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FEBRUARY 2015
 
LIAISON MIDWEST
 
Feb 14 -19, 2014
Multiple Locations (Midwest)
Bloomington, IN, Saint Louis, MO, Minneapolis, MN, Chicago, IL

As part of the worldwide commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, the Cultural Service at the Consulate of France in Chicago has partnered with Indiana University Cinema, Webster University and Cinema St. Louis, Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul and Music Box Theatre in Chicago to present the ciné-concert Verdun, Visions of History by Léon Poirier with live piano accompaniment by internationally acclaimed French composer and pianist Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch, who plays the original score by André Petiot.

The Midwest tour was made possible thanks to a grant from the Institut français and the Mission du Centenaire 1914-1918 in Paris in partnership with the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago.

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MUSIC
Feb 23 | 7:00 - 9:00pm
DePaul Recital Hall
DePaul University - Chicago

Concert pianist and Harvard University Artist-in-Residence, Paul-André Bempéchat, performs and lectures from the piano on the challenge of transmuting cultural historicism and its symbols as taken up in the work of three distinct composers: Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Cras, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Part of the DePaul University Humanities Center “Lend Me Your Ears: The Sound of the Humanities” series.
**This event is free and open to the public.

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Feb 26 | Kansas City, MO | Arvest Theatre
Feb 27 | Minneapolis, MN | Myth
Feb 28 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom
Mar 1 | Royal Oak, MI | Royal Oak Music Theatre
Mar 2 | St. Louis, MO | The Pageant

A French EDM group whose music mixes electro, dubstep, drumstep, drum and bass and trap, Dirtyphonics are touring North America in the next few months promoting their upcoming EP, Write Your Future. Described as a “big, tumultuous, and DIRTY storm on the horizon”, the new EP has heavy-metal meet dnb to the group’s signature “heart-racing” effect.

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Mar 29 | Chicago, IL | Schubas
Mar 30 | Minneapolis, MN | Cedar Cultural Center

Ibeyi is a French/Cuban musical duo consisting of twin sisters, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz who are quickly collecting critical acclaim and many fans around the world. The twins' father is the late famed Cuban percussionist, Anga Díaz, who was a member of Buena Vista Social Club. Together the twins have learned the songs of their father's culture, Yoruba that travelled from West Africa to Cuba with slavery in the 1700s. They have created a minimalist sound that merges elements of their heritage with their natural love of modern music as teenagers growing up in Paris.

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April 29 | Chicago, IL | Bottom Lounge

Icons of a golden age in French rap, IAM is returning to North America for a major tour.The group  on allusions to Africa, and particularly to ancient Egypt, in its music. IAM’s big break came after the release of the 1997 album, L’école du micro d’argent, which eventually sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. The band draws heavily on African rhythms mixing both rage and intelligence, and constantly discovering new dimensions for the pleasure of listeners’ ears and minds with a long history of collaborations with the American group, the Wu-Tang Clan.

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CINEMA
Until March 09, 2015
Doc Films - University of Chicago

Doc Films at the University of Chicago presents a two-month tribute to Jacques Doillon, one of the most creative members of the generation of French filmmakers that emerged in the aftermath of the New Wave. It's the first Chicago retrospective of his work since 1987.

Supported by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago, the Institut Français and the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago.

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Until March 04, 2015
Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago

The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago presents Godard: The First Wave, a series of seventeen features and three shorts concentrating on its early career. It centers on the first phase of Godard’s vast output, which represents one of the most remarkable creative bursts of the past century, plus a small collection of its later-period, The series runs concurrently with the master director's latest film, Goodbye to Language 3-D, making its long-awaited Chicago debut with a monthlong run at the Film Center.

Supported by the Institut français and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and the Consulate General of France in Chicago.

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Until Feb 16, 2015
United States

After the success of My French Film Festival last year, the leading online worldwide French film Festival returns. For its fifth edition, the festival returns with new films, new partner platforms, as well as launches in theatres.

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Contemporary and classic French films are shown on Midwest campuses throughout the winter and spring 2015 as part of the 2015 Tournée French Film Festival Program.

