After the trememdous success of their debut in Miami in 2016, Rhythm Foundation presents Ibeyi, French-Cuban band led by twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz. Their unique blend of modern pop, hip-hop and electronic influenced with the traditional sounds of Yorùbá is a prodigious fusion of Paris and Cuba.

The next Dance Band Night presented by Rhythm Foundation will feature The French Horn Collective. Led by the multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and songwriter Vincent Raffard, this international band performs an eclectic variety of Gypsy Jazz, Swing, and original French music.

SAVE THE DATE! for French theatre play  "LE PEIGNOIR AUX ALOUETTES" by MI@MI Compagnie and directed by Anna Alexis Michel. The play is being presented as part of the French Weeks Miami program on November 4th and 5th, organized by the French American Chamber of Commerce in Miami.

In French, with English and Spanish subtitles.

WHERE:
The Fillmore Theater at the Gleason Room
1700 Washington Avenue, FL 33139 Miami Beach

WHEN:
Saturday Nov 4 at 4pm
Saturday Nov 4 at 8:30pm
Sunday Nov 5 at 4pm

French artists Alice Raymond and Carol Jazzar present the exhibition "Interrupta narratio". Combining psychoanalysis and art, Raymond’s automatic drawings will take you into a fasinating world. Using instinct as her first tool, Jazzar reinterpretes in her own way different works of contemporary art. Created with words, images and symbols, this narrative is a journey through reality and absurdity.

Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Saturday, October 21, 3-5 p.m.

The Foundress of The Fountainhead, Miami-based collector, and philanthropist Kathryn Mikesell, hosts the 6th Breakfast Talk Series of the French Arts Associates.

French Arts Associates is a non-profit organization that strives to connect like-minded individuals in the Miami Arts community, by inviting guest speakers to help Arts professionals learn from each other and build relationships.

David Castillo Gallery presents "Deployed, Conditional, and Limited Utopia", a solo exhibition by Haitian artist Adler Guerrier.This exhibit is a visual topography of the urban, subtropical conditions of Miami, reflecting upon these distinct environments as evidence of the cultural and political landscapes of the city. Guerrier, plays the role of cultural cartographer wherein architecture is treated as an intrinsically political apparatus. In this exhibit we see Guerrier's reinterpretation of Miami.

The Samuel P. Harn Museum of the University of Florida in Gainesville presents the exhibition: "Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection". This unique show includes drawings, pastels, paintings and sculptures selected from one of the world’s best private collections of French drawings, featuring more than 150 masterpieces from the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century. The exhibit seeks to bring new insights to the questions of what it meant to be a woman in this period, even though many of the issues raised in these works still remain with us today.
 

The Coral Gables Museum presents the work of French-Venezuelan artist Annette Turrillo, featured in a solo exhibition curated by art historian and professor Dr. Carol Damian. Turrillo intends to give recognition to the women who helped society achieve greater gender equality and contributed to our current conception of the contemporary woman. By doing so, the artist seeks to give visibility to the woman who where forgotten by official history.
 

The Baker Art Museum in Naples presents two simultaneous and complimentary exhibitions on French Modern painting. The first one is entitled "French Moderns : Monet to Matisse 1850 to 1950"  featuring 65 works of art from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European collection privileging France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. The second exhibition is named "Expressions : Matisse and Modern Art from the Permanent Collection"  displaying a selection of works by modern artists whose innovative styles helped define avant-garde art.

Image credit: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville), 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 × 32 in. (66 × 81.3cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O.

Don't miss the photography installation by French artist Carol Jazzar at the latest group exhibition presented by The Fountainhead Residency. The show, curated by Kathryn Mikesell and Ombretta Agro Andruff, is a survey of artists working through their surrounding environments.µ

Fountainhead Residency:
65 NW 24th Street, Miami Florida
Open by Appointment

For information call :
Kathryn Mikesell at 305 776 8198
Ombretta Agro Andruff at 212 433 0878
 

Just after being accepted into Moscow's highly competitive and prestigious Bolshoi Ballet, Polina discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that deeply affects the young woman and makes her question her life until then.

