NOVEMBER 2018
Cultural Agenda

DALLAS, TX & COLLEGE STATION, TX | NOVEMBER 15 & 19

French writer, historian and lawyer Serge Klarsfeld will be at Southern Methodist University on November 15 and at Texas A&M University on November 19, in the framework of two public events.

Him and his wife Beate are known under the name of “Nazi hunters” for having brought major Nazi criminals to justice, and advocating for the cause of deportees in France for more than 50 years.

He will be awarded with his wife the Triumph of Spirit Award by the Embrey Human Rights Program at SMU, and has been invited by the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M to give a talk on his career, supported by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston.

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APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 15

Are you ready to expand your horizons and share your language and culture with French students? Applications are now open for the 2019-2020 school year.

The Teaching Assistant Program in France offers you the opportunity to work in France for 7 months, teaching English to French students of all ages.

The program is open to native English speakers between the age of 20 and 35, speaking French at a B1 level minimum.

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VISUAL ART

DALLAS, TX | NOVEMBER 1 | 5-9 PM

Spend an evening in 18th-century France at the Annual Rosenberg Fête celebrating French painting and sculpture from the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection, at the Dallas Museum of Art. Step back in time and enjoy an evening of talks, baroque dances and 18th-century music.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 1-JANUARY 5

McClain Gallery and Pavel Zoubok Fine Art invite you to Downtown: Collage Culture in the East Village, a group exhibition celebrating the hybrid clash of cultures, materials, aesthetics and personalities that flourished in the art world of New York City’s East Village during the 1980s. The exhibition features works by artist Nicolas Moufarrege, who spent several years in Paris in the late 1970s, where he developed an important portion of his overall body of work.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 3 | 1-4PM

On November 3 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, join in a discussion of our emotional, physical, and mental associations with colors, inspired by Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga’s video A Primer.

The artist is part of the Walls Turned Sideways exhibition, on view at the CAMH until January 6.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 9-FEBRUARY 17

On view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through February 17, 2019. Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign - the first solo museum exhibition of the artist, who relocated from Beirut to Paris in the late 1970s - traces the development of his work from the lap-scaled portrait-tapestries he produced in Beirut, Lebanon in the early-1970s to the final works he created in New York City, New York in 1985.

Opening reception: Friday, November 9 from 6:30-9 PM / Gallery walk-through with CAMH Curator Dean Daderko: November 10 from 2-3 PM.

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MUSIC

DALLAS, TX | NOVEMBER 2

Do not miss the performance of French DJ and music producer Petit Biscuit at House of Blues Dallas (November 2) in the framework of his North American tour. At the crossroads of his acoustic obsessions and his electronic desires, Petit Biscuit merges styles and genres without limiting himself, and boldly delivers a stellar and unique homebrew of sounds.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 18 | 6PM

Join Francoeur Chamber Music Society at the All Saints Catholic Church on November 18 for a concert presenting pieces by French composers Claude Debussy (String Quartet in G minor) and Ernest Chausson ("The Chausson Concert" for Piano and Violin).

Francoeur is an ensemble of musicians in Houston brought together by French founder and cellist Louis-Marie Fardet to perform chamber music.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 2

Travel to the North of France with Saint Nicolas in a festive program of French Baroque and Renaissance Christmas music, presented by Mercury, that will start your holiday season off with joyous warmth.

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CINEMA

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | NOVEMBER 1, 8 & 15

On the first three Thursdays in November, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be screening Jacques Becker's newly restored "Parisian Youth Trilogy". The trilogy was a major influence on the French New Wave movement of the 1960s.

A loose series of sparkling comedy-dramas focusing on the lives and loves of bohemian artists and young working-class couples, Antoine and Antoinette, Rendezvous in July, and Edouard and Caroline were shot on location in the French capital during the late-1940s and early-1950s.

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HOUSTON, TX | NOVEMBER 9-11

Fall in love with the beauty of Paris and the magic of Gershwin’s music as this 1951 classic film and Academy Award Best Picture winner comes to the big screen at Jones Hall, complete with live soundtrack by the Houston Symphony.

Starring Franco-American actress and dancer Leslie Caron, the film weaves its romantic story with George and Ira Gershwin’s most unforgettable, enduring songs—“Embraceable You,” “I Got Rhythm” and many more—alongside jump-off-the-screen dance numbers and plenty of joie de vivre.

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HOUSTON, TX & FORT WORTH, TX | NOVEMBER 10, 23-25

A portrayal of an artist on a quest for perfection who became a global icon, a passionate woman with an extraordinary destiny, Maria by Callas is the story of a remarkable life told in the first person, with the voice of French actress Fanny Ardant. The 2017 French documentary fim, directed by Tom Volf, will be screened at the Museum of Fine arts, Houston on November 10 and at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on November 23-25.

DALLAS, TX | NOVEMBER 15 | 7PM

Free screening of 2015 French thriller-drama film Heat Wave (Coup de chaud), directed by Raphaël Jacoulot at Richland College, with the Alliance Française de Dallas.

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AUSTIN, TX | NOVEMBER 20 & 23

Screening at Austin Film Society of 1977 French film Peppermint Soda (in French: Diabolo Menthe). From French writer-director Diane Kurys (Entre Nous) comes a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in France in the fall of ‘63. A pair of teenage sisters grow up together as the world changes around them in this acclaimed film.

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