This Week >> 11/06/2008
Salut! Come with Let's Travel! this week as we explore a little bit of France in New York City with Pascale Richard of the French Institute/Alliance Francais who also shares her favorite places in France with us. And we discover French Hip Hop culture with members of the Pockemon troupe.
Guests
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
Pascale Richard is VP for External Affairs at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York. Prior to that she was the editor of France-Amérique. She has written in numerous newspapers and magazines including Madame Figaro, l'Officiel, Le Monde, Fashion Daily News. She is the author of Versailles The American Story (Alain de Gourcuff, 1999) and Catherine Malandrino (Assouline, 2008).
Born and raised in France, she lives in New York with her two children, Clara, 15, and Hadrien, 11.
Books: (click on each to read more about them on amazon.com)
22 East 60th Street
Between Park & Madison Avenues
New York, NY 10022
Tel: (212) 355-6100
www.fiaf.org
About FIAF:
French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York. Its mission is to promote and enhance the knowledge and appreciation of French and Francophone culture, to increase the knowledge of the French language, and to encourage interaction among French, Francophone and American people through programs in education and the arts.
Founded at the turn of 20th century, the French Institute and the Alliance Française de New York operated as two separate organizations, the first promoting French arts, the second teaching French. In 1971 they merged to form what has become one of the largest and most respected centers of French-American activities in the U.S: the French Institute Alliance Française.
Located at 22 East 60th Street between Park and Madison Avenues on New York City's Upper Eastside, our beautiful Beaux Arts building is reminiscent of the architecture of Haussmann Paris. Over 6000 students learn French at our Language Center, New York's leading center for French language. The Haskell Library is the most comprehensive private French library in the United States. The 400-seat Florence Gould Hall Theater, where we present LIVE performing arts events and New York's only year-round French cinema series CinémaTuesdays; Tinker Auditorium where we present culinary, literary, and other cultural events; the dramatic penthouse space, Le Skyroom (featuring a demonstration kitchen) where we present exclusive Art de Vivre events; and the recently opened FIAF Gallery ensure FIAF's place as a vibrant cultural force for New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds.
To read about FIAF's upcoming opera premiere of Kurt Weill's "Marie Galante", click here
www.pockemon-crew.com