Judy MacMahon

About Judy MacMahon

Experience FRANCE beyond the CLICHÉ with MyFrenchLife.org MyFrenchLife is for Curious Savvy Francophiles wherever you are. Meet Francophiles in France, online, and/or wherever you live. You’re very welcome to join us - Judy MacMahon - MyFrenchLife.org
15 01, 2025

Interview: Paris transformations — Materially Speaking with Sarah Monk

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Podcast: This spring Mike Axinn and I went to Paris to see how artisans are able to practice their craft in a vibrant, urban setting. We wanted to discover more about the relevance of traditional skills in a world of 21st-century technologies.

22 11, 2024

Interview: Michael Francis Cartwright, All materials are equal—Materially Speaking with Sarah Monk

By |2024-11-22T09:28:03+11:00Nov 22, 2024|0 Comments

Michael Cartwright likes drawing, painting, printmaking, working with beautiful red hardwoods and carving marble. He also works with found objects and discarded items, ‘old toys, bits of stick, anything’, and takes them to the local art foundry to get them cast in bronze. Once, he ripped the back off an old truck and used the metal to make a sculpture.

16 10, 2024

Interview: Emmanuel Fillion, The art of cutting stone — Speaking Materially with Sarah Monk

By |2024-10-16T10:55:42+11:00Oct 16, 2024|0 Comments

Emmanuel Fillion: Born in Soissons, France, he went to trade school at the age of 16 to learn how to renovate historical monuments by hand, specialising in granite.

11 07, 2024

Notre Dame: Artists & Artisans Tell their Stories through their Materials — Materially Speaking

By |2024-07-11T08:23:03+10:00Jul 11, 2024|1 Comment

Rebuilding of Notre Dame: The eyes of the world are watching, but Materially Speaking has a story for our ears - the story of its sound.

24 06, 2024

Inspirational women: Meet Jennifer Andrewes — a 2500km walk July to October 2024

By |2024-06-25T13:19:09+10:00Jun 24, 2024|1 Comment

Join NZ-based writer & pilgrim Jennifer Andrewes living with early-onset Parkinson’s, as she walks 2,500km (Canterbury to Rome) on the historic Via Francigena route (England, France, Switzerland, and Italy in 110 days - July to October 2024)

14 06, 2024

The Grand Train Stations of Paris: the sounds & stories – grand, beautiful, oldest, converted

By |2024-06-14T09:03:44+10:00Jun 14, 2024|0 Comments

Learn more about these impressive grand architectural masterpieces. The sound! The most beautiful, the oldest, the converted... Also which films featured Gare du Nord and much more

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