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Radio Live

Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin

RADIO PERFORMANCE

NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2 at 7:30pm

FIAF Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street, NYC

Weaving together powerful storytelling, spontaneous illustration, documentary video, and live music, Radio Live brings together inspirational personal narratives from around the world into a dynamic new form of theatrical journalism.

Since 2011, popular podcast and French radio hosts Aurélie Charon and Caroline Gillet have been interviewing young activists from Algiers, Moscow, Tehran, Istanbul, Sarajevo, and Tel Aviv about their hopes for the future and how they are realizing their dreams. Created in 2013, Radio Live paints a portrait of a new generation of change makers by bringing these voices together on stage to share personal stories and revelations. Amélie Bonnin’s contemporaneous illustration and video, along with live music accompaniment, combine for a unique radio-performance that frames moving conversations about harnessing the power of social change within a lively and experimental setting.

For Radio Live's New York premiere, Charon and Gillet have invited activists including Ines Tanovic-Sijercic, a Bosnian War survivor who is fighting against ethnic division in Sarajevo, and Gaza-born poet Amir Hassan, to share their moving experiences. Antonio Alarcon, a NYC-based immigration activist from Mexico will also join this rousing multi-media event.

105 min
In English

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Individual Tickets
FIAF Members $25
Non-Members $35
Students & Under 30: $15
CTL 2-Pack
FIAF Members: $65
Non Members: $80
Students / Under 30: $50

Discounted package includes a ticket to Opening Night, Thu, Sep 12–Sat, Sep 14, plus a ticket to your choice of one of these shows: Isadora Duncan on Wed, Sep 25, Radio Live on Wed, Oct 2, or When Birds Refused to Fly on Thu, Oct 10. All shows are at 7:30pm.
View Production Credits
Conception: Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, Amélie Bonnin
With Ines Tanovic-Sijercic (Sarajevo) and Sumeet Samos (New Delhi) and 2 local NYC activists and musicians
Image creation: Amélie Bonnin
Scenic writing: Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin
Scenic installation: Pia de Compiègne
Production: Mathilde Gamon - radio live production
Co-production: MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis

With the support of the Institut français and the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès

Amélie Bonnin
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Aurélie Charon
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Caroline Gillet
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Radio Live clockwise 1 & 2 © Lou Rambert-Preiss, 3 © Louise Quignon
Artists © Céline Saby

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Package includes a ticket to Cyril Teste's Opening Night (Thu-Sat, Sep 12-14) plus a discounted ticket to a second show of your choice at FIAF. Select from Jérôme Bel's Isadora Duncan (Wed, Sep 25), Aurélie Charon's Radio Live (Wed, Oct 2), and Olivier Tarpaga's When Birds Refused to Fly (Thu, Oct 10). All shows are at 7:30pm.

Steps to purchase:

  • Buy your ticket for Opening Night. On the Ticketmaster ticket page, click on the displayed ticket price to open additional ticket options. Select one of the 2-pack options and place your order.
  • Email boxoffice@fiaf.org with the name & date of your preferred second show. Make sure to include your Opening Night Ticketmaster order number.

Amélie Bonnin

Artistic director, screenwriter, and director, Amélie Bonnin works at the intersection of many disciplines including writing, animation, and drawing. For four years, she did live drawing of the guests at France Culture’s L’Atelier intérieur, as well as the rehearsals of the play Actrice at the Bouffes du Nord. She directed La mélodie du boucher (Arte, 2013) a 52-minute documentary about her uncle, a small village butcher and charcutier on the verge of retirement; and she co-directed with Aurélie Charon La bande des Français (France 3, 2017). Bonnin attended the Atelier Scénario de la Fémis. She is working on her first short fiction film.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Caroline Gillet

Caroline Gillet is a journalist and producer for Radio France. Born in 1984, she studied contemporary history in Brussels and journalism at Sciences Po, Paris. Her work involves the questions of communication between generations and cultures. For France Inter, she created I Like Europe, chronicling the words of a generation from Porto to Riga. In 2014, she launched Tea Time Club, followed by a series of portraits called À ton âge. Since 2017, she has presented the chronicle Babelophone on France Inter, featuring interviews of youth from around the world every Saturday night. She has collaborated on the podcast Transfert from Slate. She currently presents Foule Continentale, also documenting the lives of young Europeans, every Sunday on France Inter.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Aurélie Charon

Aurélie Charon (b. 1985) has spent seven years directing a radio documentary series on youth, the first three with Caroline Gillet. Over the past years, she has continued to conduct research around activism in undemocratic places: Underground Democracy (France Inter in Tehran, Gaza, Moscow, and Algeria, 2014). She has followed the work of French youth through the radio programs Une série française (France Inter, 2015) and Jeunesse 2016 (France Culture, 2016), as well as the film La Bande des Français(France 2, 2017), directed with Amélie Bonnin. She regularly collaborates with Libération. For the past seven years, she has presented the hour-long France Culture radio program Une vie d’artiste, about contemporary creation featuring in-studio performances.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Amélie Bonnin

Artistic director, screenwriter, and director, Amélie Bonnin works at the intersection of many disciplines including writing, animation, and drawing. For four years, she did live drawing of the guests at France Culture’s L’Atelier intérieur, as well as the rehearsals of the play Actrice at the Bouffes du Nord. She directed La mélodie du boucher (Arte, 2013) a 52-minute documentary about her uncle, a small village butcher and charcutier on the verge of retirement; and she co-directed with Aurélie Charon La bande des Français (France 3, 2017). Bonnin attended the Atelier Scénario de la Fémis. She is working on her first short fiction film.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Aurélie Charon

Aurélie Charon (b. 1985) has spent seven years directing a radio documentary series on youth, the first three with Caroline Gillet. Over the past years, she has continued to conduct research around activism in undemocratic places: Underground Democracy (France Inter in Tehran, Gaza, Moscow, and Algeria, 2014). She has followed the work of French youth through the radio programs Une série française (France Inter, 2015) and Jeunesse 2016 (France Culture, 2016), as well as the film La Bande des Français(France 2, 2017), directed with Amélie Bonnin. She regularly collaborates with Libération. For the past seven years, she has presented the hour-long France Culture radio program Une vie d’artiste, about contemporary creation featuring in-studio performances.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Caroline Gillet

Caroline Gillet is a journalist and producer for Radio France. Born in 1984, she studied contemporary history in Brussels and journalism at Sciences Po, Paris. Her work involves the questions of communication between generations and cultures. For France Inter, she created I Like Europe, chronicling the words of a generation from Porto to Riga. In 2014, she launched Tea Time Club, followed by a series of portraits called À ton âge. Since 2017, she has presented the chronicle Babelophone on France Inter, featuring interviews of youth from around the world every Saturday night. She has collaborated on the podcast Transfert from Slate. She currently presents Foule Continentale, also documenting the lives of young Europeans, every Sunday on France Inter.

Radio Live
Aurélie Charon, Caroline Gillet, and Amélie Bonnin
RADIO PERFORMANCE
NY Premiere
Wed, Oct 2
FIAF Florence Gould Hall