Podcasts by La Culture Oui, But Why?
A bilingual podcast about French and Francophone culture in New York. Hosted and produced by Pascale Richard, Director of Lycée Francais de New York Cultural Center. Image by Serge Bloch, Music by Maxime Boublil.Further information https://culturalcenter.lfny.org/
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Season 3 Episode Introduction from 2022-11-14T11:00
La Culture Oui, But Why? is starting its third season with a new format. The podcast will sometimes be in French, sometimes in English, depending on our guest's native language. Let me know if you ...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 6 Where is Fashion Heading with Blandine Velin from 2022-01-29T13:00
The Future of Fashion In this episode, we talk about fashion and its future with Blandine Velin, Director of Insights and Innovation for a major French fashion brand in New York.As the fashion seas...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 5 Angouleme and The French Dispatch from 2022-01-07T16:54
Wes Anderson's movie, The French Dispatch, was filmed in Angoulême, France. In fact, Angoulême, presented as "a fictional French town in the '50s", is one of the film's main characters. The movie w...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 4 The Power of Speaking with Stephane de Freitas from 2022-01-02T05:00
"Built from his own experiences, Stéphane has developed the concept of "gathering opposites.” In a French context where social cohesion is increasingly crumbling, he bridges the gaps in the communi...
ListenEpisode 3 Meet Mahen Bonetti, Founder of the African Film Festival from 2021-11-05T21:39
Mahen Bonetti, Founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival is our special guest of La Culture Oui, But Why? and she also participates in a panel on cinema organized by the Cultural ...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 3 Meet Mahen Bonetti, Founder of the African Film Festival from 2021-11-05T21:39
Mahen Bonetti, Founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival is our special guest of La Culture Oui, But Why? and she also participates in a panel on cinema organized by the Cultural ...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 2 The Jeanne Claude and Christo Project seen by Hadrien Cassan from 2021-09-29T14:36
Alum from the Lycée Francais de New York and Graduate in Urban Design, Hadrien Cassan is a cultural mediator for the Jeanne Claude and Christo project of the Wrapped Arc de Triomple. He is spending...
ListenSeason 2 Episode 1 Director Jules Naudet on Filming 9/11 from 2021-09-02T04:00
As we are commemorating the 20th anniversary of 09/11, we asked French-American Director Jules Naudet who was the first person, together with a few firefighters, to enter Tower 1 at the World Trade...
ListenEpisode 12 Emel Sings to Celebrate la Francophonie from 2021-03-19T16:57
Born in Tunisia, Emel evokes her childhood and her musical beginnings. Singing in English and in Arabic, sometimes in French, Emel talks about identity as a language of creation. What is it to be a...
ListenEpisode 9 On Being A Francophone Writer With Abdourahman Waberi from 2020-11-13T22:26
Writer Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 when Djibouti was a French colony, and his native language was somali. He came to France in 1985 to study English Litterature. He started his...
ListenEpisode 8 Illustrator Herve Tullet : When Children Meet Art from 2020-11-01T00:05
Herve Tullet
Born in France, in Avranches, Herve Tullet is an artist, a performer and an author of children books. After 10 years spent in advertising, he started illustrating children books. T...
Episode 7 Artist Dephine Diallo: Yes, I can! from 2020-09-23T14:59
French Senegalese artist Delphine Diallo who is based in Brooklyn talks about her work, her photography and collages. Former assistant to American artist Peter Beard, Delphine Diallo chooses to con...
ListenEpisode 6 Meet Lucie Tiberghien, Founder of Molière in the Park from 2020-09-09T21:11
Lucie Tiberghien is a French and American theater director and translator, based in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2018, she founded Molière in the Park, the first non-profit in Brooklyn solely dedicat...
Episode 5 Song Writer For the Digital Age from 2020-08-25T21:11
Lycée Français de New York Alum Maxime Boublil is a French pop songwriter living in L.A. who has been in the industry for over six years. As a songwriter, he works with music studios affiliated wit...
ListenEpisode 5 Song Writer For the Digital Age from 2020-08-25T21:11
Lycée Français de New York Alum Maxime Boublil is a French pop songwriter living in L.A. who has been in the industry for over six years. As a songwriter, he works with music studios affiliated wit...
ListenEpisode 5 Song Writer For the Digital Age from 2020-08-25T21:11
Lycée Français de New York Alum Maxime Boublil is a French pop songwriter living in L.A. who has been in the industry for over six years.
As a songwriter, he works with music studios affiliated...
Episode 4 Ronald Guttman and Albert Camus with Alexis LLoyd on The Fall from 2020-08-07T20:17
Belgian Actor Ronald Guttman performs on August 21, 2020 at Guild Hall in East Hampton a dramatization of novel The Fall by French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960). La Culture Oui, But Why? explores...
ListenEpisode 1 The First Name of New York Was French from 2020-07-08T13:30
The French King Francis the First sent the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano to find a road to Asia. Verrazano arrived in New York in April 16, 1524 aboard La Dauphone. He called the bay "Marguerite"...
ListenEpisode 2 French Artist Beatrice Coron at the New York Historical Society from 2020-07-07T23:33
Today we are meeting French artist Beatrice Coron. She creates cut out silhouettes. Beatrice can talk at length about this art form invented in China and later came to France where Etienne de Silho...
ListenEpisode 3: Lucien Zayan, Founder of the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York from 2020-07-07T18:30
Born in Marseille from an Egyptian family, Lucien Zayan, spent most of his working life in theater and music, working as producer in France for famous cultural hubs like le théâtre de l'Odéon in Pa...
ListenEpisode 3: Lucien Zayan, Founder of the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York from 2020-07-07T18:30
Born in Marseille from an Egyptian family, Lucien Zayan, spent most of his working life in theater and music, working as producer in France for famous cultural hubs like le théâtre de l'Odéon in Pa...
ListenEpisode 3: Lucien Zayan, Founder of the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York from 2020-07-07T18:30
Born in Marseille from an Egyptian family, Lucien Zayan, spent most of his working life in theater and music, working as producer in France for famous cultural hubs like le théâtre de l'Odéon in Pa...
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