Come and enjoy live performances by Scarecrow  (Toulouse, France) and The Blind Suns (Angers, France) along Houston band Wild Moccasins.

The event is FREE and family-friendly.
March 11 I 6:00-10:00 PM I Discovery Green, 1500 McKinney, Houston, TX 77010

Discover the artists performing at the French Cultures Festival kick-off concert in Houston on March 11 and a selection of French talents presented at SxSW 2016.

What Shall We Do Next? is a group exhibition presented by DiverseWorks featuring the work of French artist Julien Prévieux, recipient of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2014. It examines how technology and advertising have shifted our relationships to our physical bodies, our shaping of subjectivity, and notions of the real. Julien Prévieux will also present a live performance piece with a cast of Houston and Portland-based dancers.

This project is supported by the Institut Français and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

The Menil Collection celebrates the work of French artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), founding father of contemporary street photography—a movement dedicated to capturing the flux of life in the public sphere. In an exhibition of 50 photographs, Life Is Once, Forever: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs, looks at the photographer’s pioneering career and humanist vision.

What The Day Owes To The Night is a dance performance by La Compagnie Hervé Koubi which combines capoeira, urban and contemporary dance, and martial arts with classical ballet. It will be presented by the Society for the Performing Arts in Houston and by the Texas International Theatrical Arts Society in Dallas.

This project is supported by the French-US Exchange in Dance (FUSED), a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Tournées Film Festival is 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 University of St. Thomas will screen Tip Top by Serge Bozon, Girlhood by Céline Sciamma, Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry, The King and the Mockingbird by Paul Grimault, Diplomacy by Volker Schlöndorff & 3 hearts by Benoît Jacquot.

With the 2016 Five Funny French Films series, don't miss the uniquely French sense of humor in these Houston premieres at the Museum of Fine Arts of Sex, Love & Therapy by Tonie Marshall, Daddy or Mommy by Martin Bourboulon, Home Sweet Home by Stéphane Meunier, The Elk by Etienne Labroue & Chic! by Jérôme Cornuau.

Rice University will screen the Academy Award nominated film, Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, about how young women face an increasingly repressive society.

La Fête Française is a competition organized by the American Association of Teachers of French North Chapter for high school students of French. It provides opportunities for students to develop and celebrate their enthusiasm about learning French.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature is the guest speaker at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Centennial Lecture on The Footprints of Mexico's Literature of Manners, presented by UTEP Department of Languages and Linguistics.

This roundtable, organized by the French/TAMU Institute at the University of Texas A&M, will explore the work of novelist Irène Nemirovsky, author of Suite Française, with Susan Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University; Olivier Philiponnat, French author and Nathan Bracher, professor of French at Texas A&M University.

This year again, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy are present at SxSW, the annual world-renowned celebration of music, film and digital culture. France will be well represented in the official program of the three festivals, the French Tech Pavilion in the Trade Show (Business France) with 14 French startups. The French Tech Day on March 15 will feature startup pitch sessions, keynote speakers (Vivendi, Devialet, BandsInTown), lunch and live music.

Bureau Export / France Rocks organizes 3 showcases with a variety of new French talents including Fakear, Cocorosie, L.E.J, Marina Kaye, Alice On The Roof, Elida Almeida, Joon Moon, Klingande, Scarecrow, Talisco, LYS, The Blind Suns - Chunk, No Captain Chunk !, Daniel Antopolsky, Hooka Hey & Indolore.

Stay tuned for a complete program to be announced soon.