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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.
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BAMcinématek - Prix Louis Delluc

April 16-28

Tthe repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc. Movie Schedule

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French Summer Program for Kids (5-10 years old)
July 6-17, Monday-Friday, from 9:30 AM to 3 :30 PM
Day Care available from 8:30 to 9:30 AM and from 3:30 to 5:30 PM

Where: PS 84 - 32 West 92nd Street - New York NY 10025
Activities Include: Visual Arts, Dance and Theater Workshops, Reading and Writing, Storytelling, Games and Songs, Visit to the Bronx Zoo, Visit to the Museum of Natural History. | website

French Dual Language at PS 151 Queens
PS 151 (located 50-05 31st Avenue • Woodside, New York 11377) is happy to announce its plans to open two French dual language classes in grades K and 1, for 2009-2010 school year. For more information, contact Naida Ryans, Parent Coordinator at 347-563-4254, or by email at Nryans@schools.nyc.gov

Special Presentation / Networking evening on Dual-Language Program on Friday, April 24th at 6pm. Co-sponsored by EFNY and French Embassy.
Location: 972 Fifth Avenue, NY - RSVP: education@frenchculture.org

Students and Parents in Kings Park protest against termination of French Program
Save French in Kings Park, Long Island. Student-led Online Petition:
http://save-french.webs.com

Advocacy Tools: http://theworldspeaksfrench.org
Forum: http://facecouncil.org/fhlpworld

Nord-Pas-de-Calais in New York
April 23, 7:00pm
Special Invitation to a special Northern France Dinner Party at Le Cercle Rouge restaurant. Come and discover Northern France through some of its typical foods and beverages. Dinner , chti cocktail,tasting of authentic regional foods, spirits , beer ,waffles, presentations. Come and meet people from Northern France and learn about their Chti culture. Win free admissions to our museums, recipe books, T-shirts
COMPLEMENTARY DINNER AND COCKTAIL: If you'd like to be our guest , please enter to win an invitation by filling out the application at the following link - Space is limited. Please, apply before April 10th and wait for our confirmation.

Klangforum Wien: Free Radicals
April 4 - 08:00 pm
Guest Conductor: Jean Deroyer
Free Radicals, an innovative music and film program by the acclaimed Austrian contemporary music ensemble Klangforum Wien, will have its U.S. premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, April 4 at 8 p.m., led by guest conductor, Jean Deroyer. The project, the result of a collaboration between the ensemble and noted contemporary film artists and composers, had its world premiere at the 2007 Venice Biennale. more| website

Yann Tiersen
April 16 - Door: 8:00 PM | Show: 9:00 PM
Guillaume Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie. His music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments in relatively minimalist compositions, often with a touch of either European classical music or French folk music, using primarily the piano, accordion or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, ondes martenot, harpsichord and typewriter. He has been compared to musicians Chopin, Erik Satie, Phillip Glass and Michael Nyman. more| 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

Through 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

Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset
April 10-11, 8:00pm
The Troupe of the Department of French and Italian, L'Avant-Scene, the French Theater Workshop, will perform Alfred de Musset's XIXth century masterpiece "Lorenzaccio" (1834) directed by Florent Masse at the Chancellor Green Rotunda in East Pyne at 8pm on Friday, April 10, and Friday, April 11. In French, approximate running time 2h00 mn. Reservations are required at lecentre@princeton.edu / subject line: LORENZACCIO

Oulipo in New York: a Workshop of Experimental Literature
The Oulipo, Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, is a collective of writers and mathematicians founded in 1960 by François Le Lionnais and Raymond Queneau. Since its creation, the Oulipo group explores alternative ways of writing fiction and poetry, by using patterns and constraints often inspired from mathematical models, but always in a playful spirit.
April 1, 7-8:30pm - Oulipo reading followed by book signings, in English The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W 12th Street, NYC | T 212 229 5488 | More Info
April 2, 12-2pm - Oulipo, Nouveaux Sentiers, Nouveaux Chantiers*, a roundtable discussion in French
Maison française of Columbia University, Broadway at West 116th Street | T 212 854 4482 | More Info
April 2 , 7pm Book launch and reading of Jacques Roubaud’s The Loop, in English. Idlewild Bookstore,12 West 19th Street, NYC | T 212 414 8888 | More Info | Please RSVP
April 3, 10-11:30am - Discussion with Ian Monk and David Bellos, in English. Maison Française/NYU | 16 Washington Mews, NYC, NY 10003 | T 212 998 8750 | More Info
Apr. 3, 2-5pm - Creative writing workshop with Marcel Bénabou, in French (limited to 12 participants). French Institute Alliance Française | 22 East 60th Street, NYC | T: 212 355 6612 | More Info
April 3, 7-9pm - Poetry readings followed by book signings, in English
The Pierogi Gallery, 177 North 9th Street, Brooklyn | T 718 599 2144 | More Info
April 4, 1-3pm - Buffet-brunch followed by Oulipo reading, in French and English (invitations only). Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York | T 212 439 1400

Maison Française - New York University
April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
French Literature in the Making
FREDERIC MITTERRAND
Writer; journalist; filmmaker; television presenter and producer;director, French Academy in Rome; author of La mauvaise vie; Lettres d’amour en Somalie
in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
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April 29 – 6:30 p.m.
BERNARD COMMENT
Essayist; novelist; editor, Fiction & Cie (Seuil); author of L’Ombre de mémoire; Roland Barthes, vers le Neutre; Florence, retours; The Panorama; Un Poisson hors de l’eau; screenwriter, with Alain Tanner, of Fourbi; Requiem; Jonas et Lila, à demain; Paul s’en va
Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity

April 30 – 8:00 p.m.
MURIEL BARBERY
Novelist; author of Une Gourmandise; L’Elégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Europa Editions, 2008)
in conversation with ADAM GOPNIK
Writer; essayist; author of Paris to the Moon; Through the Children’s Gate; Angels and Ages: A Short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Location:
Cantor Film Center (Theater 101)
36 East Eighth Street (between University Place and Greene Street)
Tickets: $10. (this event only)
www.smarttix.com  or  212.868.4444

The Maison Française - Columbia University
Every Thursday at Buell Hall - 12-2 pm
April 2: "OULIPO, nouveaux sentiers, nouveaux chantiers", a roundtable discussion
April 9: "De la transparence au cinema: politiques de la langue chez Rohmer", a talk in French by Derek Schilling
April 16, "The French Color Line in Postcolonial France: from Zidane to Abd al Malik", a talk by Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
April 23, "Thinking the Break: Rancière, Badiou, and the Return of a Politics of Resistance", a talk by Todd May
April 30, "Paresseux lecteur: mon semblable...Variantes poétiques et philologie d'auteur", a talk in French by Claudio Galderisi
All events listed abover are free and open to the public; no RSVP or
reservation is necessary. For more information: website

A Wine Tour de France : Taste and Terroirs - FIAF
Bordeaux
April 6
Cru Restaurant’s sommelier, Raj Vaidya, introduces the refinements and subtleties of Bordeaux's varied terroirs through a careful selection of the most reputed Bordeaux labels. | website

Curious Memories
Through April 5
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