Aix-en-Provence

experience with my mom taking people to Europe as a kid.

And Europe came to me as a child because she did exchanges with some very close friends in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.

And we didn't exchange for them for several years.

So my mom would bring students there and they would come here because our friend Wendy is from North Dakota and her husband is French.

I mean, I am not an opera expert by any stretch of the definition, but like I've been like educating myself and we went to this.

We had like a libretto workshop and I'd like the biggest opera festival in the world in Aix-en-Provence in France.

We like went to do this like workshop with a bunch of other like libretto writers and people in the midst of developing things.

It really it blew my mind meeting these people.

Aux États-Unis, une dynamique à Paris.

On va à Aix-en-Provence, je, je rencontre des Libanais.

Enfin, voilà.

Et c'est cette famille qui est très intéressante parce que je ne l'ai pas retrouvée, moi qui voyage beaucoup, je ne l'ai pas du tout retrouvée avec d'autres nationalités.

Autre date à noter jeudi quinze octobre deux mille vingt-six, le hard rock psychédélique venu de Suède de Hellas avec Halftongue au Dodu.

L'auteur, compositeur, interprète canadien Fred sera à l'Espace Julien et DJ Crush au Sismique à Aix-en-Provence.

Plugging Live.

Le lendemain, vendredi seize octobre deux mille vingt-six, Venuan à l'Espace Julien et Blossom au Makeda.

France.

So I went to university first here in Ireland and then I went over to France and studied in Aix-en-Provence in the south.

And I have a really strong affiliation with France.

And, you know, I've been working since I was 14 years old.

That's the first time I kind of felt... didn't feel threatened they probably did just want us to sit up and have drinks but also like don't flip and bang my door down but anyway were you the

only girls like the only female yes

we're the only females in the whole boat so like anyway the next morning I think we just went like went to sleep or whatever didn't feel really threatened but I just remember thinking oh my god like thank god this door can be locked um and then you know so we arrived there and I think The drivers took us as far as maybe Bordeaux and then we had to get from Bordeaux down to Aix-en-Provence and I think we hitched, I can't remember.

But I did previously hitch across France when I was 18 or something, never told my mum.

He has become a prominent voice against drug crime and was elected deputy mayor of Marseille this year.

Five men with alleged ties to the Marseille-based DZ Mafia will go on trial in Aix-en-Provence over Brahim's murder.

They deny the charges, and the three-week hearing is expected to examine allegations that powerful gang leaders can order killings from jail.

Casacci argues that young people are drawn into drug dealing, by false promises of easy money, and exposed violence.

Germany, depending on whether you like hearty rye bread or soft, fluffy white bread.

Yeah, I think I was in Aix-en-Provence.

I love

dropping names.

So I was in Aix-en-Provence with a friend, and I would get up every morning and walk to the bakery and wait for that rye sourdough bread to come out of the oven.

Yeah.

And it was just so good.

They're just, just kinda angry young people.

And the reality is, if you talk to these students, uh, like I have in the streets in Marseille, in, in Aix-en-Provence, uh, and elsewhere, they actually have a pretty clear and cogent list of, of demands, and those have been coming up over and over again in the protests.

So one, the buildings, right? That's been a huge issue.

Um, it's also been about the lack of staff.

You know, they have...

Yeah, great audience.

I mean, no, I, I, I heard that talking to students in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence.

Um, you have basically, just quickly, you have this admissions platform that high school students have to apply to in order to get into universities, and it's called Parcoursup, and the main critique is that it's extremely, uh, not transparent.