French with some English.

Every morning on France Inter in MusicAline, music critic Aline AFANOUKOE welcomes her audience with her now famous "Holà Todos" and delivers her 3-minute-and-a-half vocal postcard on what is happening on the musical scene.

We invited her to the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York, to emcee a concert of francophone voices that took place on March 20th, on the International Day of Francophonie.

Born to Togolese parents, and raised in Paris, Aline is a rising star in French media. We invited her on our podcast la Culture Oui But Why to talk about her journey, music, and francophonie. The podcast is in French.

Season 3 Episode 4 Annie St Pierre and the Cirque du Soleil

The Cirque du Soleil was in residence at the Lycee Francais de New York with our first graders. We decided to interview Annie St Pierre, one of the company's artistic directors who came from Montreal, on this extraordinary company and what it means to work there.

Her bio: After ten years of professional study in classical ballet at Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Annie leads her career as a jazz-cabaret-musical dancer to join multiple projects and shows worldwide. She has worked principally as an artistic quality director, choreographer, and director for live shows and events for many years. She has been part of the Cirque du Soleil family for over 15 years. Collaborating in a variety of projects, from special events to touring shows. Such as Amaluna, Dralion, MJ One, MJ immortal Tour, Cirque du Soleil at Sea, Joyà, Creative, Twas the Night Before Christmas and much more. Passionate and with a lively spirit, Annie also has a Bachelor's in Communications and is completing a DESS in Management to sharpen her skills as a creative leader. True to her creation process, eliciting the meeting of human beings continues to be at the heart of her motivation and of her inspiration!

Jazz Musician Oran Etkin was our Artist in Residence at the Lycee Francais de New York with our third graders, together with percussionist Sasha Berliner.

Born in Israel, Oran moved with his family to Boston when he was five and started taking instrument lessons. At fourteen, he studied clarinet with Yusef Lateef and George Garzone. He attended Brandeis University and the Manhattan School of Music. He plays the alto clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone. Etkin invented a teaching method called Timbalooloo to teach music to children as young as three. Etkin has also been collaborating with musicians from Mali. His debut album, Kelenia (Motema, 2009), combined jazz with Malian music.

He talks about his life and his musical influences. He will play at Mezzrow in Manhattan on June 1, 2023. 

Fencing Champion Laura Flessel began fencing at age six and quickly became a very talented fencer. She progressed quickly and became the champion of Guadeloupe. She won her first world stage success in 1995, After her gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and her victory at the 1998 World Cup, she became the eighth French fencer and the first woman to win the Olympic and World Champion titles. She has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. She was France's flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, which was her fifth and last Olympics. She was appointed Minister of Sports in 2017 and is on the selection committee for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

She came in November to the Lycee Francais de New York to speak to the students, participate in a fencing workshop, and to a public conversation with Alvin Patrick, executive producer at CBS News, together with a senior student, Ariane Chevrier. 

We asked her what it takes to become a champion in your life.

In French

On November 6, 2022, French-born Karine Jones, mother of 4 and a parent at the Lycee Francais de New York, run her 7th New York marathon. She tells us about her passion, about this 51st edition with high temperatures and humidity, and gives tips and advice to those who want to try it.

In French

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La Culture Oui, But Why? is starting its third season with a new format. The podcast will sometimes be in French, sometimes in English, depending on our guest's native language.

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Image by Serge Bloch

Music by Maxime Boublil

French Writer Marc Levy was invited to the Lycee Francais de New York as part of an artist-in-residence project. He spent a week with the 8th graders on the Power of Imagination.

Marc Lévy is a French novelist whose books have been translated into over forty languages. He is the most widely read French author in the world. New Yorker at heart, Marc Levy chooses the Big Apple as the backdrop of many of his novels. He talks about his beginnings and writing in a bilingual world.

Laura Nsafou is our guest for this episode. Also known as Mrs Roots, she is a French blogger and author and artist in residence at the Lycee Francais de New York.

Founder of the Afrolab workshop, Laura is the author of the eleven-times reprinted picture book Comme un million de papillons noirs (Like A Million Black Butterflies) published at Editions Cambourakis, A mains nues (Editions Synapse), Le chemin de Jada (Jada's Journey, Cambourakis), Fadya et le chant de la rivière (Lunii), La demeure du ciel (Cambourakis). In September 2021 she wrote her first Yound Adult novel NOS JOURS BRÛLÉS (éditions Albin Michel). The second volume of this saga is due very soon. She is also working on a bande dessinée or graphic novel. In February 2022, French Vogue listed her among "the most promising authors of the moment".

