workshops
Improve your French with fun!
Here a selection of workshops to choose from.
Our workshop offer continually evolves, come back regularly check this page out to discover our new workshops.
PRONUNCIATION
IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH ACCENT! Peaufiner votre accent français!
IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH ACCENT! Peaufiner votre accent français!
IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH ACCENT! Peaufiner votre accent français!
For Intermediate to Advanced Students of the French Language
This class will be taught by an American who has used the French language in both professional and personal situations for over 30 years, including 4 years of living and working in France. She learned the hard way what it means when, try as you might to speak proper French, the store clerk continues to crinkle up his nose at your pronunciation and walk away as if you're speaking Swahili. Learn her tricks and improve your confidence immediately!
French Level Required: Intermediate and Up.
Price: $240 the session of 8 classes
Interested by this workshop? Email us at education.afphx@gmail.com
PEAUFINER VOTRE ANGLAIS! Improve your English!
IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH ACCENT! Peaufiner votre accent français!
IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH ACCENT! Peaufiner votre accent français!
Cours pour personnes de langue maternelle française.
Il s'agit d'un cours pour ceux qui veulent améliorer leur niveau d'anglais en apprenant les astuces "cachées" de la langue:
expressions idomatiques,
combinaisons "verbe + prepositions",
prononciation, etc.
Lecture d'articles et exercices.
Niveau d'anglais requis: Intermédiaire & +
Price: $240 the session of 8 classes
Interested by this workshop? Email us at education.afphx@gmail.com
THEATER WORKSHOPS
ADULT THEATER WORKSHOP
ADULT THEATER WORKSHOP
ADULT THEATER WORKSHOP
You will develop and improve your ability to speak French and your self-expression skills with an audience.
Through warm-up and exercises, participants will be exploring various drama techniques, working on listening and speaking, the body, the space as well as the relationship between partners. To help you, a particular focus will be given to pronunciation, expression fluidity, interpretation, and creativity.
Price: $120/month (for 4 classes)
Every Saturday, 10 am to 11 am
Next workshop: TBD.
If you are interested, please email us at education.afphx@gmail.com
You need to be a member to register for this workshop. If you are not a member yet, you can purchase your membership with your registration fee.
CHILDREN DRAMA CLUB
ADULT THEATER WORKSHOP
ADULT THEATER WORKSHOP
The Drama Club offers the children an initiation to drama practice through verbal and non-verbal activities.
The class will be compounded by a physical and vocal warm-up and various exercises (mime, improvisation, writing, theatre, …) to develop creativity and encourage the expression of oneself. The class will be conducted in French.
Price: $100/month (for 4 classes)
Age: 5 - 9 years old
4 to 6 participants max.
Every Saturday, 9 am to 10 am
Next workshop: TBD. If you are interested, please email us at education.afphx@gmail.com
ABOUT MATHILDE SCHENNEN, OUR THEATER PROFESSOR
Mathilde Schennen is a Belgian actor/director who studied Dramatic Arts at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium), the Studio Herman Teirlinck and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, NYC. She is also an alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2013 and the DirectorsLabChicago 2014.
Her recent acting credits include Three Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time – Act 2 (The Invisible Dog) ; Voix de Femmes (United-Nations, Columbia University, tour in Switzerland and Guadeloupe); Folie Pure (Theatre for the New City).
Her recent directing credits include Diary of Madman (UNDER St Marks, Festival Fringe of Edinburgh, Pokolenyi Theatre, Headwaters Theater and a tour in Switzerland); His Majesty the Devil (59E59 Theaters, Festival Fringe of Edinburgh and Fringe NYC Festival); Waiting for Godot (Kraine Theatre).
She has been working as an actress and a stage director in New York City and Brussels for more than 20 years and taught “Theater in French” at ASU in 2019. She is also an alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2013 and the DirectorsLabChicago 2014.
