The Contemporary Theater Fund fosters innovative artistic collaborations and co-productions in theater, and contributes to a dynamic intercultural dialogue between France and the United States.

Applications deadline: February 15, 2019.

Atlanta-based Théâtre du rêve presents the story of General Alex Dumas, one of the most celebrated generals in the French Revolution, February 22-March 10.

Plexus Polaire presents its show Ashes at Center for Puppertry Arts, March 1-3. Based on Gaute Heivoll's novel Before I burn, the show is about the human condition, the fire and internal torment in everyone.

The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN will inaugurate its new temporary exhibition, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art, on February 2, 2019.

French street artist HOPARE is painting his first mural in Southeast US at downtown Atlanta's Peachtree Center titled Symphony. Known internationally for his murals blending figuration and abstraction, HOPARE has started his Atlanta's work in early January. Symphony will be done for the Super Bowl!

As part of their 2018-2019 cinema series, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC will screen the classic Jean Renoir film The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) on February 22, 2019.

The 2019 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival runs February 6-26. This year, 5 France-related feature films will be screened: Shoah: Four sisters, Promise at Dawn, Carbon, Simon and Theodore, The Light of Hope; Etgar Keret: Based on a true story. Don't forget to have a look on the program to find times and locations.

The South Carolina Philharmonic will present an evening of music by three of France's most celebrated composers; Bizet, Tomasi and Berlioz on February 9, 2019.

This winter, five United States cities––Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York (Brooklyn)––will host installments of A Night of Philosophy & Ideas/Night of Ideas programming for the global La Nuit des idées 2019, a series of intellectual marathon events coordinated worldwide (65 cities in 2019) by the Institut français.