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N°119 - May 5, 2007
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WEEKLY
St-Barth
Local News
in English
Published by “Le Journal de Saint-Barth”
05 90 27 65 19 - [email protected]
Saint Barth Votes
For New French President
On Saturday
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SAINT BARTH VOTES
FOR NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT ON SATURDAY
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WELCOME!
The St. Barth
Weekly is happy to
be back for its
fourth season. The
Weekly is designed
to help you put your
finger on the pulse
of the local community. Featuring an
English résumé of
the top stories in
our French newspaper, Le Journal de
Saint Barth, as well
as original articles
in English, The St.
Barth Weekly is the
only completely
English-language
newspaper on the
island. It is distributed on the island
every week from
November through
the end of July. Our
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he final round of voting for a new French
president will take
place in Saint Barth on Saturday, May 5, the day before
voters go to the polls in metropolitan France on Sunday,
May 6. Former Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP,
right) is running against the
Socialist candidate Ségolène
Royal. In Saint Barth, 3,019
voters of the 4,701 registered took part in the primary on April 21, marking a
record high of 63.41%.
The right-wing candidate,
Nicolas Sarkozy, was the
leader in Saint Barth where
mayor Bruno Magras, official representative of the
UMP party on the island,
supports his campaign.
The polling places are open
from 8am to 8pm, and the
votes will be counted immediately thereafter. The individual results will be
announced in each of the
four locations, then the final
count will announced at City
Hall. Yet they cannot be
broadcast beyond the island
until 2pm the next day when
the polls close in France, and
at which time we will know
the identity of the new
French president who will
succeed Jacques Chirac.
Economy:
TOWARD THE CREATION OF
A NEW PROFESSIONAL STRUCTURE FOR SAINT BARTH
A
professional structure grouping all the
economic sectors on
the island: that is the basis
for a new organization that
will represent the various
interests of Saint Barth
(businesses, industry, artisans, sales, independent
workers, etc…) when the
new Overseas Collectivity is
created. This new structure
will replace the current
chamber of commerce and
industry in Guadeloupe
when it comes to defending
the economic interests of
island. The economic lead-
ers of the island came to this
decision after a series of
meetings last week. These
meetings helped define this
future inter-professional
chamber— its goals, its
legal status, its funding, and
operation.
Island
businessmen
expressed their desire
to have representation
specific to Saint Barth,
and separate from that
of Guadeloupe and
Saint Martin. During
the time it will take to
establish this new
structure, they will
meet regularly to continue building the project and start immediately to establish funding, and outline goals,
which include various
business rules and
regulations.
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Saint Barth Theatre Festival
CONTEMPORARY THEATRE HIGHLIGHTS THE 6TH EDITION
SB
Artists, a local nonprofit organization,
continues its exploration of theatrical genres with the
sixth edition of the annual Saint
Barth Theatre Festival. The theme
this year is the discovery of textbased contemporary theatre. Running from Friday, May 4 through
Sunday, May 13, this year’s festival
is the most modern to date, and also
the largest with six productions on
the menu: three by the amateur
actors of SB Artists, and three others
that have recently been performed in
France, and one of which, “L’envol
du Pingouin,” has been nominated
for a Molière Award (the French
equivalent of the Tony
Awards in the US) in the
best one-man show category. The schedule also
includes “Jerry Finnegan’s
Sister” (La sœur de Jerry
King) by American playwright Jack Neary, as well
as “Y’a des jours comme
ça,” a police comedy that
ran for several months at
Théâtre Le Mery, one of
the most popular café-theatres in Paris.
These professional productions augment those by SB
Artists, our local amateur
troupe led by Nadège
Emmanuelian, who also
organizes the festival. The
company has been hard at
work rehearsing for a few
months and Emmanuelian
says the plays are in good
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shape. She will perform “In Transit”
(Les pas perdus), a play by Denise
Bonal written in 2000. Seventeen
actors appear on stage one after the
other to sing, dance, tell stories,
slam… any form is good to portray
the mass of humanity passing by in a
train station. After performing in
“Inconnu à cette adresse,” during the
2005 festival, Charlotte and Corinne
are back in “Blanc,” a poignant text
in which two sisters have a vision
that their mother is going to die.
From life and death to humor in
“Joyeuse Pagaille,” a pure Vaudeville performed by six members of
SB Artists.
Saint Barth Theatre Festival
Schedule
❑ Saturday, May 5 : Les pas perdus
SB ARTISTS, 8pm,
La Capitainerie, Gustavia, 10 €.
