Maylis De Kerangal discusses her novel The Heart. She will be joined in conversation by Irina Ruvinsky, professor at the the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved--grieving parents, hardworking doctors and nurses--as they navigate decisions of life and death. As stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart has mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star.

Co-sponsored by Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago, the France Chicago Center, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Chicago.

The Newberry Library, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago, is pleased to welcome Maylis de Kerangal, multiple prize winning French author, to present and discuss her book The Heart. The talk will be moderated by Professor Alison James from the University of Chicago. The Heart has mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the break-through work of a new literary star. Discussion of The Heart will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.

This literary event would be the first of the EUNIC- European Union National Institutes for Culture- Book Club Series dedicated to European books in translation in Chicago.

This event is free, but registration is required.

The Cultural Services of 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. Fiction and non Fiction authors like historian François Hartog, French-Iranian author Fariba Hachtroudi, Russian-born French author Andreï Makine and many more are currently available for booking in Winter or Spring 2016.

Graduated in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology where he studied with Tom Beeby, French Architect Marc Dilet is divided between Paris and Tokyo. Odile Companion, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, work between Paris and Chicago after trips in India and Chile. The professional course of these two architects and citizens of the world intersect so we ask them the question : How can we succeed in living harmoniously between two or three languages, cultures and continents without losing it?

The 19th Annual Festival of Films in French, organized by the University of Wisconsin'sFrench program, brings a rich array of French language films to Milwaukee.
Presented as part of The Tournées Festival, a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses

The Tournées Film Festival, a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses is presented on multiple campus:

Until Feb 9 - Indiana Universty City (Bloomington, IN)

Until Feb 15 - Illinois College (Jacksonville, IL)

Feb 4-21 - Central College (Pella, IA)

Feb 4 - March 11 - University of Louisville (MO)

Feb 19 - 29 - Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)

Feb 19 - March 5 - IUPUI (Indianapolis, IN)

A decade after it was first brought to the screen, Benoît Charest revives the music of the Oscar-nominated film The Triplets of Belleville with a remarkable cast of musicians in this silent movie-live concert event.

After spending much of the 1960s as a screenwriter – and earning a reputation as a master “script doctor” –  Claude Sautet re-emerged as a director to watch. His collaborations with Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider, leading-men Michel Piccoli and Yves Montand, screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie, and cinematographer Jean Boffety, yielded romantic, yet haunting, films that epitomized the privilege and struggles of the French bourgeoisie following the political upheaval of the 1960s.

From the French New Wave’s gamines to the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, this Film Retrospective revisits the classics as well as what’s trending on today's big screen. With guest speakers from Chicago's fashion scene and beyond... Made in France is Made for You!

The exhibit Stranger examines recent developments in figuration that speak to the continually evolving (and dissolving) notion of being which includes work by French artist Antoine Catala.

French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson captures ordinary moments and makes them extraordinary with his geometric eye and innovative use of the camera as an artistic tool.

A la Mémoire des Enfants Déportés—In memory of the children of Paris is a series of calligraphic paintings by artist Eleanor Winters. Eleanor Winters' delicate yet powerful calligraphic artworks evoke the memory of the 11,400 French Jewish children who were deported - and the vast majority murdered - between 1942 and 1944 through the complicity of the French Vichy Government.  Inspired by plaques erected throughout Paris, the poetic phrasing of the exhibit reflects an almost unbearable sorrow and shame through which the artist's message shines: Ne les oublions jamais (We must never forget them).

French architect Marc Dilet presents an exhibition of recent drawings as a light-handed architectural gesture recalling the frameworks of intimate Japanese buildings.

Explore the renaissance of etching from the late 1850s through the turn of the century across three continents with French arrtists Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot & Jean-François Millet.

Marie Cool (French, born 1961) and Fabio Balducci (Italian, born 1964) are internationally known for their art composed from simple, reductive gestures in connection with ordinary materials such as string, paper, Scotch tape. Cool and Balducci are eager to spend eight weeks in residence in Chicago with the goal of developing a new work that involves participants identified from within the city. They will use their studio at Hyde Park Art Center as a hub from which to meet people, specifically non-artist residents of Chicago, to initiate dialogue and potentially invite them to be part of a new work.

Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art. It also held special significance for the artist, who created three distinct paintings of this intimate space from 1888 to 1889. This exhibition—presented only at the Art Institute of Chicago—brings together all three versions of The Bedroom for the first time in North America, offering a pioneering and in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh in his relentless quest for home.

Before the Impressionists, French artist Charles-François Daubigny pushed the boundaries of traditional landscape. This first major museum show devoted to Daubigny’s work draws on American and European collections. It surveys his development over four decades and explores the relationship between his paintings and early works by the Impressionists.

Philip Glass’s piano etudes stand as an intensely intimate and personal statement by the composer who has had immeasurable impact on the musical and intellectual life of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Mr. Glass will be on campus as a Presidential Arts Fellow in February 2016. His residency will also include a film screening and a public talk at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and conversations with students and faculty from across the University.

Few living composers today have shaped the landscape of music, opera, film, dance, and stage as formidably as Philip Glass. In 1994, Glass resolved to become a better pianist, conceiving his études as a set of 20 solo-piano works to hone his skills and explore textures, tempi, and techniques. Like Frédéric Chopin’s transcendent études, Glass’s lyrical creations elevate far above mere practice exercises.

Singer-songwriter Yael Naim, who has gained wide recognition for her songs used in Apple commercials, among others, returns with a new album and tour project  with David Donatien in 2016, stopping notably at the City Winery in Chicago.

French jazz guitarist, Alex Grenier is a prize-winner of several prestigious competitions of jazz through France and has appeared in various settings almost everywhere in Europe and worldwide (Europe, the United States, Japan, Canada).

Winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival’s International Vocal Competition, the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition and finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition, French/Dominican vocalist Cyrille Aimée is, in the words of Will Friedwald of The Wall Street Journal, “one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation.”

Francesca Blanchard is a young French-American singer-songwriter whose lyrics and melodies reflect her bilingual and multicultural upbringing.

The SPCD grants are intended for teachers of French as a foreign language who teach in American elementary or secondary schools. The training sessions last two weeks and take place in France at a training center selected by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

2 bourses seront attribuées en 2016.

Organisée sur le campus de l'université de Nantes, l'université d'été-BELC 2015 est un stage intensif de formation professionnelle pour des professeurs de frannçais qui propose plus de 100 modules thématiques visant quatre objectifs principaux : mieux enseigner, mieux former, mieux évaluer, mieux piloter.