This Fall: Focus on French Design
- Jan 15, 2011 at 7:00pm to Feb 18, 2011 at 6:00pm EST
- Location: Museum of Art & Design / Parson School of Design / Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Description: COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
ONGOING EXHIBITION NATIONAL DESIGN TRIENNIAL WHY DESIGN NOW?
May 14, 2010 - January 9, 2011
MATERIAL USE
A conversation with François Azambourg, Eben Bayer and other triennial participants about innovative materials designers are using in their work.
Moderated by Andrew H. Dent, Vice President, Material Connexion
Free for students
NOVEMBER 16th at 6:30PM
2 East 91st Street, NY 10128
www.cooperhewitt.org/calendar
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
QUOTIDIAN PRODUCT: PARIS/NEW YORK
Panel discussion between two significant product design studios based in Paris (Normal Studio, François Azambourg) with New York City counterparts (Antenna Design, Jeff Miller). Moderated by Parsons Associate Professor Rama Chorpash.
NOVEMBER 18th AT 6PM
65 West 11th Street, NY 10011
wollman Hall, Lang Building - Room B500 (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
www.newschool.edu/parsons - Free event - Created by: Marion Brun
Friday, February 18, 2011 (7)
Concours de slam avec Grand Corps Malade (TV5 MONDE)
- Feb 8, 2011 at 1:00pm to Mar 1, 2011 at 7:00am EST
- Location: TV5 MONDE
- Description:
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!
- Created by: Marie Laffitte
GINKGOA
- Feb 11, 2011 at 3:00pm to Feb 27, 2011 at 6:00pm EST
- Location: New York City
- Description: Le Group GINKGOA jazzy bossanovienne arrive en New York de Paris pour seulement 2 semaines! Ne ratez pas leur concert!!
- Created by: Nicolle Rochelle
Yann Tiersen (unplugged) with Orchestra
- Feb 17, 2011 to Feb 18, 2011
- Location: Highline Ballroom
- Description:
"Let's live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all. Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did." Yann Tiersen
- Created by: New York in French
Yann Tiersen (regular band) Breathe Owl Breathe
- Feb 18, 2011 to Feb 19, 2011
- Location: Highline Ballroom
- Description:
"Let's live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all. Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did." Yann Tiersen
More - Created by: New York in French
Collective Identities: Policies and Poetics
- Feb 18, 2011 from 5:00am to 12:00pm EST
- Location: The Segal Theater at The Graduate Center
- Description:
Conference: "Collective Identities: Policies and Poetics"
Keynote Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen from George Washington University.
Presentation of papers by 10 young scholars
- Created by: Carole Kulikowski
Aperghis, East Coast premiere of Sextuor: L'Origine des espèces
- Feb 18, 2011 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EST
- Location: Wild Project
- Description:
Performed by the Hyoid Ensemble: Gelsey Bell, Christie Finn, Amirtha Kidambi, Megan Schubert, Fabienne Séveillac, and cellist Émilie Girard-Charest.
Directed by Jeremy Bloom.
Notes on Sextuor by Fabienne Séveillac
Until now, George Aperghis’ Sextuor had not been premiered on the East Coast despite a growing knowledge in the U.S. of his vocal compositions (for instance, the famous Recitations for female voice written in 1978). Soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac has been performing Aperghis’ music for more than twenty years and is one of the original performers of Sextuor. Having studied with her in the Acanthes academy in 2009, I was exposed to many of his works and, convinced of Sextuor’s extraordinary singularity, I decided that the work should be presented in New York.
Last summer, two of the ensemble members and I had the chance to work with Michel-Dansac during the Darmstadt summer courses on sections from Sextuor. I also had the honor to sit down with Aperghis and discuss at length his - Created by: fabienneseveillac