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Just starting the month of June.  Back from a wonderful trip to Spain, now back on my home turf of France.

The situation over the last terrorist act in France last November, the latest Survey in France tell us that 77% of the French won’t be concerned with it and will come to Paris. The city has started a tourism campaign to bring visitors back. Tourism means 500 000 jobs, 75 000 businesses, and 21 B Euros in revenue to Paris. Last few months we have a -15% decline in visitors with -22% less hôtels occupancy. The themes to bring this crowd back are Paris wild life or La vie Sauvage, with views over the parc Buttes Chaumont. Tea time or l’Heure du thé with a nice Paris terrace and Fast Food with a delicious cake, and Skyline with views on the perspective of the Palace of Versailles. From the provinces or inland France, 71% see Paris as a unique city, 62% as a rich cultural center, 36% calls for its diversity, less on gastronomy of 14% and night life comes in at 7%. More for coming to Paris according to Le Parisien newspaper.

At La Defense you will have célébrations with a Brazilian motif from July 7-14 and from 11h30 to 20h30 on Thursdays a late night to 22H. You will dance with samba and batucadas percussions all at the parvis de la Defense.

For the little ones, you have activities at the Palais de Tokyo, all from October 21th, more here in English : http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/little-palais

The Centre Pompidou for kids from July, more here in English: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-203e529423fcf3b332a0bbde50687bfb&param.idSource=FR_LI-203e529423fcf3b332a0bbde50687bfb#undefined

In the house of kids or maison des Petits in French you have plenty of activities for who else our kids. Initiation from babies on the world of the Arts. http://www.104.fr/presentation/la-maison-des-petits.html

In La Villette the Cité des enfants has plenty of activities for kids ages 2-12. more here in English: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/en/explore/permanent-exhibitions/cite-des-enfants/

The museum of the grass or musée en herbe ,in French ,activities from 3 yrs old to 103 ::) more info in French here: http://www.musee-en-herbe.com/

You want tour or company visiting muséums with kids,the org Mom’Art will help you. In French , more here: http://mom-art.org/  ; more info that they can answer in English at email mom.art@hotmail.fr

A line up of visits and arts to do with kids from Paris d’Enfants or Paris for kids and teenagers; here in French: http://www.parisdenfants.com/famille/visite_enfants.html

You have many kiosks of information or center of animation in Paris where you can go and ask for activities to do here , plenty. Some of the more central ones are here:

Something refreshing from France to you !!!

The Pont-Aven Museum just reopened its doors. Completely renovated, it has doubled its exhibition area to highlight the paintings of the famous school of Pont-Aven, which is illustrated in the wake of Paul Gauguin. The exhibition «Les Rouart, from Impressionism to magic realism» Unveils works by three generations of artists and patrons: Henri, Ernest and Augustin Rouart. Until 18 September 2016. www.museepontaven.fr

Joseph Mallord William Turner, major figure in English painting of the 19C showcase in the salons of the Hôtel de Caumont ,Aix-en-Provence with more than a hundred of watercolours, gouaches and oils on canvas from institutions such as the Royal Academy in London and the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. You can also admire pieces from private collections, almost never disclosed to the public. “Turner and the color“, until September 18, 2016. www.caumont-centredart.com

Summer arrives on the Canebière. Of Marseille. The evidence, the RoofTop of the R2 has just launched its music programming: on the huge roof terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, electro, House, but also of disco and funk, distilled by the best DJs of the moment. The German David August opens the prom this Friday before moving turntables to the New Yorkers Todd Terry Sunday. http://airdemarseille.com

Meriggio, the new concept store dedicated to Italian food, offers a selection of products of producers from the North of the Italy and Puglia. Weekly delivery of parmesan bio, panettone, burrata cheese, pecorino and fresh gorgonzola. A cellar and a restaurant in addition to the grocery store. 3, rue Rougemont, 9éme . http://meriggio-paris.com/

Claire Adelfang, Ivan Argote…Choices collectors weekend showing on May 21-22 2016. Palais de Tokyo  The third edition of Choices collectors weekend will be held in Paris offerings a journey through nearly 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. Punctuated by openings, performances, meetings; This event allows you to discover the contemporary creation of the Parisian scene http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr

The Parisian river banks will be colored the weekend of May 21-22 ! The Canal de L’ourcq to the canal Saint-Denis, the Festiwall invites you to discover or rediscover urban art. Say thanks to the association of love and the walls! and the The Wall Street art gallery for this Parisian event unique in its kind! twenty hours of artistic performances, an exhibition of The Wall in the Stalingrad Rotonde Gallery and a debate on urban contemporary art, not to mention creative and participatory, workshops led by artists such as Rays, Parisian pochoiriste EAN, and knock knock, street-artist and cartoonist. Festiwall Between the canal de L’ourcq and the canal Saint-Denis; The Stalingrad Rotonde 6-8, place Bataille de Stalingrad https://www.thewallgalerie.fr/Festival/

Monuments to the dead of the great war 14-18 is an exhibition dedicated to the first photographic census of monument to the french dead. Drawing up their silhouette towards the sky, the monuments to the dead are lists of names engraved in stone: those of the French 1 350 000 dead or missing on the fields of battle or in the trenches. That we say these names? Expose these photographs to the Pantheon, it is symbolically bringing all soldiers killed during the great war in this high Republican place. It is also an ultimate tribute to “great men of the French nation“. Start date: May 21, 2016 End Date: September 11, 2016. Programming: Daily 10: 00 – 18:30 · Rates: admission € 8.50, discounted € 6.50. Place du Panthéon 75005 Paris· Metro: Cardinal Lemoine (10) ;· RER: Luxembourg (B). From April 6 to July 18, 2016, http://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/Prepare-for-your-visit/Practical-information

the Musée de l’Orangerie offers exposure Apollinaire, the look of the poet. From 1902 to 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire was active as an art critic.  From the Douanier Rousseau, Matisse, Picasso, Braque and de Guzman, Cubism to the orphicism and Surrealism, academic sources to modernity, arts first to the popular arts. It will specifically honor the links of the poet with Picasso in a dedicated section… http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/

Enjoy the news from France, tell me so lol! Cheers