This May La Troupe presents a free performance of Juste la fin du monde, a play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. This adaptation is directed by Sylvaine Guyot, founder of La Troupe, Harvard’s first and only French theater company. Juste la fin du monde takes place over the course of one Sunday, and over the course of one year. Louis, 34, returns home in order to announce his imminent death. He doesn’t know what to say, or how to say it. And nor do his mother, his sister, his brother, or his brother’s wife, Catherine, whom Louis has never met. The French playwright Jean Luc-Lagarce wrote the play in Berlin in 1990, as he, too, was beginning to face his own death from AIDS.

This performance is sure to be a powerful one. Juste la fin du monde is presented in French with English subtitles.

Admission to this event is free, but make sure to reserve your tickets through the link below as seating is limited!

Contact jfm.harvard@gmail.com with questions. 

This June, the French theater troupe "Les Impayables" will perform "40 Carats", an adaptation of a play written by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. Directed by Ms. Sandrine Clarac, this exciting piece follows the story of Lisa, a long-divorced woman who meets a young man during a trip to Greece. Little does she know this fling will come back into her life when he begins to date her daughter back in Paris! Filled with lively characters and plot twists, this show is sure to provide laughs and tug at your heart strings. 

This play is brought to the public in partnership with Boston Accueil, the Consulate General of France in Boston, the French Cultural Center, the International School of Boston and Luce & Armelle. 

See the link below to purchase tickets! Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity for live Francophone theater in Boston! 

Presented in French. 

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc, is a rock and roll musical about the childhood of Joan of Arc, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, in the small village of Domremy in France. Come to discover through this quirky and charming film how the young Jeannette became the famous Joan of Arc!

This film is directed by Bruno Dumont, who also realized L'Humanité, Twentynine Palms or Slack Bay

Come to watch the "Godard mon Amour" (Le Redoutable), made by famous film-maker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies), about another famous film-maker from the french New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard!

Paris, 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the maker of "A bout de souffle", "Le Mépris" and "Pierrot le fou", idolized by critics and intellectuals, is shifting from revolutionizing cinema to becoming a revolutionary tout court. His female star is Anne Wiazemsky, writer François Mauriac's granddaughter, sixteen years his junior. Anne and Jean-Luc have been dating since 1966 and they marry this very year. But May 1968 puts their marriage to the test. Godard, who is more and more involved in the revolution, indeed becomes less and less available to his young wife, which does not prevent him from acting jealous. It also looks as if the genius is losing his sense of humor.

Kapwani Kiwanga, an emerging star in Franco-Canadian contemporary art, will visit MIT on May 5th, 2018 accompanied by Jérôme Poggi of the Galerie Jérôme Poggi  in Paris. 

Born in Canada and currently based in Paris, Kiwanga recently won the 2018 Frieze Artist Award, a prize which provides funds for artists to create large art installations for a specific site. Kiwanga's installation, tentatively titled Shady, will be an outdoor installation made of metal and Shade Cloth and will be presented at Frieze New York 2018, a festival of performances and talks with artists from around the world. Kiwanga's work is known for its variety of themes, ranging from anticolonialism to geology, largely inspired by her background in anthropology. She utilizes various mediums, such as video, installation and performance art. Currently her work is displayed at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California and is scheduled to come to the MIT List Visual Arts Center in February 2019.

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the May 1968 movement, the exhibition “Occupying Paris” features a selection of period posters and photographs to reconsider an extraordinary month of civil disobedience in France, evaluate the impact it made then, and assess the legacy it bequeathed for practitioners of dissent to this day.

Come learn about these major historical events through this exhibit organized by the Center for the European Studies at Harvard !

Created in 2004, the New Music Fund (formerly Fund for Contemporary Music) was initiated by FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy to encourage new commissions, residencies, masterclasses, performances and tours involving contemporary and living composers, musicians and ensembles. Conceived in partnership with Institut français, French Ministry of Culture, SACEM and Florence Gould Foundation, the fund also fosters co-creations between French and American composers.

New Music Fund allocates grants up to $ 25,000 through an open, competitive application process for projects taking place either in France or the United States and/or their respective territories, involving French and American composers, musicians and ensembles. In 2018, the fund will prioritize projects involving new generations of composers and reflecting the cultural and artistic diversity of the French and American new music scene. Special attention will be given to projects that have the capacity to reach new audiences and engage communities through public performances. Additional funding for projects involving women composers and musicians will be provided by Fondation CHANEL.

New Music Fund is made possible through the generous support of Florence Gould Foundation, Fondation Chanel, French Ministry of Culture, Institut Français-Paris, and Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique (“SACEM”).

The grant application deadline is June 7, 2018. 

This year's Independent Film Festival in Boston will feature two films with French connections:

A Prayer Before Dawn, directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, follows the story of Billy Moore, a young man incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prisons, as he becomes a student of the lethal art of Muay Thai boxing.
Somerville Theatre - Sat, Apr 28 9:15 PM

For more information and for tickets click: here.

Hot Summer Nights is a thriller which follows Daniel (Timothée Chalamet), a teenager who gets in over his head as he starts dealing drugs with the neighborhood rebel and enters an illicit affair with his new partner's sister.
Somerville Theatre - Sun, Apr 29 8:45 PM

For more information and for tickets click: here.

The French Cultural Center is organizing a new edition of its very popular European Food Festival !

With drinks and food sampling from all over Europe, this social event is the perfect opportunity for gourmets and food enthusiasts to experience culinary specialties and authentic cuisine from European countries including France, Britain, Switzerland, Sweden and more.

This event provides great networking opportunities and the possibility to learn more about the culinary heritage from the home countries of your international colleagues. 

The STAFE (Soutien au Tissu Associatif des Français à l'Étranger) funds aim to support the work of local organizations run by French people in the US, whether they have educational, charitable, cultural or socioeconomic goals. Projects which receive funding are also those which contribute to the growth of French culture abroad. 

In order to apply, participants must request the application materials from the Consulate by May 11, 2018. Those who wish to do so should send an email to the Consulate here. 

Completed applications must be submitted to the Consulate by May 23, 2018!

Participate to the French Cultural Center's biannual book sale, and discover hundreds of books in French, with prices starting at $1 ! Among thoses books, you can find books for children, classics, or even translations!

There are not many opportunities to find French books at such a good price in the area, so don't miss your chance to stock up!