Twenty eight shows this season at Princess Grace Theater

Photo: Charly Gallo/ Direction de la Communication
Photo: Charly Gallo/ Direction de la Communication

In the presence of Patrice Cellario, Minister of the Interior, and Jean-Charles Curau, Director of Cultural Affairs, the 2016-2017 season of the Princess Grace Theatre has just been revealed by Françoise Gamerdinger, Deputy Director of Cultural events.

The new calendar will feature no less than 28 shows and numerous renowned actors including Pierre Arditi, Daniel Mesguich, Fanny Ardant, Chantal Ladesou, Laetitia Casta, Patrick Timsit, Niels Arestrup and Kad Merad, among many others.

The season will open on Tuesday, September 26, with “L’être ou pas”, with Pierre Arditi and Daniel Russo. Among the highlights: “Edmond” by Alexis Michalik, who won five Moliere prizes in 2017; “Croque-monsieur,” with Fanny Ardant; and in collaboration with the Prince Pierre de Monaco Foundation, “Just released”, with Jean-Paul Bordes, winner of a Molière in 2017 for actor in a supporting role.

In addition, this year, during one week, the Theatre will host Thomas Le Douarec, who will adapt and stage “L’Idiot” by Fiodor Dostoïevski, something to be discovered by a Monaco audience on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 8:30 pm.

“Fools are not what they were”, after Raymond Devos with Elliot Jenicot of the Comédie-Française, will close the season on May 17.

Complete programme, information and rates at: www.tpgmonaco.mc.

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Monaco welcomes new ambassador from Qatar

L-R: HE Petr Drulak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic; HE Qëndrim Gashi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo; Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar; and HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Photo: Charly Gallo/Communication Directorate
L-R: HE Petr Drulak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic; HE Qëndrim Gashi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo; Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar; and HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Photo: Charly Gallo/Communication Directorate

On Thursday, June 22, Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, hosted a luncheon at the Hermitage Hotel for a clutch of new ambassadors to Monaco.

The four new ambassadors are: HE Qëndrim Gashi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo; HE Petr Drulak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic; HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar and HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uruguay.

In the morning the four diplomats presented their credentials to HSH the Sovereign Prince.

HE Qëndrim Gashi is the Founder of the Kosovo Mathematical Society. In 2011, he was appointed Foreign Affairs Advisor to the President of the Republic, and subsequently became a member of the Board of Directors of Pro Credit Kosovo Bank, the Kosovo American Education Fund, and the Council of State on Quality.

After several years at the Institute of International Relations in 2004, HE Petr Drulak joined the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2014, where he served as Deputy Minister, Political Secretary and Director of the Minister’s Office.

HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri joined Qatar’s Consular Affairs Directorate in 1987 and the Information and Research Directorate in 1998, where he moved up the ranks before being appointed Acting Director in 2001. He then served successively as Defence Coordinator, Director of European and American Affairs, Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Director of European Affairs.

Doctor of Medicine, Science and Human Biology, HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte pursues a scientific and medical curriculum, notably as Director of Research at the CNRS in 1992, Head of the Department of Pathophysiology and then Executive Director of the Institut Pasteur. He was promoted to Ambassador in 2015. He is the founder of the Uruguayan Society of Haematology.

 

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Young athletes take part in Olympic Day

Photo: Manuel Vitali/Direction de la Communication
Photo: Manuel Vitali/Direction de la Communication

The Monaco Olympic Committee invited athletes from the Monaco sports federations to take part in Olympic Day on Wednesday, on the athletics track at Stade Louis II.

The Sovereign Prince, a former Olympian himself, and the Secretary General of the Monegasque Olympic Committee, HE Yvette Lambin-Berti, were present and took part in the festivities.

During her welcome speech, HE Lambin-Berti stressed the importance of the education of young athletes with Olympic values and respect for healthy and honest sport.

Young athletes were able to meet Monegasque Olympians and to hear about their sporting experiences and the impact of Olympic values on their daily lives.

The Monegasque Anti-Doping Committee, also associated with the event, presented an overview of its activities and its role in sensitising young athletes to the importance of the fight against this global scourge.

The Olympic Committee had opened its archives for the event, and the young athletes were able to carry the Olympic torches from Rio, Sochi, London and Turin. The end of the day was also an opportunity for the young athletes to participate in a symbolic race over 200 metres.

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France, Italy and Monaco in joint pollution exercise

The plastic oceans

ramogepol boatMembers of the RAMOGE Agreement held a joint anti-pollution exercise on June 14, organised by the Maritime Prefecture of the Mediterranean in Aspretto, in the Gulf of Ajaccio.

French naval vessels, Jason and Persevero, and the Abeille Flandre, a tug from the port of Ajaccio, were at the heart of the exercise, which was to contain an oil spill simulated by non-toxic and biodegradable rice bark.

The Mimosa was tasked with recovering the polluting products. A gendarmerie helicopter flew over the area to help locate the “pollution.”

Since the catastrophe of the oil tanker Haven off Genoa on April 14, 1991, the RAMOGE agreement has been committed to the implementation of the RAMOGEPOL plan in the fight against catastrophic marine pollution.

Every year at least one exercise is carried out to test the know-how of the three countries’ pollution control units and to check on the interoperability between various pollution measures in a coastal zone.

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