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Biennale de Lyon
Une vision de l'art de la prochaine décennie.

Ponctuation Festival de Ponctuation, Angers
Découvrez le dynamisme de la culture britannique au Festival Ponctuation au Quai à Angers.

Exposition 'Residents'
36 artistes de 22 nationalités différentes qui ont tous en commun une résidence à Paris.

TOO MUCH !
Le festival annuel de culture britannique de Dieppe.

StopGAP
Une compagnie de danse étonnante qui allie talent et handicap.

GAVIN FERNANDES
De magnifiques photos en noir et blanc de Gavin Fernandes

UKMoves
UKMoves ce sont trois jours de manifestations à Roubaix pour découvrir toute l’originalité et la créativité de la danse britannique contemporaine.


Biennale de Lyon
Une vision de l'art de la prochaine décennie.

Ponctuation Festival de Ponctuation, Angers
Découvrez le dynamisme de la culture britannique au Festival Ponctuation au Quai à Angers.

Exposition 'Residents'
36 artistes de 22 nationalités différentes qui ont tous en commun une résidence à Paris.

TOO MUCH !
Le festival annuel de culture britannique de Dieppe.

StopGAP
Une compagnie de danse étonnante qui allie talent et handicap.

GAVIN FERNANDES
De magnifiques photos en noir et blanc de Gavin Fernandes

UKMoves
UKMoves ce sont trois jours de manifestations à Roubaix pour découvrir toute l’originalité et la créativité de la danse britannique contemporaine.



Lyon biennale
A view of visual arts of the future.

Ponctuation Festival, Angers
Some of the most recent dynamic offerings from the British arts scene at the Ponctuation Festival at Le Quai in Angers.

Residents Exhibition
36 artists of 22 different nationalities all have in common the fact of have been an artist in residence in Paris.

TOO MUCH !
Dieppe’s annual festival of British culture.

StopGAP
An integrated dance company performing in Pantin.

GAVIN FERNANDES
Two exhibitions of black and white photos by Gavin Fernandes.

UKMoves
UKMoves in Roubaix offers three days’ total immersion in the originality and creativity of British dance today.

Dinard film festival
The 18th edition of this major showcase for British cinema.

Infr'Action
A major festival for performance artists.

Marsatac
Marseille's music festival offers a special focus on Manchester.

Tim and Barry
Fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has invited British artists Tim & Barry, to participate in the major event  «Gallierock »  at the Musée Galliera in Paris.

Stan's Café
Le Quai is a new centre for performance in the town of Angers and will be inaugurated at the end of June. It will present the performance/installation 'Of All the People in All the World: Europe' created by the British company Stan’s Cafe.

Saint Kilda
St Kilda is a group of islands but it is also an opera for which a new libretto and score have been commissioned. A drama that moves between past and present to tell a St Kildan love story.

Marathon des mots
London is this year’s guest of honour at the Marathon des Mots in Toulouse which will celebrate the vitality and cultural originality of the city.

Victor Burgin Exhibition
Postgraduate students in Rennes preparing their MA in « métiers et arts de l’exposition » are organising an exhibition of the work of Victor Burgin in his presence.

International Forum of the Novel
The Villa Gillet in Lyon is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is organising  ‘TheInternational Forum of the Novel’ in collaboration with le Monde des Livres.

Banlieues Bleues
The 24th edition of Festival Banlieues Bleues, Jazz in Seine-St-Denis, hosts a number of performances by jazz bands in 16 towns of the department 93 in the northern suburbs of Paris.

So British
The major international festival devoted to women film-makers 'Films de Femmes' in Creteil features a major focus on British cinema with films directed by 42 women film-makers from the UK

'Make Art' , Digital Arts Festival

Mousson d'été
Round tables on the subject of writing for the stage aimed at young audiences will also take place during the three days.

Les Jeudi's
The aim is to offer visitors a lively take on works they will discover or re-discover through this use of performance. Thus looking at a picture will ressemble watching a play at the theatre.

Thomas Adès Concerts
Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. Among his most well known works are Asyla, Living Toys, Arcadiana, and the opera Powder Her Face, televised by Channel Four...

Howard Barker's theatre
Author, poet, painter, director, he has written some 50 plays and is often the director of his own works in the framework of his theatre company  ‘The Wrestling School'...

