Facilitate exchanges between the local culture and French and Francophone cultures
In the United States, each Alliance Française offers up to a hundred cultural and social events per year, in some cases enabling them to establish or sustain partnerships and to promote local Francophone talents or artists from France or Francophone regions (Canada, Francophone Africa, Haiti, the Caribbean, etc.). As a result of the diversity of these partnerships, the Alliance offers a chance for speakers (lecturers and artists) to make contact with new audiences, including not only members and students of Alliance chapters but also students, professors and researchers from American universities (Departments of Romance Languages or French Studies, Political Science and European Studies, Law, Theatre Studies, etc.), students in French and French-American schools, international schools and art schools, members of foreign cultural centers (mainly the Goethe Institute), Francophone and Francophile communities associated with French companies, French-American Chambers of Commerce (FACC) and audiences of theaters, festivals, and museums. |
