Event: Bastille Day celebration (7/13, 4pm-12am)

Brought to you by Alliance Française:

Saturday, July 13, 2013

4pm - 12am

Hotel Sofitel in Bloomington

There will be fun events for the entire family.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of the event ($10 for AF members and children under 10).

Bastille Day is the French Independence Day, July 14, 1789, when French citizens overthrew the monarchy and stormed the infamous prison in Paris, the Bastille.

Highlights include:

• the Third Annual Best Baguette Competition
• the Citroën Club Car Show
• a wine taste-off
• an art fair featuring local artists, from 4-8pm
  
• Musical entertainment beginning at 6pm
  
• the Southside Aces Brass Band
• Mark Stillman
• the Francine Roche Trio
• A dance hour with the Jeunes Cadres Dynamique, the Alliance Française Young Professionals group, will begin at 11pm

Children’s activities include:

• crafts
• face painting
• a coloring contest
• a storming of the Bastille

For additional information, please contact us at 612-332-0436 or by email at bonjour@afmsp.org.

Film and Event: Becoming Traviata, by Philippe Béziat

The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents:

Becoming Traviata

France • 111 min • French w/English subtitles • 2013 • Documentary

Directed by: Philippe Béziat

The film is opening Friday, June 28 at the St Anthony Main Theater.

Event:

Pre-screening Party and LIVE OPERA Performance

with opera conductor/director Craig Fields

and an outstanding cast of opera singers

Monday, July 1, 2013

6-7:30 pm

Aster Café’s River Room

125 SE Main St, Minneapolis

$25 General / $20 Film Society Members

Ticket Includes:

performance & discussion | hors d’oeuvres & cash bar

Screening of Becoming Traviata