La Culture Oui, But Why?
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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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Composer and Singer Francis Cabrel
Francis Cabrel is a famous French singer, song writer and composer. He has been recognised as one of France most influential artists, his work is inf...
Vous N'aurez Pas La Bretagne
The title of the episode Vous n'aurez pas la Bretagne is the title of a play that will be shown in French on May 19 2025 at the Cultural Center of the...
En Francais Oui But Why?
In this episode opening season 5, the host Pascale Richard reflects on her work at the Cultural Center of the Lycee Francais de New York and talks abo...
Season 4 Episode 7 French Writer Marie Darrieussecq
French writer Marie Darrieussecq was in New York for the publication of Sleepless in English.
She has been writing for nearly 30 years, since t...
Season 4 Episode 6 Sam Craft from Sweet Crude : Rediscovering Louisiana French
https://www.sweetcrudeband.com/
Sam Craft is the founder of Sweet Crude, an indie pop and rock band, formed in 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. I...
Season 4 Episode 5 French Photographer Denis Darzacq
French photographer Denis Darzacq was born and raised in Paris, a city in which he still lives and works today. He graduated from the ENSAD (French Na...
Season 4 Episode 4 Camille Bertault: Bonjour Mon Amour
French jazz singer and 2023 Best Vocal Artist Camille Bertault, has released her fifth album. In this episode, she talks about her new work, her music...
Season 4 Episode 3 Matthew Caws from Nada Surf
Matthews Caws is the lead singer on songwriter for the Rock group Nada Surf which was started in 1995 in New York. Remember their title "Popular"?
Season 4 Episode 2 Professor Gerard Saillant on Sports and Medecine
French Professor of Orthopedic and Trauma surgery, Professor Saillant was dean of the faculty of medicine and head of the department of Orthopedic, tr...
Season 4 Episode 1 Simone Woman of the Century with Elsa Zylberstein
French actress Elsa Zylberstein, starring in Simone, The Woman of the Century, is our guest for the first episode (Season 4) of La Culture Oui, But Wh...
Season 3 Episode 6 Actor Jean Reno
Actor Jean Reno, (His real name is Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez) was born in 1948 and raised in Morocco, then a French protectorate. Ever since appea...
Season 3 Episode 5 Music Critic ALINE AFANOUKOE
Every morning on France Inter in MusicAline, music critic Aline AFANOUKOE welcomes her audience with her now famous "Holà Todos" and delivers her 3-mi...
Season 3 Episode 4 Cirque du Soleil
Season 3 Episode 4 Annie St Pierre and the Cirque du Soleil
The Cirque du Soleil was in residence at the Lycee Francais de New Yor...
Season 3 Episode 3 Jazz Musician Oran Etkin
Jazz Musician Oran Etkin was our Artist in Residence at the Lycee Francais de New York with our third graders, together with percussionist Sasha Berli...
Season 3 Episode 2 Laura Flessel, the Fabric of a Champion
Fencing Champion Laura Flessel began fencing at age six and quickly became a very talented fencer. She progressed quickly and became the champion of G...
Season 3 Episode 1 Karine Jones, Our New York Marathon Runner
On November 6, 2022, French-born Karine Jones, mother of 4 and a parent at the Lycee Francais de New York, run her 7th New York marathon. She tells us...
Season 3 Episode Introduction
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 o...
Season 2 Episode 10 French Writer Marc Levy on the Power of Imagination
French Writer Marc Levy was invited to the Lycee Francais de New York as part of an artist-in-residence project. He spent a week with the 8th graders...
Season 2 Episode 8 Laura Nsafou alias Mrs.Roots on Writing for Children
Laura Nsafou is our guest for this episode. Also known as Mrs Roots, she is a French blogger and author and artist in residence at the Lycee Francais...
Season 2 Episode 9 Alum Charles Cohen on Forestry
In this new episode of our bilingual podcast, as we celebrate Earth Day with climate change on our minds, we invited an alum from the Lycée Francais d...
Season 2 Episode 7 France VS US with Rokhaya Diallo
In this podcast, French editorialist, book writer, filmmaker, anti-racist and feminist activist Rokhaya Diallo talks about racism in France as well as...
Season 2 Episode 6 Where is Fashion Heading with Blandine Velin
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...
Season 2 Episode 5 Angouleme and The French Dispatch
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...
Season 2 Episode 4 The Power of Speaking with Stephane de Freitas
"Built from his own experiences, Stéphane has developed the concept of "gathering opposites.” In a French context where social cohesion is increasingl...
Season 2 Episode 3 Meet Mahen Bonetti, Founder of the African Film Festival
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...
Season 2 Episode 2 The Jeanne Claude and Christo Project seen by Hadrien Cassan
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...
Season 2 Episode 1 Director Jules Naudet on Filming 9/11
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 fi...
Episode 12 Emel Sings to Celebrate la Francophonie
Born in Tunisia, Emel evokes her childhood and her musical beginnings. Singing in English and in Arabic, sometimes in French, Emel talks about identit...
Bonus : Interview with Film Director Remi Chayé
Film Director Remi Chayé ( Up North, Calamity Jane), special guest at the Lycee and at Animation First, FIAF Animated film festival (ww.fiaf.org), tal...
Episode 11 FIAF Film Curator Delphine Selles on Animated First
French born Delphine Selles is Film Curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) in New York. There she co-curates with French cinema con...
Episode 10: Benoit Cohen and His Yellow Cab
French producer, filmmaker and writer Benoit Cohen has been living in Brooklyn since 2014. In 2019, we invited him at the Lycée Français de New York t...
Episode 9 On Being A Francophone Writer With Abdourahman Waberi
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 198...
Episode 8 Illustrator Herve Tullet : When Children Meet Art
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 adver...
Episode 7 Artist Dephine Diallo: Yes, I can!
French Senegalese artist Delphine Diallo who is based in Brooklyn talks about her work, her photography and collages. Former assistant to American art...
Episode 6 Meet Lucie Tiberghien, Founder of Molière in the Park
Lucie Tiberghien is a French and American theater director and translator, based in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2018, she founded Molière in the Pa...
Episode 5 Song Writer For the Digital Age
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 s...
Episode 4 Ronald Guttman and Albert Camus with Alexis LLoyd on The Fall
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...
Episode 1 The First Name of New York Was French
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 aboa...
Episode 2 French Artist Beatrice Coron at the New York Historical Society
Today we are meeting French artist Beatrice Coron.
She creates cut out silhouettes. Beatrice can talk at length about this art form invented in...
Episode 3: Lucien Zayan, Founder of the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York
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...