Kids

Family Saturdays

Saturday, September 28, 2024 - Saturday, December 7, 2024

Film
Series

Version restaurée/Restored Version

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - Tuesday, December 17, 2024

All New Restoration Premieres

Series

Crossing The Line 2024

Thursday, September 5, 2024 - Saturday, December 7, 2024

Curated by L’Alliance New York Artistic Director Violaine Huisman

Upcoming Events

  • Visual Arts
    Haskell Library

    Plonk & Replonk – Bébert Cabinet of Curiosities

    Thursday, September 21, 2023 - Tuesday, December 31, 2024

    In honor of its 125th anniversary, L’Alliance New York has commissioned a new, permanent installation by the Swiss artist collective Plonk & Replonk – Bébert. Cabinet of Curiosities, marking the collective’s U.S. premiere, takes visitors on a journey through L’Alliance New York’s history, using humorously re-imagined historical artifacts.

  • Visual Arts
    L’Alliance New York Gallery

    Glowing Heads

    Nina Childress

    Thursday, September 5, 2024 - Friday, January 3, 2025

    Opening Reception on September 5, 6-8pm

    American-born artist Nina Childress—recently inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts—takes over L’Alliance New York’s public spaces with vibrant, fluorescent paintings and newly commissioned murals that showcase her unique, lifelong, and incisively critical engagement with portraiture.

  • Film
    Series
    Florence Gould Theater, Tinker Auditorium

    Version restaurée/Restored Version

    Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - Tuesday, December 17, 2024

    The Fall 2024 Version Restaurée series will feature over twenty exclusive premieres from the French-speaking world, including restored versions of films never before screened in the U.S. This program offers a unique opportunity to revisit beloved classics and make discoveries, promising an exciting chance to reassess Francophone film history through a program of revelations.

  • Kids
    YAP
    Hero French Emersion Preschool Nj

    Visual Arts with Studio in a School

    Friday, September 13, 2024 - Saturday, May 31, 2025

    L’Alliance New York and Studio in a School invite students to discover the work of French-speaking artists and create their own pieces that will be displayed in a new exhibition in L’Alliance New York’s Skyroom.

  • Kids
    Haskell Library

    Petits potes: Storytime in French for Toddlers

    Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - Tuesday, December 17, 2024

    Bring your toddler to the 2nd floor library for Petits potes, a fun story time in French! Walking and non-walking little ones will enjoy interactive stories, games, and songs, all in a group setting.

  • Kids
    Haskell Library, Le Skyroom, Tinker Auditorium

    Family Saturdays

    Saturday, September 28, 2024 - Saturday, December 7, 2024

    Starting this fall, L’Alliance New York will become a family affair; offering family-inspired activities on Saturdays!

  • Performing Arts
    New York Live Arts

    Le sacre de Lila

    Ismaël Mouaraki

    Friday, November 8, 2024 - Saturday, November 9, 2024

    7:30 PM

    Inspired by the Lila ceremonies, traditional mystical and musical celebrations of his native Morocco, Ismaël Mouaraki explores trance with a group of male dancers in his newest creation. Through them, the French-Moroccan-Canadian retraces his own journey before the eyes of the public. Meaning “night” in Arabic, a “Lila” is a set of nocturnal healing rituals that blends singing, dancing, and music, traditionally found in some North African countries.

  • Awards
    The Plaza Hotel, Silencio New York

    SOLD OUT

    Trophée des Arts 2024

    Monday, November 11, 2024

    6:30 PM

    The Gala is sold out. Tickets are still available for the After Party.

    The annual Trophée des Arts Gala recognizes the honoree’s contributions to French and American cross-cultural exchange in the arts and business, respectively.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    $8.50 a Barrel! screening with
    Yellow Fever

    Tuesday, November 12, 2024

    4:00 PM
    7:30 PM

    Q&A with director Glen Pitre after the 7:30PM screening

    Two extraordinary discoveries of regional American independent cinema by filmmaker Glen Pitre, who at age 25 was already referred to as ‘The father of Cajun cinema’ by American Film magazine. Made in Cajun French with mostly non-professional actors, both films dramatize major events in the Bayou.

  • Performing Arts
    BAM Strong Harvey Theater

    Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists

    Tiago Rodrigues

    Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - Saturday, November 16, 2024

    7:30 PM

    Sunday, November 17, 2024

    3:00 PM

    NY PREMIERE

    Last in BAM in 2021 with his internationally acclaimed work By Heart (NYT Critic’s Pick), Festival d’Avignon Artistic Director Tiago Rodrigues brings his uniquely political vision of theater back to New York with this gripping original drama that marries the burning issues of today with the ghosts of our past as only live performance can.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Blue in the Face

    Thursday, November 14, 2024

    7:00 PM

    Introduced by Siri Hustvedt, Sophie Auster and Peter Newman (producer)

    In celebration of Paul Auster, the beloved author, poet, translator, screenwriter, filmmaker and consummate Brooklynite, we celebrate his life with a 35mm screening of his joyous celebration of New York neighborhood life.

  • YAP
    Le Skyroom

    Le Petit B

    Marion Muzac

    Friday, November 15, 2024

    10:30 AM
    12:00 PM

    NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

    This event is dedicated to the Young Audience Program for school groups. To purchase tickets to one of our public performances of Le Petit B, please see here

    Created by award-winning choreographer Marion Muzac and visual artist Émilie Faïf, this charming performance and immersive experience includes cushions that evoke the comfort of a mother’s breasts.

