With Marc Siffert and Hugo Arcier, artist Annabelle Playe presents inLAND, a musical performance that blends video games and the theme of moving between worlds. They have recently presented the work at MUTEK, Mexico, and at the Institut français of Casablanca, as part of the International Festival...

With Anima, Maëlle Poésy and Noémie Goudal deliver a show that questions our relationship with time and landscape. Both film and performance, this contemplative and fascinating creation is about to go on tour, with support from the Institut français for international dates. 

Attached to the defence of local values, Mamou Daffé is the head of several organisations and events in Mali. In particular, he directs the Centre Culturel Kôrè in Ségou, a partner of the Institut français for the ACP-EU Culture programme: Support for the Culture and Creation sectors in West Africa...

Singer-songwriter The Rodeo is about to begin a six-week residency at the Institut français of Vietnam's Villa Saigon, supported by the Institut français - IF Export. This will be an opportunity to collaborate with local artists and to undertake a concert tour in the country. 

Known for his poetry collections, Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which has just been translated to French, Ilya Kaminsky is the patron of the 2022 Un Week-end à l’Est Festival. As a sign of support, the Festival, taking place in Paris from 23 to 28 November, spotlights the city of Odesa. With...

Opened in February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français for the French part, comes to an end. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Président of the Season, looks back to the past 9 months. 

Fabienne Azzaro is the administrator of FAIR, a scheme to help new music artists at the start of their careers, which supports 14 emerging artists each year, particularly in their initial international experience. To name but a few, IAM, Philippe Katerine and Christine & the Queens have all...

Planned for 2022, the France-Portugal Season will bring together artists, thinkers and scientists from both countries around common themes. As part of the Portuguese and French presidencies of the Council of the European Union (Portugal's rotating presidency in the first half of 2021 and France's in...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this second part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, speaks about the Creative Europe programme, support for the...

Andrew Manning is the Director of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). With members in every EU country and over 133 ‘Clusters’ worldwide the organisation believes in the power of culture to build trust and understanding between countries. Within the framework of the French...

The aim of the ensemble Divino Sospiro, founded nearly 20 years ago by the conductor Massimo Mazzeo and the violinist and music researcher Iskrena Yordanova, is to highlight the hidden treasures of Portuguese baroque music. They tell us how they go about this musical archaeology. 

As part of the...