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JULY/AUGUST 2011
Some of the months' highlights include: |
ILLINOIS ▪ INDIANA ▪ KENTUCKY ▪ MICHIGAN ▪ MINNESOTA ▪
MISSOURI ▪ NEBRASKA ▪ OHIO ▪ WISCONSIN
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Le Consulat général de France et les associations françaises, franco-américaines et francophones de Chicago s’associent pour célébrer la FETE NATIONALE FRANCAISE.
Pour la première fois, cette manifestation est organisée en partenariat avec
Bastille Day 5K & 8K Run/Walk and Block Party
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Cette grande manifestation sera précédée d'une réception (sur invitation)
organisée par le Consulat général de France à Chicago
le jeudi 14 juillet 2011 de 18H00 à 19H30
au Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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The Consulate General of France and the French, French-American, and Francophones associations in Chicago are joining forces to celebrate BASTILLE DAY!
For the first time this year, the event is organized
in partnership with the
Bastille Day 5K & 8K Run / Walk and Block Party
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum ▪ Lincoln Park
(Fullerton & Cannon Drive)
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This celebration will be preceeded by a reception (by invitation only)
organized by the Consulate General of France in Chicago
on July 14, 2011 from 6pm until 7:30pm
at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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ELECTIONS - SCRUTINS DE 2012
Au deuxième trimestre 2012, auront lieu l’élection du Président de la République et, pour la première fois, celle des onze députés élus par les Français établis hors de France [1] au scrutin uninominal majoritaire à deux tours (un député pour la circonscription d’Amérique du Nord). Compte tenu des contraintes spécifiques du vote à l’étranger, les dates des opérations de vote aux États-Unis sont aménagées par rapport aux scrutins organisés en France. Ainsi, les élections seront organisées le samedi. En savoir plus. |
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Election présidentielle : |
Elections législatives : |
1er tour le samedi 21 avril 2012 |
1er tour le samedi 2 juin 2012 |
2ème tour le samedi 5 mai 2012 |
2ème tour le samedi 16 juin 2012 |
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MESSAGE DE M. MARC BILLON, CONSEILLER A L'ASSEMBLEE DES FRANCAIS DE L'ETRANGER
Entre la remise en cause de la double nationalité, la proposition de taxe de 20% sur les résidences secondaires des Français établis à l'Étranger, la fragilisation du système d'enseignement français à l'étranger et la nomination toute récente de David Douillet au poste de secrétaire d'État en charge des Français de l'étranger, les sujets concernant les Français de
l'Étranger ne manquent pas en cette période estivale... En savoir plus.
En vous souhaitant un bon été, je vous rappelle que je suis à votre disposition pour répondre à vos questions. N'hésitez pas à me joindre (mbillon@assemblee-afe.fr). |
| Retrouvez les informations de votre Conseiller AFE sur http://marcbillon.com. |
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SPECIAL INTERVIEW FOR ELECTRIC VEHICULE UPDATE
EXECUTIVE VIEWPOINT GEORGES UCKO: BRINGING FRENCH FLAIR TO THE US |
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Known for global automotive brands Renault and Peugeot, France is among the leaders of the European pack when it comes to electric mobility. EV Update talks to Georges UCKO, director of transportation for French trade promotion agency UBIFRANCE in Chicago about what French companies can offer to the US market. (Read the article). |
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BLOOMINGTON (IN)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY ELINOR OSTROM HONORED IN FRANCE, NORWAY
Elinor Ostrom, Distinguished Professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington and co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, has been honored by the scientific community in France. In a tribute to her work, Ostrom received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpelier and delivered a keynote address at a UNESCO conference in Paris. (Read)
Photo Ric Craddick, Courstesy of Indiana University. |
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FRANCE
Un remaniement ministériel a été rendu récessaire suite à la nomination de Mme Christine LAGARDE comme directrice générale du FMI. Le ministre français du Budget, François Baroin, prend sa succession.
Composition du Gouvernement.
A signaler la nomination de M. David DOUILLET, Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du ministre d'Etat, ministre des Affaires étrangères et européennes chargé des Français établis hors de France, un poste nouvellement créé.
Communiqué de presse du premier ministre suite à la nomination de Mme Lagarde. |
G20-G8 UPDATE
● Address by Nicolas Sarkozy to the G20 Ministers of Agriculture
Opening of the meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers -
Élysée Palace - June 22, 2011
Who would have believed, when the G20 met for the first time in Washington, that these meetings would lead us three years later to address the topic of agriculture?
However, to rebuild global capitalism is not only to change the way in which it operates, it is also to make the needs of peoples and human activities once again a central focus for its priorities. |
| Agriculture is the world's primary activity; agriculture is the first response to the vital needs of the population. For those who still have any doubts as to this, recent events provide dramatic proof of the urgency of ensuring that the agricultural sector is central to our action. Since the beginning of the year, 44 million human beings have sunk into poverty, since the beginning of the year, in countries that are in danger at every moment of destabilisation due to food riots. (Read) |
● World Farmers’ Forum - Conference on the Food Challenge:
Address by Nicolas Sarkozy. (Read)
Paris, June 16, 2011
For more information go to: http://www.g20-g8.com/ |
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● Legion of Honor ceremony for 2 Veterans of WWII from Missouri and Ohio.