> Opens at Cinema Paradiso in Hollywood on Oct 6

> Playing at Corazon Cinema Café in St Augustine

One evening, after closing her practice for the day, Jenny, a young doctor, hears the doorbell ring but doesn't answer it. The next day, police inform her that an unidentified young woman has been found dead close by – leading Jenny on a personal quest to find out who she was.

> Playing at Miami Beach Cinematheque

> Playing at Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale

> Opens at Cinematique in Daytona Oct 13

Miami Dade College presents the Miami Film Festival GEMS 2017. As part of its ongoing programming MIFF presents in the fall a selection of  the last nominated and award-wining films. This year's program includes 3 French movies, as well as a Palme d’Or-awarded francophone film. 

FACES PLACES - Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) Best Documentary at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

THE WORKSHOP

THE SQUARE - Palme d’or at the 2017 cannes film festival

Ayiti Images presents an exciting and provoking film about the Haitian Experience.

Synopsis : In modern day Haiti, Belensky Pétion, a heavy gambler, an upcoming soccer star and ladies' man is deep in debt to a local loan and is about to learn how small the island can really be. Things take a terrible turn when his American cousin, "Rodlin" arrives in Haiti for a visit gets kidnapped and held for ransom.  Not suitable for children under 13 years. Parental discretion is advised.

SAVE THE DATE !

In collaboartion with the 32nd edition of the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival (FLIFF), French Weeks Miami will honor French Cinema and gatronomie française with two special evening of wine French food and cinema. The festival which runs October 27th to November 19th will include 5 French feature films, as well as several shorts : In Bed with Victoria by Justine Triet, Amélie by Jean-Pierre-Jeunet, Amour by Michael Haneke, Waiting for you by Charles Garrad, A Sense of Wonder by Eric Besnard.

French Weeks evenings:

> Nov 4: French Gourmet Soirée
with film feature: Waiting for you 

> Nov 8: Quiche Soirée & Kir Royale
with film feature: A Sense of Wonder

SAVE THE DATE !

Movie buff or passionate about France? France Cinema Floride returns with the newest French movies with english subtitles.

Teachers save the date ! the next CIEP teacher training session will take place on October 27 and 28 in Miami.

Theme: For a positive and without mark assessment
The first goal of assessment is to help learners to improve their abilities. In this perspective, it must be considered as a tool for getting information and taking relevant pedagogical decisions: what are my students’ needs but, first and foremost, what are their competencies. In a learning process, mistakes are normal and logical, and the role of the teacher is not to penalize, but to take note of the mistakes done, to analyze causes and reasons, and to propose activities to avoid the same kind of mistake next time. These are the principles of a formative evaluation, from the setting of targets to an efficient remediation. Learners must understand that assessment is a phase of help and assistance, and not only a way to control, to judge and to penalize.
In order to achieve this change in mentality, marks are useless and must be replaced by a precise, objective and pedagogical analyze. A learner-centered education, with appropriate responses to identified difficulties, will strengthen the class motivation and will maximize the effectiveness of the course.

Trainer: Pierre-Yves ROUX is in charge of the unit “expertise and quality” in the French language department of the International center for pedagogical studies in Sevres, France. Graduate from the universities of Rouen and Aix-Marseille, he worked for about 30 years abroad, in the French cultural centers around the world. He is the author of many papers and books about French as a foreign language, and notably about assessment and evaluation. 

Time and location (TBC) :
8.30 am -5pm 
Miami Dade College - Wolfson campus (TBC)

Selected bibliography
 

SAVE THE DATE! Join the upcoming Annual Back to School Celebration event "Teacher's Night Out" with wine and cheese, hosted by Nathalie and Steven Ponak. This is a great opportunity to network with other FIPA parents and friends of FIPA.

Where: FIPA
10901 SW 60th Ct
Pinecrest, FL 33156

When:
Friday, November 3, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT

(Adults Only Please; Business Casual Attire)
$25.00 FIPA members - $50.00 non members.