On Friday December 8th, the Fondation des Etats-Unis will host a student theater initiate featuring original 10 minute plays. Over the past few weeks students and budding theater practitioners have collaborated on never before produced original plays. Admission is free, sign up here Join the Facebook event for...
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In December, as part of Art-Hop-Polis, the Fondation des Etats Unis is featuring an installation by Carol-Ann Braun and Diane de Cicco. Both use text — a poem and the language of genetic code — as a “pre-text” for visual expression. Carol-Ann Braun has interpreted a...
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Every 1st Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm the houses of the Cité become a playground: jump from vernissage to vernissage to have a drink and discover the artists exposed. Start with the vernissage of your choice and continue through the participating houses,...
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The FEU is delighted to announce the artistic residency of Ensemble Calliopée at the FEU this year. They will present two concerts on the theme of the United States as a "Welcoming Land", as well as several outreach concerts in Parisian hospitals and for schoolchildren....
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Join The Harriet Hale Woolley scholars and the musiciens in residence for the next Rendez-vous Musical on Sunday, November 12. Please note that the concert of November 26 will be dedicated to the Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Messiaen (45 min) with a very short first part...
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In the 1920s and 1930s and until the 1950s, Paris remained the cultural capital of the Western world. It exerted an almost magnetic attraction on whole generations of intellectuals, poets, and writers who, for many of them, migrated towards the City of Light. They benefited...
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The international conference The Body of the Translator is taking place on Wednesday, November 22 at The Cube and on Thursday, November 23 at the Fondation des Etats-Unis. The conference will end with a poetry reading by Double Change. This conference investigates what it means to perform translation and...
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As part of the ‘Body of the Translator’ conference and to celebrate the publication of Tracie Morris’s bilingual book, Double Change and the Fondation des Etats-Unis invite you to a reading of Emmanuèle Jawad et Tracie Morris Tracie Morris will be translated into French by Abigail Lang,...
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The legendary pianist Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) left a huge catalogue boasting more than 400 pieces, more than half of which are transcriptions, arrangements or paraphrases for piano. As with Liszt, the original work is a pretext for inspiration, thoroughly, and very freely reworked. His devotion...
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