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July 2020
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“Unprecedented”:
An adjective that we have come to hear and use a lot over the last
three months! “Unprecedented” will still apply to this summer at
Alliance Française Dublin, as our
building will remain closed until 10 August.
Safety being our priority, we are busy working on making our premises
compliant with the constraints of the “new now” and have deemed more
reasonable to stick to our schedule based on the initial government
roadmap.
All the services that you have come to enjoy online in
growing numbers are available throughout the Summer. Cultural events,
with
our increasingly popular Facebook live series, the Cinéclub, and bien sûr
our courses, with a new online session starting on 27 July while
private classes are available anytime. Two-week programmes for
teenagers
will be starting every other week, and one-week camps will be starting
every week for children, all of these virtual but adapted to make our
young audience… “happy campers”!
We wish you a happy, albeit “unprecedented”, July 2020.
Thierry Lagnau,
Directeur de
l’Alliance Française de Dublin / Coordinateur des Alliances Françaises
en Irlande, tlagnau@alliance-francaise.ie
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| Online Summer Camps |
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Online
Screenings |
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| Online Summer Camps for Children
& Teens |
| Children
1-week camp
available every week |
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Teens
2-week camps
every 2 weeks |
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Our acclaimed French Summer Camps will all take place online
this year to stay on the
safe side (and possibly out of the rain).
Children's
Camps for 4-6 year olds and 7-10 year olds are available for 1
week, every week, while Teenagers's
camps for Junior (going into
2nd, 3rd Year), Senior
(going into 4th, 5th, 6th year), Starter
(going into 1st Year or complete beginners) and Bilingual
students are available for 2 weeks, every 2 weeks throughout the summer.
Register
for 2 camps or more and
receive a 10% discount off the 2nd enrolment! |
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"IF
Cinéma à la carte"
Online Film Festival |
Until 13 July
Admission
free
Not quite ready to venture back to the cinema just
yet? Well don't despair! Thanks to Institut français, discover 11 short and 10 feature films,
both
French and African, with English subtitles. With animation, fiction, documentary and family films on
offer:
something for everyone. Live the cinema experience from home and for free!
Selections include festival circuit favorites such as drama Rafiki
by Wanuri Kahiu, comedy Le Nouveau
by Rudi Rosenberg, animation film La jeune
fille sans main by Sébastien Laudenbach, documentary Swagger
by Olivier Babinet, and many more!
Full programme:
ifcinema.institutfrancais.com
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Online Workshop |
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Create
Your Own Mask
with The
French Library |
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Au Bistro de
l'Alliance Française |
Wednesday 1 July – 6pm
Live on Zoom 
The
long-awaited end of the
lockdown is coming soon but
we'll still need to stay
safe outside! Join
The
French Library
team on Zoom for a free arts & crafts
workshop to easily create your personal mask.
You will only need a
tee-shirt and a pair of scissors!
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Every Thursday
6pm-7.30pm
6
hours over 4 weeks –
€99
From July 2nd, Au Bistro de l'AF invites you to
join the AF Team at apéro
time for an informal,
relaxed chat on current affairs, like us French do after work au bistro.
A great way to practise
your French with an expert teacher. Don’t forget to bring
your drink!
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Services |
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Live
Drawing |
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The
French Library
Pre-Book &
Collect |
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Facebook Live Series:
Melody Ung |
Available
every day on appointment
More
information
After
weeks working behind
curtains to provide online
workshops, curated selections of online resources and
manage the library collections, The
French Library now
offers a Pre-book & Collect
service! Follow these 3 easy steps:
1) Log on to Culturethèque
to browse
the French
Library catalogue to select
your items
2)
Book an
appointment
on our
calendar
3) Collect
the items at the main entrance of the building.
If
you wish to return items
that were borrowed before the lockdown, please follow steps 2)
& 3). Please
note that Alliance
Française Dublin is still closed to the public; users may not enter the premises.
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Thursday 2
July – 4pm
Live on Facebook
Join
us every week on Facebook for our new Alliance
Française Live Series, a short live performance
by one of our collaborators and friends. These presentations will
include reading,
theatre performance,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
Melody Ung
is an illustrator
and cartoonist,
from Paris. She has been passionate about drawing stories ever since
she was a kid and decided to retrain for an artistic career 2 years
ago. Her creations are colourful,
poetic
with a willingness to have a positive
impact on people. During this live drawing session,
she will create an illustration on the themes of creativity and nature using
traditional art mediums such as coloured
pencils.
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| Live Drawing |
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Photography Festival |
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Facebook Live Series:
Laurent Audoin |
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PhotoIreland Festival
"Over" Magazine |
Tuesday 7 July – 10am
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!