- University of Southern Indiana - Evansville (until Feb 27)

- Wartburg College - Waverly, IA (until Feb 25)

- Kenyon College - Gambier, OH (Jan 30-Feb 13)

- Illinois College - Jacksonville, IL (Feb 5 - March 3)

- 18th Annual Milwaukee Festival of Films in French (Feb 6 - 15)

- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (Feb 21 - March 2)

- Ashland University - Ashland, OH (March 10 - 25)

- Northern Kentucky University - Highland Heights, KY (Apr 2 - May 7)

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Feb-March 2015

Listing of upcoming screenings of French films in the Midwest (new releases, restoration or classics)

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PERFORMING ARTS
Feb 14-20, 2015
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Originally commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Nantes, this theatrical marvel by Companie Non Nova uses a simple wind turbine to create a vortex in which plastic bag characters evolve, responding to the movement of the air to Claude Debussy’s most famous ballet work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

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Feb 5 - March 8, 2015
Presented by Tuta Theatre
The Den Theatre
1333 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622

TUTA Theatre Chicago presents the U.S. premiere of French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Music Hall, followed by an Off Broadway engagement at 59e59 Theaters in New York.

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VISUAL ARTS
Until March 29.2015
Detroit Institute of Arts

The “extraordinary artists” in this exhibition are a “who’s who” of late 19th-century figures who moved art from its traditional academic moorings into the modern era. Edgar Degas’ bathers, dancers, and jockeys; Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portraits of his family and celebrities; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s stage performers; Paul Cézanne’s bathers; and Pierre Bonnard’s and Edouard Vuillard’s intimate interior and city life scenes are among the featured works. Other artists included are Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Camille Pissarro.

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Until July 19, 2015
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas CIty

In commemoration of the World War I Centennial, this exhibition explores the impact of the Great War on the art and artists of that tumultuous era: the art of the German Expressionists, French Cubists, Italian Futurists, British Vorticists and American artists as they responded to pre-war industrialism and urban energy. It also explores the course of modernism during the devastating war years and focuses on the two main artistic directions that emerged after the war;  while French Surrealism probed the irrationality that had led to war, artists at the German Bauhaus embraced rational principles of efficiency and economy, as they sought to build anew.

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BOOKS
Srping & Fall 2015

The French Embassy offers financial aid to American institutions universities, libraries, bookstores, publishing houses, and other venues across the United States wishing to host French authors for readings, signings, and symposia. The authors listed are currently available for booking.

Authors on Tour: Boubacar Boris Diop, Annie Goetzinger, Pierre Lemaitre and many more.

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Paris prepares for its Salon du Livre, the Prix des Deux Magots Winner is announced, and critics are praising the recently released "Happy Are the Happy."

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On January 21, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy held the second French Voices Ceremony, presided over this year by Honorary Chair Rick Moody. Among the ten grantees for 2014, one has been selected by the French Voices Jury to receive the 2014 Grand Prize, worth $10,000. The French author of the translated book will also have the opportunity to do a book tour in the US.

And the French Voices Grand Prize for 2014 goes to... translator Pascale-Anne Brault (also Professor of French at DePaul University) and Fordham University press for Barbara Cassin's La Nostalgie.

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New French fiction, non-fiction, children, Graphic Novel books translated in English.

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EDUCATION
Deadline: February 18, 2015

A Stage pédagogique de courte durée - SPCD is a training grant aimed at helping teachers perfect their skills in methodologies for teaching French language and culture. The SPCD grants are intended for teachers of French as a foreign language who teach in American elementary or secondary schools.

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6-30 juillet 2015
Université de Nantes
2 bourses seront attribuées en 2015
Date limite de candidature : 8 mars 2015

Organisée sur le campus de l'université de Nantes, l'université d'été-BELC 2015 est un stage intensif de formation professionnelle qui propose plus de 100 modules thématiques visant quatre objectifs principaux : mieux enseigner, mieux former, mieux évaluer, mieux piloter.

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Deadline: February 15, 2015

The Partner University Fund supports educational and research partnerships between higher education institutions in France and America. Established in 2007 as a collaboration between the French government, American private donors, and the FACE Foundation, PUF supports research partnerships in all disciplines among two or more American and French institutions. The selection comitee favors collaborations that foster international educational exchanges, create joint degree programs or joint training courses, or propose joint research projects.  PUF contributes up to $100,000 in co-funding to projects.

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