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

www.floanne.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

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 public

Gallery Hours
Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
Sat: 11am–5pm

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 8-10pm

Visit http://actfrench.com to register

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

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

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.

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

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

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Avec deux cabinets dédiés à l'histoire monétaire française, de la Révolution à l'arrivée de l'euro.

After learning of the death of an elementary school teacher, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school to offer his services as a substitute teacher.  Quickly hired to replace the deceased, he finds himself thrown into an establishment in crisis, while going through his own personal tragedy. The film features exquisite performances by Fellag and the child actors playing Monsieur Lazhar’s young students coping with grief and learning to heal.

Award-winning writer-director Philippe Falardeau’s previous works - including Congorama and It’s Not Me I Swear! - have been screened at festivals around the world including Cannes, Toronto, New Directors/New Films, Berlin and Locarno. MONSIEUR LAZHAR, his fourth feature, is an adaptation of the play “Bashir Lazhar” by Montreal playwright Evelyne de la Cheneliere.

BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors.

This retrospective takes place from April 13 - May 6.

Dates and Tickets @ BAM

Paring the language of film down to its essential elements—minimally expressive performances by nonprofessional actors, highly detailed sound design, tableau-like compositions that sear themselves into the mind’s eye—Robert Bresson (1901—1999) searched for the soul in the modern world, revealing the divine in the unlikeliest places and exploring states of both spiritual rapture and lament. BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors. All films in 35mm and in French with English subtitles. 

"Bresson is to French cinema what Mozart is to German music and Dostoevsky is to Russian literature.” —Jean-Luc Godard 

“Every film is a must-see!” —Dave Kehr, The New York Tim

Filmmaker in person for Q&A at April 15 screening!

Bernadette, a single mother in Paris, tries to provide her daughters with everything.  She is thrilled when her eldest daughter, Elza, is the first in the family to graduate from college earning a master's degree summa cum laude. But Elza breaks her mother's heart by running away to their native Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood memory: the father she barely remembers. 

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Presented under the banner theme 21st Century: The Homecoming, this year’s New York African Film Festival will screen contemporary and classic African films that explore the notion of home and homeland, from the legacy of music legend Miriam Makeba (subject of our Opening Night film, Mama Africa) to disaporic visions like the New York-set Restless City, which comes direct from its acclaimed premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, to mark the 100th anniversar

L’Afrance

Part of the BAMcinématek series Ghett'Out Film Festival

Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:30pm

Directed by Alain Gomis
With Djolof Mbengue, Delphine Zingg

(2011) 90min, 35mm

El Hadj, a postgraduate student living in Paris, has plans to return to his home of Senegal and become a teacher, and in turn, help rebuild the country’s infrastructure. But when he embarks on a love affair with Delphine, a white French woman, he finds himself in an existential crisis—questioning not only his own position, but that of Senegal and, by extension, Africa.

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $10
BAM Cinema Club Members: $7

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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

Come to the Maje store on Bleecker tonight for a head-to-toe makeover! Enjoy complimentary blowouts and makeup consultations and get styled in a great new Maje look! 

Alice Kaplan discusses her new book, Dreaming in French (University of Chicago Press, 2012), that tells how their sojourns in the City of Light changed the lives of three extraordinary American women, who would each go on to become key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life.

Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. Her previous books include Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (1986), French Lessons: A Memoir (1993), and The Interpreter (2005).

On Thursday, April 12, the French Culture Nights invites you at Skyroom with a very talented group of hip hop dancers, the Sùla Bùla, along with two visual artists, Jeanne Verdoux and Odilon Ngonda. Music will be played by DJ Mak-Len.

The French Culture Nights features drawings by Jeanne Verdoux and paintings by Odilon Ngonda while DJ Mak-Len will play the best French and American songs. Sùla Bùla will lead you into their universe with their hip hop dance performances.

The French Culture Nights will take place at Skyroom which boasts 360 degree views of Manhattan and the Hudson River from the city's highest rooftop lounge. This lounge has a fully retractable glass roof cover and panoramic glass walls, offering stunning views of the Times Square area.

Register @ www.frenchculturenights.com with CODE: "NYINFRENCH"
The admission fee of $10 is waived for those who pre-register online before 4PM on April 12

The French Culture Nights is an organization with a mission to promote French and

Shorts Program

Part of the BAMcinématek series Ghett'Out Film Festival

Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:50pm
Followed by a discussion with directors Stéphane Elmadjian & Soufiane Adel

97min, 35mm

When the Wind Weaves Flowers 
(2003) 24min

Under The Overalls
(2004) 21min

My Name Is
(2001) 17min

Kamel Committed suicide Six Times, His Grand-Father Died 
(2006) 9min

Nola
(2010) 26min

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $10
BAM Cinema Club Members: $7

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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 French Cultural Services.