Thursday, September 17, 2009

5pm @ 219 Provencher

Michel de Broin is unveiling his sculpture at La Maison tonight at 5pm....come by and see my show in the community gallery and have some snacks. The guy with the box on his head will be there!

10 comments:

mondotrasho said...

How much longer is your show at La Maison Gallery up for JC? BTW, does one need to be Franco-Can to have a show there?
~m

jc said...

The show is up for another week and yes, you must be a francophone. My french is decent, especially when cornered. It helps that my mom is french, which makes me a francophile.

Frenchy said...

You don't have to be a francophone, but you must be able to communicate in French.

Lorne Roberts said...

ben colis 'sti tabernac de cris where do i sign up?

Anonymous said...

http://www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca/galerie/appel

confused said...

Isn't that what a francophone is?

Lorne Roberts said...

i can communicate in french, and i'm certainly not a francophone, so no, that's not what a francophone is.

"-ophone" generally refers to one's first language, or a language they are a *native* speaker of.

jc said...

The term franco-phone means french-speaking....sometimes it does refer to a person's first language...but not always.

You are a franco-phone wolfboy. You speak French. bon job buddy.

Lorne Roberts said...

heh. well, thanks knack, though i'm still not sure i'm a francophone. i'm an anglophone who can communicate in french. more of a "francophile", perhaps. :)

here's what our good friend wiki has to say:

The adjective francophone (alternately Francophone) means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person.[1][2]

In a narrower sense, the notion of 'francophone' reaches beyond the dictionary definition of "French language speaker". The term specifically refers to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with French language, regardless of ethnic and geographical differences. The francophone culture beyond Europe is the legacy of the French colonial empire and the Belgian colonial empire (Congo, Burundi and Rwanda).

Lorne Roberts said...

and, uh, communicate with great difficulty, with 80% accuracy, 19 times out of 20. :)