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Chantal Navert Memorial Award
Chantal (, , ) is a feminine given name of French origin. The name Chantal can be traced back to the Old Occitan word , meaning "stone". It came into popular use as a given name in honor of the Catholic saint, Jeanne de Chantal. It may also be spelled Chantel, Chantalle, Chantelle, Shantal, Shantel, Chanté, Shantelle, or Shontelle usually in the USA. Chantal *Chantal Akerman (1950–2015), Belgian filmmaker *Chantal Andere (born 1972), Mexican actress * Chantal Botts (born 1976), South African badminton player * Chantal Chamandy, Canadian singer * Chantal Chawaf (born 1943), French writer *Chantal Coché (1826–1891), Belgian industrialist * Chantal Claret (born 1982), American singer * Chantal Da Silva, Canadian journalist residing in the United Kingdom * Chantal Demming (born 1978), Dutch actress * Chantal Galladé (born 1972), Swiss politician *Chantal Garrigues (1944–2018), French actress * Chantal Goya (born 1942), French singer and actress * Chantal Grevers (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Garrigues
Chantal Garrigues (14 November 1944 – 29 June 2018) was a French actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films. She was also a stage and television actress, and she played Gisèle Favrot in '' Soda''. Early life Garrigues was born 14 November 1944 in Montpellier. Career Garrigues began her career in the theatre, where she appeared in plays by Molière, Feydeau and Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b .... She played in her first film in 1984. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films, including ''Female Agents'' in 2008 and ''Boule et Bill 2'' in 2017. Garrigues appeared on television series like '' Joséphine Ange Gardien'', '' Avocats et Associés'' and '' Boulevard du Palais''. She also played Gisèle Favrot on '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Calix
Chantal Francesca Passamonte (28 October 1969 – 25 March 2022), known professionally as Mira Calix ( ), was a South African-born British-based audio and visual artist and musician signed to Warp Records. She also worked as Warp's press officer. Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic, from the 2000s onwards she incorporated writing for classical instrumentation into her musical works and expanded her practice to include multidisciplinary performance, film and multi-channel installation artworks. She often stated that she considered sound a sculptural material. Biography Calix was born Chantal Francesca Passamonte in Durban, South Africa, on 28 October 1969. She was raised in Durban in a liberal middle-class family of Italian descent. She grew up learning ballet and listening to jazz and classical music. She moved to London in 1991. She began to work at a record shop and took up organising parties and DJing. She worked at the labels 4AD and Warp Records, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Quesnel
Chantal Quesnel (sometimes credited as Chantal Quesnelle, born 1971) is a Canadian actress. She was a voice actress for the TV animated series '' Zeroman'', shown in Canada on Teletoon. She also appeared in Don Mancini's film '' Curse of Chucky''. Career Her most extensive TV role was as ''Yvonne Bernini'', on '' Paradise Falls'', a soap opera on Showcase Television, starting in 2001. She has also had several roles, mainly on TV movies and in George A. Romero's '' Bruiser''. She has had guest roles on various TV series, such as ''Odyssey 5'', '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye'', '' Goosebumps'', '' La Femme Nikita'' and ''Forever Knight''. Most recently Chantal has played the role of "The Cougar" in SpikeTV's '' Blue Mountain State''. She also appeared in the video game ''Far Cry 2 ''Far Cry 2'' is a 2008 first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A top-down shooter version for mobile phones was deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Nijkerken-de Haan
Chantal Nijkerken-de Haan (born 18 September 1973) is a Dutch politician, she has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 31 March 2015, when she replaced Klaas Dijkhoff who took up a position as State Secretary in the cabinet. Previously she was alderman in Onderbanken between 2010 and 2012 and in Meerssen between 2013 and 2014. Career Nijkerken-de Haan studied policy, governance and management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She worked as a staff and freelance advisor at the Academic Hospital Maastricht between 2000 and 2010. Nijkerken-de Haan became member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in 2009. Between April 2010 and April 2012 she was alderman in Onderbanken. She left as alderman when the local coalition with the Christian Democratic Appeal broke down. In May 2013 she took up the same position in Meerssen, where she left after the municipal elections of 2014. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe (; born 17 June 1943) is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis. She is a strong critic of deliberative democracy and advocates a conflict-oriented model of radical democracy. Education Chantal Mouffe studied at the Universities of Leuven, Paris and Essex and has worked in many universities throughout the world (in Europe, North America and Latin America). She has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and the CNRS (Paris). During 1989–1995, she served as Programme Director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. She currently holds a professorship at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, where she is a member of the Centre for the Study of Democracy. Work She developed a type of post-M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Michel
