From January 8 to March 23, 2011, Studio 13/16 at the Pompidou Arts Centre presents Play it yourself !, an exhibition with a focus on the virtual world.

Studio 13/16 is the first place that has been exclusively designed for teenagers in a renowned cultural exhibition centre. It is the opportunity for them to experience the relationship between actual creation and video games through a series of activites in which they can take part as well as workshops and events.

The exhibition offers a unique line-up made of meetings with many different artists (visual artists, dancers, DJs, choreographers, video directors, …), workshosps to try out arts in all its forms, unique experiences focusing on interactive works, festive nights and weekends (Studio Party…).

It is the opportunity to understand video games practice, their processes and their designers by taking part in different sorts of activities: trying out video games programming, Game Boy music composition or making their own game console while being with artists who made these practices their creation tool !

Useful Information:

Location: Studio 13/16 (ground-1), Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris

Phone: +33 1 44 78 12 33

Dates : January 8 – March 23, 2011

Open on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 pm to 6 pm de 14h à 18 and during school holidays.

Free access

More information : Play It Yourself !

As Christmas approaches Paris is decked out in lights! During the end of year festivities, outdoor ice skating rinks are installed on squares in Paris and are a great way to combine the illuminated atmosphere of the capital with the fun of skating.

Every year, from December to the beginning of March you will have the opportunity to enjoy yourself on the two ice skating rinks at place de l’Hôtel de Ville and at Montparnasse. Since 2009, an ice skating rink has been set up at Trocadéro for the whole month of December.

Outdoor Ice skating rinks

• Hôtel de Ville ice rinks: place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, Paris 4th – Hôtel-de-Ville tube station, RER Châtelet-Les-Halles – www.paris.fr
• Montparnasse ice rink: place Raout-Dautry, Paris 14th – Gaité tube station – www.paris.fr
• Trocadéro ice rink next to the Palais de Chaillot, Paris 16th – Trocadéro tube station, RER Champ-de-Mars-Tour-Eiffel – www.paris.fr

More information: Paris Tourist Office – www.parisinfo.com

Source : Press release Lumières Décembre 2010

With 16 artists this year and more places to discover, the 6th edition of music festival Chanso’tone will please our ears from November 20 to 28 in Rambouillet.

In 2010 the festival takes over the city…

Concerts in bars, at the local library, the conservatory of music, the theater, at the Elsa Triolet-Aragon exhibition centre (in St-Arnoult-en-Yvelines) and at the Hat Factory will give rhythm to this  week’s songs with a thousand flavours.

A discovery focused line-up

With a focus on discovery, the line-up offers a range of concerts:

• young artists to be, such as Ludo Cabosse, Sintilair, Fûts d’Joie or Pascal Parisot
• young French women in full bloom, such as Zaz and Amandine Bourgeois followed by new artists Anaïs Kaël, Madames and Mélismell
• renowned artists, such as Allain Leprest, Gratordéon (Karpatt), Bazbaz and Kebous (Les Hurlements d’Léo)

Poetic, committed, sensitive, rock and festive songs from all backgrounds will arouse your sensibility. This is something to get dragged into the spotlight of the new French artists and the many aspects of their music.

Useful information

Information and bookings: +33 1 34 85 81 07

Prices:

• full price: €10
• reduced price: €8 (for members of MJC, théâtre le Nickel and conservatory)

More information: Chanso’tone Music Festival – www.myspace.com/chansotone

Source : Press release Chanso’tone 2010

The 23rd edition of the Inrocks Black XS music festival will take place in Paris, Lille, Nantes and Toulouse from November 3 to 9, 2010.

As usual, the festival’s line-up has focused on young talented artists and famous bands. The festival 2010 edition will present: Scissor Sisters, The Drums – who got famous this year with their single ‘Let’ s go surfin’-, LCD Sound System – this is the band’s last gig in France before they stop ! -, The Coral, Local Natives from California – stars of many festivals in England last summer -, La Patère Rose, previous member of Libertines Carl Barât, Anna Calvi, Monarchy and many others. This 23rd edition will also welcome special guest French artist Katerine, the man that nobody will prevent from eating bananas !

