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Édito
This month, under the auspices of the Cercle Français, we are
very honoured to have a talk by our new AF President, Pat Cox,
who will consider the Eurozone crisis and the steps to be taken
in that regard. You might also like to join us two days later to
celebrate the arrival of the Beaujolais
nouveau, an event we are organising in partnership with the
Ireland France Chamber of Commerce.
A great networking occasion!
A bientôt !
Claire Bourgeois
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NEW TERM STARTING
SOON!
COME FOR A FREE ASSESSMENT! |
PEOPLE OF THE SEA
GENS DE LA MER |
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Courses.
This month we are opening more classes for those
who missed the Autumn Term.
The
Halloween Term will begin on
21 November
for 8 weeks. It is open to both former and
new students.
General French courses,
conversation courses, cultural workshops
for adults,
secondary school classes, children and
toddlers courses are available all day from
Monday to Saturday.
Download the Timetable & Fees
Brochure
here.
Assessments will be held between 5pm and 7pm
on the following dates:
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Wednesday 9 |
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Tuesday 15 |
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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 and teenagers only.
For more information contact us at:
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Exhibition.
Gilles
Perrin's
People of the sea
is an exhibition of
documentary photographs of the
Irish Fishing industry. These large format
black and white images often presented as diptychs
and triptychs capture
the lives of people working in maritime industries around
the Cork coastline. Gilles Perrin selected
his subjects by visiting harbours and piers in locations
such as Cobh, Baltimore, Castletownbere
and Schull through the Artist in residency programme
at Sirius Arts Centre and later by a similar
residency position at the West Cork Arts Centre which
took place over a few months in 2007 & 2008.
In
partnership with
Veolia Environnement
with the support of
Sirius Arts Centre,
The Arts Council,
Cork County Council
and
The West Cork Arts Centre,
and
iophotoworks.
Until
26 November 2011 |
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Alliance Française,
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Online enrolment /
Online assessment
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Course description |
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J'ENTENDS UN PIANO
DANS MA RUE - MORGAN COOKE |
BOARD GAMES
EVENING |
L'ÉVOLUTION DU RUGBY
JEAN-MICHEL AGUIRRE |
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Concert.
The
Alliance Française in Kilkenny
presents the actor and musician Morgan
Cooke.
Morgan lived for six years in Paris, eking out a living
as a classical singer in chamber choirs by day,
and a white-faced underground cabaret singer at
night, while also working as an accompanist for
many artists. It was as a singer that he really explored
the milieu, trawling through the old songs of
Fréhel,
Marie Dubas
and
Boris Vian with a drag
outfit called Los Lolos De Paris, and blazing a trail of
new cabaret in the darkly comic guignol world of Cook
The Linaar. On 9 November in the Hole in the Wall,
Kilkenny you will hear songs from both of those shows,
along with Morgan's favourite choices from the
repertoire of
Barbara,
Jacques Brel,
Serge Gainsbourg and of
course, Édith Piaf.
9 November 2011 at
8.30pm
Admission: €10 / €5
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Games. The
Médiathèque at the Alliance
Française Dublin opens its doors once again from 7.30pm
to 9pm for a games evening!
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 adult members of the Alliance Française.
Wednesday 9
November
from 7.30pm to 9pm
Admission
free
AF members only RSVP:
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Talk.
Born in Tostat, Jean-Michel Aguirre is a former
French rugby union player. His club was the Stade
Bagnérais. He also coached the Paloise team and
the Italian club Treviso for two years.
Between 1971 and 1980 he was
selected to play for the French national XV
39 times. He earned his first national cap in
1971 against Australia at Colombes. In 1979 he
helped France win the World Cup Semi-Final against
the All Blacks in Auckland (24-19).
Interested in rugby? Then, you
will enjoy this talk with
Jean-Michel Aguirre
who will answer your questions
both as a player and as a coach. He will also explain
what playing rugby means in the South-West of France.Talk in French / Q&A in French.
With the support of the
Cultural and Scientific Service of the
French Embassy.
