ZAGREB, March 2, 2019 – Throughout March, which is Month of Francophony, a total of 150 events aimed at promoting the French language and culture will be held in 11 Croatian towns, and diverse programmes have been prepared by the embassies of member-countries and observers in the International Organisation for Francophony in Zagreb, the French embassy says in a press release.
The programmes offered by the embassies of France, Belgium, Canada, France, Romania, Morocco and Switzerland include poetry reading, concerts, exhibitions and screening of films.
Thus, the Month of Francophony kicks off with a concert to be given by Pierre Guitard and Menoncle Jason in Zagreb’s Sax Club on 5 March, and this event has been supported by the Canadian embassy.
The Tuškanac cinema theatre will show several films in the French language.
Other Croatian cities that join in observing the Month of Francophony are Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Dubrovnik, Koprivnica, Križevci, Omiš, Samobor, Varaždin and Zadar.
French is spoken by 274 million people throughout the world.
The International Organization of La Francophonie “was created in an international context dominated by the Cold War and in the wake of the process of decolonization.The Organisation was open to those countries where French was the official language or the main minority language. First inaugurated as the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (ACTC) and then as Intergovernmental Agency of La Francophonie, it took the present name of Organisation of La Francophonie with the constitutive Charter adopted in November 2005,” according to the information on the organisation’s web site.
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