Bulletin Culturel March 2010

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AIR - PHOENIX THEATRE

ÉRIC HAZAN UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

charlie winston

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK

In « L’Image-Malice » culinary preparations sinous descriptions are used to make us experiment scale audacious comparisons : “…from its end of the XIX th Contents century attested presence in French the word bretzel comes from derived latin “arm” brachium, brachita to common latin brachitella . By form analogy this PAGE 3 - Festival goes to name a salted and cumin peppered 8- or arms- shaped light pastry . If PAGE 7 - Music you move it the other way around, the bretzel draws something which can be related to the symbol of infinite.” * For the compared symbolic appearance of PAGE 8 - Cinema the strudel may I wish you to open the book ? PAGE 8 - Theatre To which infinite or to which crunchy cookies, do the March Francophonie cel- PAGE 9 - Dance ebrations invite us to enjoy in 2010? Thanks to its Alliance Française and part- ners, Winnipeg highlights Africa with musical performances, tales and films. In PAGE 10 - TV Toronto, there are many good wills around Francophonie including Alliance PAGE 11 - Speaking française and many more. Francophone Film Festival “Cinefranco” get started early March for the kids and overlapps end of March with April for parents and PAGE 13 - Release friends.

* « DevantJoël le Savary, Temps /Attaché L’Image-Malice Culturel » Georges Didi-Huberman , Les Editions de Minuit, 2000, Paris, p. 155 . March 2010

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29 30 31 News editor : Joël Savary CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO Creative writer : Martin Colomer-Diez Audiovisual : Marie Herault-Delanoë ERIC HAZAN Book : Léa Deshusses Music : Simon Grignon

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CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK MARCH 10-14

Canadian Music Week is a major Paral-Lel is a french duo of elec- Monsieur Cédric is a French DJ well event for Canadian and North Ameri- tronic music composed by Slush and kown of Saint Tropez and the French can music industry. Every year more Praktisch. They work with the label Riviera. He is the DJ of the well than 400 artists from Canada and BEE Records which is settled in Lyon. known and elitist Nikki Beach in St everywhere in the world are going to Their first album Upgrade to mutant Tropez and mix during the crazy par- perform in many venues of Toronto. sheep has been appreciated in France ties of the Cannes Festival in May. This week is the opportunity for the and abroad. They performed in artists to meet producers and record France, United States and in the labels. Indeed, this is not just a festi- Balkans. TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH val like many others. There, profes- CHEVAL sionals meetings are important, Dead Sexy Inc. is composed of The 606 KING ST. WEST numerous and fruitful. Infamous and Graceful Emmanuel H MONSIEUR CEDRIC (LTNO), The delicious and dirty 10 PM Many french artists are invited each Stephane H who set up the band. In year. Some successful, some who are 2005, Mr Porn Scandal and Alexis G DRAKE UNDERGROUND going to be. The 2010’s French dele- have linked up the band. They have 1150 QUEEN ST. WEST gation is composed of 5 bands very been on stage everywhere in the PARAL-LEL different: Paral Lel, Dead Sexy Inc, world and especially in Japan where 12 AM Papier Tigre, Charlie Winston and they are well-known. Moreover, they Monsieur Cédric. are film directors, photographer and FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH DJs. MOD CLUB THEATRE Charlie Winston is an English singer- 722 COLLEGE ST songwriter who lives in France. His Papier Tigre is a rock band from CHARLIE WINSTON first album Hobo was a success in Nantes who sings in English. Many 8 PM France, Belgium and Switzerland. It critics see them such as the new has been released by the French French indie rock band. In 2007, their SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH record label Atmospheriques and first album Papier Tigre is released in SNEAKY DEE'S more than 375 000 albums have been France thanks to their local label Ef- 431 COLLEGE ST. sold. fervescence. One year later, they DEAD SEXY INC. went on stage with the new album 8 PM The Beginning and End Of Now. After two years on the roads of China, Mex- HIDEOUT ico, Brasil and United States, they are 484 QUEEN ST. WEST in Toronto for an amazing show. PAPIER TIGRE 9 PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 14TH RANCHO RELAXO 300 COLLEGE STREET PAPIER TIGRE 11:30 PM

