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LITTLE HAVANA
Taste o prance arrives, ®n Calle Ocho
_ Calle Ocho, the nexus of
Cuban -American life in
Miami, now offers you a
sample of French culture
as well, with the recent
move of Ailiance Fran;aise
to the stۥeet.
BY JAN ENGOREN
Special to The Miami Herald
In addition to ordering
your Cuban coffee and a
postre for breakfast, you can
now head over to the new
building of the Alliance Fran-
r,.aise and order a cafe creme
and a pain au chocolat for
your petit dejeuner.
Alliance Frangaise, the
French institution that pro-
motes and shares French cul-
ture worldwide, has relocated
from its former location in
Coral Gables to a new space
on Calle Ocho. You can see
the two towers of the white
building painted in red and
blue, the colors of the French
flag, at 618 SW Eight St. Little
Havana_
The Alliance was rounded
in Miami in 1963 by Franco-
philes from South Florida to
develop cultural exchange
between Florida and France,
to promote the study of
French, provide good rela-
tions between the two cul-
tures and organize French
cultural and social events
with the community at large.
The organization has a pres-
ence in more than 138 coun-
tries and nine Iocations in
Florida, including Fort Lau-
derdale, Orlando and Naples
in addition to Miami.
The Miami center, or La
France d Miami is designed to
bring a little bit of France to
downtown. In addition to
French language classes, the
Miami Alliance is a one-stop
shop for all needs Frangaise,
The Miami center held a
wine tasting Nov. 16 celebrat-
ing this year's Beaujolais Nou-
veau, and will host an evening
of Brazilian film planned in
conjunction with the Brazil-
ian Consulate and hasa spe-
cial series of events planned
during the international art
festival Art Basel.
To coincide with Art Basel,
the Alliance Frangaise in con -
BF YOU -Go
c What: Alliance Fran-
caise
b Where: 616 SW Eighth
St., Little Havana
e For more information:
Call 305-859-8760 or
visit afmiami.org.
junction with the Florida
Holocaust Museum will pre-
sent internationally
acclaimed French artist Marc
Ash on Nov. 30. Ash's instal-
Iation, entitled T ous Ensem-
ble, is a narration of the
remembrance of the Holo-
caust and a hymn to peace
and friendship told through
art.
The. exhibit will be on view
through the end of the year.
When all its venues offi-
cially open to the public this
winter, it will have a number
of classrooms for French
instruction, a French cafe, a
French bookstore, a French
travel agency spechdizing in
nontypical travel to France, a
specialty gourmet shop with
high-end French delicacies
such as foie gras, a large mul-
tipurpose exhibition space
that can be used as an art gal-
lery, a movie theater, an audi-
torium and a live theater
space.
Says Philippe Timon, its
executive director, "We are
excited to be in downtown
Miami. For the past two years
we have been anticipating the
completion of this move. In.
our new location and space,
we will be in a better position
to offer more activities to the
community.'
The new building was
designed by Yann Weymouth
of the architectural firm,
HOK, in Tampa. Weymouth,
a French American who
worked as chief of design for
the well-known Chinese-
American architect, I.M. Pei,
on the modern -pyramid addi-
tions to tate Louvre, was also
chief of design on the east
wing of the National Gallery
of Art in Washington.
It took more than
14 months for the new loca-
PHOTOS BY CHRIS CUTRO/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: Above, Michel Moreau pours a glass of wine for Soha
Noureldime during the Beaujolais 2007 on Nov. 16 at the Alliance Francaise in
Miami. Below, wine lovers and socialites attend the alliance's Beaujolais.
tion to be built.
"We searched for the right
location for 2'/2 years before
we found this spot on Calle
Ocho," Timon said. We
looked at more than 42 build-
ings before we decided to
build here. This is the site of
an old Cuban printing house.
We demolished everything
except a couple of walls."
Cheryl Handley, a board
member of Alliance Frangaise
worked and studied in Bel-
gium for 11 years. She
attended an opening night
celebration last month, which
featured the portraits of Bel-
gian artist Serge Strosberg in
a show themed Identities.
"I was happy to see a Bel-
gian artist represented at our
opening night celebration,"
Handley said. "I enjoyed the
theme of identity and it was
interesting to see the evolu-
tion of Strosberg's art as he
moved from Belgium to
France and now the United
States. I hope to reach out to a
broad spectrum of the popu-
lation and incorporate others
who have an affinity for the
language and culture of
France and French-speaking
countries."