Events

Saturday, March 13, 2010 (12)

Mar 13, 2010
January 28, 2010
Thursday

  • French Fairytale Acting Classes for Kids at Galli Theater

  • Jan 28, 2010 at 11:00am to Mar 25, 2010 at 3:00pm
  • Location: Midtown Manhattan
  • Description: Galli Fairytale Theater, a non profit theater for children, announces NEW Fairytale Acting classes in French, Spring 2010.Thursdays, 4.30-6pm (ages 5-7)Kids practice to speak French through role play, character work and the development of a fairytale play. At the end we are presenting a show!Thurs Jan 28 - Thurs Mar 25 (9 classes)Please contact us at newyork@galli-group.com.Cost: $270.- ($220 for siblings)I
  • Created by: Simon Fuetterer
February 26, 2010
Friday

  • The Animauters: 50 Years of French Animation

  • Feb 26, 2010 at 1:00pm to Mar 21, 2010 at 3:00pm
  • Location: Theaters throughout NYC
  • Description: Breathtaking and rarely screened animated films from French auteurs Paul Grimault, Sylvain Chomet, Rene Laloux, Michel Ocelot, Serge Elissalde, Marie Caillou, Jacques-Remy Girerd, Jean-Francois Laguionie, Jerome Boulbes and more...Presented by the New York International Children's Film Festival. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.GKIDS.com
  • Created by: Regan Rondy
February 28, 2010
Sunday

  • Marguerite Duras Festival has Feminine Touch

  • Feb 28, 2010 to Mar 18, 2010
  • Location: New York
  • Description: The works of Marguerite Duras, France's well-known author, playwright and film director, will be celebrated during a month-long multidisciplinary festival in New York City from February 18 to March 18. Known for her evocative and experimental free-flowing style, Marguerite Duras revolutionized the form of the twentieth century novel, and her innovations also carried to the screen and stage. At the initiative of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and in partnership with Anthology Film Archives, the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF).
  • Created by: Nabil Bekhti
March 11, 2010
Thursday

  • Exposition "Splendeurs du Nu"

  • Mar 11, 2010 at 9:00am to Mar 31, 2010 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Pavillon d'Art Contemporain
  • Description: Pavillon d'Art Contemporain est une galerie située en plein quartier artistique de New York, Soho.A partir du 1 Mars et jusqu'au 31 Mars seront exposés les "Splendeurs du Nu ", les oeuvres de divers artistes européen.Ouverte au public du Mardi au Samedi de 2:00 pm à 6:00 pm.Entre les rues Lafayettes et Crosby, Métro Canal Street, ligne 6, N,Q, R, W.Pour tout renseignement, n'hésitez pas à me contacter :Adresse e-mail : emilie.lenglain@gmail.com
  • Created by: Emilie Lenglain
 

  • Special Film Event: Screening of Les Regrets, followed by Q & A with director Cédric Kahn and lead actor Yvan Attal

  • Mar 11, 2010 at 2:30pm to Mar 17, 2010 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Maison Francaise of Columbia University
  • Description: Cédric Kahn is the director of critically acclaimed Feux Rouges (Golden Bear Nominee, Berlin Film Festival, 2004), Roberto Succo ( Palm D'or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival, 2001), and L'Ennui (1998). Les Regrets, Cedric Kahn's suspenseful tale of irrational, obsessive love, features Yvan Attal (Munich) and Valéria Bruni Tedeschi as old flames who reconnect and leave emotional carnage in their wake. With a suitably propulsive score by Philip Glass.

