The AFTV is pleased to invite AFTV members and guests to an AFTV Cultural / PL Event at the NGV for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition 2025: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the largest and most significant collections of French Impressionism ever to visit Australia.
Claude Monet French 1840–1926 |
The exhibition charts the trajectory of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in late nineteenth-century France, highlighting the renowned avant-garde artists who boldly rejected the artistic conventions of their time.
This exhibition, this time in person with a completely different design from 2021( plus a few changes to loans from MFA Boston), presents
more than 100 paintings by key figures including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Mary
Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Paul Signac and Alfred Sisley. Participants will have the opportunity to experience the hallmarks of
Impressionism: distinctive brushwork, vivid use of colour, innovative viewpoints, and depictions of subjects and places dear to the
artists. Through ten thematic sections, French Impressionism will evoke the artistic energy and intellectual dynamism of the period by placing emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the artists themselves in letters, journals and articles to reveal the mutual admiration and personal connections that united the practitioners at the centre of this movement. |
Venue The National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Date Sunday 15 June
Bookings close Friday 6 June, 5.00pm (no late bookings will be possible)
Times
10.45 Registration
11.00 Lecture Bertrand Bourgeois (See below for details of our lecturer)
12.00 - 12.45 Lunch
12.45 Entry to Exhibition
After an introduction in French by Bertrand Bourgeois, lunch is included to allow time for networking with colleagues before visiting the world of Impressionism and beyond.
Bertrand Bourgeois is an Asssociate Professor in French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He completed his jointly awarded doctorate from the Université de Nice (France) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He is a specialist of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature and Visual Culture. He has published on many French authors and his latest monograph Petits poèmes à voir deals with the relationship between prose poetry and visual arts from 1848 to 1945. More information is available on Bertrand's academia page.
AFTV Members Government schools | $35.00
AFTV Members Independent or Catholic schools | $45.00
AFTV Past Presidents, Life Members or retired | $35.00
Non AFTV Members, guests | $65.00
Children (5 - 15 years) | $30.00
THIS ACTIVITY IS PRESENTED AND SUBSIDISED BY THE AFTV (THROUGH DET FUNDING)
The AFTV invites new teachers of VCE (Units 1, 2, 3, 4) and those needing a refresher, to attend this all-day professional development
workshop, especially dedicated to OUTCOME 2.
Venue Catholic
Leadership Centre, 576
Victoria Parade East Melbourne
Date Friday 2 May 2025
Time 9.00am - 3.00pm
The AFTV is pleased to invite AFTV members and guests to an AFTV Cultural / PL Event at the NGV for the Melbourne Winter
Masterpieces exhibition 2025: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Venue The National Gallery of Victoria
Date Sunday 15 June
Time 10.45 onwards
We are pleased to invite your students from years 9 - 12 to attend this gem of a movie about the unexpected twists that shape our experiences. It is positive, funny and refreshing.
Venue Cinema Kino, 45 Collins Street
Melbourne
Date Wednesday 25 June
Time 10.15am
FRENCH Trivia is back AGAIN in 2025!
A night of learning and fun for your Years 9 & 10 French students
Date Friday 8 August 2025
Time 6.00pm - 8.00pm (approx
Venue Sacré Cœur – 172 Burke Road, Glen Iris 3146
Bookings close Friday 25 July
L'ATELIER ORAL (une matinée pour s'entrainer) offers your students the opportunity to practise for their oral exam.
Location Glen Eira College, 76 Booran Road Caulfield East
Date Sunday 31 August 2025
Time 8.30am - 12.30pm
Bookings close Friday 8 August (unless booked out before)
An opportunity for Year 12 French students from REGIONAL SCHOOLS to practise online for their oral exam.
Date Sunday 14 September 2025
Time 10.00am - 12.40pm
Location via ZOOM
CALL FOR PRESENTERS
The AFTV is thrilled to announce the return of our conference in 2025 at The University of Melbourne with the support of the French
program
and the School of Languages and Linguistics!
Save the date for Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November.
Submissions Now Open!
We invite all passionate educators to submit their
proposals for this year's conference.
Information Night & Expression of Interest
We
are very excited to invite AFTV members to visit France for an extended professional learning experience, to be fully immersed in French
language and culture for two weeks during the 2026 Easter school holidays.