Opening hours of Espace Ella Maillart (permanent exhibition) in Chandolin
Wednesday to Sunday from 10 : 30 am to 6 : 00 pm. During winter and summer peak seasons, open also on Monday and Tuesday. Closed during low season. However, you may contact the Café des 2000 mètres (located next to the Espace Ella Maillart) or the Chandolin Tourist Office to arrange a visit on request:
Tel. +41 (0)27 475 18 38
chandolin@sierre-anniviers.ch
www.chandolin.ch

Annual meeting at Chandolin
The General Assembly of the Association Les amis d’Ella Maillart will take place on Saturday,
7 August 2010 at 2 : 30 pm. The place of venue is the Salle communale of Chandolin (Plampraz), Valais. Free entry, members and non-members are welcome.

The meeting will be followed, at 3 : 00 pm, by a film projection and talk by

Denis Bertholet :
“Nepal  -  50 years of fascination and commitment”

For the Swiss mountain guide, ski instructor, photographer and filmmaker Denis Bertholet, his first visit to Nepal in 1954 was the beginning of a lifelong involvement. He has since returned many times to organise treks and expeditions but above all to help create a primary school at Lukla and a secondary school at Chaurikharka in the Everest region. His non-profit association, Luklass (www.luklass.ch) supports the education of children and students, as well as projects aimed at maintaining a safe environment in the area.

Exhibitions

10 July - 19 September 2010 :
Ella Maillart   -  A Lifetime of Travel
Two series of Ella Maillart’s photographs are at present on show in Cannes (France). The 66 images shown at the Musée de la Mer were taken during her early travels which had made her famous: Moscow in 1930, Russian Central Asia in 1932, followed by photographs taken during her daring trek from Peking to Cashmir with Peter Fleming and travels in Iran and Afghanistan in 1937 and 1939. Photographs taken in the second half of the 20th century remind us that Ella Maillart continued to travel until in her eighties. The 25 prints shown at the Musée de la Castre are on Nepal where Ella Maillart first travelled in 1951, soon after this country opened its borders. A permit given her by Pundit Nehru allowed her to explore Kathmandu and the valleys to the north of the capital.

Musée de la Mer
Fort Royal – Ile Sainte-Marguerite
Embarcadères Quai Laubeuf
F-06400 Cannes
T +33 (0)4 93 38 55 26
open daily from 10 am to 5:45 pm

Musée de la Castre
Place de la Castre
Le Suquet
F-06400 Cannes
T +33 (0)4 93 38 55 26
open daily from 10 am to 7 pm,
until 9 pm on Wednesdays

30 March – 29 April 2010 :
Voyage vers l’Ouest – Hommage à Ella Maillart  (Trip to the West – A Tribute to Ella Maillart)
Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2, Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, Tel. 852 2582 0200
Photographs, paintings and texts by 9 artists of Chinese, French and Swiss nationality who followed in the footsteps of the famous traveller. The show takes place in the framework of the 2010 edition of the Fête de la Francophonie. A book with the same title was published in November 2009 (see below). 

A school named after Ella Maillart
In April 2009, the Department of Public Education of the Canton of Geneva decided to name a new secondary school after Ella Maillart, in recognition of her exemplary personality and work. This post-obligatory establishement is the third of its kind in the Canton, the two other schools being named after the Genevan citizens Henry Dunant and Jean Piaget.

The Ecole de culture générale Ella-Maillart opened in September 2008. The first school-leaving certificates will be awarded in June 2011, the first A-level diplomas (in the areas of health care, social work, arts or communication) in 2012. For the time being the school is housed in a temporary structure but a definitive building is in the planning stage.

