Phil Cousineau & Mort Rosenblum - Paris Literary & Culinary Tour (June 2011) Information Night!

Free Event - Open to the Public
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Come to Paris with Book Passage!
Join Phil Cousineau and Mort Rosenblum as they share highlights for the upcoming Paris tour they are leading on June 19-30, 2011: We’ll Always Have Paris: A Peripatetic, Poetic and Sweet walking, literary, and culinary tour of Paris.

Tour Paris with Phil Cousineau &
Mort Rosenblum!

Join us for a creative adventure into the cultural riches of Paris. This is more than just a tour—it’s an opporunity to exercise and enhance your creative abilities with two writers who know Paris well. You’ll be working each day with Mort Rosenblum, an award-winning journalist and freelance writer, and Phil Cousineau, an acclaimed writer, filmmaker and dream weaver.

Each morning focuses on an aspect of Parisian life, from literature and art, to film, architecture, music, dance or cuisine. Some highlights include: talks and tea at Shakespeare & Company; a private chocolate tasting with reticent Jacques Genin; a movable feast lunch on rue de Seine; a seminar and lunch aboard Mort Rosenblum’s teak boat docked in the center of Paris; tours of the Louvre, le Musée d’Orsay, Magnum Photo Gallery, Cinematheque Française, Père Lachaise cemetery, weekly farmer’s markets, the Marais, Victor Hugo’s home on Place des Vosges, and more. Also included are two full-day pilgrimages out of Paris to Chartres cathedral and to Monet’s home and gardens in Giverny.

But it’s in the afternoons when the creative effort begins, as students will work on their own stories, essays, sketches, songs, and other activities—all of it under the tutelage of the two tour leaders. In the evenings, the group will gather together to exchange presentations and thoughts about the day’s work. For students, the impact of this trip could extend well beyond the ten days spent in Paris. The goal of the tour guides is to work with each student and help create the beginnings of a publishable work.

More information at this link.