This year, the Lycée is engaging its high-school students, and community, in conversations about the concept of laïcité.
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Category: Global Citizenship
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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Learning a Language, Learning a Culture
In a world that is more connected than ever, learning a language opens many doors. It is a tool for communication, and as linguist Claude Hagège points out, it also accounts for “ways of thinking, perspectives of the world, and culture.”
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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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James Baldwin Day Begins with a Letter
James Baldwin Day at the Lycée offers high school students the chance to step away from their regular classes and take a deep dive into the writing and times of the great American writer and activist.
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Wes Anderson, Angoulême and the Lycée Français de New York
What does the Lycée have to do with Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch”? Take a listen…
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Students Make Way for Women as They Prepare “Le Grand Oral”
In an elocution competition organized by the French Department, teams of 10th graders argued in favor of a woman they believe deserves more widespread recognition, and to be honored at the Lycée.
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Lycée Community Supports City Harvest for Fifth Year
Lycée Cares is a food drive held annually in partnership with City Harvest at our school. Community members donate thousands of pounds of food in donations and come together to pack snack bags for New Yorkers in need.
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The Lycée Commemorates 9/11, 20 Years After
This September, like all the inhabitants of New York City, the Lycée Français de New York is remembering the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
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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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