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The beloved TILT Kids Festival, which has presented adventurous and sophisticated art and ideas for audiences of all ages since 2016, returns for an entirely virtual edition over the weekend of March 20–21.

Enjoy wonderful stories during Drag Queen Story Hour, solve a mystery crime caper during an interactive theater performance from Broken Box Mime Theater, and create your own artwork in a live drawing workshop streamed from oartist Kris Di Giacomo’s Paris atelier.

The schedule of events follows. All times are EDT:

Drag Queen Story Hour
Saturday, March 20 at 10:30am

Drag Queen Story Hour returns to FIAF to create a virtual space where kids—and adults—can present themselves in their own fabulous ways and how they wish. In this live 45-minute program, Harmonica Sunbeam of Drag Queen Story Hour NYC will read a selection of French and American favorites in English: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Edmund the Thing by Astrid Desbordes, and Feather by Remi Courgeon. After the story time, kids, with the help of their adults, will be able to ask Harmonica Sunbeam their burning questions.

Le Mystère by Broken Box Mime Theater
Saturday, March 20 
Ages 3-6: 3pm
Ages 7-10: 5pm

Zut alors! Important artifacts have gone missing from the FIAF building. This sounds like a case for the Broken Box Kids Detective Agency! With your help, Junior Detective Becky Brevet and Chief Matty L’Orange will try to crack the mysterious case! Join the team of junior detectives as they search for the criminal mastermind and attempt to return the stolen treasures to its home.

Drawing Workshop with Illustrator Kris Di Giacomo
Sunday, March 21 at 11am

Live from her studio in Paris, children’s book illustrator Kris Di Giacomo brings her colorful universe to TILT for the first time. Over the course of this 30-minute workshop, we’ll examine the world through the perspective of pigeons. We’ll compare and contrast those who live in New York with their cousins in Paris, reveal some of their secrets, and dabble in techniques of anthropomorphism (a fancy word for giving animals human characteristics).

TILT Kids Weekend is supported by Kids Trail, a program developed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States in partnership with FACE Foundation.

Bonjour à tous ! (English below) Le French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) lance à Montclair et Manhattan un nouveau programme pour vous aider à naviguer dans cette rentrée un peu particulière.Nous vous ouvrons les portes de nos classes pour y déposer vos enfants afin qu’ils puissent :1)      Suivre leurs cours virtuels ;2)      Faire leurs devoirs de l’école avec l’aide d’un enseignant ;3)      Découvrir ou continuer à apprendre le français.Je vous rassure, tout ce qui est relatif aux cours virtuels de vos enfants sera assure dans un mélange d’anglais et de français.Plus d’infos ici : https://fiaf.org/class/ny-day-camps/ N’hésitez pas à nous écrire si vous avez des questions : languagecenter@fiaf.org pour NY et fiafnj@fiaf.org pour NJ. -----------------------------------------------The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) has launched a new program to help you navigate this uncertain back-to-school period. We are opening our doors so that your children can:1)      Follow their school’s virtual class ;2)      Do their homework with the help of a teacher ;3)      Discover or continue to learn French.I want to reassure you that everything related to your children’s virtual classes will be done in a mix of English and French. You can find more info on this program here: https://fiaf.org/class/ny-day-camps/ You can also contact us at languagecenter@fiaf.org for NY et fiafnj@fiaf.org for NJ.  

Registration for Summer Camps at the French Institute Alliance Française is now open! Kids will learn French through music, art, cooking, literature, sports as they travel across the Francophone world, and take field trips to the UN, Asia Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and more. Programs are offered to kids from 1 to 17 years old and all levels of French. More information is available at fiaf.org. 

Designed for native French-speaking children, Fix Your French is a new series of classes at the French Institute Alliance Française for 6 to 10 year olds who speak French well but need to improve their reading and writing skills.

Ages 6 and 7 concentrate on reading and writing basics. Through songs, games, structured exercises, and artistic activities, kids will discover the correlation between French letters and sounds, pick up pronunciation tricks, improve their ability to read French, and learn to write beautifully in cursive.

For 8 to 10 year olds, they will learn key French grammar lessons not taught in school. Topics include: the structure of the language and sentence construction; how gender and number agreement works; conjugation of verbs in different tenses; and the different parts of a sentence including noun, verb, and complement. They will read and write and discover that grammar and conjugation is fun through stories, graphic novels, and games!

