Hugo Pierre Leclercq, known by his stage name Madeon, is a house/electro house/nu-disco/pop producer from France. He gained popularity by means of his video “Pop Culture”, which was published to YouTube and subsequently received millions of hits in its first few days of broadcast on the Internet.

French jazz guitarist Alex Grenier has appeared in various settings almost everywhere in Europe and worldwide. He is a prize-winner of several prestigious jazz competitions in France.

DaCamera of Houston presents Sarah Rothenberg's A Proust Sonata, inspired by Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Rothenberg interweaves text, music and image, evoking the fashionable world of Belle Epoque salons, Proust's insights on art and music, and the connection between memory and the passage of time. Solo piano works, French art song, and Fauré's sonata for violin and piano are performed within seven tableaux based on sections of the great novel. A Proust Sonata merges art forms in order to illuminate a central theme of Proust's novel - how art can triumph over time.

The Alliance Française de Dallas and the Dallas International School jointly present a concert with pianist Avguste Antonov hosted at the University of Texas at Dallas campus. This is a fundraising event to benefit Life for Paris, a French organization that has been involved in helping people during the tragic attacks in Paris on November, 13th 2015 and continues to help the recovering victims.

Texas Christian University's Department of Modern Language Studies is one of the recipient of the Tournées Festival grant. A program of FACE, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, it brings French cinema to American college and university campuses. All screenings are free and open to the public.

Enjoy four French movie screenings in February: Diplomacy, Girlhood, Daybreak & The Connection.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents

- Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale, Beauty and the Beast. This masterpiece is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day.

- Claire Denis’s debut feature film, Chocolat, follows a woman returning to her childhood home in Cameroon. Chocolat is loosely based on Denis’s memories of living in Africa as a child, and depicts the effects of colonialism without preaching or romanticizing the characters.

[STILL ON VIEW] What Shall We Do Next? is a project supported by the Institut Français that includes a group exhibition and a performance by French artist Julien Prévieux presented at DiverseWorks in Houston. It examines how technology and advertising have shifted our relationships to our physical bodies, our shaping of subjectivity, and notions of the real.

Don't miss Julien Prévieux's upcoming performance: March 12 & 13, 2016

Et Voilà Théâtre presents Friends On Demand/Les Amis du Placard by French dramatist Gabor Rassov. Odile and Jacques are a middle class married couple living mediocre life in which their sole source of interest and entertainment consists of consuming. A special offer in a supermarket will help them kill their boredom by purchasing... a couple of friends! This social satire will make you laugh, cringe and reflect on a society where consumerism has been pushed to the extreme.