Thursday 10 November – 6.30pm
Admission free
RSVP:
info@alliance-francaise.ie |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Hole in the Wall
Off High Street, Kilkenny |
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WHO KILLED BIANCA
CASTAFIORE? |
LET'S WALK & TALK
CA MARCHE ! |
IMPROVE YOUR
PRONUNCIATION |
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Life-size Cluedo.
What a shock! … Bianca Castafiore the famous singer, has
been murdered at the Moulinsart Castle!
All the guests at the concert
become suspects:
Capitaine Haddock and
his butler
Nestor,
Igor Wagner the
Castafiore’s pianist and
Irma
the maid,
Rastapopoulos,
Professor Tournesol
and the two policemen
Dupont and
Dupond.
Tintin
the famous reporter (accompanied by his dog
Milou)
is here to investigate but, to interrogate all the suspects,
help is needed from a lot of aspiring investigators…YOU!
Join one of the investigative teams to unmask the
murderer!
Friday 11
November - 7.30pm
Admission free
RSVP:
info@alliance-francaise.ie
maximum 5 members per team
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Walk.
Come and join us for a stroll
and a chat… in French
Within the framework
of
Dublin City Council’s
community initiative,
Let’s Walk & Talk,
Ça marche ! is
a great way for everyone to stay healthy, meet
other people and practise French!
All Welcome!
Bring your smile, your umbrella and your few or many words
of French! And make sure to be on time! The walk lasts
an
hour and a half. It's on
every second Friday
of the month.
Friday 11 November 2pm
Free
of charge
Meeting point: Outside the AF
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Workshop.
Each workshop will be dedicated to a different aspect of the
French phonetic system.
The aim of these workshops is to introduce the
trainees to these aspects of the language, giving
them tricks to help them pronounce the sounds and an
understanding of how they should be performed.
Leaving Cert students:
Did you know that pronunciation represents 25% of the marks
in the oral examination?
That means that a good
student, who has plenty of vocabulary but poor
pronunciation, is starting with a handicap that represents
1/4 of the total mark.
This workshop is for
teenagers aged
13-17.
Friday 11 November 2011
From 3.30pm to 4.45pm
€15 / €10
AF Members
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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MAX BOUBLIL
STAND UP COMEDY |
EUROZONE - WAITING
FOR GODOT? |
BEAUJOLAIS
NOUVEAU 2011 |
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Show.
This comedian came to fame mainly
through Youtube. In May 2010 he started putting new
satirical and ironic songs such as
J’aime les moches,
Susan Boyle or
Chanson raciste on
the Net.
Adept at using irony in
embarrassing situations and poking fun at his
subjects, Max
Boublil started his career in
supporting roles in a few French series which unfortunately
proved unsuccessful. But rapidly (and fortunately) he found
the recipe to make us laugh and sing at the same time. And
finally here he is, for YOU, in Dublin.
He will tell us about his new-found fame,
what cyber celebrity has brought him and also how everyday life inspires him.
Sunday 13
November– 8pm
€18.30 / €12 AF members
Tickets can be purchased at the Alliance Française
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Talk. We have been
waiting for quite some time for a sense of a definitive
European response to the Eurozone
crisis. Rather like waiting for Monsieur Godot, we
are not sure that such a response will ever arrive. The
theme of this address will be to argue why decisive steps
must be taken now.
Pat Cox is an Irish politician, he was
President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and
served as a member of the European Parliament from
1989 to 2004. Before this Pat
Cox was a journalist and presenter with RTÉ's
Today Tonight and then a
TD for Cork South Central. He is now the
President of the European Movement International and the
President of the Alliance Française Dublin.
Talk in French - Q&A French and English.
Tuesday 15
November at 6.30pm
Admission free - RSVP:
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Networking.
Le Beaujolais Nou-veau est arrivé !
Come and celebrate the arrival of this
year’s
Beaujolais Nouveau with
friends and colleagues and discover le cru 2011
in the wonderful setting of The Vaults.
Enjoy a
festive evening
with
a
fashion show,
music,
regional food (cheese
and charcuterie) to accompany the
wine tasting,
make new friends and dance the night away with our French
DJ!
