Events

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 (6)

Nov 9, 2011
September 27, 2011
Tuesday

  • Atelier Francophone

  • Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00pm to Dec 6, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Midtown West
  • Description: L'atelier Francophone est un cours de théâtre proposant des exercices sur l'imagination, le corps et la voix afin d’élaborerun jeu créatif et "réel". Nourrir ce jeu, c’est mettre à contribution la vie intérieure de l'acteur, explorer la richesse et le potentiel de sa propre individualité, et découvrir le lien harmonique qui l’unit à son partenaire.  

    Le cours intègre des méthodes diverses d'apprentissage du jeu (Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekhov, etc.) pour que l'acteur puisse découvrir les outils les plus utiles à son répertoire.

    L'accent est mis sur le travail en groupe. L'intérêt est de créer une troupe d'acteurs composée d’individus qui apprécient et essaient tout autant de nourrir le travail de la compagnie entière que d’enrichir leur propre savoir-faire.  

    Ce semestre, nous travaillerons sur des scènes diverses écrites par des auteurs contemporains francophones.
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
November 9, 2011
Wednesday

  • Budrus Screening and Discussion w/ Producer & Director Julia Bacha

  • Nov 9, 2011 from 1:00pm to 4:15pm
  • Location: New York Institute of Technology Auditorium
  • Description:

    Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. His 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.
    6:00pm - 7:00pm:      Wine and Cheese Reception

    7:20pm - 8:45pm:      Screening

     

     8:45pm - 9:15pm:        Discussion and Q&A with
                                         Director and Producer, Julia Bacha 
  • Created by: Marion Vincent
 

  • Meet the Writer: Armin Arefi

  • Nov 9, 2011 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm
  • Location: FIAF - Haskell Library
  • Description:

    Join Armin Arefi, author of Green Ribbons and Turbans, for a talk on the occasion of the book’s release in English in the U.S. on November 1, 2011.

    Armin Arefi was a press correspondent for major French newspapers in Iran until 2007, when he fled the country to avoid persecution and imprisonment. Inspired by his experience in the Islamic Republic, he seeks to combat the usual clichés about the Iranian people and to keep the world informed about what’s happening on the streets of Tehran. His contacts in Iran reported to him daily during the protests following the 2009 election, giving him eyewitness accounts as material for this book. He currently lives in France.

    The talk will be moderated by Delia Casa, Arefi’s editor at Skyhorse Publishing.

    In English.

  • Created by: FIAF
 

  • French Culture Nights presents Vintage Night with Fabienne Cuter and Jen Lebreton - November 09, Larchmont

  • Nov 9, 2011 from 1:30pm to 7:00pm
  • Location: "Vintage 1891"
  • Description: On November 9, the French Culture Nights will showcase a wonderful duo of visual artists, Fabienne Cuter and Jean Lebreton at the restaurant lounge Vintage 1891 (2098 Boston Post Road, Larchmont) from 6.30pm to midnight.


    Featured at our event, the works of Fabienne Cuter, whose paintings reflect her own questioning of our consciousness of this elapsing present. In her series Resurgence Reminiscence Evanescence, she expresses with poetry, on stainless steel, the trace of this so fragile present, which is also a part of eternity.(www.fabiennecuter.com) Photography’s by Jean Lebreton who will present his encaustic mixed-media photography. Abstraction In A World Too Real. (www.jeanlebreton.com)


    REGISTER AT WWW.FRENCHCULTURENIGHTS.COM WITH THE CODE "NYINFRENCH".

    Vintage 1891 will offer a unique $40 three-course meal when reserved online ($45 at the door). For those who do not wish to order the meal, the admission fee of $10 is waived for those who pre-register online at www.FrenchCulturenights
  • Created by: Enrique Gonzalez
 

  • The Kid from Paris - Jean Brassard sings Montand

  • Nov 9, 2011 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: Triad Theater: November 9, 23 and December 7 @ 7pm
  • Description:

    JEAN BRASSARD provides a musical tribute to YVES MONTAND - one of France's most pioneering stars and pillar of French chansons, in 'The Kid From Paris'. With three performances at the Triad Theater, the artist marks the 20th anniversary of Yves Montand's passing and what would have been his 90th birthday. Presenting eclectic French and English selections from Montand’s 50 year repertoire, Brassard’s solo tribute deftly laces songs, theatrical vignettes and a first rate narrative of the beloved French icon’s life, loves, passions and politics. Co-written with Brassard’s partner David Krueger, 'The Kid From Paris'. informs, moves, seduces and celebrates on many levels. Krueger directs and Brassard holds center stage.

    The Kid from Paris - Triad Theater

    THE KID FROM PARIS -  BRASSARD SINGS MONTAND

    ‘From Italian Boy to French Icon’

     

    Co-written by Jean Brassard & David Krueger

    Directed by David Krueger / Musical direction by Richard Maheux

    Keyboards: Richard Maheux / Bass: Scott Ritchie / Percussi

  • Created by: Jean Brassard
 

  • National Front Voters and Marine Le Pen’s Leadership

  • Nov 9, 2011 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    Institute of French Studies Colloquium

     

    NONNA MAYER
    Senior research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Centre d’études européennes, Sciences Po), and a professor of political science at Sciences Po; visiting professor at NYU’s Institute of French Studies. She specializes in the sociology of political behaviors, racism and anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism. She is the author of Sociologie des comportements politiques (2010), Ces Français qui votent Le Pen (1999 and 2002)

     

    In January 2011, Marine Le Pen, the youngest of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughters, succeeded her father as president of the National Front. Almost immediately, several polls showed her matching or outpacing Nicolas Sarkozy before the run-off in the 2012 presidential elections. Analysts have wondered about her ability to refresh the image of the party and garner the vote of new constituencies with more leftist economics. The presentation explores National Front voters and voting under the leaders

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU