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December 2020
Cine Salon Online – December
Register here! Let’s join our next Online Cine Salon. During 3 weeks let's celebrate the Champs Elysees Film Festival 2020. A selection of long and short movies. Enjoy our best recommendations for French-language cinema, and join our new ciné-salon online event to discuss them in French (to the best of your ability), led by our instructors! Connect with others through our shared love of cinema and Francophone cultures while practicing your French! Please find after information about each movie: Tuesday, December 1 (11:00am…
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Café des Sciences- COVID-19: la parole aux scientifiques français de Los Angeles
Register here! Conférence en Ligne "COVID-19 : la parole aux scientifiques français de Los Angeles" Le Service pour la Science et la Technologie du Consulat de Los Angeles, en partenariat avec Los Angeles Accueil et l’Alliance Française de Los Angeles vous propose de prendre part à un échange avec trois scientifiques français installés à Los Angeles et reconnus pour leur expertise dans des domaines différents permettant de vous apporter un éclairage complémentaires sur la COVID-19, son apparition, ses évolutions récentes…
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The Language of Levinas : To be or not to be
For free registration, program and access to the link please RSVP by December 3 at vflambar@lmu.edu Public Roundtable organized with Loyola Marymount University (LMU), and the support of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (BCLA), the Departments of Modern Languages & Literatures, and Philosophy, and the Bioethics Institute. Yves Vendé, Ph.D., Instructor of Philosophy, BCLA, LMU : « Levinas and Translation : Is it to Enter into a Process of Variations of Oneself and the Other? » During the writing of Totality…
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Le Langage de la Cuisine Online Workshop
Register here! The Language of Cooking Online Workshop Learn your way around the French kitchen! If you love French cooking and want to impress your friends when in the kitchen, words like "mijoter," "rissoler," “effiler” or “emporte-pièce” will be a great addition to your cooking skills. Besides identifying everyday kitchen utensils and cooking methods, an extensive review of different food groups will be included along with several traditional French recipes. December 10 | 11am to 12:30pm | Zoom Intermediate/Advanced Levels …
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Club du Livre Online- December
Register here! Coming this December... How twenty-four hours can change a woman's life? Plot: Let's go back a few years after the first World War and join a quiet guest house on the French Riviera which is shaken and shocked when one of the guests, a respectable young woman, runs away with a man who is not her husband. This event awakens a long-buried memory in an elderly woman, who recounts the events of a thrilling twenty-four hours of passion in…
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Club du Livre Online – January
Register here! Book: Dans les geôles de Sibérie by Joann Barbereau The riveting true story of a harrowing escape. Plot: This book tells the story of the former director of l'Alliance Francaise d'Irkuoutz and his unexpected detention in a prison in Siberia. Yoann Barbereau has written a riveting memoir that leads us to his escape back to France January 13th | 11:00am-12:30 pm Intermediate level recommended Members $5 | Non Members $15 Purchase the ebook here! Register here! …
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Les Actrices du Cinéma Français Part 1 Online Workshop
Register here! Actresses of French Cinema Part 1 Online Workshop Are the names Musidora, Danielle Darrieux or Martine Carol familiar? If you love French cinema, and particularly enjoy the aura and charm of French actresses, this two-part workshop is for you. Participants will be introduced to the numerous French actresses who have enriched French cinema from the days of silent film to the current movie stars through photos, video clips, and press articles. Intermediate/Advanced Levels recommended Thursday | January 14th | 11am…
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Cine Salon Online-January
Register here! Let's open the old music hall, and put on a show! Movie : Paris 36 Short synopsis : Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary" period of the Popular Front (who introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there. Watch/rent on Amazon Prime…
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French Slang, Part 2 Online workshop
Register here! “Les paluches”, “la caboche” and “s’emmeler les pinceaux” don’t mean anything to you, then this French Slang Workshop, the Sequel is for you! Every culture has its own way of expressing itself that is not taught in the classroom. Let’s forget about the textbooks, grammar and perfect spelling and learn to chat, joke, flirt and how to be cool just like a native French speaker. In this workshop you will explore the common French slang words and how…
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