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June 2020
#166
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The new now is
here...Make the most of it with Alliance Française Dublin! The new now
is the opportunity for you to continue learning French online, with
improved conditions and an ever-busy over-the-phone assistance from our
dedicated team to walk you through the user-friendly technology; it is
also a new opportunity to attend AF Dublin live events: Facebook Live
scheduled sequences with artists, writers, personalities who will be –
or have been – guests of ours; and to attend our monthly Cinéclub, back
with an online format which does not allow for the glass of wine (but
you can always provide one for yourself!)
The new now
is sending your children, whether teenagers or children, to our Online
Summer camps: We have adapted the magic formula which has proved
increasingly successful over the years, and we are proud to offer a
French experience that your children will enjoy…from the safety of
your home.
The new now is
being able to avail of the physical resources of The French Library,
as of June 8,, with an online ordering protocol, and pickup and returns
at the door of the building.
We might be settling in the new
now, but the team at 1 Kildare street are busy preparing
for the next now.
In the meantime, stay home, stay safe and enjoy what we have in store
for you!
Thierry Lagnau,
Directeur de
l’Alliance Française de Dublin / Coordinateur des Alliances Françaises
en Irlande, tlagnau@alliance-francaise.ie
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French
Courses |
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Registration and placement tests for new students
are open for our new classes and Summer camps starting from
June 2nd.
Whether you are
interested in group classes / private tuition for
yourself, or looking for learning activities for your children, drop us
a line at info@alliance-francaise.ie.
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 technology of another world-class platform, the
videoconferencing service Zoom.
It
will be business as usual and
with the same dedicated team! |
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| Group Courses for Adults |
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Summer
Camps for Teenagers |
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2-week
programmes
every 2 weeks |
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Our Online Summer Courses for
teenagers are designed to complement
classes already attended at secondary school and to lay the groundwork
for the school year ahead. They provide a diversification and broadening of the
language in an interactive
and fun way, with a focus on interests and topics relevant
to the participants.
4 groups are available: Junior (for students going into
2nd and 3rd Year), Senior (for
students going into 4th, 5th and 6th year) Starter
(students going into 1st Year or complete beginners) and Bilingual.
Register
for 2 camps or more and
receive a 10% discount! |
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| Summer
Camps for Children |
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Activities
for Toddlers |
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4-week
term or
1 week every week |
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In June,
children can continue their weekly French course in an additional 4-week
term. Classes are available for 4-6, 7-9 & 10-12 year olds for all levels of
French, including bilingual.
From
July, our Online Summer Camps will
take place from Monday to Friday every week with different activities
each week designed for 4-6 year olds and 7-10 year olds. Classes will be
led
by child-friendly native-French qualified teachers. All children are
welcome, whatever their level!
Register for 2 camps or more and receive
a 10% discount!
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4-week
term
classes & modules |
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The award-winning A Petits Pas (APP) offers an
innovative programme for
toddlers and their parents which aims to enrich your
child’s intellectual
development and ability to be open to other languages and
cultures, and to deepen
the parent-child bond.
Our online
classes on Zoom are available to 4 different age
groups: 12-24
months old (APP1),
2 years old (APP2), 3/4 years old (APP3/4), plus a bilingual group (Mini
Bilingues 3/4). Classes are 15
or 30 minutes long and include online modules in
between sessions.
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| Online Workshop |
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Online Workshop |
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Au Bistro de
l'Alliance Française |
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Voyager
En France |
Every Thursday
6pm-7.30pm
6
hours over 4 weeks –
€99
We have created new
online French courses and workshops with a summery flavour !
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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Every Thursday 5.30pm-7pm
12
hours over 8 weeks –
€199
We have
created the new online
French workshop Voyager en France to help
you make the most of
your staycation this Summer!
Your
trip to France is cancelled? Let us help! Let’s explore different parts
of France together
through history,
culture
and gastronomy
while
learning the language. Dépaysement
garanti !
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| Online Screenings |
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Live Puppetry |
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French
Touch
Online Series Night |
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Facebook Live Series:
Cie
Jeux de Vilains |
Wednesday 3 June – 8pm
Live
on Zoom
London
Short Series Festival and Twisted
Mirror TV, in association with
Alliance
Française Dublin and the French
Embassy, invite you
to an exclusive online
screening of great French mini series.
