The Statue of Liberty and ballet are French. Bastille Day on 60th St. is our big New York celebration. Mardi Gras is our big international celebration. FIAF is NYC’s big French cultural center and library.
The concept of “Latin America” is French. New York Latin Culture Magazine was began publishing as Tango Beat® in Paris, France in 2009. Lingerie is French and so is modern pornography. English is just French badly pronounced. Oh là là.
French NYC
Cie Hervé KOUBI 2020
Tue-Sun, February 18-23, 2020
JOYCE THEATER
Chelsea, NYC
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The Algerian-French contemporary dance company celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Mediterranean journey through our common humanity.
ADAA The Art Show 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
GALA PREVIEW
Thu-Sun, February 27 – March 1, 2020
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, NYC
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The top U.S. art dealer association’s art fair is showing Argentine, Brazilian, French, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican and Venezuelan artists.
NYC Ballet Winter 2020
Tuesday-Sunday
January 21 – March 1, 2020
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER
Lincoln Center, NYC
Balanchine, Robbins, Peck, Ratmansky, Wheeldon and Swan Lake
Phantom of the Opera
Dark Sundays
MAJESTIC THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
The Paris opera house is haunted by the longest-running Broadway show in history
French Festivals in NYC
Bastille Day on 60th St and Rendez-vous with French Cinema are the big French festivals in New York City.
Bastille Day, La Fête nationale
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
PARIS, France
The French Revolution began with the storming of La Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2019
LINCOLN CENTER; Feb 28 – Mar 10, 2019; French film festival ~ New and classic French movies co-presented by UniFrance
Bastille NYC ~ French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
60th Street
Fifth Avenue to Lexington
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Continue Reading Bastille NYC ~ French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
French New York City
Manhattan’s French community is in the Upper East Side around Lycée Français and FIAF. We have both an Embassy and a Consulate.
Brooklyn’s French community is centered around Carroll Gardens and Greenpoint.
French Consulate NYC
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
Closed weekends
[France also has an embassy in NYC]
Hermès
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
MEATPACKING, NYC
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC
The brand of the French establishment is getting down with the next generation
Chanel
Madison Avenue, Upper East Side
57th Street, Midtown
SoHo
Louis Vuitton
MIDTOWN EAST, SOHO & BATTERY PARK CITY, NYC ~ The flagship store is the one in Midtown at Fifth and 57th
Givenchy
Daily
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
The house of the French couture designer who defined 1950s elegance
Met Cloisters
Daily
FORT TRYON PARK, NYC ~ This reconstructed French cloister is a museum of medieval art known for its unicorn tapestries
Barbès
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ This eclectic French-owned underground night club that regularly books Latin artists was also the original home of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia band Chicha Libre
French New Yorkers
The Statue of Liberty, she is French.
French
Carlos Gardel
Friday, December 11, 2020
TOULOUSE, France ~ Charles Romuald Gardès, the iconic Argentine tango singer and world’s second Latin movie idol, was born on December 11, 1890
French Culture
Paris was the world capital before New York. Oh là là.
Mardi Gras
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana
The party in New Orleans gets going two weeks before “Mardi Gras” (Fat Tuesday). Mardi Gras in New Orleans is African, Caribbean, African-American, Congo Square, March, Ragtime, Blues, Jazz, Latin Music and Latin Dance all at once.
Beaujolais nouveau
Thu, November 19, 2020
Taste the fruit in this season’s Beaujolais by drinking it chilled right after it is bottled
FIFA World Soccer Rankings
December 19, 2019
USA women are #1. 70% of the top ten men’s teams are Latin: France, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Argentina and Colombia
World Ballet Day 2019
Wed, October 23, 2019
The world’s leading ballet companies take you behind the scenes to see a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer on Facebook Live
France
Bastille Day, La Fête nationale
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
PARIS, France
The French Revolution began with the storming of La Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
Sunday, August 23, 2020
The more you think about it, the more you wonder how the Atlantic slave trade was allowed to happen, and why we haven’t gotten over it
Continue Reading International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
Our Lady of Lourdes
Thursday, February 11, 2021
LOURDES, France
On February 11, 1858, 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous heard a Marian apparition tell her to dig a well at the spot. The well’s water is famous for miraculous healings.