Tintin Festival 2009 will be held in Namur
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The INA archives at the Namur Festival
tintin festival - The 2009 Tintin Festival 2009 will be held in Namur
20th April 2009
We have already let you know about the collaboration between the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA, National Audiovisual Institute) and Moulinsart s.a. Several projects are ongoing; we will have the opportunity to keep you up to date with them exclusively on tintin.com.
So as to give a taste of the rich material contained within these archives, a fifty minute ‘best of’ selection will be screened at the Caméo 2 cinema in Namur, during the Tintin Festival on 8, 9 and 10 May 2009.
This is an opportunity to (re)discover some of the hidden aspects of Hergé’s personality. He was not very forthcoming in interviews, except on occasions where he found himself on the same wavelength as his interviewer. It is the latter dynamic that we come across in these audiovisual archives, which are important documentary sources.
For further details, check the schedule of the Tintin Festival in Namur
http://www.tintin.com/uk/kiosque/actus/festival2009/festival.html
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Benoit LUTGEN, the Minister of Tourism for Wallonia, the town of Namur and the Studios Hergé will collaborate in the organisation of the third Tintin Festival, which will take place from Friday 8th May to Sunday 10th May 2009.
Slowly but surely, the Tintin Festival, is establishing itself as an international event, held every two years. In 2005, the first Tintin Festival was held in Brussels, Lausanne followed in 2007, and next year's hosts will be Namur, who may be succeeded by a town outside Europe. The potential host cities are starting to submit their bids, all suggestions are welcome.
It will be a convival festival which has something for everyone, families, adults, children, and the very knowledgeable Tintinophile Associations.
Each Tintin Festival allows us to discover of rediscover the town and its surroudings.
This time the third Tintin Festival in Namur, puts the spotlight on Wallonia and its Capital.
- The unveiling of a commemorative bronze plaque featuring an effigy of Tintin.
- The launching of the book of The Castafiore Emerald in the local dialect.
- An exhibition and a rally featuring cars drawn by Hergé.
- An exhibition about the unknown aspects of the work of the Studios Hergé, such as the restoration of Hergé's original work - the unique opportunity discover, amongst other rarities, the original artwork from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
- A gastronomic journey in Namur, with the theme: Tintin and international cuisine, (...and from the Moon!).
- A track event, a soap box course, a Tintin shop, an internation convention for the Tintinophile Associations, a marathon screening of the Tintin films and the animated cartoons, a flea market, a reading of The Castafiore Emerald in the local dialect, a recital of The Suite Tintin, performed by the composer the Swedish cellist, Mats Lidsttom, and a fancy dress ball, will ensure an unforgetable weekend for the thousands of visitors who will attend. The first Tintin Festival in Brussels attracted more than 20,000 visitors per day.
Children will join at the festival, by our four legged friends, for whom there will be two contests, a Snowy look-a-like competition, and a contest to find the smartest dog. The highlight of the Tintin Festival in Namur will be the unveiling of Professor Calculus's rocket.
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*** Tintin festival has officially ended yesterday ! ***
SUNDAY 10 MAY 2009
Tintin auction breaks record
The sale in Namur, southern Belgium, of almost 600 lots associated with Herge and comic hero Tintin raised 1,172,00 euros, including charges, a world record for Herge-associated items according to an expert
AFP - Tintin mania swept a Belgian auction house on Sunday with almost 600 lots associated with Herge, creator of the famous cartoon reporter, breaking national and world sales records, an expert said.
The sale in Namur, southern Belgium, dominated by five large hand-drawn pages of original cartoon strips, raised 1,172,000 euros (1.57 million dollars), including charges, -- a world record for Herge-associated items and a cartoon strip book record in Belgium, said Thibaut Van Houtte, an expert on hand for the Rops auction house sale.
"It went well over even our upper pre-auction estimate of 650,000 euros," he said.
The buyers came from all over Europe, as well as the United States, Lebanon and China.
However, Van Houtte was happy to say, the two highest-selling pages were bought by an anonymous Belgian collector.
The lot which the collector paid the most for was a hand-drawn page featuring Tintin, his faithful terrier Snowy and his crusty old sea-dog companion Captain Haddock made for the 1963 book "The Castafiore Emerald" which went for a total of 312,5000 euros, over three times its catalogue estimate, Van Houtte said.
The same collector also picked up a page of original drawings, including a spectacular car crash, as seen in the 1956 "The Calculus Affair".
The boy reporter -- the most loved figure in cartoon-mad Belgium's history -- first appeared on January 10, 1929 bound for the Soviet Union, in a supplement to the Roman Catholic Brussels weekly, Le Vingtieme Siecle.
It has been a long career that the death in 1983 of his creator, Georges Remi -- alias Herge -- has not compromised, with his descendants refusing to hand over the rights to Tintin. -
I didn't know got such festival... lol...