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| Bastille
Day Celebrations
Sunday, July 13
On
Sunday, July 13, 2008 from noon to 6pm everyone is invited to be
French for a day. Experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of
France right in your own backyard at New York's "Street Fair
with French Flair," Bastille Day on 60th Street. New
this year, Bastille Day on 60th Street will include a touch of luxury
with a theme of “Beauty and Personal Care." At booths
throughout the festival, you will be able to experience “l’art
de la beauté” with massages, mini facials, and hair
and skin care treatments. Just relax and let yourself be pampered!
Everyone
is invited to come and share in the Bastille Day on 60th Street
festivities and experience le joie de vivre à New York! website
Sunday,
July 13
Provence
en Boite Block Party
Degraw Street at Smith St
All day from 10am website
Monday,
July 14th 2008
Bastille Day Ball
from 8PM to 2AM
at Spotlight Live 1604 Broadway, New York website
July
12 to July 14th 2008
Enjoy
the many Bastille Day's celebrations website
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French
Presidency of the European Union
From
the 1st of July, France will assume the Presidency of the Council
of the European Union. There will be new challenges for European
Union's next presidency in a new context after the defeat in Ireland.
The four priorities are global warming, immigration issues, security
and defence policy and agricultural policy.The
European Cultural Season, a large-scale pioneering event provides
an exceptional opportunity to discover the creative diversity of
the 27 Member States. It is also emblematic of the French Presidency
of the European Union, which will begin on the same date. A programme
of several hundred events throughout Europe covering all artistic
disciplines - 27 books, 27 shows, 27 concerts, 27 exhibitions and
27 history lessons, themed overviews of the cinema, photography,
theatre, design and contemporary art and music - bringing together
some of today’s top creative artists, is certainly ambitious
in scope. Created with a throng of partners, but first and foremost
by the Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs, the European Cultural
Season will be the first act of the French Presidency of the European
Union. more
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On
this occasion, INA and Culturesfrance realize a broadcasting website on
Europe of cultures, consisting of a large mural of some 300 interactive
videos on artists, designers, objects, places or events with cultural
significance for each of the 27 European Union countries over the past
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| Fort
Ticonderoga,
250th Anniversary of the Battle of Carillon
July
6 to
July 8
In
July 1758, British General Abercromby led an army of 16,000 British
and Colonial troops against a small French force of 3200 entrenched
at Fort Carillon. On July 8 the forces were engaged on the heights
just north of the Fort after Montcalm's forces had hastily thrown
up earthwork fortifications. The Battle of Carillon lasted several
hours during which time Abercromby lost over 1900 men, a third of
whom were members of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, also known as the
Highlanders, or the "Black Watch" Regiment. Despite being
outnumbered 4 to 1, the French forces prevailed. In honor of this
victory, the French erected a cross on the Battle site. 2008 is
going to be the 250th Anniversary of this battle, which will be
commemorated by reenactors in historic clothing, troop formations
and inspections, ceremonies, battle reenactments. | website |
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Dance
Out - Dominique Boivin: Transports Exceptionnels
July
16 - July 20
Partnering
with the City Parks Foundation and continuing its special
25th anniversary initiatives, the Joyce Theater will celebrate
dance troughout the five boroughs of New York. Transports
Exceptionnels is a unique and whimsical outdoor duet
between man and five-ton mechanical digger. Choreographed
by Dominique Boivin and accompanied by the dramatic voice
of Maria Callas, the dancer meets, greets, and embraces a
moving excavator, transforming the stage into a construction
site, the street into a playground, and dance into a tentative
balance between nature, man, and machine.
more
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love New York!
Saturday,
July 5
Je Love New
York
is a show written specifically for French-speaking and Francophiles
of this city by Radi. "A lot of subjects are developed, the
Metro of New York, American celibacy, Chineses in New York, differences
but also similarities between France and USA, with a small French
press review for nostalgics.
5pm at Cleopatra's Needle (2485 Broadway and 94th St.). Subway 1,
2, 3 @ 96th St. Informations and reservation :
radifromfrance@gmail.com, Tel (646) 924-7408.
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Premier at the Rubicon International Theatre Festival - Julien Cottereau:
Imagine
July
24 to July 27
Winner of the 2007 Moliere Award,
Cottereau is a virtuoso clown and mime artist who has been likened
to Harpo Marx, Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Julien
Cottereau, formerly of Cirque du Soleil, has created a show for
audiences of all ages. Imagine-toi, directed by Erwan Daourhas,
draws us into a Universe populated with incongruous and astonishing
characters that we experience through Cottereau’s acrobatic
elasticity and gift for sound effects. His Peter Pan character at
once mischievous and moving, overcomes his fears interacting with
his audience and reminds us of the child we left behind. Supported
by the Etant Donnés Fund for Performing Arts and the French
Cultural. more |
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Cinema
sur l'herbe - Films on the green
July
11, 18 & 25
What
could be better than lounging lazily in a park on a lovely
summer evening? Watching a film while lounging lazily in
a park on a lovely summer evening! The Cultural Services
of the French Embassy and the New York City Department of
Parks and Recreation have joined forces to show recent,
critically-acclaimed French movies. After the East Village,
the “Films on the Green” festival is again targeting
a specific New York neighborhood with several community-run
parks so as to create a real connection with its residents.
