Events

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 (7)

Feb 17, 2016
February 15, 2016
Monday

  • French Acting Camp for Kids

  • Feb 15, 2016 at 4:30am to Feb 19, 2016 at 9:30am
  • Location: German School Brooklyn
  • Description:

    Chers parents,

    Join us for a winter full of fairy tale fun in French! Have you ever wanted to play a prince, princess, king or queen? Do the singing seven dwarfs or magical fairies tickle your fancy? Our camp is just the right place to try out different roles from different fairy tales while learning a language.The camp sessions are Monday - Friday from 9:30am to 2:30pm. We do warm up games, movement activities, theater games to prepare our little actors for the stage. We then choose a fairy tale that we will rehearse and act out as a group. Each child picks their own role and of course we have costumes to complete the transformation! On Fridays at 1pm, there is a presentation for friends and family.

    Please bring a snack and lunch for your children.

    This camp is intended for children with a good knowledge of French. The class will be conducted entirely in French as will the final presentation. 

    Ages 5-10 years old. 

    Please sign up here:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/french-acting-camp-for-kid

  • Created by: Simon Fuetterer
February 17, 2016
Wednesday

  • Too Black to be French? with Isabelle Boni-Claverie and Patrick Simon

  • Feb 17, 2016 from 1:15pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    A screening of "Too Black to be French?" (Quark productions and Arte, 2015; in French with English subtitles) followed by a discussion with director ISABELLE BONI-CLAVERIE and sociologist PATRICK SIMON (Institut national d'études démographiques, Paris).

    In this documentary film, Isabelle Boni-Claverie explores the role of race, the persistence of racism in France, and the impact of the French colonial past. She uses the lens of her family and personal history as the granddaughter of an African from the Ivory Coast who married a white French woman in the 1930s. Though she grew up in relatively privileged circumstances, she remembers: “I was six years old and for the first time I became aware that I was black and that the color of my skin, to which I had attached no importance, defined me in the eyes of others.” The filmmaker draws on her own history as well on anonymous interviews of ordinary people and conversations with sociologists and historians including Pap Ndiaye and Achille Mbemb

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU