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July 31, 2009
Friday

  • Teenage Bad Girl and others

  • Jul 31, 2009 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Webster HALL
  • Description: Ever heard about Teenage Bad Girl ?Some say they are a genetic mix of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin & The Stooges. Anyhow they are part of the new French "electro touch", together with Justice, Para One, Modeselektor & a few others. And they know how to blow up any dancefloor.Their first released, the 12" "Hands of a Stranger", quickly reached the dancefloor charts & since the beginning of their short career, they’ve been supported and/or playlisted by Mylo, Chloé, Paul Woolford, Erol Alkan, Ian Pooley, JohnLordFonda, Justice, dj Hell, Digitalism, Arthur Baker, Adam Freeland, Ewan Pearson, Hystereo (Soma), Vitalic, Boys Noize, Yuksek, etc.Now Teenage Bad Girl are set to release on Citizen Records their debut album "Cocotte", due out in March 2007 in France. “Cocotte” includes 14 Dirt-Electro tracks, and also some remixes from Boys Noize and Hystereo.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
July 29, 2009
Wednesday

  • Soirée de lancement Hot & Cool Guide

  • Jul 29, 2009 from 2:30pm to 7:00pm
  • Location: Bubble Lounge, Champagne Bar
  • Description: Evening of bubbles and music to celebrate the launching of the French Culture Guide to New York.'"A celebration of the diversity of Frenchspeakers in the New York area. Packed with culture, this Guide spotlights the people,places, achievements, and events that make French life in NY so unique.'"Come and join!RSVP @ Media@FrenchCultureGuide.com
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
July 28, 2009
Tuesday

  • Mostly Mozart Festival @Lincoln Center, Opening Night with Louis Langrée

  • Jul 28, 2009 at 4:00pm to Jul 29, 2009 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Lincoln Center
  • Description: “Mr. Langrée has achieved a wonderful rapport with these players, and he led them with supple understatement, yielding alert performances of a springy resilience that seemed particularly Mozartean.”—The New York Times on Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival OrchestraLouis Langrée, conductorLeif Ove Andsnes, pianoAlice Coote, mezzo-sopranoBeethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minorHaydn: Berenice, che fai?Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 ("Jupiter")Pre-concert lecture by Elaine Sisman on July 29 at 6:45 in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
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  • Everything is fine, we're leaving l Tout va bien, on s'en va by Piccoli

  • Jul 28, 2009 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall
  • Description: A highlight of Piccoli’s later films, Everything’s Fine chronicles a man’s attempt to reunite with his three daughters after fifteen years of silence. Now grown women, the daughters find themselves caught between their still-burning resentment and a muted desire for reconciliation. Evident to all, though, is their father’s growing sickness.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
July 24, 2009
Friday

  • Film on the green : Le genou de Claire, Claire"s knee

  • Jul 24, 2009 from 4:15pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Tompkins Square Park
  • Description: The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French diplomat Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), on a resort vacation, meets Claire (Laurence De Monaghan), the teen-aged daughter of a friend. Though engaged to be married, Jerome falls hopelessly in love -- not with Claire, but with Claire's knee. Realizing that to be revealed as a fetishist would be ruinous for him, Jerome does not act upon his obsession. Eventually he gets to fulfill his yearnings by placing his hand upon Claire's knee, a gesture which she assumes is out of sympathy for a personal crisis she is going through. Originally released as Le Genou de Claire, this film was the recipient of the Prix Louis Delluc and the Prix Melies. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • Summer Stage

  • Jul 24, 2009 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Rumsey PLayfield
  • Description: The sophisticated soul songstress shares a bill with the NYC’s own Afro Soul band and radio personality/soul music champion.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • Concours de dessins sur la Police

  • Jul 24, 2009 at 2:00pm to Aug 31, 2009 at 3:00pm
  • Location: France - Bordeaux
  • Description: Jusqu'au 31 AOUT, l'association policière 911-17, organise un concours de dessins ouvert aux membres de la police, de la gendarmerie et des polices municipales.Le but est de réaliser des dessins ayant attrait au monde policier.POur en savoir plus sur les conditions du jeu concours, dirigez-vous sur la page de l'association à l'adresse suivante:http://www.911-17.fr/concours_de_dessins.htmlSi vous êtes policiers du NYPD, n'hésitez pas à nous envoyer les dessins de vos enfants. If you are NYPD's Officers, don't hesitate to send us your children's draw.
  • Created by: French Police association 911-17
July 23, 2009
Thursday

  • Emilie Simon, Highline Ballroom

  • Jul 23, 2009 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Highline Ballroom
  • Description: EMILIE SIMON first made her mark on the U.S. in the fall of 2006 with her debut U.S. release, The Flower Book. Her plush, artful soundscapes had already yielded her significant praise and awards in her French homeland, as well as acclaim across the rest of Europe and Japan. Singing in both French and English, Emilie allows her music to flow naturally, rewarding her with devoted fans worldwide. As a follow-up to Simon’s debut U.S. release, The Flower Book, The March of the Empress (La Marche de l'empereur) was released in 2007. Written as the original score to the European version of March of the Penguins, Émilie's full recordings were never released in the United States.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • French Night Series at the Cornelia St. Café

