Tilt Kids Festival - This Isn't Trash by Hervé Tullet at Invisible Dog
- Mar 3, 2017 to Apr 15, 2017
- Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center
- Description:
Wildly imaginative illustrator Hervé Tullet—best known for the beloved children’s book Press Here—opens the 2017 Tilt Kids Festival with the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier, who was trained by Tullet.
All agesFree and open to the public
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Friday, March 31, 2017 (9)
Tilt Kids Festival - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Kid by François Hébel at FIAF Gallery
- Mar 10, 2017 to Apr 26, 2017
- Location: FIAF Gallery
- Description:
Tilt Kids Festival goes old school with a tribute to the photobooth, precursor to the selfie, in the FIAF Gallery. Capturing the spontaneity of photography before the advent of the delete button, a hands-on workshop will teach kids how to compose a narrative in four frames.
A special jury will select workshop images to be displayed in large scale during the exhibition from March 18-April 26.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
FRANTZ directed by Francois Ozon
- Mar 14, 2017 to Apr 28, 2017
- Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum
- Description:
Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of FRANTZ, acclaimed French writer/director Francois Ozon’s elegiac and haunting tale of love and remembrance, starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and rising star Paula Beer. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2017 César Awards, and a selection of the 2016 Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, FRANTZ is scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, March 15 at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema, followed by a national roll out.
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, p - Created by: Aimee Morris
International Theater Artist Gay Marshall: "Gay's Paree"
- Mar 15, 2017 at 3:30pm to Apr 5, 2017 at 3:30pm EDT
- Location: Pangea
- Description:
International theater actress and singer, Gay Marshall, reprises her original show, Gay's Paree, at downtown's alternative supper club, Pangea, for four shows this spring: Wednesdays, March 15th through April 5th at 7:30pm. Marshall, who originated the role of Grizabella in the French production of CATS, and starred on Broadway in A Chorus Line, celebrates her real-life experiences of singing all over Paris, to varying degrees of adventure, delight and misery, through stories and songs by Charles Aznavour, Boris Vian, Francis Lemarque, Dave Frishberg Jacques Brel, and Edith Piaf.
“As dynamic as Paris itself, and also riotously funny." - New York Music Daily
“An enchanting performer who could be said to represent, well, France. To hear her sing with heart-stirring transparency is to experience Brel's art in its purest and most persuasive form." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
The show, in both French and English, features Marshall’s own English adaptations. From the streets, to div
- Created by: Betsyann Faiella
Focus on French Cinema 2017
- Mar 26, 2017 to Apr 2, 2017
- Location: Bow Tie Cinemas in Greenwich
- Description:
Focus on French Cinema 2017 , presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich will feature over 20 U.S. and World Premiere films the week of March 27- April 2.
Claude Lelouch will be the honoree in addition to a Tribute to the Cinema of Québec. FFC%20Proof%20for%203.30.2017%20GO.pdf
- Created by: Renee Amory Ketcham
Focus on French Cinema 2017
- Mar 26, 2017 to Apr 2, 2017
- Location: The AVON, FIAF , Le Lycée , United Nations and Bow Tie Cinemas
- Description:
Focus on French Cinema, presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich announces the week long festival of Francophone film March 27- April 2.
Claude Lelouch is the honoree with an additional special Tribute to the cinema of Québec
- Created by: Renee Amory Ketcham
Kiddy Frenchy Presents Le Chat Botté by French Cie Picrokole
- Mar 30, 2017 at 6:00am to Apr 5, 2017 at 11:00am EDT
- Location: Multiple Schools
- Description:
Kiddy Frenchy is proud to introduce PUSS IN BOOTS to young American students. Performed in French by Paris-based Theatre Company, la Cie Picrokole, the famous show will involve traditional and shadow theatre, puppet show and songs. Long before the animated films that brought a new light on it, Puss in Boots was originally a very famous work by French author Charles Perrault.
Performances coming:
Lycée Français de New York (NY)
Lycée International de Boston (MA)
French American Academy, campus de Jersey City (NJ)
French American Academy, campus de New Milford (NJ)There is still time for New York schools to host the show based on ticketing.
contact@kiddyfrenchy.org - Created by: Samantha Grassian
Tilt Kids Festival - The Emperor and the Nightingale by Nicolas Bouchaud & Sonia Wider-Atherton at FIAF Skyroom
- Mar 31, 2017 to Apr 2, 2017
- Location: FIAF Skyroom
- Description:
Two powerhouse French performers—stage actor Nicolas Bouchaud and acclaimed cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton—join forces to perform an imaginative, musical rendition of Hans Christian Anderson’s treasured fairytale The Emperor and the Nightingale. The pair mix sounds from bells and all manners of music to tell the story of an emperor who tries to replace the love of a nightingale with a glittering mechanical bird.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Fit to Print / Draw Jam
- Mar 31, 2017 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
- Location: Cultural Services of the French embassy
- Description:
Join 16 illustrators of the Haute école des arts du Rhin for a DRAW JAM, a collective sketch night & book signing! Enjoy a glass of wine, sketch to live models in surrealist costume, and then hang your creations on the walls of the French Embassy for a collective pop-up exhibition. Artists of all skill levels are welcome, and should come prepared with their own art materials.
Curated by Alexandra Zsigmond, the art director of the New York Times' opinion section, this event is a rare opportunity to meet these young illustrators in person, discover their handmade books and prints, and draw with them side by side.
Chairs, tables and refreshments will be provided.
In English and French. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary!
This event is part of "Fit to Print", an exhibition on editorial illustration at the Society Of Illustrators and at the The New York Times. Additional events will take place at the MOCCA Arts Festival.
- Created by: Alix de Cazotte