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Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France/SF present Des Voix…Found in Translation, A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation. Join us for is a non-stop weekend of staged readings and events by three of the most innovative French playwrights emerging onto the scene, translated into English by Bay Area writers; directed and performed by top local artists. A Producing Partnership with Z
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A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation
May 25 – 27, 2012
Z Space
Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in San Francisco present Des Voix…Found in Translation, A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation. Join us for is a non-stop weekend of staged readings and events by three of the most innovative French playwrights emerging onto the scene, translated into English by Bay Area writers; directed and performed by top local artists.
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| CINEMA |
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Through May 30
Honolulu Museum Of Art
Cinémathèque Française is back with the crème de la crème of new French cinema READ MORE |
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June 1 - June 3
Castro Theater, San Francisco
75th ANNIVERSARY NEW 35mm PRINT!
“A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION WE SHOULD ALL BE GRATEFUL FOR!”
– Martin Scorsese “IF I HAD ONLY ONE FILM IN THE WORLD TO SAVE, IT WOULD BE GRAND ILLUSION.”
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June 8–14
SF Film Society Cinema
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense and the winner of the 1953 Cannes Palme d’Or. READ MORE |
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June 15- June 24
Crest Theatre, Sacramento
The Sacramento French Film Festival is a unique cultural event that brings people together around films and French culture in a festive atmosphere. READ MORE |
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Tuesday, May 29
Tosca Cafe, San Francisco
An evening of readings and music celebrating the life of Edith Piaf with Carolyn Burke author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
with musical accompaniment by local chanteuse Betty Roi
The iconic French singer comes to life in Carolyn Burke's biography, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her international career. READ MORE |
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| THEATER |
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Through June 3, 2012
American Conservatory Theater
Two powerful and absurd dark comedies from master playwright Samuel Beckett. In Endgame, Tony Award winner Bill Irwin takes on the role of Hamm, who is trapped between life and death with his young servant, Clov. Together they engage in a chess match of wits in this vivid exploration of the end of life.
“[Endgame is] monstrously funny . . . [with] striking vision” —The New York Times
"[Irwin] can turn something as simple as sitting on a stone or wiping his shoe into a poetic comedy” —San Francisco Chronicle READ MORE |
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May 24 – June 17 2012
Marin Theatre Company
Following an altercation between their 11-year-old sons in Cobble Hill Park, Annette and Alan Raleigh agree to meet Veronica and Michael Novak to discuss the situation civilly - practice the art of co-existence rather than slaughter each other with insurance claims and lawsuits. READ MORE |
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May 31 - June 2
Presented in French by Platypus Theatre
EXIT Theatre, San Francisco
Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. READ MORE |
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| VISUAL ARTS |
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Through July 1
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
An iconoclastic artist, Nathalie Talec moves between live performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. For thirty years, she has developed her emotionally-charged “sentimental art,” proclaiming her ambition to re-enchant our daily lives. READ MORE |
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Through August 19, 2012
De Young Museum
After traveling to Montreal and Dallas, the popular fashion exhibition, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk will be making its final stop at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. READ MORE |
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Through June 17, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often fraught acts of description, narration, translation, and communication. READ MORE |
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