May 2008

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French Summer Camp 2008 – Registration is Now Open!
This year, the French Summer Camp will take place from July 7th to 26th. Geared for French-speaking teenagers aged 13-19, the Summer Camp is organized by the French Heritage Language Program in partnership with the French Embassy and the French-speaking communities of New York. During two weeks in New York and one week in Quebec, the participants are immersed in the francophone cultures. Activities: art, dance, writing workshops, films, visits to museums and political institutions, games in the parks –all in French! Participants leave with many friends, and a big smile on their face. Registration
First two weeks: $30 / Quebec week: $120, all included. 
A Two-Week Program In Paris Open To French K-12 Teachers
July 15-29, 2008
In 2004, Rutgers University became the first American educational partner of France’s most prestigious museum, the Louvre. As a result of this collaboration, we are pleased to offer a two-week program featuring a 3-credit Master’s course. Exclusive and affordable, «Rutgers at the Louvre» is an exceptional opportunity for teachers of French to earn credit while exploring the riches of the Louvre and of France’s capital, developing curricular materials for teaching art and culture, and exercising their French skills.No prior knowledge of art history is required.
For a complete course description, workshop pictures, comments from other French teachers, application forms, and much more, please visit our updated website.
Children's French Book Fair
May 17, 10 a.m- 5 p.m
No need to wait for the next trip to the homeland or the visit of a friend! Renew or add to your French selection with handpicked books from great publishers for children of all ages at French retail prices.
The Language and Laughter Studio, 139 Nevins st, corner of Bergen, Brooklyn website  
Summer Schools 2008
30 June to 13 July
Professors, members of NGOs, journalists, interested citizens and graduate and honours students from the US and the Americas, Europe and Africa have been attending these past few years the International Summer schools of the International Studies Center of the Université de Montréal. They are organised in tandem with the CERI at Science Po Paris and with the support of the French Consulate General in Québec. website
STUDY IN FRANCE
CAMPUSFRANCE is an educational service provided by the French Government to help students who wish to enroll
in a French university or school for undergraduate or graduate studies. website
Contact: washington@campusfrance.org
The Tournées Festival
Apply for a Tournées Festival grant, Show new French films on your campus!
The Tournées Festival offers a wide selection of the most recent films from France and French-speaking countries: comedies, dramas, thrillers, documentaries...
Any department, film club, student organization, or cultural institution affiliated with your university may apply. The film selection, guidelines and application form for the 2008/09 season will be posted on www.facecouncil.org on April 15.
Application deadlines: June 30th 2008 (NEW date) and October 1st 2008.
For more information and to be on our mailing list, please contact us at 212 439 1451 or tourneesfestival@facecouncil.org website
FACE | 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075
Roman De Gare
From April 25
In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross…a woman abandoned, a stranger awaiting his chance and, a best-selling author who imagines the thriller of the year. Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch stars Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant as an unlikely pair caught up in a game with high stakes – and deadly consequences. more | website
An Evening with Michel Gondry
May 9, 7:00 p.m
Michel Gondry is one of the most creative contemporary directors, known for his dreamlike, inventive visual style. He has directed feature films (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep), documentaries (Dave Chappelle's Block Party), music videos for Bjork, Radiohead, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, and Daft Punk, and numerous award-winning commercials. He is also an installation artist whose work has been featured at Deitch Projects. This evening of conversation and clips will look at the remarkable career of this moving-image innovator. Tickets: $15 Museum members / $25 Non-members. website
The Times Center, 242 West 41 Street, Manhattan
World Nomads: African Cinema
May 6 to May 27
This series is, at root, about the art and sensibility of storytelling and about the talent and mind that creates the story. No one in the lineage of African Cinema could better tell the story of a people within a space-the life of the country, the encroaching metropolis-than Ousmane Sembène. In conjunction with World Nomads, this film series captures some of his vision and influence through rare screenings of six Yennenga prize films. Concluding with an evening of cinema, spoken word, and music; FIAF and African Film Festival, Inc. create an anthem to African Cinema and a salute to Sembène. website
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street.Presented as part of the World Nomads series.

World Nomads: Ayo
May 1, 8 p.m
To open its inaugural World Nomads series, FIAF presents the well-traveled, satin strains of soul singer Ayo, performing selections from her double platinum-selling (France) album, Joyful.Born in Germany to a Nigerian father and a Roma mother, and ever keeping Paris as her spiritual home, Ayo’s pedigree seeps deep into bittersweet songs built from the world. Liquid organ riffs, acoustic guitars, and bongos punctuate mellifluous vocals that float with ease over deep reggae beats, evoke the stages of the Elysée-Montmartre in one moment, and the streets of Lagos in the next.
website | listen | tickets
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
The Dan Tepfer Trio
May 2, 8 p.m
New York-based pianist Dan Tepfer is the Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association and won first prize as well as the audience prize in the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. Originally from Paris, he has been touring and performing internationally with Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and American drummer Richie Barshay for more than four years. The concert will feature original compositions and new arrangements of jazz standards that emphasize improvisational freedom. Tickets: $10. Reservations: 212-998-8750
La Maison Française, NYU, 16 Washington Mews, New York website
Les Nubians
May 9
Les Nubians are the Grammy nominated Afropean pop group from Bordeux, France, comprised of sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart. They will perform at Blender Theatre at Gramercy in New York City on May 9.
listen | website | tickets
PEN World Voices: Festival of International Literature
Through May 4
The theme of the fourth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is Public Lives/Private Lives, which couldn’t be more timely. How do we draw a line between our private and public selves? When must we tell private stories for the public good? How, as readers, writers, and citizens, do we confront threats to our privacy? What is still considered private in the Internet age? Do we need to redefine the meaning of public and private in the 21st century? The writers in this year’s Festival will mine this rich theme in a variety of literary conversations, panels, readings, and performances. website
French Authors on Tour
The Book Department of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy offers financial aid to American institutions wishing to invite and host French authors for readings, signings, and symposia. Please, find the current list of fiction and non-fiction authors touring the United States next Fall with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy support. The program for 2008-2009 is in the making, and we would be pleased to receive any of your comments and ideas!\Information on the website

Raymond Verdaguer
Raymond Verdaguer has some new engraving. Check his website
   The Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection – Select Drawings
Through May 16
Florence and Daniel Guerlain have agreed to exhibit 140 drawings from their collections at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy during the Armory Show (March 26-30) and beyond. Never before has a collection from overseas made the trip expressly for this occasion. website
Philippe Gronon
May 22- July 11
French artist Philippe Gronon’s gelatin silver prints of wall safes, library card catalogues and elevator doors are taken with a studio camera and enlarged to scale. Interested in how everyday objects inform collective or individual memory, the artist creates life-sized images that are hyper-descriptive of reality and yet also conceptual.
Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25th Street, New York website

