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January 2021
#173
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The
whole team of Alliance Française Dublin hopes that you enjoyed this
very unusual holiday season and wishes you all the very best for 2021.
The
past nine months have taught us to be very cautious in regard to
welcoming members of the public back at 1 Kildare street, and the
same caution will be applied to the first semester of 2021.
Alliance
Française will remain online and we will do our best to keep on
providing you with the highest quality of courses, cultural events and
Médiathèque services. Save the dates for the Francophonie Film Festival
in March, the Franco
Irish Literary Festival in April, and the Comic
Book Festival in May: We are happy to confirm that they
will take place
online, just like many other events that we have in store for you,
including some ‘nouveautés’, like Vois-tu
Gab… an original 7-part literary series starting this
month.
Our
premises will be open whenever levels 1 to 4 of the National Framework
for Living with COVID-19 allows it: The Reception and The French
Library
will be accessible, and private classes as well as exams will be
available on site in the respect of strict COVID-19 protocol
enforced for both staff and visitors. Check
our website for updates on access to our
premises and, in the meantime, stay home and stay safe!
We look forward to being in touch with you in 2021, whether online or
on site. À bientôt !
Thierry Lagnau,
Directeur de l’Alliance Française de Dublin / Coordinateur des
Alliances Françaises en Irlande, tlagnau@alliance-francaise.ie
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| Online
Placement Test |
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Literary
Series |
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Free Assessment
for the Spring Term |
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"Vois-tu Gab..."
by Franck Berthier |
From 11 January
Wednesday-Friday 5pm-7pm
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From 13 January
Streaming on Youtube 
Discover
every month on our YouTube a new episode of Vois-tu Gab...,
an original 7-part
literary series created by Franck Berthier for
Alliance Française Dublin.
Franck
Berthier is a French
actor,
stage director,
teacher
and author.
While appearing as a guest during our Franco-Irish Literary Festival in
2019, Franck was overwheld by the memory
of a youthful romance with the Irish actress Gabrielle Reidy.
Upon his return he dived into a hundred
letters sent by Gabrielle and felt the uncontrollable urge to respond.
In Vois-tu
Gab... Franck
reminisces
and replies to the late actress, trying to establish an impossible conversation
that defies time.
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| Live
Music |
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Online
Talk |
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Facebook Live Series:
Brassens l’Irlandais |
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Meet Harriet
Welty Rochefort |
Thursday 14 January – 6pm
Live on
Facebook
Join
us every week on Facebook for our Alliance
Française Live Series, a short live performance
by one of our collaborators and friends. These presentations
include reading,
theatre performance,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
Our
next episode
will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Georges Brassens'
birth with a live performance by
French
trio Brassens
l'Irlandais. The popular folk-celtic
band from Montpellier
revisits
Brassens'
repertoire with
humour and affection in a traditional
Irish way with some blues
rock nods. Georges
Brassens is
today regarded as one of the
most important French singer-songwriters and
poets of all times.
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Tuesday 19 January – 6pm
Live on
Zoom 
Alliance
Française Dublin invites you to meet French-American writer
Hariett
Welty Rochefort for a presentation of her first
novel Final
Transgression hosted by Maggie Mixon.
Harriet Welty Rochefort is a writer,
a freelance journalist,
and a former professor
at Science Po Paris, who regularly lectures on the cultural differences between
French and Americans. She has written three books on the
subject: French
Toast, French Fried,
and Joie
de vivre, in which she describes her experience of living
in France. Final
Transgression: One Woman’s Tragic Destiny in War-Torn France,
her first novel released in 2020, is inspired by the true story of Séverine Sevanot during
the Vichy regime.
Admission
free but booking required
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| Online
Presentation & Tuition |
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Online Activity |
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Les Wébinaires AF:
À la découverte de Lyon |
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The French Library's
Sieste Musicale |
Webinar
Wednesday 20 January 6pm-7pm on
Zoom
Workshop Wednesday 27
January 5pm-7pm on
Zoom
Les
Wébinaires AF are a new
series of online activities in French: join us every 3rd
Wednesday of the month for a
free webinar on a French
cultural topic, supplemented by a French course the
following week to deepen and go beyond what was covered in a conversation class setting.
