En Français, Oui But Why?

En Français, Oui But Why? – Francophone Cultural Fair

This Francophone Cultural Fair is part of the Lycée Français de New York’s Fête d’Automne which brings together its many communities to celebrate the season with French language and Francophone cultures.
The Francophone Cultural Fair includes: a giant spelling bee, a theater performance, and many French products and organizations to discover!

EN FRANÇAIS, OUI BUT WHY ? PROGRAM

Francophone organizations, products and food will be open
12pm – 3pm

Giant, French Spelling Bee with Rachid Santaki
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Ages 6+ to adult | Materials included | FREE
Reserve your spot

The “Giant Spelling Bee” invites young and old alike to celebrate the French language in a non-competitive spirit.
Hosted by Rachid Santaki, it offers four levels of difficulty (elementary students, middle schoolers, high schoolers & adults, and FLE/French as a Foreign Language students) for a friendly, welcoming event open to everyone.

Theater Performance of “Le monde d’@près” 
Written and directed by Guillaume Roper-Sirvent
Presented by L’Atelier Théâtre New York 
With Julie Abbas, Nicolas Becquet, Elise Cervellera, Philippe Fau, Marion Hérouard, Benjamin Nadal, Claire Obry, Guillaume Roper-Sirvent and Anne Urbain
4pm – 5:30pm
Ages 12+ | In French with English supertitles
Tickets : $24 / general admission – $12 / general student admission – $5 Lycée students
Purchase tickets here

Created in New York in 2022 and produced in Paris that same year, the original comedy by Guillaume Roper-Sirvent returns to the stage in a new version, four years after its initial success.

Le Monde d’@près starts with a question as simple as it is dizzying: If you were given the choice between continuing your current life or reinventing everything, what would you do? With humor, irreverence, and a healthy dose of self-deprecation, this play examines our life choices, our contradictions, and what we do with the time we are given.

“It is a immense pleasure to restage this play, to update it four years later, and this time, to also be able to take the stage with the actors of L’Atelier,” shares Guillaume Roper-Sirvent, who will join the other original cast members of this adventure for this single special performance.

An opportunity to discover—or rediscover—this biting, ensemble comedy that is resolutely modern about our eternal desire to believe that another life is possible.