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As a cultural centre, the Alliance Française of Bulawayo organises a number of events throughout the year; including concerts, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, film screenings, and much more!
Every month, we organize A French movie night, French storytellings for kids, a Ciné Club for kids, and we schedule or a concert, or an exhibition, often both. Other events are also happening with various local artists.
March is generally the highlight of our cultural season with the celebrations of “La Semaine de la Langue française et de la Francophonie” (Week of French language and Francophonie). “La Fête de la Musique” (World Music Day) is celebrated every year in June.
En tant que centre culturel, l’Alliance Française de Bulawayo organise de nombreux événements tout au long de l’année ; y compris des concerts, des expositions, des conférences, des ateliers, des projections de films et bien plus encore!
Chaque mois, nous organisons une soirée dédiée au cinéma français, des contes français pour les enfants, un Ciné Club pour notre jeune public, et nous programmons un concert, ou une exposition, souvent les deux. D’autres événements ont également lieu avec divers artistes locaux.
Le mois de mars est généralement le point culminant de notre saison culturelle avec les célébrations de la “Semaine de la Langue française et de la Francophonie”. La “Fête de la Musique” est célébrée chaque année en juin.
Our main Events in April
As a cultural event centre and organiser, the Alliance Française de Bulawayo is one of the major players in the Bulawayo cultural scene.
En tant que centre culturel, l’Alliance Française de Bulawayo est un des acteurs majeurs de la scène culturelle à Bulawayo.
Find out what events we are organising. Renseignez-vous sur nos événements à venir!
Thursday 2nd April (5pm): “InkSpoken with Barbs”.
Thursday 9th April (5pm): French Movie Night.
Friday 10th April (4pm): Fletech Graduation Ceremony.
Friday 17th April (5pm): “50 Minutes of Fame” comedy show with Frank Chirisa.
Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th April : ZITF.
Thursday 23rd April (5pm): “Stringed Moments with Barbs”.
Saturday 25th April (10am) : “Personal Branding Workshop” with Lesta.
Tuesday 28th April (5pm): conference on insects.
Thursday 30th April (5pm) : The Words Matter Show with SoxThePoet.
Our 2026 literature and reading project :
the translation of “Le Petit Prince” (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Ndebele.
For the first time, “Le Petit Prince”, the most famous French novel in the World, already translated in more than 550 languages, will have its Ndebele version. The Alliance Française of Bulawayo, in partnership with the P.I.A.F. is working on this amazing project promoting language diversity and reading.
The P.I.A.F. association (Pôle d’Ingénierie et d’Appui de la Francophonie)) was created in 2021 at the initiative of several contractual executives from France’s foreign network with the aim of supporting projects with impact, cultural, linguistic, and technical cooperation around the world.
In 2023, drawing on its expertise and network and on the occasion of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the first publication of Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” and the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Alliance Française movement, the P.I.A.F. sealed an ambitious project with the sponsorship of the Swiss “Jean-Marc Probst Foundation for The Little Prince” for the defense and promotion of global linguistic diversity.
The translation has already started and an audio book will be released in the coming months. Books will be printed in Zimbabwe and distributed to different schools, associations and literature and reading circles.
InkSpoken
