Coffee & Conversation
2025-11-22 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Atlantic Works Conference Center, 57 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States
COFFEE AND CONVERSATION
ATLANTIC WORKS CONFERENCE CENTER
57 CHARTER OAK AVE
HARTFORD, CT
10:30 – 12:00

Join us for socializing and lively conversation at our Conference Center on Saturday mornings from 10:30 – 12:00. It is a great way to meet with fellow French speakers and improve your fluency. Bring your coffee and a breakfast treat to share.

La Soirée du Beaujolais Nouveau
2025-11-20 18:00 - 22:00 | Gather 55, 55 Bartholomew Ave,, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States
La Soirée du Beaujolais Nouveau
L’Alliance Française de Hartford vous invite à notre Beaujolais Nouveau 2025
Each year French wine producers release their newest Beaujolais Nouveau wine in early November. Join us for a tasting of the 2025 Beaujolais Nouveau wine, together with a three course meal, and lively French conversation.
PLACE:
Gather 55 (part of Hands On Hartford),
55 Bartholomew Ave, Hartford, CT 06106.
Restaurant has a parking lot with free parking adjacent to it.
TIME: Thursday, November 20th, 2025, at 6PM
PRICE: $80 (members), $90 (non-members)
Includes: homemade sourdough bread, appetizer, entrée, dessert, wine, tax and service charge. Coffee is extra for $5.
1st course – Salade Niçoise or French Onion Soup
(Salade Niçoise – gluten free)
2nd course – Sole Meunière or Steak Frites
Steak Frites (dairy free & gluten free)
Celery Steak (vegan or vegetarian)
3rd course – Chocolate torte or Creme brûlée
Flourless chocolate torte (gluten free)
NOTE: It is required to reserve, pay and give meal choices to Linda by November 12, 2025.
Contact: Executive Director Linda Zabor, at the Alliance Française de Hartford with meal choices.
By Email: dirafh@gmail.com
By Phone: 860-278-9999 (text)

Words as Keys - Stories from a French Life
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | CT
In partnership with:
La Renaissance Française, USA
American Society of the French Academic Palms
American Association of Teachers of French
Event begins at 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
Each new word isn’t just vocabulary—it’s a key that takes us a little further from “getting by” to a deeper sense of belonging in France.
Join us for a conversation with France Today columnist and blogger Kristin Espinasse, who will talk about her new book, A Year in a French Life. Kristin will be in conversation with Renée Amory Ketcham, Vice-President of the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA and President of the Alliance Française de Greenwich.
Kristin Espinasse is the writer behind French Word-A-Day, the long-running blog and newsletter she founded in 2002. Through brief, true-to-life vignettes from her family’s life in the south of France, she pairs approachable vocabulary with cultural context and a mini glossary of vocabulary that teachers and learners can use right away. Her everyday encounters often become spontaneous posts on the blog, keeping the journal fresh, alive, and relatable. She is the author of Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love & Language in the South of France, and her ongoing book series A Year in a French Life gathers favorite stories with beautiful photos, taken locally, to illustrate each chapter.
For twenty years, Kristi has written for France Today magazine, notably the back-page column “Le Dernier Mot.” Recently, La Renaissance Française awarded her the Médaille d’or des Valeurs francophones for contributions that share and celebrate francophone culture. She has spoken at Shakespeare and Company and the American Library in Paris, and at Alliance Française meetups in Seattle and Denver. In talks with students, teachers, and general audiences, Kristi focuses on everyday encounters at the market, in the vineyard, or in a village café, for example, and what they reveal about language, etiquette, and the art of noticing. Warm, candid, and practical, she aims to help audiences build confidence and curiosity in French while savoring the small moments that make francophone life so engaging. She lives in the south of France with her Franco-American family.
Order your copy of A Year in a French Life from Bookshop.org.

France vs. Azerbaijan
2025-11-16 12:00 - 16:00 | CT
Check out the upcoming game
https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/wcq-uefa-azerbaijan-vs-france-nov-16-2025-game-boxscore-615172

Finally French: Mark Greenside’s Adventures in Brittany
2025-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | CT
Join us for a lively online conversation with acclaimed author Mark Greenside, as he presents his long-awaited new book, I Am Finally, Finally French. A beloved past presenter, Mark returns to share the next chapter of his humorous and heartfelt journey as an American navigating life in France. He’ll be interviewed by fellow author and returning guest Janet Hulstrand, author of Demystifying the French, whose own experiences in France promise a dynamic and engaging dialogue.
Mark Greenside has been a civil rights activist, Vietnam War protestor, anti‑draft counselor, VISTA Volunteer, union leader, and college professor. His stories have appeared in the Sun, the Literary Review, Cimarron Review, the Nebraska Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, the New Laurel Review, Crosscurrents, Five Fingers Review, and the Long Story, as well as other journals and magazines, and he is the author of a short story collection, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife; a novella, The Night at the end of the Tunnel, or Isaiah Can You See?; and two previous memoirs about life in France, I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do), and (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living. He resides in Alameda, CA, and Brittany, France.
Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher of literature, and the author of Demystifying the French and A Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the Heart of France. She is a regular contributor of book reviews, interviews and articles for Bonjour Paris and France Today, and she teaches online classes for Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington DC, mostly involving books about France. She lives in a lovely little village in the Champagne region of France, where she is working on her next memoir.
Visit bookshop.org to purchase I am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in Brittany.
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COFFEE AND CONVERSATION
2025-11-08 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Heirloom Market, 263 Main St,, Wethersfield, CT, 06109, United States
COFFEE AND CONVERSATION
HEIRLOOM MARKET
263 MAIN STREET
WETHERSFIELD, CT
Join us on Saturday morning for coffee and conversation.
Grab a cup of coffee and a breakfast treat and join us for lively conversation.
All levels are welcome. A great way to improve your conversational skills.

Thanks to https://coffeegeek.tv/ for the use of their image

How French Brought Me From Connecticut to Switzerland
2025-11-01 11:00 - 15:00 | CT
How French Brought Me From Connecticut to Switzerland
Annette Fay

Annette in Switzerland

Saturday, November 1, 2025.
1:00 PM
On Zoom
In French
Annette Fay, originally from Enfield, Connecticut, is an expert in international development who specializes in research, monitoring and evaluation of water and sanitation projects. She has worked in more than a dozen African countries, as well as France, and is presently living in Switzerland.
She states:
I plan to present how learning the French language first in Connecticut and later in France lead to my interest and work in Francophone West Africa. I’ll speak about my international development work in West Africa over the past twenty years and how I’ve ended up now in Switzerland. I’ll also share observations of the different cultures I’ve
gotten to know well (including a few lessons learned!).

ALL MEMBERS (basic, gold and silver) and NON MEMBERS
AS WELL AS AF STUDENTS
Please RSVP below.
Gold, silver and AF Students are free.

Kevin Soucie, Chanteur
2025-10-18 13:00 - 15:00 | CT
Join the Alliance Française of New Haven for an afternoon of musical entertainment at Rudy’s, 1227 Chapel Street New Haven, CT from 1-3 PM on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
Kevin Soucie, noted chanteur, has an extensive repertoire that includes the songs of Jacques Brel, Francis Cabrel, Edith Piaf, Georges Brassens, Patrick Bruel, Georges Moustaki, Charles Trenet, Joe Dassin, Thomas Fersen, Charles Aznavour, Henri Salvador, Serge Gainsbourg and a few Québecois artists as well.
Cost $5.00 for members. Space is limited. To reserve your spot, send an email to the Alliance Française de New Haven to let them know you are coming.
alliancefrancaisenh@gmail.com

Coffee & Conversation
2025-10-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Atlantic Works Conference Center, 57 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States
COFFEE AND CONVERSATION
ATLANTIC WORKS CONFERENCE CENTER
57 CHARTER OAK AVE
HARTFORD, CT

Due to the Fall Festival taking place on October 11th at Heirloom Market, we are moving our conversation group to the Conference Center. We will meet again at Heirloom
Market on October 25th.