Internationally renowned dramatist, novelist, and director Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt stars in this theatrical adaptation of his beloved novella

Set in Paris in the 1960s, the play tells the story of Moses, a wayward teen whose distant father is haunted by memories of the Holocaust. When he's caught stealing from Monsieur Ibrahim’s neighborhood shop, Moses develops an unlikely friendship with the Sufi shopkeeper.

As funny as it is poignant, this touching coming-of-age story has been performed in more than twenty-two countries, published in thirty-nine languages, and taught in countless schools. Actor Omar Sharif won a César and a Lion d’Or for his role in the Golden Globe-nominated 2004 film adaptation. For one night only in New York, see the tale brought back to life by its very own author.

“A stylistic gem, sparkling with emotion and humor.”
—Télérama

In French with English supertitles

Join filmmaker Gaël Morel for the NY premiere of his latest film at the closing night of the Focus on French Cinema Festival.

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Morel and a festive after-party with wine and hors d’œuvres.

When her textile factory closes, Edith, a seamstress, astonishes everyone when she decides to forgo her severance package to follow her job to Morocco, where the factory has been relocated. What unfolds is more than a fish out of water story, as Edith must contend not only with new surroundings, but challenging workplace conditions and customs.

is beautifully shot and elegantly composed and Sandrine Bonnaire’s performance as Edith proves that she is one the finest actresses working today.

Inspired by the award-winning movie , is a musical celebration of the life and music of the legendary French chanteuse.

Conceived and directed by the Nice-based theatrical maverick Gil Marsalla, this special concert stars the internationally acclaimed Anne Carrere, a young French performer hailed as "Edith Piaf's legitimate musical heiress."

In two 45-minute acts, the show narrates the rags-to-riches story of the Parisian singer's career through her unforgettable songs, complemented by a visual tapestry of previously unreleased photographs and images of famous locations of the Edith Piaf era.

premiered in 2015 as a tribute to "The sparrow of Montmartre" on the centennial of her birthday. With over half a million tickets sold in more than 30 countries—including a sold-out one-night-only performance at Carnegie Hall in January, 2017—and rave reviews worldwide, this is your chance to see the show in the New York!

In French
115 minutes, with intermission

“[Pommerat] is one of the most outstanding and creative directors working today.”— The Guardian

Marcel Proust’s epic literary masterpiece comes to life in a stunning new production from Da Camera of Houston created by artistic director Sarah Rothenberg. Equal parts concert and theater, transforms music, painting and literature into a moving performance.

Excerpts from and the memoirs of Proust’s housekeeper and confidant, Céleste Albaret, are interwoven with sound collage, paintings, photographs, and the music that inspired Proust to evoke the author's themes of memory and childhood as well as Parisian salons and his final reclusive years when he withdrew from society to complete his magnum opus.

“The queen of theater lighting,” () Jennifer Tipton sets the stage for an award-winning cast, including Obie-winning actor Henry Stram.

The performance features the music of Fauré, Schumann, Debussy, Chopin, Ravel, Beethoven, Leon Delafosse, and Proust’s lover and artistic collaborator, Reynaldo Hahn.

"Its seven tableaux/movements echoing Remembrance’s seven volumes, is a dreamily evocative mood piece" —

"A remarkably thoughtful program of music that inspired Proust… the whole evening radiated uncommon care and intelligence." — on Sarah Rothenberg’s

Cast & Creative Team
The Narrator/Marcel: Henry Stram
Tenor: Nicholas Phan
Celeste: Nancy Hume
Violinist: Boson Mo
String Quartet: Daedalus Quartet
Pianist: Sarah Rothenberg
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Set & Costume: Marina Draghici
Projection: Hannah Wasileski
Sound: Bart Fasbender
Scenario & Text Adaption: Sarah Rothenberg

In English

Co-presented with Da Camera of Houston Productions

Vintage is one of the most powerful and fascinating elements that impacts the taste and character of a wine. Learn how a vintage can bring out the best in some of the world's finest wines. This informative tasting will take you on a journey through different vintages and teach you how to understand what makes each one unique.

In English. Must be 21+ to attend.

Political pundits, Real Housewives and that guy talking loudly next to you on the subway are united by their words in French performance maker Joris Lacoste’s latest foray into the outer limits of human expression.

Bring the to FIAF this May! FIAF Family Saturdays are the perfect way to immerse your children in French language and culture.

Performance: Guignol with Compagnie des Zonzons

FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 1:30pm

Ages 3 & up

Cheeky, rebellious Guignol is one of France’s most iconic characters. For more than 200 years, this puppet has been making audiences howl with laughter and shout back at the stage with his signature blend of physical comedy and buffoonery.