    Event organized and co-sponsored by the On Set with French Cinema film series of the Columbia University Film Division
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  • Created by: Maison Française of Columbia
 

  • LA VIE MATERIELLE DURAS

  • Mar 11, 2010 at 3:00pm to Mar 21, 2010 at 10:30am
  • Location: LA MAMA
  • Description: FOR 2 WEEKS ONLY:IRINA BROOK, awarding-winning Parisian theater director's american premiere of La Vie Materielle at LA MAMA.An hour in the company of five extraordinary, funny, beautiful, generous performers, the words of Duras and Virginia Woolf in a theatrical kitchen.French music, songs, laughter and tears...DO NOT MISS THIS! IT SOLD OUT AT FIAF!
  • Created by: irina brook
March 13, 2010
Saturday

  • PSG-Sochaux: Ligue 1 - Samedi 13 mars au Nevada Smiths Bar

  • Mar 13, 2010 from 8:00am to 11:00am
  • Location: Nevada Smiths Bar
  • Description: Nous serons là au Nevada Smiths bar pour venir encourager notre Club commed'habitude! Venir avec maillots et écharpes. Venez nombreux. La semaine dernièrequand le PSG a égalisé à la dernière seconde, nous avons littéralement réveilléle NS!! Nous devrions avoir un écran en bas! Nous avons déjà regardé quelquesmatches en streamiong cette saison et la qualité s'est vraiment améliorée parrapport à l'an dernier! A samedi. Allez Paris, Allez PSGPierrePSG NYC Club de SupportersPS: Nous avons recommandé des T-shirts donc un peu de patience. Le tambour est àl'hopital!!
  • Created by: Pierre Watiez
 
 

  • Circle of Solidarity: A Tribute the the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake

  • Mar 13, 2010 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Brooklyn Musuem
  • Description: Take a look at our invitation hereCircle of Solidarity
    A Tribute to the Victims of the Haiti EarthquakeJoin our community-wide tribute, featuring prominent poets, musicians, artists, and public figures to symbolize our unity with Haiti. Admission is free but seating is limited, so please respond to this email if you plan to attend. Program begins promptly at 6:30 pm Featuring: Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band, Katia Cadet, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Obed Jean-Louis, Gina Ulysse, Jennifer Celestin, Michele Voltaire Marcelin, Robert Large, New School Dance Majors, Peniel Guerrier. With Remarks from Deputy Borough President of Brooklyn Yvonne Graham, Deputy Borough President of Manhattan Rose Pierre-Louis, City Council Member Jumaane Williams and many others... Special Thanks to our Partnering Organizations: Diaspora Community Services, Friends of FOKAL, Haitian Americans United for Progress, HiBIscus Memorial Project, 1199 SEIU, The Global Syndicate, The Haitian Roundtable
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  • Created by: Rachel - Haiti Cultural Exchange
 

  • Public DVD Screenings and Panel Discussion - Alice Guy Blaché: After the (Whitney) Exhibition

  • Mar 13, 2010 from 2:30pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Maison Francaise of Columbia University
  • Description: In the first major retrospective of her work this year at the Whitney Museum, the public discovered the two-continent career of Silent Era producer-director-writer Alice Guy Blaché. Scholars of early cinema will screen examples of her films and comment on her remarkable, prolific career in Paris at the Gaumont Company (1896--1907) and in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at her own Solax Company (1910--1912).

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    Panelists:
    Joan Simon, Curator, Alice Guy Blaché Exhibition, Whitney MuseumKim Tomadjoglou, Co-curator, Alice Guy Blaché Exhibition, Whitney MuseumAntonia Lant, NYUCharles Musser, Yale UniversityAlan Williams, Rutgers University

    Event co-sponsors: Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK); The Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation; Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland; The Film Program, The School of the Arts, Columbia University; The Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University; The Academy of Motion
  • Created by: Maison Française of Columbia
 

  • Film: Yvan Attal presents ‘I Got a Woman’ and ‘New York, I Love You’

  • Mar 13, 2010 from 2:30pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
  • Description: FIAF and Unifrance are pleased to present acclaimed actor and director Yvan Attal who will introduce screenings of I Got a Woman and New York, I Love You, and participate in a Q&A session with the audience.Made in 1997, Yvan Attal’s short I Got a Woman humorously depicts the trials and tribulations of sharing the life of an actress.The passions of the city that never sleeps come to life in New York, I Love You (a follow-up to 2006’s Paris, je t'aime)—a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers, featuring an all-star cast.
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher