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--> SAVE THE DATE for the next Food for Thought VIP event on April 26th, at Villa Albertine San Francisco , with music activist Gwendolenn Sharp to continue our exploration of a culture of conscious arts and regenerative food.

Thank you for joining Fathomable, the first Food for Thought event, a Parisian salon with a California flair, co-produced by Villa Albertine San Francisco and Delicious Future

Hosted at the magnificent Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation around ecofeminist artist Kalie Granier 's site-specific art installation, « The Realm of the Underwater Forests, » which aimed to raise awareness of the fragility of our ecosystems.

Thank you to our experts chef/author Maria Finn and Jonathan DeLong director of REAP Climate Center for their insights on a conversation led by Sabine de Maussion and Raphaelle Moatti

Should you want to dive deeper into art, environmental activism and entrepreneurship, follow the experts who animated the intimate salons: brown girl surf Healing Tide - seaweed tours and functional medicine herbalism ROOTLESS and Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation

--> Photo gallery of the evening here : https://bit.ly/Food_4_Thought_Fathomable_Photos

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supported by Bank of the West

!NIGHT OF IDEAS!
√More Space, More Wealth Redistribution, More Energy, New Forms of Remembrance

Meet French-American documentary filmmaker Hélène Goupil who will be presenting 2 documentaries: THE MISSION (A Mission LocaL & Still I Rise Films collaboration featuring the work of the Latino Task Force / Valerie Tulier - music by Javi Jiménez) and THE SEED (featuring Guy Clark and animations by Cynthia Soe)

📍San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch
🗓️ March 4, 2023
🕤 Screenings at 10pm


🔗 Register here: https://nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

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🎙️Dans son émission Arnaud Laporte s’entretient avec Mathilde Billet à l’occasion de sa résidence à la Villa Albertine San Francisco. Son projet a pour but d’explorer les pratiques en matière de réemploi de matériaux de construction dans le secteur de l’architecture à Portland.
🔗Bonne écoute : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaire-a-suivre/a-portland-mathilde-billet-explore-les-moyens-de-mise-en-oeuvre-d-une-architecture-raisonnee-5394464

🗓Save the date! The Night of Ideas is back in San Francisco at the Main Library on March 4th, 2023 - 7pm to 1am!
✔️This year’s edition brings together dozens of local cultural organizations, leading thinkers and artists to contemplate the theme “More?” In a world driven by the logic of growth, what does it mean to have “more”? What do we need “more” of: More material abundance, connection, creativity? More justice? More joy? Can we share “more”— and can we sustain it? Will “more” ever be enough?

🔗Register here https://nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

✔️ Join Villa Albertine San Francisco Consulat général de France à San Francisco KQED SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Public Library along with artistic curating partner Circuit Network for another inspiring marathon of talks, performances, food, art and collective imagination.

Free to the public, 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. with programming on all seven floors of the Main Library.
[photo © Matthias Carette featuring JR Artist at the 2019 edition]

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATION --> Every year, in partnership with Foundation Villa Albertine hosts 5 thinkers, creators, or culture professionals from across the African continent for 2-month, customized exploratory residencies in the US. ⁣⁣
The program aims to amplify voices from across Africa and supports projects that shed light on major contemporary issues. ⁣⁣
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✔️ Applications for 2024 are open! Learn more at the link in our stories and tap the reminder button to keep the March 10, 2023 deadline on your radar. ⁣
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🔗Learn more: https://villa-albertine.org/.../season-2024-call-africa...
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Illustration by Studio Caroline Gueye

✨ANNOUNCEMENT ✨As we launched Villa Albertine San Francisco's 2023 season on Thursday 1/25 at Vita Brevis Club , we revealed our new program: FOOD FOR THOUGHT .
➡️ Villa Albertine San Francisco & Delicious Future will create unique moments of intellectual, artistic and culinary exploration of sustainable life - a Parisian salon with a California flair.
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🔗 Learn more & book your seat to the next event: https://food-for-thought.org
✔️ Hosted at exceptional locations, each Food for Thought event creates unique, multi-sensory experiences, designed for pushing boundaries and opening minds and hearts, around deep conversation, future of food, and art.
✔️ Each event is an immersive experience and transatlantic dialogue to examine a pressing societal theme of interest of a resident of the Villa.
✔️ We commission a young chef to craft an exceptional menu of never-been-done-before dishes, and bring to life a delicious, nutritious and net-positive feast.
Villa Albertine Consulat général de France à San Francisco

