Gala 2025 Co-Chairs Wendy Abascal de la Faverie, Alejandra Alonso Rojas, Elsa de la Garde de Saignes, and Anna Harman tell us all about it.
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Category: Fundraising
Putting the Student Touch on Gala 2022
This winter, students in the Secondary Art Club took a break from their individual projects to dedicate time to creating the beautiful pieces for our 2022 fundraising event, “Onward & Upward: Célébrons la vie !”
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Lycée Gala 2022 – Onward & Upward Looks to the Future
With Lycée Gala 2022 – Onward and Upward: Célébrons la vie ! our Gala co-chairs, Cécile Andrau-Martel, Nannette LaFond-Dufour, Elisabeth Holder Raberin, and Olga Rusakova-Rozé, have set a compass that points decidedly to the future for our Lycée.
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Leaving a Legacy Behind: Students Shape the 2021 Terminale Class Gift
Senior Class Gifts are a common fundraising initiative in US independent schools and universities, but could we take this American tradition, and adopt it to the Lycée’s unique French-American environment?
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Fête Foraine: Here We Go LEGO!
Fête Foraine is this Saturday, November 9 from 10am to 4pm! Bring your imagination and creativity – this year’s Fête Foraine theme is LEGO! Enjoy a family fun day at the Lycée, with carnival games, bouncy castle, arts & crafts, prizes, food court in the Cafeteria, Used Book Sale, and
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Coming Home
How long were you a student at the Lycée? My parents are American, but they were living in France when I was born and fell in love with French culture. When we moved back to New York, they absolutely wanted me to attend a French school and the Lycée Français
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Bringing Gala 2017 to Life
With the vision of artist and Lycée parent, Inma Barrero, and a host of parent, teacher and student volunteers, the Park Avenue Armory will be transformed for our gala on February 4th, with floating sculptures created out of donations of white fabric from the Lycée community. Between creative sessions with
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A Gala for Service and Unity
This year’s gala, “Toi + Moi = Beyond the Self“, is a celebration of community spirit and service to others. The school will honor Christy Turlington Burns, advocate, social entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit, Every Mother Counts. We sat down with this year’s co-chairs, Jordan Phillips, Orla Coleman, Claudia Fleming
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Gala decor blooms in the Maker Space
On a snowy Saturday morning, ten members of our décor team and their kids assembled in our new Maker Space to continue working on creating blooms made out of scraps of t-shirts and sheets. Students began by cutting old fabric into 11 inch by 11 inch pieces while parents started
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Gad Elmaleh to be Honored at the LFNY Gala 2016
The Lycée Français de New York (LFNY) will hold its 17th annual Gala on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at the Park Avenue Armory, welcoming over 900 guests in an evening dedicated to the pursuit of bold dreams. At the Gala, the LFNY will honor Gad Elmaleh, the French-Moroccan comedian and
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