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October 2019
#158
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“Chez Max” meets “Alliance Française Dublin” at 1 Kildare street : A match made
in heaven!
Come discover this new venue, come discover the new menu, and don’t forget your
shopping bag, as there will be plenty of delicious treats from France to buy on
the premises including coquillettes, Carambar, cassoulet, sirop, to name but a few.
With
“Chez Max” nourishing the body, Alliance Française Dublin will of course
continue to feed the mind and the soul: Our programme for October is packed with free
cultural events, while les Joutes Oratoires will resume for their 30th edition,
registration for the November DEFL/DALF exams will be open until October 25, and
The French Library staff will de happy to walk you through their many “nouveautés”.
Thierry Lagnau, Directeur
de l’Alliance Française de Dublin / Coordinateur des Alliances Françaises
en Irlande,
tlagnau@alliance-francaise.ie |
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Special Event |
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Autumn Term for
all ages and abilities |
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French Assistants
Induction Course |
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3-4 October
More
Information
Every year, 70
French language assistants
come to Ireland and are posted around the country
to secondary schools to support French
teachers and share their culture and language
with young Irish students. Meanwhile, 40
Irish students are taking up the role
of English assistants in French primary
and secondary schools.
To help support our French language assistants, the
Department of Education
and Skills and the
French Embassy
with the
Belgian Embassy
will be holding an induction and training course
in various venues including the
Alliance Française,
with the
official launch in the
French Library
on October 3rd and workshops on
October 4th.
We wish them a fruitful year in their schools! |
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Games |
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Book Launch / Talk |
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The French
Library's
Board Game Evening |
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"Caribbean Winter"
Translating Paul Morand |
Tuesday 1 October – 7pm
Admission free
The French Library is launching a new event
this month : Board Game Evening!
With family,
friends or solo, you can challenge yourself to "Carcassone", "Star
Realms", "Les aventuriers du rail", "Azul" or "Code Names",
collaborate to overcome "The Game" or create a splendid "Hanabi",
or break through the secrets of "Mysterium". If you would like to
share your favourite game, bring it with you!
A game of "Loup-Garous" will be on as well after its huge success this
Summer.
Open to
everyone, all levels of French welcome.
Booking is required.
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Thursday 3 October – 5.30pm
Admission free
Prof. Michael Cronin (TCD)
will be in
conversation with Prof. Mary
Gallagher (UCD) on
translating Paul Morand.
For J.-M G. Le Clézio, Hiver
caraïbe (1929) by the
controversial, hyper-European Paul
Morand (1888-1976) is “an important
work […] from an independent,
non-conformist mind”. The stylish
writing fizzes with vivid travel
impressions and with thoughts on
Europe’s shifting place in
what can now be seen as a profoundly
racist, colonialist world order.
And, since Paul Morand explicitly
identifies migration and
miscegenation as the greatest
threats to Europe, his book is a
crucial, if cautionary read for
our own troubled times. That topical
dimension adds greatly to the
aesthetic and intellectual
stimulation provided by the
exuberant writing.
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Concert / Competition |
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Screening / Talk |
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"Berlioz
Fantastique"
National Concert Hall |
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French New Wave
Cycle: "Les Cousins" |
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Tuesday 8 October – 6.30pm
Admission free
Alliance Française Dublin
with musicologist
Dr Laura Anderson is organising a
3-movie-cycle called "Disruptive Soundscapes" that will focus this
year on the sound in the French New Wave.
The first film of
the season is Les Cousins (1959), one of the
earliest French New Wave masterpieces which brought its director Claude
Chabrol to critical attention and wide acclaim along with Le Beau
Serge (1958).
In her
post-screening talk, Dr Anderson will situate the soundtrack for
Les Cousins in relation to French New Wave film music and will
discuss the film’s use of original music by Paul Misraki alongside
extensive employment of pre-existing classical music, most notably from Wagner.
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Network |
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Debating Competition |
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Alliance Française Irish Network Training |
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Les
Joutes Oratoires
Debating Competition |
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Monday
14 October
– 6.30pm
Admission free
This competition, open to students in
secondary schools in Ireland, has been
organised under the auspices of
Alliance Française
Dublin since 1990 with a view to
enhancing students’ oral
learning skills
through a structured system of debates
in the French language.
32
Irish schools will
take part in the debating competition this
year. The battle
of wits will
start on Monday 14 October with teams
from St Declan’s, Tullamore
College, Manor House School and
Hansfield Educate Together competing on the motion
"le programme du Leaving Cert est surchargé".
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Teachers' Training |
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Screening / Talk |
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Animer
une situation globale en classe |
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Paname,
the ghost
of the Great Frenchman |
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Tuesday 15 October – 5.30-7.30pm
Admission free
In
this new workshop, we will look at the concept
of "global simulation", a pedagogical
tool that offers a fictitious framework
conducive to the realisation of social actions.
The fact that the activities have meaning,
are coherent and are aimed at the
realisation of a common project
contributes greatly to the commitment of
the learners.
We will see how to set up an overall
simulation with your classes to create a
developing project over several weeks.
