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Photoquai Biennale of World Images, Paris. © Photoquai Biennale of World Images,  Musée du Quai Branly

Photoquai Biennale of World Images

22 Sep - 22 Nov 2009 (biennial)

Photoquai, the Biennale of World Images, returns to Paris' Musée du Quai Branly, featuring photography from over 40 countries worldwide. The vibrant display spills outdoors into a free…

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Oman, summer 2000, Lars Tunbjörk. © Lars Tunbjörk/VU' La Galarie, Paris

Paris Photo

19 - 22 Nov 2009 (annual)

Paris Photo is an international fair of 19th-century, modern and contemporary photography, featuring around 100 exhibitors. Held at the Carrousel du Louvre, this high-quality and innovative…

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Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival © Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris

Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

16 - 22 Nov 2009 (annual)

The Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, held at the Forum des Images, first took place in 1994 and ranks among the best in the world. Screenings include prize-winning films from other…

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Pompidou, Paris. © Paris Tourist Office/Amélie Dupont/Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers

Pompidou Centre Arts Festival

21 Oct - 23 Nov 2009 (annual)

The Pompidou Centre launches its inaugural Arts Festival - five colourful weeks of exhibitions, talks, screenings and gigs celebrating the cultural crème de la crème. Catch the action in the…

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Paris' Pompidou hosts Vidéodanse. © Paris Tourist Office/David Lefranc

Vidéodanse

21 Oct - 23 Nov 2009; not Tue (annual)

Every year Paris' Pompidou Centre presents Vidéodanse, a free season of films and video on the subject of dance. Around 200 films and videos of contemporary choreographic works explore the…

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Books. Photo by Ben Evans, © Whatsonwhen

Salon Page Book Fair

27 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)

Editors, authors and novelists converge on Paris's Espace Charenton for the annual Salon Page (Book Fair). A programme of lectures and workshops acts as a backdrop to the three-day…

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Joueuses de guitare. © Antoni Sevruguin/Medhi Monem/Museée du Quai Branly/Photoquai 2009

165 Years of Iranian Photography

22 Sep - 29 Nov 2009; not Mon

Running in tandem with its outdoor Photoquai exhibition of images, Paris's Musée du Quai Branly presents 165 Years of Iranian Photography, curated by the photographers Bahman Jalali and Hasan…

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Documentary Film Month, France. © Mois du Film Documentaire/delphinecordier.net

Documentary Film Month

1 - 30 Nov 2009 (annual)

Cinemas, arthouses, schools and libraries across the whole of France and the French-speaking world participate in November's Documentary Film Month (Le Mois du Film Documentaire). Some 120,000…

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Tango in the Suburbs, Paris. © Paris Tourist Office/Amélie Dupont

Tango in the Suburbs

15 Oct - 30 Nov 2009 (annual)

Paris goes tango mad in autumn for Tango in the Suburbs. Venues across the city, including Le Satellit Café, welcome the biggest names on the Latino dance scene as some 250 artists from 20…

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© Hughes Dubois/Johston&Hoffman/Lindt, John William/Musée du Quai Branly/Photoquai 2009

Portraits Croisés at the Musée du Quai Branly

23 Sep - 30 Nov 2009; not Mon

Paris's Musée du Quai Branly hosts Portraits Croisés (Comparitive Portraits). The exhibition draws on the museum's collection of images to build an engaging display of contrasting portraits…

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Le Carrosse, Xavier Veilhan. © Centre National des Arts Plastiques/Vincent Germond

Xavier Veilhan at Versailles

13 Sep - 13 Dec 2009; not Mon

Versailles hosts a modern-art one-off as Paris-based Xavier Veilhan weaves his strikingly modernist artworks among the historic château's cobbled courtyards. The highlight is Le Carrosse…

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Paris' Cité de la Musique, exterior. Photo © Pierre-Emmanuel Rastoin, courtesy Cité de la Musique

Ciné Concerts - Eisenstein & Gance

9 - 13 Dec 2009; not Thu or Fri

Paris' ever-innovative Cité de la Musique brings together three ground-breaking early movies in a mini-series of Ciné Concerts. Eisenstein's classic historical epics Alexander Nevsky (9…

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H20 Festival, Aulnay-Sous-Bois and Paris. © Centre de Danse du Galion

H20 Festival

9 - 14 Dec 2009 (annual)

Organised by the Centre de Danse du Galion, Paris's annual H20 Festival of dance and hip hop brings a varied programme to Aulnay-Sous-Bois' Le CAP and L'Espace Jacques Prévert. Both are within…

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'Tempo 76' by Mathilde Monnier. © Marc Coudrais

Paris Autumn Festival

15 Sep - 19 Dec 2009 (annual)

Encompassing opera, film, dance and performing arts, Paris' Autumn Festival incorporates more high-powered arts events than some other cities see in a whole year. Dip into this festival at any…

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Ben Hur. Courtesy of AEG Europe

Ben Hur Live

19 - 20 Dec 2009

An ancient arena is recreated at Paris-Bercy for the production of Ben Hur Live. The show, which was 15 years in the making and coincides with the 50-year anniversary of the film, features…

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Cirque Plume at La Villette, Paris. © Bernard Kudlak/Cirque Plume/Conception graphique Laetitia Ballesteros

Cirque Plume at La Villette

30 Sep - 20 Dec 2009; not Mon or Tue

Acrobats, jugglers, clowns and musicians roll up to Paris's La Villette throughout autumn and winter. The renowned Cirque Plume troupe brings the circus bang up-to-date with its mix of…

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Sara Baras, flamenco dancer. Photo © José Luis Álvarez

Sara Baras Ballet Flamenco

19 - 23 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Sara Baras Ballet Flamenco comes to Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Elysées for a Christmas run. With its mix of farruca, soleá, bulería, martinete, seguirilla, fandango and alegría, À propos de…

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Divan Japonais, ink on paper, 1893. © Les Arts Décoratifs/Jean Tholance

The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec at Les Arts Décoratifs

18 Jun 2009 - 3 Jan 2010; not Mon

Paris's Musée des Arts Décoratifs pays homage to the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec in its latest exhibition. The museum houses 26 of the artist's 31 affiches, each evoking the spirit of…

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Théâtre du Châtelet. Photo Eric Lefeuvre, courtesy Paris Tourist Office

The Sound of Music

6 Dec 2009 - 3 Jan 2010; not Mon

Rodgers and Hammerstein's last and most popular musical, The Sound of Music comes to Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet for Christmas. Emilio Sagi directs Sylvia Schwartz as Maria, Rod Gilfry as…

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La Serpe d'Or, original plate, Albert Uderzo, Renée Goscinny. © 2009 Les Editions Albert René

Asterix at the Musée de Cluny

28 Oct 2009 - 3 Jan 2010; not Tue

Paris's Musée de Cluny marks the 50th birthday of Asterix with an unprecedented display of 30 of the original plates used to produce the eponymous hero's famous comic books. Each is…


Highlights

Photoquai Biennale of World Images

Musée du Quai Branly

22 Sep - 22 Nov 2009 (biennial)

Paris Photo

Carrousel du Louvre

19 - 22 Nov 2009 (annual)

Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Forum des Images

16 - 22 Nov 2009 (annual)