Balises magazine
You can find the latest issues of the Bpi information magazine here!
Balises, is:
- 36-48 pages with a themed feature, explanations, interviews, selections of references
- it’s a way to find out about events at the library: exhibitions, debates, meetings… and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou
- a team of librarian editors who call upon specialists and a graphic designer
- a website to discover even more content
You can also subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter which showcases articles from both the print and online versions of the magazine.
Published biannually, the magazine is available free of charge in the public information library and at the Centre Pompidou’s reception area. It is also distributed and made available by numerous partners throughout the country.
The PDF version of the library’s information magazine, Balises, is fully accessible for the visually impaired
Balises n°13
Balises showcases animal perspectives and invites us to reconnect with the rest of the living world. Also in the summary: filmmaker Audrius Stonys, the Périphérie association, #BookTok, author Justin Morin, American campuses, and press freedom.
Balises n°12
Spotlight on comics in this No. 12, with Corto Maltese as captain, alongside comic book authors, guests of the Bpi. And also: Frederick Wiseman, Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, green libraries, insights into the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda…
Balises n°11
Les romans graphiques so British de Posy Simmonds sont au cœur de Balises n°11, qui passe également l’automne et l’hiver en compagnie de Claire Simon, Claude Lanzmann, ou encore Dee Nasty.
Balises n°10
Les mots chantent et sonnent dans Balises n°10, avec un focus sur Serge Gainsbourg et un dossier sur le festival littéraire Effractions 2023. À découvrir aussi : du cinéma, de la photographie, et même des jeux de rôle !
Balises n°9
Balises spends the fall and winter in Canada, to discover national documentary cinema. Our pages also offer spatial, literary, visual and even video game explorations.
Balises n°8
The American comic book author Chris Ware is in the spotlight in Balises n°8, while the Bpi is devoting an exhibition to him. Germany is also on the front page in all its forms: political, literary, photographic, cinematographic…
Balises n°7
Balises accompanies the third edition of the Effractions literature festival.
Also you find reflections on the reception conditions for migrants, meetings with filmmakers eager to share, decryptions on 5G and on the European Union…
Balises n°6
Balises n°6 devotes its file to the strategy of China, party to the conquest of world supremacy, in actions as in speeches, to accompany the cycle “What Chinese diplomacy in the 21st century?” in autumn 2021 at the Bpi.
Balises n°5
Balises n°5 underlines the topicality of the work and the thought of Pier Paolo Pasolini to accompany the cycle “Pasolini, Pasoliniennes, Pasoliniens! proposed by the Cinémathèque du Documentaire at the Bpi in the spring of 2021.
Balises n°4
Balises n°4 explores the current issues of feminism in the field of social struggles, ecology, the conquest of intimacy, art or education, to accompany the cycle of meetings “The féminisme never killed anyone”.
Balises n°3
Art is celebrated in Balises in autumn 2020 thanks to comic book author Catherine Meurisse, to whom the Bpi is devoting an exhibition, but also to Chilean documentarians, amateur films, artists grouped together in the exhibition “Global (e) Resistance”…
Balises n°2
Balises n°2 accompanies the first edition of the “Effractions” literature festival by devoting a file to the literature of reality.
Balises n°1
Balises n°1 is devoting a feature this fall to sports documentaries in the “Plus vite, plus haut, plus fort” cycle.