❑ Sunday, May 6 : Y a des jours
comme ça!, Jean David Stepler &
Laurence Bussonne,
8pm, church hall next to Catholic
Church, Gustavia, 15€
❑ Monday, May 7
- 7:30pm - La soeur de Jerry King,
Arthur Jugnot & Cécilia Cara,
La Capitainerie, Gustavia, 15€
- 9:30pm - Y a des jours comme ça!,
Jean David Stepler & Laurence
Bussonne, church hall next to
Catholic Church, Gustavia, 15€
❑ Tuesday, May 8
- 6pm : Blanc, SB ARTISTS,
church hall next to Catholic
Church, Gustavia, 10 €
- 8pm : La soeur de Jerry King,
Arthur Jugnot & Cécilia Cara,
La Capitainerie, Gustavia, 15€
❑ Wednesday, May 9
L’envol du pingouin, Jean Jacques
Vanier, 8pm, La Capitainerie,15€
❑ Thursday, May 10
L’envol du pingouin, Jean Jacques
Vanier, 8pm, La Capitainerie, 15€
❑ Friday, May 11: Blanc, SB
ARTISTS, 8pm, church hall next
to Catholic Church, Gustavia, 10€
❑ Saturday, May 12 :
Joyeuse Pagaille, SB ARTISTS,
8pm, church hall next to Catholic
Church, Gustavia, 10€
❑ Sunday, May 13 : Les pas perdus,
SB ARTISTS, 8pm,
La Capitainerie, Gustavia, 10€
Res.: 06 90 41 84 17 / 06 90 41 86 48
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12th annual St. Barth Film Festival
The most intimist festival to date
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he 12th edition of
the St. Barth Film
Festival/ Cinéma
Caraïbe closed last Tuesday night with an additional screening of the documentary, Memories of Our
Past (De mémoire d’anciens), which tells the story
of Saint Barth through
memories of its older
natives. For film producer
Joshua Harrison, one of the
festival’s co-founders who
works on programming the
films each year, this was
one of the most intimist
festivals yet, with a selection of films focusing on
the issues of daily life: “In
the past 12 years we have
succeeded in taking a complete tour of Caribbean cinema, its various styles, its
particularities, its important
messages. This year’s festival looked more closely at
the daily life of people, as
if examining their environments through a microscope.”
This 12th edition also
marked a larger geographic
area, with three Latin
American films that fall
outside of the strict confines of Caribbean Cinema:
The Harder
They Come, The Best
Of Caribbean Cinema
The 12th edition of the St. Barth Film Festival was marked
by a personal style of filmmaking, delving into the daily
lives of such characters as the title role of Adolfo,
a frustrated taxi driver in Havana, Cuba.
Saudade do Futuro, Pan’s
Labyrinth, and Rolling
Family, the first Argentinean film shown at the
festival. This choice was
intentional notes Harrison,
as a means to highlight the
similarities that exist
between Caribbean culture
and that of certain Latin
American countries.
Following this line of logic,
some festival goers may
have had difficulty explaining the presence of Pan’s
Labyrinth, a magnificent
film crowned by three
Academy Awards (with six
nominations), and the first
Joshua Harrison, co-director of the St. Barth Film
Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe & Christopher Laird, director of
Gayelle TV in Trinidad & Tobago.
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fantasy/thriller film to be
shown at the festival: “The
filmmaker, Guillermo del
Toro, the producer, the
cameraman, are all Mexican. Only the casting is
international, yet at least
half of the actors are Mexican as well,” explains Harrison, who also wanted to
illustrate the increasing
importance of Mexican
filmmakers in the international film industry. “Like
many other Caribbean filmmakers, they often have to
leave their native country
and work elsewhere in
order to get established.”
The organizers of the St.
Barth Film Festival have a
special place in their
hearts for The Harder
They Come, which was
shown as part of the first
festival in 1996, and again
as part of this year’s program in tribute to its director, Perry Henzell, who
passed away in November
2006. For Joshua Harrison,
this 35 year-old landmark
Jamaican film, which
pushed the Caribbean and
reggae music onto the
international
scene,
remains “the quintessential
Caribbean film. There has
never been anything else
quite like it.”
Unless the long-awaited
sequel, No Place Like
Home, completed not long
before the director’s death,
proves to be better. “This
film will be released in the
United States, and we
hope there will be a version sub-titled in French
so that we can show it
here,” Harrison says.
From left to right: Renaud Denis-Jean, an actor from Martinique, with Alex Nabis, Janluk Stanislas, and Philippe Bon from
Guadeloupe during the 12th annual St Barth Film Festival
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New Rescue Boat
To Arrive In August
“On The Trail Of The Arawaks,”
Theme of the 6th Rotary Rally
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T
new rescue
boat
was
scheduled to
arrive this spring to
replace the Contre
Amiral Noël currently
in service in Saint
Barth, but its arrival
has been postponed
until the beginning of
August. This delay is
due to technical problems on another boat
in the same shipyard,
making it impossible
to meet the initial schedule.
To date, the hull has been
completed (as can be seen in
the photo), and the boat has
been moved to the technical
center for the SNSM
(National Rescue At Sea
Society) in Saint Malo on
the coast of Brittany in
France where the electronics
and motors will soon be
installed.
With a length of 35’ and two
330 hp engines this propeller-driven boat will be
able to reach a cruising
speed of 25 knots and is better adapted to tropical water
conditions than is the Contre
Amiral Noël whose hydro
jets cause problems on a
regular basis.