The Mount Morris historical district in West Harlem, at
the crossroads between the traditional Harlem of 125th street,
new immigrant communities—such as Little Senegal on
116th street—and the student neighborhoods near City
College and Columbia University, provides an ideal setting
for a festival that seeks to bring neighbors closer together,
to create new connections, and to contribute to New York’s
remarkable melting pot (or dancing pot, as it were!).The
sub-titled screenings will continue to take place outdoors
every Friday at sunset (around 8.30pm), and will be free
of charge. All three movies will be followed by parties!
July
11: Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
in Saint Nicholas Park. | more
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CinémaTuesdays
: Homage to Yves Montand
July 1, 8, 15 & 22
Though
born in Italy, Yves Montand will forever be a French icon—in
fact, The New York Times memorialized him as “the quintessential
French romantic, half-adventurer, half-intellectual.”
A true master of the arts, he began his career as a singer,
epitomizing Paris in dancehall songs with Édith Piaf.
As an actor, he worked with the greatest directors of his
age: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Costa-Gavras, and Alain Corneau.
FIAF celebrates the career and life of Montand through a selection
of works that show his diversity as an actor and his continuing
appeal as a movie star for more than forty years
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Special
Screening - Everything is Cinema: Brody on Godard
Thursday, July 17, 2008
FIAF
celebrates the release of film critic and New Yorker editor
Richard Brody’s first book, Everything is Cinema:
The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. This special evening
will include an introduction on the renowned filmmaker by
Mr. Brody and a screening of In Praise of Love, Godard’s
2001 Golden Palm nominee. Following the screening, Mr. Brody
will sign copies his book.
History
of In Praise of love: Set in present day Paris the film
follows three couples: youth, middle-age, and elderly as they
experience four different stages of love. Filmed in color
and black and white, In Praise of Love exemplifies Godard’s
theory that “A film should have a beginning, a middle,
and an end, but not necessarily in that order,” moving
forward and backwards as it explores the various stages of
the couples’ love affairs. | more |
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The
Immortal Alain Robbe-Grillet
July
10 to July 12
Alain
Robbe-Grillet began working as a scientist until deciding, at age
30, to pursue literature. After cementing his reputation in French
literature as one of the founders of “Le Nouveau Roman”
— he would eventually be named one of the "immortals"
of the Academie Française, the anointed protector of the
French language — Grillet changed careers yet again, pursuing
work as a screenwriter and filmmaker. BAMcinématek celebrates
this final career move with a quartet of films Grillet directed
as well as his first foray as the screenwriter for Alain Resnais’
enigmatic masterpiece, Last Year At Marienbad. more
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Central
Park SummerStage
July 2008
Central Park
SummerStage, a program of City Parks Foundation, presents performances
of outstanding artistic quality, free of charge, to serve the diverse
communities of New York City. The artists represent a breadth of
genres and cultures and perform in an outdoor setting accessible
to people of all ages and backgrounds.Central Park SummerStage strives
to develop audiences' deepening appreciation for contemporary, traditional,
and emerging artists as well as the communities in which these artists
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| Summer
Solstice
July 4,13 & 19
SOURCE
was founded by Quebecois flutist Sylvain Leroux as an improvisational
group with a standard formation of bass, drums, keyboards and wind
but was soon transformed into an explorative African Jazz unit with
the advent of singer Abdoulaye Diabate. The group gives concerts
in New York this month.|
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French
voices Book wins Translation Prize
June 18, 2008
The
Cultural Services of the French Embassy are pleased to announce
that Linda Coverdale's translation of Ravel
by Jean Echenoz (The New Press) won the French-American Foundation
and Florence Gould Foundation's 21st annual translation prize
for a fictional work published in 2007. The translation and
publication of Ravel was supported by French Voices a translation
grant program run by FACE (the French-American Cultural Exchange)
and the Book Office of the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy.more
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à
petits pas: French for Toddlers Story hours
July 3 & 17
A story-hour
program led by Guitty Roustai, director of "à petits
pas": French for Toddlers (ages 2-3). 11:30am-12:30am. Haskell
Espace Jeunesse. 22 East 60th Street, 2nd floor
Reservations:
646 388 6605. Space is limited. more |
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Atelier
Jean Prouvé au MOMA
Daily trough March 30, 2009
With
all the excitement surrounding today's digital manufacturing technologies,
it is interesting to look at an earlier historical moment of workshop
mass-production, as practiced by the great French architect and
designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984). This exhibition examines
Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé
from idea to finished product.The installation focuses on the evolution
of the "Standard" Chair and includes other examples of
furniture and buildings that demonstrate Prouvé's approach
to construction and his sensitive handling of materials—particularly
his inventive applications of sheet metal. more
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Philippe
Gronon
Through July 11
French artist Philippe Gronon’s gelatin silver prints of wall
safes, library card catalogues and elevator doors are taken with
a studio camera and enlarged to scale. Interested in how everyday
objects inform collective or individual memory, the artist creates
life-sized images that are hyper-descriptive of reality and yet
also conceptual.
Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25th Street, New York | website |
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| Summer
Schools 2008
30 June to 13 July
Professors, members of NGOs, journalists, interested citizens
and graduate and honours students from the US and the Americas,
Europe and Africa can attend the 6 International Summer schools
of the Université de Montréal: Law to the Planet’s
Rescue, The United States after Bush : Perils and Promises,
The Middle-East Beyond Conflict : Context, Dynamics and OutlookAfrica,
not as "Dark" as You Think, China Risen: How it
Changes and Changes Us, Peace Operations: Manufacturing Peace.
The seminars during the renowned International Montreal Jazz
Festival and the Just for Laughs Festival. | website
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A bientot,
Fabrice Jaumont
Education Attache
French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10075
fabrice.jaumont@diplomatie.gouv.fr
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