Presented by the Alliance
Française and the Ireland France Chamber of Commerce
with the support of Geodis. In the presence of
H.E. Emmanuelle
d’Achon, Ambassador of
France to Ireland.
Thursday 17 November
7.00 – 9.30pm. Bar open for
business until 11.30pm
€40 / €30 AF & IFCC
members
Tickets online or at Reception
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Sugar
Club
8 Lower Leeson St Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
The Vaults
Harbourmaster Place, Dublin 1 |
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IFI FRENCH FILM
FESTIVAL 2011
16 - 27 NOVEMBER 2011 |
FRENCH TEACHERS
WORKSHOP |
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Festival. The
2011 IFI French Film Festival
will bring the very best of French
cinema to Dublin with a sumptuous line-up featuring
work from the Dardenne brothers, Catherine
Deneuve, Christophe Honoré and Abdellatif
Kechiche, and buzzing with special guests
including glamourous leading-lady
Sandrine Kiberlain,
leading director
Claude Miller
and veteran character actor
Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
The
IFI French Film Festival returns
for twelve days this November with a fantastic
programme bringing you the best of new French cinema,
and a chance to rediscover the work of some of its
greats. A look beyond the highlights reveals a rich
and extensive programme featuring
21 Irish premieres
and many of the standout
films from this year’s
Cannes and Venice
film festivals. The
Festival is also proud to present a host of special
guests introducing and discussing their work, new
talents with a strand of directorial debuts, and a
retrospective look at the Prix Jean Vigo’s
sixty years of rewarding imaginative filmmakers.
With such a
diverse programme
capturing the imagination, humanity and passion of
French cinema, there should be
something for every taste at this
year’s IFI French Film Festival!
For further information,
please visit:
www.ifi.ie
Tickets available from the
IFI from the box office at 01 679 3477 or
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Training. How
to use authentic documents in
class: the song as a
cultural basis and a
pedagogical tool. In this
workshop especially dedicated to
secondary school French
teachers, we will see how a
song may be used as a tool to
help develop language practice
and cultural awareness,
through written, aural and oral
activities.
This workshop will be lead by
Cécile Dubois, teacher in
the Alliance Française in Dublin
who has just joined our team
after several years in different
Alliances Françaises in Europe.
Saturday 19
November 2-5pm
€15 / €10 AF Members
limited to 20 trainees
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French Film
Festival 2011
Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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INTERNATIONAL DAY
OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS |
IFI FRENCH FILM
CLUB:
PATER |
CAHIER PÉDAGOGIQUE:
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE |
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Workshop.
Nothing is more important than building a world in which all
our children will have the chance to use their full
potential and to grow healthy in peace and dignity
- Kofi A. Annan
The idea of this workshop is to
give children the opportunity to express their sense of
freedom to create a colourful body silhouette shape which
will be named “The Little Keeper”.
This workshop is lead by
Rony Sidon,
a Guadeloupean artist living in Ireland for the last 14
years. He studied Fine Art for five years between the
Caribbean and Toulouse and worked in a number of places in
Ireland and developed an intuitive approach to sharing his
passion of colours.
Saturday 19
November 2011
12.15pm to 1.30pm
€15 / €10 AF Members
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Screening.
Alain Cavalier is a French film director
who cuts a distinctive figure. He has won several
awards, including the César Award for Best Film
and César Award for Best Director for his film
Thérèse in
1987. His latest film Pater
premiered in Competition at the 2011 Cannes
Film Festival.
In Pater he
explores a filial relationship between a man who casts
himself as President of the Republic, and his choice for
Premier, a much younger man.
Alain Cavalier plays the president, a warm
and inquisitive character much like his own.
Vincent Lindon is the
filial figure, brooding, questioning, inhabited by
doubts. Pater was shot with a handheld digital camera
and the audacity of a pioneer.
Introduced by Laurent Marie, French lecturer at
UCD.
Tuesday 22
November at pm
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Education.
A Town Called Panic
is the 2011/12 addition to the
French Film Project
due to a partnership between the
French Embassy's Cultural Service,
the
Irish Film Institute
and the
Arts Council.