Rotten Tree Falls Close
to Piment Restaurant
I
n spite of one person
who was slightly
injured, the customers at
the Piment, a restaurant at
Villa Créole, were very
lucky last Sunday afternoon. It was a little after
1pm when the enormous
“quenetier” tree planted on
the other side of the road
suddenly fell in proximity
to their heads. A light gust
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of wind toppled the tree,
whose trunk turned out to
be completely rotten. It
took almost two hours for
a team of firemen and residents to clear the debris
and open the road. Fortunately traffic was not
backed up thanks to a
detour through a private
parking lot.
Source: corossol.info
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he 6th edition of
the Rotary Rally
took place on Sunday,
April 29, with all
monies raised, plus
funds from previous
activities, to go to a
charitable organization on the island. A
record number of 90
people took park in
this car rally around
the island that was
based on the theme of
the Arawaks, the first
inhabitants of Saint
Barth. Divided into
14 cars, the 14 teams
crisscrossed
the
island in search of
clues and riddles. The Based on the design of the bronze
winner was the team statue that will decorate the traffic
from Sibarth Real circle at La Tourmente, one of
Estate with 1508 the rally activities was to take
the photo of an Arawak.
points.
TIME OUT
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Where to go dancing? See an art exhibit?
Listen to live music? Time Out keeps you up to date on local happenings. Let’s party !
Special Events
◗ Saint Barth Theatre
Festival : Contemporary
Theatre highlights the 6th
edition : May 4-13
Live Music
cle, at 9pm, Restaurant “Z”,
Saint Jean
◗ Every Saturday & Sunday
Stephane, Sunset Concert
at 5:30pm,
Hotel Carl Gustav
◗ From Wednesday-Friday
Alan Landry on piano,
8pm, Le Gaïac,
Hotel Le Toiny
◗ From Tuesday-Friday
- Nadège, Sunset Concert,
5:30pm, Hotel Carl Gustav
Let’s
Party
◗ Saturday, May 5
◗ Every Evening
- Lounge mix, 7:30pmmidnight, Bar’tô,
Hôtel Guanahani
Grand Cul de Sac
◗ May 2-28
Causeway Duo
8:30pm-midnight,
BAZ, Gustavia
◗ Every Saturday
Cabaret night with spectacle, at 9pm, Restaurant “Z”,
Saint Jean
◗ Every Wednesday
Cabaret night with specta-
- World Music from 8pm at
Ti Zouk K'fé, Gustavia
◗ Sunday, May 6
- Creole BBQ with acoustic
music, La Marine
Restaurant, Gustavia
◗ Monday, May 7
- Marrakech evening,
mint tea and belly dancing,
Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou
◗ Tuesday, May 8
- Pirate Night, at Ti St
Barth, Pointe Milou
◗ Wednesday, May 9
- Ti Brother Party: A bottle
of Moet & Chandon for the
best costume. Fashion show
and dancing. Ti St Barth
◗ Thursday, May 10
- Night of the angels,
Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou
◗ Friday, May 11
- Latino party from 6pm
at Ti Zouk K'fé, Gustavia
◗ Friday & Saturday
Crazy Week end
& Fashion Show
Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou
Night
Club
◗ Every evening:
- Casa Nikki, Gustavia
- Yacht Club, Gustavia
- Bubbles Club, Gustavia
- Hot Spot café, Lurin
- Sexy pole dancing every
night after 1am, Yacht Club
Exhibitions:
Eve Ducharme Art Gallery
presents Philippe Bertho
◗ Alain le Chatelier,
Les Artisans, Gustavia
◗ Basile, Haitian painter,
Galerie Asie, Gustavia
◗ Philippe Bertho, Eve
Ducharme Art Gallery,
Toiny
◗ Through May 5
Ry Rocklen, renewal of
found objects, gallery
Me.di.um, Gustavia
◗ Nicola Hicks, Visual artist
Jane’s Gallery, Eden Rock
◗ Group Show : Women
photographers at to b.art
Gallery, Gustavia
◗ Permanent exhibits
- Michelle Marie (paintngs),
Hôtel Carl Gustaf, Gustavia
- Philippe Defruit (sculptures), Hôtel Carl Gustaf,
- Alain le Chatelier,
Les Artisans, Gustavia
- Pompi, Petit Cul de Sac
- Hannah Moser, Cul de Sac
- Antoine Heckly, Galerie
Indochine, Gustavia
◗ Art Galleries
- Eve Ducharme Art Gallery
(appointment only), Toiny
- To-b.art galerie, Gustavia
- Me.di.um galerie, Gustavia
- Didier Spindler galerie,
Gustavia
- Pipiri Boutique, Gustavia
Fashion
shows:
◗ Everyday:
- 1:30-2pm: Hôtel Isle de
France boutique, Flamands
- 3:30-7:30: Geisha Vampire,
La Plage, Saint Jean
ED uvceh a r m e
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presents Sophie
Leclanche
By appointment only - Located in Toiny
Tel.: 05 90 27 88 41
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