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Le
Cirque du Soleil presents Wintuk - Madison Square Garden
Through January 4, 2009
Thanks to the success of the last representation, Le Cirque du Soleil presents a new show at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Jamie lives in an imaginary city where the arrival of winter has brought intense cold, but no snow! He interacts with a cast of high-energy urban street characters, including acrobats, dancers and talking lampposts. Jamie embarks on a journey to an imaginary North called Wintuk, joined by three companions| website
Through January 4, 2009
Thanks to the success of the last representation, Le Cirque du Soleil presents a new show at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Jamie lives in an imaginary city where the arrival of winter has brought intense cold, but no snow! He interacts with a cast of high-energy urban street characters, including acrobats, dancers and talking lampposts. Jamie embarks on a journey to an imaginary North called Wintuk, joined by three companions| website
La
Damnation de Faust
- MET
December 4
Robert Lepage's new production of La Damnation de Faust is an inventive marriage of traditional stagecraft and visionary technology. Lepage is at heart a master storyteller with the gift of being able to develop and harness technology to serve his intimate, human stories.more | calendar
December 4
Robert Lepage's new production of La Damnation de Faust is an inventive marriage of traditional stagecraft and visionary technology. Lepage is at heart a master storyteller with the gift of being able to develop and harness technology to serve his intimate, human stories.more | calendar
Maison
Francaise de NYU
December 7 & 8
Les Justes by Albert Camus. The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Romanov in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. Dramatic reading by NYU students. In French. calendar | website
December 7 & 8
Les Justes by Albert Camus. The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Romanov in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. Dramatic reading by NYU students. In French. calendar | website
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Antoine Bleck - A “French Crooner”
In New York
December 8 at 8:30pm
Born in the northeast of france, this skier- turned NYC restaurateur- turned musician, is a welcome foreign voice in a city run amok with marginalized alt-rock outfits. His second album “mes illusions” is the romantic offspring of Serges Gainsbourg and Steely Dan. Proof that musician’s can begin after 40, if you can convey the passion. more | website
December 8 at 8:30pm
Born in the northeast of france, this skier- turned NYC restaurateur- turned musician, is a welcome foreign voice in a city run amok with marginalized alt-rock outfits. His second album “mes illusions” is the romantic offspring of Serges Gainsbourg and Steely Dan. Proof that musician’s can begin after 40, if you can convey the passion. more | website
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Alexander Calder at the Whitney Through February 15, 2009 Come celebrate one of the most beloved artists of the twentieth century. On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through February 15, Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933, explores a time when the young artist created his first wire sculptures, performed his Circus and invented his signature mobiles. more | website |
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Turgeon: Threshold of the Eye December 4 through January 4, 2009 With a career spanning three decades and clients spread throughout North America and Europe, in a sui generis style Pol Turgeon, an artist from Quebec, creates artwork distinguished by its beauty, bizarreness and magic. The artist's illustrations have garnered over a hundred awards from around the world and have been reproduced repeatedly in a variety of prestigious design and illustration annuals: American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3x3, Print, the annuals of the New York and Los Angeles Societies of Illustrators. Characterized by a grand polyvalence, the work of this virtuoso of images have been applied to a wide spectrum of original projects. more | website |
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The
Babar Exhibition - The Morgan Librairy & Museum Through January 4 A dignified elephant, dressed in a green suit and wearing a yellow crown, walks upright across the page. This image—both absurd and endearing—has become instantly recognizable to several generations of readers throughout the world. The exhibition Drawing Babar returns visitors to the two essential moments of Babar's creation: when Jean de Brunhoff and, years later, his son Laurent, set down their initial thoughts on paper. | website |
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Maison
Francaise de Columbia
December 5, 2008 at 2 pm
With the aid of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Departments of Anthropology and French and Romance Philology at Columbia University, the Maison will host a panel discussion on the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Professors Vincent Debaene, Rosalind Morris, James Boon, and Boris Wiseman will all speak on different aspects of Lévi-Strauss's work, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. | website
December 5, 2008 at 2 pm
With the aid of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Departments of Anthropology and French and Romance Philology at Columbia University, the Maison will host a panel discussion on the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Professors Vincent Debaene, Rosalind Morris, James Boon, and Boris Wiseman will all speak on different aspects of Lévi-Strauss's work, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. | website
Maison
Francaise de NYU
December 2 at 7pm
Michel Deguy - a poet, a philosopher, a critic andvauthor of Biefs; Interdictions du séjour; Figurations; Tombeau de Du Bellay - is invited to talk about the French culture, especially on the following topic: Fin de la culture française? Faux-problème, erreur de jugement ou médisance? In French. calendar | website
December 2 at 7pm
Michel Deguy - a poet, a philosopher, a critic andvauthor of Biefs; Interdictions du séjour; Figurations; Tombeau de Du Bellay - is invited to talk about the French culture, especially on the following topic: Fin de la culture française? Faux-problème, erreur de jugement ou médisance? In French. calendar | website
December 3 & 17
Toddlers ages 2-3. A story hour program led by Guitty Roustaï, director of à petits pas: French for Toddlers. | more
Saturday, December 6 - 11am - 3pm
• Children's books, educational magazines, games, CDs and DVDs in French, Spanish and English
• Face painting, kids activities, story times & prizes
• Choice Market cafe: coffee, baked goods, lunch & more
• French & Spanish Playgroup Demos
Publishers: Anaya, Bayard Jeunesse, Bruno, Ecole des Loisirs, Everest, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Gallimard Jeunesse, Grupo Edebe, La Galera, Milan Jeunesse, Pere Castor, Scholastic Canada, and more... | website
Bilingual
Book Fair
December 3 & 4 - From 9:00 to 6:00
The French Academy of Bergen County organizes a Bilingual Book
Fair. Stop by the school to choose among a great selection of books for
your children.A special literacy celebration will take place Saturday
morning with assorted cakes, activities meaningful for all children, and
a raffle. Winners will be announced at noon.School address: 21-31 New
Milford Ave, Dumont, NJ 07628.| more
Be
Lingual
December 6, from 10am to 4pm
Be Lingual is organizing its second international Children’s Book Fair in Jersey City. Come and get educational and fun Holiday gifts! You will find a large choice of French children’s books, CDs and magazines at affordable prices. Most of the books featured during the fair are difficult or impossible to find in stores. The fair will also feature Spanish and Chinese books.| more
December 6, from 10am to 4pm
Be Lingual is organizing its second international Children’s Book Fair in Jersey City. Come and get educational and fun Holiday gifts! You will find a large choice of French children’s books, CDs and magazines at affordable prices. Most of the books featured during the fair are difficult or impossible to find in stores. The fair will also feature Spanish and Chinese books.| more
Contest
"Histoires de l'histoire de l'art"
Deadline : March 25, 2009
The Ministry of Education organizes an essay competition for French-speaking students. Students have to write a text from an image according to a series of scenarios proposed on the site www.imageimaginaire.com.The goal is to propose an opening towards the art history and to arouse the creative writing. Students from 14-years old to 20-years old are eligible.| website
Deadline : March 25, 2009
The Ministry of Education organizes an essay competition for French-speaking students. Students have to write a text from an image according to a series of scenarios proposed on the site www.imageimaginaire.com.The goal is to propose an opening towards the art history and to arouse the creative writing. Students from 14-years old to 20-years old are eligible.| website
A bientôt,
Fabrice Jaumont
Education Attache
French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10075
fabrice.jaumont@diplomatie.gouv.fr
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