Alliance Francaise

L'événement / Happening - A special screening and discussion with Audrey Diwan
2022-04-28 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Landmark Theaters, 931 Monroe Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, 30308, United States
Join us for the screening of the award-winning French film, L’événement / Happening, on April 28, 2022 at 7:00 pm at Landmark Theaters, Atlanta, followed by a discussion with director Audrey Diwan in person

Awarded the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, Audrey Diwan’s second film delivers a moving adaptation of the novel by the famous French writer Annie Ernaux, L’événement. As part of Audrey Diwan’s US tour, L’événement / Happening is screening at Atlanta’s Landmark Theatres Midtown Art Cinema on April 28th at 7pm. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Audrey Diwan.
SYNOPSIS: France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project: Exhibition Closing Gala
2022-04-24 15:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Millennium Gate Museum, 395 17th Street Northwest, Atlanta, GA, 30363, United States
Come see hands-on demonstrations and visual presentations of Notre-Dame de Paris’s wooden roof structure, its history, and how it was made.
Three years after a devastating fire ripped through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the effort to restore the iconic landmark is on display in Atlanta through April 24.
This exhibition was at the Smithsonian Institution, Catholic University and the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. in 2021 and is a unique opportunity for people in Atlanta to learn more about this historic work and the architectural and cultural heritage of Notre Dame de Paris.
On April 24, learn about the tools, methods, and materials that would have been used to build this medieval architectural icon, join in a hands-on demonstration of traditional timber framing raising techniques, and discover how Handshouse Studio is bringing its educational mission to the task of recovering the heritage lost in the 2019 fire.
Register for this free event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/notre-dame-de-paris-truss-project-day-of-demonstrations-and-presentations-tickets-312080510207?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Clyde Chabot: : Fille de Militaire (in French)
2022-03-19 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | White Hall 208, 301 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States
Saturday, March 19, at 8pm : Fille de Militaire (in French) – White Hall 208
« My father is military, a low ranking soldier. Here I am humorously
questioning how this may have affected my personality. The text
searches more widely the world of the army, apparently so far from the
theatre, its social, familiar and intimate dimension. I play this show
in duo with a musician with a real pleasure of variation and a certain
improvisation.» Clyde Chabot

Clyde Chabot: CHICAGO-reconstitution (in French)
2022-03-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Math Science Building N306, 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30307, United States
Saturday, March 19, at 7pm : CHICAGO-reconstitution (in french) – Math Science Building N306
CHICAGO-reconstitution is the story by Clyde Chabot of the premature
birth of her daughter, in the United States in 2002. The medical world,
the worries, the joys and the potentials associated with the birth of this
fragile being suddenly arise in a country that is not theirs. 16 years
later the child discovers her native land and looks at what constitute
her. Clyde Chabot plays it in immersion in the public, installed in the
manner of a speaking group.

Clyde Chabot: A Soldier's Daughter
2022-03-18 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | White Hall 208, 301 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States
Friday, March 18, at 8pm : A Soldier’s Daughter – White Hall 208
« My father is military, a low ranking soldier. Here I am humorously
questioning how this may have affected my personality. The text
searches more widely the world of the army, apparently so far from the
theatre, its social, familiar and intimate dimension. I play this show
in duo with a musician with a real pleasure of variation and a certain
improvisation.» Clyde Chabot

Clyde Chabot: CHICAGO-reconstitution
2022-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Math Science Building N306, 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30307, United States
Friday, March 18, at 7pm : CHICAGO-reconstitution – Math Science Building N306
CHICAGO-reconstitution is the story by Clyde Chabot of the premature
birth of her daughter, in the United States in 2002. The medical world,
the worries, the joys and the potentials associated with the birth of this
fragile being suddenly arise in a country that is not theirs. 16 years
later the child discovers her native land and looks at what constitute
her. Clyde Chabot plays it in immersion in the public, installed in the
manner of a speaking group.

