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For its activities, the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabadbenefits from the support of

the French Embassy in India and the Alliance Française Foundation

Alliance Française d’AhmedabadB/S Food Corporation of India,Himali Tower Lane,Manekbaug Shyamal Road, Satellite,Ahmedabad - 380 015 Gujarat, INDIATel: +91 79 26733800, 26733900Website: under maintenanceEmail: ahmedabad@afindia.orgFacebook: Af d’Ahmedabad

Desk CampusFrance-Espace Ahmedabad(at Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad)www.campusfrance.org email: ahmedabad@india-campusfrance.org

Alliance Française - Annexe Baroda1, Sangeet SocietyOpp. Shivashray Society, Vasna Road,Baroda 390 015, Gujarat, IndiaTelefax: +91 265 2252854Email: baroda_afabad@yahoo.co.inFacebook: Alliance Françaised’Ahmedabad - Annexe Baroda

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EditorialDear Friends,Bonjour, Namaste, Kem Chho?

First of all, I would like to congratulate all our Alliance Française and other students from various schools and institutes who completed their DELF exams last month. I extend my congratulations to our dedicated teachers without whom nothing could be possible; they are truly the heart of our institution. Our new premises welcomed all the candidates from all over Gujarat for this session of the DELF exam, a diploma directly issued by the French Ministry of Education and recognised worldwide.

In today’s global and mobile world, foreign language competence has become one of the key competences for

individuals wanting to lead successful professional and private lives. How can one travel, do business, read fiction or non-

fiction, compare political perspectives on specific national and world issues, or evaluate research results if one is monolingual?

How can one appreciate one’s own language and culture without knowing any other to make a comparison? To become

proficient in a foreign language takes time and resources; a generally accepted and verified “recipe” to master a language

has yet to be discovered. We, at the Alliance Française

While I am writing this editorial, the musicians of OZMA and DARPANA are playing together in France after the artistic residency in Ahmedabad in April 2012. This story keeps moving forward… To be continued…

See you soon among us!Philippe MartinDirector

Executive Committee PresidentPavan BakeriVice-PresidentAbhijit SenTreasurerSwati SoparkarSecretaryPrabir BasuMembersParmanand DalwadiMeera LakhiaC. K. KoshySharad JainTiven MarwahShrikant RakheDirectorPhilippe MartinCoordinatorChintan Pandya (Culture)Paresh Punjani (Courses)Mala de Fenoyl (Courses Baroda)AdministratorRaj Vakil (Ahmedabad)Shilpa Thackre (Baroda)AssistantMaïté Courgeon (Culture)Priyal Kothari (Course)AccountantBobby ChristieTeachersAnne BalaramPayal ChoksiShreeja DayanandSapna GargDipal KansaraDipika KshatriyaChaarvi LadiaRajeshwari ParasuJayesh PatelRinku PatelMansi PathakNishith ShahKanchan SharmaSeema SheikhDhaiwat ShuklaMruga ThakkarPunam TiriarUrvi VelaniNisha VyasTejal VyasElizabeth Coutin (Baroda)Satyen Gulabrai (Baroda)Bhasha Mewar (Baroda)Julie Delmet (Trainee, Baroda)LibrarySujit NairSimon GardanDesk CampusFranceDharti DaveReceptionFrancis AnthonyAnal PrajapatiRutwik KhalanekarEsha Kothi (Baroda)Translation CellRinku PatelTechnical StaffAnkur Parmar (Technical Head)Jayesh ParmarDhanbahadur ThapaGanpat VaghelaGautam VaghelaPriyanka SolankiShobhana Sapkal (Baroda)

d’Ahmedabad, are continuously working to offer you these resources. Also, our well-trained teachers are aware that students learn best where the focus is on the content and not on the language itself. This is our active pedagogy.

It has been now 2 months that we are functional at our new premises and everybody is appropriating this new space quite well. Our students and friends are spending more and more time with us, transforming our center more as a “happening place” than a place where you “just” come to learn French. Some students then decided to create their own club to organize more and more events by and for our members and students. The Alliance Française is definitely becoming a Rendez-Vous place. Talking about Rendez-Vous, did you visit our new outdoor space at the ground floor? Your taste buds will be happy to discover it!

On the cultural side, we have decided to focus on people who are making a difference, each of them in their own

way, through changing mind-sets, practical guidance and/or mentorship. Aditi Gupta and her friends from

Menstrupdia will tell us how they change misperceptions; Sekhar Mukherjee will continue to take over our new

building; Shamiana will make us discover new stories in a short time; and Chintan Pandya will pursue the Fanatika

Theatre Club adventures.

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FOR TICKETS:Ph: 06.17.69.29.35 Email:prod@ozma.fr

OZMA &

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DARPANAON TOUR IN FRANCEJUNE-JULY 2013

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Indian Council for Cultural Relations

DARPANAAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad organised a residency in April 2012 to create an original Indo-French creation of shared-repertoire. The residency was hosted at Darpana Academy of Performing Arts with Darpana’s musician who play Karnatic music and a French jazz band OZMA. At the end of the residency one concert in Ahmedabad and one in Baroda were held with great success.

Now the same residency is organised in France to have repercussions of this Indo-French creation in France!

The last concert of this tour will be organised on 2 July 2013 at Studio de l’Ermitage, Paris.

OZMA &DARPANA

Regular Session: From 26 August to 27 December 2013 Level A1, A2, B1, C1 (150 hours/Duration:4 months/per level) B2 (200 hours/Duration:5 months)

8:00 AM 10:00 AMMONDAY TO FRIDAY

LEVEL 1 (A1)

LEVEL 2 (A2)

LEVEL 3 (B1)

LEVEL 4 (B2)

2:00 PM 4:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:30 PM

LEVEL 5 (C1)

Sunday batches for teenagers and professionalsTimings: from 9:00 am to 3:00 pmLevel A1, A2 and B1 (150 hours / 07 months).Level B2 (200 hours / 10 months).

