On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Kering Foundation pursues its objective to raise awareness on violence against women by presenting, in a partnership with the store La Fnac, French committed actresses’ photographs at the Fnac des Ternes.

After listening several women’s testimonies, the director-photographer Carole Mathieu Castelli asked actresses to embody these emotions. Come to visit the exhibition A Travers Elles, from the 1st March to 15th of April. Portrays will be sold at an auction led by the auctioneer Candice Osenat,  to the benefit of Fédération Nationale Solidarité Femmes, a French association fighting against domestic violence, a PPR Foundation’s partner since 2009.

To learn more about the exhibition

On June 6, for the third consecutive year, the Dijon Fnac store organised the –now famous- Solidarity Fair. Books, CDs, DVDs and reflex cameras, sold at very low prices, attracted 1,100 visitors. The event, which is one of the major solidarity actions in Dijon, aims both at making easier the access to culture and new technologies and supporting the actions of the French association Secours Populaire to the benefits of the underprivileged families. €10,000 in 2008, €21,000 in 2009… this year €30,000 have been collected thanks to the mobilisation of the Fnac employees and the Secours Populaire volunteers! This amount will enable to offer 600 activities days this summer to the children who do not go on holidays. Congratulations and see you next year!

Linda Weil-Curiel, lawyer and leader in the CAMS (Commission for the Abolition of Genital Mutilation), Professor Millez, President of the ethical committee of the international Federation of obstetrical genecology, Christine Beynis, President of the national Federation GAMS (Women Group for the Abolition of Genital Mutilation) and Aurélie Gal-Régniez, Project Manager for the organization Équilibres & Populations discuss about excision.

On the occasion of the International Women's Day on March, 8 and the release of the film Desert Flower, Fnac and the PPR Foundation organize several meetings all over France. These meetings will be led by journalists who will gather witnesses, doctors, lawyers and members of the association Equilibres & Populations. Fore more information on the excision and the FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), to understand the reasons of this practice and to meet the NGO acting in the field, in France as in Africa, join us!

• Fnac Nantes: March 5th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
• Fnac Boulogne: March 8th from 8:00pm to 9:30pm
• Fnac Ternes: March 10th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
• Fnac Lyon Bellecour: March 12th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
• Fnac Grenoble Victor Hugo: March 18th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Complete program of the debates.

Come visit the exhibition Injuries To Women of the photographer Catherine Cabrol. On the occasion of the International Woman's Day, Fnac and the Corporate Foundation PPR present portraits and testimonials by women victim of violence.

Zoom on Boulogne and Grenoble

Fnac and the PPR Foundation invite you to meetings in french Fnac stores around the women’s rights with Catherine Cabrol, photographer and author of the book Injuries To Women (Atlantica) and Aziza and Diaryatou in Boulogne on March, 8 at 8:00pm, who will testify on their experience of violence and their participation to the book; and with organisations fighting violence against women in Grenoble on March,18 at 5:30pm.

Dedications at the other french Fnac stores:

• Fnac Ternes: March, 12 at 5:30pm
• Fnac Nantes: March, 5 at 5:30pm
  
• Fnac Lyon Bellecour: March, 12 at 6:30pm

Injuries to Women, Atlantica publishing, available in every Fnac stores or at fnac.com, € 24, 70.To read some extracts