There is still time to enjoy the wonderful programming of MyFrenchFilmFestival's 2017 edition!

MyFrenchFilmFestival is the first entirely dematerialised French film festival. Geared towards Internet users worldwide and available for one month, it features a selection of 10 shorts and 10 feature films in competition that you can watch directly from home.

Composed in the early 13th century for New Year’s festivities, the Ludus Danielis is a French mystery play based on the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
Under Anne Azéma's direction, this production combines period instruments with contemporary visual touches, connecting the past to the present, and thus highlighting the timelessness of the play’s themes.

Next week we invite you to attend a stunning performance of this French opera by Jacques Offenbach, recorded live in November 2016 in the Paris Opéra.

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia, and Giuletta.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, this lecture will consider the key aspects of the process of drawing’s emergence into modernity and will explore the output of the most important artists, from Fragonard to Seurat, who contributed to that process. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, will describe the unorthodox format of the exhibition and reflect on the question of how objects may be used to reimagine art history.

Free admission

In February, the CES honours French culture by proposing thought-provoking lectures about French history and politics and France in the European Union, held by prominent specialists of France. Whether you are interested in Christianity in the EU or passionate about French slave-ownership, whether you worry about Material hardship or you have always wondered about the Future of European political debate, these conferences are just for you!

Click on the link down below if you want to learn more about these great CES events.

This semester the Colby College Museum of Art invites you to discover the work of Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki (1920–2013), who immigrated from Beijing to Paris after WWII and established himself among post-war art circles. Zao’s signature lies in his singular adaption of the visual poetry of Chinese art within twentieth-century oil-painting idioms. His interpretation of abstract art conjoins European modernism with Chinese metaphysical principles.
This exhibition is the first retrospective of the work of Zao Wou-Ki in the US.

For six years, Noëlle Herrenschmidt was in the backstage of the French Republic, pencils and brushes in hand, pushing open doors that typically remained closed.
This exhibit features a selection of works from the artist’s latest book, Dans les coulisses de la loi, that retraces the path of law in France from the ministries to the Journal officiel, Matignon, the Conseil d’Etat, the Elysée, the Parliament, its two chambers and the Conseil Constitutionnel.