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For the 25th edition of the Festival Écritures des Amériques, the Saint-B'Art association welcomed writers Charmaine Wilkerson and Thibault de Montaigu to Saint-Barthélemy. On Wednesday November 26 and Thursday November 27, the two authors met Mireille Choisy's schoolchildren and readers from across the island for an evening of encounters and exchanges at the Musée du Brigantin in Gustavia.
Charmaine Wilkerson and Thibault de Montaigu with Hotel Le Manapany manager Kader Bendjeddah, Christian Hardelay from the Saint-B'Art association and elected representative Bettina Cointre.
As they do every year, Christian Hardelay, Corinne Hennequin and the volunteers from the Saint-B'Art association made sure that their guests to ensure that their guests enjoy the most favourable environment in which to express their art and thoughts. Always a delicate undertaking, but one for which the organizers were able to count on the loyal partnership of the Hôtel Le Manapany in L'Anse des Cayes.
Charmaine Wilkerson and Thibault de Montaigu went to meet the schoolchildren.
As soon as they arrived on the island on Wednesday November 26, the authors set off to meet the schoolchildren. They were able to talk to 4th and 3rd graders, sometimes literally transporting them into their own world. Pupils in the bilingual class were able to practise what they had learnt by talking to Charmaine Wilkerson, an American writer who grew up in Jamaica and has been living in Rome, Italy, for almost twenty years.
On Wednesday evening, Charmaine Wilkerson and Thibault de Montaigu welcomed the public from Saint-Barthélemy to the Brigantin garden in a hushed, friendly atmosphere. Emmanuelle Astier's questions and Phil Kin's translations punctuated the discussions.
