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 March 5 - 26, 2014
Alliance Française de Chicago
Le Festival de la Francophonie is back this March at the Alliance Française de Chicago and better than ever! Highlights include: exclusive film screenings, live music performances, a round table discussion featuring women on International Women’s Day, a book fair with signings and the ever so popular Soirée Commune
and a very special Soirée France-Vietnam. Que la fête commence ! FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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March 8, 2014 | 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Alliance Française de Chicago
Free event
Have a café & croissant; browse for new and used books en français; check out the highlights of the Marcel Proust archives from the Kolb-Proust Collection from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne represented by Caroline Szylowicz ; stay and listen to visiting authors Evelyne Accad
(Liban) et Camille Bordas (France). Listen to slam artist from Quebec, Mélanie Rivet, à l'entracte! Exhibitors: Campus France / MEP Europa Books / Quebec Publisher Art Global / Association des Auteurs et Auteures de l'Outaouais / Bouquinerie de l'Alliance FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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March 8, 2014 | 3:30 pm
Alliance Française de Chicago
Free - In French
On la Journée Internationale de la Femme/International Women’s Day, a Francophone collective panel will update us on the most recent achievements as well as the on-going challenges met by les femmes francophones from the Middle East to the Americas. FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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March 14, 2014 | 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Admission $25 / students $10
Free for children 5 and under
Go around the world in one night! Get your passport stamped, enjoy music by MC Mwelwa Musambacine, food and drinks from Belgique, Canada, Congo, France, Haïti, Quebec, Roumanie & Vietnam… And don’t forget to release your inner Céline Dion at the karaoké de la francophonie to win prizes! Register early as this popular event always sell-out...
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March 22, 2014 | Starting at 1:00 pm
Alliance Française de Chicago
On-line registration: $15 for three movies / At the door: $8 per movie
Three exclusive films will be presented In partnership with Festival du Film Francophone de Kalamazoo. A unique opportunity for the Chicago community to explore the diversity of the Francophone cinema. FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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March 26, 2014 | 6:30 pm
Alliance Française de Chicago
Free but registration required
An evening building bridges between the past and the present in Vietnam starting with the screening of Phu-Nu Viet-Nam, Femmes Vietnamiennes
by Pierre Sénélas (1993, 52 min.. In French) followed by a panel discussion (in English) with Monique Brinson Demery, author of "Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu", and Nora Taylor from School of Art Institute of Chicago. A cocktail with Vietnamese specialties and a book sale and signing with Nicole Demery will close the evening. Organized by the
Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago and the Institut Français. Many thanks to Loan Le for her help and support to organize this event. FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Deadline: March 1, 2014
Participants must be enrolled in a school in Chicago
or in the Chicago metropolitan area.
As part of the Festival de la Francophonie de Chicago and on the occasion of the Book Fair on Saturday, March 8th, the Alliance Française de Chicago and the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago are organizing a writing contest around the theme "Dis-moi dix mots". FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Service Culturel
Consulat Général de France
205 North Michigan Avenue
Ste 3710
Chicago, IL 60601
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