Thursday, February 12, 2015 (12)

Feb 12, 2015
September 8, 2014
Monday
  • French immersion classes for preschooler in Brooklyn

  • Sep 8, 2014 at 5:00am to Jun 26, 2015 at 9:00am
  • Location: In Williamsburg
  • Description:

    Dear parents,

     Our French immersion program in Williamsburg / Greenpoint  which will begin in September 2014 has spots open  for children  2.5 yrs to 4 yrs old.
    Led by experienced and dynamic French speakers this program will follow a curriculum and  offer our children an opportunity to learn about our world through creative and dramatic play, arts, stories, singing, playing, learning alphabet, numbers sharing meals all immersed in the French language.
    Our drop-off classes will meet in a child-friendly rented room at Play, 33 Nassau avenue ( by the MC Carren park) in Brooklyn from 9:00am to 1:00pm Mondays- Fridays ( 2, 3 and 5 days options) starting September 8, 2014 to the end of June 2015.
    For more info contact me at frenchforlittleones at gmail dot com

  • Created by: Magda Lahliti
November 5, 2014
Wednesday
  • Theresa Flores, A.P.

  • Nov 5, 2014 at 3:15am to Jun 26, 2015 at 11:15am
  • Location: P. S. 84
  • Description:

    P. S. 84 in Manhattan is seeking a French speaking Teacher Assistant to work full time in a K and 1st grade French Dual Language Class.  PTA Funded.  

    If you are interested, email me Tflores@schools.nyc.gov or call (212) 799-2534.

  • Created by: Theresa Flores
December 31, 2014
Wednesday
  • Appartement 2 chambres a louer - Brooklyn Carroll Gardens - PAS DE BROKER FEE - zone ps58

  • Dec 31, 2014 to Mar 31, 2015
  • Location: Brooklyn Carroll Gardens
  • Description: Nous déménageons à la fin du mois, nous libérons notre appartement àpartir du 1er janvier.Il est situé à Brooklyn dans le quartier de Carroll Gardens, zoné pourl'école progamme bilingue PS 58 (métro Carroll Street ligne F et G)C'est un appartement au dernier étage (6ème) dans un building moderneavec ascenseur et petit jardin commun. Il est aussi à 2 pas d'unplayground.Il fait dans les 84m2, lumineux, parquet, sans vis à vis, 2 chambres,grands placards, cuisine américaine avec beaucoup de rangement,lave-linge sèche-linge, air conditionné et cave. Le voisinage del'immeuble est tres sympa avec beaucoup d'enfants. Et il n'y a pas debroker fee!!Ci-dessous le lien pour plus d'information.http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/4821064857.htmlVous pouvez me contacter par email aude.zarauz@gmail.comBonnes fetes de fin d'années!Aude Zarauz
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January 16, 2015
Friday
  • Kids & Teens Workshops

  • Jan 16, 2015 to Mar 28, 2015
  • Location: French Institute Alliance Française
  • Description:

    Ages 4-6

    Art Workshops: Les Artistes

    Saturdays, 1:30–2:30pm
    Jan 17, 24, 31 • Feb 7, 14, 21, 28 • Mar 7, 14, 21, 28

    All Levels
    Price: $50 per workshop

    Your Petits Matisse will create their own paintings, sculptures, and drawings while being introduced to works of art from around the world, all en français !

    Ages 6-8

    Chess Workshop

    Saturdays, 11:30am–12:30pm
    Jan 17, 24, 31 • Feb 7, 14, 21, 28 • Mar 7, 14, 21, 28
    Level: Native French-Speakers
    Price: $50 per workshop
    Series Price: $440 for 11 workshops—a $110 savings!

    Children improve their French while becoming a chess grandmaster!

    Join us to discover chess en français in an interactive way: children will learn how to play and how to read a chess game while practicing French. They will also learn cultural facts about chess through games and pedagogical activities.

    Ages 6-10

    Games & Conversation Workshop

    Saturdays, 3–4pm
    Jan 17, 24, 31 • Feb 7, 14, 21, 28 • Mar 7, 14, 21, 28
    Ages 6-10, All Levels
    Price: $50 per workshop

    Play Monopoly set in Paris, scor

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January 23, 2015
Friday
  • THE LONG JOURNEY: UN Human Rights Exhibit & Charity Auction