Saturday BatchLevel A1 Part 1 (75 hours):Timings:03:00 pm to 06:00 pm from 14 September 2013

August Sunday batches from11 August 2013:Level A1, A2 and B1November Sunday batch from24 November 2013:A1, A2, B1 and B2

SUNDAY BATCHES SATURDAYBATCHES

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You have 6 Regular sessions of 4 months per year.Speak French fluently by learning 3 levels in just 1 year!

You can also jointhe Special Batch of level A1(Timings: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm)

From 26 August to 27 December 2013 (Monday to Friday /150 h / Duration: 4 months).

REGULARSESSION

SPECIALBATCH

October Regular sessionfrom 28 October 2013:

Level A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1December Regular Session

from 30 December 2013: Level A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1

‘Survival Kit’ course from 17 July to 14 August 2013. Monday to Friday (40 hours) Timings: 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm.

‘Survival Kit’ is a short term course for those who wish to go to France for studies or traveling. After the completion, you will be more comfortable in the day to day life in France.

Every Saturday (6 hours / month)It will help students who are currently learning or have finished their course to sharpen the communication skills in French.(Prerequisite level A2.)Batch 1 Timings: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Batch 2 Timings: 2:00 PM to 04:00 PMNo Conversation classes on 06 July, 03 and 10 August, 28 September.

JOIN MONTHLY

CONVERSATION CLASSES

Level 1 (80 hours/10 months) • (Age: 8 to 12 years)Widen the horizon of your children by introducing a new language. Being multilingual will let their brain blossom with French flavor. Timings: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pmFrom 21 September 2013

SATURDAY KIDS’ BATCH

Relaxation-Meditation workshop Relaxing and Meditating will give you the mental power and the energy for an entire week! Days: Tuesday and ThursdayTimings: 7:20 am to 7:50 amNo workshop on 02 July, 15 and 20 August, 24 and 26 September.

Chess workshop for beginners Along with the Chess theory you will discover strategies in openings and end games tactics with French vocabulary by analyzing international Grand Master’s games.Day: WednesdayTimings: 6:30 pm to 7:50 pmNo workshop on 03 and 10 July, 28 August and 25 September.

FOR ANYINQUIRY

email:ahmedabad@afindia.org

Phone: 079 26401551079 26560271

OUR 3 WORKSHOPS IN FRENCH(12 hours) Duration: 3 months / 4 hours each month).Prerequisite: Level A1 (French).

LEARN FRENCHDIFFERENTLY!

Join in any month and renew every 3 months.

French songs workshopCome and discover French Songs with full Fun!Days: FridayTimings: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm No workshop on 09 August and 27 September.

The course will start onMonday 08 July 2013 | Every Monday and Thursday.Timings: 10:15 am to 11:45 am | Level required: Level B1

Welcome back to you all, grammar lovers! This session, we’ll focus on your argumentative skills. Orally, you’ll enact contrary situations, debate and play « l’avocat du diable ». In writing, you’ll particularly work on your » articulations » (which means that a lot of time will be dedicated to the dreaded « subordination », but also on other « connecteurs »). You’ll also write summaries. In comprehension, you’ll identify the main ideas of a text, the different « registres de langues », colour them and play with them, refining your analytical and expressive skills.

All of this with the help of a wide variety of documents: TV program excerpts, advertisements, classic texts, poetry, movie scenes, songs… Don’t miss on it; the number of seats is limited!

Do you feel like watching what the French watch, read what they read, laugh with tem , sing with them and even speak with them ? Then this course is for you . With the help of a variety of documents (such as advertisements, songs , movie snippets , stand-up acts, TV program excerpts,classic texts, poetry) we’ll center our session around two new themes : «l’exotisme » et « l’épouvante » ( exotism and horror ) . We have some exciting times ahead of us !

This course will be particularly beneficial to the students who prepare for the C1 level as the comparison of documents around a theme will lead us towards the format of synthesis and as the students will get their first acquaintance with French essays or commentaries. But all those who just want to enjoy themselves are welcome!

Internationally Recognized DELF-DALF DiplomasOnly at Alliance Française.(DELF-DALF Exam certificates issued by the French Ministry of Education)

September SessionDELF DALFEXAMS DATES

Registrations for the September DELF exams: 19 August 2013

23 / 09 / 2013 24 / 09 / 2013 25 / 09 / 2013 26 / 09 / 2013 27 / 09 / 2013 28 / 09 / 2013

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

DELF A1 DELF A2 DELF B1 DELF B2 DALF C1 DALF C2

DELF J. B2 DELF J. B1 DELF J. A2 DALF J. A1

Our courses from level A1 to C1 prepare you for these exams.

6 diplomas corresponding to the levels of Common European Framework

4 French language diplomas for teenagers (DELF Junior)

The certifications are standardised in 6 levels scale according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

(Level B2: 30 hours)

GRAMMARCOURSEREVISON

(30 hours)KALEIDOSCOPE

From Monday 08 July 2013Every Monday and Thursday

Timings: 12:00 pm to 01 :30 pmLevel required: B1 (complete) or above

Are you curious to understand French history, to discover the great men of France, to analyse the most important events ? Then grab this opportunity to be aware of the French History !Program: history of Gaul, timeline of Joan of Arc’s life, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the two world wars in France…

You always wanted to know the French lifestyle, to discover customs and habits, to analyze this society? So join this workshop to be exposed to the French Culture!Program: festival and tradition of France, to understand the present society, panorama of music and cinema, French heritage travel, specific regions of France.

Are you eager to understand the French lifestyle, to discover customs and habits, to analyze this society? This is the right workshop to be in touch with the French culture!Program: history from the French revolution till today, to understand the present society, panorama of music and cinema, French heritage travel, specific regions of France.

