The UWM Union Cinema has three French language films coming up, in collaboration with the Festival of Films in French: Ghost Tropic; Directed by Bas Devos, 2019, 85 minutes Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a fifty-eight-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in … Continue Reading »
Milwaukee Film Festival
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 »
April 2021- 27th Commemoration of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda
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 »
P&P Live! Véronique Tadjo | IN THE COMPANY OF MEN with Sarah Davies Cordova
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 »
Routes & Histoires d’Esclavisé.e.s de l’océan Indien aux Amériques
Please encourage students and colleagues to link in to a conversation in French about the history and routes of Malagasy enslavement crisscrossing the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, east and west, south and north along the coasts of Africa and the Americas with Webster from Quebec and Senegal and Marie-Clémence Andriamonta from Madagascar and France.
2pm-3:30pm (CST) Saturday Feb 27.
To register and receive zoom link please email: erinl@afmilwaukee.org
~~ Closing Black History month EVENT Opening le mois de la Francophonie ~~
24th Annual Festival of Films in French
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
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 »
Festival of Films in French 2020
Please join us for our Festival of Films in French, February 14-23 2020. uwm.edu/french-film-festiva… Continue Reading »
The Paris Centre National de la Danse comes to Milwaukee
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 »
The Return of La Argentina
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 »