FRENCH CONNECTION CULTURE ASSOCIATION (Bureau du Canada)

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Bonjour! We are very proud to announce that FCCABC and LaDiDa Media, in cooperation with Switch United, will be shooting the pilot for our upcoming interactive webisode series (working title “ESL“) in Vancouver on May 19-20, 2012.  This exciting web-based comedy series will move into full production at a later date. Stay tuned to this page for more developments!

Le projet Ta parole est en jeu ! est supervisé par le Groupe des technologies de l’apprentissage (GTA) de l’Université de Moncton, en partenariat avec l’Office national du film (ONF) et avec le soutien financier de Patrimoine canadien.

La raison d’être du projet Ta parole est en jeu ! est la réalisation d’un site Web à la fois moderne et « cool » qui offrira aux canadiens français de 13 à 17 ans un espace de jeu interactif et social permettant la découverte, l’adoption, la redéfinition et la mise en valeur des mots, des expressions, des accents et des autres particularités de la langue française à travers le Canada.

French Connection Culture Association – Bureau du Canada est responsable de la réalisation de vidéo dans l’Ouest Canadien; en Clombie-Britannique, en Alberta et en Saskatchewan.  Dès janvier 2012, nous allons venir visiter et rencontrer les francophones de ces régions afin de vous interviewer et de mettre votre parole en jeu…!!!

FCCABC is pleased to promote the new Canadian film “FRENCH IMMERSION” ! From the makers of “Bon Cop Bad Cop” and “The Trotsky”, “French Immersion” is the story of four Canadian Anglos and one New Yorker who come to St. Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, a remote town in Northern Québec, in order to learn French.

For two weeks the students live with French families, take classes in French, do everything in French – from singing karaoke to go-karting. Think of it as a very strict summer camp for adults, with one rule – NO ENGLISH!  Students who sneak off to speak a little English quickly find out that the whole town is spying on them, “EN FRANÇAIS!” By the time the two weeks are up, neither the students nor the town will ever be the same.

The Vancouver premiere will be on October 13th at The International Village.  But you can take a sneak peek at it here as well as visit the official “French Immersion” website for more information.   And stay tuned right here for some of the winning answers to the question “Why is Learning French Important?”. Howard Park Public School’s upper French Immersion students definitely know the answer to that!

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Also on October 13th, Baron Gallery in Gastown is honoured to be hosting an exhibit of paintings by Montreal automatist painter Pierre Gauvreau and his wife Janine Carreau.  Pierre passed away in April of this year having exhibited for 70 years. He was an active participant in the drafting of Refus Global and absolutely lived to paint.  The works in the show are done in vivid colour, and have appeal for a wide audience. Please visit Baron Gallery’s website for more information on the exibit.

FCCABC’s Creative Director, Marie-Eve Dumulong, is being showcased in the upcoming edition of Chatelaine Magazine.  In the accompanying blog Marie-Eve talks about the numerous projects we’ve been involved in this past year.  Check it out!

Marie-Eve was also interviewed on Radio Canada Vancouver’s “Le Telejournal” in which she speaks about FCCABC’s 2 years of French promotion throughout western Canada, and Radio Canada Alberta’s “Le café show” with excerpts from the British Columbia Francophone Capsule Series which you can listen to in our Media Podcasts section.

Stay tuned for more posts as we continue our cross country promotion of French arts, culture and heritage in all corners of English Canada!

EXTRAIT de l’entrevue Châtelaine : Mutée sur la côte ouest canadienne en 2008, Marie-Eve Dumulong décide qu’elle apportera sa langue et sa culture avec elle. Elle participe alors à la création de l’organisme French Connection Culture Association (FCCA) avec l’aide de son complice John Gudmundson. Francophone de Montréal, anglophone de Vancouver, Marie-Eve et John décide qu’il est venu le temps de regrouper les deux solitudes du pays.

Cette année, l’organisme est devenu NATIONAL et compte maintenant des bureaux à Toronto, Vancouver et Edmonton. FCCA est un véhicule pour promouvoir la culture francophone au moyen de capsules radio, télé, et d’un contenu grandissant sur le Web.

FCCABC in partnership with LaDiDa is pleased to announce that we are now in development for our upcoming innovative and interactive webisode series ESL: Égalité! Stupidité! Liberté!

This exciting web-based series is ground breaking in several ways, not the least of which is our bilingual approach to French arts, culture, heritage, and now, comedy!  Moreover, this exciting satirical/educational series will contribute greatly to FCCABC’s continuing mandate to reach out to Francophones, Francophiles and Anglophones across the country.  Keep checking our website for updates as we continue to develop this exciting series!

On that note, and to better promote our various bilingual projects and services, FCCABC now has offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton.  See About Us for more details.

We are very excited to announce that as of July 1st, 2011 FCCABC is going national! Not only will we be known as French Connection Culture Association (Bureau du Canada) - with offices in Toronto and Vancouver – we are also happy to promote National Bank Financial Group, through the services of French language specialist Otmane Madrane.

National Bank Financial is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada and has been in existence for 150 years.  It is Canada’s 6th largest chartered bank, with over 30% market share in Quebec and $100 billion in assets managed for over 270,000 clients.

On that note FCCABC is pleased to recommend the services of Otmane (Otto) Madrane a French speaking Investment Advisor at NBF Vancouver.  “French-speaking full-service advisors are in short supply, particularly in Western Canada, and communicating in your native tongue about sensitive subjects like personal finance is extremely important.” Otto can be reached directly at: Otmane.Madrane@nbf.ca

With our new ‘national’ focus, FCCABC is well poised to extend our reach to French speaking communities across Canada. Exciting days are ahead. Restez branchés!

Old Tremont Hotel - Built in 1887

On May 11th at 7PM we bid adieu to the French Presence in Vancouver lecture series in the historical Tremont Hotel (later named Abrams Block) in Gastown.  Don’t let the English monikers fool you – it currently hosts the Irish Heather Pub and Salty Tongue Cafe.  Although the building was constructed during Vancouver’s early multi-ethnic years, it soon became home to purveyors of French arts and culture. Most significantly, it was the site of the first meeting of the Vancouver French Canadian Association.

Join us as we raise our glasses in memory of the colourful French Vancouverites who came before us, and toast to the rich present and promising future of Vancouver’s French presence in the years to come. Santé!!

With the French Presence lecture series underway, we are now focused on uncovering and rediscovering the extensive imprint French culture has made on our city.

For example, the Dominion Building with its French classical/second Empire architectural style is not only a provincially designated Class ‘A’ heritage structure, but also a little taste of Paris in this glass of a city.

If you would like to learn more about Vancouver’s French history, we have a few spaces available in our upcoming French Presence walking tour (Saturday April 30th at 10:30AM). For ticket and location information contact: frenchconnection@fccabc.org

French Connection Culture Association of BC is on Twitter! Keep up to date on all of our activities at FrancoBC.

The French Presence in Vancouver is just over two weeks away!  We are very excited to be co-hosting this unique six week course in partnership with Simon Fraser University and the City of Vancouver. Please note that the course has a new home in the SFU Contemporary Arts/Woodward’s complex, just three blocks east of SFU’s Harbour Centre campus.   Click on The French Presence in Vancouver page for full location information and directions.