From Tuesday 09 Julyto Friday 23 August 2013

Days: Tuesday, Wenesday, FridayTimings: 10:15 am to 11:45 am

No workshop on: 20 August 2013

From Monday 08 Julyto Monday 26 August 2013

Days: Monday, ThursdayTiming : 6:30 pm to 08:00 pm

No workshop on: 08 & 15 August 2013

From Tuesday 09 July to Friday 23 August 2013

Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, FridayTimings: 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm

No workshop on: 20 August 2013

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History of France workshop inFrench language (30 hours)

French Civilization workshopPart 1 (20 hours)

French Civilization workshopPart 3 (30 hours)

WORKSHOPSwith Prerequisite: Level A2

1. EXPERTISE

2. INNOVATION

3. RECOGNITION

4. MEMBERSHIP

5. SOCIAL NETWORKING

5 More Reasons to Learn French at The Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad

set up in Ahmedabad in 1982, the Alliance Française is a pioneer in teaching French in Gujarat with highly qualified and experienced teachers, and we are now one of India’s biggest Alliances Françaises.

we use the latest methods and technologies, with communicative language teaching supported by interactive whiteboards.

the Alliance Française is the only official examination centre in Gujarat for all of the Diplomas awarded by the French Ministry of Education (such as DELF and DALF).

A personalised Card is issued to all the members; student’s fees include the “student’s membership” charges. Through our membership, you can borrow documents from our French Multi-Media Library and enjoy some exclusive promotions such as free cineclubs twice a month, exclusive concerts, discounted rates at our Café le Rendez-Vous, etc.

make friends from all over the world in class or during our events – en français!

5 Good Reasons to Learn French at The Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad1. A WORLD LANGUAGE • 2. THE LANGUAGE OF CULTURE

3. THE LANGUAGE OF THE “ART DE VIVRE” • 4. A LANGUAGE FOR THE JOB MARKET5. THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE

Salut tout le monde,We are overwhelmed to have such a nice response for the new ‘Médiathèque’ at our new premises. The Médiathèque has become the major attraction of Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad. In addition we are very glad to tell you that the first ever heritage center has opened at Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad and to flourish it, we possess a beautiful new collection of heritage books majorly focusing on the heritage of Gujarat and India. We have books written by various authors coming from different parts of the world, talking about photographs, paintings, art and architecture, handicrafts, and much more on our rich heritage.

And as we all are anticipating the evening of short films that we are going to have with Shamiana – ‘The Short film Club’, we invite you to explore some wonderful short films we have in our library.

The Library now offers the Yearly Membership for the year 2013-14. Members who havent

renewed their membership yet, please renew your membership immediately to explore our new multimedia library and

to use it to the core.For complete information related to

membership, kindly visit us or send an email:

libraryafahd@yahoo.com

Rush!!

NOTE: The deposit of Rs. 500 is fully refundable. Please keep safe the receipt of the deposit to reproduce it at the time of collecting the refunds.

New Library timings:Monday/Thursday/Friday:10.00 am to 6.00 pm

Wednesday: 10.30 am to 6.30 pm

Saturday: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm

Sunday: 10.00 am to 4.00 pm

Tuesday closed

LIBRARY

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx

The multimedia side of the new mediathèque at the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad..

Anushree Shukla ( 10 ans) (Niveau A2- enfants)The library is very good. It has many CDs and books are also good and we can watch the French television channel too.

Mohal Rajguru (11 ans) (Niveau A2- enfants) The library is exactly the way I like. It has some English and many French books and CDs. We can also watch TV with headphones here.

Naqui Shaikh (12 ans) (Niveau A2- enfants)The library is actually very attractive. Infact, it was very surprising for me to find that this is a library. It also has a television wth individual headphones with great quality sound.

Mauli Modi (Stagiaire)Tha facility of TV in the library with channel TV5 helps me to improve mu knowledge of French culture and it updates me with current affairs of France. Watching TV with good quality headphones helps me get clarity to my comprehension. Films always play a huge role to bring us close to reality.

Naresh Jain (Niveau B1)I am very much impressed & satisified with the seating arrangement. This is much better than the previous arrangement. While watching TV5 Monde, I really improved my listening abilities which is an important aspect while learning French. Thank you very much to Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad for providing us such a nice environment.

Rutwik Khalanekar (Niveau B1)The movie on demand facility at the new bibliothèque is pretty cool. It was great to sit and watch a French comedy with friends – a private screening exclusive for us- complete with individual headsets and comfortable couch. Great experience sans a bucket of popcorn.

Prabhakar Singh (Niveau B1)The movie watching experience in the library is extra ordinary. Especially with the individual headphones I enjoy the movie to the core. Moreover, TV5 Monde chanel is very interesting and helps me to improve the language tremendously.

COMMENTS:

Adding to the remarkable assortment of resources available at the library, we now have the first French Book Store in Gujarat at the Alliance francaise d’Ahmedabad made possible through the support of Goyal Publishers, Delhi. Making a variety of books on French language, civilization and more, accessible for buyers, the shop is open to anyone in search of French books. Located on the 3rd floor of the Alliance Francaise building it is a place exclusively for French books be it school/course-text books or easy reading for children. From grammar practice, dictionaries to peculiar French phrases for the layman one can find something of interest by browsing through the collection. Students learning the language need search no more for a source to acquire material for things like grammar practice or examination-preparation. It’s all here at the Goyal Book Store at Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad. Freyaan who is currently managing the store will willingly help you find what you need.

Timings of Goyal Book Store:Monday,Thursday and Friday: 1000hrs - 1800 hrs

Wednesday: 1030hrs - 1830hrs

Saturday: 1100hrs - 1900hrs

Sunday: 1000hrs - 1600hrs

Tuesdays : CLOSED

Visit French Book Centre on the 3rd Floor at the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad.

