December 2005: Guadeloupe, the native French-Caribbean Island of the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, will be the theater of a world-class symposium in December 2005. The event will bring together many specialists from many different fields: historians, musicians, novelists, and screenwriters. The organizers will offer tourist discovery of the island, in particular around the site where Joseph Boulogne spent his first 10 years. The event, sponsored by the regional government, will mark the inauguration of the official site “Route de Saint-Georges” in Basse-Terre

Current Attendees: Gabriel BANAT (violin, NY Philharmonic), Michelle GARNIER PANAFIEU (music researcher, Paris), Claude RIBBE (Historian, Philosopher, Paris), Daniel PICOULI (Novelist, Paris), Alain Guédé (Journalist, France), Daniel MARCIANO (Novelist, Screenwriter, Fencing consultant, France), Bernard ZINCK (violinist, music researcher, USA) Alain BUFFON (Finance Historian, Guadeloupe), Alexis BIQUE, Allan BADLEY (CEO Artaria music production, NZ), Gérard LAFLEUR (Historian 18th century), Laure TRESSENS (National Archives, Guadeloupe), Mark CLAGUE (Music Historian, LA), Roland BRIVAL (Novelist, Martinique), Bernard MAGNIER (Music critic), Dr Dominique René De Lerma (Professor, Berkeley), Guy MONDUC (Historian of freemasonry), Myriam ALAMKAN (Naval Historian), Sylvie CHALAYE (Sociologue, Historian of Black Theater, Guadeloupe), H & D PARISIS (Historian of Industrial Architecture), Marie-Christine HAZAËL-MASSIEUX (Historian of Creole Language), Jean-Marie BRETON (Researcher Civil Status in Guadeloupe), Tony DUNOYER (Art Entertainment, NY) , Tom HOPKINS (Film Producer, NY), GRIOT Entertainment (Film Production)