The history of the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York has been marked by some unforgettable conferences. Many diverse examples come to mind: the physicist Etienne Klein, economists Esther Duflo and Joseph E. Stiglitz, filmmaker Raoul Peck, and even the writer Gaël Faye. And, this past February
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This year’s Oscars will be taking place on February 24, but the Oscars are small potatoes compared to the Lycée’s very own annual film festival, Rough Cut. This Thursday, February 28 at 4:30pm in the auditorium, you are invited to join us as we screen this year’s finalists. Films representing the
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The Lycée’s Première Scène – French Theater Festival was launched 20 years ago this February 1st and has become an annual event for thespians at French Lycées in the U.S. and Canada, and even France, as well as for students of French at New York City-area public and private schools.
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High school students had the privilege to meet the author Gaël Faye, recent winner of the Prix Littéraire du Lycée (2017) and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2016), on Friday, October 26 thanks to the Cultural Center. Before Faye’s visit, French students (in the classes of myself, Mr. Morival, Ms. Roussel,
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Exemples de questions : Pourquoi avoir choisi d’écrire ce livre en français? Je parle bien hébreu et je le traduis mais ce ne peut pas être ma langue d’écriture. Ce n’est pas la langue dans laquelle je pense et j’imagine. Contrairement à d’autres qui peuvent écrire en deux langues différentes
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In mid-October at the Lycée Français de New York, we were fortunate to be in the presence of a real “live” ROBOT—a humanoid machine with memory and language functions—as well as a panel of highly knowledgeable speakers, hosted by our Cultural Center and called, “Artificial Intelligence and the Jobs of
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Les deux romans, Le Français de Julien Suaudeau, 2016 et Sauveur et fils de Marie-Aude Murail, sont respectivement les lauréats du Prix littéraire Lycée et du Prix littéraire Jeunesse mis en oeuvre au Lycée durant l’année scolaire 2017-2018. Une soixantaine de lecteurs ont participé à ces deux jurys et se
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We are delighted to see these start students recognized with National Scholastic Awards for Art and Writing.
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As part of its artist-in-residence program, the Lycée Français de New York invited youth author Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod to spend a week with the fifth-grade students from March 12 to March 16. What an honor! The author of A Fine Collection of Bananas, Middle School Investigation, and the Story of the Jean-Somethings
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The year-end holidays are probably the most anticipated vacation of the year (second to summer, of course). It is a two-week break from school and work that is meant to be shared with friends and family. As we return to the Lycée Francais de New York this week, I am
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