Debuted in the year 2009, the Poetry Slam contest, presented by “the Hindu Lit for Life”, provides a space to stage the art of performance poetry. The contest encourages students from various educational institutions to pick up their pens, write original poems and present them with passion, intelligence, creativity, honesty and power. The Poetry Slam Contest is open to school …

Le Chat du Rabbin & Le Jour des Corneilles ( The Rabbi’s Cat & The day of the Crows ) See the details and the programme here !  

Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi’s cat) See the details and programme here !

  Prakriti Foundation and the Alliance Française of Madras present the annual poetry festival – Poetry with Prakriti – which is to celebrate its 8th edition this year. This ten-day long festival will be inaugurated with a reading by a few poets from Chennai, of what they have written on a very special subject: “Celebrating resistance: 30 years of struggles …

The renowned theatre company “Koothu-p-Pattarai” is staging Kattiakkaran at the Alliance Française of Madras ! Free entry – All are welcome On November 30 | 7:00 pm | Edouard Michelin Auditorium The play “Kattiakkaran” (Narrator) is one of the most well-known plays from Mr. N. Muthusamy, the founder, director and playwright of the theatre company Koothu-p-Pattarai. It explores an original …

Finest French chamber music concert Now in its 14th edition, “Arties Festival” will be at the Alliance Française of Madras on the 29th November.  It was after his first visit in India that Gauthier Hermann, renowned cellist and Director of Arties Event Management, fell in love with the country and decided to create a festival to bring and share the finest …

Theatre Nisha presents the play Mata Hari, a one-woman show, with the accompaniment of a musician from Chennai. Mata Hari has been a figure of deep intrigue for years. She is an iconic woman, whose flamboyant and tragic life has fascinated biographers, actors, directors and writers alike. It is then justified to say that she embodied the phrase ‘femme fatale’ …

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Good books, a book store from Anna Nagar, is staging a play for children by children at the Alliance Française of Madras.       The play ‘Sold in the name of Gold’, is the story of Rolly Naana who is cheated off his inheritance by his older brother Ranbir Naana. He comes across a gang of robbers with a …