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French at UWM is a community partner on three films in this year’s MFF: Call Me Human (Canada / 2020 / 78 min / French, Innu-aimun with English subtitles); Downstream to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium / 2020 … Continue Reading »
In the windows of the UWM Library by the Grind: Bruce Clark’s Upright Men – a woman, a child, a man -stand tall and upright, to honour and dignify the survivors and victims of the 100 days genocide in Rwanda that started … Continue Reading »
Monday March 15, 2021 – 3pm A virtual conversation with Franco-Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo about In the company of Men — a fictional work addressing the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa — just out in an English translation by the … Continue Reading »
The 24th Festival of Films in French is rolling out as a pandemic-safe event this February. It is a mini festival — to be sure — with 5 feature-length films and a short available for streaming from the currently virtual … Continue Reading »
Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947 Saturday 22 February 2020 Screening The little known story of a post WWII insurrection by the indigenous population of Madagascar becomes a multi-faceted walk through history in this film that is both ethnographic documentary and chronicle of … Continue Reading »
Please join us for our Festival of Films in French, February 14-23 2020. uwm.edu/french-film-festiva… Continue Reading »
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7:30 pm
UWM Mitchell Hall Studio 254
The Paris Centre National de la Danse comes to Milwaukee with 2 dancers from their CARAVANE project. Also showing Noé Soulier’s film, Écriture sur Écriture, part of the Portraits collection of the Nouvelle Cinémathèque de la Danse.… Continue Reading »
Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
UWM Mitchell Hall, Studio 254
With The Return of La Argentina, Trajal Harrell’s work ventures into a new realm of performance. Drawing upon memory and invention, this performance invites the audience into a fictional archiving of butoh co-founder Kazuo Ohno’s signature work, Admiring La Argentina, as directed by other founder of butoh,Tatsumi Hijikata. … Continue Reading »
Tuesday, October 1st, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
UWM Union Fireside Lounge
Discover the intersections of artistic expression, human rights, and civic engagement.… Continue Reading »