✨ Meet Mathilde Billet, architect, who started her USA residency with 2 days at Villa Albertine San Francisco before heading to Portland, Oregon.
➡️ The aim of her project is to explore building material reuse practices in the Portland architecture sector that concern both public (urban spaces, facilities, housing, etc.) and private (businesses, housing, etc.) procurements. She will offer her expertise with a view to linking the practices in France with those used in Portland.
🗓 For two months, she will discover the city of Portland, Oregon, one of the most advanced cities in the United States for reuse of building materials.
She intend to interact with sector’s players: reclaimed dealers, prescribers, lawmakers, community artisans…
🔗Read more : https://villa-albertine.org/residents/mathilde-billet
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Villa Albertine Bellastock ReBuilding Center

✨ Meet visual artist Phuong Mai Nguyen, our latest resident who is now continuing her traveling residency to Hawaii.

✔️ Phuong Mai Nguyen graduated from the Gobelins School in 2009 and La Poudrière in 2011 in animated filmmaking. She has since directed several short films, including Chez moi, shortlisted by the César Academy and the Academy Awards in 2016. She was also the graphics artist for the short film Celui qui a deux âmes (César of the Best Animated Film in 2017) and the series project Une semaine de Ferme-l’oeil, and she and Charlotte Cambon co-directed Culottées (a.k.a. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World), a 30 x 3.5-minute episode series based upon Penelope Bagieu ’s comic books, which won multiple awards at film festivals and was sold across the world.

🌊She is here to work on an animated version of the comic book In Waves by AJ Dungo. Follow her journey here https://www.instagram.com/bacasable/

🔗 Learn more https://villa-albertine.org/residents/phuong-mai-nguyenalbertine

•Kalie Granier is a French interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her site-specific installation at Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation The Realm of Underwater Forests, created from dried kelp sourced from the California coast adorned with colorful, vintage French thread evokes a poetic relationship between beauty and ecological activism.

• Exhibition opens on 1/19/2023

•With the support of Albertine San Francisco

∞ read more https://kaliegranier.com/about/
Kalie Granier

📣 LAST CALL - Sign up now for TONIGHT's special program “In the Banlieues/Centering the Margin: Art + Place”! Linger along the walls of the exhibition, accompanied by poetry and music from Bay Area creativesat SPUR

🤚🏽On Nov. 2, visit In the Banlieues/Centering the Margin: Oakland/Saint-Denis exhibition & enjoy an evening of readings by Bay Area poets (Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ayodele Nzinga aka Worldslanger, Alejandro Murguía, the first Latino named San Francisco Poet Laureate, 2013-2017) & music by Kev Choice
🔗RSVP here: https://www.spur.org/events/2022-11-02/banlieuescentering-margin-art-place

Date: November 2nd, 6-8pm PT
w/ California Humanities

📣 ONLINE LIVE EVENT: November 3rd, 2022 at 5:30pm PST
➡️ Villa Albertine San Francisco is pleased to invite you to meet Hicham Berrada currently in residence . He will present his work in conversation with poet Matthew Zapruder .
✔️Born in 1986 in Casablanca (Morocco), Hicham Berrada lives and works in Paris and Roubaix (France). Nurtured by a dual artistic and scientific background, Hicham Berrada’s work combines intuition and knowledge, science and poetry. In his works, he explores scientific protocols that mimic different natural processes and/or climatic conditions as closely as possible. Hicham Berrada is represented by Kamel Mennour gallery since 2015
🔗RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/674827657211438

- CITY/CITÉ - Translating Cities & Culture: join our conversation series to discuss how our cities must be built collectively with the arts and humanities at the center, with the co-curators of the exhibition “In the Banlieues/Centering the Margin: Saint-Denis/Oakland” Laure Gayet from Legendes Urbaines & June Grant from blink!LAB Architecture.