Chantal Michel (born 1968) is a Swiss contemporary video, photo, and performance artist. Her photographic series have featured her body as a sculptural subject, where she uses costumes, gestures, and mimicry to blend into the surroundings in both public and private locations. She lives in Thun, Switzerland. Education Chantal Michel was born in 1968, in Bern, Switzerland. From 1989 to 1993, Chantal studied ceramics at the Schule für Gestaltung in Bern, Switzerland. Between 1994 and 1998, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany. Career Michel held her first known exhibition, ''In The Summertime'' (1998), at Galerie Haus Schneider, Uschi Kolb, in Ettlingen, Germany. She has participated in over 30 solo exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions. She was included in the international art exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) in Venice, Italy; and the '' Global Feminisms'' (March 2007) art exhibition at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Mbakeshimama
Chantal Mbakeshimama is a Rwandan politician, currently a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Parliament of Rwanda The Parliament of Rwanda ( French: ''Parlement du Rwanda''; Kinyarwanda: ''Inteko Ishinga Amategeko y’u Rwanda'') has consisted of two chambers since 2003: *The Senate (French: ''Sénat''; Kinyarwanda: ''Sena'') ( Upper Chamber) *The Chamber .... References Living people Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Rwanda) Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Rwandan politicians {{Rwanda-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Mauduit
Chantal Mauduit (24 March 1964 – 13 May 1998) was a French alpinist. Biography Born in Paris, Mauduit arrived in the French Alps at age five and started climbing at the age of 15. After several difficult routes in the Alps, she focused her attention on the Andes, and then the Himalayas, where she climbed K2 (1992; fourth woman overall), Shisha Pangma (1993), Cho Oyu (1993), Lhotse (1996; falsely claimed first woman solo with no proof she made it to the summit), Manaslu (1996), and Gasherbrum II (1997), all without supplemental oxygen. Mauduit needed to be rescued by Ed Viesturs and Scott Fischer on descent from K2 in 1992, Viesturs and Fischer gave up their own summit attempt of K2 at the time in order to get Mauduit, who had become snow blind, to safety. After collapsing during a failed summit attempt on Mount Everest in 1995, Mauduit was carried off the mountain by other climbers. Some climbers, including Viesturs, perceived her as ungrateful for never acknowledging t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay
Jeanne Chantal Marie-Louise Lemercier-Quelquejay (28 June 1926 –13 June 2018) was a French writer and historian, whose work often focused on Islam in the Soviet Union. Biography Lemercier-Quelquejay was born in Yvetot, Seine-Maritime. Lemercier-Quelquejay collaborated with scholar Alexandre Bennigsen on several publications. Their studies were "largely responsible for bringing Russian Islam into the orbit of Western scholarship." Lemercier-Quelquejay died in 2018, at the age of 91, in Rouen. Publications In addition to several books with Alexandre Bennigsen, including the "landmark" ''Islam in the Soviet Union'' (1965), Lemercier-Quelquejay's scholarly work appeared in journals including ''Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique,'' ''Harvard Ukrainian Studies Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk ( ; born May 18, 1974) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist. Born in Winnipeg, she played music from a young age before signing with Columbia Records in the 1990s. Her debut studio album, ''Under These Rocks and Stones'', was first released in Canada in 1996 and saw commercial success before being issued in the United States the following year to critical praise. Kreviazuk released two more studio albums with the Columbia label, ''Colour Moving and Still'' (1999) and ''What If It All Means Something'' (2002), both of which brought moderate commercial success worldwide. She signed with Sony BMG for her fourth album, ''Ghost Stories (Chantal Kreviazuk album), Ghost Stories'' (2006), which reached number two on the Canadian Albums Chart. Since 2003, Kreviazuk has co-written and composed numerous songs for other artists as well as film soundtracks, and has appeared in several Canadian independent and short films. Her fifth album, ''Plain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe (born 5 October 1969) is an American-born English artist based in London.Royal Academy of ArtsChantal Joffe RA Elect , Artist , Royal Academy of Arts accessdate: 29/08/2014 Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women and children. In 2006, she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy. Life and education Chantal Joffe was born in St. Albans, Vermont, USA. Her younger brother is the contemporary artist and novelist Jasper Joffe. Their mother, Daryll Joffe, is also an artist, painting in watercolours. Joffe completed her Foundation studies at Camberwell College of Arts (1987–88). She attended Glasgow School of Art in 1988–91, graduating with honours and receiving her BA in Fine Art. She received her MA in painting from the Royal College of Art, which she attended from 1992–94. She was honoured with the Delfina Studio Trust Award in 1994–96 and the Abbey Scholarship (British School at Rome) in 1998–99. Joffe li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