Performed in French and English with hundred-year-old puppets in a traditional castelet, this high-energy staging of is entertaining for all ages.

TICKETS

Non-Members: $30

FIAF Members: $25

Puppetry Workshop*

Le Skyroom, 3:30pm

Visual Arts
Joyce Kozloff

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

Colorful, commanding, and detailed, the captivating pieces in 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

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

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 will create their own paintings, sculptures, and drawings while being introduced to works of art from around the world, all

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 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 set in Paris, score big at , and more— !

This workshop offers a playful immersion in French by discovering typical  French board games, especially selected for their cultural and pedagogical characteristics. With in Paris, and many other very entertaining games, children will be encouraged to express themselves and learn French vocabulary in a very active and fun way! 

Ages 8-10

French Songs Workshops: Les Chanteurs

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

Children improve their French through music!

With a focus on singing, kids will begin with warm-up techniques and phonetic practice before learning a song and practicing rhythm. Kids will also study each song’s interpretation and be asked to add their own personal elements to the song to enrich the story told. The workshop will not include any written French.

Ages 11-14

Art, Language & Photography Workshops

Saturdays, 2–4pm
Jan 17, 24, 31 • Feb 7, 14, 21, 28 • Mar 7, 14, 21, 28
All Levels
Price: $75 per workshop

FIAF’s new workshop is a hands-on opportunity to create and think by using traditional photographic means and new techniques in digital photography while practicing the French language. Teens will study both French and American photographers, while critically examining famous artworks in addition to making their own masterpieces.

 

Bobbi Brown, founder and CCO of her eponymous cosmetics brand, 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.

An army of young girls assembles in the first U.S. showing of Terracotta Daughters, a monumental exhibition of 108 life-sized and individually crafted clay sculptures that recall China’s famous Terracotta Warriors. Created by New York-based French artist Prune Nourry with expert craftsmen in Xi’an, this installation is a powerful investigation of the impact of gender selection in Asia and beyond.

Winter 2014 
Thursdays, from 1:30pm-3pm 
Jan 16, Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 20, Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13, Mar 20, and Mar 27

Course Code: WKAPPSTORY 
For ages 2–4, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child 
Teacher: Françoise Casey 
Price: $45 per workshop 
Series: $396 for 11 workshops—a savings of $99!

An innovative series of workshops for children designed to further inspire, excite, and encourage love of French and French culture. Each workshop will start with a story to explore different themes and different worlds followed by arts and crafts, and games. Children will increase their French vocabulary and learn new French expressions and songs.

Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week  class with all 11 Story workshops. Save 5%* on the class and $99 on the workshops!

Registration 
Online at fiaf.org 
646 388 6612 
In person at FIAF

Wednesdays, from 3-4pm 
Jan 15, Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, Mar 12, Mar 19, and Mar 26

Course Code: WKAPPCOOK 
For ages 2–4 years, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child
Teacher: Sylvie Berger 
Price: $50 per workshop
Series: $440* for all 11 workshops—a savings of $110!

Take your child on a wonderful sensory adventure with FIAF's hands-on cooking workshops: 

In each workshop, children will discover new flavors of the season by creating different sweet or savory treats with seasonal fruits or vegetables. Children will stimulate their five senses and develop motor skills as they smell mint, taste rhubarb, shape brioche, and play with shapes and colors. Children will increase their French vocabulary, learn about utensils and ingredients, and of course, enjoy the treats they have created.

Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week  class with all 11 workshops. Save 5%* on the class and $110 on the workshops!

Registration 
Online at fiaf.org 
646 388 6612 
In person at FIAF

Spring 2013 
April 1–June 15 
Register Now!

This spring, French is in the air!

Take a class at our flagship on 60th Street in Manhattan, in Montclair, NJ, or at our Brooklyn location.

French classes for Toddlers, Kids, Teens, and Adults start April 1.

11-Week Session Session Dates

5½-Week Sessions 
April 1–May 7 
May 8–June 13 
Twice a week 
6 hours per week

2-Week Immersion 
May 20–May 30 
June 3–June 14 
Monday–Friday, 
mornings or evenings 
15 hours per week

No classes Monday, May 27 
Make-up Friday, June 14 (except Immersion Sessions)

By choosing to learn French at FIAF, you join a large and diverse network of students—over 6,000 per year. FIAF has been offering the highest-quality French instruction for over 100 years and remains the only language school in New York dedicated to teaching French.

Fabulous Flavors
The Flavor Lab
with Marie Wright

In English

Ticket Price
FIAF Members $35
Non-Members $45