“CREATION AND SWIMMING” MEETING AT THE POOL MUSEUM

« CRÉATION ET NATATION » RENCONTRE AU MUSÉE DE LA PISCINE

Saturday, October 1, 3 p.m. - Free

What is the link between writing, artistic creation and swimming?
Does swimming allow you to better create, invent, imagine?

A meeting between:

Nathalie Azoulai is a novelist. She has published ten novels including Titus disliked Bérénice, winner of the Prix Médicis in 2015. Her latest novel, also selected for numerous awards, is entitled La Fille parfait and is published by POL editions. Among other things, this novel features a woman who practices mermaid swimming in a pool. His novels have been translated into several languages. She is a member of the Femina jury. She has been swimming since 2004.

Anne Sophie Gomez, Doctor of Germanic Studies (literature specialty), since 2008 Lecturer at Clermont Auvergne University. She is the creator and editor of the “aquacult” research blog devoted to the representations of swimming pools in art and culture. In this context, it contributes to the work of the association “Ecrire le sport“

Colombe Schneck is the author of a dozen novels and stories, including La Tendresse du crawl (Grasset and Livre de poche). She wrote with her sister the artist Marine Schneck, Paris à la nage, a guide to Parisian swimming pools (Allary and My little Paris). She is also a journalist, documentary filmmaker and swimmer since 2016.

Marine Schneck is an artist, cook, graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Swimming, which she considers her second office, helps her concentrate better, organize her thoughts and draw. She is co-author of Paris à la nage for which she designed the forty-six public swimming pools of Paris. She has been swimming for twenty years.

Hélène Boulanger, creator of the Chlore brand.

From 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Daniel Motte auditorium.

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