{"id":25448,"date":"2024-03-06T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=25448"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:25:05","slug":"blast-off-into-the-francosphere","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/blast-off-into-the-francosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast off into the Francosphere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">March has come in like a lion (in British Columbia, anyway). There is lots of snow on the ground in the pretty mountain town that I live in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, March is also the month of the Francophonie and the RVF; a month for all of us to celebrate Francophone culture with music, films, activities, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s theme is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Launch into Discovery<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and this year\u2019s RVF celebrates youth as crucial agents of change and cultural transmission within the Francophonie. Here are some of this year\u2019s key events and activities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RVF 2024 co-spokespersons<strong> Micheline Marchildon and LeFLOFRANCO will travel on cross-Canada comedy and music tours<\/strong> throughout March. FLO will be bringing his messages of perseverance, pride in identity, love and tolerance to schools in Ontario, PEI, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and British Columbia, and Micheline will be wowing audiences with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juste pour rire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Manitoba, British Columbia, Nunavut, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>RVF is hosting several contests<\/strong> (with thousands of dollars in prizes!) on travel and discovery to showcase the French language, Francophone, and Acadian culture. These include contests for students (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mots en couleurs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Danser avec les mots<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and contests for everyone (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explore the Francosphere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Franco-tour Contest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activity that is Going Places Contest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The Francophonie Podcasts<\/strong> are produced by my colleague Vanessa Lisabelle (French) and myself (English.) They feature Francophones, Acadians and Francophiles from a variety of cultural, community and entrepreneurial backgrounds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>A Francophone playlist<\/strong>, which features artists from all over Canada, created by the Association des Professionnels de la Chanson et de la Musique in collaboration with the Dialogue Foundation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">F<strong>ree National Film Board movies<\/strong> (of course!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The Mini-Rendez-vous<\/strong>, with many activities for children under 12 years old.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Dozens of local RVF events<\/strong>, hosted in communities all over Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please check out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RVF website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to discover even more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ll focus in detail on some of these events and activities in the coming weeks, so, as they say on the radio, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t touch that dial!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@adigold1?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Adi Goldstein<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/selective-focus-photography-of-assorted-color-balloons-Hli3R6LKibo?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25451,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[59],"class_list":["post-25448","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/25448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=25448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}