“LADIES INVITED:” An International Thriller. Author T. J. Reilly. Jazz Bassist Tom McKenzie. Patricia’s Paris Expat Soirées And Dinners. 30 October 2016. 19h15. (Paris Expat Soirée. Dinner Meet New People)

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Sunday 30 October 2016 at 19h15

(Paris Expat Soirée Dinner. Meet New People)

"LADIES INVITED "  (An International Thriller)

Our Special Guests Are:

T. J. Reilly

Author

Tom McKenzie, Jazz Bassist
Jazz. Pop.

Says T J: "A kidnapped Russian sex slave is brutally beaten, shot and left for dead in a Hollywood alley. An escort service
controlled by the Russian mafia is responsible.

Homeland Security Special Field Agent, Jack Oatmon, is on assignment with the LAPD, where his investigation

tracks the suspects to Europe.

Sent to Paris as part of an elite Interpol task force,
he confronts a shockingly corrupt bureaucracy, and cold blooded killers.

Innocent Americans Nikki Dunn and Rick Asher get caught in
the cross fire, and Jack is forced to send them on the run to stay one step ahead of a ruthless assassin.

Convinced the task force has been compromised, Jack doesn’t
know who to trust. Can he figure it out in time?"

TJ REILLY is a former sales and marketing executive. He has managed an American restaurant in Paris, and
traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He currently resides
in Northern California. This is the first book of the Jack Oatmon thriller series.

Visit: http://tjreillynovels.com/

Address: At a trendy and fun new venue - a French bistro in the Marais -  just behind BHV. at the metro Hotel de Ville (ligne 1).

GREAT FRENCH FOOD. We'll confirm the exact address details with the reservation!

It's €25.00 (EXACT CHANGE) for a fun dinner. NEW FORMULA: Dinner is two courses and includes a glass of wine.
All additional beverages must be ordered from and paid for directly to the bistro.

A fun dinner, a great topic, meeting and networking with, fun, new international people.

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Mark Your Calendar.  Sunday 6 November 2016. 19h15: Special Guest to be announced.  Reserve on  parissoirees@gmail.com Tap into Parler Paris ... written by Adrian Leeds, a long time resident of Le Marais and an American in Paris for more than 20 years, brings you Mondays and Wednesdays an "insider" view on life in Paris with tips on how to maneuver the system for working,  living, visiting, and particularly investing in property in Paris and France! Subscribe today:  http://www.parlerparis.com Patricia is a dynamic woman in Paris (Profile N° 6): http://adrianleeds.com/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-1-mailinglist/ mailid-354-pp12-12-12?Itemid=441

 

“TRAVLIN’..”. Gwen Sampé: Chanteuse: Composer : Adventures. Memories. Tom M cKinsey: Jazz Bassist. Patricia's Paris Expat Soirées And Dinners. Sun 23 Oct 2016. 19h15.

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Sunday 23 October 2016 at 19h15

(Paris Expat Soirée Dinner. Meet New People)

"TRAVLIN'.. " 

Our Special Guests Are:

Gwen Sampé
Chanteuse. Composer. Adventure. Memories.

Tom McKenzie, Jazz Bassist
Jazz. Pop.

About Gwen:
"A powerful yet gentle voice, deep and rich with memory."

Gwen Sampé is a singer, composer, arranger, teacher, choir director, and workshop facilitator with a background as rich and diverse as her talents.

Gwen received a BA in political philosophy from the University of Houston before receiving a scholarship in 1989 from the Arts Council of Great Britain to attend Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

After receiving her AGSM from Guildhall, in the 1990s Gwen contributed to community music projects in Ireland and England with the celebrated community musician Phil Mullen, working with the disabled, people with learning disabilities, the elderly, young children, teenagers-at-risk, prisoners, late learners, and amateur singers.

Gwen had the honor and pleasure to work with the British Council's Pan-Centre for Intercultural Arts and taught in their program for three years. While in the UK Gwen also taught voice at the City Literary Institute in London and community workshop skills at Goldsmith's College, the University of London, and at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

She studied dance with Yolande Burke and William Louther in London throughout the 1990s, and with Elsa Wolliaston in Paris. In 1999 she starred in and wrote music for the short film My Wife, and produced her first album, Water Gazing, in 2002.

A native of Houston, Texas, Gwen Sampé now resides in Provence and Paris where she teaches and performs regularly.

Visit: www.gwensampe.com

It's €25.00 (EXACT CHANGE) for a fun dinner.

Address: At a trendy and fun new venue - a French bistro in the Marais -  just behind BHV. at the metro Hotel de Ville (ligne 1).

GREAT FRENCH FOOD. We'll confirm the exact address details with the reservation!

It's €25.00 (EXACT CHANGE) for a fun dinner. NEW FORMULA: Dinner is two courses and includes a glass of wine.
All additional beverages must be ordered from and paid for directly to the bistro.

A fun dinner, a great topic, meeting and networking with, fun, new international people.

