Calendar - Events and Activities

Alliance Française Silicon Valley members can also further their immersion into the francophone world through a monthly variety of cultural and festive activities provided all year long. Come practice your French and meet new people!

Our Past Events

Intermediate French Conversation

Advanced and Francophone French Conversation

Intermediate French Conversation

Monthly French Hike —Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, Palo Alto

Ciné-Club: Et la fête continue! (2023)

Cercle de Lecture Los Gatos: Les années, Annie Ernaux

Special Virtual Event with Jacques Pépin

Advanced and Francophone French Conversation

Intermediate French Conversation

Thé, café et livres avec Sylvie

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - Les animaux d'hiver

Advanced and Francophone French Conversation

French Premiere : DOSSIER 137

Intermediate French Conversation

French Cinémathèque: It was Just an Accident

Make Your Dream to Live in France Come True! Here's How...

Club de Lecture in Palo Alto: Fabrice Caro: Le Discours, 2018

Cercle de Lecture in Los Gatos: Crinière au vent: Françoise Bourdin, 2000

Notre-Dame – After the Fire: The Redesign of the Surroundings of Notre-Dame de Paris with Bas Smets, Landscape Architect and Founder of Bureau Bas Smets (In English)

Holiday Nature Walk & Picnic at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve

Fête de fin d'année 2025

Notre-Dame – After the Fire: La Restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris with Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of Historical Monuments and Lead Architect for Notre-Dame Cathedral

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - Noël

NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS - Before the Fire: The Construction and History of Notre-Dame de Paris with Russell Kelley, author of The Making of Paris (in English)

Kaamelott - Chapter 2 - Part 1

From Aimée Leduc to Huguette: Cara Black’s Postwar Paris

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - Thanksgiving

Délicieux / Delicious (2021)

Cercle de Lecture in Los Gatos: Les cavaliers: Joseph Kessel, 1967

Club de Lecture in Palo Alto: Anne DuMontier: Disparue à Petra, 2024

Words as Keys - Stories from A French Life

Monthly French Hike – Huddart Park (Redwood City)

Atelier calligraphie avec Arthur Francietta

Café, Thé & Livres avec Sylvie

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - Les 3 petits cochons

Conference avec Arthur Francietta | Ce qu’une lettre ne peut dire : Écriture graphique et futurs créoles

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - Halloween

Ciné-Club: Quand vient l’automne (2024)

Cercle de Lecture in Los Gatos: Boule de suif et autres nouvelles: Guy de Maupassant

Stand Up comedy: Alex Vizorek

A Literary afternoon with two French Women Authors

Strasbourg at Christmas – An Exclusive French Immersion Trip

Club de Lecture in Palo Alto: Gaël Faye: Petit pays, 2016

Club de Lecture in Palo Alto: Gaël Faye: Petit pays, 2016

French-English Walk at Rancho San Antonio

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - L'odorat

French Premiere : Classe Moyenne

Le Café Tchat de l'Alliance d'Octobre

En Sourdine de Faustine Betouin

Ciné-Club: Le Goût des merveilles / The Sense of wonder (2015)

Atelier en ligne de sensibilisation aux Violences Intrafamiliales à l’étranger

Cercle de Lecture in Los Gatos: Les enfants sont rois: Delphine de Vigan, 2021

French Cinémathèque: Quand vient l'automne

Les Pitchouns de l'Alliance - L'automne