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Welcome to The Parisian, your source for what's on this week, and this weekend, in Paris. Looking for clubs, gigs, art shows, exhibitions, film, dance and theatre in Paris? We sort through hundreds of events every week and bring you the cream of the crop.

Busy week! We got ourselves sorted out on MySpace and Facebook, added the new comments function to the website so you can voice your joy/wrath/fear of the events we find, and even found time to open a NING (though we haven't decided what to do with it yet...)

We also manged to hunt down Graham Luckhurst (AKA Greymatter) of Mr Bongo, in anticipation of this Saturday's Batofar party. He was kind enough not only to give us his time to chat, but also an exclusive Mr Bongo DJ mix in MP3 format! Damn straight! You won't get that anywhere else, it's 100% www.theparisian.org exclusive.

So, download the mix, grab your warm beverage of choice and let's take a look at some of the finest cultural happenings coming up this week.

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 Tuesday 9
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FILM
10 Ans de Cinéma Expérimental et Différent

10 Ans de Cinéma Expérimental et Différent

Le Festival des Cinémas Différents has become one of the most important festivals dedicated to experimental film, bringing toget...
Tue 9 / 00:00 / 75010
CONCERTART
 Carl Michael von Hausswolff / Leif Elggren

Carl Michael von Hausswolff / Leif Elggren

Swedish composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born in Linköping, 1956) uses a range of electronic recording devices, from convent...
Tue 9 / 00:00 / 75003
CONCERT
Lykke Li

Lykke Li

Stockholmer Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (or Li Lykke to you and I) released her first album "Youth Novels" at the beginning of las...
Tue 9 / 00:00 / 75019
 Wednesday 10
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THEATRE
Mélinda et Mélinda

Mélinda et Mélinda

Melinda, a pretty and completely chaotic New Yorker, arrives unexpectedly at the dinner party of friends. From this point onwards ...
Wed 10 / 00:00 / 75020
CONCERT
Abe Vigoda / Team Ghost

Abe Vigoda / Team Ghost

Calypso Garage? Carnival No Wave? Tropical Punk? Trunk? Whatever, Abe Vigoda are pretty mixed up. They've been compared to a young...
Wed 10 / 00:00 / 75010
ART
Déplacement

Déplacement

Although the exhibition at L'Espace Krajcberg is dedicated to 30 years of integral naturalism and the environment, the photographi...
Wed 10 / 00:00 / 75015
CONCERT
Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain

Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 work Concierto de Aranjuez (named after the town) for guitar and orchestra has affected and influenced gene...
Wed 10 / 00:00 / 75019
 Thursday 11
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CONCERT
Deerhoof

Deerhoof

San Fran band Deerhoof often get shooed into the indie rock stable with label mates The Thermals, Elliot Smith, Marnie Stern et al...
Thu 11 / 00:00 / 75019
CONCERT
Matt Elliott

Matt Elliott

Native Bristolian and founder of The Third Eye Foundation Matt Elliott's musical history is a colourful thing, full of names you k...
Thu 11 / 00:00 / 75010
ARTTALK
Werner Herzog et Avital Ronell

Werner Herzog et Avital Ronell

This complete and unabridged retrospective (55 films) of Werner Herzog is an opportunity to rediscover and discover the modernity ...
Thu 11 / 00:00 / 75004
TALKCONCERT
Hommage à Elliott Carter

Hommage à Elliott Carter

Born in 1908 in NYC, composer Elliott Carter has earnt a well deserved genius-whilst-alive status for his atonal, rhythmically com...
Thu 11 / 00:00 / 75004
 Friday 12
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CONCERT
Arch Woodmann

Arch Woodmann

Up and coming (we reckon) post-rock/new folk/shoegazer Arch Woodmann is a strange creature - imagine Kevin Drew fused with Sun Ra ...
Fri 12 / 00:00 / 75020
CLUB
I Like It Like That

I Like It Like That

From highly specialised record shop in Daddy Kool's basement to record label, film publisher and general global latin music force,...
Fri 12 / 00:00 / 75013
CLUB
Pocket Piano

Pocket Piano

Cross-genre beatcentric label Ed Banger regulars bring the noise with a lineup which will not disappoint. DJ Mehdi has been an inf...
Fri 12 / 00:00 / 75011
ART
Lost In China

Lost In China

National Geographic present this display of the diversity and cultural contrasts of modern day China. Brothers Peter and Jeff Hutc...
Fri 12 / 00:00 / 75011
 Saturday 13
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CONCERT
Kayhan Kalhor / Shujaat Hussain Khan

Kayhan Kalhor / Shujaat Hussain Khan

Two living legends of Oriental music, Kayhan Kalhor, one of Iran's most accomplished post-revolutionary instrumentalist-composers,...
Sat 13 / 00:00 / 75004
ART
Notorious

Notorious

Notorious was conceived from various acquisitions made by le Frac ÃŽle-de-France over the past two years. With the explicit refere...
Sat 13 / 00:00 / 75019
CONCERT
Sonic Protest

Sonic Protest

Parisian Lori Sean Berg and Nebraskan Shane Aspegren formed The Berg Sans Nipple in 2001, and released the chaotic "Form Of" two ...
Sat 13 / 00:00 / 75010
 Sunday 14
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ARTCONCERT
The Great Score

The Great Score

"The Great Score" by Seppo Gruendler and Elisabeth Schimana is a composition based not on notes but on a temporal and functional s...
Sun 14 / 00:00 / 75016
ART
Rouge Kwoma

Rouge Kwoma

This exhibition presents the work of three contemporary artists from New Guinea (East Sepik)- Kowspi Marek, Chiphowka Kowspi and A...
Sun 14 / 00:00 / 75007
 Monday 15
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ART
Thomas Fougeirol

Thomas Fougeirol

The work of Thomas Fougeirol, who lives and works both in New York and Paris, is characterized by an exploration of absence throug...
Mon 15 / 00:00 / 75013
ART
You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

Virtuoso exponents of line drawings of figures with their roots in the unconscious and popular culture, Moriceau & Mrzyk work ...
Mon 15 / 00:00 / 75013
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