Alliance Française de Tulsa
Club de lecture (book club)
Are you interested in improving your French reading skills in the new year? Join Alliance Française de Tulsa for a Club de Lecture (book club) as we read Guillaume Musso’s mystery/thriller La jeune fille et la nuit. Follow a group of high school alumni who return to their old stomping grounds, 25 years after graduation, just as their dark secret and the mystery of a long-disappeared student collide. Follow the intrigue as you explore the scenery of the French Riviera.
You can reserve and make payment through our MEETUP event link.
Club de lecture
Registration Includes – “Avant la Lecture” Guide, Chapter-by-Chapter Vocabulary, and two virtual discussions
$5.00
Cost: $5
Register for the Club de Lecture in order to gain access to a “Avant la Lecture” Reading Guide, Chapter-by-Chapter Vocabulary and two virtual book discussions.
Book Discussions will take place on March 23rd and April 20th from 7 – 8 pm central.
Looking for an easy place to purchase the book? Suggested Purchase Link
11th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival: It’s on!
The 11th edition of the world’s first online French-speaking film festival opens today. From now until February 15, you can enjoy the best of new-generation French-language cinema from the comfort of your home.
The festival’s International Jury, composed of Monia Chokri, Franco Lolli, Mounia Meddour, Gianfranco Rosi, and Rosalie Varda, has officially declared the 11th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival open!
The concept of the festival is simple: 33 films are available for one month on 60 online platforms, with free viewing in many countries. Starting today through February 15, 2021, you can take advantage of the best of new generation French-language cinema from the comfort of your own home!
Click here for all the details about the film lineup and jury members for this year’s 11th edition of the festival.
And, if you haven’t already watched it, take a look at the teaser directed by Julie Caty and the trailer for this year’s event.
Don’t forget to follow MyFFF on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok !
We hope you all enjoy the festival!
Quoi de neuf?
STANDOUT NATIONAL EVENTS
Set for January
The free national events continue on Zoom in 2021. The Cultural Offerings committee, a team of eight volunteers on the Federation board, has arranged a line-up that includes exciting new events in the realm of the performing arts. January events include an exceptional event featuring Mark Markham, world-renowned pianist (performing French compositions). The Paper Bullets event features author/historian Jeffrey H. Jackson. The Adrian Leeds event is an encore of the event from the fall that drew over 600 registrants.
- FrenchFlicks offers an updated list of every French show on Netflix.
- Antony Blinken, the nominee for Secretary of State, speaks fluent French and has lived in France, as reported by France-Amérique.
- Bonjour Paris sums up some of the latest news from Paris in this article on the progress of the current confinement, work at Notre Dame, and more.
- The Guardian features a unique photo montage of rural France.
- The French film, Mignonnes (Cuties) on Netflix has caused a bit of controversy; click here for an article that explains why.
- Language learning and its impact on the brain is the subject of this recently published article.
- How to “play the Parisienne” is covered in this NYT article by Elaine Sciolino (who was a recent presenter for the AF national cultural programs and who was also just featured in a FIAF/Emily in Paris event in December).
- French Morning discusses the issuesaround trying to go back to France for Christmas.
- Feeling lucky? France Atout is doing a Paris trip give-away – details here.
Let us know what French-inspired fun you’ve been up to lately: rsvp@aftulsa.org
MyFrenchFilmFestival returns in 2021 for its 11th edition
There’s just one month to go before the festival opens: watch the stunning teaser for MyFrenchFilmFestival 2021 directed by Julie Caty.
In the four corners of the globe, we know you are waiting excitedly: MyFrenchFilmFestival will be back in 2021 to bring you the best of new generation French-language cinema online!
From January 15 through February 15, 2021, you will have the chance to discover, from the comfort of your own home, more than 30 films (features and shorts) that have been handpicked just for you! Comedies, romcoms, dramas, documentaries, animations, cinema classics, VR works, films for young audiences… we will shine a light on all the genres representing the diversity of French-language cinema.
The complete program for the festival and the names of the international jury members will be revealed on January 5. We are eagerly awaiting sharing this with you!
Julie Caty is a French animation director. In her films, she allows a lush, poetic, psychotropic, and reflexive pop-punk universe unfold. Her latest film, Normal, was selected for the 2020 UniFrance Short Film Award.
