Until March 9: Theatre LA CAGE AUX FOLLES - Theatre at the Center
"This is Jerry Herman's best musical yet – happier, more assertive, more buoyant than Hello, Dolly! or Mame." – N.Y. Post.

Until April 25: Films at the Browning Cinema - De Barbolo Center for Performing Arts- University of Notre Dame - Cinema Series « NEGLECTED FRENCH NEW WAVE »
Nearly fifty years ago, a second French Revolution swept through the streets, studios, and movie theaters of Paris, permanently altering long-entrenched conceptions of what cinema could be.  Christened the "French New Wave" (originally a journalistic phrase applied to France's restless postwar generation), this loosely affiliated movement of young critics-turned-directors and Left Bank intellectuals made an immediate impact in the late '50s and early '60s with a series of critical and commercial hits that overthrew the stale,
literary-influenced conventions of classic French cinema and irreverently blurred the boundaries between fiction and documentary, artifice and realism, homage and autobiography.The best remembered New Wave films, including Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, debuted during the 1959-1960 film season.  Yet landmark movies classifiable as "New
Wave" both precede and follow these dates.  This series, accordingly, assembles a number of these less celebrated yet no less significant titles; titles that span a ten-year period representing one of the most creatively fertile in all of film history.  Beginning with the noir-ish New Wave precursor Elevator to
the Gallows, and moving through critically misunderstood pictures by acclaimed directors (Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes Femmes, Godard's A Woman is a Woman), seminal cinema verite documentaries (Jean Rouch's Moi, un Noir and Chronicle of a Summer), exuberant pastiches of the classic Hollywood musical (Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort) and controversial late-'60s social critiques (Jacques Rivette's The Nun and Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her), "Neglected French New Wave" shines a spotlight on a host of timeless films that today's cinephiles have likely never seen on the big screen. Browning Cinema - De Barbolo Center for Performing Arts - University of Notre Dame.


RICHMOND

Until April 6, 2008: Exhibit : From A to Z: Famous Artists in the RAM and Earlham College Collections
The exhibition will feature such notables as John James Audubon, Jeanne Claude Christo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Diego Rivera, Childe Hassam, James McNeil Whistler and William Merritt Chase, to name just a few. Richmond Art Museum.

KANSAS

SALINA

Mar 28-Apr 3: Film Persepolis
Directed By: Marjane Satrapi. Art center cinema. Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old, Marjane, that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power - forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands.

TOPEKA

Until April 13: Exhibit : "Out of the Depths..." : Works by French Expressionist Georges Rouault
The Mulvane Art Museum Topeka.

MICHIGAN

DETROIT

March 27: Concert Turzi
Turzi is a one-man band playing repetitive and alienative music that glamorizes monophony and instrumental digressions. Its disciplinary rock, built around the repetition of simple musical patterns, develops the mind-travel and relaxes both the body and the mind.
Scrummage University - 17499 Van Dyke RD. Detroit, MI 48234.

GRAND RAPIDS

Until March 16: Exhibit "The Impressionist Era: Works on Paper". 33 artists who participated in the eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886 are included in this show. While their styles, subjects and techniques were diverse, they were united in their willingness to experiment and question traditional aesthetic standards and art world practices. Many of the artists were mentors, friends, competitors, and followers. Some were forerunners of the Impressionist movement, revealing how the movement emerged out of established trends in the mid-19th century. Others were from the generation that followed, the 1890s, emerging out of developments that paved the way for the avant-garde art. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Toulouse Lautrec, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Corot, the exhibition is drawn from the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and the Kresge Art Museum.

KALAMAZOO

March 14-18: Francophone Film Festival of Kalamazoo
The Francophone Film Festival of Kalamazoo is conducted to provide the communities of Western Michigan University and of Kalamazoo, as well as educators across Michigan and the surrounding Midwestern states, an opportunity to experience a broader and more diverse view of the many world cultures which express themselves in French. The FFFK is dedicated to the presentation of original creative cinema from the Francophone World. Western Michigan University.

MOUNT PLEASANT

March 27- April 6st: Central Michigan International Film Festival
French Films presented as part of the Tournées Festival of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy with the support of the FrenchMinistry of Culture (CNC)
Central Michigan University – Mount Pleasant.

