For the 17th edition of the Journées de la culture (27 and 29 September 2013) , workshops and activities for families are planned at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in .

Friday September 27 to Monday, October 7 :

Draw Me a planet! – Mural available from 11AM to 5PM Promenade des Studios Art & Éducation Michel de la Chenelière – Pavillon Jean-Noël Desmarais

Sunday, September 29

–  » Words and me  » the Little Prince tree of stars at 1.30 PM – at Jean -Noël Desmarais Pavilion

From reading excerpts from the Little Prince , some words may come to mind . Can you use them to create a drawing ? In this activity, the Museum offers families to choose words that inspire their designs . These will then be hung in the Little Prince tree of stars!

– The seven planets of the Little Prince From 2PM to 4PM – Starting point : Jean- Noël Desmarais

Imagine the Little Prince walking in the Museum, discovering the treasures on display in each room . From this visit, he selects seven works he decides to allocate to each of the 7 planets he visited ! The Museum offers to take part in this lively course designed especially for the occasion. Discover the planets the Little Prince visited, and their fantastic stories !

– The Little Prince and calligraphy from 11AM to 5PM – Promenade des Studios Art & Éducation Michel de la Chenelière – Pavillon Jean-Noël Desmarais

Calligraphy is an art ! A practical workshop led by experienced calligraphers will allow you to try calligraphy, inspired by the text of the Little Prince . In addition, a demonstration of illumination allows you to discover its secrets. At the end of this activity, leave with your own favorites calligraphy, it is offered !

– The Little Prince and watercolor From 11AM to 5PM – Promenade des Studios Art & Éducation Michel de la Chenelière – Pavillon Jean-Noël Desmarais

In this unique workshop, ten watercolorists paint live works inspired by the story of the Little Prince, with music ! Come meet these talented artists and share your impressions on the works exhibited throughout this activity.

Find all the information to plan your visit on the museum site .

From September 30 to November 3, The Little Prince will be in Ribeirao Preto, at the Iguatemi Shopping Center.

Watch his new adventures in a 3D animated series, displayed on a giant wall !

Enjoy many workshops, games and fun in this new exhibition !

Practical Information:

Place – Iguatemi Shopping

City – Ribeirao Preto

Period – 30/09 to 03/11

Free entrance !

Welcome in Colombia Little Prince !

Panamerica Editorial, the publisher, announced  the release of the first 3 Little Prince comics in Colombia.

The first comic, Planet of the wind, will be released at the beginning of October, shortly followed by the other 2.

Discover here the covers !

Planet of the Wind

Planet of the Firebird

Planet of Music

Today, it’s Fan Art Friday !

We received some wonderful landscapes…

Arsdraw

Artquid

But they would be so empty if the Little Prince didn’t live in these !

Yeye Jeong

Helsa Amadi

David Gilson

Elle duPomme

Erik K

Stasia Burrington

Park Me Suk

Thank you very much for participated !

If you want to send your picture, just post it on Facebook , with the tag  : #fanartfriday.

Bam Astilla

Laetitia

Magali Talulla Rul

Marylène Le Bihan

Morgan Milburn

Narcis Halilović

Pierre-Alek

Tony Muniz Anjos Da Medula

Louis David Orlando Heerasing

To celebrate the 70 th anniversary of the Little Prince, the TV channel TéléQuébec set several operations with the Little Prince TV series

The channel has already met the little fans, at the Montréal Escales Improbables, where a huge participatory mural was made ​​available to children.

But that’s not all: TéléQuébec began rebroadcasting the first two seasons of the animated series The Little Prince on September 14. Rendez-vous on Saturday and Sunday afternoons!.

In this series, The Little Prince, accompanied by his faithful friend Renard, have to save the world, and every planet, from the clutches of the vile Serpent. It is through his correspondence with his Rose that young viewers follow their adventures from planet to planet. Each is marked by the discovery of the diversity that makes the beauty of the universe.

TéléQuébec is pleased to join the Succession Antoine de Saint-Exupery to celebrate the anniversary of this bright-hearted Little Prince.

You now know that the little Prince is Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite  book. What you may not know yet is that the director has proven its commitment to this masterwork several times, being involved in various projects.
 
