UPCOMING AND WEEKLY

 

Every Thursday 11:00-12:30 join our Café Croissants ($6) with

 free coffee and talk French with others.  We meet in the living room

at 928 Smith Street, Providence.  It's a very friendly group!

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          ​​June 5, Members' Luncheon at Brown Faculty Club 12:00

French is spoken here. ​

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June 6, Saturday 11:00  Balade Parisienne: Paris côté nature

Join us as we stroll through Paris with Inès Bel Kefi and discover a different side of Paris

and how the city is embracing nature, from historic parks and secret gardens to modern

eco-friendly projects.  French presentation on Zoom

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June 7, Sunday, 3:00  Lecture Series "When Worlds Collide: Finding

Common Ground in the Francophone West African Rain Forest”

 

Guest speakers Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham

   TALK SUMMARY: In this talk, husband-and-wife-team Philip Graham and Alma Gottlieb

 recount the nearly two years they have spent living in small villages in the heart of the rain 

forest of Côte d’Ivoire.  There, they found common ground with their Beng neighbors, who

   held sometimes radically different cultural assumptions.  Through their experiences, Graham

    and Gottlieb will speak to the present moment by challenging us to re-imagine the world from

the perspectives of others.

               

Alma Gottlieb  Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Brown U., Professor Emerita (Anthropology, 

African Studies, Women’s Studies), U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  Grants Director/Board Member, 

Capeverdea American Community Development,  Co-Founder and Co-Director, Beng Community Fund,

Co-Director, Stillhouse Cove Remembrance Project,  Website/blog: www.almagottlieb.com 

Philip Graham   Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

            Co-Founder & Co-Director, Beng Community Fund,  Editor-at-Large, www.ninthletter.com,   Website: www.philipgraham.net

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​June 20, Saturday  FÊTE de la Musique  3:00-7:00

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!!!​