Edith Piaf, alive and living in New York
- Feb 18, 2012 at 4:30pm EST to Jun 21, 2012 at 6:00pm EDT
- Location: The Metropolitan Room
- Description:
Edith Piaf Alive and Living in New York
Introducing Floanne
Written by Floanne Ankah & Alice Jankell
Directed by Alice Jankell
Piano: Audrey Saint-Gil, Accordion: Kate Dunphy
Guitar: Marcel Van Dam, Percussion: Alby Roblejo
Saturday, Jan 21/Feb 18/Mar 17 at 9:30
Thursday, April 19/May 17/Jun 21 at 9:30
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 Tickets $20.00, 2 drinks minimum (212) 206-0440, www.metropolitanroom.com
French actress and singer Floanne Ankah recounts the Piaf story. This authentic ‘chanteuse’ and farm girl opens the door to her culture, by taking a closer look at the legendary ‘Little Sparrow’ —with that husky, mournful voice so popular in the 1940’ and 50’s. The performance is a culturally rich and moving presenta- tion that will make you smile, with tunes transporting you to other times and places.
Yes, both Floanne and Edith Piaf will be attending the rendez-vous in a medley of vintage tunes from their native France... with a modern twist. She w
- Created by: Flo Ankah
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 (16)
Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Dressed for Art
- Feb 24, 2012 at 6:00am EST to Apr 14, 2012 at 2:00pm EDT
- Location: FIAF Gallery
- Description:
This February, Fashion at FIAF extends into the Gallery with a witty collection of colorful fashion drawings and paintings by Jean-Phillipe Delhomme, one of the most delightful satirists in fashion today.
Delhomme is a painter, writer, cultural blogger, and fashion illustrator, whose illustrations have been featured in renowned magazines such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker. In this exhibition, he explores how fashion, contemporary art, and design interact with each other and influence today’s popular culture.
Free and open
to the publicGallery Hours
Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
Sat: 11am–5pm - Created by: FIAF
Middle Eastern Music Lessons/Classes at Alwan for the Arts
- Mar 2, 2012 to May 25, 2012
- Location: Alwan for the Arts
- Description: Alwan for the Arts is excited to announce weekly group and private Arab Music Instruction this spring. Opportunities are available for beginners and seasoned musicians of all ages to learn fundamentals of Arab music and/or study specialized topics, such as focusing on many iterations of a single Maqam throughout a few decades, learning to sing and perform many maqams and popular songs along with classical Arabic poetry, studying vocal repertoire in an all-woman setting, and learning to play and jam on Arabic percussion instruments. Private lessons are also available on traditional as well as Western instruments and voice.Group Classes include:Maqam theory and practice (Maqam Rast in Early 20th c. Egypt)Arabic PercussionWomen's Choir (Arabic repertoire, no knowledge of Arabic necessary!)Iraqi Maqam (repertoire and variation)Private lessons also available on violin, 'oud, buzuq, qanun, santur, trumpet, percussion, voice (male and female).All other instrumentalists encouraged to stud
- Created by: Lety ElNaggar
Act French: French language classes for theater lovers
- Mar 6, 2012 at 1:00pm EST to Apr 17, 2012 at 6:00pm EDT
- Location: Pearl Studios
- Description:
Six-week interactive French language classes for theater lovers
20% discount for NY in French members with code: NYinFrench
Our fast-paced classes are designed to help you learn to speak French with confidence and make friends with a wonderful group of like-minded foreign language lovers. The class culminates in a big cultural party where you'll get to practice the language with native speakers, eat delicious food from the region and, if you choose, present the theater scenes you work on during the semester in a relaxed, friendly environment (no one is forced to perform). There will be actors in this class but no acting experience is necessary. All you need to bring to this class is a passion for international culture and a spirit of adventure!
