FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange) presents Fahrenheit, an exhibition space and residency program.

Far and High is the inaugural group exhibition at FAHRENHEIT — an interrelated residency program and space dedicated to exhibitions, performances, film programs and talks, initiated by FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange) and developed by director and curator Martha Kirszenbaum. The exhibitions showcases works by Laure Prouvost, David Douard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Alicja Kwade, Tamara Henderson, David Gilbert and Vincent Ganivet.

Acclaimed company Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo returns at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts with the American premiere of Jean-Christophe Maillot's Swan Lake. The choreographer reinvents the ballet classic with the help of French writer and winner of the prix Goncourt in 1990, Jean Rouaud.

With influences ranging from Mozart to jazz, Ravel's Piano Concerto is performed by Alexandre Tharaud, who possesses "fingertips with the force of nature," according to The New York Times and conducted by Thierry Fischer. Plus, Berlioz's Suite from Romeo and Juliet.

Concert Preview at 7 p.m. with host Alan Chapman.

Milan Entertainment will be releasing the original soundtrack for French Oscar-nominated film Ernest & Celestine on March 11. 

You can already listen to the track From Winter to Spring composed by Vincent Courtois for the movie on Soundcloud

Accompanied by three Celtic minstrels and more than 40 instruments, Québecois singer-songwriter Robert Charlebois will give a performance at the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz. Avec Tambour ni trompette brings back an energetic and playful Charlebois. 

March 20 2014 is the International Day of Francophonie! On this occasion, and to celebrate the speaking of French everywhere, the universities of California are holding different events throughout the month. The Francophone Center of the University of Southern California (USC) partners up with the French Mission for Culture and Higher Education on March 11 for a day full of events, from noon until 9.00 pm.

California State University, Long Beach will hold its own event with the participation of the French Mission on March 22 from 9.30 until 2.30 pm.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be holding an event on April 2 and the University of California, Irvine another one on April 23. We'll make sure to keep you posted about these events as the dates approach!

The Cixous Reading Group returns this month with a reading of Clarice Lispector's last posthumous novel which had never before been translated. A Breath of Life is an esoteric and mysterious work of which Lispector only left fragments later restructured by a friend, Olga Borelli.

RSVP to cindyrehm@gmail.com for meeting location

Saturday March 1, French Chef Dominique Ansel, the creator of the Cronuts, will be at Barneys NY at The Grove from 10am to 2pm. It's a chance to experience the taste of Cronuts for the first time outside of New York and to meet the world-famouse chef.

Jean-Luc Margot is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor who specializes in planetary science. His presentation will address questions related to the origins and distributions of life in the Universe. What makes the Universe habitable? Are there other habitable worlds or intelligent life elsewhere? A presentation at the Alliance Française de Los Angeles, in partnership with the S & T Office of the Consulate of France and the Consulate of Belgium.

How Belgium creates its own identity in the French speaking world, March 5, 7.00 pm

Café des Sciences: Life in the Universe, March 6, 7.00 pm

Ciné-Club, Goodbye Morocco, March 12, 7.00 pm

La Place du Français dans l'Afrique Sub-Saharienne, March 19, 7.00 pm

Le Printemps Arabe : Le Point sur la Tunisie, March 26th, 7.00 pm

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

Art Gallery Opening – Beth Sand, March 7, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm

Rendez-vous à la Réunion, March 11 & 15, 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm

Ciné Club – Des filles en noir, March 12, 7.00 pm - 10.00 pm

COMPRESSION, March 14 & 19, 7.00 pm - 10.00 pm

Wine Tasting Class, March 20, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm

Book Club – HHhH, March 25, 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm

Café des Arts – Midnight in Paris, March 27, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
 

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

Café Causette, March 29, 12:00 - 2:00pm: La Crêpe Michel, Old Town

Alliance française d'Albuquerque
2917 Carlisle Blvd. NE
Suite 207
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Tél: (505) 872 - 9288

This year's Coachella event will be an exciting one as it includes a lineup of French artists which have recently been in their peak of popularity. Woodkid, Laurent Garnier, Caravan Palace, DJ Falcon and Carbon Airways will all be performing at the internationally acclaimed California festival.

Tinariwen, fusion of rock and and tuareg traditionnal music, are back to present their new album EMMAAR, recorded in Joshua Tree desert.

French psyche-punk rock band La Femme will be performing at the Roxy Theatre on April 19.

Singer, songwriter, model, activist, photographer and former first lady of France Carla Bruni will make a very rare Los Angeles appearance to perform songs from her fourth studio album, Little French Song at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex.

After his inclusion in the exhibition LOST (in LA) from December 2012 to January 2013, Julien Prévieux continues his collaboration with Fahrenheit. The young French artist will come to LA from mid April to mid June 2013 to work on his new project at Fahrenheit.

François Ghebaly is opening a new 12,000 sq./ft. space in Downtown Los Angeles, at 2245 E Washington Blvd. After three years in Culver City, the gallery is expanding into the most exciting new art district in the city. The new venue was built in 1942 and has been remodeled under the supervision of architect François Perrin. 

The Cherry and Martin Gallery will present works by Jennifer Boysen and Noam Rappaport in context with pieces from the radical French painting movement Supports/Surfaces. In addition to artists like Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, and Claude Vialata, from the 1960s and 1970s French Supports/Surfaces movement, the show will present important works by figures like Jean-Marc Meurice and Pierre Buraglio.

The show is now extended until March 8.

The Hammer Museum presents Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880 to 1914 on view January 26 – May 18, 2014. The exhibition draws on the Elisabeth Dean Collection of French prints, a major promised gift to the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, as well as the Grunwald’s existing holdings to explore fin-de-siècle representations of women. While women were often exalted and idealized in French graphic arts of the period, the exhibition explores how grittier images, whether of morphine addicts or prostitutes, began to dramatize a more nuanced and often troubling range of female experience.

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March, 2014