Guided Search: Arts and Culture

Join us for our next children’s event on Saturday, February 18 at 2pm.

The month of February is known for its Carnival celebrations. Come for the Alliance Française carnival, full of colors! We will celebrate this event with French pancakes.

Put on your best costumes!

At the Alliance française de Philadelphie.

The program is bilingual. No minimum level of French is required.

Children 5 and under: at least one guardian is expected to stay at the event.

LE CLUB DE LECTURE EN LIGNE

Join Françoise Zanchetta on Zoom to talk about Francophone Literature
 

The Alliance is resuming its book club online,
from November 2022 to June 2023!

Join the Club de Lecture to discuss the book of the month priorly read by all the attendees. Exchange about your emotions, opinions with the other members and get the opportunity to expand your literary culture and to improve your French! 
 

*** Femmes Peintres ***

presenté par Eric Simonis

Joy, rage, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, LIFE: everything we’ve been waiting to see on a Broadway stage is back, in this exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music.

Join The Library Company for a virtual Fireside Chat with Etta Madden, titled “Mr. Kate Cromo”: News Correspondent Anne Hampton Brewster in Rome, 1869-1890. 

Register here and a link will be sent to your email.

Jessica Womack, curator of the current BWA exhibition Comings and Goings: Mobility, Experimentation, and Exploration in the Art of the African Diaspora and doctoral candidate at Princeton University, will be interviewed by host Patty Smith. Smith is a Professor Emeritus at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, an artist-printmaker, and a member of the BWA Board of Directors. This free virtual public program is sponsored by the Dedalus Foundation.

The roots of activism in Philadelphia run deep, and local archives hold innumerable stories of resistance. But many of these stories — those that center historically marginalized peoples — have been diminished, erased, neglected, and buried. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition reveals what eight local activists, cultural organizers, and artists unearthed when they dug deeply into the same Philadelphia archives that have historically excluded their voices and perspectives. Through archival items, rare books, oral histories, and original artwork, Chronicling Resistance counters the systemic erasure of Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ people from the historical record, breaks silences, and uncovers new ways of understanding and enacting resistance.