The  Cultural Services of the French Embassy are happy to renew their partnership with EXPO Chicago, and to welcome during this eighth edition French curators, artists, and galleries.

Creatives from around the world will be flocking to Chicago in two weeks for the 3rd edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Our chance to see the most massive North-American exhibition that plays with the idea of space and how we experience it in new, innovative ways.
Check out the contributors from France:
▶️The Funambulist, a print and online magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies
▶️Performance Descendances du nu by Jimmy Robert on Sept 20
▶️Echo: A Site-specific Installation and Architecture Exhibition at the Alliance Française de Chicago

Filmmaker Alain Gomis will tour the Midwest to present three of his most acclaimed films L’Afrance (2001), Aujourd'hui (2012) and Félicité (2017).

Sept 27 ▶️ Félicité - Block Cinema-Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Sept 30 ▶️ Félicité - Gateway Film Center & Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Oct 2    ▶️ Aujourd'hui - Miami University (Oxford, OH)
Oct 3    ▶️ L'Afrance  - Contemporary Arts Center & University of Cincinnati (OH)

The Newberry Library invites you for a late afternoon event dedicated to Proust’s letters and the presentation of the new open-access digital edition of his correspondence, recently made available online thanks to the commitment of the University of Illinois.

We are pleased to partner with IU Department of French and Italian & Black Film Center/ Archive and UW Cinematheque for a workshop and multiple screenings to explore the legacy of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987), an influencial pionner, practitioner and scholar of African cinema and media as it was being formed in the decolonization era of the 1960s.

Sept 5-6 ▶️ P.S. Vieyra Workshop & Screenings - Bloomington (IN)
Sept 7 ▶️ The Films of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra - Madison (WI)
Imported prints from La Cinémathèque Afrique de l'Institut Français

Inspired by electronica, hip-hop, and African musical styles, KOKOKO! are thrilled to bring in the Midwest their remarkable organic, exuberant sound, created in collaboration with French producer débruit.
▶️Sept 20-  The Cedar Cultural Center with Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
▶️Sept 21 -  Chop Shop - World Music Festival Chicago
▶️ Sept 22 - Global Peace Picnic - World Music Festival Chicago (FREE)
▶️Sept 27 - Deluxx Fluxx (Detroit)
▶️Sept 28 - 26th Lotus World Music & Arts Festival (Bloomington)

This exhibit features historical and recent work by Louis Cane, Noël Dolla and Claude Viallat, members of Supports/Surfaces, a shifting group of some twelve French painters who began collaborating and showing together in 1966. It will revisit Cane, Dolla and Viallat’s past work, while charting the evolution of their practices up through the present day.

Don't miss your chance to see the fabulous and hilarious French comedy The Shiny Shrimps (Les Crevettes Pailletées) at the Opening Night film & party of the Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival Reeling 2019! Co-organized by the Cultural Services at the Consulate General of France in Chicago.

Europe-based feminist art and culture magazine Petunia has created Passages, a weekend symposium of performances, screenings, readings, and discussions which include French artists Alexandra Midal, Emilie Pitoiset, Valerie Chartrain, Elsa Dorlin (via Skype) as part of the year long Goethe Pop Up Minneapolis. Supported by Etant Donnés Contemporary Art, a program developed by FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.