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JULY & AUGUST 2016
 
Cultural Agenda
 
 
PERFORMING ARTS
TULSA, OK | JULY 30

What The Day Owes To The Night is a dance performance by La Compagnie Hervé Koubi which combines capoeira, urban and contemporary dance, and martial arts with classical ballet. It will be presented by Choregus Productions at Tulsa Performing Arts Center during the Summer Heat International Festival. This project is supported by the French-US Exchange in Dance (FUSED), a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

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CINEMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | JULY 1-3, 7, 14-17, 21 & 28

In celebration of Bastille Day, the French national holiday, and of the new exhibition Matisse in His Time: Masterworks of Modernism from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is honoring French cinema all month long with the best in new and classic films.

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AUSTIN, TX | JULY 7, 14, 21, 28

The Austin Film Society, with the support of the Institut Français and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, presents four films in its series Inexplicably yours: Maurice Pialat. French director Maurice Pialat's compositions on film draw on portraiture and still life to develop a richness to his characters’ lived environments, daily rituals and habitual interactions.

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MARFA, TX | JULY 13-17

The annual Marfa Film Festival will screen two French films: All The Colors of The Night by Eléonore Berrubé and Prestige Ingredients by Danielle and Adrian Rubi Dentzel.

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VISUAL ARTS
FORT WORTH, TX | UNTIL SEPTEMBER 11

The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France, on view at the Kimbell Art Museum, is the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis and Mathieu, who were active in Paris during the 1630s and 1640s. It gathers more than 50 of their best paintings and highlights the brothers' full range of production, with altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits and those poignant images of peasants on which their celebrity rests.

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MUSIC
AUSTIN, TX | JULY 7 & 9

Raised in an atmosphere bursting with passion for music, LOUISAHHH!!! (born Louisa Pillot) started singing and playing instruments at an early age before discovering a passion for DJing.

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AUSTIN & DALLAS, TX | JULY 22-23

Benjamin Clementine's spare voice and piano sound is often likened to a cross between that of Nina Simone and Antony Hegarty.

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EDUCATION

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fluentu

Find out which are the twelve fundamental French words and phrases for the summer!

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LITERATURE
Fall 2016

The authors listed below would be delighted to travel and meet audiences across the U.S. Through our booking program, the authors are available for panel discussions, readings, signings, and symposia.

Ananda Devi - SEPT. 16-30, 2016 | NEW YORK, BOSTON, TEXAS | Fiction

Ananda Devi is a novelist, an ethnologist and a translator. Her incisive, lyrical and shrewd style offers the French language new cultural and linguistic scope linked to her native island.

Vinciane Despret - OCT. 29-NOV. 8 | Non Fiction

Her body of work, greatly inspired by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, is at the intersection of ethology and human psychology, and she is interested in the political consequences of our theoretical choices.

Pap Ndiaye - NOV. 4-13, 2016 | Non Fiction

Pap Ndiaye has taught at the EHESS and is now Professor and Chair of the History Department at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Marie-Hélène/Sam Bourcier - NOV. 5-17 | Non Fiction

He has written extensively on queer culture, theory and politics; sexual subcutures; feminisms and postfeminisms; and minority identities in France and in other countries.

Anne Simon - OCT. 2016 | Illustration/Graphic novelist

Anne Simon is a French artist and illustrator who graduated from Beaux-Arts in Angoulême and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Kerascoët - OCT-NOV 2016 | Illustration/Graphic novelist

Kerascoët is the joint pen name of the French illustrators, comics and animation artists Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS
TX, OK, AR

Celebrate French National Day in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas! Check out the list of events organized by the Alliances Françaises, the Consulate General of France in Houston and more!

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IN THIS ISSUE
PERFORMING ARTS
 
CINEMA
 
VISUAL ARTS
 
MUSIC
 
EDUCATION
 
LITERATURE
 
COMMUNITY EVENTS
 
 

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