Monthly Archives: November 2024

🎷As part of a regional jazz tour, Goethe-Institut / Alliance Française de Colombo, the Embassy of France to Sri Lanka, and the Maldives/ University of the Visual & Performing Arts present the Volkmann/Jarret/Andrzejewski Trio.

📅Friday 01st November
⏰7.00pm
🏠Dr. Lionel Edirisinghe Auditorium, Faculty of Music, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Albert Crescent, Colombo 07
🎟️Free invitations available at the AFC front desk
📋 For more information, do email [email protected] 

🎸The Volkmann/Jarret/Andrzejewski Trio was founded in 2023 as Volkmann had carte blanche for a new line-up at the Hanover Jazz Festival. The trio plays a convincing mixture of simple folk songs and improvised sound collages. All of the band members are instrumentalists as well as outstanding composers and have already written for large formations. In the trio’s interplay, this knowledge of instrumentation and form is condensed into an energetic, yet fragile performance that is deeply emotional.

🥁The idea of the project is therefore to depict playful elegance in the music and, above all, to take the audience on an energetic, flowing journey.

📋 For more information, do email [email protected]

✨️Embark on a wild mystical journey into the vibrant world of color, curated by the very own young and adventurous creators of the Arts Studio, and marvel at the diversity of nature and beyond!

📅 On display from 02nd – 08th of November 
⏰️ Opening hours

• 02nd of November from 11.30am – 5.30pm
• 03rd – 08th of November from 10.30am – 5.30pm

🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 07
🎟 Free entrance

🎶 The Alliance Française de Colombo welcomes the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka to perform an intimate concert of chamber music featuring an array of works composed for strings, trumpet, and piano. 

✨Experience a diverse program that includes the works of renowned composers: Debussy, Beethoven, Williams, Ropartz, Cassadó, and Farrenc.

📅 Date: Sunday, 10 November
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Venue: Alliance Française de Colombo

🎟️Limited tickets are priced at 3000 LKR and can be purchased at the Alliance Française front desk. 

📋 For online reservations and more information, do email [email protected]

🎫We are pleased to offer free invitations for the members and students of the AFC. 

As part of the French Cultural Season 2024, the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, together with the network of Alliances Françaises in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, is organising the exclusive premier screening of the widely acclaimed French movie The Count of Monte-Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo).

📙Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel The Count of Monte Cristo comes in a truly lavish adaptation with breath-taking backdrops and a mind-blowing pace. As the movie was released in June 2024 and is already a big hit in France, it will be a premiere in Sri Lanka and an event not to be missed for cinema lovers.

The screening will take place,

📅on November 9th 

⏰at 3:00 pm 

🏠at PVR in One Galle Face. 

🔤With English subtitles. 

🎟️Open to all and free entrance on a first-come first-served basis.

🙏Suitable for all audience / Unrestricted public
👪Recommended for children aged 10+
⌛Duration of the movie : 2h58 (178 minutes)

✨️Tune in to the breakdance revolution!
 

🕺The Alliance Française de Colombo is delighted to host a breakdance workshop with Joel and Jason Peter from the Double J Breaking School. 

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Open to kids above 7 years of age.
📅Saturday 09th of November

⏰️9.30am-12.30pm
🏠Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 7
📝Free registrations through [email protected]

📢Get registered as only limited slots are available!

The November instalment of ‘Sculpted Time’ is here! ‘The 400 Blows’ by director François Truffaut is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age-story about a young boy named Antoine whose childhood in Paris is fraught with misunderstanding and frustration. 💥

We are delighted to present this screening in partnership with the Embassy of France and the Alliance Française de Colombo. 🇫🇷 Register now to reserve your seat!

📽️ Screening: ‘The 400 Blows’  💥

🗓️ Wednesday, 20 November 2024
⏰ 6:00 p.m. (Doors will close at 6:00 p.m. sharp)
📍 Lakmahal Community Library
🎟️ Free admission; register via Eventbrite (/geoffreybawatrust)

✨As part of the Collective Action Against Period Poverty (CAAPP) project, funded by the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives in partnership with the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka, we are excited to host a photo & art competition and exhibition to raise awareness about the stigma, myths, and taboos surrounding menstruation.

📅Exhibition Dates: November 29th, 30th and December 1st, 2024

⏰Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

🏠Venue – The Alliance Francaise Colombo

🎟️Everyone is Welcome – Entry free