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LE MAGAZINE DE L'ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE À SRI LANKA ET AUX MALDIVES

Olivier GrossetêteUrban Art at the Colombo Art Biennale

William CallyCinema from Reunion Island

European Film Festival

New edition in Colombo and Jaffna

International Photo Competition

130 years Alliance Française

New Classes & New Termstarting in January 2014

NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2013 JANUARY 2014 – N° 32

www.alliancefrancaise.lk

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COLOMBO - Alliance Française de Kotte18, Coniston Place, Off Torrington Avenue, Colombo 07 – Sri Lanka, Ph.: +94 (0) 11 258 98 14E-mail: [email protected]: www.alliancefrancaise.lk(www.alliancefrkotte.lk)

KANDY 642, Peradeniya Mawatha, Kandy – Sri LankaPh.: +94 (0) 81 222 44 32E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.afkandy.org

- Alliance Française de Kandy

JAFFNA - Alliance Française de Jaffna61, Kachcheri-Nallur RoadJaffna – Sri Lanka, Ph.: +94 (0) 21 222 80 93E-mail: [email protected]

MALÉ - MALDIVES 20 158 National Library, Museum Building A, Medhuziyaarai Magu, Malé - MaldivesPh.: +960 793 21 68, Email: [email protected]: www.afmaldives.org

- Alliance Française de Malé

GALLE 196/A, Wakwella Road, Galle – Sri LankaPh.: +94 (0) 71 535 94 06 E-mail: [email protected]: alframatgal.jimdo.com

- Annexe de l’Alliance Française de Matara

of Six EntitiesOUR NETWORK CONSISTS

MATARA 31/4, Akuressa Road, Nupe Matara – Sri LankaPh.: +94 (0) 41 223 20 60E-mail: [email protected]: alframatgal.jimdo.com

- Alliance Francaise de Matara

EVENTS CALENDAR (Colombo)NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

2013

2013

2014

Tuesday 26 15:00 Cinema / Elie Blacksmith of Freedom Kelaniya University

Wednesday 27 15:00 Cinema / Elie Blacksmith of Freedom National Library Auditorium

Thursday 28 18:00 Cinema European Film Festival (EFF) National Film Corporation

Friday 29 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Cool kids don't cry / National Film Corporation

Saturday 30 15:00 / Cinema EFF: In a better world National Film Corporation

First week Dance Contempory Dance workshop Sri Jayawardenapura University

Sunday 1 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Tomorrow will be better National Film Corporation

Monday 2 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Great Expectations National Film Corporation

Tuesday 3 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Clara and the Secrets of National Film Corporation

Wednesday 4 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Tales of the Night (All Audiences) / National Film Corporation

Thursday 5 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Hotel Swooni (All Audiences) / National Film Corporation

Friday 6 15:00 / Cinema EFF: Oh! Boy (Adults Only) / National Film Corporation

Monday 9 Photography Deadline for submission of photos

18:00 Music/ Liszt & European Romanticism AFKo

Friday 13 18:00 Culture Club Francophone: AFKo

Wednesday 18 18:00 Cinema The Snows of Kilimanjaro National Library Auditorium

Thursday 19 15:00 Event / Students’ Party / International AFKo

Thursday 16 18:00 AFKo

Friday 17 Exhibition 130 years of Alliance Française AFKo

Wednesday 22 18:00 AFKo

Wednesday 29 18:00 Cinema The Painting (All Audiences) National Library

30 to Performing Arts Colombo Art Biennale Colombo

30 to Literature / Colomboscope Colombo

(All Audiences)conference by and with director William Cally

(All Audiences) conference by and with director William Cally

opening movie: Angel’s share (All Audiences)

(All Audiences) 18:00 Color of the ocean (Adults Only)

(More Suitable for Adults) /18:00 The Giants (More Suitable for Adults)

(Adults Only) /18:00 The House by the Medlar Tree (More Suitable for Adults)

(All Audiences) / 18:00 The Beloved (Adults Only)

the Bears (All Audiences) / 18:00 Uncle Hank (More Suitable for Adults)

18:00 The Beauty and the Bastard (More Suitable for Adults)

18:00 More than Honey (All Audiences)

18:00 Between two Worlds (More Suitable for Adults)

for International Photo Competition

Wednesday 11 Conference

Thursday 12 18:00 Literature Book Club: An evening with Albert Camus AFKo

Theme "Christmas"

(More Suitable for Adults)

Photography Photo competition Exhibition

Literature Book Club: An evening with Jean Cocteau

Culture Club Francophone

Auditorium

9th Feb. Olivier Grossetête

2nd Feb. Performing Arts

Delégation généraleà Sri Lanka et aux Maldives

Message of The PresidentDear Members, Students and Friends,

At this time of the year, I am pleased to wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas and New Year. I hope 2014 would bring you much satisfaction and pleasure in learning with Alliance Française de Kotte.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the French and Sri Lankan authorities as well as our partners and friends, companies, associations and certain individuals, who have always supported us and for all the help shown to us in 2013. I also whish to thank all the Alliance Française staff for being so engaged and dedicated and thus contributed to the success of our activities on all fronts. I am pleased to say that we have set an attendance record for our courses this last quarter of the year with over 550 students’ enrolments.

