UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF)
12 May, 2019 at 14:00 - 22:00 on Cinema Grand Action, 5 rue des Ecoles, Paris 5e
For the tenth time, the Arts Arena presents the UNAFF Traveling Film Festival in a specially curated selection of films over two days. Conceived in 1998 at Stanford UNAFF screens documentaries by international filmmakers dealing with topics such as human rights, the environment, women’s issues, children, refugee protection, homelessness, racism, disease control, universal education, war […]
HELENA RUBINSTEIN: THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED BEAUTY
12 April, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Polish-born Helena Rubinstein was an immigrant who became an international avant garde businesswoman and art collector, and who founded one of the world’s great cosmetic empires. This Spring, Paris’s Musée de l’histoire du Judaïsme presents a major exhibition devoted to the woman Jean Cocteau called “l’impératrice de la beauté.” Michèle Fitoussi, editorialist at Elle, novelist, […]
PALLAVI MAHIDHARA, pianist
03 April, 2019 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris, 1er
In the rotunda of La Monnaie de Paris, Pallavi Mahidhara performed a brilliant program as the 2017 laureate of the Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award. Praised for her uniqiue artistry and charismatic stage presence, she has appeared in solo and orchestral concerts across five continents and in such venues as the Kennedy Center, […]
L’Europe autour de l’Europe
27 March, 2019 at 18:00 - 21:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
For the eighth year, the Arts Arena will participate in the European Film Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe. Focused on “films d’auteur,” the festival features works produced or co-produced by member countries of the Conseil de l’Europe. Its aim: to create links between the classics of European cinema and today’s emerging talents and between national […]
THIERRY HUAU
20 March, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Founder of Atelier Interscene, Thierry Huau has left his mark from Beirut to Hanoi: city planning, green spaces, green infrastructures, city parks, theme parks, golf courses, resorts, botanical gardens, zoos, for clients and partners such as the Conseil Régional d’Ile de France and Ministère de la Culture, Pierre & Vacances, Center Parcs, Bouygues Immobilier, Disneyland […]
JEROME ROBBINS AND THE CINEMA
10 February, 2019 at 14:00 - 21:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Rescheduled from December 9 2018, this centennial celebration will feature dance films of Robbins’s iconic creations, a documentary on Robbins the Man, a talk on “Jerome Robbins’s Camera Eye,” a screening of the Academy Award-winning film West Side Story—music by Leonard Bernstein, co-direction and choreography by Robbins–and a champagne toast to this unique man of […]
ORLEANS CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL PIANO CONCERT
01 February, 2019 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
The youngest laureate of the 95th Mozarteum Summer Academy of Salzburg, First Prize winner of the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich, and winner of four prizes at the Orléans Concours International Piano Competition, South Korean pianist Hyeonjun Jo will perform an Arts Arena recital in partnership with the Orléans Concours International. His program will consist […]
EXILED, a documentary by Margaux Chouraqui
21 January, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Journalist Margaux Chouraqui confronts Europe with its own memory as it faces today’s refugee crisis. A camera follows the ‘silent majority’ of Europeans directly confronted by the influx of migrants, reminding us that during the 20th century – two world wars, the cold war, the Balkans wars – Europeans themselves were exiles. The stories of […]
ArtsArenaPLUS: CHOPIN chez CHAUMET
13 January, 2019 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Chaumet, 12 Place Vendôme, Paris 1er
By the gracious invitation of the celebrated Place Vendôme jeweler Chaumet, the Arts Arena will present a private Chopin piano recital in Chaumet’s Grand Salon. It is here where Chopin is said to have composed his last work, Mazurka in G Minor, and where he died on October 17, 1849. Nikolay Khozyainov, the youngest finalist […]
RESCHEDULED DUE TO DISTURBANCES IN PARIS: Jerome Robbins and the Cinema
09 December, 2018 at 14:30 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Dear Friends of the Arts Arena, In light of the events this weekend in Paris, we are reluctantly making the decision to reschedule our tribute to the great American choreographer Jerome Robbins, which was slated to run from 14h30 to 22h00 tomorrow. As you know, many metro stations are closed today, many bus lines are […]