This film is a Belgian stop-motion animation
directed by Stéphane Aubier
and Vincent Patar,
and starring three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and
Horse. The study guide is aimed at the
Transition Year and Senior Cycle students of French.
The study guide includes comprehension exercises,
conversation topics and guidelines on
using the film as a document for the
French Leaving Cert oral exam.
Distributed to the teachers of French in Ireland, the
study guide and all the previous versions
are
also available on the
IFI's website and in
the
French Library.
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Irish Film
Institute
6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 |
Service Culturel
Ambassade de France en Irlande |
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CINÉCLUB:
BUFFET FROID |
MEMBER OF THE MONTH
PATRICK HUME |
2nd AF PHOTOGRAPHY
AWARD COMPETITION |
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Screening. Bertrand Blier's 1979
Buffet Froid is
an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the
conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the
alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban
life through the adventures of three men.
First introduced is Alphonse
Tram (Gérard Depardieu),
an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police
chief-inspector Morvandieu (Bernard
Blier). Then a third man appears : he is
Alphonse's wife's murderer (Jean
Carmet).
Strange and unreal, a classic
Blier that won a César Award for Best Writing.
Thursday 24 November 7.30pm
1979
- French version
with English subtitles, 89 min
library@alliance-francaise.ie
Admission Free.
Reserved to AF
members
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What do you do in Dublin?
I am a solicitor engaged in Human Rights law at the
Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. This currently
involves legal research into aspects of Penal Policy in
Ireland, Immigration Law and Human Rights law.
What is it about the AF that you really like?
The opportunity for interaction with people who are
looking at the world from a different cultural
perspective.
What aspect of French culture do you most enjoy?
Food of course! As a lawyer who has completed the
Diploma in Legal French I am fascinated by what might be
called the underpinning philosophy of law – a search for
just relations.
What do you hate about France or French culture?
I do not hate any one aspect of French life or culture.
And if there is something that I "dislike" or that makes
me feel uncomfortable it is that sense of being unique,
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Exhibition.
After last year's success, submissions are being
sought again from artists working in Ireland with
a particular interest in photography, for a new
exhibition in Spring 2012 inspired by the
particular multi-use context of
our Gallery
which is also a café space.
Artists will be shortlisted
by the Advisory Committee of the Gallery of the
Alliance Française and a winner will be selected
from the entries chosen for the exhibition.
In 2011, Joby Hickey,
Doreen Kennedy,
Roseanne Lynch &
Jean-Luc Morales were selected to exhibit
at the AF and our first Award was given to
Roseanne Lynch. See the details
here.
Submissions deadline
extended to 1 December 2011 Download the
Terms & Conditions
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DERNIERS ARRIVAGES
LATEST ADDITIONS |
LA COCOTTE
SPÉCIALITÉS RÉGIONALES |
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
MEMBERSHIP |
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Café.
La Cocotte continues its
acclaimed
Tour de France:
MENU
LANGUEDOC
7-12 November
Gaspacho de melon
& brochettes de crevettes
Macaronade sétoise
Clafoutis aux cerises
MENU
SAVOYARD
14-19 November
Assiette du
skieur
Tartiflette en cocotte
Tarte à la compote de pommes
au miel
MENU
NOEL
21 November - 21 December
Mousse de saumon
ou
Terrine de jarret de porc
Dinde farcie aux marrons
ou
Lasagne de filet de cabillaud
Gratin de fruits rouges
ou
Buche de Noel
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
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Special Offer.
Support our activities by becoming a member of the Alliance
Française and enjoy all the following benefits!
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free
access to our Multimedia Library
(over 11,000 books, reference works, periodicals,
comic books, learning library, music, DVDs, Children's Corner)
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discounted prices for our
cultural events
(openings, screenings, concerts,
conferences, tastings, festivals
taking place in Dublin or the
Greater Dublin area)
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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 French
shops)
As a student of the Alliance
Française Dublin, you are already a Member, pick up
your card at the Library!
More information:
library@alliance-francaise.ie
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COMING UP
IN DECEMBER: Christmas
Market, Christmas workshops for children
and toddlers, New exhibition, Talk
LAN Architecture, Teacher training,
cinéclub & IFI French Film Club and much more!
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