Consulate General of France in Boston
Massachusetts - Maine - New Hampshire - Rhode Island - Vermont
General Introduction
Placed in every country under the authority of the Embassy of France, the Services of Cooperation and Cultural Action (SCAC) set out to promote the French language and the French culture in association with local institutions.
The SCAC of Boston develops initiatives in New England in the educational, academic and artistic fields. Its goal: making the American public discover the rich world of French creation and culture.
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Its bases mainly rest on the close relation with schools proposing a French school programme, immersion programmmes, or courses of French as a Foreign Language.
We support professors’ local associations, the French Alliances of the region, and we offer grants for summer pedagogical internships to French language teachers.
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We work in association with the universities of the region, which attract students and researchers from all over the world. Our lecturers program allows every year to bring to the United States, the best French academics, writers and the artists.
Through the invited speakers, the steady debates, the organized symposiums, our objective is to accompany and to enlighten the contemporary debates to enrich the dialogue between our two countries.
We also set out to bring life to the French department of the universities of the region and to favor the exchanges of students. We offer scholarships to American students of who wish to study in France. On this matter, we work in narrow collaboration with the Education Office of the Embassy of France.
The Cultural Service promotes, but also advises and supports the cultural events which make discover the French and French-speaking creation.
The cinema became the main axis of our Artistic cooperation, and the Boston French Film Festival is the high point of our cultural program.
We work in partnership with the main institutions of the region: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Jacob Pillow Dance Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival.
We are also very present within the universities whose artistic programming is rich and dynamic. At Harvard especially, where we support the projects of the American Repertory Theatre and the Harvard Film Archive, at Brandeis where we support the Rose Art Museum, and at Dartmouth, the Hopkins Center.
The cultural service is also very attached to the promotion of TV5, the first world channel of French language and the third worldwide broadcasting network after MTV and CNN.
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The Cultural Service of the French Consulate :
Anne MILLER
Cultural Attaché
Eric JAUSSERAN
Deputy Cultural Attaché (Artistic, Cinema and Broadcasting)
Samantha ANDRE
Linguistic and educational Coordinator
Cultural Services
Consulate General of France in Boston
31 St James Avenue, suite 750
Boston, MA 02116
Phone : 617 832 4460
Fax : 617 292 0793
Email : culture@consulfrance-boston.org