Useful Information:

Paris, Lille, Nantes and Toulouse line-up

Prices and concert halls

More information: Inrocks Black XS Music Festival – http://blogs.lesinrocks.com/festival-les-inrocks/

Source : Press release Les Inrocks Black XS

From October 12, 2010 to March 13, 2011 the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents MOEBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition in Paris devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, more commonly known by his pseudonyms Gir and Moebius.

Undisputed master of the comic strip, inventor of extraordinary forms and a brilliant cartoonist, Moebius is an artist who goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline. He developed a wide range of styles, from the detailed realism of Blueberry to the fantastical drawings of Arzach and Le Chasseur déprime. He is particularly renowned for his futuristic landscapes filled with hybrid creatures and ultrasophisticated spaceships, and which are conducive to bizarre, metaphysical musings.

Moebius has chosen the concept of metamorphosis as a central theme for this exhibition, which is the dominant leitmotiv of his comics, drawings, and film projects. the exhibition also presents his very first 3-D animated directed by the artist .

Avec leurs paysages et leurs personnages en perpétuelle transformation, ses œuvres explorent les confins de l’inconscient et dévoilent un monde imaginaire et fantastique. À travers la métamorphose souvent brusque et inquiétante d’une figure, d’un décor, Moebius révèle un monde où les apparences ne sont pas aussi stables qu’on pourrait le croire.

With landscapes and characters in perpetual transformation, his drawings explore the boundaries of the unconscious and reveal an imaginary and fantastic world. Through often sudden and disturbing metamorphoses of a character or a setting, Moebius reveals a world where appearances are not as stable as they may seem.

Useful Information

Address: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 261, boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris

Phone: +33 1 42 18 56 50 / Fax: +33 1 42 18 56 52

Opening hours: open daily, except on Monday, from 11 am to 8 pm. Late opening on Tuesday until 10 pm.

Prices: €8
Reduced price: €5,50 (students, under 25 years old, Senior and Amis des Musées card holders, job seekers)
Free: under 10 years old, Cercle des amis members, ICOM.
Free access for visitors under 18 years old on Wednesday from 2 to 6 pm.

Special event:  Moebius will sign the catalogue’s exhibition as well as his new comic strip book ARZAK, L’ARPENTEUR at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain on Tuesday 30 November from 7 pm to 9 pm.

Bookings: Fnac stores (www.fnac.com)

More information: Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain – http://fondation.cartier.com

Source : Press release Moebius Transe Forme

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There is no more gourmet break in a day than tea time. The trend is to focus on the happy afternoon snacks of our childhood with hot chocolate, biscuits, cakes and pastries. Let’s discover French traditional afternoon tea time !

In Paris, there are many places to enjoy special moments with a combination of emotional and gourmet pleasure. For a start, let’s stop at the famous Pâtisserie des rêves. The place, which is first of all delightful for the eyes with its lovely and stylish setting, offers very special pastries: mille-feuilles à la crème pâtissière (a pastry made up of three layers of puff pastry, alternating with two layers of thick pastry cream), seasonal pies, brioche, chocolate or coffee éclairs (a long thin  pastry made with light choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing)..

Another success story is the collaboration between Ladurée and Yannick Alléno, chef at the Meurice : French croissants and pains au chocolat, with more chocolate than ever, and chocolate-flavoured baguettes. In order to taste these delicious sweet pastries let’s go to Dalí, the Meurice restaurant, or Ladurée sales outlets.

Cravings for pies ? Tartes Kluger offers a large range of pies with a mix of different flavours: Grany Smith + coconut, rhubarb + rice milk … there is surely something to suit everyone’s tastes.

