“Cellular Streams” is an Audio Video site specific installation from Marianne Magne‘s ongoing ”Transitory Conditions” series which began in 2005.

This project proposes to be a exhibition, publication, performance, and residency. castillo/corrales will be hosted here in Los Angeles and will run a series of lectures, events and meetings. During the course of the series, Public Fiction and castillo/corralles will release a series of broadsheets that will serve as dispatches, each one marking a turn in the collaboration and evidence of our exchange.

Please join us for the closing reception, presentation of the publication, and final panel discussion of Dialogues: Art and Architecture Between Paris and Los Angeles, including Barbara Bestor, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Vincent Lamouroux and Marie Pejus moderated by Andrew Berardini.

The first edition of Paris Photo Los Angeles will take place from April 26th – 28th in the heart of the city at Paramount Pictures Studios. The fair will gather 80 international exhibitors, selected by a committee of gallerists.

PARIS, LA is an independent print magazine that was founded in 2008 by the editor Dorothée Perret
. Each season, artists, designers, photographers and writers are invited to collaborate and to share their vision in relation to a theme. “Nobody reads anymore” taking that perspective as a starting point, the issue focuses on the visual aspects of fashion and design.

This exhibition will feature new work by Alex Kizu (aka Defer), French graffiti artist Mist and Smash137. They will exhibit work that reflects the continuing evolution of graffiti artists around the world. Each finds inspiration in the letter.

In 2010, Matisse's large ceramic, La Gerbe (The Sheaf) was bequeathed to LACMA. Commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody in the early 1950s for the courtyard of their home by A. Quincy Jones, the ceramic reflects the work Matisse had been doing with large, colorful paper cut-outs.

This family show explores the beauty, poetics, and inspiration in daily life.  The work reveals the unique in everything around us.  Through the bodies of the performers, movement becomes dance, noise becomes song.  Household events, like a shower and the cacophony of dishes, are transported into the marvelous.

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Gad Elmaleh is arguably the biggest and most loved comedic star in France. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, he was awarded the “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by France’s Minister of Culture and was voted “The Funniest Person in France.”

"Phèdre les oiseaux" is an international theater production that has been presented all around the world. In each country, director Jean-Baptiste Sastre developed a new dramatization and translated the play into different languages, with a new chorus, as well as new actors. The participating actors are all part of an underpriviledged community coming from the Venice Family Center

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Join the NARIP (National Industry of Record Industry Professionals) for an exclusive seminar in Paris, including 1 exclusive panel discussion and 4 music pitch sessions. The subject will be: "How to Insert Your Own Music in Hollywood Films, TV Series and Trailers".

After their 2004-2008, a 4 years successful run playing Gypsy Jazz music around Los Angeles and their still exiting (2008 to Present) Gypsybilly project, Tracy & Fabrice Vignati's are back to play that wonderful originated traditional French music with a new Gypsy Jazz project the Hot Club Vignati.

This unique concert will be performed by Andrew Shulman, currently lead cello of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Steven Vanhauwaert, a member of the Felici Piano Trio. It will feature the US premiere of Schuman's Cello Sonata in C minor, as well Chopin's Cello Sonata and Delius's Romance for Cello and Piano.

Tinariwen’s music and sensibility have always been close to the American Blues and on ‘Tassili’ they re-enact the emotions of an individual who finds himself face to face with loneliness and doubt, gripped by torment, the prisoner of inextricable circumstances (‘Djeredjere’).

This chic, offbeat Parisian cabaret lands on our Santa Monica shores with a refreshing new sound that will seduce you with its quirky attitude and charm. Fronted by alluring chanteuse and accordionist Belle du Berry, this clever and engaging combo has carved out a truly distinctive niche in contemporary jazz.

During 2 days, eleven incredible chefs, a fine Champagne, gutsy fromages, acclaimed DJs and graphic designers will feast your senses and do some conscious good. Hurry and book your tickets at www.legrandfooding.com. Twenty percent of our ticket sales support L.A. Food Bank & MOCA.

This conference will discuss and explore, via multiple fields and perspectives, the concept of "vivre bilingue" (being bilingual). It will share French and North American perspectives from experts in bilinguism, psychology, psychiatry, linguistics, nutrition, milticulturalism and education on the advantages of living with two languages.

Presented as part of the Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series.

French philosopher Claude Lefort’s oeuvre developed over a period of six decades until his passing in 2010. His notions of "power as an empty place" and "the modern dissolution of the markers of certainty" have become radical and liberal democracy’s obligatory reference. The discussion is presented as part of a two-day symposium on The Aesthetic Character of Politics in Hannah Arendt and Claude Lefort.

This travel grant aims at giving American students an opportunity to discover France. It is open to sophomore, junior & senior students who are enrolled in a double major including one major in French and one major in another discipline. Consideration will also be given to students enrolled in a minor/certificate in French and majoring in another subject.

Deadline: April 15, 2013

Book Club
April 23, 12:00pm & April, 6:00pm
Come join Nadine in our Library for our monthly book clubs. This month, we will read A la recherche du temps perdu - Tome 1 Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust.

Ciné Club: L'Exercice de l'Etat
May 15, 7:30pm
Synopsis : A career politician walks a tightrope between ethics and ambition in this drama from filmmaker Pierre Schoeller.

Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles
10390 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 120
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel: (310) 652-0306
For more information: admin@afdela.org

French Conversation Happy Hour
April 4, 5:00pm
Join us for our French Conversation Happy Hour from 5-7pm the first Thursday of every month.  Enjoy a glass of wine, a slice of cheese, practice your French, see our latest art exhibit, and meet other Francophiles from the Denver area.

Denver Nuggets
April 4, 7:00pm
Alliance Française and our friends at the French-American Chamber of Commerce invite you and your family to an upcoming Denver Nuggets game. Celebrate the French Connection in the NBA!

Mini saison culturelle
April 8 & 12
Several times a year, we host a series of events called Mini saison culturelle, which is an educational adventure exploring a French speaking part of the world.  In April, we will take a look at Rwanda's coffee industry, from crop to cup.

Educational French Wine Tasting Classes
April 18, 6:30pm
If you love French wine, you won't want to miss our Educational French Wine Tasting Classes taught by our Sommelier, Ashley Vaughters.

Alliance Francaise de Denver
571 Galapago St.
Denver, CO 80204
Tel: (303) 831-0304
For more information: afd@afdenver.org

Lauren Marsolier creates images that represent the psychological experience of transition and our conflicting relationship with a world that is becoming increasingly fast-paced and dematerialized.

William Clift, born in Boston in 1944, was a self-taught photographer whose 60 year career began at age 10. Clift’s work is known for its clarity and intensity. He photographed Shiprock and Mont St. Michel over the course of four decades.

Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worlds have led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation.

For her Hammer Project, Latifa Echakhch will reprise her 2007 work À chaque stencil une revolution (For each stencil a revolution) for the Hammer’s lobby wall.

"Sous contrôle" is presented by the High School Francophone Drama Club and is part of the lycée students performances.

This play is divided into 22 acts with 20 characters. It gives a portrayal of a world of generalized surveillance and its consequences on its population (confusion between reality and fiction, paranoia...)

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Newsletter n. 105 - April 2013