A cultural journey around the world


	© Centre Culturel de Chine

At the end of September and early October Paris will beat to the rhythms of foreign cultures. Forty-four cultural institutes will give visitors the chance to cross cultural lines and travel around the world with exhibitions, concerts, shows and debates.

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- Centre Culturel Algérien
171 rue de la Croix-Nivert - 75015 Paris
Tel : 0145549531
www.cca-paris.com
- Goethe-Institut
17 avenue d'Iéna 75116 PARIS
Tel : 0144439230
www.goethe.de/fr/par
- Centre de Recherche sur la Diaspora Arménienne
9 rue Cadet - 75009 Paris
Tel : 0142460558
www.crda-france.org
- Forum Culturel Autrichien
17 avenue de Villars - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0147052710
www.fca-fr.com/index.jsp
- Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris
127 rue Saint-Martin 75004 PARIS
Tel : 0153019696
www.cwb.fr
- Centre Culturel Bulgare
28 rue de la Boétie 75008 - Paris
Tel : 0143592052
www.ccbulgarie.com
- Centre Culturel Canadien
5 rue de Constantine 75007 - Paris
Tel : 0144432190
www.canada-culture.org
- Institut Ramon Llull
3, rue de la Boétie - 75008 Paris
Tel : 014 660245
www.llull.cat
- Centre Culturel de la Chine
1 boulevard de la Tour Maubourg - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0153595920
www.cccparis.org
- Centre Culturel Coréen
2 avenue d'Iéna 75016 - Paris
Tel : 0147208415
www.coree-culture.org
- Maison du Danemark
142 avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008 - Paris
Tel : 0144312121
www.maisondudanemark.dk
- Centre Culturel d’Egypte
111 bd Saint-Michel - 75005 Paris
Tel : 0146337567
www.culture-egypte.com
- Instituto Cervantes de Paris
7 rue Quentin Bauchart - 75008 Paris
Tel : 0140709 92
http://paris.cervantes.es
- Institut d’Estonie
17 rue de la Baume - 75008 Paris
Tel : 0142565346
www.estonie.info
- Institut Finlandais
60 rue des Ecoles - 75005 Paris
Tel : 0140518909
www.institut-finlandais.asso.fr
- Institut Hongrois
92 rue Bonaparte 75006 - Paris
Tel : 0143260644
www.instituthongrois.fr
- Centre India
La route des Indes, 7 rue d'Argenteuil 75001 PARIS
Tel : 0145427213
- Centre Culturel d’Iran
6 rue Jean Bart - 75006 Paris
Tel : 0145491920
http://paris.icro.ir
- Centre Culturel Irlandais
5 rue des Irlandais - 75005 Paris
Tel : 0158521030
www.centreculturelirlandais.com
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura
50 rue de Varenne - 75007 Paris - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0144394939
www.iicparigi.esteri.it
- Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
101 bis quai Branly - 75015 Paris
Tel : 0144379 00 / 01
www.mcjp.asso.fr
- Institut Kurde de Paris
106 rue Lafayette - 75010 Paris
Tel : 0148246 64
www.institutkurde.org
- Mission Culturelle du Luxembourg
28 rue Cambacérès – 75008 Paris
Tel : 0147429182
- Instituto de Mexico à Paris
119 rue Vieille-du-Temple - 75003 Paris
Tel : 0144618444
www.mexiqueculture.org
- Institut Néerlandais
121 rue de Lille - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0153591240
www.institutneerlandais.com
- Institut Polonais
31 rue Jean Goujon - 75008 Paris
Tel : 0153939010
www.institut.pologne.net
- Instituto Camoes à Paris
26 rue Raffet - 75016 Paris
Tel : 0153920100
www.instituto-camoes.pt
- Institut Culturel Roumain
1 rue de l'Exposition - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0147051531
www.institut-roumain.org
- British Council
9-11 rue de Constantine - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0149557300
www.britishcouncil.fr
- Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture (CRSC)
61 rue de Boissière - 75116 Paris
Tel : 0144347979
www.russiefrance.org
- Centre Culturel de Serbie
123 rue Saint-Martin - 75004 Paris
Tel : 0142725050
www.ccserbie.com
- Institut Slovaque de Paris
14 avenue d’Eylau - 75016 Paris
Tel : 0144145600
www.siparis.mfa.sk
- Centre Culturel Suédois
11 rue Payenne - 75003 Paris
Tel : 0144788020
www.ccs.si.se
- Centre Culturel Suisse
32-38 rue des Francs-Bourgeois - 75003 Paris
Tel : 0142714450
www.ccsparis.com
- Centre Culturel Arabe Syrien
12 avenue de Tourville - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0147053011
www.centreculturelsyrien.fr
- Centre Culturel de Taïwan
78 rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0144398866
www.ccacctp.org
- Centre Tchèque
18 rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris
Tel : 0153730022 / 0153730025
www.czechcentres.cz/paris
- Centre Culturel Anatolie
77 rue Lafayette - 75009 Paris
Tel : 0142800474
www.cca-anatolie.com
- Centre Culturel du Yémen
25 rue Georges Bizet - 75016 Paris
Tel : 0153238784
www.ambyemenfrance.org
- Ambassade de Grèce
17 rue Auguste-Vacquerie - 75116 PARIS
Tel : 0147237228
www.amb-grece.fr
- Centre culturel de la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
17 Boulevard Jourdan - 75014 Paris
Tel : 0144166438
www.ciup.fr/culture.htm
- Institut du Monde Arabe
1 rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard - 75005 Paris
Tel : 0140513838
www.imarabe.org
- Maison de l’Amérique Latine
217 boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0149547500
www.mal217.org
- Maison d’Europe et d’Orient
3 passage Hennel - 75012 Paris
Tel : 0140240055
www.sildav.org
Délégation Générale du Québec
66 rue Pergolèse – 75116 Paris
Tel : 0140678545
www.quebec.fr
- Union Latine
131 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris
Tel : 0145496060
www.unilat.org
- FICEP
121 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Tel : 0142847434
www.ficep.net

