Events

Actfrench.com
Registration is now open for January French classes with Act French (Actfrench.com)  in Manhattan.

-French language classes

-Acting in French

-Act American: for internationals

Semester Spotlight : Joël Pommerat et la France Métropolitaine

We offer:
*French language classes for performing arts professionals and theatre lovers with a focus on contemporary French theatre from around the world (no acting or French experience necessary)

*Acting in French for native speakers and fluent theatre lovers

*Act American: an acting in English class for international students and Americans who want to connect to the international community or learn to translate for the American theatre.

*Theatrical excursions

Where::

Pearl Studios: 500 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Actors, opera singers, filmmakers, editors, lawyers, journalists and all theatre enthusiasts equally welcome.

4 classes

Français I (for beginners) - Monday at 6:15pm
Français II (for intermediates) - Mondays at 8:15pm
Ateli

http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/Musique/Concours/p-14402-Concours-de-slam.htm

CONCOURS de SLAM AVEC GRAND CORPS MALADE

Envoyez votre texte ou votre vidéo en respectant une seule consigne: votre slam doit contenir les dix mots choisis pour la Semaine de la langue française! Soyez créatifs, les gagnants seront annoncés par Grand Corps Malade lors de son chat vidéo le 14 mars prochain!

Michel Wieviorka

Michel Wieviorka will present the main ideas in his new book, Pour la prochaine gauche (Robert Laffont,February 2011). His talk will focus on how the French Left can and should drawon the social sciences to articulate a new kind of leftist politics that speaksto the social realities and expectations in today’s France. Multiculturalism,affirmative action, national identity, ethnic statistics, immigrantpopulations: how can these pressing social issues be incorporated through aninformed use of sociological, political and historical analysis into a coherentpolitical project that reaffirms leftist values? 

Michel Wieviorka is a sociologist, professor at the École des HautesEtudes en Sciences Sociales, director of the Fondation Maison des Sciences del’Homme, former president of the International Sociological Association and compagnon de route of the French Socialist Party.

VANESSA PARADIS announces first U.S. Performance on February 16, 2011 at 8:00PM at The Town Hall (123 West 43^rd St - NYC).  Tickets available online, charge by phone 800.745.3000 and at the Town Hall box office.

Burning Bridges Comedy @ McSwiggans: Wednesday Feb. 16th ed.

The curmudgeon Brooklyn odd couple of Ray Field and Todd Montesi have decided to come together and produce a weekly bibulous filled good time and mirth at their hangout, The New York Classic known as McSwiggans. Featuring top comics, great laughs, cheap drink specials ( for ex. $3 beers, ALL 16 DRAFTS), and a laid-back atmosphere, how can you go wrong with that on a Wednesday night? C'mon, who's tying you down? Forget all of your commitments, burn all your bridges and join us! JOIN US! You won't regret it. (Well, unless you really did burn up all your bridges. It's only a figure of speech dude.)

This week's guests (Wednesday Feb. 16th):

Jay Nog

Sandy Marks

Ray Devito

Alan Schwartz

Bodger Millerd

Maggie Levine

Gabe Pacheco

Aaron Kominos-Smith

hosted by Ray Field, rainmaker, and featuring Todd Montesi, secretary of Something, Something, and Welfare

Burning Bridges @ McSwiggans

 Presented by Ray Field & Todd Montesi

 Wednesdays 8PM show