For security reasons, identity of all visitors will be checked before entering the compound. 1) Students and library members are requested to produce their card.  2) Other visitors must present an official identity document (Passport, National identity card, Driving License). Only original documents - copies, scans and photographs not accepted 3) All bags are to be checked by security agents. Thank you for your understanding and kind cooperation!                                         Consignes de sécurité, L’identité de tous les visiteurs est contrôlée à l’entrée. 1) Les étudiants et membres de la médiathèque sont priés de présenter leur carte. 2) Les autres visiteurs doivent obligatoirement présenter une pièce d'identité officielle (passeport, carte d’identité, permis de conduire). Seuls les documents originaux sont acceptés. Les photocopies, documents scannés ou photographiés seront refusés.  3) Les sacs sont contrôlés de manière systématique par les agents de sécurité.  Merci de votre compréhension et de votre aimable coopération.                                         ျပင္သစ္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈဌာနသို႔ လာေရာက္သူမ်ားသည္ ဤလံုျခံဳေရးလုပ္ထံုးမ်ားကို လိုက္နာရမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ၁) ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ေက်ာင္းသားကတ္ ျပသပါရန္။ ၂) စာၾကည့္တုိက္အသင္းဝင္မ်ား အသင္းဝင္ကတ္ ျပသပါရန္။ ၃) အျခားဧည့္သည္မ်ား မိမိတို႔၏ မွတ္ပံုတင္မူရင္း (သို႔မဟုတ္) ယာဥ္ေမာင္းလိုင္စင္မူရင္း တစ္ခုခုကို ဂိတ္တြင္အပ္ႏွံထားခဲ့ပါရန္။ မိတၱဴႏွင့္ အျခားသက္ေသခံကတ္ျပားမ်ားျဖင့္ ဝင္ခြင့္မျပဳပါ။ ၄) သယ္ေဆာင္လာသည့္အိတ္မ်ားကို စစ္ေဆးမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။နားလည္ေပးမွဳကို ေက်းဇူးအထူးတင္ပါသည္။                                         ျပြင်သစ်ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဌာနသို့ လာရောက်သူများသည် ဤလုံခြုံရေးလုပ်ထုံးများကို လိုက်နာရမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၁) ကျောင်းသူ ကျောင်းသားများ ကျောင်းသားကတ် ပြသပါရန်။ ၂) စာကြည့်တိုက်အသင်းဝင်များ အသင်းဝင်ကတ် ပြသပါရန်။ ၃) အခြားဧည့်သည်များ မိမိတို့၏ မှတ်ပုံတင်မူရင်း (သို့မဟုတ်) ယာဉ်မောင်းလိုင်စင်မူရင်း တစ်ခုခုကို ဂိတ်တွင်အပ်နှံထားခဲ့ပါရန်။ မိတ္တူနှင့် အခြားသက်သေခံကတ်ပြားများဖြင့် ဝင်ခွင့်မပြုပါ။ ၄) သယ်ဆောင်လာသည့်အိတ်များကို စစ်ဆေးမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။နားလညျပေးမှုကို ကြေးဇူးအထူးတငျပါသညျ။
Fête de la musique 2018 / Muisc Festival 2018
Jun19

