Thursday, April 21, 2011

Featured Event

Jacadi Workshop

April 21, 2011 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm – Jacadi Boutique Inspired by the new Jacadi spring collection, FIAF offers an arts-and-crafts workshop devoted to flowers. Children (ages 4–9 years) will produce a work of art in the classic style of the legendary Li… Organized by FIAF | Type: workshop

SERGE GAINSBOURG: INITIALS L.G.

March 24, 2011 at 11am to April 23, 2011 at 5pm – FIAF - 22 East 60th Street The FIAF Gallery is proud to present from March 24-April 23 the US debut of a new exhibit of photos of France's legendary bad boy, Serge Gainsbourg. Initials L.G. features portraits as well as rare a… Organized by FIAF | Type: exhibit
Paris au Present

April 5, 2011 to April 26, 2011 – Florence Gould Hall The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, celebrates the spring with a new CinémaTuesdays series exploring Paris, the City of Light. How does one c… Organized by FIAF | Type: film, series
Isaach De Bankole: An Unexpected Gentleman

April 8, 2011 at 7pm to April 29, 2011 at 7pm – Museum of Arts and Design Isaach De Bankolé, An Unexpected Gentleman Frequent star of films by Claire Denis, Jim Jarmusch, and Lars Von Trier, the French actor Isaach De Bankolé has become the preeminent leading man in a cont… Organized by Gina | Type: cinema, film, screenings
Franchise postale avec Pierre Richard on www.BunchOP.com

April 21, 2011 at 6am to April 26, 2011 at 12pm – Town Hall Le grand blond est a New York le 1er Mai au Town Hall. Reservez votre place pour le one man show de Pierre Richard sur www.BunchOP.com: - 40% sur www.BunchOP.com ($60 au lieu de $100) Organized by BunchOP | Type: deal
Late Night Galleries Tour around Lower East Side

April 21, 2011 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Lower East Side Venez profiter des galeries ouvertes tard le soir (entre 18 et 20 heures) pour profiter de notre expertise et selectionner les galeries ou les shows pour une autre raison que le buffet... Organized by Laurence Neron-Bancel | Type: art, tour, exhibition
Sound Poetry with Jean-Pierre Bobillot

April 21, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm – Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall An evening with the celebrated French sound poet Jean-Pierre Bobillot, who defines himself as a “Poëte bruyant, non-métricien tendance pro-Dada, chercheur de poux” (“a noisy Poet, non-metrical and… Organized by S.P. Johnson, translation@barnard.edu | Type: lecture/reading
No Strings Attached

April 21, 2011 from 7pm to 8pm – Don't Tell Mama Floanne’s charming show is a breezy, intimate 55-minute medley of classic songs from her native France and adopted America. Reviving some of the most beautiful French songs and a few American standa… Organized by Flo Ankah | Type: music, performance
"La noire de..." by Ousmane Sembene

April 21, 2011 from 7:30pm to 10pm – East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University La Noire de… Ousmane Sembene, 1966, 55 min. With guest moderator Professor Gregory Mann. Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman takes a job as a governess in a French family, but is c… Organized by Carly DeFilippo | Type: film, screening, and, discussion
Gainsbourg, vie héroïque

April 21, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm – FIAF - 22 East 60th Street FIAF is proud to present a special screening of Gainsbourg, Vie Heroique, on Thursday, April 21st. An inventive biography directed by best-selling comic book artist Joann Sfar, the movie follows th… Organized by FIAF | Type: movie, screening
Write About Now - Original Copy: Borrowed Voices, Stolen Stores

April 21, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9pm – Le Skyroom Literature and art have always relied on quotes, borrowings, and outright embezzlements. How are these practices—made even easier with new technologies—meaningful? Can a story be owned? Is originali… Organized by FIAF | Type: lecture