3 CINÉFRANCO MARCH 6 - APRIL 3

Cinefranco is a french speaking fes- WELCOME BY PHILIPPE LIORET BEHIND THE WALLS BY CHRISTIAN tival which takes place in Toronto in Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy FAURE March. It celebrates the excellence from Iraq. He sets off on an adven- A young runaway rejects society's and the diversity of the French cin- ture-filled journey across Europe. He condemnation and dares to fulfill his ema. This year it has been created a wants to get to England to see his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old novelty with the special program love who lives there. Bilal finally orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world Bravery and Heroism of the Youth. reaches Calais, but how do you cover through the bars of "educational 32 kilometers of the English Channel homes" where he is raised in condi- SKIRT DAY BY JEAN-PAUL tions worthy of a penal colony, and LILIENFELD dreams of a dramatic escape across A high school teacher loses it and the ocean to New York. ends up holding half of her class SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 7:45PM hostage, turning the situation into a reflexion on the crises of modern LEGAL AID BY HANNELORE CAYRE youth. Isabelle Adjani, looking stun- 40 year-old Antoine Lahoud ning in her white skirt and blazer, is when you can't swim? (Roschdy Zem) is an enthusiastic legal unpredictable and completely con- SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 5:30PM aid, although disappointed by his pro- vincing as a teacher who detains the THE LITTLE NICOLAS BY LAURENT fession. He drags himself from one school thugs at gunpoint. A powerful TIRARD charity case to another. One day as and, sadly, still very relevant subject. Nicolas has a happy existence, par- he is pleading a case, he is noticed by SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 5PM ents who love him, a great group of Henry Marsac (Jean-Philippe Ecof- SATURDAY, APRIL 3RD, 6:30 PM friends with whom he has great fun, fey), a lawyer with a fiendish reputa- and all he wants is that nothing tion. He is then hired to defend EDEN IN WEST BY COSTA GAVRAS changes... However, one day, he mobsters and work on more prof- A drama centered around the illegal overhears a conversation that leads itable cases. Antoine who was finan- immigrants living in the EU. A strong him to believe that his life might cially struggling, is quick to human story which cannot touch you. change forever, his mother is preg- appreciate living in luxury. However, SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 9:15 P.M nant! He panics and envisions the it doesn’t take him long to under- SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH, 3:00 P.M worst: soon a little brother will be stand that Marsac’s interests are not there, who will take up so much entirely laudable and that this collab- space that his parents will not have oration will put Antoine behind bars. time to take care of him anymore, FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND, 6PM and they might even abandon him in the forest like Tom Thumb… SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH, 5:15PM

4 SEMAINE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE MARCH 17 - 25

THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH Galerie Glendon 8pm 2275, avenue Bayview Songs – Richard Desjardins stops by Photographies – Texts, captions, 416-487-6721 Toronto to present a very intime and illuminations (Textes, légendes et free admission recital : Richard Desjardins et sa gué- enluminures) with 21 authors, 16 vi- tard. Alone with a guitar, he sings sual artists and tells us strong and beautiful sto- This exhibition illustrates the many SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH ries. forms taken by the meeting of litera- Room Brigantine du Centre ture and painting. These works 2pm Harbourfront demonstrate the dual process of illus- Café littéraire –Writing to resist, 235, rue Queen’s Quay Ouest tration: most often, a text is illus- meeting with two new authors from 416-973-4000 trated by a painting, though at times, the publishing house GREF: Célestine www.harbourfrontcentre.com the process is reversed. Mavoungou and Jean-Baptiste Muba- 25$ in advance This exhibition offers numerous lutila Mbizi. Book signing: Daniel 30$ at doors pleasures: to admire a visual work, to Soha. discover a literary text, and to ex- Gallery Glendon plore their relationship. The pleasure 2275, avenue Bayview SUNDAY, MARCH 21ST of discovery, when it comes to art, is www.glendon.yorku.ca/semain a serious matter... edelafrancophonie 2pm free admission Workshop – with the artist Chris- Until march 31st. From monday tiane Faubert, about different art vi- to thursday - 9am-9pm and the sual medium: pastels, inks, friday - 9am - 4pm 5pm watercolours, gouaches, acrylics and Alliance Française de Toronto Soirée marocaine – annual cultural oils. You may also see the artist exhi- 24, Spadina Road event of the Association marocaine bition until march 31st. 416-922-2014 poste 35 de Toronto: morrocan dinner, music www.alliance-francaise.ca and performances. Gallery Céline-Allard free admission 20, avenue Lower Spadina 416-203-1220 poste 229 Arts visuels – Sagamie, l’imprimé Metropolitain Centre free admission numérique en art contemportain, a 3840, avenue Finch five artists exhibitions with the Cen- (between Kennedy and Birch- tre Sagamie from Alma (Québec). mount) Until march 31st. Tuesday to 416-219-5793 Friday: noon-3pm and saturday [email protected] 1pm-4pm. 35$