Short film festival Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is one of the most important short film festivals in the world...

Premiers Plans Film Festival
Major festival of first and second European shorts and feature films. The focus this year is on British animated films

Wallace and Gromit at the Salon du Cinéma in Paris
The first ‘Salon du Cinéma’ will take place at the Porte de Versailles in Paris from 12 to 14 January 2007. Its aim is to give the general public closer access in an entertaining way to the technical aspects of making feature films.

William Hogarth, an exhibition at the Louvre Museum
This is the first major exhibition of his work in  France. With 120 paintings and engravings, it illustrates an essential part of his work and the extraordinary influence it still has on contemporary art through the presentation of a series of photographs by Yinka Shonibare ‘Diary of a Victorian Dandy’ (1998) directly inspired by ‘The Rake’s Progress’.

Into the Hill, a lyrical tale at the Festival d'Automne
Composer George Benjamin and author Martin Crimp have created a new lyrical tale for two voices and a musical ensemble commissioned by the Festival d'Automne.

100 Dessus Dessous - performance and dance
A solo performance created by Nigel Charnock . This one man show is a violently comic mixture of monologue and improvised song and dance

Midi-midi Londres
It would be impossible for the town of Lille to celebrate Bombay without taking a close look at what is going on in London, a focal point and a place of welcome for a large part of the disapora of the Indian sub-continent.

Too Much! British Arts festival in Dieppe
The festival’s way of digging further into this rich culture of the UK and binding stronger ties.

Contemporaty Theatre Circus from Wales

This show takes place in the round but also above the audience and is quite magical, inventive and amusing, with elements of dance, music and video...

Dinard British Film Festival

This year the 17th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will screen 40 films over a 4 day period to audiences totalling some 20 000.

Martin Boyce Exhibition
Martin Boyce is a young Scottish artist who works with everyday objects such as furniture, fencing or neon lighting which he installs with reference to anonymous urban environments....

Marsatac Festival

For its 8th edition, Marsatac has an impressive line up of music for all tastes with electro, hip hop,  rock, pop, plus some folk music and jazz

Les rencontres d'Arles 2006

With the young British photographer Tom Hunter

Classical Music Festival in Beaulieu-sur-mer

This year the artistic director John Fox has programmed a tribute to contemporary French and Welsh composers William Mathis and Alun Hoddinott

Infr'action, Art International festival

44 artists from 18 countries will perform in Sète on the theme of democracy: both in society and in culture.

FICEP (Forum des Instituts Culturels etrangers à Paris)

Author Roald Dahl, famous person of the 20th century

Cerith Wyns Evans Exhibition

Cerith Wyn Evans has had a number of solo exhibitions, notably at the Tate Britain in London in 2000, the Berkeley Art Museum of San Francisco in 2003...

Theatre and Education in the UK

MIMOS: Mime International Festival

Exhibition on British Contemporary Art

Theme: Climate Change by Michael Craig-Martin.

Remote Dancing and Stereo Dances

Ever wanted to be a dancer or a choreographer?

Franco-British Poetry Festival

For four days the Place St Sulpice in Paris «poetry market» becoming a rallying space for poets.

London Sound

This year the Festival Tribu devotes a full night in which to discover the very new and innovative rap scene from the UK.

Jeremy Deller Exhibition

An exhibition of works by Jeremy Deller at the Villa Arson in Nice.

Festival de Cannes

Britain boasts two feature films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Archi/Peinture

A collaborative exhibition between Le Plateau in Paris and Camden Arts Centre in London on the theme of architecture in cities.

Smith Quartet Circuit of Europe

Contemporary Musique Concert by the Smith Quartet at the Cité Universitaire in Paris.

Barbara Hepworth Exhibition

A first retrospective in France of the work of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy.

Welsh Contemporary Dance by Eddie Ladd

Welsh performer and artists Eddie Ladd in residence in France for the creation and presentation of two pieces: Fideotek 1 and Fideotek 2, inspired by Welsh cinema and cultural traditions in Wales.

10th British Film Festival - Nantes

British Festival "Too Much"

Dinard Film Festival

Ryan Gander Exhibition

International Short Film Festival - Clermont Ferrand

Voyage Intérieur Exhibition

What Now Exhibition

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