This
year's screening includes the award- winning series Ratée Sans
Avenir
(Marseille Web Fest 2019) directed by Emilie, Genre Humaine
written
by Eléonore Costes and directed by Amaury Deque, and the award winning
LGBTQ series Polichinelles
(Marseille Web Fest 2019) created by
Sandra Parra and Armand Robin.
After
a few words, films will be streamed
directly on Zoom through screenshare!
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Saturday 6 June
–
11am
Live on
Facebook 
Join us every week on Facebook for our new Alliance
Française Live Broadcast Series, a short live performance
by one of our collaborators and friends. These presentations will
include reading, theatre performance,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
Cécile Hurbault from
Cie Jeux de Vilains invites us to
join her for a live event on the wonderful puppet show, Le Grand
Méchant Renard. She will discuss the adaptation process
of Benjamin Renner’s comic book, the making of the puppets,
and will perform an
excerpt from the show. La Cie Jeux de Vilains is a French company
founded in 2005 in Lailly-en-Val (45).
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| Online
Talk |
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Live
Drawing |
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Apéro Scientifique:
Science VS. Covid-19 |
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Facebook Live Series:
Kevin
McSherry |
Tuesday 9 June – 6pm
Live
on Zoom
Science stood up to
react against the pandemic,
faster than ever, never fast enough. Is this the rehearsal for crises to come? What
have we learnt to make a
difference? Join our panel
of experts from France and Ireland for a virtual
discussion in French on Zoom – this time, you’ll have
to bring your own drink!
For this edition, the moderators will be Virginie Gautier
(principal investigator, UCD Centre for Research
in Infectious Diseases), Pr
Cliona
O'Farrelly (Professor in Immunology &
Biochemistry, Trinity
College Dublin),
Darragh
Duffy (Scientist, Institut
Pasteur, LabEx Milieu Intérieur) and Dr Amélie Rouger (Postdoctoral Research
Scientist, Teagasc) along with
Marc Girod
(Software
Engineer, Salesforce).
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Thursday 11 June –
3.30pm
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
include reading,
drawing,
music,
cooking and
more!
2020 is running away from all of us. We’ll need to work hard just to
catch up and get our harvests in! Irish
illustrator Kevin
McSherry will be drawing on his imagination
to see just where the last
of the summer wine will come from…France of course!
Kevin
McSherry has been an editorial illustrator and artist
for over 25 years. His work has appeared all over the world including The Wall Street Journal.
He teaches painting in
his studio and online.
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| Online
Screening & Talk |
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Online
Activities |
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Jean-Luc Godard’s
Une femme est une femme |
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Online Board Game
Evening |
Tuesday 16 June – 6pm
Live
on Zoom
We are resuming our film-cycle Disruptive
Soundscapes that
focuses on the sound in the French
New Wave, online this time, with direct streaming on Zoom!
This
month, musicologist Dr
Laura Anderson (School of Music, UCD)
will discuss the innovative
treatment of songs and score by legendary composer Michel
Legrand in Jean-Luc
Godard’s classic Une
femme est une femme (1961). This popular New
Wave film was a
tribute as well as a reaction to the
American musical film
genre, starring
the iconic trio Anna
Karina, Jean-Paul
Belmondo and Jean-Claude
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Wednesday 17
June – 6.30pm
Live
on Discord
Our popular Board Game Evenings
is now online!
Let’s gather the board game community 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".
You can also join the Facebook group to chat and find
your future game mates!
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| Live Reading |
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Online
Cinéclub |
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Facebook Live Series:
Rob
Doyle |
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Online Cinéclub:
Chambre 212 |
Tuesday 23 June – 8pm
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
include reading,
theatre performance,
drawing,
music,
cooking
and more!
Next up, Irish writer Rob
Doyle will read excerpts from his new book Threshold. Rob
Doyle is the author of the widely
acclaimed books This Is the Ritual and
Here
Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for a forthcoming film.
His writing regularly appears in The
Guardian,
The Observer
and The Dublin Review
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Thursday 25 June – 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 2nd
online edition, we have selected the bright and stylish French comedy Chambre 212
(On a Magical Night,
2019)
directed by Christophe
Honoré and starring Chiara
Mastroianni who won the award for Best Performance the 2019 Cannes Film
Festival. This the online
premiere in Ireland where it was only screened at the 2020
Dublin International Film Festival.
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Cultural Activities |
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says you can't go out when there are so many
services on the Internet that will whisk you away to different places?
Here is a short
selection of some of our
favourite platforms and curated links for free
reading,
watching,
listening,
exploring,
dreaming
with the
French
culture
to escape the confinement! Select your
online activity: |
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