La Vie Creative

Sharri Harmel has been in the business and coaching world for over 25 years. Her love of design, writing, travel, cooking and creative ideas coupled with her passionate belief that we should always, always have a dream, has led her to share stories of women who are not celebrities, but real women who have chosen to create and live lives of true authenticity and passion with a focus on doing, making, and creating. Sharri conceptualized and created both the Extraordinary Women Magazine and the...

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My initial concept was to create a totem pole configuration with a vertical buildup of elements (all of which symbolize the town or the region). Then I got the creative inspiration to make some of the elements movable like a wind vane.; thus the 'Totem Girouette' came about. We've named it 'Autant en Emporte le Chanvre' in nostalgic reminiscence of the hemp industry, which was the source of wealth in Bréhémont up until the advent of nylon ropes, which killed the hemp industry. To give the...

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Joe Langley's story is the most remarkable of all the expatriates that I know - AfricanAmerican or otherwise! His love affair with the French language began when he found his brother's copy of Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince at home. He liked the "look" of the French words and loved the illustrations. These inspired him to pursue art and the French language as life-long passions. He went on to spend a year in the Dordogne region as an exchange student at the age of fifteen, and a year...

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After spending 22 years as a working and teaching professional in New York City, Michael decided to follow his instincts and try living and working in Paris. Michael is currently teaching several different disciplines in Europe. Broadway Jazz Ballet Vocal Technique Musical Theatre Techniques With the help of his collaborator Marion Martelin and guided by the original creator Stephen Schwartz, Michael is in the midst of bringing the beloved Broadway musical PIPPIN to France. He is the...

I’m a Multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Paris, exploring femininity through the study of historical psychology and mythology. Social Media: @kgs.french.works Support the show

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About My art goes beyond technique or material, it is the way of transmitting my stories through my hands. It is a way of aesthetically materializing what I feel so that someone else can identify with it. CONSTANT ROAD more than objects We realized that not only I (María) only made jewelry, there are also many collaborators around our stories and within each narrative there is a universe that wants to express itself in many manifestations of art. They are not only objects, they are also...

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LAURA MORELLI holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling historical novelist. Laura has taught college students in the U.S. and in Italy. She has covered art and authentic travel for TED-Ed, National Geographic Traveler, Italy Magazine, CNN Radio, and other media. Laura is the author of the popular Authentic Arts guidebook series that includes MADE IN ITALY and MADE IN FRANCE. Her historical novels, including THE NIGHT PORTRAIT and THE...

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Brad explains children to adults and to clients ranging from the U.S. Justice Department to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Experts have described Brad’s parenting book, The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids, as an “urgent ‘must-read.’” Rebecca Sugar, creator of Cartoon Network’s Stephen Universe, said about Brad, “I learned a lot from him that informed the rest of the show.” Titles from his What Every Child Needs To Know children’s book series (…About Elvis Presley, …About Cancer, …About...

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Liz Adams www.lizadamsart.com Liz is an American figurative painter based in Paris, France. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, focusing on classical life drawing and painting. A winner of the Newington Cropsey Foundation for the Arts Scholarship Program in Florence, Italy, Liz studied the rich art history of the...

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Mia Leahy hails from Ireland where she was passionate from an early age about dance; ballet, Irish dancing and American tap, singing, and music, reciting poetry, and making up plays. This led to an exodus to London after a year at Cork University studying the Greeks and dancing a lot. Formed a highly unsuccessful punk band called the Nude Usherettes and thought the better of it and applied to drama school. She had encouragement and support from great actors like Kate Beswick, Derek Fowlds,...

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Taki Watanga was conceived on the Paris Metro. A simple conversation that rapidly turned into a dare. “Be brave and take hold of your obvious and quite frankly unique talents”. In 2019 Mark Hedges, the director of London’s West End production of Phantom of the Opera, presented a challenge to Chrissy: develop a drag queen persona for cabaret and burlesque shows. She seized the opportunity and immediately began collaborating with him to create her alter ego: Taki Watanga. To create this...