Between November 2013 and January 2014, we have prepared for you a program of sustained and varied activities where I note especially, two strengths with the visit to Sri Lanka by two French artists. This November, with the presentation of filmmaker William Cally, a native of Reunion Island and, in January, with the performance at the Contemporary Art Biennale of Colombo with the urban artist Olivier Grossetête.

William Cally who will introduce his film "Elie, Blacksmith of Freedom", will not only speak of his work as a filmmaker, but also on a French territory little known to the Sri Lankan public: Reunion Island which like Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean and, moreover, the closest part of France.

Olivier Grossetête meanwhile is an important artist of the new French contemporary art. His work is truly a spectacular performance that should make quite an impression and be without doubt the highlight of the next Contemporary Art Biennale in Colombo.

See you soon at Alliance Française. Best wishes

Chandra Wickramasinghe

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT

2 | November, 2013 - January, 2014

Mr Chandra Wickramasinghe President

Mr Seneka Abeyratne Vice-President

Mr Chamath Edirisuriya Treasurer

Mr Niroshan Dassanayake Secretary

Mr Claude Alexandre Martinez Director Administration

Mrs Niroshini Gunasekera Acting Secretary

Professor Sarath Amunugama Member Director

Mr Yasapala Nanayakkara Member Director

Mrs Sumithra Pieris Member Director

Mr Kumar de Silva Member Director

Ms Eranga Maheshika Deputy Director

Ms Subhashinie Punchihetti Pedagogical Consultant,Campus France Correspondent

Mr Prasanna Herath Accountant

Mr Mapatunagamage Wijerathna Technician

Ms Dinuka de Alwis Information Officer in charge of the reception

Ms Natacha Kankanamage Information Officer in charge of the reception

Mr Hashan Madhunka Communication and CultureOfficer - media library

Ms Sarah Mahé Communication and Culture Officer

Mr Robin Guillon Communication and Culture Officer

Mr Mani Maintenance staff

Ms Thilini Ariyaratna, Mrs Irosha Chandrasekera, Ms Maryann de Silva, Mrs Veena Fernando, Mr Robin Guillon, Mrs Mihiri Gunasekara, Ms Dinusha Ileperuma, Mrs Sarangi Kaluarachchi, Ms Jayani Kotelawala, Mrs Apsara Kudalugodaarachchi, Ms Sarah Mahé, Mr Maya Manawamma, Mrs Indeewarie Panditharathna, Mr Mahendra Pathirathne, Ms Dinusha Perera, Ms Subhashinie Punchihetti, Mrs Samitha Rajasinghe, Mrs Nisansala Rasanjalee, Mrs Ruwini Premaratne, Mrs Shevanthi Samaraweera, Mrs Ridma Thiranagama, Mrs Sankalya Thiyambarawatta, Ms Seya Wijayasinghe

H.E. Mr Jean-Paul MonchauAmbassador of France to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Teaching StaffPatron

Board Directors Staff

With Best Compliments from

For over 30 years, SCP has provided a wide range of engineering services in Sri Lanka.

SOCIETE DU CANAL DE PROVENCE

Regional Office146/18, Havelock RoadColombo 5 - Sri LankaTel. : 011 258 90 88

[email protected]

Head Office (France)Le Tholonet - CS 7006413182 Aix-en-ProvenceTel. : +33 4 42 66 70 59

[email protected]

Ongoing Engineering Services for the Greater Trincomalee Water Supply Project


Alliance Française network in Sri Lanka and the Maldives offers 4 terms per year, a variety of regular and special classes in French using communicative and interactive approach and the latest textbooks and audiovisual aids.

We are proposing at our Alliances to all students, whatever their age, regular classes in French for total beginners, as well as Intermediate, Advanced and Higher levels.

We are also offering classes in French for specific professional or personal purposes, i.e. for travel and hotel trades, business, diplomacy, education, migration, travelling, etc.).

Alliance Française does not forget as well school children who plan to sit for local government exams such as the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary (O) Level and the GCE Advanced (A) Level or international exams like the London O Level.

Apart from that, we also conduct conversation classes, reading workshops and various other workshops for children and adults to help them improve their French.

At Alliance française, highly qualified teachers conduct classes on all 7 days of the week, at convenient times for students. Most of our teachers are trained in France and all of them regularly attend teachers' training programmes conducted by French language teaching experts coming from France.


In Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Alliance Française is the only authorized institutional network to run official Examination centres for worldwide-recognized international French diplomas and certificates.

Certificates and diplomas offered via Alliance Française are as follows.

DELF

DALF

rDELF J

TEF

TEFAQ

TCF

TCFQ

Diplôme d'études en langue française Diploma in French Language

Diplôme approfondi en langue française Advanced Diploma in French Language

Diplôme d'études en langue française pour enfantsDiploma in French Language for children

Test d'Évaluation de Français CCPFrench proficiency test by the Paris Chamber of Commerce

Test d'Évaluation de Français adapté au Québec French Evaluation Test adapted for Quebec

Test de connaissance du français French proficiency test by the French Ministry of Education

Test de connaissance du français pour le Québec French language Test for Quebec

The DELF and DALF officially certify the ability of students to use the French Language in real life situations based on the six competency levels identified within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL), an international standard.

Hence, there are six separate examinations assessing the four skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

CEFRL Diploma User level

A1 DELF A1 BASICA2 DELF A2

B1 DELF B1 INDEPENDENTB2 DELF B2

C1 DALF C1 PROFICIENTC2 DALF C2

FRENCH CLASSES

CERTIFICATES

7 GOOD REASONS TO LEARN FRENCH AT ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

7 GOOD REASONS TO LEARN FRENCH AT ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

French is spoken all over the world.

It's the second language of international relations and one of the international bodies.

It's the key to a vast and growing cultural, scientific and artistic treasure.

It's a language of love, poetry and spirit.

It's a genuine asset for your professional career as well as a sign of your personal intellectual growth.

It's a great way to prove that you have been a successful learner of French in addition to your school transcripts because in Alliance Française you really learn to speak and practice French.

It's the best way to show your French language skills recognized worldwide and get a life-long certification.

DELF-DALF Tout Public

(for learners above 16 years of age) DELF A1, A2, B1, B2, DALF C1, C2 13th & 14th December 2013


(for learners above 16 years of age) DELF A1, A2, B1, B2, DALF C1, C2 04th & 05th April 2014

DELF Junior

(for learners below 16 years of age) DELF A1 & A2 05th July 2014


(for learners above 16 years of age) DELF A1, A2, B1, B2, DALF C1, C2 03rd & 04th October 2014

COURSES OFFERED at Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo

Childrens’ classes (6 to 9 yo) 11 4,500

Pre-Adolescents classes (10 to 15 yo) 2 hours/week 22 7,000

Pre-Adolescents classes (10 to 15 yo) 3 hours/week 33 10,000

Beginners in French (adults) DELF A1 A2 - 3 hours/week 33 10,000

Beginners in French (adults) 5 hours/week 55 12,500

Intermediate level in French 55 12,500

Preparation for DELF B1 55 12,500

Preparation for DELF B2 55 12,500

Preparation for DALF C1 55 12,500

Conversation classes 15 5,000

French for GCE O Level classes 22 6,500

French for London O Level classes 33 10,000

French for GCE A Level classes 33 11,500

DELF A1 A2 -

Type of classesNbr of hours taught per 11-weeks term

Commencement of the next term thon Monday 6 of January 2014

thregistration are open from 15 of November

Course fee for regular classes (in Rs.)

IMPORTANT NOTICECERTIFICATES OR DIPLOMAS NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE FONDATION ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE AND THE FRENCH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION RECEIVE

NO INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Club Francophone:

Club theatre/lecture (Theatre/Reading Club):

Once in a month, every third Wednesday at Alliance Française, come and discuss a theme for one

and a half hour; Club Francophone is meant for advanced students of French language and is an informal way of staying in touch with French language and culture. For more details about the programme and conditions, please contact Samantha on 0 777 571 730 or Robin on 0 770 749 958.

Language games, pronunciation exercises, improvisations,

work on concentration, listening, imagination are on the programme, all in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Start of the club in 2014. For more details about the program and conditions, please contact Robin on 0 770 749 958.

CLUBS AT ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE KOTTE

For more inquiries on fees,

timetables, venues,

please contact us

or visit us on 011 258 98 14

www.alliancefrancaise.lk

Scheduled DELF-DALF examination calendar of Alliance française network in Sri Lanka(for the Maldives, consult the centre directly)


www.srilanka.campusfrance.org

EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

?Quality of daily life Pleasant and satisfying lifestyle

?Diversity and richness of French culture

?Easy access to the 27 other members of European Union and the rest of Europe

?77 Public Universities

?224 Engineering Schools

?220 Business Schools

?291 Doctoral Departments

?1,200 Research Laboratories

1 out of every 3 French doctoral degrees is awarded to a student from outside France.

France’s success in attracting from all around the world - among them – means :

285,000 foreign studentsmore than 40,000 from Asian countries

OPEN NEW HORIZONSCHOOSE FRANCE

In the heart of Europe

FranceMore than 700 programs fully taught in in

for English-speaking students

English

TALK TO THE WORLD* 220 million people around the

world speak French. 75 countries and states on 5 continents are m e m b e r s o f O . I . F. : t h e International Organization of la Francophonie.

* French is widely used in the three capitals of European institutions, B r u s s e l s , L u xe m b o u rg a n d Strasbourg.

* French is one of the six working languages of the UN and one of the three in EU institutions.



France’s higher education system is one of the most efficient

in the world. Moreover, it is also open to all.

French institutions figure prominently in the various

classifications of Universities, in the ranking of the Financial

Times and Times Higher, and in the European report on

Science and Technologies published by the European

Commission.

The French government makes substantial investments in

education and research. In fact, with 20% of its budget, the

education sector represents the most important investment to keep it attractive and competitive.

The world’s fifth largest economy, France proves also to be the fourth most popular destination

for international students and remains committed to its long-standing policy of equal treatment

for domestic and international students. Tuition fees at main French Higher Education

institutions are identical for all students and regardless of

their origin. Every one of them enjoys the same benefits

(health insurance coverage, housing assistance, etc.). The

Master programs in English include additional costs but they

remain attractive to students and their family, both

academically and financially.