Written in 2006 to accompany the album Drawings, watercolors, pastels, pens and pencils of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the preface of Hayao Miyazaki, is a treasure of emotion.
 
He did not know the author, who died when he was 3 years old. His emotion at this drawings comes from a meeting with « an exceptional person » meets « miraculous moments that crystallize in a visible form, the spirit of their author. »
 
Hayao Miyazaki portrays a « diamond. » « A rough stone that neither modes nor the turbulence of the times can not reach, does not age. »
It compares the Little Prince pilot, who « attempted to take off our star, and after many failures, many injuries, finally succeeded in the Mediterranean, to fulfill this desire. »
As a good creator of animated images, Hayao Miyazaki finishes his text describing a scene that seems to come to life in front of our eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flying his Breguet 14 flies over the Canal du Midi to Alicante. We follow a machine whose wings are made of wood, cloth and wire. It beckons us to his cabin. His plane flies away, becoming smaller before disappearing.
 
« Initiating our descent into this world, we feel then, more clearly than before, his presence … ».

Aviation is a very present theme in his films. It is quite easy to see a connection with Antoine de Saint-Exupery. « Kaze Tachinu » his eleventh feature film, applauded after its screening at the Venice Film Festival, is already released this summer in Japan, where he met a great success.

It chronicles the life of an aeronautical engineer who actually existed, Jiro Horikoshi, designer of Mitsubishi « Zero » planes, flagship of the Japanese air force during the Second World War.
The little Jiro dreams of planes and draw inspiration from those of the Italian designer Italo Caproni. He can not become a pilot because of his myopia, so he joined the aerospace division of a famous multinational company in 1927 and became one of the most brilliant designers of the world. He falls in love with Nahoko, a young woman he met when he was a teenager, saving her life ….

His film, full of intense poetry and references or allusions to European culture, takes the viewer in a metaphor of life facing an uncertain future: « The wind rises, it must try to live » , repeats the hero in french, quoting Paul Valéry.

A few days ago, a special message landed in the mailbox of the Facebook page of The Little Prince.

The author, Alan Mayer is the purser on Europe Airpost airline.

I always thought it was natural and desirable that the Little Prince found, if not his planet, the universe that his father had loved: the Aeropostale. He is at home.

Indeed, Europe Airpost was still called Aeropostale few years ago … The Aeropostale is where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made ​​his classes. As the Europe Airpost pilots, he carried mail across the seas. If Antoine de Saint Exupéry was still with us today, he would be in charge of one of our Boeing 737. In fact we carry our passengers during the day and every night of the week, we remove all the 147 seats in each of our aircraft in just 20 minutes in order to load the French Post mail .

But Alan has found time between his travels, to board a special little passenger…
And now the Little Prince meets the aviator!

Photos : Alan Mayer

The Little Prince loves to travel !

Here are some new pictures of his trips !

in Hokkaido (picture by Emmy Wong)

in Tibet (by Jodie Hui)

In front of the Eiffel tower (by Joterulo)

In the sands of Morocco (Photo by Pedro Crispim)

in Tokyo (Marylène Le Bihan)

In front of a window in Taipei (Maja Miriam Fijałkowska)

El Salvador (Armando Arita)

So it’s friday… it’s Fan Art Friday !

Here are the pictures the fans send to us.  Always the most beautiful.

The friendship between the Little Prince and the Fox keep inspiring you…

The Little Prince and the Fox by Abel

The Little Prince and the Fox by Bishibooru

From the top of a cloud… by Duitang

Comics style ! by Haline Mesquita

 Maria Jose Da Luz

via ph-doux.blogspot.com

And the Little Prince shows us once again that he can take all forms, when it comes to please a friend.

Pompeo de Pellegrin

On a skateboard deck by Niz Graphics

Knitting by Sunan Singthong

Charissa Yambot’s cake

Djalmma Reinalldo

On a card by Luke Lin

But the rose is no exception!

Par Syn Synthesizer

Eve Laoun

Nicole Lim

Thank you for participating !

Raoul

Mayom Somjead

Arlu PerezParra Castro

Ania Konieczna

Diyaa Kaur

Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement shortly after the release of his latest film, From Up On Poppy Hill. The opportunity for him to look back at the work of a lifetime: he reveals a list of 50 books that have influenced his films. The Little Prince is in first place!