As every year the FICEP (Forum of the Foreign Cultural Institutes in Paris) organises the Week of Foreign Cultures. This event gives the opportunity to discover 44 of the 46 cultural institutes established in Paris where more than 400 hundred expats work to promote their country’s culture and artists. This 10th edition will take place from September 23rd to October 2nd and will have as its theme “What’s new since 2000” and the FICEP will celebrate the 10th anniversary of this event with a concert by the Pop Art duo made up of Luxembourgian and Lebanese pianists Francesco Tristano and Rami Khalifé.

More than 80 events
Visitors will thus travel around the world without leaving Paris, when attending a concert or a conference, wandering through an exhibition, watching a movie or discovering literary works…. In total more than 80 events are on the agenda – including exhibitions that will last till the end of October - and all are listed on the FICEP website. Here are some examples.
The Canadian Cultural Centre will host exhibitions and screen documentary film about Canadian intellectual figure Marshall McLuhan. It also offers concerts and a play based upon the life of Emily Dickinson. The Iranian Cultural Centre will screen ten of the best Iranian feature films ever shot. The Egyptian Cultural Centre will present exhibitions about comic strip Omar le Chéri and avant garde sculptor Ahmed Keshta as well as a concert by Hishal Gad who fuses jazz with traditional Arab music. The Maison du Danemark will host an exhibition about video games creation in Denmark.

Concerts, films and exhibitions
Worldwide famous Portuguese pianist Felipe Pinto-Ribeiro will give a concert at the Embassy of Portugal. The Maison du Japon à Paris will screen fiction, animated and documentary films from the Kansai region and hosts an exhibition displaying prints by famous painters such as Hokusai. At the Chinese Cultural Centre, workshops will give visitors the possibility to learn about Chinese traditional music and medicine as well as calligraphy and a photographic exhibition will highlight how traditional culture is transmitted to children. A play by Adheisen Roosen will be held at the Dutch Institute and spectators will get the chance to meet the playwright.
The Goethe Institut will host an exhibition, a debate and film screenings, all focusing on climate change. Young Italian artists display their works at the Italian Cultural Institute. An exhibition about the cultural heritage, a concert of traditional music, a musical show and workshops will be held at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre.

Swedish design
The Austrian Cultural Forum will organize an exhibition tracing the career and unveiling projects of Austrian architect Dietmar Feichtinger. At the auditorium of the Cité Internationale des Arts, the Taiwanese Cultural Centre offers a contemporary concert – performance called “The Magic Lantern”. One of the main figures of the Czech surrealist movement, Alena Nadvornikova will present some of her works at the Czech Centre. The Swedish Institute will host an exhibit of Swedish design as well as a concert – performance and will screen humorous short films. Five of the greatest contemporary Greek ceramists will display their works at the Hellenic Cultural Centre. As to the Slovakian Institute, it will screen a selection of animated movies from the 6s, 70s and 80s.
All along the week, most of the institutes will also give the possibility to get free initiation to about forty foreign languages and some of them will even organize “Speak dating” evenings on September 26th.

Initiation to foreign languages
The opportunity to learn the rudiments of Chinese calligraphy at the Chinese and Taiwanese cultural centres, Persian at the Iran Cultural Centre or literal Arabic at the Institute of the Arabic World and at the Egypt Cultural Centre. But it will be also possible to discover more uncommon idioms. Indeed, languages from Balkan and Baltic countries will be taught at the Maison d’Europe et d’Orient, as well as Inuktitut, the idiom spoken by Eskimos, at the Canadian Cultural Centre.
Moreover several institutes will offer specific activities for children : fairytales and legends performed or read both in French and in the original language, workshops, screening of comic movies and short animated films. Lastly, on October 1st the Week of Foreign Cultures will coincide with the Nuit Blanche (White Night) and that day several cultural institutes will offer special shows and remain open late into the night.

September 09, 2011
Thierry Joly

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