In France, students enjoy a real quality of life thanks to the

special advantages given to their status in an unrivalled and

dynamic cultural environment at the crossroads of Europe.


FRENCH HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCEè a constant national investment

The Campus France catalogue of post-secondary programs includes more than 700 programs taught in English in almost all disciplines (mainly at Master’s level).

Thus, for recruiting foreign students, France has become one of the first destinations among countries where English is not the mother tongue of the population.

Therefore, French language fluency is no longer needed to study in France although French Language courses are included in the program, which becomes an additional asset in an international career.

Website: srilanka.campusfrance.org

Promoting French higher education and professional training abroad is a critical aspect of the

mission of Campus France, a French government agency. Campus France helps prospective

students to explore their interest of studying in France, identify suitable programs and comply

with visa regulations and other administrative requirements.

CAMPUS FRANCE è a French higher education promoter

CURRICULUM è a normalised environment

French higher education employs the “LMD” system – License (Bachelor), Master and Doctorate - designed to facilitate student mobility within Europe and around the world.

CURRICULUM è adapted to international students through programs taught in English

For further information write to: [email protected] phone to 011 258 98 14


Alliance Française Multimedia Library

Library Membership

Internet Access

With its diverse collections, AFKo multimedia library covers a variety of media resources published throughout the francophone world. The library possesses about 1,200 documents on Art, Literature, Cinema, Gastronomy, Science, Comics, History, etc. We regularly update our stock with new documents, subtitled movies, audio books on French literature and informative online resources.

The library-cum-resource centre is particularly meant for students of French language and we are happy to guide them to choose according to their level in French, a suitable document to read, watch or listen.

A member can borrow at a time 2 books or two magazines for a period of 2 weeks and 1 DVD for 2 weeks. Membership forms are available at the library desk.

We provide Internet access at the library free of charge to members and students. Two latest tablets are also available.

Une bibliothèque est une chambre d'amis. (A library is a guest room)in “Éloge de l'Amitié [Tribute to Friendship]”by Tahar Ben Jelloun, francophone Moroccan writer.

MÉDIATHÈQUE / MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY

Newspapers and Magazines SectionWe have subscribed to various French magazines and major French newspapers. Enjoy reading them while watching the French TV channel TV5.

LIBRARY TIMINGS

For more information please contactHASHAN MADHUNKA, Librarian

0 714 989 865 [email protected]

Monday, Tuesday: 3 pm to 6 pmWednesday, Thursday: 8.45 am to 12.15 pm

Friday: 9 am to 6 pmSaturday: 8.45 am to 11.45 am

Closed on Sunday and public holidays.


TV5MONDE ASIE IS COMING TO SRI LANKA WITH PEOTV, FROM IPTV! ONE MORE STEP INTO THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD!

MEMBERSHIP – Annual FeeFor books & magazines

For DVDsRefundable Deposit : LKR 2,000

Students AFKo : LKR 500Members AFKo : LKR 2,000Non-members : LKR 3,000

NEW ARRIVALS in November

Movies (DVDs)

Recent Novels

Books/Essais

Two English Girls by François Truffaut Les Enfants terribles by Jean CocteauFemmes du Monde by Marc Jampolsky La Difficulté d'Être by Jean Cocteau The Raven by Henri-Georges Clouzot Les Justes by Albert CamusOSS 117 by Michel Hazanavicius Antigone by Jean AnouilahMr73 by Olivier Marchel Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandGainsbourg (Vie heroïque) by Joann Sfar Dix Petits Nègres by Agatha ChristieBref Saison 1& 2 by Michael Ramharter L'Amant by Marguerite DurasContes de la bécasse by Guy de Maupassant

Notre Maison brûle au Sud by Serge Michailof and Alexis BonnelL'Agenda pour un Monde durable by Yann Arthus-BertrandFrance by Ministry of Foreign and European AffairsAgriculture and Food in India by Bruno Dorin and Frédéric Landy

L'échappée belle by Anna Gavalda Un Homme meilleur by Anita NairLe Cœur régulier by Olivier Adam Madhavi la Courtisane by H. S. Shiv PrakashLes Autos Tamponneuses by Stephanie Hoffman Les Contes de la Péninsule indienne by B MeyssanDu Domaine des Murmures by Carole Martinez Les Chemins du Ciel et de la Terre by Claude LesnéHotel Argentina by Pierre Stasse Quitter Dakar by Sophie-Anne Delhomme


Classic Literature

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave his fetters fall. Gandhi

Coproduced by Kapali Studios and France Television, “Elie, Blacksmith of Freedom”, a documentary movie, refers to an exceptional event, unique in the history of Reunion Island.

On November 8, 1811, in the small village of Saint-Leu, an uprising of 400 slaves took place, which managed to shake the foundations of the colonial system even if only for a few days before being betrayed and ruthlessly repressed by local authorities.

