French events in Australia

France Group Stand at FI-E FOOD AUSTRALIA 2010

Join us for exquisite food and tantalising flavours as Ubifrance – the French Trade Commission of Sydney, organises a France Group Stand at Fine Food Australia for the forth consecutive year. Fine Food Australia, which will take place from the 13th to the 16th of September at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre is the largest professional trade show for the food & beverage industry. It oscillates between Sydney and Melbourne, with last year’s Expo attracting 950 exhibitors from 23 different countries and close to 25 500 visitors in Sydney. This year, the France Group Stand will host seven French companies who will come out to Australia to exhibit their products and communicate their “savoir-faire”.

For further information please contact: Maylis Geimon French Trade Commission of Sydney - Ubifrance Ph: +61 2 9287 9229 / maylis.geimon@ubifrance.fr

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The Alliance Française de Canberra in association with the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian French Association for Science and Technology and National Science Week 2010

Café Scientifique – Australia: how BIG?

Friday, August 20, 5.15pm for 5:30pm start at Christian Lab - near CSIRO Discovery Centre Clunies Ross Street, Acton

ADMISSION FREE!

Booking essential by 15 August: 6247 5027/

Nice wine and cheese + good conversation + relaxed atmosphere = enjoyable evening. Such is the winning formula of the Café Scientifique. Please join us for an informal discussion where you can freely interact with distinguished specialists in fields relating to demographics, urban design and sustainable development. What are the challenges raised by population increase in Australia and what should the public policy response be? How big can we get?

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 Opening Thursday 20 May 6 – 8pm

• Damiano Bertoli, Mathieu Briand (Fr), Anouk de Clercq (Bel), Marco Fusinato, Pierre Huyghe (Fr), Mabel Juli, Nick Mangan, NASA & Matthew Shannon

Event Horizon engages the horizon as a means to establish a physical locality with relation to the earth’s surface and more broadly to the universe of which it is a minuscule component. The project presents a combination of historical images courtesy of NASA to foreground works by a selection of Aboriginal, Australian, Belgian and French artists exploring ideas beyond terraqueous limitations.

Event Horizon Lectures

 6pm Wednesday 7 July 2010

Professor Jeremy Mould – Astrophysicist, University of Melbourne David Malin – Scientific Photographer

Event Horizon has been gratefully supported by Cultures France, Besen Family Foundation, Sofitel, International Art Services, Melbourne Planetarium & Tint Design

Centre for Contemporary Photography is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body

Centre for Contemporary Photography 404 George Street, Fitzroy Victoria 3065

 tel : +61 3 9417 1549
 www.ccp.org.au

So Frenchy So Chic, those fine purveyors of the best new music from France, present hip new indie voice of chanson, Berry with your favourite troubadours of 80’s reinvention, Nouvelle Vague.

 Monday 14 June Brisbane PowerHouse

 Wednesday 16 June Sydney’s Factory Theatre

 Thursday 17 June Melbourne’s Prince Bandroom

Launched in 1982 by the French Minister for culture Jack Lang, the «Fête de la Musique», also known as Music Fest is a music festival taking place in France on June 21, is now held in more than 100 countries. Coinciding with the first day of the Northern Hemisphere summer, Music Fest is a celebration of many cultures and many different music styles and origins - from classical and jazz to electronica. Today, over 10 million people participate in this celebration of music, with over 5 million artists contributing to this amazing musical diversity.

SYDNEY
Saturday 19 June 2010 Music Fest will take place at the CBD Hotel,
75 York St, in the heart of Sydney, from 8 pm till 1am.

The Alliance Française de Sydney is presenting an electronic concert in Sydney on 19 June, to celebrate its’ fifth year in Sydney. During this concert there will be: Two French DJs: Secret Maker, French Mafia, Canadian DJs: DJ Maus and an Australian DJ: Reel Sessions and Kristen Pearson.

MELBOURNE
Friday 18 June
 Secret Maker (France):Gerard Tempia Bonda a.k.a. Secret Maker is a French DJ coming from Paris as a special guest.
 Maus (Canada/Quebec)

Monday 21 June
Early Music Studio Baroque Ensemble
7pm at the Alliance Française

One of the most dynamic animation and production houses in Europe. Their modest, euphemistically cosy Parisian office is home to an eclectic stable of animators, including MIAF guest Edouard Salier, Nieto, H5 – the crew who put together this year’s Academy Award-winner, “Logorama” – and others.

From this incredible treasure trove, MIAF has sourced a collection of some of the most interesting and uncompromisingly indie animation made in Europe in recent times, PLUS we will start the screening with a sneak preview of some of their works currently in production.

blog.autourdeminuit.com

Edouard Salier is an animator with an awe-inspiring vision for his films. His best known films (“Flesh” and “Empire”) tackle enormous subjects and depict enormous environments.
His works get bigger, more complex, more challenging and more ambitious as he goes. His command of digital animation technologies is among the most assured of anybody working in the field and his work just keeps getting better and better – his latest film, “4”, is an immense and challenging achievement.
Edouard will introduce a collection of his works, including “4”, discuss the field of computer animation as he sees it and take part in an extended Q&A at the conclusion of the screening.

edouardsalier.com

One of Australia’s most recognised and respected actors and singers, John Waters will perform a concert that highlights the songs of the great French Chanson singer-songwriter Jacques Brel.

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Enjoy French chic in the heart of the city at the Brisbane French Festival on 17 July 2010 from 10am – 10pm at the Southbank Cultural Forecourt.

To find out more visit
 www.brisbanefrenchfestival.com.au
 Or call (07) 3844 4460
 Or email us at info@brisbanefrenchfestival.com.au

49 Shepherd Street, Marrickville (Sydney) 2204
Tel: (02) 9572-9863
Email: factory49@optusnet.com.au
Open: Thurs-Sat 1.00pm to 6.00pm

The 4 artists for this year are:

 opening 30 June 1 July – 10 July Jacques Weyer www.jacquesweyer.net
 opening 14 July 15 July – 24 July Catherine Gaillard-Remontet
 opening 28 July 29 July – 7 Aug Jacky Ferrand
 opening 12 Aug 13 Aug – 21 Aug Richard van der Aa www.richardvanderaa.com

Richard van der AA

Jacques Weyer

Jacky Ferrand

Catherine Gaillard-Remontet