The First French Book Centreof Gujarat

Founders of Menstrupedia

We are a husband-wife duo, designers, engineers, and more importantly dreamers with a strong urge to bring about good changes. We dream of a future where menstruation is not a dreadful condition or a taboo but rather a welcome transition into womanhood for young girls.

We want menstruation to get rid of its taboo status and this is possible only through proper and widespread awareness about menstruation among people. One aspect of spreading awareness about menstruation is to create good and effective communication channels to provide information and that’s what we are working on at Menstrupedia.

How we started Menstrupedia : At NID, when we got into a relationship with, Tuhin came to know more about the pain and inconvenience that girls and women go through every month during their periods and how they are often treated impure because of it. It wouldn’t be very hard to imagine what a young girl goes through in the absence of a proper source of information on the subject and on top of that being branded impure by her own family. Aditi had herself experienced and dealt with menstruation related problems in her life and had always felt a need for trustworthy and easily accessible information on this subject. This might be a situation not just in India but in many other countries as well. And we saw a lot of design scope to take up this gap of information as communication designers.

What started out as a thesis project at NID

has now become Menstrupedia. Aditi had taken up a yearlong project to study the level of awareness about menstruation in young girls. Though it was Aditi’s project, Tuhin was closely involved in it from the beginning as it is not just a problem of women health and hygiene but also a communication design problem. At the end of the project we found a need for an appropriate guide about menstruation for young girls. So we created a prototype where we explained menstruation through comic medium using characters and stories and tested it with young girls. We received a very positive response. So, one inspiration was this that what we are doing at Menstrupedia has a thorough yearlong research to back it.

A comic was developed to test the medium. We tool in to schools in Mehsana, Gndhinagr , Ahmedbad and Ranchi. We received a very positive response from girls, parents as well as teachers.

After working 3 years in e-learning industry and having saved some money as an initial investment, we quite our jobs and started working full time on Menstupedia from August 2013.

Rajat Mittal (3rd founding member) who is a graduate from DAIICT and a post Graduate in Computers from Arizona State University, Joined us in 2013.With his technical skills our team was pretty much complete

Art TalkTête-à-tête with Aditi Gupta and Tuhin Paul

Let’s know more about them in their own words

The response to the prototype has been overwhelmingly positive. Not only did

the young girls whom we gave samples of the comic enjoyed it, educators and

parents found it very helpful too. Parents felt that using comic to educate about

menstruation is very effective in eliminating the feeling of shame associated with

this topic and creating a favourable environment for them to discuss this topic

with their daughters.

Menstrupedia aims at spreading awareness about menstruation and shatter myths around the subject. At menstrupedia we are devising various ways to help young girls and women stay informed about their body and managing their periods effectively.

We have been working in the field of menstrual awareness since 2010 and recently in past one year we have been working on making awareness about menstruation fun and easy through Menstrupedia the online fun guide to healthy periods.

We are making a comic book to explain girls about menstruation. Menstrupedia, the comic, will guide young girls about their changing bodies and especially about menstruation using stories adapted from real life situations. Beautifully illustrated characters enacting these situations will enlighten the young readers of the comic about staying prepared and the best ways to manage their periods in different situations.

The easy storytelling narrative of the comic will instill a positive attitude among its readers towards their bodies and menstruation, and free them from the age old menstrual myths. Once made, the comic will be translated into various languages too to enable more people to make use of the comic.

Website: www.menstrupedia.com

Blog: www.menstrupedia.com/blog

Prototype of the comic which is now

available in English and Hindi and

is free for people to print and use:

www.talesofchange.in

Date: 27 July 2013Time: 7:00 pmVenue: French GalleryAL

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Way back in my school days, amongst mundane boring classes, I enjoyed quite a bit as a last bencher, observing the entire classroom activities and could not resist to fill it up sheepishly with crooked doodles in my class workbooks! Often that resulted in poor marks, punishments or call to parents! But alas, I could not live up to their expectation as I have an itch towards white spaces and pages. Seeing them I feel the urge to mess it up with the crazy scribbles pouring out my body and mind, a manifestation of this complex world we live with, it affects me…all the time. So I continue with my scrapbooks, which became part of me, a fantastic affordable device to store my secret ideas flowing out from the restless recording of moments in and around me. Moments with my friends, family, lovers, students, colleagues, children, animals, beasts, angels, demons, machines, morons, clowns, humans, warlords, megalomainacs, manic depressives, doctors, conductors and many more…my body and mind poured in as an aftermath in my sketchbooks!!!

I also discover the intoxicating beauty of relative truths through my sketchbooks, which comes in various shapes and sizes starting from school days notebook to official writing pads to scraps to standard sketchbooks to even the empty walls which came to me! This series of sketchbooks / scrapbooks / Doodles / scirbbles / murals / films / cartoons / comics /compositions / writings are nothing but my freedom song, my idea bank, my memoir, my open secret diary and my oxygen mask, to keep my hope for ‘ONE WORLD’ alive!

“Through my Body and Mind”-

What my Sketchbooks mean to me? by Sekhar Mukherjee

ALL ARE WELCOME

Sekhar Mukherjee (Cartoonist, Illustrator, Animator, Graphic Novelist, Design Educator)

Senior Faculty, HOD, Animation Film Design

Festival Director-Chitrakatha Biennial International Student Animation & Comics Festival

Chairman, NID Film Club

Inauguration: 9 August 2013 Public View: 10-17 August 2013Time: 7:00 pm Time: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Venue: French Gallery, Alliance Française d’Ahmedabadand at various places in our premises.

I want to share with the young guns about the intoxicating experience the one’s own sketchbook could be. The data bank of the external soft disc one may say it as. Long live Australopithecus!!!