In France, Laura Nsafou embodies a whole new generation of authors, As a committed Afro-feminist, she tackles social representations, history, and culture of black women on her dedicated site: mrsroots.fr. Her motto is: “Write. So that it is no longer possible to say once again: I didn't know."

In this podcast, Laura Nsafou talks about her own childhood, and her desire to write. She has been in residence at the Lycee Francais de New York with the 5th graders in the Spring of 2022. She gives some details about the writing project she has led there.

Many thanks to Somi for other music.

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In this new episode of our bilingual podcast, as we celebrate Earth Day with climate change on our minds, we invited an alum from the Lycée Francais de New York, Charles Cohen (Class 2015) who decided to study forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and now works in the wilderness in Canada. He tells us about his choice, about his life among the trees far from his early youth between Paris and New York.

At the Lycee Français de New York, we are organizing a panel talk on "How Important Are Forests" on April 26th - free and open to all - because we strongly believe that protecting the environment is key to the future of the young generations at the Lycee and all over the world. This podcast with Charles Cohen, hopefully will inspire young people look at their future with wide-open eyes on nature. 

In French and in English

With a tribute to Josephine Baker within excerpt from her 1927 recording of Blue Eyes

Check online at cultural center.lfny.org

In this podcast, French editorialist, book writer, filmmaker, anti-racist and feminist activist Rokhaya Diallo talks about racism in France as well as the idea of race and her interpretation of the concept of laicité as stated by a 1905 law in France. Writing regularly for the Washington Post, Rokhaya has also been invited to join Georgetown University's gender and justice initiative as a researcher in residence. 

She talks about "les hijabeuses", these young women who are fighting in France to practice sports wearing headscarves. She also compares the situation on race and gender in France and in the US. 

Rokahaya is a guest at the Lycee Francais de New York for Baldwin Day, a special day to celebrate the life and legacy of novelist, essayist, and activist James Arthur Baldwin. In the podcast, Rokhaya also talks about her film La Parisienne Démystifiée that we will show at the school.

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The Future of Fashion

In this episode, we talk about fashion and its future with Blandine Velin, Director of Insights and Innovation for a major French fashion brand in New York.

As the fashion season starts, we look at how pandemics changed the sector by creating another lifestyle.

Are fashion shows still relevant? And will the metaverse revolutionize our closets?

We also invited Chloe, a student at the Lycee, passionate about fashion, who has prepared the questions for our guest together with other students.

Wes Anderson's movie, The French Dispatch, was filmed in Angoulême, France. In fact, Angoulême, presented as "a fictional French town in the '50s", is one of the film's main characters. The movie was released in 2021 and French composer Alexandre Desplat who created the music score for the film is one the nominees for the 2022 Golden Globes. We decided to virtually transport ourselves to Angoulême as we wanted to know how the citizens of this city located in the South West of France, in Charentes, had experienced the filming that took place from November 2018 to March 2019. We talked to David Beauvallet, Director of marketing and communication for the Pole Image Magelis who was the liaison between Wes Anderson's film crew and the city. And he tells us in French.

"Built from his own experiences, Stéphane has developed the concept of "gathering opposites.” In a French context where social cohesion is increasingly crumbling, he bridges the gaps in the community by activating two powerful levers to peaceful coexistence: dialogue across differences and our desire to help each other."( Ashoka Foundation)

Artist, Film Director ( A Voix Haute), Social entrepreneur (Indigo), Stephane de Freitas has been preparing the Lycee students to the grand oral,

He talks about his philosophy and gives a few tips.

(In French and in English)

Mahen Bonetti, Founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival is our special guest of La Culture Oui, But Why? and she also participates in a panel on cinema organized by the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York on November 9, 2021.

Mahen Bonetti was born in 1956 in Sierra Leone to a family that has experienced the ups and downs of post-colonial politics. She talks about the festival, African cinema but also the movement of Black Lives matter and Africa

Alum from the Lycée Francais de New York and Graduate in Urban Design, Hadrien Cassan is a cultural mediator for the Jeanne Claude and Christo project of the Wrapped Arc de Triomple. He is spending half of his days under the monument welcoming the public. He tells us about the project from the inside. .

As we are commemorating the 20th anniversary of 09/11, we asked French-American Director Jules Naudet who was the first person, together with a few firefighters, to enter Tower 1 at the World Trade Center, what he remembered from that very special day.

Jules and his brother Gedeon were filming a documentary on firefighters and happened to be near the Twin Towers by pure chance. The raw footage Jules was able to capture that day became a documentary in 2002. Fifteen years later, a new documentary New York 9/11 produced by CNN was released.

In this podcast, Jules Naudet remembers the sounds and smells of that day. He also talks about the influence of "his" 9/11 on the rest of his career.

