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Édito
Thank you for coming in such great numbers to our
Franco-Irish Literary Festival,
where many of you said it was the best edition ever. It was
certainly a huge success!
En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît ! In line with this famous
French proverb we have a packed calendar of events coming up
this month to satisfy your eclectic tastes and if you missed the
launch of our 2nd AF photo award exhibition don’t forget to come
and vote for your favourite artist!
A bientôt !
Claire Bourgeois
Directrice AF Dublin |
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2nd PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD: Darek Fortas /
Sabina Mac Mahon
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Dara
McGrath /
Miriam O’Connor
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A PETITS PAS CONTES
TODDLERS WORKSHOP |
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Exhibition.
Four artists were
shortlisted to exhibit for the second Alliance
Française photography exhibition:
Darek Fortas
is an
image maker based in Dublin. He graduated from
Photography BA (Hons) at Dublin Institute of Technology
with a First Class Honours Degree and a DIT Medal. His
research interests include politics, aesthetics,
distribution of power in the state and role of
photographic image allied to Jacques Rancière’s notion
of dissensus.
Sabina Mac Mahon
was
graduated from the NCAD, Dublin with a joint honours
degree in History of Art and Fine Art (Painting) in
2008. Her work investigates and re-imagines the life of
St. Denis, the patron saint of Paris, diabolical
possession and headaches.
Dara
McGrath
The central concern of his photographs lies in
transitional spaces, those in-between places where
architecture, landscape and the built environment often
intersect, and where a dialogue – of absence rather than
presence – is created.
Miriam O’Connor
draws
inspiration from everyday life and vernacular
experiences, frequently probing the role of photography
in this context.
In the series, The Misbehaving Camera, some element of
slippage is conjured up, thought to have materialized
within the camera, prompting the primary shooting modes
to act up, become hesitant and uncertain of their
purpose.
New this year,
the public can vote for his/her favourite artist
by using the ballot provided and bringing it at AF
reception desk for validation until June 12. The
AF Gallery committee will take the public vote
into account when making their choice and
results will be announced on June
13.
Admission Free.
With
the kind support of
Ireland Fund of France
and
Centre Culturel Irlandais
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Toddlers Workshops.
This month Fairy Tale is Le petit bonhomme de pain
d’épice. The story tells of a
Gingerbread Man
escape from various pursuers and his eventual demise
between the jaws of a fox.
A Petits Pas Contes takes place on the
first Wednesday of each month. Toddlers and parents
are invited to join this event which aims to deepen the
parent-child bond through French.
With the aid of the teacher helped by her
adorable puppet, Bob,
toddlers will discover or rediscover some of the
best-loved fairy tales through
songs, arts &
crafts and
games
designed especially for them!
Wednesday 2
May
3.30pm to 4.45pm
€15/ €10 AF
Members
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Gallery Opening
Hours: Monday to Thursday: 8.30am-6.30pm
Friday: 8.30am-5pm / Saturday 8.30am-2pm |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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FRENCH TEACHERS
WORKSHOP |
EN AVANT
LA MUSIQUE ! |
SOIRÉE ÉLECTORALE
ELECTION NIGHT |
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Workshop.
Learning a language is not
just a question of words and grammar. The first
contact a learner has with a language is its
music and
rhythm. This
event will introduce trainees to
activities they
can lead when teaching children and young teenagers,
to help them to develop their listening and
speaking skills. They will do this through
traditional songs, classical music and other
activities to focus on the syllables in French.
The workshop will be led by
Mickaël Lenglet, Children's &
Teenagers’ Programme Co-ordinator in the AF and
Sandy Lenglet,
who teaches music in crèches and primary schools in
France.
Friday 4 May
5.00pm to 7.00pm
€15/ €10 AF
Members
Online Booking |
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Workshop.
This workshop will introduce children to the
world of music and rhythm through a form of
traditional music
well known in the north of France Le Roucki Zoucki.
Originally from polish folklore, this music and its dance are
taught in every school and performed by children and adults in
every celebration.
This workshop will be led by
Sandy Lenglet who teaches music in primary schools
and crèches in France.
For children aged 6-11
Saturday
5 May
12.15pm to 1.30pm
€15/ €10 AF
Members
Online Booking |
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Special Event. Many of
our French colleagues will be watching the 2012 French
Presidential Election from Ireland, and therefore the
Ireland France Chamber of Commerce
had the idea of booking a cool venue so that we can watch
the results together!
Gather for drinks, discussions and results
analysis at the back of the 1st floor of
Café en Seine from
6.30pm.