5 6:30pm Poetry – Soleil Toujours Soleil, with the musician Emilyn Stam (piano et Alliance Française de Toronto violon) and the french poete André 24, Spadina Road Velter, proposes a recital about trav- 416-922-2014 poste 35 elling, roving and spaces. This www.alliance-francaise.ca evening is presented in collaboration free admission with the University of Guelph.

AFRI’K À L’ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE WINNIPEG 6-17 MARS

SECOND EDITION OF THE Wednesday, March 10th - 7:30pm Saturday, March 13th AFRI’K ! FESTIVAL. Moroccan tales by Mohammed Theater: The Friendship, musical Khadarchi (Maroc) – 2pm Saturday, March 6th – 6:30pm theatre play produced by Daouda Alliance Française du Manitoba Dembélé (Ivory Coast) West african tales by Boniface Bahi Opening night Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- (Côte d’Ivoire) – 4pm Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- face – Martial Caron Room Alliance Française du Manitoba face – Student center free admission free admission free admission Thursday, March 11th - 7:30pm Tuesday, March 16th – 7pm Monday, March 8th - 7:30pm Screening of the film “Française” “The Talking Drums” Musa Dieng Kala concert (Senegal) by Souad El Bouhati (Morocco). Alliance Française du Manitoba Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- Following by a panel discussion on free admission face - Martial Caron Room immigration and its issues General admission: $ 10 The debate will be in French Wednesday, March 17th – 8:30pm Alliance Française member: $ 8 Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- CUSB students: Free face – Martial Caron Room Tété and Eric John Kaiser concert (On presentation of card) Free admission (Senegal and France)

Tusday, March 9th – 7:30pm Friday, March 11th - 7:30pm Centre culturel franco-manitobain General admission: $ 10 Theater : “The Friendship”, musi- African cinema evening Alliance Française member: $ 8 cal theatre play produced by Daouda 5pm - « Finye » by Souleymane Cissé CUSB student: Free Dembélé (Ivory Coast) (Mali) (On presentation of card) Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- 7pm - “Heremakono” by Abderrah- face – Martial Caron Room mane Sissako (Mauritania) free admission Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boni- face – Martial Caron Room free admission

6 Music

TINARIWEN AT THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE MARCH 4

Tinariwen is a band of Tuareg musi- 2000s Tinariwen started to gain a fol- cians from the Sahara Desert region lowing outside Africa, first in the THURSDAY, MARCH 4TH of northern Mali. Formed in 1979, world music community, and then in DOORS: 8PM they rose to prominence in the 1980s the wider rock scene, thanks to fre- PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE as the pied pipers of a new political quent tours and appearances at 410 SHERBOURNE ST. and social conscience in the southern major festival in Europe and the USA. $30 IN ADVANCE Sahara, and the icons of a whole gen- They are performing in Toronto $40 AT DOORS eration of young Touareg living in march the 4th. WWW.SMALLWORLDMUSIC.COM exile in Algeria and Libya. In the early

AIR MARCH 23

Air is a music duo from Versailles, is released in the world wide and they France, consisting of Nicolas Godin have begun an international tour. and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. The name They will be in Toronto March 23rd at Air is a backronym for Amour, Imagi- Phoenix Concert Theater. nation, Rêve which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream. TUESDAY, MARCH 23RD Air's debut EP, Premiers Symptômes, 9 PM was followed by the critically ac- PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE claimed album Moon Safari, the re- 410 SHERBOURNE STREET release of Premiers Symptômes, The TORONTO Virgin Suicides score, and subse- Pocket Symphony and Love 2. (416) 323-1251 quently albums 10 000 Hz Legend, $32,5 Everybody Hertz, Talkie Walkie, In October 2009, the album Love 2

HABIB KOITÉ AT THE REVIVAL MARCH 25

Habib Koité was born in 1958 to mu- Mali's capital city Bamako, and the sical parents, from whom he learned word roughly translates as "In the THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH instrumentation by watching and lis- mouth of the crocodile." Other mem- DOORS: 8PM tening. He joined the Bamako Na- bers of the band were friends of REVIVAL tional Institute of Arts and became a Koité's from childhood. 783 COLLEGE ST. conductor in 1978 after only six He is performing in Toronto March $25 IN ADVANCE months of playing. 25th. $30 AT DOORS He graduated in 1982, and formed his WWW.SMALLWORLDMUSIC.COM band Bamada in 1988. The name "Ba- mada" is a nickname for residents of 7 Cinema

PERSÉPOLIS AT THE ONF MARCH 4

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Sta- ing to remain silent at this injustice, have changed too much and the trapi watches events through her her parents send her abroad to Vi- young woman and her loving family young eyes and her idealistic family enna to study for a better life. How- must decide where she truly belongs. of a long dream being fulfilled of the ever, this change proves an equally hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian difficult trial with the young woman Revolution of 1979. finding herself in a different culture However as Marji grows up, she wit- loaded with abrasive characters and nesses first hand how the new Iran, profound disappointments that MARCH 4TH now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, deeply trouble her. 7:30 PM has become a repressive tyranny on Even when she returns home, Marji 150 JOHN STREET, TORONTO, ON its own. With Marji dangerously refus- finds that both she and homeland

Theatre

MARCH 15TH - APRIL 10TH WWW.CANADIANSTAGE.COM 26 BERKELEY STREET, TORONTO - “ART” BY YASMINA REZA AT CANSTAGE (416) 366-7723

This witty, razor-sharp international appeaser Yvan and burgeoning art afi- 1997 Laurence Olivier Award for Best hit by multi-award-winner Yasmina cionado Serge come to a head over Comedy Reza explores the nature of friend- artistic merit, modernism and the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play ship while examining the definition of value of friendship, testing the men's 1998 New York Drama Critics' Circle art. relationship and ultimately offering Best Play The play revolves around the pur- reconciliation. chase of a very expensive, white-on- Written by Yasmina Reza white painting which pushes the Awards Translated by Christopher Hampton boundaries of art and ignites a pas- 1995 Molière Award for Best Author Directed by Morris Panych sionate debate among three friends. 1996 Evening Standard Award for Best Designed by Ken MacDonald Gruff battleaxe Marc, highly-strung Comedy

8 Dance

RACHID OURAMDANE MARCH 11-13

Rachid Ouramdane is a french dancer and choreographer borned in Nice in 1971. His show Loin ... (Far...) will be presented at the Enwave Theatre in March:

A solo exploration of identity from one of France’s hottest choreogra- phers. “I see myself as a portraitist,” Rachid Ouramdane says. “I want to create a portrait through the voices of many people.” On the cutting edge of performance art, the acclaimed choreographer incorporates dance, video footage, a pedal-controlled sound score and beat-inspired poetry into Loin...(Far...) This performance was created in He follows his father’s journey as an march 2008 at Bonlieu, Scène Na- MARCH 11-13 Algerian soldier in the French Army, tionale d'Annecy, France. It has been ENWAVE THEATRE interviewing the people he meets performed in Switzerland, Turkey, 231 QUEENS QUAY WEST along the way to better understand UK, Belgium, Italy, France and soon in TORONTO how colonial occupation has influ- Ottawa, Austria and Germany. 30$ enced their sense of identity today. Heart-rending, exhilarating and NOTE: Fabrice Lambert will dance in deeply personal, Ouramdane weaves Rachid Ouramdane's role. an unforgettable tale.

9 THE CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE FRENCH CONSULATE IN Television TORONTO PRESENTS HIS SELECTION OF TFO FRENCH CINEMA PROGRAM

BETTY BY CLAUDE CHABROL Serrault, Isabelle Huppert, François quences. When Betty is caught en flagrante, Cluzet France. 1994. 100 mins. With her bourgeois in-laws and husband Tuesday, March 16th, 9pm François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Béart, force a divorce settlement upon her Wednesday, March 17th, 12:30am Marc Lavoine. and bar her from seeing her two Friday, March 19th, 5pm Tuesday, March 30nd, 9pm daughters. She is rescued from an al- Monday, March 22th , 12:35am Wednesday, March 31st, 12:30am coholic stupor by Laure, a middle- Monday, April 5th , 12:35am aged woman who takes Betty to her MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT BY hotel lodgings, extends friendship CLAUDE CHABROL ÊTRE ET AVOIR BY NICOLAS and care, and listens to her story. After the death of his second wife, con- PHILIBERT Laure's lover, Mario, the proprietor of cert pianist André Polonski remarries his How do we learn to live with others the bar where Betty and Laure met, first wife, Swiss chocolate-company and their wishes? Director Nicolas is first a friend, then Betty's next con- heiress Mika Muller. Soon a young piano Philibert poses this question in a vil- quest.. student, Jeanne Polet, gets the idea that lage schoolhouse in Auvergne, where France, 1992. 103 mins. With Marie she may be André's daughter. She visits his Georges Lopez teaches 13 children, Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean- house in Lausanne, gets to know André's ages ranging from about four to 12. François Garreaud son Guillaume who was born on the same Against a landscape of mountains and Tuesday, March 2nd, 9pm day as she, and starts taking piano lessons farmland, from driving snow to rain Wednesday, March 3rd, 12:30am from André. Mika Muller keeps serving to sun, the children gather in Lopez's Monday, March 8th , 12:40am them her famous hot chocolate, but with warm and colorful classroom, to some help from a boyfriend conveniently read, write dictation, cook, and sort UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMMES BY working in a lab owned by Jeanne's things out. At home, the older ones CLAUDE CHABROL mother, it soon becomes obvious to do homework with parents after their Marie accepts to help her neighbor Jeanne that the chocolate doesn't come chores. At year's end, they look ahead getting rid of an undesired child. A straight from the family company's pro- to the next, visiting the middle school story of adultery, success and harsh- duction line. and meeting the little ones coming in ness of Vichy regime. France, 2001. 95 mins. With Charlotte the fall. As they learn sums and ad- France, 1988. 108 mins. With Is- Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot. jectives, with Lopez's help, they also abelle Huppert, Dominique Blanc, Tuesday, March 23th, 9pm learn to live side by side. François Cluzet. Wednesday, March 24th, 12:30am France, 2002. 104 mins. Tuesday, March 9nd, 9pm Friday, March 26th, 1pm Saturday, March 6th, 9pm Wednesday, March 10rd, 12:30am Monday, March 29th, 12:50am Sunday, March 7th, 12:30am Monday, March 15th , 12:30am Friday, March 12th, 13pm L’ENFER BY CLAUDE CHABROL RIEN NE VA PLUS BY CLAUDE Paul, an irritable and stressed-out CHABROL hotel manager, begins to gradually Betty and Victor are a pair of develop paranoid delusions about his scam artists. One day Betty brings wife's infidelity. As he succumbs to in Maurice, a treasurer of a multi- green-eyed jealousy, his life starts to national company. Maurice is due crumble. Each step on his downward to transfer 5 millions francs out spiral to madness seems to acceler- of Switzerland, and Betty is con- ate, driving him further along the vinced he plans to steal that path to a personal hell. Finally, the money... former shell of his personality cracks France, 1997. 105 mins. With Michel completely, with tragic conse- 10 Speaking

ERIC HAZAN MARCH 29

Éric Hazan is borned in 1936. He is a d’Etudes Françaises et du Monde french author-publisher. Francophone, CEFMF at the University of Toronto on one of his books “The Early politically engaged for the FLN Invention of Paris, a History in Foot- during the Algeria war, Eric Hazan be- steps”. came a cardiovascular surgeon in MONDAY, MARCH 29TH 1975. He is a member of the Franco- 5PM-6:30PM Palestinian Medical Association. He RESERVATION: went to Lebanon as a doctor during HTTP://WEBAPP.MCIS.UTORONTO.CA the war. He is a member of the pa- /EVENTDETAILS.ASPX?EVENTID=8674 tronage group of the Russell Tribunal ROOM 108, NORTH BUILDING, on Palestine. MUNK CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Then, he became a publisher and cre- (1 DEVONSHIRE PLACE) ated in 1998 the editions La Fabrique to fight against the publishing cen- tralization. He is also a translator.

