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All events take place in the
Alliance Française and are free
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For more information, booking,
or to set up an event please
contact
Françoise Brung
cultural@alliance-francaise.ie
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Cultural
Centre
Welcome to our Cultural Centre.
The Alliance Française in Dublin
organises or sponsors many
events in connection with French
Culture: concerts,
exhibitions, shows,
screenings, plays,
conferences, book
launch, etc. |
Current
exhibition in our gallery page
Current & Upcoming Events: |
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Exhibition
BOHEMIANS:
ET CE CHANT DANS MON COEUR
9 –
30 May
Opening Tuesday 15 May at 6pm |
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To coincide with
Dublin Dance Festival,
the Alliance Française, in partnership with
Dr. Deirdre Mulrooney and Padraic E
Moore presents
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.
Admission Free
European Union House,
18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 |
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Festival
WORDS ON THE STREET: LITERATURE
NIGHT 2012
Wednesday 16 May
First reading at 6.30pm
then every 30 minutes until 9pm |
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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.
Admission Free
The Gutter Bookshop, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Talk
ANNE PÉPIN GENDER & SCIENCE
Monday 21 May
6.30pm |
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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
Admission Free
RSVP |
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Screening
LINK CULTUREFEST
24-27
May |
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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 |
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Book Launch
LA MER ET LE SILENCE
PETER CUNNINGHAM
Thursday 24 May
6.30pm |
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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.
Eilis Ni Duibhne, the famous
Irish novelist and writer, 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.
Admission Free
RSVP |
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Screening
PAUL LINSDAY's BEFORE THE
FLOOD: TUVALU
Tuesday 29 May
7pm |
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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.
Free -
Tickets
must be booked
by email to:
bookings@cultivate.ie
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Screening
IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: CAFÉ DE
FLORE
Wednesday 30 May
6.50pm |
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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
€9.20 / €7 AF members
Irish Film Institute, 6
Eustace Street, Dublin 2 |
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Screening
CINÉCLUB: BAXTER
Thursday 31 May
7.30pm |
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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...
1989
- French version
with English subtitles, 82 min
Admission Free
but reserved for AF members
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Workshop
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
CHOIR
Every Tuesday
of the month
1.00-2.00pm |
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The Alliance Française invites you to
sing every Tuesday from 1pm to 2pm. This choir, now in its
second year, is directed by French soloist, and singing teacher,
Laura Zimmermann. The repertoire
is French and in a variety of styles, from the medieval to
the contemporary.
The sessions begin with a good warm-up and vocal work.
Whatever your level, don’t hesitate. Join us! All welcome:
French speakers and non-French speakers alike.
€55 for Non-Members / €35 AF members
Online registration available
€5 a session for those who don’t want to commit to the whole
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Workshop
BOARD GAMES
EVENING
Every 2nd Wednesday of the
month
from 7.30 to 9pm |
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The
Médiathèque
at the Alliance
Française Dublin opens its doors once again from 7.30pm
to 9pm for a games evening!
You will discover, or
re-discover,
games in French
such as
Pictionary, Tabou, Cranium and many
more!
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.
Admission
free but reserved to
AF members
RSVP:
library@alliance-francaise.ie |
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