  • Kids
    Le Skyroom

    Le Petit B

    Marion Muzac

    Saturday, November 16, 2024

    9:30 AM
    11:30 AM
    3:30 PM

    NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

    Created especially for very young children, Le Petit B engages its audience through interactive play, choice, and spatial exploration. Created by award-winning choreographer Marion Muzac and visual artist Émilie Faïf, this charming, immersive experience offers an inventive landscape peopled by two dancers and warm, inviting cushions that evoke the comfort of a mother’s breasts.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Terrorists in Retirement

    Tuesday, November 19, 2024

    4:00 PM
    7:30 PM

    In 1986, Mosco Boucault interviews members of resistance cells, who assassinated Nazis, but are now living subdued lives, primarily as tailors. Underneath this history, is the long-buried source of the deaths and betrayal of their comrades who wanted to suppress the identity of the heroes of the resistance, primarily Jews and immigrants, from Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy and Hungary.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    The Cemetery of Cinema

    Wednesday, November 20, 2024

    7:00 PM

    Q&A with Thierno Souleymane Diallo

    The first French language film, Mouramani, directed by Mamadóu Touré in Guinea in 1953, is a landmark film. However, is the film still in existence? Thierno Souleymane Diallo is determined to find out, looking for anyone who has seen it, or knows where a print of it may be.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Back and Forth: Dialogues with Painting and Film

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    7:30 PM

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    2:00 PM
    4:00 PM
    6:30 PM

    Chris Marker follows Roberto Matta. Alain Resnais ponders Guernica. Philippe Garrel searches with Frédéric Pardo. Niki de Saint Phalle spins a fairy tale. Anthony Ramos takes his practice abroad. For two days, painters and filmmakers in France and America will volley back and forth ideas and experimental forms across the canvas and the screen. Films to include Marker’s Matta ’85 and Garrel’s Le Berceau de cristal.

  • Talks
    Florence Gould Theater

    CreativeMornings x L’Alliance New York Present Ren Rigby

    Ren Rigby
    CreativeMornings

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    8:30 AM

    Join us for an inspiring community discussion hosted by CreativeMornings/New York and L’Alliance New York featuring Ren Rigby, an acclaimed multidisciplinary designer and activist based in NYC.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    La Comédie Française

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    2:00 PM
    6:30 PM

    In this documentary, the first French-language film by American documentarian Frederick Wiseman, he is given unprecedented access to the company, shadowing three female actors, and the production of four classic French plays.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    The Ballad of Patrick Dewaere: Part One

    Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - Saturday, December 7, 2024

    The most thrilling actor of his generation, Patrick Dewaere was a blazing comet that streaked across French cinema all too briefly. Part one of this series highlights three recently restored films that show Dewaere’s unique depth and pathos: Judge Fayard aka The Sheriff, A Bad Son, and Serie Noire.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Judge Fayard
    aka The Sheriff

    Tuesday, December 3, 2024

    4:00 PM
    7:30 PM

    A young, crusading DA in a provincial city tries to take on corrupt politicians, police and exploitative factory owners, soon discovering the link between all is a history with a far-right organization.

  • Performing Arts
    Performance Space New York

    Palabre/s en mode marron & Rite de passage || solo 2

    Bintou Dembélé

    Friday, December 6, 2024 - Saturday, December 7, 2024

    7:00 PM

    NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

    Combining solo performance with an art scene from the peripheries and the Antilles, this two day celebration centers around transdisciplinary artist Bintou Dembélé’s grassroot investigations into the concept of “marronnage”—a term historically identified with enslaved peoples’ escape from the plantation, but which has come to signify the fugitivity of the body, spirit and soul from all forms of current oppression, in order to create new societies.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    A Bad Son

    Saturday, December 7, 2024

    1:00 PM
    6:00 PM

    A young man returns to Paris — and confronts his demons — after spending five years in a U.S. prison on narcotics charges.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Serie Noire

    Saturday, December 7, 2024

    3:30 PM
    8:30 PM

    In what he considered his best performance, Patrick Dewaere plays a door-to-door salesman lured into a get-rich-quick murder scheme after meeting a captivating teenager.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    More than Yesterday, Less than Tomorrow

    Tuesday, December 10, 2024

    4:00 PM
    7:30 PM

    Laurent Achard’s debut film, Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, portrays a troubling family reunion and the impact of ambient violence on children. This rare screening introduces American audiences to an underrated figure in French cinema.

  • Film
    Florence Gould Theater

    Who Killed Santa Claus?

    Tuesday, December 17, 2024

    4:00 PM
    7:30 PM

    Carolers and tinsel; the perfect setting for Christmas Eve in a snowy mountain village. But when a body is discovered, dressed as Santa, the hysteria soon spreads and accusations fly.

  • Kids
    YAP
    Language and Laughter Studio, L’Alliance New York Preschool

    In-school workshop series

    Rhizomes

    Thierry Thieû Niang
    Roxane Revon

    Monday, March 31, 2025 - Saturday, April 19, 2025

    Dancer-choreographer Thierry Thieû and visual artist Roxane Revon work with preschoolers over a two-week period to create movement and artwork inspired by plant life.