Eric Hazan does a speaking at Centre

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS MARCH 2

THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PRO- Fabrice Weissman is a researcher TECT AND HUMANITARIAN AS- with the Médecins Sans Frontières SISTANCE: ALLAN ROCK AND Foundation (MSF/Doctors Without FABRICE WEISSMAN DIALOGUE Borders) in Paris, France. His TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND ON BEST INTENTIONS AND work with MSF started in 1995 and 2-4 PM RIGHT ACTION. has taken him to Liberia, Sierra MUNK CENTRE FOR INTERNA- Leone, Sudan, Kosovo, Eritrea, TIONAL STUDIES Allan Rock is currently the Pres- Guinea-Conakry, CAR and Darfur, 1 DEVONSHIRE PL ident of the University of Ottawa, where he was the Head of Mission TORONTO, ON and a former Ambassador of in 2005-2006 and 2008. (416) 946-8900 Canada to the United Nations. VIVIAN AND DAVID CAMPBELL Allan Rock held different govern- CONFERENCE FACILITY ment portfolios as Minister of Health, Industry, and Justice and he was Attorney General of Canada.

11 SYMPOSIUM “NEW WORLD, NEW SPACES”

The University of Guelph (Guelph, Salim Bachi is a young franco-alger- Ontario, Canada) is proud to welcome ian author. He has participated for a the colloquium to The Courtyard by month to the 2009 Ulysse Project: a THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH Marriott, in Toronto, on March 25, 26, literary travel accross both borders 7PM 27, 2010. The event will be taking of the Mediterranean see, stoping by TALK WITH SALIM BACHI ABOUT place during the city’s annual Se- Malte, Lenanon, Tunis, Tripoli and “A LA RECHERCHE D'ULYSSE” maine de la Francophonie. Among Cyprus. . our anticipated keynote speakers are FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH André Velter, French poet and inter- André Velter is a french traveller 1:15PM-2:45PM preter of world poetry; Nicole and poet. He is broadcasting Poésie TALK WITH MARIE ETIENNE Brossard, Québecoise writer and sur parole on France Culture. He re- critic; Marie Etienne, French poet, ceived the Prix Goncourt in 1996. SATURDAY, MARCH 27TH novelist and essayist; Salim Bachi, 5PM-6PM Franco-Algerian writer and François TALK WITH ANDRÉ VELTER Paré, literary critic specializing in les littératures de l’exiguïté. ALL THE EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT Marie Etienne is a french poet, nov- COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT elist, essayist and literary critic. She TORONTO, ON is one of the main figure in the french current poetry. Her work started in 1977.

SPEAKING ON THE TRAVELOGUE WRITING IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES

As part of its conference cycle, la So- Supérieure, Grégoire Holtz has been TUESDAY, MARCH 16TH ciété d’Histoire de Toronto presents: an assistant professor in the Depart- AFT SPADINA « FROM EXPERIENCE TO PUBLI- ment of French Studies of the Univer- GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON CATION: TRAVELOGUE WRITING sity of Toronto since 2007. A specialist 24 SPADINA ROAD IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CEN- of travel literature from the 16th and 7PM TURIES » 17th Centuries, he is interested in the FREE ADMISSION By Grégoire Holtz, PHD in Humanities relations between history, ethnology IN FRENCH (2006), tenured professor (2000) and and literature. former student of the Ecole Normale 12 Release

RELEASE OF A PROPHET BY JACQUES AUDIARD ON MARCH 5th, 2009 ! (Tahar RAHIM - Malik, Niels ARESTRUP - Cesar Luciani, Adel BENCHERIF - Ryad, Reda KATEB - Jordi, Hichem YACOUBI - Reyeb)

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail en- tirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cor- nered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans...

Nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film (2010) Won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Film Not in the English Language (2009) Won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival (2009)

PLAY WITH US TO WIN 2 TICKETS FOR THE PREMIERE OF THE FILM, ON MARCH 4TH

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Be among the first to answer correctly this question: Where Jacques Audiard shoot A Prophet? -Fresnes -Shot on location -Prison de la Santé -Film studio

Send your answer to [email protected] (the tickets have to be picked up directly at the French Consulate)

13 Two contest for 2010: Allons en France 2010 and the Francothèque! Participate to win the Francothèque, for a total value up to 1 000 $ You may win books, dvds, cds from french creators from North and South America. www.francophoniedesameriques.com/francotheque

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STUDYING IN FRANCE MARCH 1

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