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September 2018
#146
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The Summer of 2018 will long be remembered:
Temperatures which prompted many to enjoy
the pleasure of the beach as if they were
under much southerly latitudes, a beautiful
victory for “Les Bleus”, and for Alliance
Française Dublin, a record attendance to our
programmes, in classrooms now all equipped
with digital devices and all connected to
WiFi.
Autumn is just around the corner, and it is
back to school time. The Alliance Française
Dublin team invites you to discover what
there is in store for this new academic year
with two Open Days: a regular Open Day on
Saturday September 15, and a Family oriented
Open Day on Saturday, September 8. We look
forward to meeting you on both days, or/and
at our Cinéclub season which will open with
the mother of all French comedies for all
ages to (re)discover: La Grande
Vadrouille, on September 27th.
Bonne Rentrée et à bientôt!
Thierry Lagnau, Directeur
de l’Alliance Française de Dublin / Délégué général de l’Alliance Française
en Irlande,
tlagnau@alliance-francaise.ie
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Special Event |
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Alliance Française
Family Open Day 2018 |
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Alliance Française
Open Day 2018 |
Saturday 8 September
from
11am to 5pm
– Admission free
To
celebrate our new curriculum and timetable
for children & teenagers fully aligned with
the Irish
Primary & Secondary Schools calendar we are
organising a very special Family Open Day!
We
will have a Children's Show (storytelling
and live drawing with Compagnie Troll), French courses samples,
various workshops at the
French Library,
face painting, balloon modelling,
free French pastry, goodies and
competitions! Information will be available
on our new term starting from September 17th
and the various events and activities
planned for the year 2018-19.
Toddlers, children, teenagers
and their parents are welcome, admission is
free and no booking is required!
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Saturday 15 September
from
11am to 5pm
– Admission free
We
are organising an Open Day to give you
the opportunity to meet our staff and learn
about our courses and events for 2018/2019.
It may be just the thing you’re looking for to
kick-start your French, so don’t be shy!
Visit our
listed building and our state-of-the-art
Multimedia Library, find out about
the various activities
at the Alliance Française
– French courses, specialised tuition,
workshops, diplomas, cultural events,
memberships and more – get a free assessment
of your level and needs in the French language,
and then relax with a
complimentary coffee and croissant in our
French café La
Cocotte!
We'll also have free goodies,
discounted tickets for the
National Gallery of
Ireland,
competitions to win French courses
and Memberships!
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New French courses |
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New French courses |
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15-week term from September 17th
These courses are
designed as a complement
to classes attended at secondary school.
They provide a diversification and broadening
of the language in an interactive way.
Teachers focus on interests and topics relevant
to the participants as well as the requirements
of the syllabus.
The Alliance Française employs and trains the
best native French teachers in Ireland.
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contrast to most Irish institutes we take no
more than 15 students
per group
to ensure the
best learning experience for
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New French courses |
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New French courses |
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15-week term from September 17th
Through
lively and stimulating activities, children of primary
school age build up a broad and lasting knowledge of
the French language. Classes closely follow children's
development and abilities. Our teachers are all
native French speakers and experienced in working
with children.
Our
communicative approach ensures that every child is given
ample opportunity to actually speak French.
General French classes for
all levels and
bilingual courses are
available.
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15-week term from September 17th
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.
Classes are
are
limited to 8 children
and divided into
4 different age groups:
12-24 months (APP1), 2 years
(APP2),
3 years
(APP3),
4 years
(APP4), plus a bilingual groups (Mini
Bilingues).
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Exhibition |
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Reading & Live Music |
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Street Art by
DACO |
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"Sentez-vous livres"
with Alcaz |
Until 2 October
Admission free
For the past 20
years, French Street Artist
DACO
has developed his own unique visual identity, which has matured from a
classic style to WildStyle, a more complex lettering.
His work is mainly displayed on abandoned factories and Paris’ street walls,
but he has also produced work in various countries around the world, including
Taiwan, Switzerland, Spain, Chile and Sri Lanka.
Come and discover his latest project Graffaune, a series of
graffiti composed of geometrical wild animals, specially created for
Alliance Française Cork and
Alliance Française Dublin.
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Thursday 20 September – 6pm
Admission free
Literature and
music lovers are invited to an intimate evening of
reading and live performance. Come along with your
favourite book, pop your name into a hat, sit
comfortably and enjoy...
