United Nations Association Film Festival 10th UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Paris
26 May, 2017 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Conceived in 1998 at Stanford University by film critic and educator Jasmina Bojic in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) screens documentaries by international filmmakers dealing with topics such as human rights, environmental themes, women’s issues, children, refugee protection, […]
Photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson
16 May, 2017 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Jessica Fulford-Dobson is an award-winning London-based portrait photographer whose exhibit Skate Girls of Kabul has become a worldwide phenomenon. Out of over 4,000 submissions, a Skate Girl portrait won 2nd Prize at The National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and was exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery. London’s Saatchi Gallery presented a solo […]
L’Europe autour de l’Europe Film Festival
07 April, 2017 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
For the sixth year, the Arts Arena is proud to participate in the European Film Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe. Mirroring current European and global reality, this year’s theme is “Migrations exist. Death does not exist.” The film Last Shelter will be screened after which there will be a discussion in the presence of the […]
America’s National Parks, from wilderness to cultural treasures
28 March, 2017 at 18:00 - 20:00 on The Century Association, 7 West 43rd Street, New York City
David Rockefeller Jr. and Arts Arena Chairman Vin Cipolla, a former CEO of the National Park Foundation, host an extremely timely conversation about America’s National Parks and the National Park Service. Speakers are representatives of The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a non-profit organization that communicates, educates, and advocates for parks and their precious resources […]
TAE KIM Live: Classical Pianist and Improvisational Artist
25 March, 2017 at 18:30 - 20:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Hailed by the The New York Times as a “highly skilled improviser” and by The Montreal Gazette as “prickly and explosive,” pianist Tae Kim has gained widespread recognition as a classical pianist and improvisational artist. The Boston Globe singled out for praise his “sparkling performance” of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto with the Boston Conservatory Orchestra […]
Christian Lacroix, sets and costumes. Jennifer Tipton, lighting. Sandra Jennings, répétiteur. Ellen Sorrin, The George Balanchine Trust: In Conversation
09 March, 2017 at 17:30 - 18:30 on Opéra Bastille, Paris, 12e
Image: Costume CHRISTIAN LACROIX, d’après les maquettes originales de Karinska pour Le Songe d’une nuit d’été de George Balanchine The Paris Opera Ballet performs Shakespeare’s poetic world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Le Songe d’une nuit d’été) as envisioned by choreographer George Balanchine and danced to music by Mendelssohn, with sets and costumes by fashion […]
The Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award Concert with La Monnaie de Paris
16 February, 2017 at 19:30 - 21:30 on La Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, Paris, 6e
One of the world’s leading conservatories, the Curtis Institute of Music has produced such legends as Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber and current stars Juan Diego Flórez, Alan Gilbert, Hilary Hahn, and Lang Lang. For five years the Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award has recognized a rising Curtis star graduate for excellence in […]
Richard Elfyn in a solo performance
07 February, 2017 at 19:30 - 21:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
David Lloyd George (1863-1945) was a giant of the 20th-century political world whose extraordinary achievements were rivaled only by his highly controversial personal life. How did a Welsh-speaking chapel boy become the steely Prime Minister who saw Britain through the 1914-18 War? How could the champion of non-conformist Christianity become a womanizer living a double […]
NowYouSeeMe! International Public Art Short Film Contest
21 January, 2017 at 20:30 - 22:00 on Musée du Louvre, Auditorium, Paris, 1er
Public art is a worldwide phenomenon. It can take almost any form or medium—sculpture, mural, installation, land art—but its common denominator is that it has been conceived to exist in the public domain, usually outdoors and accessible to all. A significant art form among artists, curators, civic bodies, and commissioners, public art is a working […]
NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV in Recital
18 January, 2017 at 19:30 - 21:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
“The Music World is taking note of Nikolay Khozyainov’s stunning virtuosity and prodigious technique.” New York Times Born in the Russian Far East, at 24 years old Nikolay Khozyainov is already one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. He made his debut with the Handel Piano Concerto at the Great Hall of the […]