Events

Have fun with acting

“Jeux D’roles” means roleplay and funny games. Our approach is based on words and pronunciation, sense memory, repetition, improvisation and immersion, invented scenes or scenes from existing plays.

Learn a language
Our workshops are bilingual but mostly taught in French. Our objective is to teach children how to learn to communicate and have fun in another language. Speaking a language is not only about saying words. It is also about finding your “persona” in another language. This includes thoughts, sensations, emotions and experiences in another language that can be discovered and explored through acting. Our classes offer a trusted and safe environment that enables children to develop imagination and focus, and to build self-confidence.

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A warm, funny, literate comedy in which two French actors portray two French actors, friends at odds with one another in every possible way, except their love of Molière’s The Misanthrope. Lambert Wilson (OF GODS AND MEN) plays Gauthier, tall, handsome, and the beneficiary of a leading role in a ridiculous soap opera as a beloved cosmetic surgeon who “saves lives.” Fabrice Luchini (who previously worked with Le Guay in WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR) as Serge has met with much less success, becoming a middle-aged curmudgeon who has renounced the stage to live on the glorious île de Ré, off France’s Atlantic coast. Gauthier arrives on Serge’s turf to try to convince his pal (Luchini, in real life, a Molière expert) to return to Paris to play opposite him in a new production. When not arguing or rehearsing scenes while biking, they consider their options as personified by a local porn actress and an attractive Italian divorcée, as well as the lure of island real estate.

The original work of four gifted French artists Wendy Smith, Eric Degos, Sophie Chemla and Violette Cici will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC.

Event URL:

Wendy Smith - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Wendy_Smith.aspx

Eric Degos - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Eric_Degos.aspx

Sophie Chemla - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Sophie_Chemla.aspx

Violette Cici - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Violette_Cici.aspx

About Agora Gallery

Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery’s expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization’s specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant p

Sundance Selects is proud to announce the release of  YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL, the latest drama from Francois Ozon, one of the most provocative French writer-directors, featuring a star-making performance by stunning newcomer Marine Vacth.  YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL is scheduled to open in New York (IFC Center) on Friday, April 25 followed by a national roll out.

“No one’s serious at 17,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud,  a sentiment  that may justify the choices made by 17-year-old Isabelle (Ms. Vacth), over the course of a pivotal year. Her transgressive and intimately observed coming-of-age journey is divided in four seasonal chapters and four pop songs, from her sexual awakening to her first time, to her foray into prostitution and her search for identity. Francois Ozon observes her journey without judgment, reflecting on the emotions and insecurities that saturate a young person’s entrance into adulthood, and again proves a master at coaxing strong performances from young actors. YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL was nomi

NEW Spring 2014 French singalong for age 1- 2.5 with Muriel using singing, dancing, mime, puppets, musical instruments, storytelling

location:
Lark Cafe
1007 CHURCH AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11218

time:
Mondays 10:45-11:45am
April 28 to June 23 (no class Memorial Day)

Price:
$160 (8 sessions)
Drop in $25

Email for enrollment:
LBRfrench@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/LeBallonRougeFrench

Endless Vigils at Crête-à-Pierrot
Written by Dominique Batraville (HAITI)

Directed by Awoye Timpo
Translated by Peter Consenstein

Part of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center’s PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2014

The dead and the living, who “walk on the bones of the dead,” are united by a wish to bring their dying nation together once again by physically and metaphysically reviving Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first leader of the revolution for an independent Haiti.

The reading will be accompanied by a reading of Batraville’s poem "La Danse des pieds," with English translation by Alessandra Benedicty, and two short films: Élégie de Port-au-Prince, by Aïda Maigre-Touchet and featuring Dominique Batraville – a post-earthquake elegy to the Haitian capitol – and La Danse des pieds, also starring Batraville, directed by Kendy Vérilus. The event will conclude with a discussion with Thomas C. Spear, Professor of French, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Présentation, Domi

On the occasion of the publication of Shakespeare's Montaigne, a modernized and annotated edition of John Florio’s 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essays (NYRB, 2014), please join us for an evening with with the book's co-editor, Peter Platt, Department of English, Barnard College, in conversation with Phillip John Usher, Department of French, Barnard College

Monday, April 28, 2014 - 6:30 PM - James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College (Broadway and 117th, New York City)

Information: barnard.edu/translation/florio

Organized by The Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College and New York Review Books, with the participation of the Department of English and the Department of French, Barnard College.

Florence Gould Event

Colette Fellous
Novelist, editor, radio producer and host; author of Aujourd’hui (Prix Marguerite Duras); Pour Dalida; Un Amour de frère; La Préparation de la vie

Olivier Barrot
Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume: Gérard Philipe; Je ne suis pas là; Le Fils perdu, co-author, La Vie culturelle dans la France occupée

In French.

Presented with the additional support of Sofitel, the Centre National du Livre, and Open Skies.