🗓 Date: October 12, 2022 at 10 am PST / 7pm in France
(➡ online event in English with live French translation)

🔗Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-ygqzooG9xhZdHX376qS0c5jvocD9v2

☑️ Moderated by Janyce Mabry, Emmy Award-winning television host & producer.
City / Cité is a Villa Albertine programm co-produced with California Humanities

With the support of Institut français Eric Raynaud (Fraction) is currently a guest artist and visiting researcher at CNMAT in Berkeley.
🗓 He will present Ritual for a Dying
Planet his new audiovisual performance at Gray Area Festival this coming Saturday September 24th.

🔗 Learn more http://grayareafestival.io/bio/fraction/

Fraction is a new media artist whose work focuses in particular on immersive and audiovisual experience design.

💻🎵His practice has developed from a background in music composition and spatial sound which led him to put together complete skills in the field of new media art. He now devotes his time writing and producing pieces integrating digital materials of different kinds. He is particularly interested in forms of experience that have strong interactions between generative art and sonic matter. Combining complex scenography and hybrid digital writing with visuals, sound and physical media, he aims in particular to forge links between contemporary art and digital scope within the frame of radical experiences.

🔊Fascinated by sound intensity, energy, ecstasy, and the idea of "being able to sculpt digital disorder as a raw matter", he finds in the lexicon of sound spatialization the appropriate field for designing atypical pieces, placing at the center of his writing the immediate physical and emotional experience.
He was recently leading a residency in artistic research at IRCAM (Paris, France).

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This coming Saturday, June 26 at 3pm - "La Belle Equipe" in person at the Sacramento French Film Festival !

https://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/email/june2021_program-announcement.htm

Sacramento French Film Festival Get Ready, the 2021 edition of the SFFF starts in a week! Here is all you need to know about the 20th SFFF to make the most of it.

SPACES: Oakland coming very soon !!!

SPACES: Oakland is Finally Here! - https://mailchi.mp/628f6724514d/ir6fv20i4s-8805453

📣 Villa San Francisco and Immersive Van Gogh are calling for application ⚡Artists / Art Collectives / Curators to join and address Van Gogh's work through a series of 3 1-month long residencies from May through August 2021
💥 This is a unique opportunity for local artists to take part in an innovative immersive experience and interact with the public.
👉 Apply now! (deadline to apply May 9th) - more details
sur www.villasanfrancisco.org

Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit San Francisco The Grid French American Cultural Society (FACS)

Villa San Francisco Engage artists & communitiesin a dialogue wide open on the future News  Call for Artists!Immersive Van Gogh X Villa San Francisco - Spring/Summer 2021 Join the immersive digital art experience and address Van Gogh's work through a series of 3 1-month long residencies!Supporting local artistic commu...

Will you attend SXSW?
If so, join the French Immersion meetup in VR, on Thursday March 18th – 10AM PST, as part of SXSW and our Digital Thursdays.
René Pinnell (CEO – Kaleidoscope) and the report “FR//XR: A Handbook for Immersive Producers” will be presented before inviting you to meet with:
- Artists and producers behind 5 experiences selected at SXSW (Meet Mortaza, The Passengers: Her & Him, Of Hybrids and Strings, Odyssey 1.4.9, (Hi)story of a Painting, etc.).
- French Immersive Studios, a group of studios that brings French expertise into the field of immersive content and offers a set of services deployable on a large scale.
- Creative studios and start-ups (VRrOOm – producer of SXSW’s virtual edition, Wonda VR, Diversion Cinema, etc.).

More info here: https://frenchculture.org/events/12992-french-immersion-vr-meet-sxsw

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French Immersion VR Meet-Up at SXSW If you attend SXSW online this year, save the date for a unique meet-up in VR with “la crème de la crème” of French XR directors, artists and producers: March 18th - 12PM CT (10AM PT | 1PM ET | 6PM CST)! It will also be an opportunity to chat with some of the XR experts interviewed for “FR//...

Jazz lovers in Portland and Seattle, trio Vincent Courtois, Robin Fincker and Daniel Erdmann is coming to you!
✨They will perform at the Jack London R***e (Portland) this evening at 9pm. Info and tickets: https://bit.ly/31YPcY1
✨... and at Earshot Jazz (Seattle) on June 29. Info and tickets: https://www.earshot.org
Both of these show are part of the "Love of Life" tour and residency focused on and inspired by Jack London's works.

✨ ✈️ Today, we would like to take the time to extend our warmest thanks to our partner French bee, an essential partner of the artistic residency program A Room with a View since the beginning of 2019.