He pays tributes to all firefighters and in particular New York City Fire Department Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer who saved his life, "a friend for life."

Jules Naudet is an alum from the Lycee Francais de New York.

Music: Maxime Boublil, Eric Laws, Lance Conrad, Bobby Cole

"Trois petites notes de musique ( Yves Montand)

Born in Tunisia, Emel evokes her childhood and her musical beginnings. Singing in English and in Arabic, sometimes in French, Emel talks about identity as a language of creation. What is it to be a Francophone and belong to this French-speaking cultural world?

Her latest album, still in the making, is dedicated to women and among them, the most vulnerable. " I change the story to change History and create a virtuous circle", says Emel.

Emel is participating to a virtual concert organized by the Cultural Center of the Lycée Francais de New York and live on Saturday, March 20, 2021 on the Cultural Center facebook page

Music credits:

"Ensen Dhaif" by Emel

"Everywhere we look is burning" by Emel

"Fi Kolli Yawmen" by Emel

"Kelmti Horra" by Emel

"Je t'aime encore" ( Album D'Eux by Celine Dion)

Maxime Boublil ( intro music)

Special thanks to Partisan Records and Annie Ohayon.

Film Director Remi Chayé ( Up North, Calamity Jane), special guest at the Lycee and at Animation First, FIAF Animated film festival (ww.fiaf.org), talks about his works and his latest movie Calamity Jane. He talks in French about his inspiration, and the industry of animated movies in general.

French born Delphine Selles is Film Curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) in New York. There she co-curates with French cinema consultant Catherine Lamairesse, Animation First, an animated film festival that runs through February.

We learn that Director Remi Chayé is one of the special guests this year and that a students jury will elect their favorite movies.

Delphine talks about animated movies, French cinema and the future of cinema.

More info at www.fiaf.org

More info at culturalcenter.lfny.org

French producer, filmmaker and writer Benoit Cohen has been living in Brooklyn since 2014. In 2019, we invited him at the Lycée Français de New York to talk about his books. The first one Yellow Cab is about his personal experience: Cohen drove a cab around the five boroughs for a few months, in the perspective of writing a screenplay about a French actress becoming a taxi driver in New York and finally wrote Yellow Cab published in the US by Pointed Leaf Press. His second book Mohammad, Ma Mère, et Moi tells the story of his mother who welcome an Afghan refugee in her home in Paris.

In 2021, a graphic novel bande dessinée with drawings by Christophe Chabouté (The Park

Bench, Moby Dick) is published in January in France (later on in the US).

and Mohammad, Ma Mère, et Moi is soon to be a movie.

Writer Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 when Djibouti was a French colony, and his native language was somali. He came to France in 1985 to study English Litterature.  He started his career as an English teacher in Caen in Normandy while pursuing in parallel a career as a writer in French. His first collection of short stories Le pays sans ombre published in France in 1994, was translated in English in 2005 as The Land Without Shadows.  So did his novel Les Etats-Unis d'Afrique, In The United States of Africa (novel), published by University of Nebraska Press in March 2009. For that novel initially published in France in 2006, he received the prize of Best French Writing : 21st Century. French Voices 2006. 

Today Waberi is also an Assistant professor at Georges Washington University where he teaches Francophone literature as well as French literature and film. 

For the teachers at the Lycee Francais de New York, Professor Waberi gave a crash course on Francophone litterature, and for all of us he explains what its is to a be a francophone.

Herve Tullet

Born in France, in Avranches, Herve Tullet is an artist, a performer and an author of children books. After 10 years spent in advertising, he started illustrating children books. The first one was published in 1994 and called How Daddy met Mommy. It was an instant success. Since 1994, Hervé has published over 80 books and received many awards.

His books are meant for children from all ages. They can be touched, and content can be added: The reader participates to the creative process. Hervé, who sees himself as an artist and is influenced by modern art, spent 5 years in New York from 2015 to 2020. There he started developing workshops for the general public as well as interactive exhibitions. His most recent project is called the Ideal Exhibition. Through videos, he encourages participants to create their own exhibit. With Virgil de Voldère, Founder of the bilingual preschool La Petite Ecole, Hervé Tullet is in the process of developing a curriculum based on the Ideal Exhibit which will be accessible to all the schools all over the world. 

Hervé is artist-in-residence at the Lycee Francais de New York with the First Graders in 2020-2021

In this podcast we meet with Hervé Tullet who is in Paris and Virgil de Voldère in New York.

Music by Maxime Boublil and others.

