Weeklong Francophonie Festival begins
Every year, the Francophone community celebrates and promotes worldwide the use of the French language as well as cultural and linguistic diversity.
Journée internationale de la francophonie is celebrated around the world every year on 20 March to rejoice the love for French language, the cultural diversity and harmony it beckons, as well to foster the values of peace, democracy, respect for human rights and sustainable development.
Seven member countries of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) are officially represented in Bangladesh and contribute to the celebration. The countries are: Canada, Egypt, France, Morocco, Switzerland, Vietnam, and as an observer member, Qatar. From 19 to 24 March the Francophone diplomatic missions in Bangladesh, together with Alliance Française are set to offer activities such as theatre performance, pétanque competition, speech contest, cooking competition, short film festival, visit to Lalbagh Fort guided in French language, translation competition, Inter-University quiz competition, French song concert and many more. The Ambassador of France hosts a reception with friends of Francophonie with a cello and piano performance to wrap up the week of celebration.
Francophonie Festival in Dhaka began yesterday with the staging of an absurd theatre title “The Bald Soprano” by the third year students of Institute of Modern Language, University of Dhaka at Alliance Française de Dhaka. The medium of language was Bangla and the theatre was an adaptation from the play “The Bald Soprano” by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.
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