Reserve on parissoirees@gmail.com WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER PLEASE

 

Mark Your Calendar.  Sunday 30 October 2016. 19h15: Special Guest is author T. J. O'Reilly, who will present his novel: "Ladies Invited." A thriller. Reserve on  parissoirees@gmail.com Tap into Parler Paris ... written by Adrian Leeds, a long time resident of Le Marais and an American in Paris for more than 20 years, brings you Mondays and Wednesdays an "insider" view on life in Paris with tips on how to maneuver the system for working,  living, visiting, and particularly investing in property in Paris and France! Subscribe today:  http://www.parlerparis.com Patricia is a dynamic woman in Paris (Profile N° 6): http://adrianleeds.com/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-1-mailinglist/ mailid-354-pp12-12-12?Itemid=441

 

A BLAST OF CREATIVE ENERGY! Fun Drinks Or Appetizers, Dinner, Music And More. Jazz Bassist Tom McKenzie. Meet Fun, New Int’l People. Patricia's Paris Expat Soirées And Dinners. Sunday 16 October 2016. 19h15

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Photo: Peter Schlipf

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SOIREES EVERY SUNDAY!

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Sunday 16 October 2016 at 19h15

There's Always

“A BLAST OF CREATIVE ENERGY!"

THERE'S SOCIAL NETWORKING TOO.

Fascinating People. Brillant conversations.

In the  Marais: Let's get together this week to have a drink, appetizer or main course at our favorite French bistro in the Marais. Great food. Wonderful atmosphere.

Just near BHV at the metro Hotel de Ville (ligne 1)

Exact address details with the reservation.

Buy your own drink, appetizer or dinner, which you order directly from and pay to the bistro. €5.00 reservation fee.

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Sunday 23 October 2016. 19h15: Special Guest To Be Announced. Reserve on parissoirees@gmail.com Tap into Parler Paris ... written by Adrian Leeds, a long time resident of Le Marais and an American in Paris for more than 20 years, brings you Mondays and Wednesdays an "insider" view on life in Paris with tips on how to maneuver the system for working, living, visiting, and particularly investing in property in Paris and France! Subscribe today: http://www.parlerparis.com Patricia is a dynamic woman in Paris (Profile N° 6): http://adrianleeds.com/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-1-mailinglist/mailid-354-pp12-12-12?Itemid=441

 

 

Ernest Hemingway And His “Lost Generation”. It’s The 100th Anniversary Of The “Lost Generation.” Filmmaker. Writer, David Burke. Jazz/Pop Bassist, Tom McKenzie. Patricia's Paris Expat Soirées And Dinners. Sun 9 Oct 2016. 19h15.

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Sunday 9 October 2016 at 19h15

" Ernest Hemingway And His “Lost Generation”. 

Our Special Guest Is Filmmaker. Writer,  David Burke.

Tom McKenzie

Bassist
(Jazz. Standards. Pop)

It's The 100th anniversary of "The Lost Generation". Many of us present day Paris Expats are their legacy.

Who Was The “Lost Generation”?

The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron. This generation included artists and writers who came of age during the war such as F. Scott Fitzgerald,^[1] T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Glenway Wescott, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Ezra Pound, Alan Seeger, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Cowley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Erich Maria Remarque and the composers Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, George Gershwin, and Aaron Copland.

Gertrude Stein heard the phrase from a garage owner who serviced Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the garage owner shouted at the boy, "You are all a "génération perdue."^[2]:29 Stein, in telling Hemingway the story, added, "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."^{[2]:29 [3]}

'Lost means not vanished but disoriented, wandering, directionless—a recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's survivors in the early post-war years.'^[4]

Ernest Hemingway And His “Lost Generation:”

The Sun Also Rises (The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation) is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.

Please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation

  Says David Burke:

“The key figures in this talk at the Paris Soirées are the same as in the literary walk I do in Montparnasse*:  Hemingway and the writers Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who all helped young Hem enormously, his first wife Hadley, and certain cronies in Montparnasse who asked if they could go to the Pamplona bullfights with him. 

What came out of that was The Sun Also Rises -- much to the regret of the cronies when it came out!  We see how that developed.  But there’s a less-known backstory.  After Hemingway completed his manuscript of the book he went to no end to get his book to the publisher he wanted, but there was a block (I’ll tell you what) and to make it work he betrayed his first benefactor Sherwood Anderson -- the man who had insisted that the young man go to Paris!  His early mentor Gertrude Stein was furious.  Sharp literary exchanges came between the two.  The endgame continued to Hemingway’s death with A Moveable Feast. You will see. "

*Please visit: http://writersinpariswalkingtours.blogspot.fr/

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Mark Your Calendar.  Sunday 16 October 2016. 19h15: Special Guest To Be Announced. Reserve on  parissoirees@gmail.com Tap into Parler Paris ... written by Adrian Leeds, a long time resident of Le Marais and an American in Paris for more than 20 years, brings you Mondays and Wednesdays an "insider" view on life in Paris with tips on how to maneuver the system for working,  living, visiting, and particularly investing in property in Paris and France! Subscribe today:  http://www.parlerparis.com Patricia is a dynamic woman in Paris (Profile N° 6): http://adrianleeds.com/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-1-mailinglist/ mailid-354-pp12-12-12?Itemid=441