From Salon to Society
For twenty-five years, FACS has brought the French and American worlds together one evening at a time. We are now building the institution that makes it last.
The French American Cultural Society is where French sensibility and American energy meet: an independent platform for French-American cultural encounters in the Bay Area, incubating the projects, conversations and connections that neither world could produce alone. We are a society, not an event series. A society implies permanence, civic weight, intellectual community and shared values - that is what we are building.
Our gatherings are small on purpose. A dinner around an exhibition in the making, a lunch with the advisor who built a collection, a conversation with an artist before the doors open to the public. Real conversation needs a table people can see across, so most of our encounters are by invitation and limited in number.
Others gallery tours, screenings, talks are open to anyone curious enough to come.