Bonjour les amis!
We hope you're all enjoying les vacances and taking a well-deserved break from uni. Our execs are all hard at work planning the events for the coming year, so we thought we'd send you a quick email to let you know what's coming up!
O-week
[Wed 24th – Friday 26th February, University of Sydney]
O-week is only a month away, and FrenchSoc will once again have a stall – come and learn more about us, renew your membership, and take part in some of our free O-week events! We will be hosting a wine and cheese tasting, a café-rendezvous at Le Petit Tarte Café in Glebe, and a main stage performance, so make sure you keep an eye on the O-week schedule and join in the fun. If any of you French enthusiasts would like to showcase your talents as a part of our main-stage performance, please email us at frenchsoc.usyd@gmail.com to find out about taking part!
Alliance Française French Film Festival
[2 – 21 March]
http://www.frenchfilmfestival.org/prog/sydney.aspx
The Alliance Française de Sydney has announced the full selection of films for the 2010 Alliance Française French Film Festival, presented by Tefal. The Festival proudly celebrates its 21st year with a record-breaking 43 new features, screening from Wednesday 2 March until Sunday 21 March at Palace Academy Twin & Verona in Paddington & Palace Norton Street, Leichhardt. Advance tickets go on sale from 10am this Thursday 28 January! Detailed Festival information and Sydney screening schedule is now available to view online!
Volunteers Needed for the Alliance Française French Film Festival
It's that time of the year again!. Initially organised in Sydney only, the Alliance Française French Film Festival has grown to be one of the biggest French Film Festivals in the world in terms of attendees. The festival offers a panoramic selection of contemporary French films.
We will need volunteers for the Opening Night (2 Tuesday March 2010) at the Palace Academy Twin Cinemas on Oxford St, Paddington and the National Art School. As one of the biggest events of L'Alliance Française, there will be a variety of different jobs available.
Volunteers will be needed to help set-up for the opening night (from 10am onwards) as well as during the opening. The variety of roles will include the preparation of gift bags, decoration, ushering, greeting, information, bump in and bump out and the cloakroom.
There will be an expected audience of 700 people so commitment and enthusiasm will be needed in the volunteer roles.
We are looking for enthusiastic and available volunteers who could help out in the organisation of the Festival and the Opening Night. If this sounds like you or you would like some formal event/marketing work experience, send to us:
1) your signed application/your availability of either the whole day, just the afternoon or just the evening (application is found in the attachment of this email)
2) your CV
to moniquew@afsydney.com.au
Thank you!
Sydney French Choir Term 1
[3rd February – 24th March, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., 505 Pitt St]
http://www.sydneyfrenchchoir.com
Sydney French Choir's first term for 2010 will begin on the 4rd February.
Public Performance date and details to be announced at a later date.
Conductor: French-born Ms Amandine Petit, Mr Mus, and Soprano with Sydney Chamber Orchestra.
Rehearsal Venue: Actors College for Theatre and Television / 505 Pitt St Sydney [opposite Central Station].
Cost (to cover conductors fees , rehearsal space, printing materials, advertising, marketing and public performance): $120 for the entire term (students and concession $80).
A Special arrangement for Sydney University French Society the fees will be reduced to $70 for the entire term.
To secure your place in the choir, you may pre-pay to the following account:
Account name: OZ Choirs and Music Inc
Bank: National Bank of Australia [NAB]
BSB: 082171
Account: 83 608 2739
Wine Education at the "Boudoir Salon" Photography Studio
[Friday 29th January, North Bondi, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.]
Book now!!!!!!! Exceptional venue with a Loire Valley photo exhibition. Fabulous black and white prints from french photographer Marie Brokensha, owner of the Boudoir Salon Photography Studio. The essence of this Wine Appreciation night is encapsulated within four words...Fun. Friends. Love. Passion. During the night you will be invited to sample 3 Whites and 3 Reds from different Australian wine-growing regions. What colour is the wine? How do we taste? How do we drink wine? How to match wines and food? How do we smell? What are faults in wines? Learn the secrets of the trade! You will also be able to comment on the structure of a wine, balance, acidity, tannin. Due to the demand we are doing some new courses, book now as places are filling up very quickly, book now for the new 2010 season.
Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris Exhibition
[Art Gallery of NSW, Exhibition closes 26th January, ]
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/current/bunny
Rupert Bunny (1864–1947) is an exotic in the history of Australian art. A creator of grand, sumptuous paintings of Parisian life in the late 19th century, Bunny became one of the most successful artists of his generation. Bunny's romantic portrayals of beautiful women at leisure capture the charm and idyllic life of France's "beautiful era" – the seemingly endless summer of the belle époque. His dream-like paintings of mythological scenes reveal an inspired and imaginative view of life and art. This major exhibition celebrates an exceptional Australian artist and will include over 100 of Bunny's works from collections in Australia, London and Paris – some never seen before in Australia.
A bientôt!
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