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CULTURAL/EVENTS AGENDA OCTOBER 2008 This agenda presents a selection of French or French-related events in the Midwest. For a complete calendar of events for the French and French-speaking associations in your area, please visit their respective web sites. Agenda culturel pour la région de Chicago / Cultural Agenda for the Chicago area: "LIAISON" |
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| CHICAGO |
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Bank of America Chicago Marathon : Dimanche 12 octobre Dimanche 12 octobre : Venez encourager les Marathoniens Français et Francophones avec le Groupe Professionnel Francophone sur l’« International Mile » de 8h30 à 14h30. Vendredi 10 octobre de 18h00 à 20h00 : COCKTAIL pour les MARATHONIENS FRANCOPHONES et leurs amis - Ouvert à tous. Informations complètes en page Marathon 2008 |
| October 5: "Une Balade sur l’eau” Architectural tour in French organized by the Alliance Francaises of the North Shore, DuPage County and Chicago, and the American Association of Teachers of French. |
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October 18 & 19: Fall French Market at the Lycée français de Chicago The school is transformed into a traditional French marketplace with food, culinary demonstrations, and over 40 vendors. Parents can shop while kids enjoy the Children's Pavilion, featuring play, arts and crafts, and interactive entertainment such as a magic show, balloon art, and face painting. October 18 from 10:00 to 5:00 pm and October 19 from noon to 4:00 pm. 613 W. Bittersweet (Marine Drive & Irving park). www.lyceechicago.org |
| Vendredi 17 Octobre : Gala Annuel de l'Union des Français de Chicago "Années 20, Années Folles". | |
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Venez fêter l'événement en musique autour d'un cocktail et d'un dîner gastronomique, qui seront suivis d'une soirée dansante. De nombreuses et belles surprises vous attendent ! Alors préparez-vous à partager un bon moment tout en divertissements. Informations. Friday, October 17: Please come and join us to celebrate the 31st Annual UFEC Gala " Roaring Twenties..." with a cocktail reception, followed by a gastronomic dinner and music. The event will be filled with surprises waiting for you (including a free week in Paris)! So get ready to share a fun evening in great company... Complete information. |
| October 17 - Chicago (IL): "Why Are The French Different?" . Breakfast & Presentation featuring Jacques ANDREANI, former Ambassador of France shares his insight on France's identity and role in the E.U Event organized by Alliance Française de Chicago & French-American Chamber of Commerce. Information & Program |
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Until October 31: Manon by Jules Massenet at Lyric Opera of Chicago, featuring French soprano Natalie Dessay and Jonas Kaufmann. Complete information - 20 N. Wacker Drive. Tel: 312-332-2244. www.lyricopera.org |
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October 16-29: 44th Chicago International Film Festival |
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October 23 - November 2: Chicago International Children's Film Festival The largest kids film fest in North America featuring several French movies. |
| URBANA CHAMPAIGN |
Oct. 20-24 - Urbana Champaign (IL) : EUC 10th Anniversary / Celebrating the EU Week : |
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| MORE EVENTS Agenda cuturel pour la région de Chicago / Cultural Agenga for the Chicago area: LIAISON Evénements économiques / Economic Events: ECONOMIE/BUSINESS |
| INDIANA |
| BLOOMINGTON |
October 4-5: Concert Lo Còr de la Plana |
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| SOUTH BEND |
| October 6-8: New Paradigms for Revolutionary Studies: French-American
Colloquium Sponsored as part of an ongoing collaboration by a team of scholars from the Université de Provence, the Université de Toulouse, the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University South Bend, this workshop is an opportunity for Francophone and Anglophone scholars in literature, history, and art to collaborate in creating the paradigms that will shape future research in revolutionary studies. Keynote speaker Professor Lynn Hunt (History, UCLA) will present on "Revolution and Subjectivity: Towards a New Paradigm?" This project was partially supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program, funded by the Lilly Endowment. Inc., and administered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Complete information. Notre Dame University. Program. |
Films at the Browning Cinema – Notre Dame University |
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| Until October 19: Images from the Era of the French Revolution Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery - Snite Museum - University of Notre Dame. This exhibition was organized to accompany the conference New Paradigms for Revolutionary Studies: French-American Colloquium, October 6-8, 2008. The keynote address will be presented in the Annenberg Auditorium, located in the lower level of the Snite Museum. This exhibition of drawings in the Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery and paintings in the permanent installation of the 18th-Century Gallery, will provide visitors with an opportunity to view artwork created by French artists during the stormy years of the revolutionary period. The conference which has inspired this exhibition is the collaboration of a team of scholars from the University of Provence, the University of Toulouse, Indiana University South Bend and the University of Notre Dame. Speakers and participants will come from Europe, Japan and the USA. More information. |
| IOWA |
| DES MOINES |
1st week of October: Tell No One (2007) Directed by Guillaume Canet |