French Senegalese artist Delphine Diallo who is based in Brooklyn talks about her work, her photography and collages. Former assistant to American artist Peter Beard, Delphine Diallo chooses to concentrate on the beauty and strength of Black women's bodies as a way to find her own identity.

Established in New York since 2011, Delphine also talks about her love for the city.

Delphine is one of the guests for the panel on Culture and Diversity organized by the Lycee Francais de New York Cultural Center on October 6, 2020. culturacenter.lfny.org.

She is residence with the Y4 students starting in November 2020

Her website is http://www.delphinediallo.com/

Music by Maxim Boublil, Camille Berthault, Ángel Hernández, Michele Nobler

Lucie Tiberghien is a French and American theater director and translator, based in Brooklyn, NY.

In 2018, she founded Molière in the Park, the first non-profit in Brooklyn solely dedicated to bringing free theater to Prospect Park on a yearly basis. 

Last June, she co-presented with French Institute Alliance Francaise, a Tartuffe online that was dubbed "Revolutionary" by the New York Times theater critic.

On October 24, 2020, Lucie Tiberghien will direct the School of Wives online, s show co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Francaise

She was raised just outside Geneva where at an early age she began her career as a dancer (Grand Théâtre de Genève). She then moved to Paris after high school to further her training in music and dance, then went back to school to study history and political science. After graduating from Geneva Webster University she moved to New York to pursue a career in directing.

Music by Maxime Boublil, Camille Berthault, Georges Bizet, Boccherini, Stephen J Rice

Lycée Français de New York Alum Maxime Boublil is a French pop songwriter living in L.A. who has been in the industry for over six years.

As a songwriter, he works with music studios affiliated with Warner and Sony as well as independent labels. HIs goal is "to put his heart into artist's songs hoping to find the perfect melody that will elevate and hopefully create the record the artist deserves."

He begun his career as a sound engineer on "The Voice" Australia and started composing after that.

Both French and American, Maxime is the son of librettist Alain Boublil ( Les Misérables, Miss Saigon.. ) and singer Marie Zamora.

In this podcast, we hear Maxime's compositons including the original Music of La Culture Oui, But Why?, "Problems" and "All Falls Down" interpreted by Maxime himself.

Follow him on Instagran @ Maximepretends.

Belgian Actor Ronald Guttman performs on August 21, 2020 at Guild Hall in East Hampton a dramatization of novel The Fall by French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960). La Culture Oui, But Why? explores the acting world of Ronald Guttman and invites screen-writer Alexis lloyd who adapted the novel to theater. The monologue will also be performed in October at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York.

Ronald Guttman, founder and president of HIGHBROW, is also an actor, producer, and art collector. Ronald Guttman's long list of acting credits includes film, television, and theater. Mr. Guttman began his acting career in Brussels, Belgium, where he performed at The National Theatre in plays by Beckett, Schnitzler, Racine, Turgenev, and Camus, among others. He lives in New York and in Bridgehampton, NY

Alexis Lloyd is a French film writer, director and producer best known for his film 30 Beats. He was Managing Director of Pathé UK. He lives in New York.

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His novel The Fall was published in 1952-1958.

The French King Francis the First sent the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano to find a road to Asia. Verrazano arrived in New York in April 16, 1524 aboard La Dauphone. He called the bay "Marguerite" after Francis the First's sister and called the land Angouleme as Francis I was also Count of Angouleme. A copy of Verrazano's report sits at the Morgan Library in a secluded room. The report was rediscovered in 1946 by a teacher from the Lycee Francais de New York, a bilingual private school in Manhattan. French movie director Marie-France Brière told this whole story in her documentary film "If New York Was Called Angouleme". In this episod, librarian Damien Renon and Director Marie-France Briere are intyerviewed

Today we are meeting French artist Beatrice Coron.

She creates cut out silhouettes. Beatrice can talk at length about this art form invented in China and later came to France where Etienne de Silhouette, Minister of Finance under Louis XV, introduced the first portraits à la silhouette;  

She is present these days at the The New York HIstorical Society with an exhibition called Hi Five! : Stories of the Five Boroughs until September 2020.

Born in Marseille from an Egyptian family, Lucien Zayan, spent most of his working life in theater and music, working as producer in France for famous cultural hubs like le théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris or the Festival d’art lyrique in Aix-en-Provence to name a few. He arrived in New York and landed in Brooklyn. He fell in love with the Invisible Dog, a former factory that made invisible leaches for invisible dogs, and created a cultural center with working studios for artists. With COVID, Lucien is looking at ways to help artists. In this episode we also interview Illustrator Kevin Waldron who is in residence at the Invisible Dog.

The host Pascale Richard speaks in English, Lucien Zayan speaks in French and Kevin Waldron speaks in English.