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Édito
Thank you for coming in such great numbers to our very
successful
Franco-Irish Literary Festival,
it was a fantastic 12th edition with no
volcanic ash this year! A big “thank you” also to all our
writers who were so interesting and approachable. We have a
packed calendar of events coming up this month with the visit of
two French writers, wonderful jazz and classical music concerts,
not to mention special events to satisfy your eclectic tastes!
Looking forward to meeting you soon!
A bientôt !
Claire Bourgeois
Directrice AF Dublin |
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MY TRAITOR
SORJ CHALANDON |
APP CONTES:
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD |
IMPROVE YOUR
PRONUNCIATION [TEENS] |
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Book Launch.
Sorj Chalandon,
journalist for the Canard Enchaîné, wrote Mon
traître, recently translated into English. The
story is about Antoine, an idealistic young French
violin-maker, who takes a train to Belfast in 1977 and
is propelled into the heart of the Falls Road and the
Republican movement as well as Ireland's music, suffering and
beauty. An intense depiction of the nature of
friendship and loyalty, and the loss and
emptiness brought about by betrayal,
My Traitor is alive
with historical resonance. Kevin Power (Journalist and Writer) will
interview Sorj Chalandon, a book sale and a signing
session will follow.
Wednesday 4 May at 6.30pm
Admission free –
RSVP |
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Workshop.
A Petits Pas "Contes"
is a
new workshop
for toddlers that
will take them to the magical world of fairy tales.
With the help of the
teacher and her lovable
puppet,
Bob,
toddlers will discover, or rediscover, some of the
best-loved
fairy tales through songs, Arts and Crafts and games
especially designed for them!
Be warned ! Places are
limited!
This month:
Little Red
Riding Hood
Wednesday 4
May
from 3.30pm to 4.45pm
€15 / €10 AF
Members
Online registration |
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Workshop.
Speaking French is more than just
knowing the vocabulary and grammar rules - you also need to
pronounce the letters correctly.
Through
short rhymes,
games, and
tongue-twisters, we will help
you master the art of our sounds!
This workshop will focus on
“l” and “r” sounds.
Wednesday 4 May 4pm - 5.30pm or Friday 6 May 3.30 - 5.pm
€15 / €10
AF Members
Online registration
These workshops are for teenagers
(13-17 year old)
only
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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12 POINTS! JAZZ
FESTIVAL
METAL-O-PHONE |
CINÉKID: LES
ENFANTS
DE TIMPELBACH |
FINALE OF THE JOUTES
ORATOIRES |
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Concert.
Within the
12 Points Jazz Festival,
MeTaL-O-PHoNe
is coming from Paris to perform.
Distortion,
feedback, delay - all once the exclusive property
of guitarists but no longer, their usage has opened up
intriguing possibilities across the instrumental spectrum.
In applying them to the vibraphone,
Benjamin Filament
has found the sound of
something wild in the heart of an instrument so often
typecast as polite and mannered. The other two thirds of
MeTaL-O-PHoNe have responded accordingly, and bassist
Joachim Florent
and drummer
Elie Duris
give no quarter in
creating a swirling tempest of rhythms and textures that are
perfectly in sync with this altered percussive landscape.
Thursday 5
May at 7pm
On production of AF
membership card: 2 tickets for the price of 1
Box office: (01) 881
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Screening.
The children in the
quaint little town of Timpelbach are constantly up to
no good. So, when mayhem breaks out after a pint-sized
prankster ties an alarm clock to a cat’s tail, the grown-ups
decide it’s time to teach their badly behaved offspring a
lesson.
Adapted from
Trouble at Timpetill
by Henry Winterfeld.
Directed by Nicolas Bary,
starring Gérard Depardieu, Joel Demarty,
Carole Bouquet.
With the kind support of
Institut Français.
Saturday 7 May 12.15 -2.15pm
2008
- French version
with English subtitles, 95 min
Admission free
AF members only
RSVP:
info@alliance-francaise.ie |
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Debating
Competition.
