HerCanberraNancy Waites, Author at HerCanberra

Rebirth for Bastille Day: Canberra’s French quarter celebrates re-opening

Nancy Waites — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:10:24 +0000

We can’t go to France yet, but the Alliance Francaise de Canberra offers you the next best thing—your own little taste of France in Canberra. For 75 years, the Alliance...

The 2020 Alliance Française French Film Festival to return this month!

Nancy Waites — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:00:25 +0000

Quel soulagement! What a relief! The Alliance Française French Film Festival will return again in 2020! After bidding adieu to our favourite foreign film festival earlier this year due to...

Physically distant, but socially together—the Alliance Française is finding a new way to do solidarité

Nancy Waites — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:00:36 +0000

On a typical weekday evening, the Alliance Française building in Turner was once a hive of activity. Its classrooms are full of Canberrans getting their mouths around French vowels, the...

What not to miss at the French Film Festival 2020

Nancy Waites — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:15:30 +0000

With 48 carefully-selected French films, The Alliance Française French Film Festival returns to Palace Electric this March. Many of us didn’t get the summer holiday we’d hoped for and now...

The Great French Wine Race comes to Braddon

Nancy Waites — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:10:17 +0000

Australians have just partied at a horse race this week on the sacrosanct first Tuesday in November. But in France, their annual November race tradition is yet to come—and it’s...