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| Through January 4, 2009: Yan Pei-Ming : Life Souvenir The Des Moines Art Center will present the first one-person museum exhibition in the United States for the Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming, who divides his time among studios in Shanghai as well as Paris and Dijon, France. Yan is considered one of the foremost Chinese artists working today, creating large, vibrant, expressionistic paintings and watercolors. His subject matter often includes self-portraits and portraits of family members or political figures, such as Mao and American presidents. Yan's work merges traditional Chinese visual traditions with contemporary Western formal approaches, such as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. This exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and organized by Jeff Fleming, director. Complete information. |
| KANSAS |
| LAWRENCE |
| October 3- 5, 9- 11: "A Flea on Her Ear" by Georges Feydeau The David Ives adaptation of Georges Feydeau's classic French farce is directed by Jack Wright. A Flea in Her Ear is a farce-comedy in three acts which follows the pattern based on deception. It is a comedy of situation involving marriage and deception. Crafton-Preyer Theatre - Kansas State University |
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| October 17-23: Tell No One (2007) Directed by Guillaume Canet Based on Harlan Coben's international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who as the story begins still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an annoymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to 'Tell No One.' “I think it’s one of the best movies of the year.” Richard Roeper -Ebert & Roeper - Art center cinema |
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| MICHIGAN |
| ANN ARBOR |
| October 15 : Center for European Studies -European Union Center - University of Michigan Luncheon featuring Sidy DIALLO, Deputy Consul General of France in Chicago. Theme : "The French Presidency of the European Union : Accomplishments and Challenges." Information & Program |
| Wed., October 15, 8 pm: Compagnie Heddy Maalem Fourteen utterly distinctive dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria, and Senegal come together for French-Algerian Maalem’s explosive interpretation of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Stravinsky’s story of a pagan spring ritual is transported to Africa, inspired by Maalem’s time in Lagos, Nigeria, the cacophony of a city of 12 million people echoed by Stravinsky’s music. University Musical Society - Power Center |
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| October 10-18: Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco directed by David Andrews Putting off important decisions only makes things more difficult in the end, and King Berenger has been avoiding his own death for more than 300 years. But now planets are colliding and whole towns are being swallowed into the earth. His kingdom is collapsing, and it’s definitely time for him to go – assisted by his two wives, and playwright Eugene Ionesco. Ann Arbor Civic Theatre |
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| Through January 3, 2009: The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection In anticipation of UMMA's reopening in early 2009, this exhibition will present some of the most compelling landscape images from the Museum's own renowned collection. Since the dawn of photography, practitioners have used the medium as a tool to make sense of our surroundings and create meaning within the larger world. From a selection of classic views by such artists as Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and William Henry Fox Talbot to the contemporary sublime of Michael Kenna, these images reflect 19th- and 20th-century European and American artists responding to the natural environment. Among the other photographers included are Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, William Jackson, Andre Kertesz, Josef Sudek, and Minor White. The exhibition will also showcase several new acquisitions on view for the first time by Edward Curtis, Peter Henry Emerson, Karl Struss, and Edward Steichen. University of Michigan Museum of Art - 1301 South University Avenue - http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/ |
| DETROIT |
| Films at the Detroit Film Center |
| October 3-5: A Girl cut in two (France/2007/directed by Claude Chabrol) Claude Chabrol is France’s grand master of suspense. With nearly 60 feature films behind him, including Le Boucher and This Man Must Die, Chabrol returns triumphantly to the screen with this razor-sharp, darkly seductive social satire, filled with unforgettably nasty characters. Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool) is an ambitious and beautiful TV weather girl, torn between her love for a jaded novelist several decades her senior and the attentions of the young heir to a pharmaceutical fortune – whose bizarrely unstable behavior becomes increasingly alarming. As the whims and demands of both men begin to take their toll, passions darken, and the stakes of this fiendishly entertaining tale lead inexorably to a shocking yet satisfying conclusion. New York, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. (115 min.) |
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| October 9-11: Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (USA/2008/Directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach) |
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As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. At the age of 71, in 1982, she became the first woman honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, this icon of contemporary art has created her most powerful and persuasive work. This resulting film is an eye-opening drama of creativity and revelation – an intimate, human engagement with an artist’s world. (99 min.) |
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October 19: The Mirror has Three faces & Menilmontant In conjunction with the DIA special exhibit Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the DFT will present five programs of films by directors who were contemporaries of the 20th century artists represented in this collection. |
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| These experimental films showcase European filmmakers that transcended the limitations of silent and early sound films to create an art of cinema. Jean Epstein’s The Mirror Has Three Faces (France/1927) has one of the most complicated narrative structures of its era, a story of a man and his affairs which overlap and connect to one another, each told through the eyes of his mistresses. Ménilmontant (France/1927) is the story of two sisters whose lives are torn apart by the murder of their parents. They drift apart, and then intersect again and fall in love with the same man.Both films will be accompanied by a live piano score performed by David Drazin.(60 min.). Complete information. |  |