Never before had such an event occurred since the 1724 implementation of the Code Noir (Black Code) in Bourbon Island – the former name of Reunion Island. On the curse of time, the echoes of this rebellion and the aura of the leaders were carefully and consciously erased by colonial chroniclers. The film tries to revive the memory of all those human beings who defended the worthiest of causes: their freedom.

Sudel Fuma, professor at t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Reunion, a man of challenges and indeed organizer of the great 2011 commemoration of the bicentenary of the Saint-Leu revolt, wrote the scr ipt of “E l ie , Blacksmith of Freedom”. Thanks to him, the film g a i n s i n h i s t o r i c a l precisions, giving more depth and shape to the narration. Based on interviews with a number of historians and scholars, it is illustrated with

superb fictional sequences, which required precise and thorough historical reconstruction and costume re-creation, the first in the genre in and about Reunion Island. The shooting of those fictional sequences was even marked by a rare and outstanding osmosis between the crew members and the actors. The extras, often chosen for their Saint-Leu ascendancy and their possible genealogical links with the real rebels of 1811, infused the atmosphere with their energy and intense emotion.

The first film screening of “Elie, Blacksmith of Freedom” took place in Saint-Leu itself on November 8, 2011, to celebrate the bicentenary of the insurrection.

An outlook on Reunion Island and its cinematography

by William Cally

FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Élie, Blacksmith of Freedom(ELIE OU LES FORGES DE LA LIBERTÉ)

Seats available on first come first served basis

CINEMA – CONFERENCEKANDY

JAFFNA

COLOMBO

MATARA

GALLE

MALÉ

thSunday 24 November 2013thMonday 25 November 2013 thTuesday 26 November 2013

Kelaniya University, 3 pm & thWednesday 27 November 2013

National Library Auditorium, 6 pmthThursday 28 November 2013

thFriday 29 November 2013st Sunday 1 December 2013

William Cally, born in 1977 in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, has a doctorate in French and Comparative Literature. Early passionate for writing, he was awarded the "University Price for Novel " in Reunion Island in 1997 and in 2003 and the "Price of the Indian Ocean Novel" in 2000 and 2005. He inaugurated a new literary genre called the “bébètik” or fantastic Creole.

Beside, he has started screen writing and film making, actively participating in the emergence of a young cinema of the Reunion with short fictions and documentary-fiction films.

His work has a deep cultural, societal and historical features related to his native island.


Reunion Island is a French Overseas Department situated in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mauritius islands. It has a tropical climate, cool and dry from May to November, and hot and rainy from November to April. Highly volcanic, the island covers over 2,500 square kilometers (970 sqm) and is located above a hotspot in the Earth's crust. One volcano in particular, the “Piton de la Fournaise” (Peak of blazing fire), is still very active and has erupted more than 100 times since

1640 and is under constant monitoring. It most recently erupted in 2010.

Reunion Island has a population of around 850.000 inhabitants. There is no indigenous people on the island as it was initially deserted. All of the ethnic groups comprising the island today are immigrant populations that have come to Reunion over the centuries. These populations mainly from African, Indian, European, Malagasy and Chinese origin have mixed in a melting pot very early on in the history of the island (indeed first settlers married women from Madagascar and of Indo-Portuguese heritage) resulting in a majority population of mixed origin belonging to a "Creole" culture speaking a Reunion Creole although French is the official language. According to this cultural mix, there are different religions represented especially Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam, Chinese folk religion, Buddhism.

Sugar was traditionally the chief agricultural product and export, and tourism is now an important source of income. The GDP per capita about 25,000 US dollars at market exchange rates is the highest in Africa.

The first European discovery of the area was made around 1507 by Portuguese explorers. France officially claimed the island in 1642, when it deported a dozen mutineers to the island from the nearby Madagascar. The convicts were returned to France several years later and, in 1649, the island was named “Île Bourbon” after the French royal family. Colonization started in 1665, when the French East India Company sent the first twenty settlers. "Reunion" was the name given for the first time to the island in 1793 by a decree of the French Revolution after the fall of the monarchy in France.

th thFrom the 17 to the 19 centuries, French immigration

supplemented by influxes of Africans, Chinese, Malays and Indians gave the island its ethnic mix. Starting from 1690, most of the immigrants from outside Europe were enslaved until 20 December 1848, date when slavery was abolished, which is a celebrated holiday in Reunion Island nowadays.

REUNION ISLANDA French Overseas Department

A presentation of the Island by Emmanuelle Boutier

alongside with the screening of the movie “Elie,

Blacksmith of Freedom”.

Emmanuelle Boutier is currently the Director of Alliance française de Malé in the Maldives; she has been living in Reunion Island since the age of 9.


The European Union Delegation in partnership with Alliance Française de Kotte, Alliance Française de Jaffna, British Council, Consulate of Poland, Embassy of Italy, Embassy of France, Embassy of the Netherlands, Embassy of Norway, Embassy of Switzerland, Goethe Institute, organize the European Film Festival 2013 in Sri Lanka with 16 movies.

