FEAST OR FAMINE

  Visual artist Malika Lazaar is exhibiting her works –  the art of recovery and recycling in hospitals and elsewhere  – in the town hall of the 6 th  arrondissement in Paris.   Paris-based Malika Lazaar is a nurse-anaesthetist in the paediatric and gynaecological operating room at Trousseau Hospital.    She is also an art therapist and recycler – recovering all sorts of materials and recycling them into her art. She gives a second life to objects around the hospital that would otherwise be discarded. Focusing on the bright and cheerful, she repurposes and refashions them into vibrant artworks – not only to brighten the lives of the mothers and children she cares for, but for everyone who enjoys the atypical, imaginative, and innovative works she creates.   The exhibition will be held from 11 April to 5 May 2025. 

Binturong - Paris Zoo, February 2024

  Angry French farmers drove their tractors in protest into the streets of Paris on Friday 23 February 2024 – on the eve of the Paris Agricultural Fair, one of the world’s largest farm fairs. French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the Paris Agricultural Fair on Saturday for the “big debate” with farmers, supermarket managers, and environmental groups. The farmers are peacefully, but noisily, demanding more government support and simpler regulations.    Carrying the farmers’ union flags of “Rural Coordination” into the suburbs of western Paris, the protestors headed towards the Vauban Plaza in central Paris. The protest is three weeks after the farmers lifted roadblocks around Paris and the countryside after the government offered over 400 million euros (USD $433 million) to address their grievances over low earnings, strict regulations, and competition from abroad.    This current protest is part of a broader protest movement in Europe against the European ...