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APRIL 7TH, 2016
 
What's on this month?

Please find below the French & Francophone events in Boston and New England (co-sponsored or supported by the Consulate General of France in Boston).

 
Monday April 25th at 6:30pm
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public - In English

A new legend of French design & a master in the art of typography, Philippe Apeloig comes to Boston and will talk about his thirty-year long career. Apeloig has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art in NYC for several years, works on design projects for major French cultural institutions such as the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre and the Théâtre du Châtelet and was recently dedicated a major retrospective exhibition by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Presented with the generous support of Sanofi

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Sunday, April 24th at 7:30pm
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

The illustrious William Christie and his baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants return to Boston for the first time in fourteen years! Christie brings his boundless wit and virtuosic theatricality to an incomparable evening exploring the air de cour, a genre of secular vocal music that delighted and entertained the elegant salons of 17th-century France.

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Tuesday, April 19th at 5pm
The Music Room at Rochambeau House, Brown University
84 Prospect Street, Providence, RI
Free and open to the public - In French

Brown University is pleased to welcome the staged reading of Kamel Daoud's prize-winning novel Meursault, contre-enquête (The Meursault Investigation) performed by actor Nael Nacer and directed by Guy Ben-Aharon.
Reception offered by the French Consulate to follow.

Presented by the Department of French Studies at Brown University & sponsored by the Office of the Vice provost for the Arts.

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MUSIC
Thursday, April 14th at 5:30pm
St Paul Church, 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge
Sunday, April 17th at 11am
First Church, 66 Marlborough St, Boston

For the 55th anniversary of Strasbourg and Boston Sister Cities Program, the children's choir is visiting Boston. The 25 young singers have performed all over Europe, representing proudly their home town and the French and Alsace culture.

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Saturday April 16th at 8pm and April 17th at 7pm
Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music
27 Garden Street, Cambridge

An enchanting narrative of combat and courtship in medieval France, staged and directed by French-born soprano Anne Azéma and performed by Boston Camerata’s musicians and young professionals from the Longy School of Music of Bard College.

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LECTURE
Monday, April 11th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
48 Quincy St, Cambridge

Architect, artist and designer Didier Faustino will showcase his multidisciplinary practice in art and architecture that highlights the complex relationship between the body and the spaces it inhabits.

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CINEMA
Friday April 8th from 7:30pm
Remis Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston

As part of the 32nd Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival, the MFA will be showing La Belle Saison (Summertime) by Catherine Corsini.
In the 70s, 23-year-old Delphine (Izïa Higelin) moves to Paris in search of independence and meets Carole (Cécile de France), a 35-year-old activist involved with the burgeoning feminist movement.

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Thru Thursday April 14th
O'Hare Academic Center's Bazarsky Lecture Hall
Salve Regina University, 100 Ochre Point Ave, Newport, RI
Festival pass $35. French with English subtitles

This festival aims to bring French cinema to American colleges and universities. Upcoming films are Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night) with Marion Cotillard, La Religieuse (The Nun) with Isabelle Hupert and great classic Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour.

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Thru Saturday April 9th
Roger Williams University
1 Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI
Free and open to the public. French with English subtitles

You still have time to go and watch La French (The Connection, with Jean Dujardin), documentary Parce que j'étais peintre (Because I Was a Painter) about artworks created by those imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II, and Clouds of Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.

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Monday April 11th at 7pm
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Hassen Ferhani's debut feature film Roundabout in My Head, which has won acclaim at festivals in Marseille, Carthage and Turin, will be shown with the filmmaker in person.

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EXHIBITIONS
Thru Sunday April 17th
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St, Cambridge
Free and open to the public

Organized in collaboration with Villa Arson in Nice, France, this exhibition presents the culmination of a major project by the two Beirut and Paris-based Lebanese artists looking at the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture, photography, and installation.

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Thru May 3rd
French Cultural Center
53 Marlborough Street, Boston

After its presentation at the FIAF in New York this winter, French designer Ionna Vautrin brings to Boston her imaginary zoo of abstract, unexpected and hyper realistic animals, from the very tame to the extremely wild. This collection of costumes on display celebrates the animal kingdom, rousing the imaginations of young and old alike.

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Thru June 26th
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso” offers a unique opportunity to study the artist’s range of techniques and styles, with themes including the stylistic transformation of the human figure, variation of a single subject across works, and emulation of revered artistic forebears.

Photo: Head of a Woman, Portrait of Marie Thérèse Walter (1934. Oil on canvas. Isabelle and Scott Black Collection)

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

Albertine, the French Embassy’s reading room and bookshop in New York, is now offering a selection of high quality French language ebooks via its website. The vast majority of these ebooks are available in the U.S. for the first time.

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Saturday, April 9th from 6pm to 9:30pm
Le Club Calumet
334 West River Rd, Augusta, ME
Tickets $40/person

"Springtime in Paris" is the second Annual Fundraiser which aims to support programs that teach the French language and emphasize the importance of Franco-American culture in Maine. The proceeds go to help French at the University of Maine at Augusta and the Maine French Heritage Language Program, an afterschool elementary French program.

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ARTE, the European culture channel, now offers a selection of programmes subtitled in English and in Spanish on its website. Some of ARTE’s best documentaries and flagship magazine shows are now available to an international audience.

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