Tales of the Night (Les Contes de la Nuit)

by Michel Ocelot (2011) – 84’

Every night, a young girl, a boy and an old technician meet together in a small cinema that seems abandoned, but secretly full of wonders. The three friends invent and play all the stories they want in a magical night where everything is possible. Six stories take place at different times and in different countries, in a shadow world. Before each story, the boy and the girl decide, in accordance with the old technician, the characters they will play and the story they will interpret, they choose a time, a country and costumes. Then the story begins…

Nominated Golden Berlin Bear: Michel Ocelot - 2011 Berlin International Film Festival

European Film Festival 2013All movies are with English subtitlesSeats available on first come first served basisOpening ceremony movie on invitation only

(Programme to be confirmed)Belgium by Bouli Lanners (2011)

by Kaat Beels (2011)

Denmark by Susanne Bier (2010)

England by Ken Loach (2012) by Mike Newell (2012)

Finland by Dome Karukoski (2005)

France by Christophe Honoré (2011)by Michel Oncelot (2011)

Germany by Jan Ole Gerster (2012) by Maggie Peren (2011)

Italy by Pasquale Scimeca (2010)

Poland by Dorota Kêdzierzawska (2010)

Switzerland by Tobias Ineichen (2013)

The GiantsHotel Swooni

In a Better World

The Angel's ShareGreat Expectations

The Beauty and the Bastard

The BelovedThe Tales of the Night

Oh BoyColor of the Ocean

Malavoglia

Tomorrow will be Better

Clara and the Secret of the Bears

Angel's share by Ken Loach (England)A Scottish comedy-drama film, which tells the story of a young Glaswegian father who narrowly avoids a prison sentence. He is determined to turn over a new leaf and when he and his friends from the same community payback group visit a whisky distillery, a route to a new life becomes apparent.

Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival 2012Nominated for Best Foreign Co-Production - Magritte Award

MOVIES ON THE PROGRAMME

OPENING MOVIE

A shared international cultural experience, the festival aims to promote a friendly relationship and to increase the mutual understanding between European Nations and Sri Lanka.

Entrance only on invitation

The Beloved (Les Biens-Aimés) by Christophe Honoré (2011) - 135'

From Paris in the 60s to London in 2000, Madeleine and her daughter Vera build their lives around the men they love. But sometimes nothing goes like it should. Time is running out, the years go by, the men also, and the same questions remain without answers. Between love, memories and regrets, both woman struggle for one thing: happiness.

« Brilliant » Le Nouvel Observateur « Honoré staged sensitively torments and moods of its beautiful heroines and sign his best movie» Le Point

Nominated for Best Original Music - Alex Beaupain - 2012 César Awards

2 FRENCH MOVIES

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by Alain RechnerPresident of Lisztomanias International Association

In about one hour, thanks to an audiovisual presentation with great music extracts, pictures, musicological explanations, Alain Rechner will make us discover Franz Liszt, one of the most talented western classical musician and composer.

Lisztomanias International is a Society founded in 2012 in Paris with the aim to promote Liszt's spirit,

which is imagination, generosity, humanism, romanticism, adventure, European ideal - indeed a man of high ideal and faith - and to share with a large public the beauty of the musical heritage of Liszt as a pianist, a composer, and an European artist of his time. One project is also to set up the only opera he wrote in his youth Don Sanche of the Castle of Love. This project is to re-create the unique Liszt opera performed in Paris Royal Opera in the year 1825 (Liszt was only 14 years old). The aim is to put up a performance with young musicians and singers, for a very large public, in Hungary and France, and later in India, China, Russia, Japan and eventually in Sri Lanka. Last but not east, Lisztomanias International Association plans to

launch a new international festival: The Euro-Asia Romantic Music International Festival aimed at young artists, which will take place in Asia every year, each time in a different country.

130 YEARS ALLIANCE FRANCAISEEXHIBITION in December @ Alliance Française de Kotte

In 2013, we celebrate 130 years of Alliance Française; the exhibition proposed focuses on the great personalities who initiated Alliance Française and gave ground to its universal values of humanism and cultural diversity. Because of their ingenious ideas and their open-minded sense, they opened the way to an immense network today with about 500,000 students learning French in 135 countries at one of the 1016 settlements, which runs under Alliance Française's flag.

The very first Alliance Française was created in Paris in July 1883 by a group of eminent

men, including the scientist Louis Pasteur, the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, and the publisher Armand Colin.

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Entrance free

LISZT AND EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) th was the most European of romantic musicians of the 19 century. He

became well reputed in Europe for his virtuosic skills as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. But Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor and happened to be a benefactor to other composers like Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg or Alexander Borodin.

Alain Rechner currently President of the Lisztomanias International Association, is the founding Director of

Neemrana France, an association dedicated to the art and culture, especially music - particularly oriented voice and piano - through the promotion of artists, organizing concerts, tours, opera productions, training programs, exhibitions and conferences. A teacher by profession, Alain Rechner has worked several years in China and in India.

C O N F E R E N C E - M U S I CC O N F E R E N C E - M U S I C

Alliance Française is present in Sri Lanka since 1955 where it opened in Colombo. Since then, 4 other Alliance Française

have been created: in Kandy (1967), in Matara (1997), in Jaffna (2004), in Malé (2006) and in Galle as an annexe of Matara (2007). In 2012, we registered 5,000 students in our Sri Lankan Maldivian network.


INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

This year, Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo invites you to participate to the International P h o t o g r a p h y C o n t e s t organized by the Fondation Alliance Française in Paris. The main aim of this competition is to capture photographs highlighting the theme “On joue sur la Terre – We're playing on earth”. Hence, to show how we “play” in all senses of the word, in multiple social and cultural occasions.

Games are a powerful expression of human nature and of the diversity of cultures. The remains of the oldest civilizations still have traces of games, some of which were of a sacred nature. Since then, man has not stopped playing. The extraordinary diversity of games meets a variety of needs and emotions as we play for fun, to pass the time, but also to learn, to overcome fears and ultimately to earn money.

The competition is organized in two rounds. First of all, an exhibition of the best 20 photos selected by a local jury composed by photographs and personalities will be held

thon Thursday 19 of December in Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo. During the exhibition, the public will vote for their favorite photo. Result will be announced at the end of the evening.

Then, the best winner's name and his/her two selected photographs will be sent to the Fondation Alliance Française in Paris where another jury will analyze those photos during a second round of selections gathering pictures from all over the world. The winner will be offered a week in Paris and an individual exhibition.

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HOW TO PARTICIPATE

TECHNICAL ASPECTS

Any adult, not practicing photography as his / her profession, can participate by sending 2 photos

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Provide 2 copies of each photoGive a title to each of themPhotos shall be in 300 dpi TIFF or JPEG format Give details of camera usedPrecise aperture / shutter shooting mode, shot speed, film reference number (if used)

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Last week of December @ Alliance Française de Kotte

At Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo the December Students’ Party is an important milestone since it marks the end of the calendar with the approach of Christmas and New Year's Day, but also because it celebrates our main purpose: the teaching and the practice of French.

Teachers of our institution will organize with students activities like dances, songs, theater extracts and others enjoying entertainments.

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In partnership with the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Seneka Abeyratne will conduct a series of workshops on contemporary dance. This program will consist of a two-hour class on a weekly basis, from December 2013 to June 2014.

About twenty students are expected to participate in this program. The classes will be based on a blend of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham techniques.

Students participating in this dance program will have the opportunity to perform at the next French Spring Festival in June 2014.

Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham (both deceased) were pioneers of contemporary dance in the United States. Their techniques continue to influence contemporary dance across the globe. There is some overlapping between the two styles as Cunningham studied under Graham before establishing his own school. Martha Graham

COLOMBOSCOPE 2014“Making History”Colombo Arts Festival

th ndFrom 30 January to 2 February 2014(French contribution, time & venues to be precised)

Merce Cunningham

Seneka Abeyratne is a freelance contemporary dance choreographer with twelve years of ballet training

at the Deanna School of Dancing, Colombo. He has conducted several workshops on contemporary dance in collaboration with the Nelung Arts Center, the Goethe Institute and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute.

Standard Chartered Colomboscope Festival is organized for the second consecutive year in collaboration with Goethe Institute, British Council.

A framework for open discourse and broaden perspectives, artistic thoughts and intellectual analysis, through roundtables, panel conversations, expert discussions, presentations and lectures, readings, poetry and music performances, the festival aims to create spaces for expression and creation and reflect the current trend of interdisciplinary exploration in the arts.

2014's theme "Making History" is shared with the Colombo Art Biennale. This central concept will not only focus on Sri Lanka, it will draw parallels and will allude to it occasionally. Some of the broad topics under consideration are: language and history; social media and real-time history making; physical spaces and myth building; presentation, representation and re-presentation; differences between memory and remembrance; music, poetry, film and historical, socio-political epics; insider/outsider narratives; lost narratives, forgotten voices.

Contemporary literature, film, dance, theatre, gourmet breakfasts, art exhibitions and many other musical and cinematographic activities are meant to attract various levels of visitors, generally connected to other scenes. In 2012, with the theme of “Identities”, the festival attracted 2,200 visitors.

CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORSHOP

2 hours a week from December 2013

up to June 2014@ University of

Sri Jayewardenepura

D A N C ED A N C E

For more information, please contact: Sarah 0 774 611 306 or Irosha 0 772 513 322

by Seneka Abeyratne

LITERARY AND PERFORMANCE ARTLITERARY AND PERFORMANCE ART


Please check Colomboscope 2014 for updates on facebook.com/pages/Colomboscope/211840145624065

For the third time, Colombo will open his Contemporary Art Biennale in January 2014 (CAB 14). During the 10 day long CAB14 festival, more than 8 000 visitors are awaited to admire works produced by Sri Lanka's most recognized and emerging artists, as well as artists from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, England, France, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Scotland.

In a post civil conflict context, Sri Lankan creation and dissemination framework is now literally exploding: Art is more than ever a mean of action and dialog, promoting reconciliation. “Making History”, the theme chosen, is aimed to lead an enquiry into contemporary aesthetic experience from a time span point of view.

“History is inescapable. As human beings, our bodies are inscribed with connotations that in many ways defy temporality, and in our modernity, refers to parallel representations of cultures, events, moments and emotions. Our bodies are historically marked, while emotionally 'present' with a desire to invent the future. Do we make history or does history makes us what we are today? This is a question often asked, and an answer to this could take us on a deep and nuanced exploration of the implications of history on the human being as well as the human condition.”

