This year, the International Francophonie Day (on March 20, 2014) and the French Language and Francophonie Week will take place from March 15 to 23, 2014.
This event offers word lovers and the general public an opportunity to celebrate the French language and show their attachment to it.
Supported in France by a large number of partner towns and villages, and adopted in over 70 countries worldwide, the French Language and Francophonie Week offers more than 1,500 artistic and popular events each year, which are all opportunities for exchange.
The 2014 edition of this operation will call upon lexical or syntactic imagination and the ability to help the French language evolve in this way.
On the program: writing workshops, expression walls, dictations, slam poetry, debates, readings, and exhibitions will take place in schools, libraries, bookstores, museums, companies, retirement homes, hospitals, and prisons to offer new lexical, semantic, visual, or sound inventions.
Word creation workshops will be numerous, and the Week, already very present on the internet and social media, will offer a new challenge to users on Facebook who will be invited to “invent the Word of the Week,” accompanied by its definition in a maximum of 300 characters, starting in February.
This year, bookstores are once again invited to participate in the “Week in Bookstores” around the 2014 theme: meet-and-greets, book signings, and readings are on the agenda in more than 100 bookstores across France and abroad.
The French Language and Francophonie Week is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Education, the Institut français, and the Scéren-CNDP.