| October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art From landscapes evoking the calm countryside to the robust energy of urban life, this exhibition shows the creative experimentation and new directions that would characterize the world of modern art. 75 paintings and sculptures by the most celebrated masters of modern art. From the dynamic brushstrokes of Van Gogh to the hazy delicacy of Monet, from Picasso's inventiveness to Dali's demented dreamscapes, these artists profoundly changed the course of modern art and created spectacular works you'll never forget! Detroit Institute of Art |
| GRAND RAPIDS |
| October 3, 2008 – January 11, 2009: Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Parisienne Paris at the turn of the 20th century was a uniquely modern city. The French capital was a vibrant center for modern entertainment and fashion, with new forms of dance, theater, sport, and contemporary clothing embraced by the burgeoning middle-classes. Artists drew inspiration from all aspects of Parisian life, and portrayed a vivid cast of characters. Artists found etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts to be an ideal means to depict the scene around them. As original works of art created in multiples that could be sold much more cheaply than paintings, prints were particularly conducive to artistic experimentation and new subject matter. Artists were pleased to create prints that appeared as posters on public streets as well as smaller prints collected by connoisseurs. Drawn entirely from the permanent collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the exhibition includes works by Edgar Degas and Félix Vallotton, along with recently acquired works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, and Théophile Steinlen on view for the first time. Grand Rapids Art Museum |
| KALAMAZOO |
| Until August 2009 : "The French in North America / Les Français en Amérique du Nord - An Enduring Presence" A series of symposia, lectures, and other public programs to be held in 2008-2009 at Western Michigan University. |
| The French have left an enduring legacy in North America, beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing through today. The purpose of this series of events is to examine the motivations, conditions, and effects of French activities, policies, and practices in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. Perspectives will be drawn from multiple disciplines in order to frame a fuller understanding of the French place in contemporary economic, political, social, and cultural relations. Co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy - Chicago http://international.wmich.edu/content/blogcategory/200/451/ |
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Until October 19: "Marc Chagall: The Early Etchings" |
| MORE EVENTS Evénements économiques / Economic Events: ECONOMIE/BUSINESS |
| MINNESOTA |
| MINNEAPOLIS |
| October 3-9: Series Alain Robbe-Grillet It is a retrospective of works written and directed by the late Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the fathers of the Nouveau Roman, who passed away earlier this year. The four movies cover his most prolific years, from the early 60s to the early 70s, and offer insights into the creative process of one of France’s most unorthodox directors. They share themes of reality, fantasy, and fiction, with unsettling atmospheres and mysterious characters. They abandon conventional film narration, drawing attention to the construction of the story and characters, repeating story elements, and disregarding plot inconsistencies. Supported in part by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy - Minnesota Film Arts |
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| October 9-15: Godard Retrospect French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard virtually sprinted through the 1960s, making one groundbreaking, irreverent, pop-infused movie after another. The most innovative and intellectual member of the French New Wave directed 18 features and at least 11 shorts during the decade; he seemed never to stop to take a breath. Breathless, of course, was his first feature, a milestone in world cinema. But the movies that followed were equally spontaneous, revolutionary, and influential, and embodied the youthful, anti-establishment spirit of the time. Godard’s dazzling, radical fusions of words and images looked back at Hollywood B-movies and ahead to deconstruction. They booted feature filmmaking into the postmodern era. Supported in part by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy - Minnesota Film Arts. |
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| ST PAUL |
| October 18 - 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Join the Alliance Française for a Luncheon with former French Ambassador M. Jacques ANDREANI. Theme of the address:" Free Trade, Market Economy and Globalization". This event is co-sponsored by the French American Chamber of Commerce and the University of St Thomas. Complete information. |
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| MORE EVENTS Evénements économiques / Economic Events: ECONOMIE/BUSINESS |
| MISSOURI |
| ST LOUIS |
| October 1-5 & 8-12: Musical : Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Music by Jacques Brel Based on Brel's Lyrics and Commentary Production Conception, English Lyrics and Additional Material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman . The pointed, passionate and profound songs of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel are brought to vivid theatrical life in this intense musical experience. Song by song, Jacques Brel’s music tells individual stories of love and loss…being young and growing old…living with memories and looking to the future…craving adventure and longing for home. Presented in the style of a Parisian cabaret, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is one of the most enduring musical revues ofall time. Webester University Conservatory of Theatre Arts. |
