Events

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

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.

'French For Little Ones' French Classes Winter Session is starting January 8, 2015. We have many classes in Brooklyn for children ages 9 months and up! Visit our website at frenchforlittleones.com

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

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

Visual Arts
Joyce Kozloff
Social Studies

Wed, Feb 25–Sat, Apr 25, 2015
FIAF Gallery

Colorful, commanding, and detailed, the captivating pieces in Social Studies tell histories not taught in classrooms. Layering collaged images and textured paint onto mid-century classroom maps, Joyce Kozloff transposes new perspectives onto archaic world views.

An original member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, applied and decorative art practices are often the basis for Kozloff’s large-scale public and fine art works. Since the 1990s, she has been using maps and globes to explore issues of social and institutional injustice.

Free and open
to the public

Hours

Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
Sat: 11am–5pm

Related Event:
Joyce Kozloff: Maps & Patterns
On view Mar 26–Apr 25
DC Moore Gallery, New York

Prints for this series were made with Fran Flaherty at the Digital Art Studio, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; additional prints were produced at the Advanced Media Studio, NYU with the Morgan R. Levy.

Artist Basil Alkazzi welcomes spring's arrival with a new series of paintings inspired by the flora, fauna, sea, and landscapes of Monaco and the South of France where he lives. Alkazzi’s work portrays the splendor of nature. Lush blossoms unfurl to the light. Tiny seedlings strive to grow.  Deep blue and purple horizons depict the blending of sea and sky. These paintings celebrate the human spirit and the natural world. They are a gift to viewers allowing all to meditate on the beauty of life.

The Joyce Theater Presents:

CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston

Mar 10-15

EVENT: CHOREOGRAPHY BY MERCE CUNNINGHAM

With a thirty-one year history of dancing and assisting Merce Cunningham, Robert Swinston, the Artistic Director of this French-based company, is uniquely qualified to carry on the Cunningham legacy. Compagnie CNDC (Le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine)-Angers makes its U.S. debut at The Joyce with Event, a remarkable work that Swinston created by assembling excerpts from pieces choreographed by Cunningham from 1965 through 1990. Featuring scene design by renowned French artist Jackie Matisse, Event is performed by eight dancers whose technical prowess pays tribute to the master choreographer who created the original work and to Swinston, who by capturing what makes Cunningham’s work interesting to watch and beautiful to look at, allows audiences to experience it in its most current form. Live music will be performed by John King and Gelsey Bell.

More information and tickets at Joy

EVENT: CHOREOGRAPHY BY MERCE CUNNINGHAM

With a thirty-one year history of dancing and assisting Merce Cunningham, Robert Swinston, the Artistic Director of this French-based company, is uniquely qualified to carry on the Cunningham legacy. Compagnie CNDC (Le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine)-Angers makes its U.S. debut at The Joyce with Event, a remarkable work that Swinston created by assembling excerpts from pieces choreographed by Cunningham from 1965 through 1990. Featuring scene design by renowned French artist Jackie Matisse, Event is performed by eight dancers whose technical prowess pays tribute to the master choreographer who created the original work and to Swinston, who by capturing what makes Cunningham’s work interesting to watch and beautiful to look at, allows audiences to experience it in its most current form. Live music will be performed by John King and Gelsey Bell.

For more information and tickets visit: Joyce.org

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University at Albany will host over a hundred high school students for a variety of events with Francophone connections!

Au programme : music and dance workshop, scavenger hunt, dessert contest and more!

Staged Poetry in French with Music
Handout available in English with a few translated poems
Staged readings followed by a discussion in English about the texts and common themes among these post-colonial writings

VOIX DE FEMMES (Voices of Women) is an assemblage of poetry and music in French, a spotlight on beautiful and often unknown writings by women from the Antilles, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast, France, Haiti, Lebanon, Mali, Quebec, Senegal, Switzerland, alternating with Malian music by Awa Sangho, recently called the new voice of Africa. Each of these women, in her own word and her own time, evokes freedom, sensuality and the idea of an invisible feminine universe. Their poems speak to each like a conversation that explores profound themes such as identity, origins, exile, creation, love, life, and the joy of revival.

Voix de Femmes was originally inspired by Eleonore Dyl and Mathilde Schennen, and directed by Eléonore Dyl, with Justine Thurman

Bobbi Brown, founder and CCO of her eponymous cosmetics brand, New York Times bestselling author, and editor-in-chief of Yahoo Beauty, discusses her remarkable career, the changing face of beauty, and her quest to make women Pretty Powerful.