In Hélène Darroze’s restaurant you will have the opportunity to enjoy Hélène’s Tea as well as cakes, scones and macaroons.

With its Austrian and German specialties, Stübli offers flavours from other places.

For a trendy afternoon snack, why not going to Colette Bar à eau (Colette’s Water Bar). The place has a large range of waters and also offers low-fat pastries, such as the 0% cheesecake, for a complete detox.

The Address Book

La Pâtisserie des rêves: 93 rue du Bac, Paris 7e – M° Rue-du-Bac – www.lapatisseriedesreves.com

Le Dalí: 228 rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er – M° Tuileries – www.lemeurice.com

Ladurée: 75 av des Champs-Élysées, Paris 8e – M° Frankln-Roosevelt, RER Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile – www.laduree.fr

Tartes Kluger: 6 rue de Forez, Paris 3e – M° Filles-du-Calvaire – www.tarteskluger.com

Le restaurant d’Hélène Darroze – Le Salon: 4 rue d’Assas, Paris 6e – M° Sèvres-Babylone – www.helenedarroze.com

Le Stübli: 11 rue Poncelet, Paris 17e – M° Ternes, RER Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile – Tel + 33 (0)1 42 27 81 86

Colette Bar à eau : 213 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris 1er – M° Tuileries – tel + 33 (0)1 55 35 33 90

More information: Paris Tourist Office – www.parisinfo.com

Source : Press release Paris Gourmand Novembre 2010

Between October 15, 2010 and January, 2011 the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents a large retrospective to Amercian artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for the 50th anniversary of his birth. Let’s focus on this artist who started to be famous through street art and his graffitis on the walls of the streets…

This is the first large-scale Basquiat exhibition ever in France. Of mixed Puerto Rican and Haitian descent, Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960 and died of a drug overdose in New York in 1988, aged 27. Basquiat was part of the generation of graffiti artists who burst onto the New York scene in the late 1970s.

In the course of a dazzling career, his work moved from street art to painting, offering a mix of Voodoo and Biblical mythologies, comic strips, advertising and the media, African-American music and boxing heroes and assertion of his negritude. Thus he defined an underground urban counterculture at once violently anarchistic and seething with liberty and vitality.

With a hundred major pieces – paintings, drawings, objects – from numerous museums and private collections in the United States and Europe, this retrospective will allow the viewer a chronological overview of the career and the chance to assess Basquiat’s importance to art and art history in the post-80s years. It is also worth taking notice that Basquiat ended his carreer alongside Andy Warhol with whom he signed a few paintings.

Useful Info

Address: Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris – 11, avenue du Président Wilson – 75116 Paris

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm

Late night opening on Thursday until 10 pm

Information and bookings: +33 1 53 67 40 80

Prices:

• Full price : €11
• Reduced price: €8
• Half price: €5,50
• Free under 14 years old

More information: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris – www.mam.paris.fr

Source : Press release Basquiat

Alongside the major Parisian museums that give the capital its reputation, Paris has countless museums that are striking for their somewhat extravagant themes.

The Musée du Fumeur (Smoker’s Museum) presents objects, works and also plants linked to the act of smoking throughout the world and throughout history. A really original display!

The Musée Fragonard is a place entirely dedicated to perfume. It looks back on perfume production, from Antiquity to the 20th century and presents a variety of bottles and instruments used in the production process.

The Musée d’histoire de la Médicine (History of Medicine Museum), located on the second floor of the main office of the faculty of medicine, explores the medical world with an exhibition featuring surgical instruments and doctors’ bags.

The Musée de la Magie (Museum of Magic) brings together all types of robots, optical illusions and magic objects, in vaulted cellars in the Marais district. A magician and guide takes visitors on a journey through the history of magic since the 18th century.

At the Musée des Arts forains (Fair and Carnival Museum), the curtains open to reveal merry-go-rounds and attractions dating back to the 19th century which you can admire and even touch. It is possible to really get into the fairground atmosphere in a group of at least fifteen people.