A bachelor in commerce and a pacifist, Sekhar Mukherjee was never interested in accounts but cartooning and that drove him to doodle on accounts report as part of his daily mundane job as an accounts clerk, way back in 1989 in Calcutta. He was fired from his first job and happily got a break to devote full time in self learning of humour art which fetched him couple of awards from local newspaper for contributing in the area of cartoons and caricature including 1990 to 1992, as a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic artist for the Economic Times, Calcutta. 1992 to 1996 studied at NID animation film design, postgraduate programme. 1996 till 2002, worked in various communication design projects both in moving and print media before join back his alma mater, as animation faculty.

From 2003 he is heading the Animation department and nurturing the future force of Indian graphic storytellers. Apart from running the department & mentoring the students, he also conducts workshops at various local and global events, presenter & juror at various animation festivals, publish graphic novels, book illustrations, cartoon strips for alternative audience. Since last ten years his dream project, ‘The Little Big Brave Ones’ based on Tagore’s poem ‘The Hero’ is hoping to see the light. Apart from this his passion lies in comic book, music, cinema, cooking and appreciating the low lights of life. His graphic novel ‘Peace Will Come According to My Plan’ got published in an Indo- Swiss Anthology in 2008. He is also in the editorial team of 123 Animation-An Interdisciplinary Journal, SAGE, UK. Being a film buff he chairs the NID Film Club. He & his family are merrily living in green NID campus full of monkeys, peacocks, camels,squirrels, snails and pigeons.

He also directs a new biennial Student International Animation & Comic Festival from NID, called Chitrakatha since 2007, aiming to promote the unsung stories of all kind from Indian subcontinent. In May 2009, he received CNBC award for his outstanding contribution to the cause of animation education in India. He strongly believes in ‘ONE WORLD’ spirit and his blood group is truly B positive!

SHAMIANA is India’s only dedicated and fastest growing short film club which is passionate about showcasing the finest shorts from India and all over the world.

The people behind SHAMIANA are the pioneers of the organised short film space in India and the company behind the club - TWO PLUS PRODUCTIONS are also into production and distribution of shorts.

What started off with just one screening at a small place in Bombay has now expanded to TEN CHAPTERS across BOMBAY, PUNE, GOA, BARODA, DELHI, BANGALORE, CALCUTTA, NORTH-EAST besides AHMEDABAD and now International with MELBOURNE and HONG KONG with regular monthly screenings drawing packed houses!

About SHAMIANA

Date: 26 July • Time: 8:30 pm Venue: French Gallery

at the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad

AGHAVIZI(The Inner Eye)Some reveries come true. As do some terrors. Some of those visions are actually camouflagic; misleading us to believe they’re something that they really are not. They have this strange and uncanny ability to blend in with the present. The conscious and the subconscious go hand in hand, successfully blurring the lines between the two. It’s up to you to decide when to wake up.

Director: Gopakumar VenugopalLanguage: Tamil (with English subtitles)Duration : 27 minutesCountry : India

ASADA coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.

Director: Bryan BuckleyLanguage: AfricanDuration : 18 minutesCountry : South Africa/Somalia

ALL ARE WELCOMEYou can follow SHAMIANA on

facebook.com/shamianashortsyoutube.com/myshamiana

All the Alliance Française Ciné Club screenings will take place at the new building in our French Gallery!!

SubtitleEnglish

GenreComedy

Duration101 Minutes

SubtitleEnglish

GenreDrama

Duration90 Minutes

“Mademoiselle Chambon” by Stéphane Brizé

“Tu n’aimeras point” (Eyes Wide Open) by Haim Tabakman

Date: 5 July 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Date: 19 July 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Jean, a burly blue-collar mason who lives semi-contentedly with his wife and sonin some unspecified provincial French town. Little passion exists in Jean’s life until his path crisscrosses with that of Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s violin teacher. Completely taken with the woman’s cultural sophistication and intellectualism, Jean begins contemplating an affair with this virtual stranger, and offers to repair one of her windows as an excuse to be more proximate to her. Ultimately, suspense begins to build as the question lingers of whether the two will give in to their desires.

Aaron is an orthodox Jew in his mid-thirties who helps run a kosher butcher shop opened by his father. He is married to Rivka and they have four sons. His life will be upset the day he met Ezri, a 19-years old yeshiva student. Aaron and Ezri strike up a fast friendship, but in time their feelings become deeper, and during a communal bath, they act on the desires that have been growing between them.

Please bring you Membership / Student ID Card for Cinéclub screenings.

SubtitleEnglish

GenreComedy

Duration90 Minutes

SubtitleEnglish

GenreDrama

Duration101 Minutes

“Les Beaux Gosses” (The French Kissers) by Riad Sattouf

“Sport de filles” by Patricia Mazuy

Date: 2 August 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Date: 23 August 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Excusively for Alliance Française Members and Students.You can become member anytime during the year; join the AF family!

This wild, raunchy, gag-a-minute French farce concerns Hervé, a skirt-chasing 14-year-old boy struggling to contend with social awkwardness and the fact that he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Nor do female respond favorably to him either: he suffers rejection after rejection, until he draws some attention from gorgeous and popular classmate Aurore. Suddenly, with Aurore at his side, Hervé lands in the middle of the most exclusive social circles, but finds himself surrounded by a series of wild and unruly characters. Meanwhile, he struggles to contend with the emotional ups and down of a young adolescent.

Outrage by her horse’s selling, Gracieuse, gifted horsewoman, leave the farm who employed her. Then, she decided to join her father’s neighbor stud farm as a groom. In this microcosm of money and power, Gracieuse pursues her own dream, her only obsession: have her own horse…

Fanatika Theatre Clubcelebrated its 3rd anniversary!

Here’s what our established actors have to say after their training at Fanatika:

Fanatika is very close to my heart

because I started my theater career with it. I always feel that I am part of the

new era in Gujarati contemporary theatre that started with Fanatika.