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| COLUMBIA |
| Films at Ragtime Cinema Until October 8th : Tell No One Director(s): Guillaume Canet In this French psychosexual thriller, a pediatrician gets knocked into a coma the night his wife was killed, apparently by the same goons. Eight years later, when the case is reopened, he receives a series of anonymous video e-mails indicating that his wife may still be alive. "Canet — channeling Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo — has fired off one terrific, twisty thriller. Hot-blooded, haunting and packed with the pleasures of the unexpected, Tell No One will pin you to your seat" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). |
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| October 28-30: Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait by Director(s): Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parrento | |
| Both simple and audacious, Zidane was accomplished by training 17 cameras on the great footballer over the course of a single match: 90 minutes, in real time. He runs; he frowns; he pants; he spits. He is always watchful. Occasionally, he bursts into action. In voiceover, Zidane broods about what he can remember, and not remember, from his matches. What would it be like to watch, moment by moment, the undramatic moments of our own off-the-ball lives that won't make it into the edited highlights of memory? |  |
| KANSAS CITY |
| Through -January 18, 2009: "Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960" No industrial development has had such a sudden and transforming effect as the steam railroad. Within a few years of trains' first use ca. 1830, their speed increased to at least three times that of road coaches, and the volume of passenger and freight traffic far surpassed any other form of transport. This exhibition shows how artists responded to the railroad, especially in Europe and the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists concentrated on feats of railroad engineering, the railroad as a focus for human drama, as a setting to explore light and atmosphere and as a symbol of reflective states of mind. Not until after the First World War did artists begin to celebrate the railroad as a mechanical marvel. Nelson Atkins Museum of Art - Bloch Building, Galleries L13 and L14 - Complete information. |
| Until October 5: "Tartuffe" by Molière In 1664, they laughed, they howled, they snickered and they gasped, and then they banned the play from public performance. Come see what all the excitement and controversy was (and is) about. Molière’s comic masterpiece Tartuffe — coming to the Spencer Theater — for your consideration and absolute delight! -- Theodore Swetz, director. Helen F. Spencer Theatre, University of Missouri - Kansas City - Complete information. |
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| NEBRASKA |
| LINCOLN |
| Films at Mary Riepma Ross Lincoln Nebraska Until October 9: Tell no one by Guillaume Canet Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, Doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex's thought-to-be dead wife in real time... |
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October 2-4 - Omaha (NE) : 33rd Annual European Studies Conference - University of Nebraska Oct. 3 - Luncheon featuring Jean-Baptiste MAIN de BOISSIERE, Consul General of France. Theme: Which role for Europe in the XXI Century" - Information & Program. |
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October 3-16: Tell No One Directed By: Guillaume Canet |
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| OHIO |
| CLEVELAND |
| Until November 2: GODARD FROM 1960-1967 French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard virtually sprinted through the 1960s, making one groundbreaking, irreverent, pop-infused movie after another. The most innovative and intellectual member of the French New Wave directed 18 features and at least 11 shorts during the decade; he seemed never to stop to take a breath. |
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October 7th: Double Feature:
Louvre City - La Ville Louvre (France, 1990) by Nicolas Philibert |
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| OBERLIN |
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| WISCONSIN |
| MADISON |
| Until December 5th: Moving Pictures: the European Films of Max Ophüls Widely considered one of Europe's greatest filmmakers, Max Ophüls (né Oppenheimer, 1902-1957) began his career in the German film industry in 1931, and over the next 24 years directed 22 feature films in five different countries. Known for his baroque camera movement, circular narratives (which often rely on flashbacks), and cynical wit, Ophüls explored the ephemeral nature of romance, love, and morality (often with strong, yet flawed female characters). Our retrospective comes in two parts: eight of Ophüls's greatest European films screen this fall, and his four American films in the spring. Special thanks to the Delphine Selles-Alverez, Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Cinemathèque – Madison. |
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| MILWAUKEE |
| Wednesday, October 22nd at 8pm: Concert Yelle Born in the Cotes d’Armor where she still lives, daughter of a well-known Breton musician, Yelle was surrounded by music from an early age. She took piano lessons, then drama and was a member of two bands which never got beyond the rehearsal stage, but that was irrelevant; she’d caught the microphone bug. Five years ago, during a Chamalow party, she met GrandMarnier, a young musician and producer who alternated between his own band and the student room where he mixed beats on his computer. A gizmo-geek who, despite an adolescence spent immersed in rock, turned to electro thanks to the influence of the Beastie Boys. To amuse herself, the mischievous Yelle superimposed her voice over GrandMarnier's sample tracks and the mixture between his electronic loops and her half-sung, half-rapped Lolita-voice worked so well that they inevitably got together to compose electropop, and in French, if you please. A golden sound was born. Turner Hall Ballroom. |
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