Bringing great minds together
Thursday 23rd May at 6:30pm (sharp) The Oxford & Cambridge Garden Party at the British Ambassador's Residence The British Ambassador, Lord Llewellyn, has again agreed to welcome us at his Residence for our annual Garden Party. This year, in addition to members of the Oxford Society and their guests, members of the Cercle Franco-Britannique of Sciences …
THE ARTISTS OF MONTMARTRE -  Guided walk in Montmartre on Tuesday 28th May at 2:30pm There is no name more evocative of Bohemian life, of high spirits, decadence, poverty and revolutionary art in Paris than Montmartre, home to some of France’s greatest artists. Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso would paint canvases that would shake the very …
Tue 4th June - Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Garden, Bois de Boulogne (Pré Catalan) The Merry Wives of Windsor by the Tower Theatre Company The Women of Windsor take on Sir John Falstaff and his cronies, in a garden party extravaganza of Shakespeare's classic comedy. Laundry baskets at the ready! Ford and Page have a problem. Sir …
Annual General Meeting Presentation by David Klemperer, a 2018 Trevor Brown Bursary student, on: “The Development of Neo-Socialism in 1930’s France†Our AGM will be held on Monday, June 17th 2019 at 19:00 at the Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne du VIIe/VIIIe, 4 rue Amélie, 75007 Paris (nearest Metros Invalides et Tour Maubourg). …
Glory Days of Paris is a series of six lectures delivered over two years, 2019 and 2020, focusing on the Parisian literary and artistic world of the 1920s and ‘30s, with an introductory lecture to precede this period and a concluding lecture set in the ‘50s and ‘60s. The lectures will be held in iconic …
We are delighted to announce that an event has been added related to the second Glory Days of Paris lecture, on Dadaism and Surrealism. Christie's has agreed to give us a private guided tour of the outstanding Destribats collection, at Christie's Paris, at 9am on Tuesday 2nd July. The Books Department of Christie's, in partnership with experts …
Join the Dordogne Cambridge Group for their upcoming visit to the Cloisters of Cadouin. This is a break with tradition: dwhen our group began, most people lived in this part of the Dordogne and had already seen the main places of interest in the area, so those places were not usually chosen for group outings, …
Alumni and guests are invited to join Homerton College Choir for their concerts in France From Saturday 13th July - Monday 15th July. Saturday 13 July at 8pm - St-Genès des Carmes, Clermont-Ferrand - Free Sunday 14 July at 11am - Notre-Dame de Chamalières - Free Sunday 14 July at 7pm - le Chambon-sur-Lignon Protestant Church - Free Monday 15 July at 8pm - Notre-Dame Cathedral, Moulins - 15 euros, …
Alumni and guests are invited to join Queens' College Choir for their concerts in Paris from the 14th - 18th September. Saturday 14 September at 6pm - Evensong in the American Cathedral, 23 Avenue George V in the 8th Sunday 15 September at 11am - Morning Eucharist in the American Cathedral, 23 Avenue George V in the 8th …
Each year, CamSoc takes part in the University’s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate. The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to members about …
Alumni and guests are invited to join Queens' College Choir for their concerts in Angers from the 21st - 22nd September. Saturday 21 September 8pm - Concert in the Palais Episcopal, 2 Rue du Chanoine Urseau, with La Maîtrise de la Cathédrale d'Angers Sunday 22 September at 11am - Morning Mass in La Cathédrale d'Angers, with La Maîtrise de …
GLORY DAYS OF PARIS Guided Walk in Montparnasse to accompany the third lecture of the Glory Days Series "The Artists and Writers of the 1920s and '30s" Unfortunately, because of ill health on the part of our Lecturer, Mary McAuliffe, the third lecture in the Glory Days of Paris series has had to be postponed. …