Monday– Friday 10am-2.30pm
available July 4th / 11th / 18th

New this year, we provide an Pre-and After-Camp Care from 9am to 4pm. Hot lunch à la française included!

Exhibition. Sommes-nous ? (Are we?), is an intimate and world-wide photographic chronicle, the fruit of a common reflection, a shared look focussed on our time. The production of a collective, and singular team of photographers from around the world, Tendance Floue continues to question our different outlooks that have been shaped by our personal and political concerns.
Tendance Floue comprises: Pascal Aimar, Thierry Ardouin, Denis Bourges, Bieke Depoorter, Gilles Coulon, Olivier Culmann, Mat Jacob, Caty Jan, Philippe Lopparelli, Bertrand Meunier, Meyer, Flore-Aël Surun, Patrick Tourneboeuf, Alain Willaume.

1 July to 17 September
Opening: Thursday 7 at 6.30pm
In the presence of Lord Mayor Andrew Montague

PhotoIreland Festival 2011

Special Event. Galway Arts Festival is Ireland's largest international arts festival. The Festival showcases a wide variety of international artists alongside the best of Irish talent and includes music (popular, contemporary, jazz, world, classical and traditional), theatre (indoor and outdoor), visual arts, dance, talks, discussions, family events and comedy in its programme.

The Festival presents, with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy, the spectacular French acrobats and circus artists Les Philébulistes’ new show Arcane which has wowed audiences all over the world. Two giant moving wheels are used as a structure for daring and jaw-dropping acrobatic feats.

13-14 July at 2 pm & 6pm
Free event

Book launch. This is a unique occasion to meet Marie Curie’s grand-daughter Hélène Langevin -Joliot. She will reflect on Marie Curie’s life: her famous scientific works, her involvement as a nurse in the first World War, her determination to improve gender equality and her family life. It will also be an opportunity to discover Marie Curie as a mother. In a book entitled Marie Curie et ses filles – Lettres Hélène Langevin-Joliot collected more than two hundred letters exchanged between Marie Curie and her two daughters, Irène and Eve.
In partnership with the  Cultural Service of the French Embassy
Talk in French – Q&A in French and English. The talk will be followed by a book signing (books available for sale)

Wednesday 13 July at 6pm
Admission free – RSVP: info@alliance-francaise.ie

IFI French Film Club. Set in the early years of the 16th century Wars of Religion, Bertrand Tavernier’s lavish literary epic is the story of a young noblewoman torn between love and duty. The titular Marie (Mélanie Thierry), though passionately in love with her cousin Henri (Gaspard Ulliel) and already promised to his brother, is arranged to be married to the son of one of her father’s political allies. Marie does as ordered, cutting ties with Henri and acquiescing to a loveless marriage. However, her husband’s jealousies are inflamed as his fellow noblemen openly covet his beautiful, innocent wife, while his tutor secretly loves her, a situation exacerbated by the reappearance of her true love. With impressively large-scale battle scenes and remarkable attention to period detail, this is commercial French cinema at its best.

Monday 18 July at 6pm
€9.20 / €7 AF members

Special Event. The exhibition Hugh Lane & his Artists focuses on a 1904 exhibition that Hugh Lane organised at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, to promote his vision for a Gallery of Modern Art. He borrowed significant 19-century works and Impressionist paintings, many of these were purchased and donated to what is now The Hugh Lane Gallery. The exhibition presents selected treasures from the Gallery's founding days including many works by French painters.
This tour by Exhibition Curator Logan Sisley, will focus on works by French artists, including Corot, Courbet, Barye, Fantin-Latour, Degas and Monet.
The visit will be followed by tea/coffee.

Tuesday 19 July at 3pm
€10 / €7 AF members
Admission restricted to 30 people. Registration deadline: Friday 15 Online registration

Café. La Cocotte continues its acclaimed Tour de France:

MENU BORDELAIS
4-8 July
MENU MARSEILLAIS
11-15 July
MENU BOURGUIGNON
18-22 July
MENU VALLÉE DE LA LOIRE
25-29 July
MENU BRETON
8-12 August
MENU NICOIS
15-19 August
MENU CHARENTAIS
22-26 August
MENU ALSACIEN
29 August - 2 September

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 5.30pm

Exclusive. 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

Published last month, Mon Carnet de voyage en Irlande is exclusively for sale (€14.90) at the Alliance Française library

Special Event. Join us and experience the excitement of the Figaro Race coming to Dun Laoghaire with a special evening at the National Yacht Club.
There will be a presentation of the race and the possibility to get answers to all your questions about this famous race, enjoy French music and food while you wait for the fireworks!
Sailors & non-sailors welcome!

Friday 12 August 8-10:30pm
20€ / €15 AF members
Online registration

www.alliance-francaise.ie/library
library@alliance-francaise.ie

Exams. A gentle reminder to those of you who are interested in enrolling on the 2011/12 Diploma in Legal French course, but who may not have the necessary level (B1 -  Independent User), that the summer months could be put to good use brushing up on French skills.
Enrolments will be accepted from mid-July with a start date in mid-October. Download Brochure

Hi-tech. Thanks to a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Alliances Françaises in Galway, Cork and Dublin can now boast a new classroom equipped with a state of the art interactive whiteboard, enabling our students to avail of the latest pedagogical multimedia tools for learning!
More on the AF Network

Exams. You can now sit the TEF (Test d’Evaluation de Français) and the 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 employment or promotion or admission to Universities and Grandes Écoles.

TEF and TEFaQ are certified by Canada and Québec immigration authorities.

Next test:
Thursday 22nd September

This is exclusive to the Alliance Francaise network in Ireland!

Exhibition. After last year success, submissions are being sought again from artists working in Ireland with a particular interest in photography, for an new exhibition in the spring 2012 inspired by the particular multi-use context of the Gallery of the Alliance Française which is also a café space. Artists will be shortlisted from the open submission for the competition exhibition by the Advisory Committee of the Gallery of the Alliance Française and from this exhibition a winner will be selected.

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 is November 1st 2011