RSVP to
info@irelandfrance.com by
Friday 4 May if you wish to attend this meeting – just to
have an idea of numbers. Please note that this is an
informal gathering, and that each person will be
responsible for their own drinks. If you are in Dublin, and
wish to join us, we would be delighted. The more the
merrier!
Sunday 6 May at 6.30pm
Admission Free |
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Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Café en
Seine
39-40 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 |
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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BOARD GAMES
EVENING |
BOHEMIANS: ET CE
CHANT DANS MON COEUR |
WORDS ON THE STREET
LITERATURE NIGHT 2012 |
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Games. Discover, or
re-discover,
games in French such as
Pictionary, Tabou, Cranium and many
more!
This month we are going to discover a game called
L’île Interdite. It is
a cooperative game : the players have to help each
other to find the four treasures on the island.
The games will be adapted so
that they are
accessible to all learners of French,
whatever their level.
It will be an opportunity to
speak
French
but also to
discuss French-language culture
(film, literature,
history and current affairs) through the game.
The evening is open to adult members of the Alliance Française.
Wednesday 9
May
from 7.30pm to 9pm
Admission
free
AF Members only RSVP:
library@alliance-francaise.ie
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Exhibitions.
To coincide with
Dublin Dance Festival,
the Alliance Française, in partnership with
Dr. Deirdre Mulrooney and Padraic E
Moore in partnership with the Alliance
Française, present
Bohemians: Et ce chant dans mon coeur an
exhibition of poetry (bilingual in French and English),
written by dancer
Jacqueline Robinson,
and illustrated by Basil
Rakoszi, founder of the White Stag Art
Group.
This
exhibition of rare 1971 prints is in memory of
Ireland’s first modern dancer, the recently deceased
June Kuhn (née Fryer), with whom
Jacqueline Robinson trained and performed.
Liam
O’Leary’s rare
1943 short film Dance School featuring
Modern Dance Pioneer Erina Brady and her little
Irish School of Dance Art pupils will also be screened
alongside photographs of Brady’s 1940’s choreographies.
9 – 30 May
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Special
Event.
Literature Night
will take place in various cities including Dublin on
16 May. It promotes European cultural heritage
by presenting different writers, both well-known authors
and newcomers, to the broader European public.
Literature Night Dublin 2012
is a partnership between
Dublin, UNESCO City of Literature
and the
EUNIC cluster in
Dublin.
Every participating country is represented by a
translated piece of a first novel, poem or
short story, read by well known Irish people at
various unusual places
(churches, museums, pubs or
cafes). The public is provided with a map of the
readings and venues.
The award winning journalist
Donal MacIntyre will, throughout the evening,
repeat the reading of an extract from the French writer
Alexis Jenni’s
L’art francais de la guerre, winner of the
Prix Goncourt 2011.
Wednesday 16 May
First reading at 6.30pm
then every 30 minutes until 9pm |
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Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
European Union
House
18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 |
The Gutter Bookshop
Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 |
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MEMBER OF THE MONTH
CLIONA McGOWAN |
DERNIERS ARRIVAGES
LATEST ADDITIONS |
LA COCOTTE
WEEKLY SPECIALS |
What do you do in Dublin?
I started
working as the Director of the
Ireland France Chamber of Commerce
in 2008. The Chamber recruited me to manage and lead the
development of a series of informative and networking
events and the delivery of services to enhance trade
between Ireland and France. We organise also a number of
events in partnership with Alliance Française each year,
and this allows us to bring more of the French culture
to our business community.
What is it about the AF that you
really like? I have had several
opportunities to work closely with Alliance Française
Dublin, and I must say that first and foremost, it is
the wonderful staff that shines through! I love to go
into “La Cocotte” for lunch, the place has a real bistro
feeling to it!
What aspect of French
culture do you most enjoy?
Sitting at a street café, drinking strong coffee or
sipping on an aperitif, and watching the world go by. I
enjoy watching the fashion that passes by.
What do you hate about France or
French culture?
That is a difficult question. Perhaps I can
mention that sometimes I find the formal hierarchical
structures we come across in French organi-sations a
challenge, as it is quite the opposite to the way of
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Livres
audio
Léo Lamarche
Rémi et
Juliette
Annie
Coutelle
Le blog de
Maïa
Charles
Perrault
Contes
Adam Roy
Le
prisonnier
du temps
Hector Malot
Sans famille
Henri Lebrun
Nico et
le village
maudit
Bande-dessinées
Arleston,
Latil &
Labrosse
Moréa
(T1-T4)
Maryse & JF
Charles
India Dreams
Morvan &
Munuera
L’homme qui
ne voulait
pas mourir
(Spirou
& Fantasio
T48)
Aymond & Van
Hamme
Lady S.