Clyde Chabot: Tunisia (in French)
2022-03-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | White Hall 208, 301 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States
Thursday, March 17, at 6pm : TUNISIA (in french) – White Hall 208
With TUNISIA, Clyde Chabot revisits her family history of migration,
from Sicily towards Tunisia then France, to invite each to plunge into
his own memory, to question migratory flow, the fear and the desire of
the other one, and our representation of the foreigners.
TUNISIA, mixes texts and images, “family archaeology” and fiction,
tragedy and humor, reflection on the history and the colonial present
of France, and Tunisia today.

Clyde Chabot: Sicilia
2022-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Convocation Hall, Emory University, 505 North Kilgo Cir NE, Atlanta, GA, 30307, United States
Wednesday, March 16, at 6pm & 8pm at Convocation Hall
SICILIA covers the history of migrations in the family of Clyde Chabot,
left Sicily at the end of the 19th century for the United States and
Tunisia then France. She plays it herself around a big table as if the
audience were her family. She shares with them a bit of Pecorino with
pepper, the only Sicilian relic that has passed through generations. She
has performed this show more than 150 times in France and abroad.

Climate Crisis & Contemporary Culture: Anthropocene Theatre
2021-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Dramatech, 349 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, United States
Working with the French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour, the theater companies Zone Critique and Lighthouse Company explore in a unique way the most urgent ecological and climatic issues. The joint cultural programming “Climate Crisis & Contemporary Culture” hosted by Alliance Francaise d’Atlanta and Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta offers the exceptional opportunity to discover their work, around a discussion and two of their acclaimed performances, Matters and Moving Earths.
Performances are $15 for the general public and $10 for Alliance Française members.
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, 11 am – 12:30 pm (Auditorium 152 Kendeda Building) Debate, Discussion and Round Table with Duncan Evennou, Frédérique Aït Touati, Clemence Hallé). Also available online: https://bluejeans.com/505638236/6244
Thursday, Dec. 2, 5:00 pm “Matters” Performance, DramaTech Theatre (Duncan Evennou)
https://artsgatech.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2052

Friday, Dec. 3, 5:00 pm “Moving Earth” Performance, DramaTech Theatre (Duncan Evennou)
https://artsgatech.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2053

French American Photographer Virginie Kippelen Presents "Lost in Sight" Exhibition
2021-10-09 08:00 - 2021-10-31 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Hapeville City Hall, 3468 North Fulton Avenue, Hapeville, GA, 30354, United States
Virginie Kippelen is a French-American photographer who moved from France to Atlanta in 1991. This October, as part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography festival, her exhibition “Lost in Sight” is on display for the first time.

From now through October 31st, visit Virginie Kippelen’s immersive exhibition of pictures of the Flint River headwaters in an industrial container turned art space next to Hapeville’s City Hall.

For a taste of “Lost in Sight”, read the following:

On any given day, some 260,000 passengers fly in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Beneath the tarmac, unknown to most people, flows the headwaters of one of the most scenic rivers in the southeastern United States, the Flint. Back in the 1970s, the construction of the airport displaced residents and fractured the surrounding neighborhoods. It also buried the river in pipes and culverts, making it invisible to most. As the airport grew, the Flint river’s headwaters disappeared from the map and from the community’s shared experience. This long-term documentary work intends to restore a visual identity to a river’s origin that has been lost in sight.

In Virginie’s own words, “I wanted to offer an immersive experience of the elusive Flint’s headwaters, with visuals and sound. I covered the floor with an image of a river’s bed to give people the feeling that they are walking in water. It is because people have lost the sight and the experience of the river at its source that they have forgotten about it.”

The exhibition is available for viewing by appointment only. Email virginie.kippelen@gmail.com to schedule a viewing. There is no charge for visiting the exhibition. It is located on the pedestrian alley adjacent to the Hapeville City Hall at 3468 North Fulton Avenue.