I feel that Fanatika is in itself a different movement that is happening in Gujarat as Fanatika also has room

for other than professional actors (students, teacher, lawyer, MNC employees, etc.) where they come, meet,

rehearse and explore the hidden possibilities in them by doing the different, and especially contemporary, plays which

is very new for the actors as well as for the audiences, but which is very important.

Fanatika is very special and unique because actors are not puppets here, they have their freedom to explore their creativity through different aspects of theater like stories/screenplay writing, light/sound design, costume design, property/stage management, etc. which certainly evolves their originality and broadens their understanding of theatre. And in Gujarat, I think Fanatika is the only place where international artist come, work and share their experience with the members to help them learn and improve their art. - Pratik Rathod

W i t h more than 100

members who are actively participating in activities related to

theatre, and motivating others too to join theatre, Fanatika has brought a remarkable positive change

in the development of theatre culture in Ahmedabad. Through its various activities such as “Dramatic

Performances“, “Vanchikam”, “International Festival of Documentaries on theatre” and “Screening

of International Films”, it not only provides an international exposure but has generated an intercultural dialogue in the city.

I have been enriched with professional training and experiences at Fanatika that is rare to find anywhere else in Ahmedabad. My

association with Fanatika is going to be a life-long association where I look forward

to many more new ventures.

- Bharat Molker

For registration andmore details, Contact Fanatika Theatre Club:Email:fanatikatheatreclub@yahoo.com fanatikatheatreclub@gmail.com

Phone:079-2673 3800 / 3900

www.facebook.com/fanatikatheatreclubwww.fanatikatheatreclub.blogspot.com

I am a businessman turned actor

thanks to Fanatika. Had I not been exposed to theatre with my first play “Lady Lalkunwar” at Fanatika, I would have continued, of course unwillingly, to look after our family business. It is Fanatika that gave me the courage to accept and follow my real passion – acting!

Since my training at Fanatika, I have been working as a freelance actor and have acted in many plays

[Lady Lalkunwar (Sitanshu Yashaschandra), Dakhla Tarike (Chintan Pandya), and Kasturba (Narayan Desai) to

name a few], Bollywood films such as D-Day (Nikhil Advani), Two States (Abhishek Varman) and a Gujarati blockbuster

Kevi Rite Jaish (Abhishek Jain). Be it theatre, films, TV series or commercials, my training and formation at Fanatika on stage presence,

voice modulation and projection, dialecte and diction, gestures and movements on stage as well as technicalities and importance of light, sound and music in theatre has always been of great help to performe with ease and confidence.

- Hemang Dave

www.festival-avignon.com, www.eif.co.uk/browse/theatre

July and August are the months with biggest theatre festivals in the world:

Festival d’Avignon (France)Edinburgh Festival (UK)If you are around, do check out what’s happening there…

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CALL FOR ENTRIES3rd Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival (February 2014)

Organised in the month of February since 2011, Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival (FITDF)has been actively leading the inter-cultural dialogue through the medium of theatre.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION30 NOVEMBER 2013

To know more about the festival and fill in the ONLINE FORM, plase visit: http://fanatikatheatreclub.blogspot.in/p/fitd.html

World Environment Day

Photo Exhibition by Munem Wassif and 7 Billion Others Project by Good Planet Foundation

What Happened Recently

South Asia Documentary Film Festival

ART TALK Tête-à-tête with Amruta Patil

International Music Day with AF students and live performance by Viraj Amar

The AF Magazine is an e-magazine which regularly publishes articles in French and English to keep you updated about all what’s happening in connection with France in India.

The entire network of Alliances Françaises in India contributes to this magazine; discover an article from the Alliance Française de Pune this time on

Foreign Policy’s list of “500 Most Powerful People on the Planet” has just been announced. Featuring among these 500 influential people is a distinguished Indian, Dr. Unni Karunakara, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières – MSF (Doctors Without Borders). An interview with this prominent yet simple personality.

You are on the list of the “500 Most Powerful People on the Planet”. What does this list mean to you, and moreover, to MSF? Can we talk of this as a recognition of your work and a legitimacy for MSF?

Appearing on the list was something of a surprise. In delivering humanitarian assistance, MSF often finds itself at odds with those who hold real power – governments, armed groups, or corporate interests like pharmaceutical companies. But we certainly aim to influence those in power to strengthen our ability to reach people in need and to deliver these people with good quality healthcare.

Being on the list can be seen as a recognition of the need for humanitarian medical action and the work we do. Any power or influence we may have comes from the hard work and dedication of 35,000 humanitarians from over 100 countries working to alleviate suffering in 70 countries. And, we benefit from the support of more than 4.5 million donors.

Getting candid with MSF

Connect to AF Magazine and find more articles from allover India.

You will be able to discover a retrospective of the World Environment Day events organised

by the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad.

As of today, in which part of the world is MSF the most active ?

Today, MSF is the most active in the continent of Africa, where two-thirds of our programme funds are spent. In 2011, many of our largest programmes were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Haiti, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Even if MSF is an International Organization, pursuing goals on a worldwide scale, is it manageable for you, as President of this International Organization, to put forward local issues, like the ones happening in your country, India ?

MSF is an associative movement. Doctors, nurses, logisticians, and others who work for MSF, or have in the past, can choose to be a member of an MSF association. We currently have 23 associations across the world, which serve as the engine for debate within the movement. Each association sets broad directions for its executive. It holds them accountable and safeguards the identity of the movement. Local associative chapters can make their own decisions, but for movement-wide decisions at the international level, the associations discuss issues before bringing them to the International General Assembly for vote and endorsement. The International General Assembly is the highest associative body, and as International President, I chair the International General Assembly. If the MSF movement believes a local issue is important for all of us, I will be asked to address it.

The tenure of the president of MSF is a three-year mandate, renewable once. Are you planning to run for re-election for this position ?