This competition,
open to
students in
second-level schools in Ireland,
has been organised
under the auspices of the
Alliance Française
Dublin
since
1990
with a view to
enhancing students’
oral learning skills
through a
structured system of debates in the French language.
This year, the
Final of the Joutes Oratoires
(which enables secondary
students to debate in public throughout the year in French)
will take place on
Monday 9 May
between the two
finalists:
Newbridge College
vs.
Belvedere
College.
The motion is:
Les célébrités et la politique
ne font pas bon ménage
More information:
http://alliance-francaise.ie/joutes |
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Project Arts
Centre
East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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LA COCOTTE
SPÉCIALITÉS RÉGIONALES |
BOARD GAMES
EVENING |
MURDER
IN THE CITY |
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Café.
La Cocotte continues its
Tour de France
this month with:
MENU
PROVENCAL 3-6 May
Tarte de tomates
Veau Marengo et ratatouille
Salade de peches et abricots
MENU
PARISIEN 9-13 May
Salade parisienne
Boeuf a la ficelle
Profiteroles
MENU
CH’TI 16-20 May
Oeuf cocotte au maroilles
Carbonnade de boeuf
Tarte au ch'uc
MENU LYONNAIS 23-27 May
Salade lyonnaise
Cuisse de poulet rotie
Chou a la crème
3 courses:
€15 €
€13.50 for AF members
Starter + main course:
€13
€11.70 for AF members
Main
course + dessert: €12
€10.80 for AF
members
Served from 12.00am to 6.30pm |
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French-speaking games.
The Médiathèque at the Alliance
Française Dublin opens its doors
once again from 7.30pm to 9pm
for a games evening: a quiz
about French-speaking culture!
You will discover, or
re-discover, games in French
such as Pictionary, Tabou,
Cranium, and many more.
The games will be adapted so
that they are
accessible to all
learners of French, whatever
their level. It will be an
opportunity to speak French but
also to discuss French-language
culture (film, literature,
history and current affairs)
through the game.
The evening is open to adults at
all levels in French
Wednesday 11
May
from 7.30pm to 9pm
Admission
free – Limited to 12 people and AF members only.
RSVP:
library@alliance-francaise.ie |
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Literature Night.
Organised by
Dublin UNESCO City of Literature
and
Eunic.
Murder in the City
invites you to discover exciting
contemporary European writers in the intimate surrounds of the
Sugar Club, Leeson Street.
Enter the murky world of
crime and murder as writers from the
Czech Republic, Finland,
France,
Italy
and
Scotland read and discuss
their works.
An atmosphere of
suspense and intrigue
will be created by
musicians from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Crime journalist and writer,
Niamh O’Connor,
will introduce this exhilarating cast of contemporary crime-writing
talent.
On this occasion, the
Alliance Française Dublin
will introduce
Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix
whose book
Runes is about murders in
Dublin.
Wednesday 11 May at
6.30pm
Admission free
No booking is required
www.dublincityofliterature.ie
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson St, Dublin 2 |
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DERNIERS ARRIVAGES
LATEST ADDITIONS |
MON CARNET DE
VOYAGE
EN IRLANDE |
DANCE EXPRESSION
PEGGY JARRELL KAPLAN |
Littérature
Olivia
Rosenthal
Que
font les rennes après Noël ?
Dany Laferrière
Tout bouge autour de moi
Charles Robinson
Dans les Cités
Musique
Mademmoiselle
K
Jouer dehors
Mano Solo
La
Marmaille Nue
Juliette
No
parano
Cinéma
Edouard
Molinaro
La
Cage aux folles
Julie Bertuccelli
L’Arbre
Max
Ophuls
Lola Montès
Spring
Opening Hours:
Monday
12.30pm - 7.30pm
Tuesday-Thursday 10am -
7.30pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 2.00 pm
www.alliance-francaise.ie/library
library@alliance-francaise.ie
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Book Launch.
After London, Paris and Madrid,
Jo comes to Ireland with
Mon carnet de voyage en Irlande.
This special green guide is filled
with practical information, stories and
puzzles. Children will have
great fun interacting with this book,
while learning all about Ireland.