The French folk/pop duo
Alcaz will read
passages selected by the audience and illustrate them with
songs from their huge repertoire.
Audience participation is encouraged and If you wish,
you can read your text yourself and share what it means to
you.
The band will also play a festive set at Culture
Night the following day.
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Special Event
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Culture Night 2018 at the
Alliance Française |
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Friday 21 September from 6pm
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Admission free
From 6pm to 8pm:
Multimedia Treasure Hunt at
The French
Library!
Bring your team (all ages welcome)
and look around the library to find
the treasure! Goodies to be won
for the finishers, and a special
Premium Membership for the
winner of the raffle! The
hunt will be in English with a
hint of French, and is suitable
for non-French speakers.
From 8pm to 10pm:
Now a highlight of Culture Night,
our festive live concert will
this year give the floor to the
French folk/pop duo
Alcaz
from Marseilles. Vyviann Susan
and Jean-Yves Liévaux
have two fantastic voices
that playfully fuse over two
guitars and percussion from
all around the world! A concert
that is sure to be lively,
unpretentious and very
entertaining!
Throughout the evening:
Our restaurant La
Cocotte
will be open throughout the evening
to mark at the same time the Fête
de la Gastronomie and
to give
you the opportunity to taste some
delicious French food on sale only
on the night! |
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Choir |
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Join the Alliance Française
Dublin's Choir! |
Every Wednesday
12.45pm-2pm from 26 September
€40 for a full
8-week term / €5 per session
The Choir of the Alliance
Francaise Dublin is looking for new
members! This year the Choir
is celebrating its 10th anniversary
and you are cordially invited to
join its ranks! Each year
participants work under the
direction of professional teacher
Lucie O'Flynn towards a
Christmas Concert held in early
December and a Summer Concert
held in May. The workshop is open
to everyone, student or not, no
matter their level, French speakers
and non-speakers alike. |
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IFI French
Film Club:
Faces Places |
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An evening with Paul Lynch
Le Voyage Littéraire |
Tuesday 25 September –
6.30pm
€9.50 / €7.50 AF & IFI Members
The indefatigable
Agnès Varda, octogenarian and treasure of world cinema, teams up with the
mysterious street artist JR in the delightful Faces Places,
an Oscar-nominated docu-travelogue that sees the irresistibly
incongruent duo embark on a quest to honour the faces and places of rural
France.
The screening is part of an exciting
Agnès Varda Season celebrating the
multi-faceted works of the pre-eminent filmmaker who recently won the
Honorary Academy Award.
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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Wednesday 26 September – 6.30pm
Admission free
With his latest
novel Grace soon to be published in French, the Alliance Française
is proud to host a bilingual event with Irish writer
Paul
Lynch.
Specialised in linking travel to literature, the French association
Le Voyage Littéraire will take this
opportunity to chair a literary conversation with one of the finest talents
among the new generation of Irish writers, whose novels take a uniquely
fresh look at Irish History.
Paul Lynch
will be interviewed by Séverine Gillet, Director of the association Le
Voyage Littéraire.
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Cinéclub:
La Grande Vadrouille |
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Roderic O’Conor
and the Moderns |
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Thursday 27
September – 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 box-office
hits in French cinema history,
preceded by an
informal presentation with a free glass of wine!
This month, (re)discover a restored version of the
1966 French classic comedy film La Grande Vadrouille
starring the legendary duo Bourvil / Louis de Funès
under the direction of Gérard Oury for the
second time after the smash success of Le
Corniaud.
La Grande Vadrouille was the most successful French
film in France for over 40 years, topping the box office
with over 17million cinema admissions.
The Cinéclub is
free for AF Premium Members.
Win
tickets on our Twitter!
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Until
October 2018
€10
– €15
Enrol
during our Open Day and you will get
complementary voucher for the
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns, Between
Paris and Pont-Aven exhibition at
the
National Gallery of
Ireland!
Don't miss this unique opportunity to
see the works of one of the unsung
masters of Irish painting, and one of
Ireland's main contributors to the
revolution in European Art in the late
19th century. This exhibition examines
Roderic O'Conor's evolution from
impressionism to his signature
expressionist style, but also places his
work side-by-side with that of the artists
with whom he connected and collaborated
while in France, including
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seguin,
Befan, and Amiet.
National Gallery of
Ireland, Dublin 2
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