No, I will not be seeking another term. I will be returning to India for a while after being away for more than 20 years. It has been an honour and a privilege for me to have served as International President for the last three years.

For More details contact: Dharti Dave on ahmedabad@india-campusfrance.org or call on 079- 26733801

CampusFrance Ahmedabad would like to invite you for Pre-departure session on 12 July 2013 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the French Gallary, Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad.

While in school Students from the member countries of the European Economic Space (plus Switzerland) may work freely and without restriction while studying in France. As long as they do not neglect their academic work, they may combine employment with scholarships or other financial assistance. Since July 1, 2007, French law has allowed other international students to work under the following conditions: A residency permit (VLS-TS, validated by OFII, or a residency permit in addition to a visa) marked “student” entitles the student to accept paid employment for up to 60% of the legally defined work year (or 964 hours per year), without prior administrative authorization.

Note: The time that students spend in internships connected with their academic program (and covered by a written internship agreement) are not counted toward the maximum allowable working hours, even if the student is compensated during the internship. The minimum gross hourly wage, set by law, is €9.19. Withholding reduces the worker’s net wage by about 20%. Working at a public institution of higher education International students are eligible for student jobs at universities and other public institutions of higher education. Students are hired to provide the following services: assisting incoming students; helping disabled students; providing tutoring; providing IT support and assistance; coordinating and staffing cultural, athletic, and social events; working in the career center; and supporting their institution’s promotional efforts. Student employment contracts are offered for a period not to exceed 12 months. They run from September 1 through August 31. Students may work up to 670 hours between September 1 and June 30, and up to 300 hours between July 1 and August 31.After graduation, International students holding a degree equivalent to a master or above International students who have earned a degree that is equivalent to a European master or above may seek authorization to reside in France for up to 6 months after the expiration of their student residency permit. This authorization, which is not renewable, allows the graduate to work for up to 60% of the legal work week. If the employment contract is related to the subject of the graduate’s degree program and if it provides compensation that is equal to or greater than 150% of the minimum wage, the prospective employee may apply to the local prefecture for change of status from student to employee. Once authorization is granted (it is not granted automatically), the individual may begin working full time. Other students accepting an offer of employment from a French firm after graduation implies a change in status (from student to employee). Graduates apply for the change by submitting their employment contract or offer of employment.

French law permits international students to work.

Working in Francewhile your study!!!!

Alliance Française - Baroda Annexe

NEW SESSIONS MONTHLYConversation Classes (6hrs)

Contact : Alliance Française - Baroda Annexe, Vasna Roadbaroda_afabad@yahoo.co.in • Ph: +91-265-2252854

A1 Evening Batch 1 July 2013 | Monday to Friday | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

B1 Morning Batch 1 July 2013 | Monday to Thursday | 7:00 am to 9:30 pm

July Batch From 5 July 2013 August Batch From 2 August 2013

VATO-V Are The One 6th & 20th JULY 2013 3rd & 17th AUGUST 2013

Baking Class Stay tuned for dates and timings!

(Every Friday 5:30pm to 7pm)

WHAT’S IN STORE

Fete de la Musique Date: 21 Jun – AF Baroda Performances by students and local artists…

VATO-V Are The One May 2013 4 May / 18 May June 2013 1 Jun / 15 Jun

WHAT HAPPENED

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Duration101 Minutes

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Duration90 Minutes

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GenreDrama

Duration90 Minutes

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“Mademoiselle Chambon”by Stéphane Brizé

BARODA CINÉ CLUB

“Tu n’aimeras point” (Eyes Wide Open)by Haim Tabakman

“Sport de filles” by Patricia Mazuy

Date: 5 July 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm Date: 2 August 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Date: 19 July 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Date: 23 August 2013 • Time: 7:00 pm

Jean, a burly blue-collar mason who lives semi-contentedly with his wife and sonin some unspecified provincial French town. Little passion exists in Jean’s life until his path crisscrosses with that of Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s violin teacher. Completely taken with the woman’s cultural sophistication and intellectualism, Jean begins contemplating an affair with this virtual stranger, and offers to repair one of her windows as an excuse to be more proximate to her. Ultimately, suspense begins to build as the question lingers of whether the two will give in to their desires.

This wild, raunchy, gag-a-minute French farce concerns Hervé, a skirt-chasing 14-year-old boy struggling to contend with social awkwardness and the fact that he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Nor do female respond favorably to him either: he suffers rejection after rejection, until he draws some attention from gorgeous and popular classmate Aurore. Suddenly, with Aurore at his side, Hervé lands in the middle of the most exclusive social circles, but finds himself surrounded by a series of wild and unruly characters. Meanwhile, he struggles to contend with the emotional ups and down of a young adolescent.

Aaron is an orthodox Jew in his mid-thirties who helps run a kosher butcher shop opened by his father. He is married to Rivka and they have four sons. His life will be upset the day he met Ezri, a 19-years old yeshiva student. Aaron and Ezri strike up a fast friendship, but in time their feelings become deeper, and during a communal bath, they act on the desires that have been growing between them.

Outrage by her horse’s selling, Gracieuse, gifted horsewoman, leave the farm who employed her. Then, she decided to join her father’s neighbor stud farm as a groom. In this microcosm of money and power, Gracieuse pursues her own dream, her only obsession: have her own horse…

“Les Beaux Gosses” (The French Kissers)by Riad Sattouf

All Ciné Club screenings will take place at the Alliance Française - Baroda Annexe

MONTHLYConversation Classes (6hrs)

July Batch From 5 July 2013 August Batch From 2 August 2013

VATO-V Are The One May 2013 4 May / 18 May June 2013 1 Jun / 15 Jun

14 July

BASTILLE DAY

The Bastille was a medieval fortress and prison, for political prisoners, in Paris. Many people in France associated it with the harsh rule of the Bourbon monarchy in the late 1700s.