Aurore Finlay (writer
and teacher at the Alliance Française Dublin),
aided by Eglantine Bonetto
(illustrator), will help you through this
wonderful journey.
Jo & moi autour du Monde:
www.joetmoi.com
Éditions Sikanmar
Saturday 14 May
11.30am to 1.30pm
Admission free
Parents & children welcome |
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Exhibition. In a
close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your
face becomes the stage - Marlon Brando.
Dance Expression
features portraits of French
choreographers and other dance-makers
participating in the
2011 Dublin Dance Festival,
including a few familiar faces.
Peggy Jarrell Kaplan uses the portrait
genre to approach dance obliquely, conveying qualities
that are related to performance, but do not reproduce
it. As an impressive collective portrait of the
choreographic world, Kaplan allows us to know the
dancer from the dance.
Opening Monday 16 May
6.30pm
Admission free
This exhibition
will run from Tuesday 17 May to Saturday 25
June, within the
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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NEW DUBLIN VOICES
GO TO FRANCE |
A LA BONNE
FRANQUETTE
CH'TI
CABARET |
SUMMER TERM
ASSESSMENTS |
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Concert.
New Dublin Voices are taking part in
the 40th edition of the
Florilège Vocal de Tours France,
which is one of the most
important international
choral song competitions in Europe and before that NDV will give
a splendid
concert at the Alliance Française.
We are delighted to have a diverse
programme:
International songs,
Renaissance and contemporary chorals and French music of
course!
New Dublin Voices
was founded by conductor
Bernie Sherlock
in October 2005. The choir works
regularly with the
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
and performs at various
special public events.
The singers who make up
New Dublin Voices come from many backgrounds but share high
levels of experience and musicianship, a commitment to attracting
new audiences, and, above all, a love of performing excellent choral
music.
Wednesday 18 May at
7.30pm
€10 / €6 AF members
Tickets available at
Reception desk |
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Dinner Party.
Enjoy beautiful food prepared by the chef at
La Cocotte and meet new friends
while practising your French (or your English!). Come on your own or
with friends and enjoy some casual and convivial dining - this time,
you will discover cuisine from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region
and the “Ch’tis” culture.
The evening will begin at 6pm with “3 Monts” beer-tasting
to help you forget the worries of the day, before the first dish of
the 3-course dinner is served at
6.30pm.
Menu
-Oeuf cocotte au maroilles et salade
-Carbonnade de bœuf flamande, avec frites
-Tarte au sucre
Some AF teachers from this part of France, will offer you a
little show with 3 short sketches
inspired by famous texts translated into Ch’ti!
Thursday 19
May at 6-8pm
€22 / €20 AF Members
Online registration or book at Reception Register before
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Courses. The
Summer Term will begin on
7th June. It is open to both former and new
students. More General French and conversation
courses are available during the day over two
intensive weeks, every two weeks, and evening time
for a whole term of 8 weeks.
Our next
assessments will
take place from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on the following
dates:
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Monday 30 |
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Tuesday 24 |
Tuesday 31 |
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Wednesday 25 |
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Assessments are free of charge and no booking
is required. Please note that you don't need an
assessment if you are a complete beginner or if
you are already a student with the Alliance, you
can
enrol directly online.
You can also gain some time by doing the written part
of the assessment
online.
These assessments are for adults only.
Download the timetable
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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IFI FRENCH FILM
CLUB:
UN POISON VIOLENT |
L'HEURE EXQUISE
REYNALDO HAHN |
CINÉCLUB:
BIENVENUE
CHEZ LES CH'TIS |
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Screening.
Anna a young teenager comes home from
her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her
father has left. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited
teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her
confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith.
She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if
it is to God, or something else?
Director Katell
Quillévéré handles the teen sexual
awakening with sensitivity and religion with
thought-provoking questions.
Un poison violent
(Love like Poison) is well made,
intelligent and gently moving, and as such deserves due recognition.
Starring Clara Augarde, Lio and Michel Galabru.
Introduced by
Laurent Marie,
Lecturer in French at UCD.
