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Cinema Tuesday - FIAF | Jacques Doillon : L' Emotion
Mar. 3, 4, 10, 17, 24 & 31                       

Nominated for multiple awards, including best director for The Hussy and The Little Gangster, he is a member of the generation that spawned Jean Eustache and Philippe Garrel. Recently recapturing international attention with Just Anybody, Jacques Doillon will be welcomed by FIAF on March 3 to discuss his latest work and his career in filmmaking. Program : The Hussy, Touched in the Head, The Crying Woman, The Little Gangster, Raja.| website

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema | The Film Society of Lincoln Center  
Mar. 5-15                

Since its inception, Rendez-Vous’s goal has been to provide as broad a panorama as possible of contemporary French cinema, presenting works by well-established masters alongside debut features. This year, the aesthetic and stylistic spread of the program is perhaps more impressive than ever, anchored by two of the most active and creative octogenarians anywhere, Agnès Varda and Claude Chabrol. Impressive debuts by Samuel Collardey and Pierre Schoeller mingle with the shadow of master criminal Jacques Mesrine, long an enigmatic figure in French cinema, two-part epic by Jean-François Richet.|website

BAMcinematek | La Belle Personne, Frontier of Dawn by Christophe Honoré 
Mar. 6-12                       

BAMcinématek salutes the bold, adventurous independent film distributor IFC Films for the second year in a row with a selection of its upcoming titles, including the exclusive US theatrical premiere runs of two French films—Christophe Honoré’s La Belle personne and Philippe Garrel’s Frontier of Dawn, both starring Louis Garrel.Q&A with Louis Garrel following screening on Sun, March 8 at 7:15pm. more | website

BAMcinematek | Summer Hours by Olivier Assayas

Mar. 7 at 7.15pm                       

Three siblings reunite after their mother dies and leaves behind a country house overflowing with valuable art objects and antiques. With its richly-detailed script and nuanced performances by french actors, Binoche and Berling, Summer Hours illuminates the private experience of loss, as well as the practical concerns of settling an estate, with remarkable insight. | website

Focus on French Cinema 2009 | Alliance Francaise of Greenwich

April 3-5
Focus on French Cinema 2009 organized by the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich, Purchase College, NY and French Feeling Films will celebrate their 5th anniversary the weekend of at the prestigious Performing Arts Center at Purchase College ( just 30 minutes from Manhattan). Sophie Marceau , star of our opening night US Premiere film - "Lol" ( Laughing out loud) will be our guest for the weekend. more | website

Francophonie celebration
Mar. 20
Every year, the "Journee de la Francophonie" is celebrated all over the world. This Day is dedicated to the French Language which unifies more than 200 million people on the five continents | website

THE BAGAD SAINT NAZAIRE FROM BRITTANY, FRANCE

Mar. 16, 17& 18                                       

BZH-NY, the association of Bretons in New York, welcomes the Bagad Saint Nazaire for the Saint Patrick 2009. A Bagad is a breton band, composed of bagpipes, bombardes and percussions.The bagad Saint Nazaire will play at Symphony Space (Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater), on Monday, March 16th. They will march on Fifth Avenue for the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and the After Parade will take place at Club Shrine in Harlem. website|facebook

Edouard Brenneisen Trio

Mar. 5, 12, 24, 30 & April 9

Edouard Brenneisen est un guitariste et compositeur de jazz installé depuis peu à NYC, aimant tour à tour diriger son propre groupe et jouer dans l’orchestre. Il a notamment étudié la musique classique et le jazz à Paris, et a suivi sa scolarité au Berklee College of Music. Il rêve de réconcilier le jazz américain et le jazz européen. Il monte sur les planches new yorkaises. more | website.

