Cirque Alfonse, a Quebec acrobatic troupe presenting its lumberjack-inspired show "Timber" at the Rialto Center for the Arts on Saturday, promises to get the 16th Annual Atlanta Francophonie Festival off to a flying start (404-413-9849, www.rialtocenter.org ).
Through March at multiple Atlanta sites, the celebration of culture from French-speaking countries presents a dozen events including ...
- A performance of Slimane Benaïssa's "Les Papiers de l'Amour" ("Love Papers") by the Swiss Theatre Company Apsara (March 24)
- A lecture by Alain Mabanck (March 26) and a reading of works by the French-Congolese novelist-poet (March 31)
- "Poèmes électroniques," a live performance/multimedia installation in response to war (March 27-28)
- Film screenings
