Dibuka and the Alliance Française of Johannesburg are proud to invite you to the literary festival "Lire en Fête".

> PROGRAM - Alliance Française of Johannesburg

Wednesday 11 november at 8pm : Africa Trek the Movie

After their great experience to travel all over Africa by foot, Alexandre and Sonia Poussin present their movie "Africa Terk" at the Alliance Française of Johannesburg. The screening will be followed by a discussion with cocktail offered by Hitec. Movie in English and in French >>> BOOK IN ADVANCE !!! Contact : Pauline BOITARD | pauline.boitard@alliance.org.za

Friday 13 november at 6pm : Freeky Friday Night at the Alliance Française of Johannesburg

After one year of missing, the French bookshop La Boucherie is coming back in SA. To celebrate this launch, we invite you for a freeky friday night with the most scary story tellings you’ve never heard, some criminal cocktail made by the Café de l’Alliance and the terrible magazines from UniPresse.

You will the Alliance Française as you’ve never seen it before… in a full moon night, opened door to the Joburg’s monsters !

Free entrance !

Saturday 14 november from 9am : Literary morning

Buy your books from la Boucherie and meet the famous South African writter, Deon Meyer and the French Louis Sanders.

About Deon Meyer Deon MEYER was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province. After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Die Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Since then, he has worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, web manager, Internet strategist, and brand consultant. Deon wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, and bribed and blackmailed his two brothers into reading it. They were not impressed (hey, everybody is a critic ...) Heeding their wisdom, he did not write fiction again until he was in his early thirties, when he started publishing short stories in South African magazines. "I still believe that is the best way to learn the craft of writing. Short stories teach you a lot about story structure - and you have limited space to develop character and plot" says Deon. In 1994 he published his first Afrikaans novel, which has not been translated, "simply because it was not good enough to compete on the international market. However, it was a wonderful learning experience". All later novels have been translated into 20 languages, including English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian and Bulgarian. Deon lives in Melkbosstrand on the South African West Coast with his wife, Anita, and they have four children to keep them busy : Lida, Liam, Johan and Konstanz. Other than his family, his big passions are motorcycling, music (he is a Mozart fanatic, but loves rock ’n roll too), reading, cooking and rugby (he unconditionally supports the national Springbok team and the Free State Cheetahs provincial team). www.deonmeyer.com

About Louis Sanders Louis Sanders was born in Paris in 1963. After studying English at the Sorbonne, he went to live in St Andrews (Canterbury) in Great-Britain and wrote a thesis in English Literature at Cambridge University. He came back to live in France in the Dordogne region with his British wife and two daughters, where he worked for Ramsay Publishers. He then moved on to Payot Publishers where he edited a collection of foreign literature for the following three years. In 2001, he started writing adults’ and children’s detective novels set in Dordogne and often among the English community. Louis also wrote a script entitled Quelques jour savant la nuit for a film directed by Simon Edelstein. He later wrote an adventure story entitled Les Naufrageurs published by Joëlle Losfeld. Louis recently finished writing a novel on his experience as a volunteer fireman in Dordogne.

Venue
Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive corner Kerry Road
Parkview - opposite Zoo Lake

For more information
Contact Pauline
culture.jhb@alliance.org.za
011 646 1169

> PROGRAM - Alliance française of Pretoria

Thursday 12 november @7:15pm : Opening at Alliance Française of Pretoria

Exhibitors : Kalle Becker, Maryanne and Shayle Bester, Paddy Bouma, Je’Anna Clements, Hazel Cuthbertson, Carol Davies, Yvette de Beer, Julia du Plessis, Wendy Hartman, Jenny Hatton, Jenn Hurlin, Derrick Hurlin, Themba Mabaso, Rob Owen, Louise Prinsloo, Marelise Prinsloo, Elizabeth Pulles, Joan Rankin, Maja Sereda, Nalini Pillay, Chantelle Thorne, Rozenn Torquebiau, Marjorie van Heerden, Samantha van Riet, Adelle van Zyl, Marlene (Paddy) Visser

The exhibition is from the 13th to the 27th November 2009

Daily visiting hours : 08:30 - 19:30 (Mon - Thurs) 08:30 - 13:00 (Fri) 09:00 - 12:30 (Sat)

Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 La boucherie and Unipresse in Pretoria

Program of Children’s workshops – 17th & 18th November 2009

17/11/09 10:30 :: : Listen to a story by Joan Rankin for Grades 2 – 4 (45-60 min) 11:30 :: : Listen to an adventure story by Chantelle Thorne for Grades 5-7 (60-90 min) 12:00 :: : Using a writing model to write by Nalini Sooknanan Pillay for Grades 7-9 (30-45 min) 14:30 :: : Write and illustrate a story by Rob Owen for Grades 7-9 (30-45 min)

18/11/09 10:30 :: : Reading and illustrating stories by Jenny Hatton and Shayle Bester for Grades 1-2 (30 min) 11:30 :: : Let’s be creative by Yvette de Beer for Grades 3-4 (1 h) (divided into 2 sessions) 11:30 :: : Illustrate a story by Julia du Plessis for Grades 5-7 (60 min) 14:30 :: : The basics of storytelling by Derrick Hurlin for Grades 9-12 (2 h) 14:30 :: : How an illustrator works by Chantelle Thorne for Grades 9-12 (45-60 min)

These workshops are free of charge but Booking is essential.

Venue
Alliance Française of Pretoria
99 Rivier St (cnr de Kock)
Sunnyside

> PROGRAM – Lycée Français of Johannesburg

Monday 16 november & Tuesday 17 november La Boucherie and Unipresse