French
illustrator Laurent Audouin invites you to join him in his
studio for an ink and
pencil drawing session for his new children's book from
the series Les Aventures
fantastiques de Sacré-Coeur (published by Le
petit lézard).
Laurent
Audouin has published a large number of children's books and
has won many awards
for his work (Prix
Chronos, Prix des Incorruptibles, Prix Molière, Prix Cordage).
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8 – 19 July
Admission
free
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| Live Reading |
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Live Storytelling |
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Facebook Live Series:
Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix |
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Facebook Live Series:
Marc Roger |
Thursday 9 July – 4pm
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!
French writer Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix will read excerpts
from his noir novel Ogham.
Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix is a teacher at the University of Orléans. He
lived in Kerry, and now considers
Ireland as his second homeland,
choosing to set almost all of his noir fiction in this country. From
Kerry to Dublin, Westport to Connemara, each story gives us a reason to
travel.
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Monday 13 July – 5pm
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!
French storyteller Marc Roger invites you to discover Romain Gary’s
wonderful book, La
promesse de l’aube.
A real book connoisseur,
Marc Roger manages to walk the tightrope between young and old,
exposing all ages to the most
diverse range of texts through his storytelling. He is a
member of performance company La
Voie des Livres.
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| Online
Activities |
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Live
Cooking |
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Online Bastille Day
Celebration |
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Facebook Live Series:
Le Skinny Chef |
Tuesday 14 July – 4pm-10pm
Live
on Facebook
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Thursday 16 July – 5pm
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!
Ireland-based French chef
Aymar Gourdet, also known as Le
Skinny Chef, is an award-winning
creative
food artisan and producer,
specialised in French-Irish
Fusion Cuisine. For
this Facebook Live, Aymar Gourdet will
explain and show how to prepare a truly authentic French Quiche Lorraine!
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| Live
Reading |
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Online
Activities |
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Facebook Live Series:
Oisín McGann |
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Online
Board Game
Evening |
Monday 20 July – 2pm
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!
Irish writer and illustrator Oisín
McGann will
read an excerpt from his novel Small-Minded
Giants (2006). Oisín
McGann has produced dozens of
books and short stories for readers of
all ages, including twelve novels, in a range of genres.
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Thursday 23
July – 6.30pm
Live
on Discord
Our popular Board Game Evening
is now online!
Let’s get the board game community together for a fun night open to everyone,
hosted through Discord with different virtual rooms
on board game platforms.
With
family, friends or solo, you can challenge
yourself to "Carcassone",
"Six qui prend",
"Les Colons de Catane",
"Risk", “Saboteur”, “Tarot”, “Exploding Kittens”, "Code Names", "Dixit, track
down the "Loup-Garous de
Thiercelieux", or collaborate to create a splendid "Hanabi".
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| Online
French Courses for Adults |
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From 27 July – 8-week term with classes once or
twice a week
New online
General
French courses, Conversational Courses, Refresher classes, and Specialised Workshops are available
in groups for adults
of all ages and abilities
morning and evening times once or twice a week from
Monday to
Friday for 8 weeks (27 July – 18
September).
Fill
in this form
to start your free
placement test.
You don't need an assessment if you are
a complete
beginner or if you are a returning
student, you
can enrol
directly online. If you
are not interested in group classes, Private Tuition is available at
the day and time of your choice.
You only need an internet connection, a
smartphone or a computer with a
camera. The interface is
user-friendly and we are here to walk you
through everything! We have
teamed up with one of the finest
Learning Management Systems, the French
e-learning platform Apolearn,
which not only allows
for creation and administration of a full training program but also
provides a
Virtual
Classroom using the
videoconferencing service Zoom. |
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| Live Reading |
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Online
Screening |
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Facebook Live Series:
Cécile
Palusinski |
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Online Cinéclub:
Alice et le Maire |
Monday 27 July – 2pm
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,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
French writer Cécile Palusinski will
read excerpts from her first novel C'est un cas
(Artistfolio). The novel values diversity
and was inspired by her meeting with the visual artist Flore Sigrist.
Cécile Palusinski is president of the association La
Plume de
Paon and founder of Numered
Conseil. She has published several children's books and
novels,
as well as an essay at PUF. She is particularly interested in the ties
between literature and
painting and the theme of identity.
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Thursday 30 July – 6pm
Live on Zoom
Join
us on Zoom every last Thursday of
the month for a special
free screening of one of our favourite films.
We'll start with a few words and then stream the film directly
on Zoom through screenshare. It will
be just like old times – except we won't
be able
to offer you that glass of wine!
For this 3rd
online edition, we have selected the bright and stylish French
comedy-drama Alice
et le Maire
(Alice & the Mayor,
2019)
directed by Nicolas
Pariser and
starring Anaïs Demoustier and
Fabrice
Luchini. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section
at the 2019 Cannes Film
Festival, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film.
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