Thanks to French bee's support, we have been able to invite visual and music artists Joan Giner and Olivier Ratsi to perform at MUTEK San Francisco in May; illustrator Jérémie Royer who has stayed in San Francisco for six weeks in May/June to work on his upcoming project; artist Julien Previeux whose work was presented at Root Division for the exhibition My Mother's Maiden Name (on show until June 29!)...
.. and coming next: Augustin de Cointet from Atelier des Lumières on the occasion of the Gray Area Festival (July 25-28) and youth novelist Jean-Claude Mourlevat, who will be our in residence in San Francisco next Fall.

Many inspiring collaborations (and many more to come!) which would not have been possible without French bee's support. ✈️✨

The Child and the Magic Spells at SF Symphony

✨ From June 27 to June 30, the fantastic world of a young imagination comes to life at San Francisco Symphony in a dazzling production of Ravel’s The Child and the Magic Spells. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind performance by an all-star cast and featuring mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard!
✨ And get a 50% discount on tickets with promotion code RAVEL50 (valid in all sections except for Loge, Side Box, Premier Orchestra, Rear Box).

frenchculture.org In the semi-staged event of the season, this enchanting program explores the wonderment of youth. The fantastic world of a young imagination comes to life in a dazzling production of Ravel’s The Child and the Magic Spells. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind performance by an all-star cast and featuri...

Very special day at the Jack London State Park yesterday with musicians Vincent Courtois, Robin Fincker and Daniel Erdmann, who are currently in the U.S for the Love of Life residency: a series of concerts and recording of their upcoming album inspired by Jack London’s works. Listening to them playing music in such a special environment, surrounded by London’s great-granddaughter Tarnel Abbott and scholar Susan Nuernberg felt like a magical experience!
📅 On July 2, Vincent Courtois Pierre Baux will perform at the Oakland Public Library for a hybrid performance of music and reading. Join us!
Thank you to the partners who support this project: INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, Oakland Public Library, French American Cultural Society (FACS) and doubleOone.

LOVE OF LIFE SESSION

[REMINDER!] 🎧🥂 Only a few tickets left for "Love of Life Session" at 25th Street Recording on June 27, a unique event presented in partnership with doubleOone. Do not miss the chance to see jazz musicians Vincent Courtois, Daniel Erdmann and Robin Fincker record their upcoming album live in front of a limited audience! 🥂🎧
Last tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/2Ld2bzC

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🎬 The Sacramento French Film Festival kicks off today! From June 21 to June 30, enjoy movies such as Les invisibles, Guy, Conviction, Pupille, Première année, and many more! The full lineup is available here:https://bit.ly/2Zz0wIr 🎬

Fete de la Musique 2019 (World Music Day)

🎼 Today is Fête de la musique! Here are two options in the Bay Area:
➡️ Maison bleue in Berkeley, organized by Alliance Française de Berkeley: https://bit.ly/2KuKYSL
➡️ Alliance Française de San Francisco: https://bit.ly/2Y3aUYI
Enjoy! 🎼

eventbrite.com [FR below] Come join us for Fête de la Musique – a worldwide celebration of summer and music! This year the AFSF and the Quebec Trade Office in Silicon Valley are partnering up to celebrate, on the same day, Fête de la Musique and the Saint-Jean-Baptiste day, the Quebec's national holiday! Saint...

[BURNING MAN] Help Fragments, by French artist Marc Ippon de Ronda, be brought to Burning Man!
Fragments, a monumental mirror installation, has been selected by the Black Rock City Honoraria Program as this year's French laureate amongst hundreds of applications!
To make it come true, you can support the artist and his team. Learn more on how you can help here: https://bit.ly/2MZnrvd

Frameline Festival is back!

[FESTIVAL] 🎬 Frameline Festival, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, opens tomorrow and will be on until June 30! This year's edition includes an impressive number of French and Francophone films. Find out which ones here --> https://bit.ly/2wNySLv 🎬

frenchculture.org An impressive number of French and Francophone films will be presented during Frameline 43, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival: Apocalypse After (Ultra Pulpe) by Bertrand Mandico Because You're Mine (A l'orée) by Jean-Baptiste Huong (2018)