Semaine de la Francophonie 2021

Do you know this game, popular in France, in which metal bowls are thrown to land as near as possible to a target ball?
Try your luck in team of 2 persons maximum. Our Pétanque’s local masters will be here to guide you.

Prize: 1 Champagne bottle

This French language competition is intended for students of the Alliances Françaises, of foreign nationality (at least level A2).

Part 1: 60 language and culture questions out of 60

Part 2: Expressions written over 40

Final day of pétanque competition with our best players.

Prize: 1 Champagne bottle

Rock art, for physical reasons, is the best preserved of tribal arts. It is present in thousands of sites all over India, with more concentrations in the center of the country. Dr Dubey & Jean Clottes demonstrate that rock art has never been still and unmovable: it has considerably evolved over the past 12,000 years. The rock art sites in the States they have particularly studied (Ladakh, Rajasthan, above all Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh) are far from dead with continuing beliefs among neighbouring tribal groups and their ritual practices; we also have similar examples from other States in India.

The conference will be a film / slideshow format with comments on Dr Dubey and Jean Clottes work, on common discoveries, on the latest project on decorated caves and the relationship with the practices still defined in certain tribes in these regions.

Participants will write a text under the dictation of Ms Prit Pandya, teacher at Alliance Française of Pune. The text was written by Scholastique Mukasonga, an autrice, which means a francophone female author. It was proposed by Dr. Ena Panda, teacher at the Germanic and Romance Studies of Delhi University.

Owing to its geographic location and centuries of colonialism, the people of Mauritius are highly diverse in ethnicity, culture, language and faith. It is the only country in Africa where Hinduism is the main religion with the most adherents. A majority of its population has French as well as the Mauritian creole as mother tongues. Mauritius is certainly the French-speaking country sharing the most important link with India.

Namaste Francophonie!

For all audience – English subtitles

In collaboration with Festival de Clermont-Ferrand

On the occasion of the birthday celebration of Pierre Jeanneret, Alliance française de Chandigarh in collaboration with Department of Tourism, Chandigarh organise a treasure hunt around Pierre Jeanneret’s legacy in the city of Chandigarh.

Indeed, Pierre Jeanneret (22 March 1896 – 4 December 1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his cousin, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years. Jeanneret, in collaboration with the English husband-wife team of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, was responsible for much of Chandigarh’s large civic architecture project.

Come in family or with friends to solve the puzzles and find the treasure!