SEPTEMBER 2019
Cultural Agenda

Congratulations to Tarrant County College South Campus and the University of Central Arkansas. Each one has been selected to receive a Tournées Film Festival grant that will contribute to the screening of six French films as part of a film festival on their campuses during the 2019/2020 academic year.

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VISUAL ART

DALLAS, TX | DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

The Dallas Museum of Art’s 2nd floor European art galleries re-opened to the public on August 17 after closing this summer for a total reinstallation. Visitors can look forward to a fresh interpretation of the Museum’s European collection, featuring works by French painters Braque, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Courbet, Degas, Gauguin, Isabey, Monet, Renoir and Signac amongst many others, offering a significantly strengthened and more complete representation of Impressionist and Modern art within the collection.

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DALLAS, TX | DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | UNTIL OCTOBER 27

Due to popular demand, the Dallas Museum of Art is extending the run of Dior: From Paris to the World through October 27. Two extra months to experience more than 70 years of haute couture highlights from one of the most iconic fashion houses in history.

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FORT WORTH, TX | KIMBELL ART MUSEUM | SEPTEMBER 6 & 7

In conjunction with Monet: The Late Years, on view through September 15, the Kimbell Art Museum will be hosting on September 6 Easels in Eden: Monet’s Painting and Gardening at Giverny, a free lecture presenting the relationship between Claude Monet’s painterly techniques and gardening practices, and the free screening of 2017 documentary film I, Claude Monet on September 7.

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AUSTIN, TX | THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN | SEPTEMBER 14, 2019-JANUARY 19, 2020

The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn consists of an eleven-artist exhibition across both museum sites, approaching the complex relationship between contemporary art and anthropology. The exhibition features artworks by Paris-based artists Cameron Jamie and Kapwani Kiwanga.

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PERFORMING ART

AUSTIN, TX | AUSTIN SCOTTISH RITE THEATER | UNTIL SEPTEMBER 29

This September, The Archive Theater in Austin, TX presents Cyrano de Bergerac, at the Austin Scottish Rite Theater for a total of 18 performances.

This classic play by French poet and dramatist Edmund Rostand comes to life in a new, fast-paced, funny translation and exquisite production.

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HOUSTON, TX | STAFFORD CENTRE THEATER | SEPTEMBER 13-14

The Venezuelan musical PIAF, voz y delirio, will stop at the Stafford Centre theater in Houston, TX on September 13 and 14. Interpreted in Spanish with songs in French, the show covers the life of triumphs and tragedies of French singer Edith Piaf.

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MUSIC

HOUSTON, TX | ZILKHA HALL, HOBBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | SEPTEMBER 20 | 8PM

Ars Lyrica Houston opens its 2019/2020 season of “National Treasures” with Dancing at the Palais. Program selections include instrumental suites from two vibrantly colorful French Baroque operas, both first seen at the Palais-Royal in Paris, with period choreography and costumes. The suites featured on this program come from André Campra’s Hésione (a modern world premiere) and Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

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HOUSTON, TX | CULLEN THEATER, WORTHAM THEATER CENTER | SEPTEMBER 21 | 7PM

Enjoy a night of surrealist and culinary musical delights with a program featuring pieces by French composers Maurice Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin) and Francis Poulenc (Le bal masqué, FP 60), as well as Lee Hoiby's Bon Appetit!, a musical monologue for vocalist and ensemble portraying 1970’s television program chef Julia Child, highly recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public.

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HOUSTON, TX | JONES HALL | SEPTEMBER 27-29

French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Houston Symphony for a weekend of breezy tunes, breakneck pace and plenty of Jazz Age swagger. Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, a firm audience favorite, receives Thibaudet’s individual style and interpretive flair September 27–29. Plus, enjoy an exclusive 50% discount on tickets now through September 21 with promo code THIBAUDET. Works by Chávez and Copland round out this twentieth-century celebration of musical masterpieces.

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HOUSTON, TX | MATCH | OCTOBER 18 | 7:30PM

Musiqa presents Francosonic, an exclusively French program featuring pieces by French composers Raphaèle Biston, Betsy Jolas, Guillaume Connesson, Marc-André Dalbavie and Luis Naon, with the collaboration of Olivier Modr, French visual artist and photographer living in Houston.

Raphaèle Biston will be presenting her new creation Repercussions for a worldwide premiere, a piece for flute, clarinet, saxophone, piano, violin and percussion, commissioned by Musiqa with the support of the New Music Fund, a program of FACE Foundation in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.

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CINEMA

This month, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, screening of: The Mystery of Picasso (Le mystère de Picasso), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, on September 1 ▪ Non-Fiction (Doubles vies) directed by Olivier Assayas, on September 1-2 ▪ A Faithful Man (L'Homme fidèle), directed by Louis Garrel, along with short films Kapitalistis, directed by Pablo Muñoz Gomez, and Pauline Enslaved (Pauline asservie), directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, on September 14 & 27.

This month at Austin Film Society: screening of Betty Blue (37°2 le matin), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, on September 6-7 ▪ Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !), directed by Guillaume Gallienne, on September 15.

On September 10 at 7PM: screening of Promise at Dawn (La promesse de l'aube), directed by Eric Barbier, at the Jewish Community Center.
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