  • Jul 23, 2009 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Cornelia St. Café
  • Description: Please join us for an hour of French literature, read in translation and in the originalOn the program:Aline et Va lour by the Marquis de Sade; translated and read by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith SimmonsRapport sur moi by Grégoire Bouillier; translated by Bruce Benderson and read by Emmanuelle Ertel and Charlotta Nutley Phillips$7 cover includes one drinkLucinda Karter, hostFor program details and directions, visit www.corneliastreetcafe.comAnd please reserve the 6-7 hour on the fourth Thursday of each month for all the other French Nights
  • Created by: Sophie Schiavo
July 22, 2009
Wednesday

  • 11th annual festival of International film, music, dance and food

  • Jul 22, 2009 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Socrates Sculpture Park
  • Description: CONTEMPT , FRANCE1963, 102 mins. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang. With eye-popping widescreen photography, French New-Wave master Godard creates his most lavish and thoroughly enjoyable movie, an audacious meditation on modern moviemaking, literature, and marriage.Socrates Sculpture Park in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image presentOUTDOOR CINEMA 200911th annual festival of international film, music, dance and food, celebrating the cultural diversity of QueensWednesdays from July 15 through August 19, 2009Pre-screening performances begin at 7pmFilms begin at sunsetFREE ADMISSIONCome to Socrates Sculpture Park and sample regional cuisine from neighborhood restaurants, picnic on the grass as the sun sets over the city, enjoy performances by local musicians and dancers and, as the sky darkens, see exceptional international films on a large-format screen - all set against the spectacular backdrop of the Manhattan skyline
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
July 21, 2009
Tuesday

  • Négritude Dialogues

  • Jul 21, 2009 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Exit Art Gallery
  • Description:

    TUESDAY, JULY 217 – 9pm$5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.Négritude DialoguesIn these intimate, public conversations, participants in the exhibition Négritude will talk with an artist, scholar or cultural producer of their choice about various aspects of the Négritude movement and Black identity. These in-depth conversations will contextualize the exhibition within larger discussions about the politics and culture of Blackness, from the Americas and the Caribbean to Africa.7pm:A Conversation with Négritude artists Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and André JusteModerated by Thomas C. Spear, French and Francophone scholar and Professor of French at Lehman College (CUNY) and at the Graduate Center (CUNY).Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and André Juste have exhibited internationally, including in the 2007 Venice Biennial (Italy); the 2004 Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador); at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Puerto Rico); the Jersey City Museum (New Jersey); and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York).8pm:Racia
  • Created by: Thomas C. Spear
July 18, 2009
Saturday

  • A night in the Maghreb: Idir and Najat Aatabou!!! first time in the US!

  • Jul 18, 2009 from 4:00am to 6:45pm
  • Location: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
  • Description: Two extraordinary pop music artists from North-Africa (the Maghreb), Algerian-born Idir and Morocco’s Najat Aatabou, will share a bill in “A Night in the Maghreb,” a concert on July 18 in Avery Fisher Hall that will introduce the world-renowned performers to an American audience for the first time.Both artists have Imazighen (Berber is the more-commonly-known word, but is considered derogatory) roots which have influenced their musical style and expression. Paris-based Idir—born in the Kabylia region of Algeria—has been at the forefront of socially and politically relevant French-Algerian music since the 1970s. Najat Aatabou is a powerful vocal artist, one of the few, female Chaabi singers performing today, whose music merges Imazighen and Arab influences, and carries a strong feminist message that draws wide audiences at home and abroad.Tickets: $30, 40, 50 http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp? eventcode=20614Deux artistes extraordinaires de la musique pop maghrébine, l'A
  • Created by: Karima Z
July 17, 2009
Friday

  • Film on the green : Travaux, on sait quand ca commence, Works

  • Jul 17, 2009 from 4:15pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Tompkins Square Park
  • Description: Chantal Letellier est une «femme admirable». L'avocate gagne toujours, car dans son métier c'est un cador. Mais dans sa vie privée c'est une vraie chèvre : divorcée, mère de deux ados insupportables, pas de vie sentimentale. Alors un jour, Chantal cède aux avances d'un client, qui va finir par véritablement s'incruster dans son existence. Pour s'en débarrasser elle entreprend des travaux pour rendre sa maison impraticable...
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • Carla Bruni and others, Mandela Day I Radio City Music Hall

