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SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2017 |
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Please find below the French & Francophone events in Boston and New England (co-sponsored or supported by the Consulate General of France in Boston). |
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October 14th, 2017 – April 22nd, 2018
“XYZT”: A Journey in 4 Dimensions
Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum: 161 Essex St, Salem, MA 01970
In their immersive art exhibition entitled "XYZT", French artists / performers / computer scientists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne offer what they describe as "a journey through nature revisited". Their installation, comprised of 10 interactive virtual environments generated using math and physics models, manages to meld playful exploration with scientific reasoning. READ MORE |
“Gabrielle Thierry: The Musicality of the Water Lilies/La Musicalité des Nymphéas” - Until October 7th, 2017
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross
1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Come to the College of the Holy Cross to explore the first US exhibition of the work of French artist Gabrielle Thierry. Entitled "Gabrielle Thierry: The Musicality of the Water Lilies/La Musicalité des Nymphéas”, this exhibition, which will be on display until the 7th of October, contains a series of eight large-scale paintings that were inspired by Claude Monet's "Water Lilies." In these works, Thierry explores the musicality embedded in Monet's semi-abstract impressionist paintings, which she transcribed in abstract form, translating paintings into colored musical scores. READ MORE |
October 5 - December 31, 2017
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
The MIT Museum will present the North American premiere of The Enemy, an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition and immersive experience, from October 5 to December 31, 2017. Conceived by acclaimed photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa and further developed with MIT Professor D. Fox Harrell, the project immerses participants in discussions about violence and humanity by using pioneering VR technology to present interviews with soldiers on opposite sides of conflicts in Israel and Palestine, The Congo, and El Salvador. READ MORE |
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| BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL |
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Meet Christine Angot, Christophe Boltanski and Edouard Louis at the Boston Book Festival
October 28, 2017
Boston Book Festival
French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116
Saturday, the 28th of October, come meet French authors and listen to each of them discuss his/her latest book at the French Cultural Center! Christophe Boltanski will be talking about The Safe House (11h), Edouard Louis about The End of Eddy (12h45) and Christine Angot about Incest (14h15). The complete schedule of the Boston Book Festival 2017 will be published in early October on this page.
For more information about these three lectures, check the French Cultural Center website.
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22 September - 1 October
Harvard Film Archive - 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Come experience the work of Moustapha Alassane (1942-2015) at the Harvard Film Archive from the 22nd of September to the 1st of October, in the first North American retrospective dedicated to the movies of this cinematic pioneer. Organized in association with La Cinémathèque Afrique de l’Institut français, you will have a unique opportunity to discover or rediscover the works of the populist cinema of newly independent Niger in the 1960s and 1970s. READ MORE |
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"My Journey to French Cinema" at the MFA : Costa-Gavras and Joachim Lafosse
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Boston
L´Economie du couple (screenings until the 29th of September) : Berenice Bejo (The Artist) and director-turned-actor Cedric Kahn star in this intimate family drama from filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (Our Children). After 15 years together, Boris and Marie have fallen out of love. After Love depicts the couple’s struggle to divide their assets and sort out custody of their two little girls, a task that is complicated by the fact that they aren’t married. Click here to see the movie times.
4 Costa-Gavras movies, offering the director’s insights into human behavior during political crises, are also presented at the MFA until the 19th of October. Disover or rediscover "Z" (1969), "Missing" (1982), "The Music Box" (1989), and "Amen." (2002) at the MFA. Screenings are followed by discussions with local film scholars and historians. Click here to see the movies' times.
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| SYMPOSIUM "EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUALITY" |
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October 20-21, Wellesley College 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481
In less than a month, on the 20th and the 21st of October, the Suzy Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College, the Consulate General of France in Boston and Sciences Po Paris will organize a Symposium on Education and Gender Equality at Wellesley College.
The Symposium is free of charge and open to all, please register in advance in order to attend: click here to book your seat. In order to have an international conversation about this crucial topic, women and men from a large range of countries – not only United States and France, but also India, Senegal, Morocco, Guinea, Tunisia, Haiti and other locations – will attend the event to share their experience and speak about gender equality, and the projects they have led to deal with these issues in their personal and professional
lives. The Symposium is organized in a series of plenary sessions and panel discussions about education and gender equality over the course of two days. You can find the complete updated program by clicking here.
You will have the opportunity to hear, among others, the former French Ministers Christiane Taubira and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the famous writer and civil rights activist Angela Davis, and the great Indian-American Filmmaker and Film Producer Mira Nair.
Do not hesitate to contact us for more information, and please remember to register here to attend! FOR THE PROGRAM OR THE LIST OF THE SPEAKERS, VISIT THE WEBSITE OF THE SYMPOSIUM |
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