Alliance Française de La Haye

To celebrate Europe Day, the Alliance Française of The Hague is offering an afternoon of discovery around the European citizenship.

• For children and teenagers (non-French and French speakers)
• From 11 to 15 years old
• Fun activities to understand and analyse the theme of the day.
• 16 euros per child

A powerful and sensitive play about the birth of women's fight for equality, the power of commitment and the strength of action.

Julie, Rose, Jeanne and Louise work in an armaments factory at the beginning of the 20th century. Four female workers from different backgrounds who, faced with the absence of men, will have to confront the world of work and suffer the injustice reserved for women. But in this frightening world, exchange, solidarity and the possibility of having an opinion emerge. Little by little, they dream of being independent and free...

• 20€ PER PERSON
• Starting at 8.30pm
• From age 12.

The Alliance Français of The Hague is offering a morning of discovery about the environment and ecology.

• For all children (non-French and French speakers)
• From 7 to 11 years old.
• Creative activities to understand and analyse the theme of the day.
• 16 euros per child

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The Alliances Françaises of Portugal, Spain, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands, together with the Accueil de la Haye, are delighted to be joining forces once again to bring you another in a series of lectures on the essentials of French culture. Let Giulia FRANCESCHINI guide you through an online lecture on Aristide Maillol.

Best known today for his statues of voluptuous women, Aristide Maillol was a versatile artist. A member of the Nabis artists' club, he took a keen interest in tapestry and the decorative arts in general. He even went so far as to open a weaving workshop in his home town, Banyuls-sur-Mer, in order to revive the ancient techniques of tapestry weaving.

From the age of 40, he devoted himself to sculpture, creating pure female forms that prefigured abstract art. His statues emanate a meditative je-ne-sais-quoi, while their forms are free of literary or artistic references. As André Gide so aptly put it in 1905 in relation to La Méditerranée: "It is beautiful, it means nothing, it is a silent work. You have to go back a long way to find such complete neglect of any concern other than the simple manifestation of beauty".