Fête de la musique 2018 / Muisc Festival 2018

Fête de la musique 2018 / Muisc Festival 2018 La fête de la musique is coming back to Yangon! The Fête de la Musique (Music Day), is an annual music celebration happening all over the world where amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform under the slogan « Faites de la Musique » (Make Music !). This year, the Institut Français de Birmanie is working again with venues around town to promote this spirit of « Music Everywhere » with a series of free shows around Yangon ! THE PROGRAM 23 June 2018, Yangon Main Event Link: https://www./events/237604493657757/   1. 50th Street Cafe Restaurant Bar Address: 9/13, 50th Street, Botataung Township, Yangon Time: 8.00PM – 11.00PM Music: LIVE BAND, FOLK, TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC Artist: Drunken Irish Barstools Facebook event: Coming soon Highly anticipated live band ‘Drunken Irish Barstools’ will perform in celebration wit the Fete De La Musique Festival for an Irish musical experience. Having stole the St. Patricks’ weekend in Yangon last March at 50th Street Bar, they are back to bring their fresh and energetic performance to a demanding audience. So come along and enjoy good aul’ Irish craic agus ceol, while your ears will be pleasured with lively authentic Irish music.   2. 7th Joint Bar Address: Urban Asia Centre, MahaBandoola Road and 48th street Time: 7.00PM – 11.30PM Music: DJ SET, REGGAE Artist: Unplugged artists Facebook event: https://www./events/2141485106134899/ 7th Joint is teaming up with la Fete de la Musique to bring Jamaica to you! Unplugged performance to warm up the night before getting into hardcore Caribbean beats. Try our “Special” rum punch made from real Jamaican rum and other secret ingredients.   3. Babett Yangon Address: Hotel G Yangon, No. (5) Alan Pya Pagoda Street, Yangon Time: 7.00PM – 10.00PM Music: LATIN Artist: Memento Vivere Facebook event: https://www./events/184685655484446/ Babett celebrates the international music festival, Fete de la Musique with an evening of Latin dance music from local band, Memento Vivere!   4.Savoy Hotel Yangon – Captain’s Bar Address: 129, Dhammazedi Road, Yangon Time: 7.00PM – 10.00PM Music: CLASSICAL PIANO Artist: Ko Moe Naing Facebook event: https://www./events/179146332776017/ Enjoy the classical piano recital where our artist – Ko Moe Naing – will take you on a journey through time and place. Featuring all-time greatest composers starting from Baroque’s Jan Sebastian Bach to XX century’s George Gershwin through Romantics Genius Frederic Chopin we ensure you will have a quality time in our cosy, heritage bar. Our piano and the atmosphere will indeed be grand.   5. The Corner Bar Address: 166(A),Sanchaung Road, Sanchaung Township Time: 8.00PM – 11.00PM Music: LIVE SHOW – ROCK, HIP HOP, BEATBOX Artists: Ye Naung, Youn Ni Ko,...

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Les rendez-vous #1
Mar16

Les rendez-vous #1

Les rendez-vous #1 FRIDAY 23 MARCH 7:30pm to 12am New series of concert at the IFB though cross cultural artistic disciplines to celebrate local creation (visual art, performance, contemporary art). This upcoming Friday 23 let’s open the night with the upbeat and energetic tunes of live bands THE REASONABILIST and THE VISION. Finally, the iconic female DJ Yu KT will make you dance till the end of the night with her exceptional blend of Deep House music with Pop and electronical mix and… upcoming surprises for the evening! Join us in the Facebook event  FRIDAY 23 MARCH 7:30pm to 12am Ticket : 5000 Kyats IFB 340 Pyay road,...

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Burma Storybook
Nov28

Burma Storybook

Friday, December 1st 7 pm – doors open at 6:30 Burma Storybook Free Open Air Screening in the garden of the French Institute. Your last chance to see the film in Yangon!   ျမန္မာပံုျပင္စာအုပ္ မွတ္တမ္းရုပ္ရွင္ ျပင္သစ္အနုပညာေက်ာင္းဝန္းထဲ တြင္ အခမဲ့ျပသမယ့္ အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ျမန္မာပံုျပင္စာအုပ္ မွတ္တမ္းရုပ္ရွင္ အခမဲ့ျပသျခင္း အစီအစဥ္ ရဲ ေနာက္ဆံုးပြဲလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၁ ရက္ေန႔ ည ၇ နာရီအခ်ိန္တြင္ စတင္ျပသမွာပါ…...

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Pix'Art Weekend | Innovation Is Yours
Nov10