*Act French for beginners:
Tuesdays (March 6-April 17)
Time: 8:15-10pm
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*Act French for intermediates
Tuesdays ( March 6 - April 17)
Time: 6:15-8
Last class party is 8-10pmVisit http://actfrench.com to register
- Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
365 by DANIEL HOROWITZ
- Mar 10, 2012 at 1:00pm EST to Apr 22, 2012 at 1:00pm EDT
- Location: THE INVISIBLE DOG
- Description:
Daniel Horowitz is an award-winning illustrator and art director. Working primarily as a digital artist over the last decade, one day Daniel Horowitz considered what might happen if he were to pull out a blank page and begin to draw. Not on commission and with no particular purpose in mind. The self imposed minimum, one drawing a day, was to serve as an exercise to pull himself away from the computer and to begin to explore analog creativity. Daniel was concerned that the quality of these artworks would be too different from, or inferior to, his better known commercial illustrations, so he had little intention of sharing this experiment. However, as days turned into weeks he began to realize that within the spontaneity of this process, something curious and new began to emerge.
Horowitz formed a blog and began to post his daily explorations. The overwhelming response helped to see the project through to its end at 365 drawings. Although the requirement was to post a sketch or line draw
- Created by: lucien zayan / the invisible dog
DISTORTING [A MESSIAH PROJECT 13C]
- Mar 10, 2012 at 1:00pm EST to May 5, 2012 at 1:00pm EDT
- Location: THE INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER
- Description:
A sculptural installation overwhelming the ground floor of the Invisible Dog Art Center inspired by R. Justin Stewart’s research into the Jewish concept of the messiah and curated by Risa Shoup
After two years of research, R. Justin Stewart, a professed agnostic, will install Distorting (a messiah project, 13C), an intricate environment constructed of fleece, rope and plastic that will serve as a 3-D representation of the concept of the messiah in the 13th Century. Distorting is a visual delight that will overwhelm the viewer with color and shape as it invades the Invisible Dog. Those viewers wanting to understand the connection between the sculptural elements and the information that inspired them will need only to scan QR codes, discreetly embedded throughout the sculpture, with their phone or other mobile devices to download the information they seek.
In the coming years, Stewart will unveil additional installations under the umbrella of “a messiah project.” Just as Distorting only fo
- Created by: lucien zayan / the invisible dog
DELICACY
- Mar 13, 2012 to Apr 25, 2012
- Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center & Sunshine Cinemas
- Description:
Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (comic star Francois Damiens, Heartbreaker).
At first stunned by Nathalie’s unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else’s judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.
- Created by: Aimee Morris
Light around the world project
- Mar 16, 2012 at 2:00pm to May 6, 2012 at 10:15am EDT
- Location: New york
- Description:
Light around the world project's about spirituality, love, peace, harmony, knowledge and wisdom.
http://http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091701951/light-around-the-world
- Created by: Julien
Michèle Caussin-Bellon: Painting on Light
- Mar 29, 2012 to Apr 19, 2012
- Location: Agora Gallery
- Description:
NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of French artist, Michèle Caussin-Bellon in Portals of Perception. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March30, 2012 through April 19, 2012 (opening reception: Thursday, April 5, 2012).
About the Artist
Michèle Caussin-Bellon was one of France’s leading pastel artists until an accident forced her to look for a new form of expression. After much research she developed her unique and distinctive style of short, crosshatched brushstrokes of tempera in a palette of earth-toned hues. The resulting canvases span still lifes, portraits, landscapes and nudes, her impressionist-style aesthetic infusing subtle dashes of color and surprising lighting effects into exquisitely executed compositions.
Her particular style of paint application, which she follows with a layer of soap or wax to achieve an unexpected textural effect, privileges light, making every image appear as if it is emerging from a sun-bleached midsummer aft - Created by: Lee Eagle
Signs of Inflation
- Mar 29, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
- Location: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Description:
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/NewsEvents/SignsofInflationPressRel.pdf
Avec deux cabinets dédiés à l'histoire monétaire française, de la Révolution à l'arrivée de l'euro.
- Created by: gilles bransbourg
Ghett’Out Film Festival: Donoma
- Apr 11, 2012 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm EDT
- Location: BAMcinématek
- Description:
Donoma
Part of the BAMcinématek series Ghett'Out Film Festival
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30pm
Directed by Djinn Carrenard
With Salomé Blechmans, Matthieu Longatte
(2011) 133min, DVD
An official selection at this year’s New Directors/New Films, Donoma was made for just $200. In these intertwining vignettes, a female teacher begins an ambiguous relationship with a student, an agnostic teenager is “called” by God, and a photographer offers herself to a stranger. Director Carrenard asks: Do we choose to love or do we choose to be loved?
BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $10
BAM Cinema Club Members: $7---------------------------------------------------
The Ghett'Out Film Festival comes to New York, highlighting the work of filmmakers on the fringes of the French film industry. Many of the filmmakers are minorities from low-income backgrounds and self-taught; they are the leaders of a new New Wave in France. BAMcinématek is proud to present these selections from the festival in partnership with the
- Created by: Nathalie Charles
Ghett'Out Film Festival Directors' Roundtable
- Apr 11, 2012 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm EDT
- Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall at Columbia University
- Description:
Short films and roundtable discussion with French filmmakers Sylvain George, Stéphane Elmadjian and Soufiane Adel, moderated by Charles Burnett
Films in French with English subtitles; discussion in French and English with translation
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Ghett'Out Film Festival coming to New York (at BAM) and Boston will reveal independent French talents emerging on the outskirts of the classic system in France. Mostly self-educated, from diverse cultural backgrounds and often deprived neighborhoods, these filmmakers are the pioneers of an underground Nouvelle Vague. Three young filmmakers present short films and converse about their work with U.S. filmmaker Charles Burnett and Phil Watts.
Partial support provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French-American Foundation
- Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
Yummy Yami Opening
- Apr 11, 2012 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
- Location: FB gallery
- Description:
Don't miss the opening of Yummi Yami, an exhibition by French artist K-narf at FB gallery.
Inspired by the true and fascinating story of Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who engaged in acts of cannibalism while living in Paris and then became a minor celebrity upon his return to Japan, K-narf pushes the limits of how sex is portrayed in art—creating a jarring dialogue between images and the story behind them.
Yummy Yami is a series of collages—Diptych Photograffiti—made from photographs of window displays of old pornographic movie theaters in Tokyo and shots taken in French butcher shops. With the juxtaposition of images of raw meat and softcore erotica, Yummy Yami evokes the same discomfort as Sagawa’s story. - Created by: François baron
Film Screening 'Indochina, Traces of a Mother' with director IDRISSOU MORA-KPAI
- Apr 11, 2012 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm EDT
- Location: La Maison Francaise of NYU
- Description:
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Documentary Film Screening
Indochina, Traces of a Mother(2011. With English subtitles)
Through the story of Christophe, a 58-year-old Afro-Vietnamese man, the film tells the story of African colonial soldiers fighting for the French in Indochina. Between 1946 and 1954, over 60,000 African soldiers were enlisted by the French (often involuntarily) to fight the Viet Minh. Little known is also that children born of marriages between these soldiers and Vietnamese women were shipped back to Africa by the colonial army after the war, never again to see their mothers. Mora Kpaï poetically relays the stories of some of these African veterans and children, including that of Christophe, who now in his adulthood grapples to come to terms with his past and identity.
Followed by a discussion with the director IDRISSOU MORA-KPAI
Idrissou Mora-Kpaï was born in Benin in 1967. He has lived in Algeria, Germany and France. In his first documentary film, Si-Gu - Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
Jacques Brel Returns
- Apr 11, 2012 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm EDT
- Location: Triad Theatre
- Description:
A cabaret show of Jaques Brel Music. $30 General Admission and two drink minimum. Cash only.
- Created by: Nicole Herrington
Ghett’Out Film Festival: May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Qu’ils reposent en révolte)
- Apr 11, 2012 from 3:15pm to 5:15pm EDT
- Location: BAMcinématek
- Description:
May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Qu’ils reposent en révolte)
Part of the BAMcinématek series Ghett'Out Film Festival
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:15pm
Post–screening discussion with Sylvain George
Directed by Sylvain George
(2012) 154min, 35mm
Filmmaker Sylvain George spent three years in Calais observing the living conditions of the mostly undocumented migrants there. Shot in black and white, the film is a collage of striking fragments, ultimately finding hope in the spirit of resistance and solidarity among local people to defend these outcasts unjustly deprived of their fundamental rights.
BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $10
BAM Cinema Club Members: $7---------------------------------------------------
The Ghett'Out Film Festival comes to New York, highlighting the work of filmmakers on the fringes of the French film industry. Many of the filmmakers are minorities from low-income backgrounds and self-taught; they are the leaders of a new New Wave in France. BAMcinématek is proud t
- Created by: Nathalie Charles