  • Jan 23, 2015 at 9:00am to Feb 12, 2015 at 3:30pm
  • Location: Alwan for the Arts (16 Beaver Street , 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004)
  • Description: Reception & Charity Auction:Thursday, February 12, 2015, 6:30-8:30pmExhibit on view at Alwan, from Monday-Friday, starting Friday, January 23, from 2-6pm or by appointment until Feb. 12, 2015The Long Journey is an exhibition that recounts the life and history of Palestine refugees since 1948 through a selection of iconic pictures from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)'s archives. The exhibition draws public attention to human stories and the works of UNRWA.With this exhibit, UNRWA unveils the first part of its newly digitized archive, which consists of over half a million negatives, prints, slides, films and videocassettes covering all aspects of the life and history of Palestinian refugees from 1948 to the present day.In tandem with the digitized archive, UNRWA is also launching a website, http://archive.unrwa.org/, where the 1,948 images will be available for studying, exploring. and opening a window into the world of Palestine
  • Created by: Alwan for the Arts
January 27, 2015
Tuesday
  • TIMBUKTU

  • Jan 27, 2015 to Feb 27, 2015
  • Location: Film Forum & Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
  • Description:

    Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of TIMBUKTU, acclaimed director Abderrahmane Sissako’s lyrical, visually arresting drama, a multiple prize-winner at this past year’s Cannes Film Festival.  TIMBUKTU, Mauritania’s official selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is scheduled to open on January 28, 2015.

    Not far from  the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.  Kidane and his family are

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
 
  • Texas in Paris

  • Jan 27, 2015 at 2:00pm to Mar 1, 2015 at 9:30am
  • Location: The York Theatre Company
  • Description:

    The York Theatre Company continues to push the boundaries of musical theatre with this tapestry of regional American music.  Based on true events, Texas in Paris is the musical journey of a man and a woman — one white, one black – invited to France to perform at the Maison des Cultures du Monde. They have never met, have no professional singing experience, and face the challenge of working together and co-existing in an unfamiliar world. Apprehensive of each other, they struggle with preconceptions but forge a surprising spiritual bond that transforms their on-stage performance and their lives.  Texas in Paris is a conversation about race between two people who never thought they would ever have that conversation. 

  • Created by: Ryan Klink
January 29, 2015
Thursday
  • GIRLHOOD

  • Jan 29, 2015 to Feb 27, 2015
  • Location: The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center & Village East
  • Description:

    Strand Releasing is proud to announce the release of GIRLHOOD, writer/director Céline Sciamma’s raw and tender look at a group of black high school students living in the tough banlieues of Paris, grounded by an incendiary performance from newcomer Karidja Touré.

    Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Shy Marieme (Karidja Touré) starts a new life after falling in with a group of three free-spirited girls.  She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang.  When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection.  Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires, she finally decides to take matters into her own hands.

    French director/writer Céline Sciamma’s debut feature “Water Lilies,” catapulted her as one of France’s most fresh and notable women di

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
February 10, 2015
Tuesday
  • A Season of Love and French Art at Agora Gallery this February

  • Feb 10, 2015 at 6:00am to Mar 3, 2015 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Agora Gallery
  • Description:

    The original work of five French artists Chantal Le Brun, Galý, Georges Castille, Véronique Coen and Wallace will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC.

    About Chantal Le Brun

    Photographer Chantal Le Brun takes inspiration from her travels, seeking to capture the unsuspecting landscapes as they reveal themselves, as well as shifting cultural identities. Le Brun describes traveling as a positive reaction to the trials and tribulations of life, a way to put things in perspective as well as escape from personal troubles. Subtly, these photographs reflect this: they are full of the meandering lines of a traveler forging new paths, the details of daily life that carry an exotic air for the weary traveler, and the indistinct reflections of what one has left behind.

    About Galý

    French artist Galý revels in the tactility and creaminess of oil paint. Interested in communicating the universal symptoms of the human condition in schematic vignettes of sorts, Galý takes bare hands and palette knife to canv

  • Created by: Lee Eagle
February 12, 2015
Thursday
  • GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

  • Feb 12, 2015 to Mar 27, 2015
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
  • Description:

    Music Box Films is proud to announce the release of GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM, the riveting, multiple award-winning drama from sibling directors and writers Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz about an Israeli woman seeking to finalize her divorce (“gett”), and who finds herself put on trial by her country’s religious marriage laws.  This French co-production is scheduled to open on February 13 in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema) and Los Angeles (Royal) followed by a national roll out.

    In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce; only Orthodox rabbis can legalize a marriage or its dissolution, which is only possible with the husband’s full consent.  Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz) has been applying for a divorce for three years, but her religiously devout husband Elisha (Simon Abkarian, Casino Royale, Persepolis) continually refuses.  His cold intransigence, Viviane’s determination to fight for her freedom, and the ambiguous role of the rabbinical judges shape a procedure

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
 
  • Young Sam Kim' Dark Cities exhibition

  • Feb 12, 2015 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
  • Description:

    Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is delighted to announce the third solo show of South Korean-born artist Young Sam Kim, Dark Cities. The exhibition will run from February 12 to March 8, 2015. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 12, from 6 to 8pm.

  • Created by: Emmanuel Fremin