November 2014
#99

My name is Cyrielle, having recently joined the AF team as Exams Officer, my mission will be to promote and develop French certifications in Ireland. Nowadays, a diploma in a foreign language can open doors to a wide range of career options and further educational opportunities worldwide. So register this month for the internationally recognized DELF exam, scheduled for January 2015!
Don’t miss the many other big events this November: the start of the second Term of the academic year, the 15th French Film Festival and the much-loved Beaujolais Nouveau party!

Cyrielle Thimis, Exams & Certification Officer, cthimis@alliance-francaise.ie

3, 4, 5 & 10, 11, 12 November
From 5.00 to 7.00pm – Admission free

The Halloween Term is open to both former and new students. General French courses, conversation courses, cultural workshops,  business French, legal French and preparation for exams for adults, teenagers', children's and toddlers' courses are available all day from Monday to Saturday.

Assessments are free of charge and no appointment is required. You don't need an assessment if you are a complete beginner or if you are already a student with the Alliance, you can enrol directly online.

The Timetable & Fees Brochure can be downloaded here.

Tuesday 4 November – 8.30pm
Admission free (Booking essential)

The EUNIC Ireland cluster is pleased to invite you to the screening of seven short films presented by the Alliance Francaise, the Austrian Embassy, the British Council, the Embassy of Greece, the Goethe-Institut, the Instituto Cervantes, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Embassy of Romania and the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Come and vote for your favorite film and try your luck at winning a special prize! The short films will also be presented at the Cork Film Festival Saturday 8 November at 5pm in the Gate Cinema.

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar

If you are a student who wants to sit an exam in January 2015 please contact your teacher. If you are an external candidate please contact the Cultural Service of the French Embassy

The exams you can sit in January 2015 are:

- DELF A1 / A2 / B1 / B2
Description | Timetable
Registration Form | Sample papers
- DELF Junior (for Secondary Schools)
- DELF Prim (for Primary Schools)

More information on our exams

Wednesday 12 November – 6.30pm
Admission free (Booking essential)

Commemorations of the Centenary of the Great War are well under way but what perspectives are emerging?
Why do they vary from country to country?
And are they adequate for portraying the real nature of a war that was global rather than national?

Pr John Horne (Director of the Centre for War Studies, Department of History, Trinity College) will address these questions and debate them with the audience.

Talk in French, Q&A in English and French

With the aid of the teacher helped by her adorable puppet, toddlers will discover or rediscover some of the most child-beloved fairy tales through songs, arts & crafts and games designed especially for them! Toddlers and parents are invited to join this event which aims to deepen the parent-child bond through French.

To celebrate the International Day of Children’s Rights, the Alliance Francaise offers you this special workshop “Les enfants du Monde”. Participants will be involved in the creation of a fresco to represent their definition of what is important to children in our world today.

This special workshop will focus on the use of the two tenses of the past that students usually have problems mastering. Teenagers from 5th year and LC will be offered an explanation and will practise through various activities! Revisions of the structures of the Passé Composé et the Imparfait is advised before the workshop.

Thursday 13 November – 5- 8pm
€40 / €30 AF Members - Book Online

This workshop dedicated to all teachers of French will focus on the introduction of phonetics in class.
After a definition of what is “phonetics”, trainees will be working on activities they can use in class to help their student improving their pronunciation of French.

The workshop is led by Mickaël Lenglet, Pedagogical Adviser in the Alliance Francaise Dublin.

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Admission free - More Information

Did you know that the Alliance Française Library is the only place in Ireland to offer, all year round and for all, a wide variety of French newspapers and magazines?

Over 25 selected French subscriptions await you with a single watchword: quality and variety. From Le Canard Enchaîné to Le Point, from Les Cahiers du cinéma to L’Équipe, from Capital to Picoti, there is something for everyone on the shelves of our Presse & Débat d’idée Section.

Deadline 15 November
Contact cultural@alliance-francaise.ie

The 2015 theme for our 5th Photography Competition is: “Climat, état d'urgence (Climate, state of emergency)
Budding or professional photographers are requested to send 2 pictures relating to the climate, its evolution, the effects (real or perceived), measures taken and the possible solutions…
The winner of the contest will enter the International Photography Competition  organised by the Fondation Alliance française and be exhibited in Paris with 40 international artists. The exhibition then travels around the 800+ Alliances Françaises around the world!

Tuesday 18 November – 6pm
Admission free (Booking essential)

The Alliance Française supports the Instituto Cervantes initiative to commemorate the centenary of Platero and I, written by Juan Ramon Rimenez in 1914. What better way to celebrate than a literary reading of this work, with its poetic prose about this universal little donkey, his author and his homeland, in almost 30 languages!
The extract L’été will be read in French by Dominique Le Meur. The text will be projected in English to help attendees to follow the reading at all times.

Full programme of readings

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Thursday 20 November – 6.30pm
€15 / €12 AF Members [Register]

We celebrate as every year the arrival of the famous red wine made from the Gamay grape produced in the Beaujolais region of France. Beaujolais Nouveau is the most well-known vin de primeur, for sale on the third Thursday of each November. You will taste the first wine of the season, accompanied by a plate of cheese and charcuterie in a very French and convivial athmosphere.

Our guest of honour, Patrick Thévenet, wine producer from the Domaine des Gandelins, will present and explain all that you need to know about wine-tasting.
Entry includes a plate of charcuterie and cheese with a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau.

Monday 24 November – 6.30pm
€8.90 / €7 AF & IFI Members

This brain-teasing thriller, directed by Mathieu Amalric, recounts the destiny of Julien (Mathieu Amalric), a middle-aged salesman embroiled in a love affair with Esther (Stéphanie Cléau) who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly, Julien is caught up in a police investigation – but what happened exactly?

50 years after Georges Simenon’s novel La Chambre bleue, Mathieu Amalric proposes a contemporary cinema adaptation, selected in the “Un Certain Regard” selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar

Thursday 27 November – 8.30 pm
€10.50 / €9.50 AF & IFI Members

After their Cannes-selected first collaboration Copacabana, Marc Fitoussi reunites with Isabelle Hupert in La Ritournelle (Paris Follies) for a bittersweet melodrama.

The French actress plays Brigitte, a woman farming cattle in Normandy with her husband Xavier (Jean-Pierre Daroussin). Xavier is a down-to-earth man, but Brigitte is a dreamer who decides to leave the fields behind and leave for Paris one day when the routine of her life overwhelms her. Will Xavier manage to keep hold of his wife? How does one reinvent oneself after so many years of Ritournelle?

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar

Download French Study Guide
Also available at the French Library

The French Film Project is a partnership between the French Embassy in Ireland, the Irish Film Institute and the Arts Council, which includes an annual touring of a movie in French language along with a study guide.
The chosen film for this year’s French Film Project is Populaire, a 2012 French romantic comedy film directed by Régis Roinsard and starring Romain Duris and Déborah François.
The Populaire Study Guide, launched at the FTA Annual Conference in October, is now available at the Alliance Française Library or for for free download here.
The film will be touring in various venues in Ireland as part of the 2014 IFI Education programme.

MENU RHONES-ALPES  3 – 7 November
MENU AQUITAINE  10 – 14 November
MENU BASSE-NORMANDIE  17 – 21
November
MENU BRETAGNE  24 – 28 November

3 courses €17.90  /  Main €12.90
Starter + Main €15.90  /  Main + Dessert €14.10
10% off Students and AF Members

La Cocotte serves daily from 12am to 7pm