This month, the Institut Français organizes the first Focus program dedicated to contemporary music, in the framework of Manifeste, IRCAM’s yearly festival. 50 foreign professionals from various countries are invited in Paris to experience the fertility and diversity of French musical creation.

As part of the Metal Alliance Tour, French metal band Svart Crown will slam the stages throughout the United States including in Texas in El Paso, Austin and Dallas.

To celebrate the worldwide "Fête de la Musique" a celebration of music and the diversity of musical genres, which originated in France in 1982, savor our new "Saveurs playlist". Listen to our playslit HERE: http://spoti.fi/1HwnNwz and visit www.makemusicday.org

Emerging from a curatorial residency at Fieldwork: Marfa, Jennifer Burris presents a performative lecture incorporating sound fragments, archival material, and voice testimonials to explore the legacy of cross-pollination between electronic music and minimalist sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.

Fieldwork: Marfa, a research and residency lead by the School of Fine Arts of Nantes and HEAD Geneva welcomes this month the artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson.

The City of Paris and the Institut français, France’s international agency for foreign cultural action affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, offer an artist-in-residence program dedicated to established foreign artists and writers at the “Centre International des Récollets”, a venue for artists and researchers from around the world. Applications are online at the Résidence Internationale des Récollets website: www.international-recollets-paris.org

Deadline for 2016 applications: June 17, 2015

Discover at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, 55 paintings from the Scottish National Gallery. From Botticelli to Braque these paintings include many 19th century French masterpieces from Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet to Paul Gauguin and Cézanne.

Hector meets Truquette in the Louvre on July 14th, and decides that he is going to seduce her by bringing her and her friend on a summer vacation to the sea with him and his friend. The Alliance Française de Dallas screens "La Fille du 14 Juillet" directed by Antonin Peretjatko.

In this idiosyncratic romantic comedy that swept the awards for the Directors’ Fortnight section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Arnaud and his brother are taking over the family carpentry business from their father who has recently died. "Les Combattants" directed by Thomas Cailley.

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer allowing him to manipulate her into handing the casino run by her mother, Renée (Catherine Deneuve), over to the mob. "L'Homme que l'on aimait trop" directed by André Téchiné.

Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) plays radically against type in this gripping thriller from the files of the same criminal ring that inspired William Friedkin’s classic "The French Connection". "La French" directed by Cédric Jimenez.

Running counter to the current strain of wan, mechanical biopics, Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent toys deliriously with the genre’s rules and limitations. Focusing on a dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade in Yves Saint Laurent’s life and career, Bonello considers the couturier (convincingly embodied by Gaspard Ulliel) as a myth, a brand, an avatar of his era.

Young French Cinema is a program of UniFrance films, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French films with no US distribution to art house cinemas, film societies, the Alliance Française network, and American universities. Each film in the 2015 program is available for a $300 booking fee for up to two screenings per film.

The French Embassy offers financial aid to American institutions universities, libraries, bookstores, publishing houses, and other venues across the United States wishing to host French authors for readings, signings, and symposia. The authors listed below are currently available for booking this fall.

Pierre Lemaitre (TX, 22-25 sept)
Fiston Mwanza Mujila (TX, 28 sept - 5 oct) with his translator Roland Glasser
Erica Fassin (TX, 3 nov - 1 dec)
For more information and authors, please visit Authors on Tour

Each month, Albertine Books located within the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, hosts a number of lively events with visiting artists, authors and other personalities whose work are related to French Culture. Those events are also live streamed for audiences in the USA.

June 3 I Jewish Artists of the School of Paris
June 16 I The Artisans of Fashion
June 25 I Exploring Violette Leduc

New French fiction, non-fiction, children, Graphic Novel books translated in English

Marjane Satrapi is going to adapt her French Best-Seller for Film,  Acclaimed French Graphic Memoir to be published in US, and The New Yorker publishes an in-depth interview with writer Jean Echenoz.

The Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet presents Le Train Bleu, a one-act ballet that premiered on June 20, 1924, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The original ballet was choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska for Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Houston will host the 33rd Annual Maîtres Cuisiniers de France and Académie Culinaire de France joint conference this month. This is the first time that this city has been selected as the meeting site for this esteemed and influential group of North-America based French chefs, who are dedicated to promoting the culinary and pastry arts. These maestros, all trained at Michelin star-caliber institutions, are reshaping modern French cuisine in America.