March is "Le Mois de la Francophonie" when we celebrate all month long the diversity of Francophone cultures around the world. Ne manquez pas une seconde!
Alliance Française of Minneapolis/Saint Paul

Until May 18, Exhibit: The Pose of Poetry and Prose: Aristide Maillol Interprets the Artist's Book
French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) extended his modeling genius to the art of book illustration. This
exhibition, drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, features a nearly complete survey of Maillol's artist's book oeuvre, with texts ranging from Virgil to Paul Verlaine. Minneapolis Art Museum.

Saturday, March 15, 2008—Sunday, August 31, 2008: Space/Surface: Contemporary Sculptors as Printmakers
Contemporary artists have long embraced a multi-disciplinary approach in their artistic practice. This exhibition showcases editioned prints by more than twenty leading sculptors, including works by Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, and Martin Puryear. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Until 29th: Film/Video Festival : Women with Vision : Past/Present
With the Women with Vision International Film Festival, the Walker recognizes the unique contributions and perspectives women bring to the art of filmmaking. Filled with international flavor, the festival also boasts a Minnesota premiere: producer Christine Walker and director Georgina Lightning present Older Than America. Global viewpoints come from Japan’s Naomi Kawase, with her Cannes Film Festival winner, The Mourning Forest, and a slate of films from Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Iran, Brazil, and of course, the United States. At the Walker we show films by women throughout the year, but with this festival the month of March becomes a time to absorb the universal impact of women filmmakers. Walker Art Center.

Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30pm: Round Table Discussion "The Middle East, The European Union, and the United States, Policies and Possible Consequences
Presented by the Alliance Française of Minneapolis/Saint Paul and the University of St Thomas This event will be held at the O'Shaughnessey Educational Center on the University of St Thomas St Paul Campus, free and open to the public.

Until March 22: Theater : Fishtank
Written by Dominique Serrand, Steven Epp, and Nathan Keepers. Starring Dominique Serrand, Steven Epp, Nathan Keepers, and Jennifer Baldwin Peden.
In the spirit of Jacques Tati and/or Buster Keaton, the real-life characters of Jeune Lune have created, out of their own very particular imaginations, a playground in which life and all its odd complexities and startling revelations collide. At once poignant and hilarious, FISHTANK is a theatrical encounter born out of movement, music, images, comedy, poetry, things lost and things found, the future. Theatre de la Jeune.

KANSAS CITY

Until June 15: In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame
This exhibition will feature some of the most recognizable works in photographic history, by some of the most celebrated photographers. Thematically, the exhibition explores the relationship between photography and celebrity and the collaborative nature of this process: the willing role of celebrities in creating their public image. A broad range of works from the 1860s to the present will be on view, by photographers such as Mathew Brady, Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, Andy Warhol and Annie Leibovitz. Neltson Atkins Museum of Art.

SAINT LOUIS

March 12th: Concert Cheveu
Outstanding raw electro/weirdpunk trio from Paris
Mangia Italiano
3145 South Grand Boulevard - St Louis. Tel. 314.664.8585

COLUMBUS

Until March 13: Columbus Jewish Film Festival
March 10, 7:30 p.m., French Film : Gorgeous
Directed by Lisa Azuelos
March 10, 7:30 p.m.,
Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley

MILWAUKEE

Saturday, March 15 from 5-8pm: Portes Ouvertes at the Alliance Française.
Observe the 90th anniversary of the Allinace Française, listen to World Music and enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. This evening will also be the opening reception for a new gallery, Salle d'expositions itinéraires, featuring black and white photographs by Anil Warrier of August Rodin's sculptures. Open to the public - Free.

NOT TO BE MISSED NEXT MONTH!

April 5 from 1:30-3:30pm : Fêtez le mois de la Poésie. Phyllis Stowell will read a selection of her poems in English from her book Shield/Bouclier at the Alliance Française. Martine Meyer will read selections in French. The book with artwork by Stowell's daughter, Pacia Sallomi, is a dialogue betzeen poet and painter, mother and daughter, age and youth. Discussion and Q&A foloowing the readings. Open to the public - Free.

April 12 from 1:00-4:00: Fête de la Francophonie at the Alliance Française.
All ages are wwelcome. Celebrate the different cultures of French-speaking countries. Refreshements, cultural activities and French music will be provided. The Festival is free and open to the public.