Anoli Perera, Artist

COLOMBO ART BIENNALE 2014

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C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R TC O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T


(Photos by Chintaka Thenuwara)

Poetry, Dreams, Childhood, Diversion, Recovery, Derision are key words for Olivier Grossetête's art works. As he did once already during his last project "Metamorphosis" in the European Capital of Culture 2013, Marseille, he will now use Colombo city for experimentation and creations.

His work is built around recovery and diversion of cardboard and papers in a try to switch these petty materials into a world of fiction and dreams thanks to a monumental installation. Furthermore, by inviting public to participate actively to the genesis of the art piece, Olivier Grossetête makes contemporary visual art accessible to a large number and transforms it into a popular performance and experience.

Olivier Grossetête is a French visual artist born in 1973. He lives and works in Marseille, France. He is a graduate of the Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts de Valence. From the very beginning, he is engaged in a personal reflection on the links between idea and action, work and context, volume and materials. He is literally exploring the urban space while questioning architecture and symbolism. In 2000, he directed a short film that featured a paper boat referring to famous film scenes. At the same time, performance, movie and object, this short-film became the cornerstone of Olivier Grossetête's poetical approach based on the ephemeral nature of one performance and its memory tracks.

Since 2002, Olivier Grossetête has developed collective and monumental constructions with the idea that they become self-sufficient in respect of the existing architecture. The preparation workshops of the buildings where the public comes to give a hand then become an integral part of the work, creating a collective energy that contaminates the audience. Several cardboard monumental buildings are raised with the arm strength of hundreds of participants. From 2011, Oliver Grossetête was invited to create ephemeral and monumental structures in several cities in France and Europe (Manchester, Glasgow, Kodice). He is recognized as one of the most interesting Urban artists of the moment.

FRENCH ARTIST

Participatory Art & Monumental installation

OLIVIER GROSSETÊTE

CAB 14 (Details on venue and time to be confirmed)

A R T P E R F O R M A N C EA R T P E R F O R M A N C E



Music Day concertFrench Spring Festival, BMICH - June 2013

French German Singing CompetitionFrench Spring Festival, Kelaniya University - June 2013

Visual Art Graffiti by Da CruzFrench Spring Festival, BMICH - June 2013

Caravan Quartet concertFrench Spring Festival, Cinnamon Lake Side - June 2013

Walls = People fashion show by DenethFrench Spring Festival, BMICH - June 2013

PAST EVENTS

“Hybride” dance show by Celine Pradeu KanagasabaiFrench Spring Festival, BMICH - July 2013


PAST EVENTS

“De Mirissa à Bouzigues” photo exhibitionby Seneka Abeyratne - French Spring Festival

Cinnamon Lake Side - July 2013

Bonsoir Diaries book launch by Kumar de SilvaFrench Spring Festival

BMICH - July 2013

Jean-Pierre Baraglioli concert French Spring Festival, Cinnamon Lake Side - July 2013

Urban Development symposiumFrench Spring Festival, BMICH - July 2013

Water at the Heart of Science exhibition French Spring Festival, BMICH - July 2013

Nostalgie 03 photo exhibition by Kumar de Silva Lionel Wendt Gallery, October 2013

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro) by Robert Guédiguian (2011) – 107'

Despite having lost his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. These two have been together for thirty years. They have very close friends. They are proud of their union and political struggles. This happiness is deeply affected when two young armed and masked men beat them, tie them up, tear off their wedding rings, and flee with their credit cards. Their distress is even more brutal when they learn that this wild attack was organized by one of the young co-workers just laid off with Michel. The story takes its inspiration from the poem “Les Pauvres Gens” [The Poor People] one of the best known of Victor Hugo's poems.

Best Actress in a leading role - Ariane Ascaride - César Award 2011

Officially selected in Un certain Regard section - Cannes International Film Festival 2011

The Painting (Le Tableau) by Jean François Laguionie (2011) – 76’

A château, flowering gardens, a threatening forest, that is what, for mysterious reasons, a Painter has left incomplete. Three kinds of characters live in this painting: the Toupins, who are entirely painted, the Pafinis, who lack a few colours, and the Reufs, who are only sketches. Considering themselves superior, the Toupins take over power, chase the Pafinis from the château, and enslave the Reufs. Convinced that only the Painter can restore harmony by finishing the painting, three characters, Ramo, Lola, and Plume, each of them member of one of the three communities, decided to go on search for him.

The movie’s designs include homage to painters such as Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. The film was animated in digital 3D.

Nomination for Cesar of best animation movie – Cesar Awards 2012

Award for Best Feature Film at the 8th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CINE-CLUB

WINTER PROGRAMME

All movies are with English subtitlesENTRANCE FREE

in COLOMBO,

in GALLE, JAFFNA, KANDY, MATARA,

every last Wednesday of the month, 6pm. An introduction and refreshments will precede the screening.

please contact the Alliance Française there for information about dates, time and venue.

C I N E M AC I N E M A

Wednesday 18/12 @ 6:00 pm - National Library Auditorium

Wednesday 29/01 @ 6:00 pm - venue to be confirmed


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