New publications
	Envoyée spéciale en Mandchourie - En Asie où guettent les Maîtres de demain. By Ella Maillart, introduction by Gilbert Etienne Editons Zoé, Genève, 2009, 143 p., ISBN 978-2-88182-651-1. In French. Contains 11 articles first published in 1935. Illustr. 26 b/w photographs by Ella Maillart. In 1934, the French daily Le Petit Parisien sends Ella Maillart as a special correspondent to Manchuria, renamed Manchukuo by the Japanese military who invaded this ancient Chinese province in 1932. Equipped with her Leica she takes the railway lines built by the occupyer and writes about her encounters with Mongol nomads, Japanese, Chinese, White Russians and Manchus. In Harbin, she meets Peter Fleming with whom she will later undertake their famous trek across Asia, described in Forbidden Journey.
	Entretiens avec Ella Maillart:  Le monde – mon héritage 1 CD + 1 DVD Coproduction RSR – TSR – Editions Zoé, 2009, ISBN 978-2-88182-656-6. In French. For sale at Radio Suiss Romande (www.boutique.rsr.ch) and Télévision Suisse Romande (www.tsrboutique.ch), ref. no. 6236 Extracts of radio interviews, recorded between 1945 and 1993, and a film produced in 1973 by the Swiss Romande television provide direct contact with Ella Maillart. She recalls her youth spent in Geneva, her passion for reading and for sports, her travels, her spiritual quest and the decisive encounters she made during her life. The film, entitled Les itinéraires d’Ella Maillart, contains footage from Ella Maillart’s own films, produced in Afghanistan, India and Nepal.
	Utopistes  —  Poètes  —  Aventuriers de Daniel Kaeser Editions à la Carte, CH-3960 Sierre. 2009 206 pages, ISBN 978-2-88464-991-9. In French. A collection of captivating essays on a wide range of themes, based on public lectures given by the author. We learn, among other subjects, about Marco Polo and the Silk Road, Blaise Cendrars, Guillaume Tell, Thomas Platter, Mathieu Schiner, Louis Agassiz and Ella Maillart, as well as the role of education and Switzerland as a possible political model. (See “Ella Maillart – Une insolente liberté”, page 115 – 131).
	Voyage vers l’Ouest – Hommage à Ella Maillart (Trip to the West – A Tribute to Ella Maillart) Editions Lieux Dits, F-69001 Lyon. 2009, 144 pages, 30 illustrations, ISBN 978-2-914528-75-7. A bilingual publication (Chinese and French) initiated by the Embassies of France and Switzerland in China. Inspired by Ella Maillart’s personality and her famous crossing of China 1935, the book resumes the travel impressions of 9 artists, photographers and writers of Chinese, French and Swiss nationality who, in 2008, followed her itinerary in Xinjiang. The works of art produced by the participants were exhibited in Peking and in Kashgar in 2008. From 30 March to 29 April 2010, they are on show at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
	Oasis interdites d’Ella Maillart by Charles Forsdick Editions Zoé, Geneva/ Collection Le Cippe, 2008 In French. 114 pages, ISBN 978-2-88182-631-3 A detailed study of Ella Maillart’s best known book, considered to be a key text of French travel writing. Includes a useful bibliography.
	Friendship in Diversity  –  Sixty Years of Indo-Swiss Relations Edited by Bernard Imhasly Universities Press (India), Hyderabad, 2008 171 pages, ISBN 81 7371 635 8 Published by the Swiss Embassy in New Delhi to mark the 60th anniversary of the Friendship Treaty signed by India and Switzerland in 1948. Various aspects of their “elective kinship” are highlighted in 24 contributions including An Indo-Swiss Friendship: Ella Maillart and Jawaharlal Nehru, an account of EM’s stay in India and her friendship with Nehru whom she met in 1951.
	Travel in China – From the Kunlun to the Altyn Tagh Bruno Paulet, author of Mémoires des sables – en Haute Asie sur la piste oubliée d’Ella Maillart et de Peter Fleming (Editions Olizane, Geneva, 2007) will accompany a group of 5-8 persons on the route described in his book. Dates: August 2010, about 26 days. For further information: Tamera, rue du Boeuf 26, F-69005 Lyon. T +33 478 37 88 88, F +33 4 78 92 99 70, tamera@tamera.fr.