  • Jul 17, 2009 to Jul 18, 2009
  • Location: Radio City Music Hall
  • Description: A Special Concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 91st BirthdayRadio City Music Hall - Saturday, July 18CELEBRATING THE IDEA THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL HAS THE ABILITY TO MAKE AN IMPRINTSTEVIE WONDER, ALICIA KEYS, WILL.I.AM, T-PAIN, JESSE CLEGG, GLORIA GAYNOR AND EMCEE WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO JOIN THE MANDELA DAY CONCERT LINEUP Additional performers will join Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Forest Whitaker, Aretha Franklin, Wyclef Jean, Queen Latifah, Dave Stewart, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Josh Groban, Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, Jesse McCartney, Zucchero, the Soweto Gospel Choir and a host of African artists to help kick-off the first Mandela Day CelebrationStaged by 46664 with the support of the Nelson Mandela Foundation charitable organizations and backed by world figures including President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Zuma, Forest Whitaker, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Quincy Jones and many others, the Mandela Day celebrations will bring together a raft
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
July 16, 2009
Thursday

  • Mozart Idomeneo, Re di Creta

  • Jul 16, 2009 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall
  • Description: This summer for the very first time, the internationally acclaimed Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is brought to New York audiences, through the telecast of Mozart’s opera Idomeneo, Re di Creta at FIAF’s Florence Gould Hall.A new production created specifically for the Festival d’Aix, the performance will be recorded live on July 10, 2009 at the Théâtre de l’Archevêché in Aix-en-Provence.Written by Mozart at the age of 25, Idomeneo, Re di Creta is a drama per musica in three acts. It is a passionate hymn to youth and to reason that explores the ideas of sacrifice and duty, systems of faith and belief, and the trials of building a bright and hopeful future.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • French Children's & Youth Choir + Orchestra - exceptional performance

  • Jul 16, 2009 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: Saint Paul the Apostle Church
  • Description: For the 19th time, the Choeur d'Enfants d'Ile-de-France, Jeune Choeur d'Ile-de-France and Jeune Orchestre Symphonique Maurice Ravel, based in Levallois in the neighborhood of Paris, and their conductor Prof. Francis Bardot are extremely pleased to organize a 3-week tour in the Quebec / Eastern USA region, with as many as 10 concerts in various superb places : Montreal, Burlington, New-York, Stamford, Cape Cod, Boston, Bangor and Quebec.Our group is composed of about 120 young artists, ranging from 10 to 25+ years old.Our program is made up of:-the “Messe de Sainte-Cecile” by Gounod,-some excerpts of the “Symphonie pour Orgue” by Saint-Saens,-and a bouquet of French Popular Songs (“Parlez-moi d’Amour”, “La Mer”, “Douce France”, …).Venez nombreux !
  • Created by: Chassaing
July 15, 2009
Wednesday

  • festival cinéma plein air

  • Jul 15, 2009 at 6:30pm to Jul 16, 2009 at 8:00am
  • Location: la grande halle de la Villette Paris
  • Description: Date(s) : Du Mercredi 15 Juillet 2009 au Dimanche 16 Aout 2009.Le cinéma en plein air de la grande halle de la Villette revient cette année encore du 15 juillet au 16 août.La 19ème édition du festival promet d'être riche en films et en émotions! Comme chaque année, vous serez invités à vous prélasser sur les pelouses de la grande halle de la Villette pour y découvrir sur écran géants, les plus grands films que vous aimez. Le festival a, pour l'occasion, arrêté ses choix sur des films variés, réalisés par des réalisateurs de renoms tels Steven Spielberg ou encore Sean Penn.Cette année, le festival vous fera voyager à la découverte du « Nouveau monde », à la découverte de soi. Vous passerez du voyage métaphorique au parcours initiatique en quelques soirées bien imaginées.Enfin, soyez soulagés, le festival retrouve sa gratuité en 2009, offrant la possibilité à tous de venir nombreux.Au programme :Le Nouveau monde de Terrence MalickPirates des Caraïbes de Gore VerbinskiInto the wild de Sea
  • Created by: Kamel Khalloul
July 14, 2009
Tuesday

  • M83 concert @ Winter Garden

  • Jul 14, 2009 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Winter Garden
  • Description: M83 is electronic artist Anthony Gonzalez. Gonzalez founded the group with Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France, in 2001. M83's musical style owes something to shoegaze, with emphasis on tone, extensive use of effects and, most notably, softly-spoken lyrics almost submerged in instrumentation.
  • Created by: Audrey Cruz-Mermy
 

  • Les Yeux Dans Les Bleus Screening & Party- Soccer Film Festival

  • Jul 14, 2009 from 3:00pm to 8:00pm
  • Location: Opia
  • Description: Les Yeux dans les BleusDirected by Stephane MeunierOriginally released in 1998Running time: 157 mins.In French with English subtitlesLes Yeux dans les Bleus is a penetrating documentary following the victorious French team during the 1998 World Cup. With intimate access to the players, director Stephane Meunier captures the extremes of emotion that make soccer and its characters so compelling. He shares their rituals, their doubts, their joys, their exploits and in the end, their conquest, as if we were with them.When: Tuesday, July 14Schedule: Cocktails: 7 pmScreening: 8:30 pmAfter Party: 11 pmWhere: Opia130 E. 57th Street (at Lexington Avenue)www.opiarestaurant.com
  • Created by: Rachel Markus