Bastille Day Street Fair Returns To Upper East Side

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The French Institute Alliance Française’s Bastille Day Celebration is back once again to bring the celebration of freedom, equality, barricades and France to the Upper East Side on Sunday.

The French invasion will feature food, music, champagne, cheese, pétanque courts, prize drawings, family activities, a special film screening and over 50 booths featuring all things France.

The party celebrating peace after the French Revolution will run from noon to 5 p.m. between East 59th and 63rd streets on Madison Avenue — rain or shine — with an East 59th Street stage hosting most of the day's performances.

Musical performances include excerpts performed by cast members of Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical , Paris-based singer-songwriter Naomi Greene, French-Morrocan musician Malika Zarra and BoByGroove, who will spin electro beats.

Next to the stage between East 60th and 61st streets will be the French Garden, a premium shopping experience with more than a dozen luxury shops including Angelina Paris, Beautyque, Babette, Paul Bertin and many more.

Over 50 food and other French-styled Market Booths will post up on the avenue between East 61st and 63rd Streets.

And all day there will be family activities, including a special Bastille Day-themed coloring corner on Madison Avenue and East 61st Street hosted by instructors from the FIAF Language Center. There will also be a prize drawing with more than 20 unique items, including a grand prize of a five-day dream getaway for two to Saint Martin.

If that wasn't enough, on East 60th and Fifth Avenue there will be multiple pétanque courts set up for free games and the annual rally of The Greater New York Citroën & Velosolex Clubs.

Not enough French for you? Luckily right when things end, a film screening at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall, at 55 East 59th Street, will show, Louis Garrel’s "The Innocent," a film about the "dangerous lengths two men go, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love."

Learn more about the Bastille Day celebrations at FIAF's website here.