Events

Imagine an America where kids have even more chance for success, thanks to their experiences in dual language and community-based heritage language schools. Where businesses gain an edge globally because they can literally speak their customers’ language. Where lifelong learners can become more than tourists in other countries and finely hone their brainpower. Join us on May 6 for a conversation with Steve Leveen and Fabrice Jaumont presented by The Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools & The Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMufu-qqDkrGtxp6kSVGiK0Zr-UKJK6-nLY
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Join us for one of our mini-camp sessions!

Bonjour NY offers fun-filled camps during school breaks and holidays! Our mini-camps provide a FUN, ENGAGING, and SAFE place for children to spend their day.

Register Now Spots are limited! 

Modeled after our popular Summer Day Camp curriculum, our mini-camps incorporate various arts and craft, sports, songs, cooking and recreational activities to keep your child active, learning, and moving all day - en français. 

Mini-camps are available for kids ages 3.5 to 11. Children are split into 2 age groups.

Camps take place from 8:15am to 5pm at our BROOKLYN location (9 Hanover Pl). After camp care is available until 6pm.

It's going to be a blast! 

FREN527: "17th-century French literature seminar"

Dr. Kathleen Loysen

15 July-8 August 2019

In this course, we will study the major innovations and trends of seventeenth-century French literature. Crossing genre boundaries from prose and poetry to theater, we will investigate such areas as the development of the roman d’analyse and the epistolary novel; salonnier and communal writing productions such as poetry, letters, and moralist literature; the establishment of the norms of tragedy and comedy; the interplay between movements toward linguistic purity stemming from the Académie française and those toward linguistic diversity emanating from précieux circles; and influence on literature from religious and political spheres. Readings will be drawn from the works of Madame de Lafayette, Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Sévigné, Voiture, Descartes, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Corneille, Racine, and Molière.

To apply: https://montclair.elluciancrmrecruit.com/graduate/pages/welcome.aspx

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French Musicians with great talent and a big heart perform Piazzolla, Shostakovitch, Milhaud, Tchiakovsky for Entraide Francaise, Inc. and STAFE Project. Featuring Virgil Boutellis-Taft, violin, Elsa Bonnet, piano, Thibaut Garcia, guitar, Onadek Winan, soprano, Adam Leitis, oboe,  Max Morel, trompet, Chloe Kiffer, violin,  Matthieu Cognet, piano and Thomas Stantinat, double bass.

Artistic Director: Virgil Boutellis-Taft

Institute of French Studies Conference
Organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman (NYU)

This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth century in the context of broad global developments, movements, ideas, and policies. It aims to evaluate recent trends in the fields of French history and the history of decolonization and to suggest possible avenues for future inquiry. It will focus on several intersecting themes, such as decolonization and European integration, the rise of international organizations and the role they played in shaping French decolonization, and the Algerian War in global context.

9:30 – 9:45 a.m.  Opening Remarks

Herrick Chapman, New York University
Jessica Pearson, Macalester College

9:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Decolonizing Development

“Fashioning the Future: Global Catholicism at the End of Empire in French West Africa”
Rachel Kantrowitz, Brown University

“Decolonizing ‘la brousse’? Medical Expertise and Rural He

Two recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but also how they relate to the space of the banlieue. To what degree do the social microcosms these “bandes de filles” represent figure as aspirational utopian alternatives to the lived realities of French suburban poverty? Embodying histories of migration, the girls' filmed representations show a transcendent movement that seeks to escape or surpass that history—as they aspire to a future do they engage in forgetting or remembering of the past via their narratives or movements?

Framed by feminist and phenomenological considerations of the body in film, Margaret C. Fl

Philosophy for Kids returns for a fourth year at the Brooklyn Public Library, this time with an all new vision. Thinkers specializing in philosophical practices with children will lead a series of workshops on themes built around this festival’s edition: inclusiveness, openness, and acceptance of differences.

This year, adults will also be invited to engage in conversations related to family and parenting questions.

Free & open to the public

AJOYO is the vision of saxophonist Yacine Boularès: a joyful ceremony bringing musicians and the audience close together.

For the first TILT collaboration with Harlem Stage, the young at heart are invited to engage with an instrument-making workshop before joining the band for an eclectic musical celebration.

Music • Ages 3 & up • 120 mins

Free with RSVP

Be a Traveler NOT a Tourist. Explore the gems of Paris through the eyes of an expert. Gain an insider’s scoop on how to: communicate, navigate, eat, shop, party, gallery hop, and blend in like a boss on that too-long-prolonged Paris holiday.

LFBK head teacher: Emile Bertherat – French Native and 20 + years Paris resident has explored, caroused and dined in all the best known, lesser known, not-to-miss, definitely-avoid, hippest, over and underexposed spots the City of Lights has to offer.

Under the LFBK Full Fluency model: this workshop will leave you 100% prepared to take on Paris. A fast-moving three-hour tour leaves both someday and soon-to-be vacationers set with:

• Enough French Language education to deftly and accurately eat, shop, commute, and begin to communicate in French-worth finesse
• About town and out of town trekking how-to,
• Only-a-local would know sightseeing intel – the hot spots and the secret spots,
• Dining tips and tasty leads,
• Gratuity best practices (Don’t be a waiter hater!)

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of revered director Jia Zhang-Ke’s new film, ASH IS PUREST WHITE, a masterful blend of gangster film, romance, and social critique, spanning two decades of contemporary China, and starring his frequent muse and collaborator Tao Zhao. A critical hit at film festivals including Cannes, New York, and Toronto, and French co-production, ASH IS PUREST WHITE is scheduled to open in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on Friday, March 15 followed by a national roll out.

A tragicomedy initially set in the jianghu (criminal underworld setting,) ASH IS PUREST WHITE begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives. With a three-part structure and stunning cinematography by French director of photography Eric Gautier (Motorcycl

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Clare Fitzgerald
Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW

Rachel Herschman
Co-curator, Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, and curatorial assistant, ISAW

The lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2.  

In English

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and La Maison Française

Image:

Léon Bakst
Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé, for Daphnis et Chloé
ca. 1912
Graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper
H. 28.2 cm; W. 44.7 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund: 1933.392
Image: Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum

The ventures of Debussy and Ravel into impressionism and the responsive compositional output from Les Six produced a flowering of innovative and compelling wind music.

The clarinet chapter of 20th century French music is saturated with tonal nuance and trademark French lyricism at their finest. In addition to the well-known nonpareils composed by Debussy, Poulenc, Messiaen, and Ravel, there is a vast underground of forgotten gems by lesser known masters: Bozza, Cahuzac, and Pierné. While these latter pieces are mainstays of the clarinet repertoire, they are largely unknown by wider audiences.

Clarinetist Sam Boutris and pianist Marina Iwao will provide a fresh look at these unjustifiably unheralded treasures. Commentary by Michael J. Gilligan.

Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Tickets: $20 General Admission; $10 Students with ID

Musicians' bios at as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/events/2019/hidden-gems--early-20th-century-french-clarinet-music---concert

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Bonjour NY invites you to our Open House event at SLA International School, on Saturday March 9th, at 10:30 am.

Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/SXtczG

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11 in Downtown Brooklyn with daily bus transportation.