Alliance Française de Los Angeles

French Music and History Package
2023-01-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Edith Piaf et La Chanson Française D’Avant-Guerre

Thursday | January 12 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Online

2. Charles Aznavour et Les Artistes de la Rive Gauche
Thursday | February 9 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Online

3. Boris Vian, Un Artiste Multiple et Engagé
Thursday | March 16 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Online

4. Johnny Hallyday, Le Mythe Français du Rock n’Roll
Thursday | April 13 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Online
Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Portrait of an Actress : Brigitte Bardot
2023-01-12 11:00 - 12:30
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Come and discover the most iconic French actress of all times, through movie and interview clips of her career and her tumultuous personal life.
With Véronique Courtois
Thursday | January 12 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Online
Level: Advanced

Amour & Séduction Package
2023-01-12 11:00 - 12:30
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Portrait of an Actress : Brigitte Bardot

Thursday | January 12 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
2. Love in the Middle Ages : L’Amour Courtois
Tuesday | February 14| 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
3. The Redlight District of Paris : Pigalle
Thursday | March 16 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
4. The French Courtisanes & the Art of French Seduction
Tuesday| April 18 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Level: Advanced
With Véronique Courtois

Cine Salon Online
2023-01-05 18:00 - 19:30
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Mon Oncle de Jacques Tati

Join us in discovering the famous Director, Jacques Tati and his world and discuss a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.

– Thursday | January 5 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Online

– level: Intermediate and above

– Members $15 | Non-Members $30

Watch the movie on :
Vimeo : https://vimeo.com/452863705
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Oncle-English-Subtitled-Jacques-Tati/dp/B004CTYVHS

Hbomax https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXmlR8Qmn28NVoAEAAAPE

Politics During the 19th Century
2023-01-05 12:00 - 13:30
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Politics During the 19th Century
Thursday | January 5 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Online
Levels Intermediate/Advanced
Members $30 | Nonmembers $45

French History Series Package
2023-01-05 12:00 - 13:30
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Discover the the 19th century

Politics during the 19th Century

Thursday | January 5 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Online
2. Economics and Industrialization in the 19th Century
Thursday | February 16 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Online
3. French Art in the 19th Century
Thursday | April 27 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Online
With Violaine de Landes
Levels: Intermediate/Advanced

Literature & History In Person Workshop
2023-01-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles
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Come and join us to enjoy our first In Person Workshop of 2023
Guy de Maupassant and his masterful depiction of the XIX century French society by Luiza Eaves.
Is the hero of Maupassant a relic from the past or a universal figure? A transcending journey: the exploration of brilliant, twisted and tormented lives.
Wednesday | January 4 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM | In-Person
Level: Advanced & above

French Pronunciation Workshop
2023-01-04 17:00 - 18:30
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Do you want to master your French pronunciation?
Do you want to master your French pronunciation and sound like a Native speaker?
Join us to improve your pronunciation, speaking skills, French accent, and sound like a Native?
Wednesday | January 4 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Online
With Violaine de Landes
Levels: Intermediate/Advanced

French Pronunciation Package
2023-01-04 17:00 - 18:30
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Do you want to master your French pronunciation?
Do you want to master your French pronunciation and sound like a Native speaker?
Join us to improve your pronunciation, speaking skills, French accent, and sound like a Native?

Wednesday | January 4 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Online
Wednesday | February 8 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Online
Wednesday | March 8 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Online
Wednesday | April 15 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Online

With Violaine de Landes
Levels: Intermediate/Advanced

Zéro Faute! French Dictée
2023-01-03 17:00 - 18:00
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La Dictée spéciale rentrée 2023
Join us to celebrate the New Year and to master your French spelling!
Collaborate with others and challenge your French writing.
Alors à vos stylos!
With Violaine De Landes
Tuesday | January 3 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Online
Levels: Intermediate/Advanced
Members $15 | Non Members $25

French Dictée Package
2023-01-03 17:00 - 18:00
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Package of 4 Workshops with Violaine de Landes
Are you ready for our collaborative Online dictée à la française and challenge your French writing in a fun way. Have a seat, grab a pen and a paper and listen to the short text read by Violaine De Landes.

When you have finished your dictée, you will collaborate in teams to re-read and edit your rough draft before the collective correction.
Alors à vos stylos!
– Tuesday | January 3 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Online
– Tuesday | February 7 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Online
– Tuesday | March 7 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Online
– Tuesday | April 11 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Online

Levels: Intermediate/Advanced
Non-Members $80 / Members $50 / No refund

French Humor: from movies to stand up & comics
2022-12-13 11:00 - 12:30
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Come and discover French humor from movies to stand up & comics. You will have great fun!
With Véronique Courtois
Tuesday | December 13 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Online
Level : Advanced

French History Series: The french Revolution Part 3
2022-12-08 12:00 - 13:30
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Learn about a key period of French history : the French Revolution!
Its causes, politics, organization and perhaps stories you have never heard of!
Level : Intermediate and above
Led by Violaine de Landes
Thursday | December 8 | 12pm – 1:30pm | Online

Zéro Faute! French Dictée Online
2022-11-29 17:00 - 18:00
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Are you ready for our collaborative Online dictée à la française and challenge your French writing in a fun way. Have a seat, grab a pen and a paper and listen to the short text read by Violaine De Landes.
When you have finished your dictée, you will collaborate in teams to re-read and edit your rough draft before the collective correction.
Alors à vos stylos!
Intermediate/Advanced Levels
With Violaine de Landes
TUESDAY | NOVEMBER 29 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM | ONLINE
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED

Animation Fest
2022-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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An eagerly awaited annual event, Animation Fest showcases a variety of award-winning animated French language shorts. The selection captures the spirit of the times we live in today, with stories infused with humor and poetic force.

Thursday, November 17, 2022
8:00 PM 10:00 PM

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Damien MacDonald explores French “Bandes Dessinées”
2022-11-15 13:00 - 14:00
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In English
Tuesday | November 15 | 1 pm PT
Members Free | Non Members $10
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Through a short introduction to the history of comics, this presentation by author and illustrator Damien MacDonald will explore more specifically the French scene and its iconic “Bandes Dessinées”.
Damien MacDonald is a comic-book illustrator and curator who adapted Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame as a graphic novel. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in France, Norway, Belgium, China, and Monaco. He co-curated the Marginalia exhibition on the history of comics for the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.
His new book, Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art, can be found on Amazon.

Praise the Vegetables & Légumes
2022-11-15 11:00 - 12:30
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Learn why the French love their vegetables and legumes and how they are an integral part of French cooking.
With Véronique Courtois
Tuesday | November 15 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Marcel Proust: Du côté de la mère
2022-11-12 10:00 - 11:00
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In French
Saturday | November 12 | 10 am PT
Members Free | Non Members $10
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Nous serions heureux de pouvoir vous compter parmi nous pour une visite en direct de Paris de l’exposition, « Marcel Proust. Du côté de la mère » au Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judahïsme.
À l’occasion du centenaire de la mort de Marcel Proust, le Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme propose une exposition présentant l’auteur de la Recherche à travers le prisme de sa judéité. Le grand public pourra y découvrir un aspect méconnu, longtemps sous-estimé, de la vie du grand écrivain qui ne s’est jamais réclamé du judaïsme, mais dont la vie et l’œuvre témoignent de l’at-tention qu’il lui accordait.
Catherine Richard-Leduc est guide conférencière attachée à l’Institut du Monde Arabe depuis 2000. Aujourd’hui elle est employée pour les Journées du Patri-moine au ministère de la Culture en 2020. Son experience inclue présentation des grandes expositions à Paris et en Europe (Antiquité, Peinture), Musée Carnavalet, département Islam du Louvre, du V & A à Londres, du MET à New York, du Pergamon Museum à Berlin, Musée Islamique du Caire, de la Galleria Borghese à Rome, de la Brera à Milan, des Offices à Florence.

Histoire et Patrimoine: A la découverte du Louvre
2022-11-10 12:00 - 13:30
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Join us to discover and visit famous and key places throughout French History
Thursday | November 10 | 12:00 -1:30 pm | Online
Level: High Intermediate / Advanced
With Violaine De Landes

History of French Jewelry: The 20th Century
2022-11-09 12:00 - 13:30
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by Quentin Labelle Loizillon, gemologist and President of Gems Label
Join us to dive into the history of French Jewelry and its evolution throughout the 20th century
Level: High Intermediate / Advanced level
Wednesday | November 9 | 12:00 -1:30pm | Online

America’s French Roots
2022-11-05 11:00 - 12:00
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In English
Saturday | November 5 | 11 am PT
Members Free | Non Members $10
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Everyone expects a family with a French name living in New Orleans to be descended from ancestors born in France. But a family named Guttmann whose members now reside in D.C., New York City, and New Jersey? Hardly.
And yet the Guttmanns are direct descendants of Marie Daudin, daughter of a dock worker in Orleans, France, deported to the French colony called “Louisiana” in 1719. In “America’s French Roots,” Joan DeJean will talk with four Guttmann siblings about how Marie Daudin ended up on a ship named La Mutine, Marie’s life during five decades spent in New Orleans, and the lives of her descendants, their ancestors, through the centuries.
The Guttmanns’ story is far from unique. The Frenchwomen deported along with Marie Daudin by now have descendants living all over this country, and there are surely many Americans today who have no idea that they have French ancestors. “America’s French Roots” may well be far more extensive than anyone realizes.
Joan DeJean is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously taught at Yale and at Princeton. She is the author of twelve books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including “The Invention of Paris: Making the City Modern” (2014); “The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began” (2009); “The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour” (2005).
She grew up in southwest Louisiana, in a family and a town in which Louisiana’s French past was the stuff of daily life. For over thirty years, she has divided her time between Philadelphia and Paris, where she has always worked in the very archives in which, in 2016, she happened upon the story of the women banished/deported to Louisiana in 1719.
Portrait: 18th century portrait by an unknown artist of Marie Angélique Revoil DuForest and her family; reproduced with permission of her family.
Mutinous Women is available at basicbooks.com. Click here for a recent review by the Wall Street Journal.

Kybele Dance Theater
2022-11-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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Kybele Dance Theater (KDT) inspires all those who are willing to embark on a narrative journey infused with poetic abstraction and candid emotion. The program consists of three compelling works: “Noir”, “DediKodu”, and “Yol”.