For the first edition, our teacher will take you to the city of Lyon and its surroundings,
and go through the main
features of its extremely rich heritage, culture and, of
course, gastronomie!
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Thursday 21 January – 6pm
Live on
Zoom
The Sieste
Musicale is back on Zoom! This month we’re taking you to
the city of Lille
for a 45min auditory
journey!
Our librarian will embark you on an immersive
audio tour around some of the most hidden gems of the
“capital of Flanders” enriched by
iconic tunes celebrating the city’s beauty and diverse cultural influences.
We recommend making
yourself comfortable, in a sofa, armchair or bed, to
completely enjoy the experience. A unique occasion to dream,
maybe sleep,
and to get fully
energized again
after your day!
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| Online French Courses for
Children & Teenagers |
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| Spring
Term for Minors starting from January 25th |
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Teenagers
15-week
term
Starting
from January 25th
These courses are
designed as a complement
to classes attended at secondary school for teenagers of every level
including bilingual.
They provide a diversification and broadening
of the language in an interactive
way. Teachers focus on interests and topics
relevant to the participants as well as the requirements of the
syllabus.
The
Alliance Française employs and trains the best native
French teachers in Ireland. In contrast to
most Irish institutes we take no more
than 15 students
per group to
ensure the best
learning experience for
all.
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| Live Drawing |
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Special
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Facebook Live Series:
Clare Foley |
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La Petite Nuit
des Idées |
Tuesday 26 January – 5.30pm
Live on
Facebook
Join
us every week on Facebook for our Alliance
Française Live Series, a short live performance
by one of our collaborators and friends. These presentations
include reading,
theatre performance,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
Next
up, Irish illustrator and comics creator
Clare Foley,
will present some of her recent work on a bittersweet autobiographical comic
set in Mexico, showing examples of how she creates her watercolour pages.
Her illustration work covers a wide
range of media and topics, from quirky reptile tarot cards,
music
cover art, to feminist
cartoons. She
is a member of Rogue
Comics.
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Thursday 28 January – from 4.30pm
Live
on
Zoom
La Nuit des idées
(the Night of Ideas) organised worldwide by Institut Français
celebrates the stream of ideas between cultures
through a night of debate and
events... for grown-ups, but for little people too!
Alliance Française Dublin's La
Petite Nuit des idées invites children from 4
to 12 years old to a creative contest: create an artistic piece
on this year’s theme Proche
/ Closer
(poem, drawing, song,
dance, sculpture,
anything they want!) and
present it in French or English on Zoom on Thursday 28
January.
To take part in the competition register
here and dowload the rules
and waiver
documents. Prizes include French
Courses,
French Library Memberships, books and goodies!
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| Special Events |
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| La Nuit des Idées 2021 –
Screenings & Debates |
Tuesday 26 - Thursday 28 January
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On a 20
ans pour changer le monde
Tuesday 26 January – 6pm
Streaming followed by a
discussion
We
have
20 years to change the world… and it all starts with the land that
nourishes us. The facts are there: 60% of the soil is
dead, and the
current mode of production
does not feed the planet. But men and women
rise to the challenge and demonstrate that we can do without chemicals
in all our food. Thanks to their communicative energy
another world
is possible!
This
screening is presented in association with the Cork
International Film Festival.
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The Great Green Wall
Thursday 28 January – 6.30pm
Streaming
followed by a discussion
The
documentary director
Fernando Meirelles and Malian musician/activist Inna Modja take us on
an epic
journey along Africa’s Great
Green Wall, an ambitious vision to grow an
8,000km
’wall’ of trees stretching across the entire width of the
continent to restore land and provide a future for millions of people.
This screening is presented in association with the Irish
Film Institute and in resonance with the Africa
2020 season in France.
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The Green Night of Ideas in Ireland will
continue in February with the free
streaming of the award-winning documentaty Home
directed by French photographer, reporter and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand
and produced by Luc
Besson. For more information visit ie.ambafrance.org |
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