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Confined Bodies, but Free Souls. At last.

March 28, 2020March 29, 2020 by JC Agid 2 Comments

Interview with Author and entrepreneur Vanessa Serrano
Free online meditation workshop
April 1-7, 2020 (link to register at the end)

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu recently posted on Instagram a drawing of a person seated in a lotus position. “If you can’t go outside,” the caption read, “go inside.”

“A sound advice,” wrote Diane Von Furstenberg who shared the post @therealdvf.

‘If you can’t go outside, go inside’ is exactly what Mexican author and entrepreneur Vanessa Serrano—who has developed her professional work as a path to search for her own purpose—invites people to focus on.

“I believe we should take today’s opportunity to observe our minds,” Vanessa told me in a phone interview.

Next April 1^st and for seven days, Serrano is offering an online and free workshop in Spanish (both live and through videos) called Healing Detox and Spiritual Awakening. (details and link below the interview).

The Black and White Photographer at the Deauville American Film Festival

September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 by JC Agid Leave a comment

The Black and White Photographer at the Deauville American Film Festival
Fire-chat with Stéphane Kossmann, Photographer

Stéphane Kossmann could have been an American football player. He was built for it. Yet, he became an artist instead. Tall and almost bold, his looks are unmissable. His true strength is not his physical force, but his unique, sharp eye at people and objects, which he captures through the lenses of his Nikon camera. A selection of his work is currently exhibited in Deauville at the 2019 45^thAmerican Film Festival.

Kristen Stewart—the actress who performs the role of Jean Seberg in the eponymous upcoming movie and to whom the Deauville Festival will pay a special tribute, but also Catherine Deneuve—President of the Jury, Robert de Niro, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, and of course Michael Douglas—who romanced in Deauville in 1996 his wife Katherine Zeta-Jones—are all among the actors and actresses whose candid looks have been captured by Kossmann.

Deauville . Waiting For The Barbarians Photocall - 45th Deauville American Film Festival — Stéphane Kossmann and Johnny Depp at the 2019 American Film Festival | Deauviile | (c) Jacques Benaroch

Omowale

June 24, 2019June 25, 2019 by JC Agid Leave a comment

Omowale, The Child Has Come Home
Firechat with with Tope Fajingbesi Balogun, author and founder of United for Kids and of She-Eo
Member of the American Delegation to the 2019 Women in Africa Summit

The day Social Entrepreneur and Nigerian-born Tope Fajingbesi met with Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, she still thought she would end up working in the White House developing a project she calls Omowale (literally: the child has come home). The former accountant turned author, activist and serial entrepreneur is participating in the 2019 American delegation to the Women in Africa summit in Marrakech (June 27-28), along with former co-host of The View and lawyer Star Jones, Vital Voices President Alyse Nelson, media leader Ann Walker Marchant, Cartier Women’s Initiative Award North America judge and angel investor Birame Sock, Founder of Shea Radiance Funlayo Alabi, filmmaker Felicia Taylor, New York based ethical designer Ingrid Bruha and EBW founder Ingrid Vanderveldt among others (full list of delegates: check out http://www.wia-initiative.com/ and app).

A Requiem for a Car

April 6, 2019April 13, 2019 by JC Agid Leave a comment

A Requiem for a Car
Fire chat with Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, special guest of Art Paris 2019

A group of bicycles is carrying on their “shoulders a dead body made-of-steel,” moving a car through the large avenues and narrow streets of Paris to its final resting place right in front of Le Grand Palais, next to the Champs Elysées. “A Requiem for a Car,” a Jaguar to be exact, is a symbol of speed, power and wealth. This invitation to slow down a humanity obsessed with haste, consumerism, and individualism is Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero art installation to celebrate the 2019 edition of Art Paris. Romero, whose art has been exhibited throughout the world and is now part of the permanent collections in North and South American as well as European museums, plays here with some of her favorite themes: automobiles and globalization.

A spanish version of this interview with Bétsabée Romero was published online by First Class Life

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘ Joe Jackson | Body and Soul

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul