Pineau & Cognac School | May 22nd, 2013
When: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 | 7:30 pm
Where: Alliance Française d'Atlanta - Midtown | Colony Square,
Plaza Level, Suite 561 | 1197 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA
30361
Pineau & Cognac School: Join us for a lecture & tasting.
A Mixologist will teach you some tricks to enjoy Pineau &
Cognac the best way!
The
Pitaud Cognacs range is the union of exceptional and high quality
eaux-de-vie whose authenticity will be particularly appreciated by
cognac enthusiasts and collectors.
Pitaud’s
Pineau des Charentes is a liqueur wine aged in oak barrels. The Pineau
comes
from the union of grape juice and an eau-de-vie of cognac.
Fee: AF members: $15 | Non-members: $20
Language: English
Space is limited | Registration is required
AfricaBelle Festival | April 10th - May 23rd, 2013
A celebration of French-Speaking Africa: film, lecture, gallery talks, children story telling, community Soirée...
2013 Program:
AfricaBelle Festival | Special event: Meet the collector | Art exhibit
When: Thursday May 23rd, 2013
Where: High Museum of Art | Skyway Gallery, Wieland Pavilion | 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Language: English
Fee: $10 | Museum admission
Co-organized by Friends of African Art and the High Museum of Art.
Program:
6:00pm: Meet the Collector Michael Mack
and book signing by Yomi Ola book titled: Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture. ( Book will be also available to purchase).
7:00pm: Talk by author Yomi Ola
8:00pm: Reception and performance by Innoss B. - (please arrive by 7:30pm to be admitted into the museum)
Art exhibt Symmetry/Asymmetry: From March 23 to August 25, 2013 at the High Museum of Art.
Symmetry/Asymmetry draws attention to African textiles as abstract works of art to
highlight their aesthetic dimension. At the same time the exhibition
suggests a synaesthetic experience as these once kinetic works engaged
multiple senses. From
a Neolithic stone bracelet to twentieth-century commemorative cloths
emblazoned with the faces of Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and
President Obama, are included
This program is supported in part by the Atlanta City Office of Cultural Affairs.
Metropolis | Franco-German film
When: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 | 8:00pm
Where: Outdoor performance at the Woodruff Arts Center |
Sifly Piazza, 1280 Peachtree street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
The
Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta and the Alliance Française
d’Atlanta are proud to
present Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction
masterpiece Metropolis as part of their celebrations of the 50thanniversary of the Elysée Treaty, also known as the
Franco - German Friendship Treaty which set the seal on reconciliation between the two
countries back in
1963.
Metropolis is a milestone of German Expressionism and
early science fiction and paved the
way for other films like Blade Runner and The Matrix. It portrays a dystopian world in which
the poor tent to
futuristic machines and inevitably clash with the wealthy elite.
Free event | Open to the public | No registration needed.
Bring
your own beach chairs and blankets to this unique outdoor performance and
settle
down for a night to remember!
Documentary: HAITI, Where did the money go? | Thursday, June 6th, 2013
When: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 | 7:30pm
Where: Alliance Française d'Atlanta - Midtown | Colony Square,
Plaza Level, Suite 561 | 1197 Peachtree Street, Atlanta,
GA 30361
In
the United States alone, half of all households gave a total of $1.4
billion to charities, yet almost two years later more than half a
million people still live in squalid camps.
The
documentary "HAITI: Where did the money go?" asks pivotal question. Why
did so much money buy so little relief? And why so many still living in
squalor?
Free event
Film & Discussion @ Roswell: Beautiful lies | Sunday, June 9th, 2013
When: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 | 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Where: Alliance Française d'Atlanta - Roswell | 435 Jones
Drive, Roswell, GA 30075
Emilie, co-owner of a hair salon, receives an anonymous love
letter from her worker Jean. Emilie doesn't fall for the letter but
passes it on to her mother Maddy who is depressed since the
break up of her marriage. Maddy falls for the letter and is in
high spirits again. Emilie then writes new anonymous letters to her mother, but the letters
style
get heavily criticized for the lack of style and emotion.
Genre: comedy
Free event for AF members
Film: All together | Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
When: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 | 7:00pm
Where: Alliance Française d'Atlanta - Midtown | Colony Square,
Plaza Level, Suite 561 | 1197 Peachtree Street, Atlanta,
GA 30361
Jean is a romantic revolutionary, yet enjoys the spoils of a
bourgeois lifestyle with his wife, Annie. Albert, is a friendly yet
senile man, this is in contrast with his energetic American wife
Jeanne.
Widower Claude is an aging womanizer with an appetite for porsuits with prostitutes. Rather
than seeing him in a retirement home, his friends decide they should all live together in Annie
and Jean's large home.
Genre: Comedy
Free event for AF members
Save the date | Douglas Kennedy | July 1st, 2013
When: Monday, July 1st, 2013 | 7:00pm
Where: Alliance Française d'Atlanta - Midtown | Colony Square,
Plaza Level, Suite 561 | 1197 Peachtree Street, Atlanta,
GA 30361
Fee: members: free | Non-members: $10
Lecture and book signing
Douglas Kennedy is an internationally
renowned and
bestselling
novelist. Kennedy’s novels are often written in
European landscapes, and have been particularly acclaimed and beloved in
France, where Kennedy wasawarded the French decoration, The Chevalier
de l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres in 2007. In November 2009, he
received the first “Grand Prix du Figaro,” awarded
by the newspaper Le
Figaro.
His most recent novel, Five Days, a literary yet widely
accessible love story, challenges us to
ask fundamental
moral questions of ourselves. The novel is written from the
perspective of a
41-year old woman living in Maine who is
beginning to re-evaluate her small-town life and
make
significant choices that could reinvent her future. But as
Kennedy proves, change is
never as
easy as it seems.
Click here to purchase "Five Days"
Bastille Day | July 13th, 2013
When: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 | 7:00pm
Where: Nelson Mullins | 201 Building at Atlantic Station, The
Terrace Building on the 18th floor| Atlanta, GA 30361
Bastille Day is an observance of the French National Day and a fundraising event.
Attire: Casual Elegance
Hors d'oeuvre & wine, fun, DJ & music, dancing, mixing,
mingling and silent auction.
Fee: AF members: $50 | AF-non members: $65