World Nomads: Claude Grunitzky on Transculturalism
May 14, 7 p.m
Grunitzky will discuss his vision of urban space as a place where diversity coalesces rather than collides—and where cultural borrowings gradually erode the edges of difference to forge a world of true universality. website		   Elections Americaines
May 6 , 6:30 p.m
 Accueil New York organise une conference sur les Elections Americaines.
Vous êtes perdus entre les différents modes de désignation : caucus, primaires ouvertes et fermées, grands électeurs des traditions héritées du XVIIIe siècle.
Un panel de journalistes français basés à New York vous expliquera ce mode de fonctionnement si particulier des élections américaines.
Grand Auditorium du Lycée Français de New York.
Inscriptions: Florence Brasseur (212) 532 26 41 flobrasseur@yahoo.co.uk
"May '68: A Time for History, A Turn to Ethics", a talk with Emmanuelle Loyer and Julian Bourg
May 01, 12 p.m
Emmanuelle Loyer is professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po Paris. She is the author (with Pascale Goetschel) of Histoire culturelle de la France, de la Belle Époque à nos jours (1994/2005); Paris à New York. Intellectuels et artistes français en exil,1940-1947 (2005/2007); and Mai 68 dans le texte (2008). Julian Bourg is assistant professor of European intellectual history at Bucknell University. He is the author of From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007) and editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004). This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and by the Alliance Program at Columbia University.
Columbia University, Satow Room, Lerner Hall. website
French Founding Father
May 6th, 6:30 p.m
Three distinguished speakers discuss how America’s identity was forged in the Revolution, and how America’s self-image as a model for progress and an example for the other nations of the world has continued to influence its foreign policy. The program is grounded in the celebration of the Marquis de Lafayette’s return to America in 1824.
Lloyd Kramer, moderator, is the author of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Political Cultures of Europe and America, 1775-1865 and professor and Chairman of the Department of History, University of North Carolina. Amo Houghton is a former ten-term Republican Congressional Representative from New York and founder of the Congressional French Caucus in 2003. Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of God and Gold.
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street. website
World Nomads: Re ggie Wilson & Andréya Ouamba
May 9-10, 8 p.m
In this co-presentation with 651Arts, as part of the Mississippi Delta Heritage Project, the ancestry of Cameroon, Gabon, and the Congo resound throughout, as New York choreographer Reggie Wilson and Congolese choreographer Andréya Ouamba create an anthropological exploration of movement and its origins. A wildly inventive collaboration, this excerpt of work in progress The Good Dance, continues both men’s fascination with the genealogy of culture. They use movement and music drawn from blues and worship traditions to consider the influences—both real and metaphorical—of Central African culture on world performance forms. Additionally, both choreographers will present works from their diverse repertoires. website | tickets
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
Rachid Ouramdane, “Far…”
May 8- May 10, 7:30 p.m
This solo performance investigates identity, cultural homes, and conflict. It features diary entries by Rachid’s Algerian father, written in Algeria while it was still a French department, and later from Vietnam, where he fought for the French army. “Far…” asks, “How does the violence of armed conflict make us foreign? What kind of sensitivity is born out of violence?” This is Ouramdane’s second U.S. tour, following his highly successful performance of “Discreet Deaths” (“Les Morts Pudiques”) in 2006.
Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W 19 St, New York website

French-speaking teacher, New Jersey.

The French Academy of Bergen County, NJ, is looking for a French-speaking teacher for its extracurricular activities, and is also looking for a preschool and pre-kindergarten assistant teaching.
Contact:asgueguen@thefrenchabc.com,or www.thefrenchabc.com.

  French Teacher for M.S. 22.
M.S. 22 Jordan L. Mott, is a 5th-8th grade middle school (ages 10-14) in the Bronx, looking for French-speaking teachers in all subject areas who are interested in being part of the French Dual Language Academy.

Spanish/French Teacher, Norwalk Public Schools
Spanish/French teacher for the 2008-2009 school year in the Norwalk Public Schools. The candidate will teach 3 or 4 French classes and one or two Spanish classes.The person interested should e-mail Judith Aucar at hjaucar@aol.com or call her at 914-993-9423 (Home) 914-552-4349 (Cell) or 203-852-9488 Ext. 11054 (School).

  
Part time French teachers needed at the Alliance Francaise of Hartford.The Alliance Française of Hartford is recruiting part-time French teachers for its weekday evening and Saturday morning adult classes.Foreign nationals must hold valid residency papers. Please send resumes to the Alliance Francaise of Hartford via fax at (860)203-1688 or by e-mail to afdehtfd@sbcglobal.net
New York needs certified French teachers
On May 14 at 5:00pm the French Embassy in partnership with Education Francaise a New York (EFNY) will hold a workshop on New York's certification for public schools, particularly certification for French-English dual-language programs. All uncertified teachers with a serious interest to teach in New York' s public schools are welcome to attend. Seating is limited. RSVP to caroline.fullenwarth@diplomatie.gouv.fr - 212 439 1436
The workshop will take place at the French Embassy's New York headquarter, 972 Fifth Avenue, between 78th and 79th street.

A bientot,

Fabrice Jaumont
Education Attache
French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10021


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