On July 14, 1789, troops stormed the Bastille. This was one of the events at the beginning of the French Revolution.

On July 14, 1790 “Fête de la Fédération” was held. This was a way to celebrate the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in France.

July 14, often called “Fête Nationale” in France, became an official holiday in 1880.

Nowadays, many people attend large-scale public celebration as the Military parades, musical performances, communal meals, dances and of course, the very famous firework!

Bastille Day, in France, is a holiday marking the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789.

The students of Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad are preparing some surprises for this occasion.

FRENCH NATIONAL DAY

With the new premises of the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad, we have possibilities for offering many new things! One of them is the creation of the Students’ Club at the Alliance!

15 students will be in charge to coordinate and organise events for and by the students! The idea is to create a new “space” dedicate to the student-life at the Alliance Française.

All round the year, the Students’ Club will organise events, parties, contests and much more!

At the occasion of the Bastille day, the Student Club is really proud to present its first event: “Vive la revolution” art contest, on 12 July!

For more information and to get updates on the activities of the Students’ Club, stay tuned on our Facebook page: Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad!

Looking for a translation? The translation cell of the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad, composed by our teachers, stands there for you.

From Gujarati or English to French or, French to English, also just for proof reading; for any kind of document: official or non official translations, general or technical documents.

For your business needs, our teachers could also work as interpreters. Think about it!

For more information or details, please contact the Alliance Française at

+91 79 26733800, 26733900 • Email: ahmedabad@afindia.org

Students’ Clubof the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad

TRANSLATION CELL

Do you know

the Alliance Team?

The Receptionists,

There are young, there nice, there are beautiful..... please welcome the Receptionists!!

Since we are in our new premises, things grow up. To welcome you, from now, there is not one, not two, but THREE receptionists! The team is composed by Aanal, Francis and Rutwik. Both of them join the Alliance Team in 2013 for our great pleasure!

Now, let them talk about their job!

Aanal: At the beginning, you think that it is an easy job, but it’s not!! It’s few challenging, we enjoy! I mean, challenging in a good way!And for me, work and study at the Alliance Française is a real chance. While I’m working, I can improve my French!

Francis: We have a lot of work, but it is very good because we have a lot of connexion with different department of the Alliance Française. Our mission are also various, we have to manage the membership, inform the student.. In term of knowledge it is very rich (management, customer relationship…) and all those things expose us out of our comfort zone and it is there, where we learn the most!

Rutwik: When I started to work at the reception, I was afraid that it would be a little boring.. . But I had a very nice surprise discovering that this work is all the contrary of boring! My job is exhausting but I can do it!!

All of them seem really happy about their job. There are all very different (one is from Gujarat, an other from Karnataka and the last one is from Maharashtra!) but really compatible; “We all find our own satisfaction source in our job, and that is really nice for us!” says Aanal.And about the new premises, they all agree to say that this new building is, for the receptionist, in term of work’s spaces better and much more convenient!

So now, don’t hesitate one more second before coming at the Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad and meet our super receptionnists!

Alliance Française d'AhmedabadB/S Food Corporation of India,Himali Tower Lane,Manekbaug Shyamal Road, Satellite,Ahmedabad - 380 015 Gujarat, INDIATel: +91 79 26733800, 26733900

EventDate Time Venue

Concert: OZMA meets Darpana02 July 2013 8:00 pm Paris, France

Cinéclub “Mademoiselle Chambon” by Stéphane Brizé05 July 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Pre-departure Session by CampusFrance12 July 2013 10:00 am - 1:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Cinéclub: “Tu N’aimeras Point” by Haim Tabakman19 July 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Shamiana: Screenings of short films26 July 2013 8:30 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Art Talk: Aditi Gupta and Tuhin Paul27 July 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Cinéclub: “Les Beaux Gosses” by Riad Sattouf02 August 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Exhibition: “Through My Body and Mind”09 August 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Exhibition: Public View“Through My Body and Mind”

10-17August 2013

11:00 am - 8:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

Cineclub: “Sport de Filles” by Patricia Mazuy23 August 2013 7:00 pm French GalleryAlliance Française d’Ahmedabad

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Date Course Timings Days04 July 2013 Relaxation Meditation 07:20 am 07:50 am Tuesday, Thursday

05 July 2013 French songs workshop 04:30 pm-05:30 pm Fridays

08 July 2013 French Civilization workshop 1 06:30 pm-08:00 pm Monday,Thursday

08 July 2013 Grammar and Kaleidoscope See page Monday, Thursday

09 July 2013 French Civilization workshop 3 12:00 pm-01:30 pm Tuesday,Wednesday, Friday

09 July 2013 History of France workshop 10:15 am-11:45 am Tuesday,Wednesday, Friday

13 July 2013 Conversation See page Saturdays

17 July 2013 Chess workshop 06:30 pm 07:50 pm Wednesdays

17 July 2013 Survival Kit 06:30 pm-08:30 pm Monday to Friday

11 August 2013 Sunday Batches Level A1, A2 & B1 09:00 am-03:00 pm Sundays

26 August 2013 Regular All levels See table page Monday to Friday

14 Sept. 2013 Level A1 part 1 (75h) 03:00 am-06:00 pm Saturdays

21 Sept. 2013 Kids’s batch Level 1 04:00 pm-06:00 pm Saturdays

28 Oct. 2013 Regular All levels TBC Monday to Friday

24 Nov. 2013 Sunday batch Level A1, A2, B1 and B2 09:00 am-03:00 pm Sundays

Exclusively for Members and Students Entry Free, Open to All

14 July 2013 French National Day • 9 August 2013 Ramzan Eid

15 August 2013 Independance Day • 20 August 2013 Rakshabandhan

28 August 2013 Jamnashtami

The Alliance Française d'Ahmedabad will be closed on the following days