Delve into Petit Nicholas’s beautiful world of colours and nostalgic childhood memories for April’s family movie at the Alliance Française de Colombo, as we screen the 2022 French animated family film “Le Petit Nicholas” directed by Amandine Fred on and Benjamin Massoubre.
📅 Saturday 27th of April
⏰️ 3.00pm
🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 7
🎟 Free entry
This month’s CINÉ-CLUB screens the 2022 French drama film “Goutte d’Or” which is about the protagonist Ramsès, a psychic from the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood in Paris. He encounters a group of teenage refugees who terrorises the locals of his neighbourhood, until one day, he experiences a vision.
📅 Wednesday the 24th of April
⏰️7.00pm
🏠Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 07
🎟 Free entry
The French artist Jyotsna Liyanaratne and the Sri Lankan artist Dinuka Chamikara Perera facilitate a dance workshop that encounters dances in circles, traditional and contemporary dance from different cultures, bringing the strength of the circle, dance mandalas and the history of symbolic gestures.
📅 Saturday the 20th of April
⏰️ from 10.00am till 01.00pm
🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 07
📝 Free registrations: events.afcolombo@gmail.com
📢 No dance background is necessary
📢 Participants above 15 years old are welcome!
The Alliance Française de Colombo is delighted to welcome “Prélude à Swarupaya”, a dance performance by the French artist Jyotsna Liyanaratne and the Sri Lankan artist Dinuka Chamikara Perera. The performance will be the first stage of the new creative project in progress of the Souffle de Dance company. It will be a testimony of the meeting between the two French and Sri Lankan artists.
📅 Friday the 19th of April
⏰️ 7.00pm
🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 07
📝 Free registrations: events.afcolombo@gmail.com
The band “French Connection” will be performing a selection of international rock, pop and soul covers with a French touch at the Alliance Française de Colombo.
Through the keyboard, guitar, bass, drum and the voice, the French Connection creates a Dancy, groovy session.
📅 Saturday 06th April
⏰️ 7.00pm onwards
🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo
📝 Free registrations through events.afcolombo@gmail.com
As part of Francophonie 2024, a Francophonie Film Festival will be presented from 21st to 23rd of March and will gather 8 countries members of the Francophonie.
Francophonie brings together over 321 million French speakers from around the world. The International Francophonie Day is organized every year around the 20th of March to celebrate the diversity of the French language and the French-speaking world.
To celebrate Francophonie 2024 in Sri Lanka, the Francophonie Film Festival will take place from 21st to 23rd of March at Alliance Française de Colombo (11 Barnes Place, Colombo 7) and will feature 8 films/ documentaries from countries around the globe members of the Francophonie: Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Romania, Switzerland, Tunisia, Vietnam. All movies will be screened with English subtitles and entrance is free.
A total of 8 movies of all genres will be shown, which will illustrate the diversity and richness of Francophonie cultures: from drama to comedy, to documentary, short-movie and animated movie.
The following are the most suitable for kids.
It is with pleasure that the Alliance Française de Colombo organizes “la fête de la Francophonie” hosting the presentations by the Alliance Française students, on Saturday the 23rd of March from 9.30 to 11.30am where the students are given an opportunity to display their French language skills and to engage in interesting activities as part of the Francophonie celebrations.
The Alliance Française de Colombo welcomes the French langauge students and teachers from Sri Lankan schools to take part in “la journée de la Francophonie” (The day of Francophonie” to celebrate the experience of learning the French langauge on the 20th of March. We have in store an array of engaging activities based on la Francophonie, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games, Campus France consultations as well as other creative and literary workshops.
Celebrating “la semaine de la Francophonie” (the week of Francophonie) the Alliance Française de Colombo welcomes the French language students and the lecturers from Sri Lankan universities to take part in a workshop full of presentations, Campus France consultations, screenings, discussions and interesting literary and creative activities on the 19th of March. We are excited to celebrate the joy of learning the French language and getting to know the French culture.