Hermann &
Van Hamme
Lune de
guerre
Erik Arnoux
Sophaletta
Romans
Mathias
Enard
L’alcool et
la nostalgie
Tonino
Benacquista
Homo Erectus
Jean-Pierre
Martin
Les liaisons
ferroviaires
Julien
Campredon
Brûlons tous
ces punks
pour l’amour
des elfes
Antoine
Choplin
Le héron de
Guernica
Spring Opening Hours:
Monday: 12.30pm -
7.30pm
Tuesday-Thursday: 10am - 7.30pm
Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 2.00pm
www.alliance-francaise.ie/library
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Café.
La Cocotte continues its
acclaimed
Tour de France:
MENU
PARIS
30 April - 4 May
Salade parisienne
Bœuf a la ficelle
Dessert au choix
MENU
NICE
8 -11 May
Pissaladiere
Poulet nicois, polenta
Dessert au choix
MENU
REUNION
14 - 18 May
Accras de cabillaud
Colombo de porc, riz basmati
Dessert au choix
MENU
BASQUE
21 - 25 May
Salade de haricots et pois
chiches
Marmitako
Dessert au choix
MENU CHARENTES
28 May - 1st June
Salade de moules et patates
Choux farci et riz
Dessert au choix
3 courses:
€16.90
€15.21 for AF members
Starter + main course:
€14.90
€13.41 for AF members
Main
course + dessert: €13.50
€12.15 for AF
members
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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ANNE PÉPIN
GENDER & SCIENCE |
ASSESSMENTS
FOR SUMMER TERM |
LINK CULTUREFEST
24-27 MAY |
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Talk.
Anne Pépin is a
senior researcher at CNRS, specialized in
nanotechnology and
micro-fluidics.
She has been a scientific advisor at the
Mission pour la place des femmes
au CNRS since 2006 initiated a comparative study on
actions developed in USA and Canada to
attract, retain and advance women in science and engineering.
She is currently the local CNRS coordinator for the European
Commission FP7-funded
INTEGER project
(INstitutional Transformation for Effecting Gender
Equality in Research)
which also involves Trinity College Dublin.
In collaboration with the
Cultural and Scientific Service of the
French Embassy in Ireland
Anne Pépin
will present her research at the Alliance
Française with a talk entitled
Gender and Science: is the French CNRS a frontrunner ?
Talk in French /
slides in English /
Q&A French and English
Monday 21 May at 6.30pm
Admission Free
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Courses. The
Summer Term will begin on
June 5th. It is open to both former and new
students.
More General French and conversation
courses are available during the day over two
intensive weeks, every two weeks, and evening time
for a whole term of 8 weeks.
Our next
assessments will
take place from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on the following
dates:
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Monday 28 |
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Tuesday 22 |
Tuesday 29 |
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Wednesday 23 |
Wednesday 30 |
Assessments are free of charge and no booking
is required. Please note that 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.
Download Summer Timetable
For more information contact us at:
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Festivak.
From May 24th to the
27th,
Block T
will launch
LINK Culturefest
weekend to showcase the
life, culture, art and people that
reflect the diversity that exists in the North West
Central Dublin area:
New Art
Studios, Market Studios, D.ploy /
bio.space 033, Ormond Studios, Brunswick
Mill Studios, Sun Studios,
The Chancery Studios, Visual Arts Centre (studios),
The Joinery, The Little Green Street Gallery,
Supafast Building
and
Block T.
These art spaces will
highlight the
immense creativity
and potential of a
historical and culturally significant area of Dublin.
There will be a collection of diverse and exciting
events during the weekend of the
LINK Culturefest
that will be
concentrated in a specific area of Dublin. From France,
the 2 directors of the
Château de Servières
and
11 artists will
be participating in this festival
with support of the
Cultural and Scientific Service of
the French Embassy in Ireland
24 - 27
May 2012
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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Smithfield Square, Dublin 7 |
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LA MER ET LE
SILENCE
PETER CUNNINGHAM |
PAUL LINSDAY's
BEFORE THE FLOOD: TUVALU |
IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB
CAFÉ DE FLORE |
Book Launch. The Alliance Française is
very pleased to launch La
mer et le silence a translation of the
book originally published by New Island in 2008 which
received such
positive reviews both here and in France.
The distinguished Irish poet and novelist
Mary O'Donnell -
currently writer in residence at the
Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris
- will introduce the book and
Peter Cunningham
will also read some extracts.
Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s
newly-won independence and through the class and land
issues that once defined Irish society, The Sea
and the Silence is an epic love story set amid
the fading grandeur of the Anglo-Irish class.
La mer et le silence
will be available for sale and signature,
along with the original English publication, at the book
launch.
Thursday 24 May at 6.30pm
Admission Free
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Screening.
