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Host: Alliance Française de Hartford
Location: Harriett Canty's Parents’ House
32 Valley View Drive
Windsor, CT 06095
When: Saturday, July 11, 5:00 pm to 8:00 PM
(Rain date July 18)
Phone: 860-278-9999
Come celebrate Bastille Day with your friends from the Alliance Française for a night of fun.
Please bring a chair, pétanque or bocce game (if you have one) and a side dish, salad, or dessert to share.
Wine, drinks and roasted chicken will be provided.
You may bring along guests and children are welcomed.
Cost: $5 for members ($10 after July 3rd deadline)
$10 for non-members
Children are free
Please send a check to Alliance Francaise, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 (Or call the AF at 860-278-9999)
Group size is limited to 40 people
RSVP required and appreciated
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Calling for French Conversation groups: If you participate in a French conversation group and would like to participate in our grande liste of groups, to be published in the AF newsletter, please notify the AF office.
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SATURDAY/SUNDAY CONFERENCE RESERVATIONS: AFH
Students, Silver & Gold Members: $2 (Free
if registered & paid before deadline) AFH
Basic Members: $8 ($6 if registered & paid
before deadline) Guests: $10 ($8 if registered & paid
before deadline) Call the office and
reserve with your credit card or send a check
to the AFH. Usually lots of free Sunday parking
at LAZ/Hilton lot at Pearl & Jewell Street
intersection.
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CafÉ et
Conversation (F)
Join your Alliance friends on Saturday
mornings at Café Mozzicato for
conversation and socializing.This is a
great opportunity to practice speaking
French or to maintain fluency. All levels
are welcome! Please call the office
(860-278-9999) or check this website for
any date changes.
 Café Mozzicato
329 Franklin Avenue, Hartford (corner of
Franklin & Bushnell
St.). Parking behind the building,
enter on Bushnell Street.
Saturday
10:30am - 12:00pm:
• July 11 & 25
• August 8 & 22
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| REPONDEZ S’IL VOUS PLAIT:
We’d like to encourage you to register
in advance for AFH programs and events. You’ll
save money and make life easier for those who
are doing the planning. On the other hand,
if you’re one of those who just can’t
plan ahead or likes to do things on the spur
of the moment, do join us, but call the AFH
office first to make sure the program has not
be cancelled due to bad weather, illness, lack
of registrations, etc. Registrants will receive
a call if a program is cancelled for reasons
other than weather. If the weather is questionable,
those registered and other interested members
should call 860-278-9999 – a message
will notify you of the program’s status. |
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| Volunteers Needed
for Program Committee!
Events such as the Annual Meeting, the
14 juillet, the Beaujolais Nouveau, and
the Fête de Noël require dedicated,
enthusiastic volunteers working together
to plan and implement their creative ideas.
In the past, in addition to these events,
the AFH has offered cooking classes, wine
tastings, tennis soirées, game nights,
music programs, trips to New York City
and Québec, etc. The possibilities
are endless, but first we need YOU to volunteer
your time to make it happen. Join a convivial
group of Francophiles who just want to
have fun! Call Anne Marie today at 860-278-9999. |
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Local French
conversation groups:
•Tuesdays from
9:30 a.m. until noon. Call 203-238-3538
for location.
•Wednesdays at
noon at the Senior Center in Storrs.
Contact Dennison Nash at 860-423-5463.
•2nd and
4th Wednesday of every
month at 7:00pm.
Location: Panera Bakery, 2542 Albany
Avenue, West Hartford.
Contact: Diane Rechel at
860-233-3079.
•Conversation group
now meeting in Middletown.
French-North American « Spiritually
Green »
Where : It’s Only Natural
Restaurant, Main Street, Middletown
When : 1 :30 p.m., 3rd
Saturday of the month
RSVP : B. Jean Connal (203)
907-7031,
bjeanconn@yahoo.com, Serge
Doyon : sergeisback@yahoo.com
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Calling
for French Conversation groups:
If you participate in a French
conversation group and would
like to participate in our grande
liste of groups, to be
published in the AF newsletter,
please notify the AF office.
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Did
you know..? The Alliance
Française of Hartford
offers expert translation service
of documents from French-to-English
or English-to-French at a reasonable
cost. If you have need or know
of someone who needs document
translation, call the AFH office
for a referral, 860-278-9999
[fax (860)293-1688].
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Request
for e-mail addresses: We
make every effort to keep our
members informed of AF de H
activities. If your email address
has changed, please let us
know so we might better serve
you. Call, or better yet, e-mail
us at afdehtfd@alliancefrancaise.org
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The Executive Board of the Alliance
Française de Hartford has decided to cancel this Friday's Awards, May8th,
Ceremony at Central Connecticut State University. Low participation
and concern about gathering a group of students from several
Connecticut towns during the outbreak of H1N1 virus led the Board to
make this cautious decision.
Encourage
Promising French Students:
Give a Donation to the Robert McFarland
Memorial Book Awards Fund
The Alliance Française
of Hartford has for many years recognized
the most promising students of French with
a book and a certificate given at a ceremony
held in their honor each spring. In the
fall of 2006, the Board of Directors of
the Alliance Française of Hartford
established an Annual Giving Society to
recognize charitable contributions for
the purpose of supporting the Robert McFarland
Memorial Book Awards.
After the death of past
AFH President Robert McFarland after a
long battle with cancer in May, 2002, memorial
contributions from Bob’s family and
friends poured into the Alliance as per
Bob’s expressed wishes. It was felt
fitting to dedicate these funds to the
purchase of books for the Book Awards Ceremony
and the Awards officially became known
as the Robert McFarland Book Award
Ceremony.
This fund has continued
to support the purchase of books for the
past five years, but it needs new benefactors
to sustain it. Please consider becoming
one of our “bienfaiteurs” and
choose to give at one of the following
levels:
- $25 - $99 Ami(e) de St. Exupéry
- $100 - $199 Ami(e) de Molière
- $200 - $299 Ami(e) de Balzac
- $300+ Ami(e) de Hugo
All donors will be recognized
in our newsletter and donors at the highest
level will be invited to attend the Book
Awards reception to be recognized there
as well. |
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