World Language Week

Was held the week of November 3, 2003

Sponsored by the Language Arts Division,
the Foreign Language Department,
and the French Club

Professor Blanca Candamil provided this handsome display in the Staff Dining Room.

Events were open to all.

The CSM campus community celebratied World Language Week.

Activities included speakers, slides, food, and films.

Featured languages:
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese.

Monday evening's slide show, "The Right Bank of Paris,"
was presented by Professor Susan Petit

	Pastries, water, cider: preparations for the show.
	Getting ready

Monday, November 3

8:10-9:00 a.m. Room 16-253. Film: La Vita è Bella, Part One.Guy Marra. In Italian with English subtitles

8:10-9:00 a.m. Room 18-288, Film: Dragon, Part One. Jing Wu. In Chinese with English subtitles..

6:30-8:00 p.m. Room 16-253. Slide Show: The Right Bank of Paris. Susan Petit. Light refreshments accompanied a show of slides taken over more than 25 years of travel to Paris by Mme Petit, featuring such Paris landmarks as the Champs-Elysées, the Tuileries and the Louvre, the Opéra district and the major department stores, immigrant districts, Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur, and a famous flea market.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Room 18-280. Film: The Purple Butterfly. Jing Wu. In Chinese with English subtitles.

6:30-9:35 p.m. Room 18-286. Film: Cinema Paradiso. Guy Marra. In Italian with English subtitles.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Room 18-288. Film. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. Machiko Conway. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Tuesday evening's tasting of French cheeses, presented by
Professor Marilyn Carter, featured guest Philippe Desandre.

Getting ready for the event.
	A banon and a chèvre, ready for tasting.
	Philippe Desandre discusses the cheeses about to be tasted: chèvre cendré, banon, camembert, brie, emmenthal, cantal, petit suisse.

	Tasting at last!	Professor Carter with M. Desandre
		At left, a rapt audience listens to M. Desandre's presentation.

M. Desandre discussing his experiences as "un Français à l'étranger"--a Frenchman abroad.
Mmes Marilyn Carter (with sparkling cider) and Susan Petit

Tuesday, November 4

6:30-8:00 p.m. Room 14-104. Discussion and tasting. Marilyn Carter. Following a dégustation de fromages (cheese tasting), a talk, "Un Français à l'étranger/A Frenchman Abroad" by Philippe DESANDRE, President of United Gourmet. Born in Paris, M. Desandre has lived in France, Switzerland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, New York, Miami, Houston,Singapore, San Francisco. Has been in the USA since 1979 except for five years in Singapore. He answered questions from the public . . .and asked some back.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Room 18-286. Film: To Be with You. Jing Wu. In Chinese with English subtitles.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Room 16-256. Film: The Harmonists. Roslyn Raney. In German with English subtitles.

Wednesday, November 5

8:10-9:00 a.m. Room 16-253. Film: La Vita è Bella, Part Two.Guy Marra. In Italian with English subtitles.

8:10-9:00 a.m. Room 18-288. Film: Dragon, Part Two. Jing Wu. In Chinese with English subtitles..

6:30-9:00 p.m. Room 18-280. Discussion and film: Travel in China. Jing Wu.

8:00-10:00 p.m. Room 16-272. film: Jenseits der Stille. Diane Musgrave. In German and German sign language with English subtitles. The film is about the hearing daughter of deaf parents and her experience learning about deaf culture.

Thursday, November 6

6:30-9:35 p.m. Room 18-288. Discussion: What are typical characteristics of Asian people? Jing Wu

6:30-9:35 p.m. Room 16-251. Film: Notte di San Lorenzo. Leda Mussio. In Italian with English subtitles.

7:00 p.m., Room 16-255. Film: The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le toit] cosponsored by the French Club. George Khoury. In French with English subtitles. Of course, there were snacks, sodas, etc. to add to the cinematic atmosphere, courtesy of the French Club.

Friday, November 7
8:10-9:00 a.m. Room 16-253. Film: La Vita è Bella, Part Three.Guy Marra. In Italian with English subtitles.

To learn more about any of these films, visit the
International Movie Database!

This display was created by Blanca Candamil.

 

Come share our love for other languages and cultures! (Above, Jing Wu with students of Chinese and Japanese.)

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Visit the French Club Page
Read about WLW 2001 and WLW 2002

Questions?Ask Susan Petit
(Professor, English and French)

Office: 17-145
Phone: 650-574-6357

650/574-6357
petit@smccd.net

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