TABLE FRANÇAISE
Thursday, March 7 at 12:00 p.m.
Anaba Tea Room, 2107 E. Capitol Drive, Shorewood
Join fellow French speakers for conversation and a fun lunch on the town!
RSVP by March 6th to George Stone, [address removed]
ALVERNO PRESENTS: AN ETHEREAL CELLO & KORA DUET
Saturday, March 9, 8:00 p.m. Wehr Hall, Alverno College
To one side, a cello; on the other, a kora (a 21-stringed lute-harp from West Africa). Together two gifted artists, French cellist Vincent Segal and Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko, unite on stage to create profoundly beautiful and original music. Celebrate this collaboration of francophone cultures. Click here for more information or to purchase tickets online.
LES CAUSERIES DU MARDI
mardi, 12 mars, 12h00 - 13h30
Emory & Co. Office, 250 E. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 910
Join fellow French speakers for a discussion on a business topic (topic to be announced). There is meter parking on Broadway, and a structure attached (enter on Broadway).
$10 par personne, déjeuner compris. RSVP avant le 10 mars: Anne Leplae, [address removed];[masked].
CLUB DE LECTURE & CINÉ
samedi, 16 mars, 10h00-12h00
À l'Alliance Française, 1800 E Capitol Drive, Shorewood
Join advanced French-speakers for a discussion about the amusing novel Messieurs les enfants de Daniel Pennac (1997), a tale about three friends in fifth grade who wake up to be adults.
YOU'RE IN PROVENCE FILM SERIES:
"FANNY" by Marcel Pagnol (1932)
French with English subtitles, 140 minutes
Saturday, March 16, 1:30 - 4 pm
$5 per screening / free for AF members
Shown at AF, 1800 E Capitol Drive, Shorewood
Join us for the second film in the Marcel Pagnol trilogy! Marius has left, signed up for a five year hitch on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. In his few letters to his father César, he hardly mentions Fanny. When she finds she is pregnant, she considers her options: suicide, to raise the child on her own, to wait for Marius, or to marry Honoré Panisse, the older merchant who seeks her hand. These choices are emotional: to raise a bastard, to trust in Marius' eventual return, to believe he'll want to marry her, to save her mother from shame, to fool Panisse, to give her child a name. In scenes dramatizing Fanny's honesty, she talks to her mother, then Panisse, César, and later Marius, and she makes her choices.
Film Presenters:
Randy Williams is past President of the Alliance Française de Chicago and current member of the Alliance Française de Milwaukee. The French government has designated him Chevalier in both the Order of Arts and Letters and the National Order of Merit. Discussions will be insightful and fun.
Claude Scher is a native of the Marseilles area of southern France who brings a great deal of personal experience to the films of Provence. Claude has actually lived right next to where many of those movies were shot and stories took place. He can talk for hours about the best historical or touristic sites to see in Provence, the gastronomy of Provence, the dialect(s) and people of Provence. He is an IT Manager at Miller-Coors and a member of the Board of Directors of Alliance Française de Milwaukee.
