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Movers and Makers Awards: Honoring Gwinnett’s Manufacturing and Supply Chain Leaders
May 1 at 8:00 am - 10:30 amKorea-Georgia Dialogue: Strengthening Strategic and Economic Ties in a Global Partnership
May 20 at 8:00 am - 3:45 pmConsular Conversations: Mexico
July 15 at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta in partnership with Alliance Française Atlanta is very excited to announce the visit of Swiss author Arthur Brügger to Atlanta! He will be giving a presentation of his novel L’Œil de l’espadon at Alliance Française in Midtown! The reading will be in French. Following the presentation, participants are invited to […]
Aisha Franz is a German illustrator and comic book artist. She studied illustration at the School of Art and Design in Kassel and has worked as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist since graduating. Franz has published two graphic novels and her latest novel "Shit is real" is nominated at the L.A. Times Book Prize this […]
CANDIDE, based on Voltaire’s meandering, farcical epic of the same name, celebrates the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, its composer, this year. The novel is considered by most to be a spoof of certain religious doctrines that espoused blind optimism despite never-ending catastrophes. GSU Opera Theater’s production is based on the 1989 version that Bernstein […]
Trinidad native Etienne Charles defies easy musical categorization. At a young age he joined his father’s steel band, performing at Carnival fetes, and immersing himself in the folklore. Through Etienne’s 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, he returns to his roots to celebrate the traditions that best exemplify Trinidadian culture. Etienne Charles is hailed by The New York Times […]
The Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (GIACC), in collaboration with the Indian Consulate in Atlanta, the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the India China and America (ICA) Institute, and the Atlanta Film Festival is proud to present its one-of-a-kind Atlanta Indian Film Festival (AIFF 2019) on May 10-11, 2019 at the beautiful Aurora Cineplex […]
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will present “The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between,” a ticketed event to be held at the Atlanta History Center on June 4. Michael Dobbs, author of The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between, will discuss how for the Jewish villagers of Kippenheim, […]
Come join for August Book Club en français from the Alliance Française. Book: Un appartement à Paris (2017) by Guillaume Musso. Abou the book: Madeline and Gaspard are forced to cohabit for a few days in an artist’s workshop. Fascinated by the artist and intrigued by his fatal destiny, they decided to join forces in […]
Come join l'Alliance Française for their September Boocklub. The book: Napoléon le petit by Victor Hugo. The book is an influential political pamphlet by Victor Hugo, published in 1852. It criticized the rule of Napoleon III and the politics of the Second French Empire.
Meet the Author of the new children's book, Beato Goes to Brazil. Celebrate the release of new children’s book on Brazil, in the ‘Beato Goes To’ series, designed to inspire young & old to learn about different cultures & embrace diversity. Atlanta-based author & award-winning travel writer, Sucheta Rawal will talk about her travels to […]
About this Event Come join on October 6th, at Live Your Love's book launch event of The Book of Love. They promise you an evening of Love and music for the soul, with Shaykh Dr. Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Ninowy and Al-Firdaus Ensemble in concert. Be prepared to be moved, as Dr. Al-Ninowy reads his personal […]
Terry McAuliffe is the former governor of Virginia, an entrepreneur and businessman, and the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). As Chairman of the DNC, McAuliffe raised more than $1 billion for the Democratic Party. In the wake of the tragic events in Charlottesville in 2017, Governor McAuliffe has written a book reflecting on what could have been done differently […]
Stop by the French Alliance's Roswell office to enjoy our mini Book Fair! They’ll be offering French kids’ books, modern and classic French literature, French studying books and more at low prices! Sales will support AF Roswell and its library- Merci in advance for your help! From Monday, December 9th to Saturday, December 14th During […]
Join for their December Book Club! The next scheduled Club de lecture will take place on Saturday, December 14th, 2019, at the Midtown location, from 2 to 3pm. They will be discussing a novel by Marc Levy entitled: Où es-tu? Summary – Où es-tu? par Marc Levy: If life gave you a second chance to meet your first love […]
Moscow Ballet and Atlanta Professional Dance Academy are partnering to bring together three great ballet cultures Russian, Chinese and American -- in two performances of the Great Russian Nutcracker. Atlanta Ballet star and former Principal Artist of the National Ballet of China, Dongsheng Wei, is partnering with world-renowned Moscow Ballet via its “Dance-with-Us ” community engagement program. Moscow Ballet's Mykhailo […]
Captivating audiences for over 25 years, Atlanta’s Celtic Christmas is much more than a concert production. A cast of international and regionally renowned artists weaves a spellbinding performance of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Appalachian music, dance and humor in an evocative, inspiring show that will warm the soul with the music and dance of the […]
“L’invitation américaine” is a love story which combines modern American academia, expatriate life, and the influence of Chateaubriand. As a budding French scholar specializing in romanticism, Marianne obtains a visiting professorship in the United States to study Chateaubriand’s work, “Voyage en Amérique.” During her time at Georgia Global Campus, Marianne connects with Chateaubriand by re-tracing […]
Join for the China Research Center's Annual Lecture by Dr. Barry Naughton on January 24th. China’s Great Gamble: Can the Chinese Government Create a Technological Superpower? In its effort to maintain high-speed growth, China has stepped up government steerage and investment in high-tech industry. Increasingly, this has meant gambling on a new wave of untested […]
US Poet Laureate Billy Collins describes Amit Majmudar’s work as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy.” In Dothead, nuclear radiologist, novelist, and former poet laureate of Ohio, Amit Majmudar asserts claims of both the self and the other. The title poem shows us the place of an […]
The Halle Institute for Global Research invites you to attend a lecture by Elif Batuman, author of critically acclaimed books such as The Idiot and The Possessed which explore her identity as a Turkish-American woman, intentionality about the precision of language, and befuddlement in the early age of email. In her first book, The Possessed, Elif Batuman wrote about her […]
Speaker: Kiran Bhat Chief Guest: Archith Seshadri RSVP: 404-514-2739 Come listen as Bhat talks about his discoveries as a world traveler and reads excerpts from his new novel, We of the Forsaken World... Copy of the book will be available for sale after the Q&A for 20 USD. Chief guest will be Archith Seshadri. Event will […]
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