Haitian author Gaëlle Bien-Aimé is the winner of the Francophone writing residency "Afriques-Haiti 2022". She will be hosted in residence in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France) for 3 months.

Reception in the network of regional residences :

February 10 to March 3, 2022, at the Maison des Ecritures in La Rochelle https://www.larochelle.fr/action-municipale/ville-culturelle/la-maison-des-ecritures

4 to 30 March 2022, at the House of Authors in Limoge https://www.lesfrancophonies.site/Maison-des-auteurs

March 30 to May 3, 2022 at the Prévôté in Bordeaux https://alca-nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/fr/residences/la-prevote

Biography :

Gaëlle Bien-Aimé is a journalist, actress, humorist, body and voice teacher at Acte, École d'Art Dramatique which she co-founded in 2018. She is also an artist, columnist journalist and member of the Feminist Organization "Nègès Mawon". In 2006, she joined "Le Petit Conservatoire, school of theater and speech arts" where she spent three years studying the performing arts. Then in 2010 she began to follow courses in Ethnodrama "Theatre and Ritual" at ESACT, School of Cinema and Theater Actor in Liège, Belgium. In November 2015, she took intensive training in humor at the National School of Humor in Montreal. Gaëlle has to her credit 4 plays, 2 monologues and a stand-up show.

Project in residence :

"Port-au-Prince and its sweet night" takes the journey of a city through a night and the time of a couple in love who a few years ago were able to walk at night, to love each other in a broken city, but who the evening, still left room for the dream of a better tomorrow. The piece subtly deals with the impossibility of living in the country, speaks of the unsustainable security situation at the moment through words of love. How to love each other in a collapsing city ? How to love his city and consider his imminent departure so as not to die ? The situation in Port-au-Prince has separated families, colleagues, couples. The rest of the country suffers from this sucker capital which unfortunately is the heart of economic life. The wave of migration that accelerated after the earthquake of January 12, 2010 and today is proof that Haitians are experiencing a disaster. This piece is a declaration of love to this city, this country.

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