Tuesday 24 May at 7.20pm
€9.50 / €7 AF members |
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Concert.
The
Royal Irish Academy of Music in
association with the Alliance Francaise Dublin
present L’Heure exquise,
a concert celebrating the music of
Reynaldo Hahn.
“This musical instrument of
a genius called Reynaldo Hahn captures all the hearts,
wets all the eyes, in the shiver of admiration which,
conjured up in the distance, makes us tremble, makes us
twist one after another in the silent and solemn swaying
of wheat fields in the wind”
Marcel Proust
on Reynaldo Hahn.
Anna Brady, soprano;
Laura Murphy,
mezzo-soprano; Patrick Hyland,
tenor and Benjamin Russell,
baritone; Alexander Bernstein
and Nadene Fiorentini,
piano.
Devised by the award-winning pianist
Marek Ruszczynski.
Wednesday 25 May at 7pm
Admission Free
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Screening.
Popular
farceur, playwright and stand-up
comic
Dany Boon wraps a
love letter to his native region
of northern France with a
sweet and funny tale which
broke all
audience records in France.
Philippe Abrams (Kad
Merad), a post office
manager in Provence, is punished
when his superiors reassign him
north. When he hears that
'north' does not mean Lyons or
even Paris, he despairs.
Colleagues tell him of a
freezing dark place where it
rains all year, people live in
red-brick terrace houses and
dunk Maroilles cheese in their
coffee. When he arrives
in Bergues, his car collides
with Antoine Bailleul (Dany
Boon), a postman and
carillon ringer in the town
belfry.
Thursday 26 May
7.30pm
2008
- French version
with French subtitles, 102 min
Information and booking:
library@alliance-francaise.ie
Admission Free.
Reserved to AF
members
RSVP |
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Irish Film
Institute,
6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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THOMAS NGIJOL
A BLOCK! |
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
MEMBERSHIP |
TEF: TEST
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Stand-Up Comedy.
Thomas Ngijol has recently become
one of the
leaders of stand-up comedians
in France. He managed to make
a name for himself in one of the best-known comedy clubs, the
Jamel Comedy Club.
In his show
A block!, Thomas
Ngijol deals with serious issues like terrorism, relationships
between men and women and inequalities between the North and the
South with subtlety. He doesn’t take himself seriously and
makes a lot of fun of the audience! To sum up, be prepared to split
your sides laughing!
Sunday 29 May at 8pm
€18.50 / €12 AF members
Tickets available at the AF
Reception
For more information, please email
azevents@live.fr
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Support our activities by
becoming a member of the
Alliance Française and enjoy all
the following benefits!
-
free
access to our Multimedia Library
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discounted prices for our
cultural events
(openings, screenings, tastings,
concerts, readings, conferences,
festivals)
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invitations to special Members'
only events
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special discounts with
partner
organisations
(restaurants, clothes shops,
designers, bookshops,
hairdressers and other shops)Membership
fees:
AF Students: free
Concessions: €25
(teachers of French, retired,
unemployed, students, children)
Adults: €40
Families: €60 (two adults
and up to four children)
Families with current AF student: €40
Benefactor: from €90 |
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Exams. You can now sit the TEF (Test
d’Evaluation de Français) and TEFaQ (for Québec)
TEF is designed for
people who are not native French speakers and
who, for professional,
personal or
academic reasons,
wish to have their competency in French assessed and
certified simply, reliably and quickly. It allows
candidates to demonstrate their fluency in French when
they seek admission to Grandes Écoles or
French speaking Universities, employment or
promotion.
TEF and TEFaQ are certified by Canada
and Québec immigration authorities:, The
Québec Ministry of Immigration and the Ministry of
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism insist on
people taking the TEF and TEFaQ.
This
is exclusive to the Alliance Francaise network in
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Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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COMING UP NEXT MONTH:
Let’s French... Festival 2011 Summer Terms
APP Contes: Three little pigs
Summer Camps Visit of the Matisse
exhibition Teachers’ workshop: pronunciation and much more!
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