DECEMBER 2017/ JANUARY 2018
Cultural Agenda

The High Museum of Art’s current exhibition Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design is on view through January 7, 2018 and features works by many prominent Francophone artists.

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EXHIBITION

Nouvelles Richesses, an exhibition submitted by France for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture that explores global themes such as sustainability, urban development, social infrastructure and affordability, remains on display at Georgia Tech through January 5, 2018.

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Opening January 26, 2018 at UNC Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment shows how art and artists debated women's changing role in 18th century French society.

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FILM

Witness Robin Campillo's vivid, deeply felt portrait of the Act Up-Paris movement in the early 1990s, and the brave young men and women who struggled to make the AIDS epidemic visible to the wider public. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

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As part of their Foreign Focus series, the Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, SC will screen POLINA on Dec 13.

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PERFORMING ARTS

The Tennessee Shakespeare Company will perform Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from December 7-17 at Dixon Gallery & Gardens in Memphis.

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Starting in mid-December, Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte, NC will host Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award®-winning musical Les Misérables.

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MUSIC

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carlos Izcaray kick off an evening of French music with Ravel’s masterpiece Boléro.

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EVENTS

As part of their 14th annual Building the Beloved Community Symposium, Mercer University in Macon, GA will celebrate MLK Day with a spoken word performance of Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poem “Elegy for Martin Luther King.”

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