Meta & The Cornerstones | Part of BAMcafé Live

Mar. 21 at 9pm

Senegalese Meta grew up listening to Gregory Isaacs, Bob Marley, and other reggae greats, and has since embraced hip-hop, rock, and soul. Backed by the Afro-fusion sound of The Cornerstones, and performing in English, French, Wolof, and Fulani, Meta’s powerful voice draws on African roots and reaches global heights. | website

The Music of R.E.M. : Music Education Programs for Underprivileged Youth Benefit Concert | Carnegie hall

Mar. 11 at 8pm

La crème de la musique pop-rock internationale s’est donné rendez-vous sur la scène du Carnegie Hall pour un concert de charité au profit des jeunes défavorisés. La chanteuse francaise Keren Ann sera presente a cette occasion qui prendra la forme d’un hommage au groupe culte R.E.M, puisque ce sont ses plus grands tubes qui seront interprétés tout au long du concert. | website

Romance with Strings Attached"| Birdland Jazz Club

Mar. 3-8                                       

Le français Michel Legrand possède tous les talents qu’il est possible d’espérer pour un musicien : pianiste, compositeur, arrangeur, chanteur, et chef d’orchestre. Sa carrière a été couronnée de succès depuis les années 50, époque à laquelle il sort son premier album classique "I Love Paris", un best-seller encore inégalé dans sa catégorie. | more

Dominique Labauvie: Turning Point

Jan. 31- Mar. 07

Turning Point is the first solo exhibition in New York of French sculptor Dominique Labauvie. The exhibition will feature 2 monumental sculptures, 2 medium and 4 small-size sculptures alongside 6 pastels and charcoal drawings on paper. Labauvie’s hand cut and forged steel sculptures — although abstract, evoke organic shape, elusive human figures and natural forms.

Paper Exhibition

Jan. 31- Mar. 07

The exhibition renders the open space of the gallery as a labyrinth of folds, holes and gaps through which an exchange between the literal and the literary can happen. 

The first major showing of the work of the French Impressionist Gustave  Caillebotte (1848–1894) to be presented in New York in more than thirty years will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum.| website

Beginning in the 16th century, a tradition of bronze sculpture developed in France revealed its own distinct force, refinement, and panache. Even though French bronzes were among the glories of royal châteaux, including Versailles, they have received relatively little public scrutiny. Evolving from a decadelong collaborative study among scholars, this is the first exhibition to address the subject in 40 years. more | website

Today's engineers are working across disciplines and driving innovation. MAKE IT WORK. Engineering Possibilities looks at how engineers are envisioning and realizing the future of our built environment by transforming structures, improving environments, enhancing materials, re-inventing building technologies, and advancing forms. The main piece called "Framing Space" was designed by French architect Stephanie Bayard, and her partner Phillip Anzalone. website

Performance Space 122 | Venice Saved: A Seminar, by David Levine

Mar. 21-April 5

Acclaimed theater auteur David Levine premieres his latest reality-bending project, VENICE SAVED: A SEMINAR, beginning previews March 19th at P.S. 122. The topic of this seminar is Simone Weil's unfinished 1943 play Venise Sauvée, an allegory of democracy and its overthrow, presented on the 100th anniversary of Weil's birth. | website

Ananda Devi | FIAF
Mar. 18 at 7pm
Writer Ananda Devi presents an evening of discussion on the exploration of identities and their formation through language. Île Maurice, the island on which Devi was born, has formed the linguistic core of her writings. There, she received exposure to a multitude of languages, all of which shaped her self-perception as a writer. Sensitive to the overlap of identities and languages, Devi seeks to explore the role language serves in shaping cultural identities.| website

Website | Building Space with words
Mar. 5-27
What happens when the physical properties of space are changed and discourse the main material?This is the question that Anne-Laure Fayard and Aileen Wilson explores in Building_Space_With_Words,a multimedia interactive installation. Opening Wednesday, March 4th.| website

The Postcolonial Comoros Islands: the Geopolitical and Cultural Arena |The Graduate Center, CUNY
March 27, 5:00 p.m
On Sunday, March 29, 2009, Mayotte will vote in a referendum to become a full overseas department of France. Since the independence of the Comoros Islands, the archipelago of four islands has become politically divided. With Ambassador Mahmoud Aboud and Minister Counselor Saïd Mohamed Oussein, Ambassador Mohamed Toihiri will lead a discussion about the 21st century geopolitical and cultural realities of the Comoros Islands.website

