Club Event: C&S Festival 2019

Today from 10-2pm, the LTU Clubs and Societies Festival was held on the Simpson Lawn. Despite the heat over forty people visited the stall and took a flyer for the club. 😁

Thanks to LAVISA (La Trobe Vietnamese Student's Association) for their company, the French Department for their support and to everyone who dropped in to help out!

The stall, evidently :)

See you at the AGM next week!

Take Notice AGM 2019!

La Trobe French Club is back for semester 1 2019! 

Hello one and all, it's that time of year again 😀.

The 2019 French Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 7th of March in Library Collaboration Room 2-22 from 1-2pm.

It's our most important meeting of the year - we need your attendance to operate with university funding plus you get to have say in the running of the club!

Everyone is welcome regardless their French ability or whether they're student or staff, past or present: we’re looking for people to pitch in (even if it’s just a little thing such as being present.)

More information will be posted soon!

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Book: The Story of French

From the La Trobe Library…

Book: The Story of French by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau.

Book cover from St Martin's Press edition

The Story of French dives into the history of the French language: the people, the places, the events, and its ongoing importance in an “anglophone” world. Why is French is the language of haute culture for English-speakers (when perhaps the opposite is true for much of the world?) Why do English and French share so many words? 

This expansive story (covering sixteen centuries) answers these questions and more over 483 pages, exploring the origins, spread and evolution of the French language(s) from around the year 400 CE up until today. (Today being sometime in 2006.) 

The creation of l’Académie française, Roman invasions, various people making up imaginary rules for language, colonisation, international diplomacy: it's all here in this amusing and globetrotting book.

See reviews on Goodreads (3.97/5), or the New York Times.  

The Story of French is available in the La Trobe Library (with a different cover to what is pictured above).

French Film Festival 2019

Calling all French Film Lovers- The Alliance Française French Film Festival is almost here!

Alliance française promotional banner for the Film Festival

What?

Year after year, this festival brings dozens of French films to many thousands of Australians. Films showing this year include: Astérix, le secret de la potion magique (French Comedy, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the series with a grand adventure), La chute de l'empire américan (Canadian Comedy, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film, Valladolid International Film Festival 2018 ), and En liberté (French Drama, winner of the SACD prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 where it was a big hit). 

See a full festival line-up here.
 

Open Street Maps - Palace Westgarth

When?  

For Melbourne, screening are from the 6th of March to the 10th of April. 

Where? 

Palace Cinema Como, Palace Balawyn, Palace Westgarth, Palace Brighton Bay, Kino Cinema and the Astor Theatre are showing films.  

The closest location to La Trobe University is Palace Westgarth (89 High Street, Northcote) - easily reachable by the 86 tram.  

The Kino Cinema (45 Collins Street, Melbourne) is another option for those not near the 86 tram line but still close to a train line. 

How Much?  

Concession tickets are available from $16 for students under 25 years old (general admission is $26 but certain screenings cost more.)
 

More info

See the offical trailer or listen to an interview in French with Philippe Platel, Attaché culturel of the French Embassy from the SBS here.