About the teaser: “Even though MyFrenchFilmFestival didn’t wait for this strange pandemic episode in order to propose an online festival, I thought above all about movie theaters and wanted to pay tribute to them through this teaser. Because we all know how much we miss this collective and individual experience that is cinema! By exploiting the cliché, I’m directing spectators from all over the world, and inviting them to gather on the red seats of a laptop cinema as if to say ‘From the four corners of the world, let’s go to the cinema together! From the four corners of the world, let’s share this generous and curious selection of French-language films!’” — Julie Caty
And, for Advent calendar enthusiasts, join us on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok to discover new animated images every day and hints about what awaits you in the upcoming festival.
So, take care of yourselves and long live cinema!
“Who is Emmanuel Macron and where is he taking France?”
Friday, December 4 @ 9:00 am Pacific / noon NY / 17:00 London / 18:00 Paris
“Who is Emmanuel Macron and where is he taking France?”
with William Drozdiak, author of The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive France and Save the World, in conversation with Simon Kuper
In 2017, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron became France’s youngest leader since Napoleon. Who is this man from small-town Amiens, who passed through the elite ENA school and briefly worked as a banker? What is his project for France – and which bits of it has he managed to realize amid the turmoil of gilets jaunes protesters, strikes and the pandemic? What is his worldview? How does he see the US, China and Putin? What is his approach to Islam and to Islamism? And why, when he’s admired by so many outside France, does he inspire such hatred in so many French people?
William Drozdiak is the perfect guide. For his book The Last President of Europe he conducted a series of long interviews with Macron and other insiders in the Elysées palace.
Drozdiak is a former foreign editor of the Washington Post and a veteran foreign correspondent.Before journalism, he played professional basketball in the United States and Europe for seven years. His acclaimed book “Fractured Continent: Europe’s Crises and the Fate of the West” was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best political books of 2017. He now lives in Washington D.C., working as senior advisor for Europe with McLarty Associates and as nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Simon Kuper is a columnist for The Financial Times.
with William Drozdiak, author of The Last President of Europe,
in conversation with Simon Kuper
Friday, December 4
9:00 am Pacific
noon NY
17:00 London
18:00 Paris
Use this Zoom link
Meeting ID: 7917404469
We’re delighted to be co-sponsored by the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA, which promotes French language and culture through 100+ Alliance Française chapters across the U.S.
We’re also pleased to be co-sponsored by The American Library in Paris. ALP is the largest English-language library on the European continent, now celebrating its 100th year as a cultural bridge between France and the US.
The official bookseller is Shakespeare and Company — an English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame. Since opening in 1951, Shakespeare and Company has been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers, becoming a Left Bank literary institution.
PANDEMONIUM U: Free, live Zoom classes taught by world-class experts.
How does it work? We host classes several Fridays per month at noon NY time. Just check the schedule in this newsletter or on our website and show up for any class. Connect via this Zoom link. Listen/watch/learn, then ask questions in chat. Each class lasts about 50 minutes. Are the classes recorded? Yes, you can watch past classes here. (While you’re there, please subscribe to our YouTube channel!)
Can I invite others?
Sure, feel free to post/share/etc. You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to subscribe to this newsletter.
Why is it free? We launched PAN U as a public service at the start of the pandemic. All speakers and organizers are volunteers, and many friends of PAN U
Why is it so French?
We live in Paris and try to bring you the interesting people and ideas that cross our paths. Some of these are (inevitably) related to France.
I’ve got thoughts. How do I reach you?
Our email is PandemoniumU2021@gmail.com.
See you in class!
Pamela Druckerman & Simon Kuper
co-provosts
Celebrate the young wine!
Beaujolais nouveau arrives on Thursday, November 19, 2020.
Our “Tasting wines virtually” series continues!
Get your preferred bottle and join us in a Zoom tasting by 7pm CT (Tulsa/Oklahoma City) by paying this $5 entry fee to receive our Zoom link in a confirmed email receipt as a reminder the evening prior to our event.
Receive the link to participate by paying this fee:
$5 Entry fee for Zoom code
Virtual wine tasting! Celebrating the young wine, beaujolais nouveau!
$5.00
In Tulsa, stock should be available by noon at these suggested retailers:
Ranch Acres Wine & Spirits
3324 East 31st Street
Duboeuf
Drouhin
Parkhills South Liquor & Wine
10018 South Memorial Drive
Duboeuf
Dupeuble
Bouchard