The vine and wine are celebrated at the Musée du Vin (Wine Museum). Bottle openers as well as tools for working on vines, grape harvesting machines and pruning knives are on show at this museum!

The address book:

• Musée du Fumeur: 7 rue Pache, Paris 11th – M° Voltaire – www.museedufumeur.net
• Musée Fragonard: 9 rue Scribe, Paris 9th – M° Opéra, RER Auber – www.fragonard.com
• Musée d’histoire de la Médecine: René-Descartes University, 12 rue de l’École-de-Médecine, Paris 6th – M° Odéon, RER Saint-Michel – www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/musee
• Musée de la Magie: 11 rue Saint-Paul, Paris 4th – M° Saint-Paul – www.museedelamagie.com
• Musée des Arts forains – Les pavillons de Bercy: 53 av des Terroirs-de-France, Paris 12th – M° Cour-Saint-Émilion, RER Bibliothèque-François-Mitterrand – www.pavillons-de-bercy.com (groups only)
• Musée du Vin: 5 square Charles-Dickens, Paris 16th – M° Passy – www.museeduvinparis.com

More information: Paris Tourist Office – www.parisinfo.com

Source : Press Release “Paris-Arts Octobre 2010″

Petit Palais museum,which has opened up to the world of photography and contemporary picture since 1998, supports Reporters Without Borders for their 25th birthday by exhibiting, until 27th February 2011, their anniversary photo album dedicated to Pierre and Alexandra Boulat.

Published by the French branch of the organisation Reporters sans Frontières as a tribute to two of the great names in French photojournalism, “100 photos by Pierre & Alexandra Boulat” and the Petit Palais exhibition show two intersecting views of the world, both passionate, disconcerting and deeply humanistic. Pierre’s reports on the shantytowns of Nanterre in the 1950’s and on the daily life of women in America radiate the same intensity as those of his daughter on Gaza and the sufferings of Afghan mothers four decades later.

Useful Information

Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Thursdays until 8 pm. Closed Mondays and public holidays.

Admission charges Free

Address: Petit Palais – Fine Arts Museum, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris / Hall Jacqueau ground floor

Phone: +33 1 53 43 40 00

More information: Petit Palais museum – www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Source : Press release Reporters without borders – 100 photos by Pierre & Alexandra Boulat for press freedom

Until October 17, with the exhibition « Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories », the National Museum of the History of Immigration questions about the relationship between football and immigration.

This exhibition is about showing the contributions of foreign-born players in French clubs and the French national football team, while addressing the social roles of football, be they real or proclaimed.

An exhibition divided into three areas:

• The spread of English football practice originally elite football in France (first clubs created) with the arrival of English migrant or French coming back from England and Switzerland
• The start of an immigration based on sporting principles since a professional championship of France was created in 1932
• The “generations” of the French National football team from 1938 to 1998 (from pictures of the selected players for each World Cup) as “reflections” – with generational gap – of industrial immigration (sons of Poles, Italians , Spanish, Algerians …)

From there, the exhibition has then a four-sections structure:

1. The spread of football from England towards France and the begining of professional competitions in the early 1930’s
2. Pictures of professionnal “foreign” football players of the French championship since 1932
3. « Players and generations » in the French National football team during World Cups
4. The local “café des sports”, a place for discussion…

Useful information:

Dates: from May 26 to October 17, 2010

Location: National Museum of the History of Immigration (Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration) – Palais de la Porte – 293 avenue Daumesnil – 75012 PARIS

Phone: +33 1 53 59 58 60

Public transports: Tube line 8 / Stop at “Porte Dorée” – Bus : n°46 or PC2 / stop at “Porte Dorée”

Opening hours:

• Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 5.30 pm
• Saturdey and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm
• Closed on Monday, December 25, January 1st, May 1st and July 14

More information: Exhibition «Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories» – http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=1169

Source : Press release «Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories»