City: Delhi Location: M.L. Bhartia auditorium Date: Thu, 2010/03/18 – 7:00pm Category: Film screening Duration: 90 minutes In French with English subtitles / 90 min / 2008 The young Swiss director Gaël Métroz takes the road alone, without a team, camera in hand, in the footsteps of the author Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land recounted by …

City: Delhi Location: To be confirmed Date: Wed, 2010/03/17 – 7:00pm Price: Free Category: Concert Duration: 2 hours   As heir to the great Hungarian musical tradition, Marouan Benabdallah embodies the new emerging generation of Hungarian pianists. He represents the cultural diversity and opening of Morocco, not to mention his attachment to France and its culture. He is back this Francophonie season to give another enthralling …

City: Delhi Location: Aqua Garden, The Park Hotel , 15 Parliament Street Date: Wed, 2010/03/17 -3:30pm – 5:30pm Price: 500 INR per registration Category: Workshop Duration: 2 hours Food and gastronomy are an integral part of every culture. Flavours relished within a culture encapsulate the various historical, social influences that a culture undergoes through its existence. The French cuisine over the centuries just like the French language has …

City: Delhi Location: M.L. Bhartia auditorium Date: Tue, 2010/03/16 – 7:00pm Category: Concert Adept at both classical and modern Jazz, Leon Francioli (double base and piano) and Daniel Bourquin (tenor and saxophone) are versatile performers, composers and innovators of music and new musical forms. Both have performed with renowned European artists, Manglesdorf, Portal, Pierre Favre, Pascale Auuberson, Jean-François Bovard, Michel Buhler and many others. …

City: Delhi Location: Alliance Française Date: Fri, 2010/03/12 (All day) – Sat, 2010/03/20 (All day) Price: Free Category: Festival Duration: 1 week Half a billion Francophones around the world will celebrate International Day of Francophonie on 20 March. This event began in 1998 as a way for the 49 members of La Francophonie to celebrate their common bond, the French language, as well as their diversity. Like every …

City: Delhi Location: To be confirmed Date: Fri, 2010/03/12 (All day) Price: Free Category: Concert Opening of the Francophonie Festival featuring BBC Sound System Alliance Française de Delhi opens the Francophonie week celebrations with BBC Sound System, the local stars from Senegal, who first shot to fame with the release of their first album “Thioukouly” in 1998. Now based out of Paris this music group, which consists …

City: Delhi Location: Delhi Date: Tue, 2010/03/09 – 11:00am – Sat, 2010/03/13 – 8:00am Price: Free Category: Exhibition Duration: From 11:00 am to 8:00 pm Another me: Transformations from pain to power! Photographs by Achinto Bhadra! The girls and women in these photographs are survivors or trafficking, rape or abandonment, or are the children of sex workers. They have been in the care of Sanlaap, a non-governmental organization based …

City: Delhi Location: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium Date: Tue, 2010/03/09 -7:00am – 9:30pm Price: Free Category: Concert Duration: 2:30 Hours L’Opéra ou la défaite des femmes is an opera based on a French novel written by the Philosopher Catherine Clément in 1979. It is the story of a young girl fantasizing the perfect love but when she meets the man, her image of love is shattered and she is …

City: Delhi Location: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium Date: Mon, 2010/03/08 -6:30am – 9:00am Price: Free Category: Celebration Duration: 2:30 Hours On the occasion of Women’s Day, the Alliance Française de Delhi is hosting the launch Dominique Hoeltgen’s book L’Inde, la revolution par les femmes. India is an explosive place where women are making remarkable achievements. They are revealing large sides of the present society, and drawing its future. They are …

City: Delhi Location: Galerie Romain Rolland Date: Thu, 2010/03/04 – 11:00am – Sun, 2010/03/07 – 8:00pm Price: Free Category: Exhibition Duration: Three days An exhibition of paintings by RITA JHUNJHUNWALA and ceramic sculptures by USHA GARODIA. Rita Jhunjhunwala started painting professionally from the age of 12, when she won the Soviet Land Nehru Award. She has a dozen solo shows and numerous group exhibitions to her credit. The …