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Marmalade Bleue is the innovative studio of Danielle Duncan (she/her), a multi-hyphenate American artist based in Paris making the future palatable.

Danielle founded Food Typography, a sub-genre of design, in 2013 when she discovered food and objects speak their own languages within our everyday lives. She combined everyday items with thoughtful lettering to create photographic commentary on society, consumerism and the human existence. This work was soulful, ephemeral, and shockingly a huge hit with global brands such as Target, Disney, Cadillac, Wix, Tesco, Pepsi, and Kansas City Chiefs.

When augmented reality emerged, Danielle saw the potential to bridge the physical and digital worlds. The shelf life of her work is preserved and enhanced through a technology, available to anyone with a device. The familiar textures and shadows blend into the existing environment, making the future more human. Her work currently spans advertising, activism, fine arts and events.

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Born in Cali, Colombia, in 1991, artist and film director Valeria Jaramillo builds an eclectic and anachronistic universe through the exploration of different means of expression which study the Aristotelian dilemma of human passions. She graduated with honors in 2012 from Javeriana University, where she studied visual arts. Then, in 2016, she moved to Paris, France, where she obtained her master's degree in film directing at the School of cinema of Luc Besson. In 2018 she continued her studies in History at Paris 8 University. She practices cinema, photography, painting, mural painting, drawing, sculpture, etching and writing.

- Links to my work :

https://www.valeriajaramillo.com

https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/valeria-jaramillo-33722

https://www.instagram.com/valartsfilms/

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I grew up in French Alps and moved to Japan at 17yo with my family.
After a childhood focused on outdoor activities and nature, living in
Tokyo opened my mind and my curiosity.
After 2 years, I came back to France and continued studying Japanese
with a bachelor's degree, combined with a master's degree in
International trade. During those years, I had the chance to get many
jobs as a guide, a translator, a teacher or simply helping Japanese. As
many of my clients kept asking me about French food and recipes, I
organized cooking lessons taught by my mother who is a fantastic home
cook.
After 10 years working in international trade or organizing study tours
for businessmen abroad and when my second daughter arrived, I stopped
working for 6 years to take care of them (congé parental in French).
Just after I had my third daughter, I met a Japanese mother at a park,
who again asked me questions about French food. This time it was me who
gave cooking lessons to Japanese expats. Cooking was one of my hobbies.
At that time there were few cooking schools in France. On top of just
learning a recipe, my students wanted to know more about French
gastronomy and lifestyle, enjoying sharing the meal we prepared
together.
Back to work, I became an executive assistant in an international
environment and project officer, with in mind dreams of food.
2014 was a tough year with a house construction that turned into a
disaster, a boring job, and some health issues. It is then that I
realized that the only moments I was in peace (except time with my
family) were when I was in my kitchen.
I started my blog My Parisian Kitchen as a way to escape and focus on my
passion, keeping my full-time job, with in mind my cooking lessons. I
wanted to share recipes with whenever possible the stories behind,
focusing on French gastronomy and traditions, both in English and
French.
I soon got invited to many amazing food events, wine tasting in
Michelin-star restaurants, recipe contests… I met amazing people,
discovered products, and learned cooking techniques. On top of this as a
challenge to prove myself I was legitimate, I passed the French CAP
cuisine cooking degree without any lessons and passed with very good
results.
I now combine two jobs, my day job with nice projects to handle and
myparisiankitchen's food blog.

Blog  &  https://www.myparisiankitchen.com/
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/myparisiankitchen.english &
https://www.facebook.com/myparisiankitchen
Instagram  &  https://www.instagram.com/my_parisian_kitchen/
Pinterest  &  https://www.pinterest.fr/mpkitchen/

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Blurb about Retreat Podcast
KNOCKNAHAY, IRELAND— SEASON ONE
Shannon, an Irish-American textile artist of dubious talent, arrives in Ireland,  trapped in a fruitless mindset for self-improvement and positive thinking.  She arrives at an Irish arts residency to meet her cousin Brigit, a Druidic healer and unpublished poet for an artistic collaboration. Their poetry quilt project starts at the fairy fort. It is meant to celebrate their shared DNA and rekindle any of Shannon's latent Celtic fire. Their arts residency, a creative paradise, is buzzing with egocentric and renown artists, writers, poets, celebrities, and staff from Ireland, Germany, Russia, England, and France.  The big house is in dire need of repairs and the director is desperate for funding. When a thwarted heiress arrives with offers of corporate sponsorship and a world-class exhibition-- in exchange for the residents' recorded audio diaries detailing artistic creative processes, Shannon makes some unwise choices. 

Andi Watson Ipaktchi
Co-Creator, Actor, Producer
Andi is a multi-disciplinary American artist who lives in Paris. She holds a fine arts degree from the Parsons School of Design. In December 2022,  a staged, spin-off of Retreat Comedy was shortlisted for the 2023 Hammond House Publishing Prize for Comedy (UK). In 2015, her illustration work made the Undiscovered Voices (UK) anthology shortlist. Her artwork has been shown  in the US and France. In 2019 and 2020, she was a Tyrone Guthrie Artist Arts Center resident in the printmaking studio where she and met her writing met. She continues working in the printmaking studio and writes.

Aoibheann McCann
Co-Creator, Actor, Producer
Aoibheann is originally from Donegal. She now lives in Galway where she writes fiction, non-fiction and the occasional poem. Her work has been published in literary journals in Ireland, UK, Italy and USA. Her work has been anthologised by Pankhurst Press (UK), New Binary Press, Arlen House, Doire and Prospero (Italy). Her short stories have been longlisted for Colm Toibin 2019, shortlisted for Words on Waves 2015, Sunday Business Post/ Penguin Ireland 2018, Cúirt New Writing 2019 and second in the Maria Edgeworth and Dalkey Creates 2019. She was awarded the Tyrone Guthrie Residency by Galway City Council for 2018. In December 2022, she learned that a staged, spin-off of Retreat was shortlisted for the 2023 Hammond House Publishing Prize for comedy in the (UK). Aoibheann is currently working on her first collection of short fiction and a comedy series.

Andi Ipaktchi (France)

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Gia de Cadenet is the author of Getting His Game Back and Not the Plan. A Maggie Award finalist, BCALA Literary Award nominee, and lifelong romance reader, she is also a business school professor and former translator and editor for UNESCO. A native Floridian, she currently lives in France with her children.

Getting His Game Back: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671555/getting-his-game-back-by-gia-de-cadenet/

Not the Plan: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671556/not-the-plan-by-gia-de-cadenet/9780593356647/

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