French Art Week #2 Art History: Renaissance Française By Damien Bigot Do you want to know more about Art History? Then join this Art History Workshop! Introduction to Art History: key movements and major artists. For this second edition of our yearly French Art Week, Damien Bigot will present you the French Renaissance and
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Gaston (Louis Jourdan) is a restless Parisian playboy who moves from one mistress to another, while also spending time with Gigi (Leslie Caron), a precocious younger friend learning the ways of high society. The platonic relationship between Gaston and Gigi changes, however, when she matures, but the possibility of something lasting seems unlikely since he
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FEASTING AND MERRIMENT IN FRENCH HISTORY. Since Antiquity, the French have developed a special talent for lavish feasting and entertainment : Gargantuan banquets of the Middle-Ages accompanied by music and poetry of Troubadours and Minstrels, the refined cuisine and fine wines of the Renaissance, not to mention Belle Epoque Gai Paris which prompted
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Meet other students and members and learn more about our cultural center and new class sessions that begin March 5th 2018. New student can register for a free beginner class from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Register for a class or membership and receive a 10% discount off enrollment.
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Art History: Caravaggio et l'art Baroque By Damien Bigot Do you want to know more about Art History? Then join this Art History Workshop! Introduction to Art History: key movements and major artists. For this third lecture of our monthly workshops, Damien Bigot will present you the famous painter Caravaggio and the Baroque
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Screening 8 Femmes by François Ozon The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas. When the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed with a dagger in his back, it is presumed that the murderer
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Having trouble retaining French verbs? Do you want to learn French catch phrases? Come and join fellow students and teachers! Singing can boost your memory, give you an inside look at French culture, improve your comprehension and help you sound like a native French speaker. … You don’t need to sing in tune, just
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Book Club - Petit Piment By Nadine Juton Petit Piment is the story of the life of a Congolese orphan named Moses. His full name is Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko, which means “Thanks be to God, the black Moses is born on the earth of our ancestors” in
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Break the routine! Improve your French with theater games and see your imagination at work! Come and join Céleste for this monthly Theatre workshop! Every last Monday of the month, come at the Alliance Française to practice your French in a new and fun way through theater exercices! Joie et bonne humeur seront au rendez-vous
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WRITERS AND HISTORY IN FRANCE History is a written story in which men and women strive to make known times past. Over the centuries, French writers combined erudition, imagination and elegance to write a narrative with style. Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling novels, Victor Hugo's epics or Jules Vernes' prophecies make us travel through time. Madame de
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