Merry French Christmas!

TUESDAY 13 December : French Speaking - 9-11pm (FREE)
Friendly atmosphere as ever... Generally at the back of the lounge, but feel free to ask at the bar!
@ The World, Thistle Street


WEDNESDAY 14 December: French Language Meet Up - 8.00pm (FREE)
Come and practise your French with other French speakers, meet new people, etc....
@ Au Bar - 101 Shandwick Place , Edinburgh

WEDNESDAY 14 December: Mackintosh in France for the Visually Impaired - 10am-3.30pm (FREE)
A descriptive tour of the Mackintosh in France exhibition of watercolours, and a practical workshop led by Juliana Capes.
@ Dean Gallery (Meet at main entrance)

>> To book a place, please fax your name and contact details to 0131 624 6440, or text to 07814 751087.
>> Book Charles Rennie Mackintosh tickets in advance online.

THURSDAY 15 December : CUT AND DRIED: THE SILHOUETTES OF AUGUSTIN EDOUART AND WATERCOLOURS OF HARRY MORE GORDON (FREE)
The work of two very different artists, one a nineteenth-century French silhouettist, the other one of Scotland’s most distinguished contemporary watercolourists, will be united in a fascinating exhibition, which opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter. Cut and Dried will feature cut paper silhouette portraits by Augustin Edouart, a French artist who worked in Edinburgh during the 1830s; these will be shown together with a retrospective selection of Harry More Gordon’s characteristically informal portraits, which capture intimate moments in the domestic lives of many prominent Scots....
@ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh.
>> On until 26 March 2006
>> More information here

FRIDAY 16 December : Panto: Beauty And The Beast (7.30pm)
Alasdair Hawthorn directs Alan McHugh's version of the panto favourite set in the small French village of Grandderriere where Madame Decolletage has turned the vain and arrogant Sacha ugly. He has only seven days to make Belle love him.
@ RSAMD
>> 5 - 16 Dec except Suns at 7:30pm also 10 Dec at 2pm. NB: - I know it's in Glasgow, but I still thought it was worth mentioning. Not sure how politically correct it all is, really, though!

FRIDAY 16 December : Film: Merry Christmas - Joyeux Noël (various times)
Christian Carion's beautifully directed, acted and shot wartime drama tells the story of an event during World War I, when a Scottish, a German and a French regiment called a temporary halt to the slaughter just before Christmas, 1914.
@ Filmhouse
>> On until Thu 12 January.

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Things to look forward to in the next few weeks:

• Word is there is a continental market somewhere in the city... (but I am pretty sure it's mainly German.)
• 21 December : Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1927 by Francis Henry Newbery (Scottish National Portrait Gallery @ 12.45-1.15pm) (Free)
• Fri 29 December - 05 January: Innocence (Film in French with English subtitles) @ FILMHOUSE
• 22 January 2006: Signed Tour: Mackintosh in France @Dean Gallery
• 9 January 2006: Conversational French evening classes: various levels - Premiere Classe: More info here (£90-100)
• 17 January 2006: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architect as Artist (12.45-1.30pm) @Weston Link - Hawthorden Lecture Theatre (FREE)
• 14 January - 11 February 2006. (7.45pm or 2.30pm): Tartuffe @ http://www.lyceum.org.uk/ [Free preview 13 January at 7.45pm].
• 22 January 2006: Signed Tour: Mackintosh in France @Dean Gallery
• Thursday 2 February: Themroc (French film with English subtitles) @ FILMHOUSE.
  
  

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