Part
of the series
Climate.
Culture. Change.
2012
highlighting the
social dimension
of
climate
change.
Tuvalu,
an Island in the
Pacific Ocean,
may seem like
paradise, but it
will sink
beneath the
waves within
a few decades as
a result of
climate change.
Paul
Lindsay's
Before the
Flood: Tuvalu
(UK/FR 2004)
describes
the impact of
the modern
Western
lifestyle in a
thoughtful and
melancholic way.
Panel
discussion
with
Gavin
Harte
(Corporate
responsibility
Consultant at
Business in the
Community of
Ireland) and
Dr Emmanuel
Reynaud (NGO
Adéquation et
Développement).
With the support
of the
Alliance
Française
and
British Council.
Tuesday 29 May
at 7pm
Free
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Tickets
must be booked
by email to
bookings@cultivate.ie
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Screening.
Jean-Marc Vallée is a
Canadian film director and
screenwriter from Quebec. He is
best known for the film
C.R.A.Z.Y.
(2005), which is one
of the most successful films
in Quebec history, both
financially and critically.
Café de Flore
(2011)garnered
13 nominations for the
2012 Genie Awards.
The film cuts between
two
seemingly unrelated stories.
One, set in present-day
Montreal, stars
Kevin
Parent as Antoine, a
successful club DJ torn between
his new girlfriend Rose and his
ex-wife Carole; the other, set
in 1960s Paris, stars
Vanessa
Paradis
as Jacqueline, the
fiercely protective single
mother of Laurent, a child with
Down syndrome The film builds
toward the revelation of how
the two stories are linked.
Presented by
Brigitte Le Juez (DCU) - 120
minutes
Wednesday 30 May at 6.50pm
€9.20 / €7 AF members |
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1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
Filmbase
Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 |
Irish Film
Institute
6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 |
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CINÉCLUB
BAXTER |
JOUTES ORATOIRES
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AF LIMERICK |
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Screening.
Baxter
is just about the most provocative
and disturbing movie imaginable about a pet dog and
his various human masters. In a decidedly distinctive
feature debut French filmmaker
Jerome Boivin invites us to question our
assumptions about nature, human as well as
canine. Everything is seen
Baxter's point of view, which while
revealing, also makes us realize that we understand more
than he does. This little gem, which has a strong
dose of the bleakly amusing
nastiness so characteristic of the Belgians,
flatters neither beast nor human.
Her daughter Florence gives Mrs. Deville bull-terrier
Baxter as a surprise present. Although the old lady
is afraid of him, she doesn't want to give him away
because she feels lonely. But Baxter has his own ideas -
he longs to be dominated, to be challenged...
Thursday
31 May 7.30pm
1989
- French version
with English subtitles, 82 min
library@alliance-francaise.ie
Admission Free
but
reserved for AF members
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Debating Competition.
This year, the Final of the
Joutes Oratoires (French debating competition open
to second-level schools in Ireland) chaired by Rev.
Conor Harper, Vice-President of the Alliance
Française, took place on Monday 26 March at the
National Library between the two finalists:
Mount Temple vs. Loreto, Stephen’s Green on
the motion L’Irlande devrait
réintégrer le Royaume-Uni.
Congratulations to Loreto, Stephen’s Green students
and their teacher who won this 21st season of
the competition despite the difficulty of their argument
in favour of the motion.
Our congratulations also go to the team from Mount
Temple Comprehensive School who did so well to reach
the final as there were 30 teams in the competition,
this was no mean achievement.
Pat Cox, President
of the Alliance Française Dublin, was particularly
delighted to present the awards to the winning team and
to Lorna Cudmore from Newbridge College who was
chosen as the best speaker for the year!
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Network.
Alliance Française Limerick’s
new premises were
officially opened on Friday 27 April by H.E.
Emmanuelle d’Achon,
Ambassador of France to Ireland, in the presence of
Lorna Shier,
President of the Alliance Française and members of
the AFL board, Marie Hackett, French Honorary
Consul, Kathleen Leddin, Deputy Mayor, Maria
Byrne, City Councillor and Sheila Deegan,
Limerick Arts Officer.
Located in the historic
centre of the city, at 7 Pery Square,
the Alliance Française can now boast of
bright and modern premises
with five classrooms, one of which is
equipped with an interactive
whiteboard.
The official opening was followed by a convivial
dinner at the French Table where members of
the French community and francophiles alike
delighted in the lovely atmosphere and surroundings.
www.aflimerick.org
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COMING UP
IN JUNE: Summer Terms for
Adults, Teenagers & Children, Let’s French
Festival 2012, Book Launch: The Medieval Imagination,
AF Choir dinner concert, and more!
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