Number 37 April 2010 - Alliance Française de Cork

Number 37
April 2010
Monthly newsletter for the Alliance Française Cork
La lettre mensuelle de l’Alliance Française de Cork
Editorial
Chers Amis, dear Friends,
The celebrated French Poet Jacques
REDA joins us this month to bring to us
his own enchanted vision of the world.
Avril
Nora CALLANAN, President, Jacques REDA, French Poet and Hélène DUQUIN, Director Af de CORK
At the Franco-Irish Literary Festival in DUBLIN Castle
Après l’hiver clément j’entends chacun se
plaindre
De l’extrême fraîcheur d’Avril, qui me
convient.
L’air vif, un ciel mouvant et gris qu’on
voit se teindre
Des bleus tendres divers qu’un souffle
diluvien
Noie et fait resplendir ensuite sur
l’asphalte
Entre les ébrouements parfumés des
tilleuls :
C’est bien. Le carrefour dont tous les feux
s’exaltent
-Orange, rouge, vert – se vide et l’on est
seuls
Emportés par le vent, vous et moi, belle
ondée.
Vous me restituez cette émouvante odeur
Qui montait autrefois, de la rue inondée,
Comme de l’avenir et de sa profondeur.
Or ce n’était pourtant qu’une odeur de
poussière
Un peu poivrée, avec le sucre des jardins,
L’iode des chevaux et l’âcreté du lierre
Ou du buis se mêlant aux effluves soudain
De la petite forge.
Et limaille, soudure
Composaient des bouquets où des brins de
coucou
Avaient aussi leur place, et l’acide verdure
Qu’on rapportait les soirs de dimanche.
Beaucoup
D’autres printemps depuis ont rouvert les
coroles
Et ranimé le feu d’un soleil en péril,
Mais s’il n’en reste rien de plus que des
paroles,
Je vis quand il revient le même mois
d’avril.
LEAVING CERT
Seaweed
A photographic exhibition by
Véronique Mohally
At the Alliance Française Gallery
24th March - 13th May 2010
Easter
written and oral
preparation courses
Written
Tuesday
, Wednesday 7th
April
The exhibition will be officially
Focus on all main elements of
opened by
written paper
Vincent Hyland
Specially devised handouts
Ocean Explorer
8-hour course
Veronique first came to Ireland as a
Price €170
young girl and fell in love with the
country before marrying a Cork man.
She remembers developing black and
white pictures in her parent's cellar
with her grandfather and since then
her love for photography has never left
her.
She studied Design in C.S.N and
Interior Design in St John's College,
Cork.
Her exploration of the seashore
presents us with many unexpected
images.
With the help of her artistic eye she
Jacques REDA invites us on a voyage through the
majestic beauty of Seaweeds.
6th
Oral
Thursday 8th and Friday 9th
April
Maximum immersion in an
interactive group
All topic areas
Individual mock oral and advice
sessions
8-hour course
Price €170
For more information contact
021 4310677 or
[email protected]
This month
Alliance Française de Cork
is delighted to
participate in
Intensive preparation
weekend for
Leaving Cert Honours
French Oral Exam
Saturday 17th and
Sunday 18th April 2010
Maximum immersion in an
interactive group
All topic areas
Excellent handouts
Practice sessions
Individual mock oral and advice
sessions
8.5-hour course
Price €170
For more information contact
021 4310677 or
[email protected]
Jacques RÉDA and Niamh SWEENEY,
Af de Cork Courses Coordinator,
Imperial Hotel Cork
Alliance Française de Cork
in association with
Cork City Library
presents
Lecture by French poet
Cork Volunteer Fair 2010
9th – 11th April
at Cork City Hall
For more information go to
www.corkvolunteerweek.ie
Jacques RÉDA
Introduced by
Rosemary CANAVAN
Poet & literary translator
Thursday 15th April 2010
Jacques Réda is a French poet,
jazz critic, and flâneur. He was
chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue
Française from 1987 to 1996.
For more information contact
021 4310677 or
[email protected]
World Book Fest Market
Saturday 24th April 2010
Grand Parade, Cork
New and old French books
at great prices!
For more information go to
www.corkcitylibraries.ie
Easter break Monday 29th March – Sunday 11th April 2010
During the break office will be open
Monday – Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm
Office Hours: Mon-Fri: 9.30am-5.30pm
Sat: 9.30am - 4pm
(closed for lunch 1.30pm - 2.30pm)
European Symposium organised by AF to celebrate
60th Anniversary of Schuman Declaration
Coming up on 18th May 2010, at University College Cork
Alliance Francaise Cork
Enterprise House, 2nd Floor,
36 Mary Street, Cork
Tel/Fax: +353 (0)21 431 06 77
[email protected]
www.alliancefrancaisecork.com
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