Hayao Miyazaki, July 19 2008 in Tokyo.

afp.com/Toru Yamanaka

Hayao Miyazaki’s affection for the author of The Little Prince, pilot and writer, is at the heart of his movies. Many aerial scenes and flying machines that came out of his imagination are inspired by the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, From Up on Poppy Hill). The director, a recognized specialist of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, has also prefaced and illustrated the Japanese edition of Night Flight.

This favorite books list had resulted in an exhibition at Kochi in 2011. 50 favorite books of Hayao Miyazaki was exposed, along with 50 handwritten notices showing the feelings of the director to these works.

Hayao Miyazaki’s 50 recommended books

1. « The Little Prince »  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  (1943)

2. « Il Romanzo di Cipollino »  Gianni Rodari  (1956)

3. « The Rose and the Ring »  William Makepeace Thackeray  (1854)

4. « The Little Bookroom » 　Eleanor Farjeon  (1955)

5. « The Three Musketeers »   Alexandre Dumas  (1844)

6. « The Secret Garden »  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett  (1909)

7. « The Treasure of the Nibelungs »  G.Schalk  (1953)

8. « Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland »  Lewis Carroll  (1865)

9. « The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes »  Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle  (1891)

10. « A Norwegian Farm »  Marie Hamsun  (1933)

11. « Конёк-горбунок »  Пётр Па́влович Ершо́в  (1834)

12. « Souvenirs entomologiques »  Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre  (1879-1907)

13. « Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki »  Tsutomu Minakami  (1995)

14. « Иван-дурак »  Leo Tolstoy  (1885)

15. « Eagle of the Ninth »  Rosemary Sutcliff  (1954)

16. « Winnie-the-Pooh »  A. A. Milne  (1926)

17. « Les Princes du Vent »  Michel-Aime Baudouy  (1956)

18. « When Marnie Was There »  Joan G Robinson  (1967)

19. « The Long Winter »  Laura Ingalls Wilder  (1940)

20. « The Wind in the Willows »  Kenneth Grahame  (1908)

21. « The Ship That Flew »  Hilda Lewis  (1939)

22. « Flambards »  Kathleen Wendy Peyton  (1967)

23. « Tom’s Midnight Garden »  Ann Philippa Pearce  (1958)

24. « The Adventures of Tom Sawyer »  Mark Twain  (1876)

25. « Chumon no Ooi Ryouriten »  Kenji Miyazawa  (1924)

26. « Heidi »  Johanna Spyri  (1888)

27. « Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea »  Jules Verne  (1870)

28. « The Borrowers »  Mary Norton  (1952)

29. « Devatero pohádek »  Karel Čapek 　(1931)

30. « Swallows and Amazons »  Arthur Ransome  (1930)

31. « The Flying Classroom »  Erich Kästner  (1933)

32. « Robinson Crusoe »  Daniel Defoe  (1719)

33. « Treasure Island »  Robert Louis Stevenson  (1883)

34. « Двена́дцать ме́сяцев »  Samuil Marshak  (1943)

35. « Tistou les pouces verts »  Maurice Druon  (1957)

36. « The man who planted the welsh onions »  Kim Soun  (1953)

37. « Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio »  Pu Songling  (1740)

38. « The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle »  Hugh John Lofting  (1922)

39. « Journey to the West »  Wú Chéng’ēn  (1500~?)

40. « Little Lord Fauntleroy »  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett  (1886)

41. « From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler »  Elaine Lobl Konigsburg　(1968)

42. « Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn »  Astrid Lindgren  (1947)

43. « The Hobbit, or There and Back Again » J ohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien  (1937)

44. « A Wizard of Earthsea »  Ursula K. Le Guin  (1968)

45. « The Little White Horse »  Elizabeth Goudge  (1946)

46. « Bylo nas pet »  Karel Polacek  (1969)

47. « City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams »  Clara Ingram Judson  (1951)

48. « The Radium Woman »　 Eleanor Doorly  (1939)

49. « The Otterbury Incident »  Cecil Day-Lewis  (1948)

50. « Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates »  Mary Mapes Dodge  (1865)

We wish you a good reading time !