Legendary San Francisco figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti - who once was a student at La Sorbonne in Paris! - is turning 100 on March 24! City Lights Bookstore will be celebrating this very special day with numerous events taking place in various places, in San Francisco and beyond.

From April 26 to 28 at Cal Performances, French director Arthur Nauzyciel revives his "visually stunning, musically moody, and unceasingly stylish" (The Boston Globe) production of Julius Caesar, first created for Boston's influential American Repertory Theater in a US election year, 10 years ago. Now artistic director of the Théâtre National de Bretagne, Nauzyciel highlights the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's great political tragedy—with costumes and design that evoke the era of JFK, a live jazz trio, and provocative staging that refocuses the action so that the tyranny unfolds as the dream of a minor character, Brutus' slave Lucius.

From April 4 to April 6, Ballet Preljocaj - internationally acclaimed for its virtuosic choreography and dance - will perform La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall), based on a traditional Chinese legend about a traveler who falls in love with a girl in a fresco and steps through the painting to join her. A gorgeous reverie of time and space, the dance tells a fantastical tale of a painting come to life within a visually stunning, mesmerizing choreographic journey.

The San Francisco International Film Festival will be back from April 10 to April 23! Several French films are included in the lineup, including A Faithful Man by Louis Garrel, Paper Flags by Nathan Ambrosioni, Close Enemies by David Oelhoffen, animation short film Sam's Dream by Nölwenn Roberts, and also a tribute to Claire Denis followed by the screening of her latest movie, High Life.

The GLAS Animation Festival will be returning to Berkeley for its fourth year from March 21 to March 24! GLAS Animation, which was founded in 2014, aims to bring together artists, filmmakers, and enthusiasts to share their visions and critically engage with the science and art of animation. This year, 19 movies out of the 94 presented were produced in France.

snap+share, an exhibition curated by Clément Chéroux, is opening on March 30 at SFMOMA. The exhibition gives visitors a new way to visualize — and experience — how photographs have become so ubiquitous in our daily lives. Whether through early examples of 1960s and ’70s mail art, physical piles of pictures uploaded to the Internet over a 24-hour period, or a working refrigerator that allows participatory meme-making, visitors can trace the evolution of sharing photographs.

On show until May 17, the exhibition features nearly 50 paintings by Claude Monet dating mainly from 1913 to 1926, the final phase of the artist’s long career.

Screening on March 22, the adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, collected by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. And presented on April 3, 4, 5, don't miss Les Dix Petits Meurtres, inspired by Agatha Christie's novel And Then They Were None and performed in French by Compagnie D-Boussole!

French artist Charlotte Gainsbourg will be performing at the Regency Ballroom on April 15!

French artist Jain will be performing at the Fillmore on April 15!

On March 22, The Comedy Show of La Maison Oakland is back! French Comedian Clara Bijl hosts an amazing line up of top-notch comedians. A great opportunity to support the live performing community since all the tickets sales are going directly to the performers.