adminNkosilesisa Ncube, Sunday Life Reporter
Lovers of French culture will be treated to a Francophone Festival courtesy of Alliance Francaise between 18 and 25 March.
Alliance Francaise announced the festival on social media through a post that reads: “This year the Festival de la Francophonie in Bulawayo will last a week from Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 March 2017. Mostly francophones films (all subtitled in English) as well as other activities including dictation (young people, adults and French teachers), a quiz, a film for youths and a Marimba concert with French songs for scholars. Most of these activities are free and open to all, both members and non-members of the Alliance Française.”
The week-long festival will be held at different venues around the city, including Zimbabwe Academy of Music, 26 on Park and Alliance Francaise. Activities will include French cuisines, French movie screenings, dictation contests, quizzes and a school concert.
Of these activities, four are open to students for free. These are the screening of the movie Adama on 21 March, the French dictation competition on 22 March, the Marimba School Concert with some French songs on 24 March and the English Quiz on 25 March.
Partners for this initiative hail from as far as Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Czech Republic, together with local partners like Zimbabwe French Teachers Association-Southern Region. The festival comes in fulfillment of Alliance Francaise’s overall goal of promoting the French language as well as supporting arts and cultural events within Bulawayo.
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