Thursday, November 3, 2022
8:00 PM 10:00 PM

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La Machine de Turing
2022-10-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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“Turing’s Machine” was performed over 700 times in France to great acclaim, and won 4 Molières (considered the highest French theatre honor) in 2019: Best play, Best Actor (Benoit Solès), Best Author (Benoit Solès) and Best Director (Tristan Petitgirard).
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 8:00 PM 10:00 PM | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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Chef Alain LeNôtre invites you to make Tarte Nougat Pomme
2022-10-26 13:00 - 14:00
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Join us as we welcome Chef Alain LeNôtre, who will be sharing his recipe for how to make a delicious Tarte Nougat Pomme.
Alain LeNôtre was born on April 13, 1945 in Pont -Audemer, Normandie to Gaston and Colette LeNôtre. He is the third generation of Chefs in the LeNôtre Family. His father, Gaston, the world’s most famous Pastry Chef and caterer, is as admired as Anthoine Careme and Auguste Escoffier. His grandmother, Eleonore, was the chef for the Rothschild family. His grandfather, also named Gaston, was the chef at the Grand Hotel in Paris. In 1962, after high school, M. LeNôtre had apprenticeships and training in pastry, bakery, ice cream, chocolate, general cuisine, and catering at LeNôtre Paris laboratories.
In 1971, he created the Ecole LeNôtre next to the Family Central Kitchen of Plaisir west of Paris, the first continuing education culinary art school in France. From 1972 to 1982, M. LeNôtre served as Chief Operating Officer of LeNôtre Paris, also managing the catering department and the franchise network in Germany, Japan, and Brazil. In 1982, he received an MBA from the University Paris I. From 1982 to 1984, M. LeNôtre was the President of LeNôtre USA in Houston. In 1988, he and his wife, Marie, created the Culinary Institute LeNôtre in Houston, Texas. In 2021, the two-year college awarded four types of diplomas and three types of associate degrees and was ranked #1 Culinary Art College in USA for the third year in a row by Niche.com.
In 2021, M. LeNôtre contributed to the English translation and republishing of Faîtes votre pâtisserie comme Lenôtre (in English, French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre) by Flammarion with his sister Sylvie. He is a father of 5 and a grand-father of 11. He received the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole in 2010, a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the Honorable Pete Olson, member of Congress, in 2019 and was commissioned an Honorary Texan by Governor Rick Perry in 2002.
This event will be on Zoom and is free for all Alliance Française members, AATF members, and invited guests of the presenter or publicist. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10).
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Aidons les Animaux
2022-10-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles
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Special children’s workshop with Lydie Colette, journalist reporter for NGO’s
Meet Lydie Colette and discuss the well-being of all animal species, how to protect them through photos and videos.
Saturday, October 22 from 11am to 12:00pm
For kids 6 years old & older

Majid Bekkas African Gnaoua Tour
2022-10-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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Majid Bekkas, the talented multi-instrumentalist transports music lovers to the crossroads of fusion between traditional Gnaoua music and blues.
Thursday, October 20 | 8:00 PM 10:00 PM | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
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Zéro Faute! French Dictée Online
2022-10-18 17:00 - 18:00
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Collaborate with others and challenge your French writing. Have a seat, grab a pen and a paper and listen to the short text read by Violaine De Landes.
Alors à vos stylos!
With Violaine De Landes
Tuesday | October 18 | 5:00 – 6:00PM | Online
Level: Intermediate/Advanced

The Franglais Workshop
2022-10-18 11:00 - 12:30
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Come and discover why and how the Franglais is permeating the French Language and how it is affecting the future of the language.
Tuesday | October 18 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Online
Level : Intermediate/Advanced
WithVeronique Courtois

Translating Némirovsky with Sandra Smith
2022-10-11 16:00 - 18:00
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Tuesday | October 11 | 4- 5 pm PST
Federation of Alliances Françaises USA
In English
Join us for a conversation with Sandra Smith, award-winning translator of French literature, as she discusses the artistry and challenges involved in translating with Beth S. Gersh-Nešić. Ms. Smith will be discussing her translation of a previously unpublished book by Irène Némirovsky, Master of Souls (Le maître des âmes).
Sandra Smith has translated twelve of Irène Némirovsky’s novels, including the international sensation Suite Française, into English. She has also translated works by Albert Camus, Guy de Maupassant, and Simone de Beauvoir, among many others and is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Jewish Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize.
Beth Susan Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D. is an art historian and the director of the New York Arts Exchange, an arts education service. Her translation and annotation of André Salmon’s first two books on art were published as André Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and her most recent book is a translation of Salmon expert Dr. Jacqueline Gojard’s Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting” (Za Mir Press, 2022). She contributes to the online magazine Bonjour Paris and teaches art history at Mercy College.
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 into a wealthy Jewish family and was raised in a life of privilege in Europe. After fleeing Russia during the Revolution, she immersed herself in the company of thinkers, artists, musicians, and other cultural elites as part of the Parisian literati of her time. Sixty-two years after her death, in 2004, the never-before-published Suite Française brought international acclaim to this gifted writer, whose life was tragically lost in the Holocaust. Master of Souls can be found at the following booksellers: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org.
This event will be on Zoom and is free for all Alliance Française members, AATF members, and invited guests of the presenter or publicist. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10).
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The American French Film Festival
2022-10-10 09:00 - 2022-10-16 21:00
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