Maison Française - New York University
Mar. 10, 12:30 p.m
Spencer P. BOYER U.S. Foreign Policy, Multilateralism, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
Mar. 11, 6:30 p.m
Pierre BIRNBAUM: The Raphaël Lévy Case. An Accusation of "Ritual Murder" in 17th-Century France
Mar. 24, 12:30 p.m
Hervé SERRY, Les Editions du Seuil : histoire(s) et sociologie d'un éditeur contemporain
Mar. 26, 6:30 p.m
Translating as a Profession from the 1970s to the Present (in French and English)
Gisèle SAPIRO, Esther ALLEN, Linda ASHER, Jeanine HERMAN, Judith
Mar. 31, 12:30 p.m
Philippe CORCUFF: Renaissance de l' anticapitalisme en France (in French)
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The Maison Française - Columbia University
Mar. 6, 9:00 am
The graduate students of Columbia University's Department of French and Romance Philology will host an all-day conference on the theme of "Circulation: Knowledge, Networks, and the Literary", with a keynote address by J. Michael Dash, professor at New York University.
Mar. 9, 6:30 pm
Patrick Weil will deliver the Spring 2009 Eugene J. Sheffer Distinguished Lecture. In his talk, entitled "How to be French: Old and New Challenges Around French Citizenship", Weil will address questions relating to what it means to consider oneself a French citizen.
Mar. 26, 6:30 pm
In conjunction with the Cinema Thursday screening of the film "Zidane: Un portrait du 21e siècle", Laurent Dubois will deliver a talk entitled, "Zidane and the Empire of Soccer in Algeria".
All three of these events are free and open to the public; no RSVP or reservation is necessary. website

A Wine Tour de France : Taste and Terroirs - FIAF
Mar. 9, at 7 pm
Join FIAF this winter and spring for a series of not-to-be-missed wine tasting events. This year’s series will focus specifically on the concept of terroir, known as the unique interaction of earth, climate, and appellation that makes each wine deliciously unique. For six evenings over the course of six months, attendees will taste first-hand how terroir relates to the creation of outstanding wines from diverse regions of France. | website

Curious Memories
Through April 5th
In Dialogue: The Present and Future of Photography. Curious Memories was organized by the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles and Laetitia Talbot. Join for this panel discussion, the evening will be moderated by Robert Blake, photographer, curator. more | website

Fashion Talks with Pamela Golbin
Mar. 20 & 27, at 7 pm
French haute couture meets New York style during FIAF’s Fashion Talks, hosted by Pamela Golbin. Three legendary, New York-based female designers, discuss their influence on fashion and their creative processes. As the Curator in Chief of Twentieth-century and Contemporary Fashion at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, Golbin brings unparalleled expertise to this series, creating an engaging dialogue about contemporary creations and the continued influence of the classic French design houses.| website

Conférence organisée par l'Ecole Franco-Américaine de Princeton
Mar. 18
Corinne Güngör, director of the French-American School of Princeton, and Marie Lavigne-Goulet organize a conference about bilinguism. A well-known Professor of the University of Mc Gill will be invited. This event is free en invitant un éminent professeur de l' Université de McGill. |website

Forum des jeunes ambassadeurs de la francophonie des Amériques | Centre de la francophonie des Amériques Québec
June 8-27
Le Centre de la francophonie des Amériques, in partnership with l'Institut du Nouveau Monde, organize a Forum in Québec for around 50 francophile students between 18 and 35. Register before March 30! website

French art at the Morgan
The Morgan Library and Museum offers two engaging school programs focusing on a number French drawings and books. "Colors of the World" features luxurious illuminated manuscripts from the 13th through the 15th centuries, including an exceptional facsimile of the Morgan copy of Gaston Phoebus's Le livre de la chasse. "Write a Picture" explores drawings by artists such as Ingres, Degas, Matisse, and more.| website

Workshop: Destination France | CTF at Luce Hall, New Haven
April 1.
Geneviève Brame will be visiting from France and will give a talk in French "Destination FRANCE: La France" un pays à facettes, Les Français 'un peuple multiple' on April 1. The talk will be preceded by a book signing at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway (parking lot in front) for the new edition of her book, Living and Working in France (Kogan Page Publisher). The signing will take place from 3:30 to 4:30. RSVP for dinner by March 25 to Sharon.straka@yale.edu ($25.00).