AMERICAN FRINGE 4
15 November, 2019 at 15:00 - 23:30 on Cinémathèque Française, 51 rue de Bercy, Paris 12e
American Fringe 4, the fourth edition of the Arts Arena-produced festival of ultra-independent American films, curated by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Professor of Film Practices at Columbia University, and Laura Bloom Ingram, Vice-President of Icarus Films. In partnership with La Cinémathèque française and Festival d’Automne. Each of the […]
MOVING STORIES, the award-winning film
10 October, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Jonathan Hollander, Founder and Artistic Director of the Battery Dance Company of New York City, will present MOVING STORIES, an award-winning documentary about the Company’s work with at-risk youth around the world, imparting the tools of choreography so they can tell their stories through dance. The documentary film, which premiered at MoMA, has been selected […]
THE ARTS ARENA CURTIS ON TOUR CONCERT
27 September, 2019 at 20:00 - 22:30 on Galerie dorée de la Banque de France, 3 rue de la Vrillière, Paris, 1er
World-renowned musicians Pamela Frank and pianist Mikael Eliasen, Artistic Director of the Curtis Opera Theater, lead a quartet with baritone Dennis Chmelensky and cellist Chase Park for a special concert in the spectacular Galerie dorée of the Banque de France. The concert is part of the Arts Arena’s Patrons Trip and will be followed by […]
ROBERT STORR: THE ARTS ARENA LECTURE
26 September, 2019 at 19:00 - 21:00 on Hôtel de Lauzun, 17 Quai d'Anjou, Paris, 4e
Robert Storr, artist, curator, critic, and author, returns to deliver an Arts Arena lecture. Widely considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary art, he has been Senior Curator at MoMA, the only American invited to be Commissioner of the Venice Biennale, and for ten years Dean of the Yale School of Art. The […]
SOPRANO KALLEN ESPERIAN
13 June, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on George C. Marshall Center, Hôtel de Talleyrand, 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris 1er
Kallen Esperian was just in her twenties when she performed some of the most famous roles in opera, appearing opposite Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras at world-renowned venues such as La Scala and the Met. Yet soon after her triumphs, her life began to unravel : divorce, depression, extreme weight fluctuations, physical injury […]
ROBERT WILSON IN CONVERSATION
19 May, 2019 at 16:00 - 18:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
« A towering figure in the world of experimental theater » (NYT), visionary artist Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists, creating productions that have decisively shaped the look of theater and opera since the 1960s. He is also the founder of the Watermill Center, a laboratory for performance in Water […]
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 […]