● June 21: 1ère édition de Make Music Chicago/Fête de la Musique
● June 18: "Une Soirée Magnifique" Gala Benefit presented by the Minnesota International Center in the presence of Consul General of France Graham PAUL.
● June 14: Renaissance Awards Ceremony with the French Ambassador on Capitol Hill.
Among the recepients: Reid Henri Lewis (Elgin, IL ), Médaille d’Or de Solidarité et Valeur and Albert Valdman, Ph.D. (Bloomington, IN), Médaille d’Or du Mérite Francophone.
Presentation of medals by Jane Robert, President, La Renaissance Française Delegation in the United States.
● June 10: Consul General of France visits Monet Exhibition at Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City Missouri. Visit Coincides with Nelson-Atkins Inclusion in International Museum Collaboration.
Voir page RETROSPECTIVE. |
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CHICAGO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
JULY 22-24, 2011
Music Box Theatre, in collaboration with the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Chicago French Film Festival, a three-day film festival celebrating the best in recent French cinema.
The Chicago French Film Festival features eight films, including recent French box office successes and hit films from the Cannes, Toronto and Tribeca Film Festivals.
The Festival is pleased to welcome to Chicago two special guests:
Jean-Pierre Améris, director of the Opening Night Feature ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (Les émotifs anonymes, 2010), and
Josiane Balasko, star of the Closing Night Feature THE HEDGEHOG (Le Hérisson, 2009).
Supported by Unifrance, Institut Français, Sofitel-Chicago.
COMPLETE INFORMATION
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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: TOUR EN FRANCAIS DES GRATTE-CIEL HISTORIQUES ET MODERNES DU CENTRE DE CHICAGO
Vendredi 8 juillet à 10h30
Ce tour, en français, vous permet de découvrir divers mouvements architecturaux tels que la Chicago School of Architecture, l’Art Déco et les styles Moderne et Postmoderne ainsi que l'influence de la France sur l’architecture de Chicago. En savoir plus. |
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SOUVENIRS OF THE BARBIZON: PHOTOGRAPHS, PAINTINGS, AND WORKS ON PAPER
July 2–September 25, 2011
Painting and photography blossomed into fully corollary practices not long after photography’s invention was announced in 1839. That fruitful relationship is exemplified by a group of works made in France’s Barbizon region.
Complete information - The Art Insitute of Chicago. |
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THIRD ANNUAL CLASSIC FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
July 14-31
Cinema St. Louis, the presenter of the annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), celebrates the city’s Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy with its Third Annual Classic French Film Festival. This year’s fest – which appropriately begins on Bastille Day – offers an intertwined tribute to a trio of French-cinema icons: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Demy, and François Truffaut.
Co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and Webster University Film Series
Complete information - Cinema St. Louis |
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"WHY GROW UP?" by Etienne Delessert
Until September 4
Etienne Delessert has illustrated more than 80 books, some translated in 14 languages, with millions of copies sold worldwide. Why Grow Up? features 100 artworks from over 20 books including his groundbreaking The Endless Party, created in the 1960s, along with his influential collaborations with Eugene Ionesco (Contes 1, 2, 3, 4) in French, and Jean Piaget (How The Mouse...), to his more recent award-winning A Long Long Song, Ashes Ashes, Dance!, The Seven Dwarfs and many more. |
This exhibition was initiated in 2009 at Centre de l’illustration in Moulins, France, and travels in the U.S. through the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas.
Complete information - Joslyn Art Museum. |
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MONDO BELMONDO
July 1-29 |
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Belmondo's career has brought him from collaborations with the founders of the French nouvelle vague like Godard and Truffaut and Melville to leading man status in lavish international productions directed by pop artists like Philippe de Broca and Henri Verneuil. This five-week series puts equal emphasis on Belmondo's landmark New Wave works and his popular entertainments.
Complete information - Madison Cinematheque |
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THE GREAT POOR FARM EXPERIMENT III WITH FRENCH ARTIST GUILLAUME LEBLON
August 5, 6, 7, 2011 |
| The Poor Farm is a contemporary art space, modeled after the northern European kunsthalle, located in the township of Little Wolf, Wisconsin. Poor Farm is an exhibition space dedicated wholly to artist's work and ideas. Guillaume Leblon 's project engage the vast first floor of the Poor Farm. His constructions engage an elastic reality by juxtaposing different dimensional scales in the same space while allowing narrative links to connect one work with another. Guillaume Leblon was born in 1971 in Lille (France). |
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Supported by Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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| For a listing of Cultural events in the MIDWEST click here. |
COMMON ECONOMIC CHALLENGES CONFERENCE FOR TEACHERS
Conference on Europe and the Cultural and Economic Changes since the Introduction of the Euro
July, 20-22 |
Free & Travel subsidy available
The Goethe-Institut Chicago, in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank, the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Cultural Services at the Consulate General of France, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago and the German Chambers of Commerce is organizing the ‘Common Economic Challenges - Conference on Europe and the Cultural and Economic Changes since the Introduction of the Euro’ in Chicago. More information on "EDUCATION/SCIENCES" |
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FRENCH SUMMER CAMPS IN THE MIDWEST:
There are a variety of Summer Camps in French and French immersion programs throughout the Midwest for students ranging from kindergarden to high school. Through these programs students can develop thier French language skills while participating in many different activities such as painting, film, cooking, singing and much more!
For a complete list and descriptions of camps in the Midwest click here. |
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