Pix'Art Weekend | Innovation Is Yours

PIX’ART WEEKEND | INNOVATION IS YOURS! PIX’ART စေန၊ တနဂၤေႏြ | တီထြင္ဉာဏ္ပြင့္လန္း သင့္အစြမ္း! THE PROGRAM   SATURDAY 18 & 19 NOVEMBER**** 10AM-7PM ** FREE OF CHARGE DIGITAL MUSEUM | 10AM-5PM | LECTURE ROOM   The IFB is working hand in hand with La Villette, a cultural center in Paris, to bring in Myanmar for its International premiere a virtual and interactive Museum, MICRO FOLIE.   MICRO FOLIE Yangon will open a gateway to the public to the most prestigious French museum’s collections such as Le Louvre, Orsay, Versailles, Pompidou, through a digital installation providing direct interaction with virtual explanations and games (puzzles, colors…) for all the generations, from youngster and elders.   ***VR LOUNGE | 10AM-5PM | LECTURE ROOM   Exclusive Virtual Reality content will bring Paris and its artistic world to your doorstep with original content from ARTE FRANCE. It will be also the occasion to discover unique content created by Myanmar-based organization 360ed. A breathtaking 360° travel experience.   ***FABLAB CORNER | 10AM-5PM | RESTAURANT   Micro-Folie will also propose in collaboration with 360ed & Maker 360, workshops, also called FABLAB. Equipped with 3D printers, 3D pens and more, the space is aimed to designers, artists, students, DIYers (Do It Yourself) and anyone who want to expand its creativity!   ***3D HERITAGE BUILDING MODELING SCREENING | 10AM-5PM | MAIN STAGE   Heritage preservation specialists Iconem will propose a unique view on the Yangon’s High Court tower through its 3D modeling screening along with the ones of Paris’s famous Tour Saint Jacques.   ***PERFORMANCES | MAIN STAGE   Saturday & Sunday | 4:30PM to 5:30PM “Cooperatzia” by G.Bistaki French company G.Bistakis a collective made up by 5 jugglers/dancers/actors. They shake their everyday artistic and scenic path, by innovating their experimental and representational ways. G.Bistaki will surprise the public in a poetic parade in the garden of the French institute.   Saturday | 6PM “On the road” by Hpone Myat Pine Soe The performance is about trying to get to a certain destination, and fighting to be recognized, seen. There will be exchanges between the “reality” and the “imagination” (with the help of digital technologies), the push and pulls of uncontrollable forces. And in the end, after all this journey through over-coming struggles and self acceptance the main character is still “on the road”.   *** IFB 340 Pyay road, Sanchaung   Please kindly cooperate for the security check at the gate ID card and bag will be check. Food and beverage available on...

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MEMORY! International Film Festival Yangon 2017
Sep08

MEMORY! International Film Festival Yangon 2017

60 films from around the world. Yangon, Capital of Film Heritage in Asia for 10 days. Multiple award-winning actresses Catherine Deneuve (France) and Grace Swe Zin Htaik (Myanmar), Patrons of the Festival MEMORY! International Film Heritage Festival, 5th edition, will take place in Yangon from Nov 3 to 12, 2017. In Myanmar since 2014, the Festival is one of the largest cinema events in the country and the sole of its kind in Asia. Its core programming is specifically focused on worldwide and regional cinema heritage. The event has two prestigious Patrons, multiple award-winning actresses Catherine Deneuve (France) and Grace Swe Zin Htaik (Myanmar), and gathers artists and representatives from both the international and local film industries. MEMORY! Festival takes place in two main venues: the Waziya Theater for the 10 days of screenings, and Mahabandoola Park for a 3-day program of outdoor screenings and activities. The main theme of the Festival in 2017 is Banned Films from Around the World. Over 20 fiction films and documentaries from across the globe that were banned at various times will be presented alongside a 2-day Conference (Nov 4 and 5). Within the Myanmar Film Heritage Project carried out by MEMORY! Cinéma since 2016, a new Myanmar classic was restored this year: Pyo Chit Lin (My Darling, 1950), by U Tin Myint, for which a print was miraculously found and meticulously restored in a best-in-class laboratory in Italy. This freshly updated version of Pyo Chit Lin will be part of the Myanmar Film Treasures Section and will be screened at the Opening Ceremony on Nov. 3 at Waziya Theater. Our previous restoration effort,Mya Ga Naing (The Emerald Jungle, 1934, dir. Tin Maung), will also be screened in the Myanmar Film Treasures section of this year’s program.   MORE DETAILS Facebook page Official...

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European Film festival
Sep07

European Film festival

EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL 22nd September to 1st October The 26th Edition of European Film Festival will be held in Yangon (Nay Pyi Taw cinema) from 22 September to 1St October 2017. This year’s festival includes 11 countries and presents 13 films including children’s screenings presented at Dagon 1 High School. Once again a rich, varied program reflects the legendary diversity of Europe to the city’s cinema lovers. Institut Francais de Birmanie is delighted to present this year 2 films featuring world most famous actor Isabelle Hupert and Gérard Depardieu in ‘Valley of love’ and an animation film for all families with ‘My life as Zucchini’ in collaboration with the Embassy of Swiss in Myanmar. Films free of charge. Please collect your ticket 20min before the show. Valley of Love directed by Guillaume Nicloux France / 2015 / 91 Min Tuesday 26th September, 3:30pm & Sunday 1st October, 6:30pm Pyi Taw Cinema   Ma Vie de Courgette (My life as Zucchini) directed by Claude Barras France – Swiss / 2016 / 66 min Sunday 1st October, 3pm MOVIES FOR CHILDREN 1 High...

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