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Call for Work: WHAT MAKES LOUISIANA FRENCH? DEADLINE February 20th

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Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans presents
WHAT MAKES LOUISIANA FRENCH?
Exhibition: March 28 – April 6, 2014 at The Historic New Orleans Collection

In honor of March as the international month of Francophonie, The Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans and  The Historic New Orleans Collection will be  putting on a photography exhibition and centered around the theme: “Dix Mots de la Francophonie” or 10 words relating to “Inventivité et Folie” (Inventiveness and Madness):

  1. Ambiancer (create ambiance/atmosphere):
  2. À tire-larigot (“to one’s heart’s content”/galore)
  3. Charivari (commotion/hullabaloo)
  4. S’enlivrer (intoxicated by pleasure of reading): Être ivre de lecture. Lire beaucoup de livre et adorez ca! (This is a play on the words “enivrer” meaning to be drunk/intoxicated and “un livre” for book.) 
  5. Faribole (nonsense)
  6. Hurluberlu (eccentric person)
  7. Ouf (crazy)
  8. Timbré (nuts, bonkers)
  9. Tohu-bohu (pandemonium)
  10. Zigzag (zigzag)
NOPA President Emeritus, Owen Murphy will be the juror and Digital submissions are DUE FEBRUARY 20, 2014.
For more information visit: WHAT MAKES LOUISIANA FRENCH?