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workshop will be led by Gaële Mordelet,
Course Director at
Alliance Française Dublin.
Places are limited, so be sure to
book early! |
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Thursday 17 October – 6.30pm
Admission free
Alliance Française Dublin is pleased to welcome
the screening of the documentary Paname,
the ghost of the Great Frenchman
directed by Daniel Zapateiro.
In 1879, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps,
creator of the Suez Canal and
co-founder of the Alliance Française,
embarked on the pharaonic project of the
Panama Canal. But very quickly the attempt
was foiled by epidemics, design flaws
and financial scandals.
In the presence of a descendant of Ferdinand
de Lesseps. |
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Readings |
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Screening / Competition |
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80
Minutes with
Seamus Heaney |
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IFI
French Film Club:
"Non-Fiction" |
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Saturday 19 October – 2pm
Admission free
To
mark the year that would have been his 80th
birthday,
Alliance Française Dublin,
Le Cercle Français de
Belfast and the
National Library of
Ireland are proud to present an
evocation by Jim Holland of his friendship
with the poet through anecdotes and readings
of early poems in English and French.
Introductions and reading of poems in English by
Jim Holland and versions in French by
special readers Maryvonne LeRoy,
Claudine McKeown, Allison Neill-Rabaux,
and
Chris Tracey.
The event will be launched by the President of
Alliance Française Dubin Mr Pat Cox.
National Library of
Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2 |
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Monday
21
October
– 6.15pm
€11.50 / €8.50
AF & IFI Members
The
first French Film Club of the season
is a 2018 French comedy film Non-Fiction
(Doubles vies) directed by Olivier
Assayas. and starring Guillaume
Canet, Juliette Binoche, and
Vincent Macaigne.
Non-Fiction is a wry, slyly seductive
tale of sex, lies, and literature,
balancing dry wit with keen observations
on the tensions between art, commerce,
and technology, A breezy delight from a
master director at his most
effortlessly brilliant.
As always,
Alliance Française Members get a 20% discount and
free tickets on
our
Twitter!
Irish Film Institute,
6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2
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Special Event |
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Certification |
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The
French Library's
Sieste Musicale |
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Internationally
recognised Diplomas in French |
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Tuesday 29 October – 6pm
Admission free
The
Sieste Musicale is a one-hour auditory
experience where you get to listen to music
in a comfortable environment. For the occasion,
The French Library is bathed in subdued
lights and furnished with carpets,
bean bags, comfy chairs and
blankets.
A
unique occasion to dream, maybe sleep,
and to get fully energized again!
This
month we will travel through different times
and styles, with and eclectic one hour
playlist showing the best of French music! |
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School Holiday Workshops |
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Alliance Française Halloween
School Holiday Camps |
Children 29 October -
1
November
from 9am to 1pm (16 hours)
4-6 years old
7-10 years old
Learn and play in French: Arts & crafts,
songs, games, and many more
spooky activities!
The classes will be led by qualified and
child-friendly, Garda-vetted French-native teachers
and will take place both in our dedicated
room and in the Children's
Corner of the
French Library.
All children between 4-6 and 7-10 years old
are welcome, whatever their
level!
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Teenagers
29 October -
1
November
from 1pm to 4pm (12 hours)
Junior Cycle
Leaving Cycle
Every school holiday, the Alliance Française
organises intensive courses for Junior &
Leaving Cycles students preparing
to sit their French Oral and written examination
that year. While we try to keep this holiday
programme as lively and fun as
possible, its content is directly designed
to meet the requirements of the syllabus
and includes a mock exam!
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Talk |
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Screening / Competition |
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Fleming's France:
James Bond, a French Passion |
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Halloween Cinéclub:
"Les yeux sans visage" |
Wednesday 30 October – 6.30pm
Admission free
With two stories set entirely on
French soil and more than 1,000
references to France, it is clear
that France plays an integral
role in the James Bond series.
Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix’s book
Fleming's France: James Bond,
a French Passion offers a fresh and unique
perspective on the success of the
James Bond novels; Lombarteix sheds
light on Fleming’s body of work
through his examination into the
essential role that France played
throughout the life of Ian Fleming.
Offering a comprehensive insight
into the Bond series, Pierre-Olivier Lombarteix also looks into novels
published after Ian Fleming’s death,
as well as other
fictionalisations and film
adaptations.
Jean-Michel Picard, professor
emeritus in the UCD School of
Languages, Culture and Linguistics,
will host the presentation.
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Thursday
31 October
– 7.40pm
€5 with a free glass of wine / Free for Premium Members
Join us every month for a subtitled
screening of one of the most popular film in French cinema
history, preceded by an informal
presentation with a free glass of wine!
This month for Halloween,
(re)discover the 1960 timeless classic Les yeux sans visage (Eyes
without a face)
directed by revered documentarist and
Cinémathèque Française founder Georges Franju.
Chillingly horrific yet classically poetic,
Les yeux sans visage
disturbed audiences upon its release the way Psycho
and Peeping Tom did in America and Britain. The surrealistic
mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical has been a major influence on
the horror genre. The Cinéclub is free for AF Premium
Members. Win
tickets on our Twitter!
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