200 French alliances from Latin America and the Caribbean cross sound boundaries to celebrate music in the 39th special edition

On Sunday, 21 of June, 200 French alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean cross sound boundaries to celebrate music in the 39th special edition and, for the first time, virtual, da “Fête de la Musique 2020” (Music Festival 2020) for the audience to watch from the couch.

Will be 6 hours of virtual music festival - 22 countries - More than 60 artists - 200 French Alliances

Sunday, 21 June / 17h-23h in Brazil - Link to event:
www.facebook.com/events/556826431647436/

On the same day, registrations for the 13th edition of the Aliança Francesa Song Festival will open 2020, free contest, unprecedented in virtual form and open to amateur and professional singers with live broadcast on the social networks of the French Alliances.

Free registration on the portal: www.festivaldacancaoaf.com.br.

To celebrate the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the 39ª Music Festival 2020 (Music Festival 2020), already traditional date of the French calendar, the French alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean decided to tune their instruments together to offer a special virtual edition with videos of musical performances for the audience to watch at home. The event takes place at Sunday, 21 of June, from 5 pm, Brasilia time, until 11 pm and will bring together about sixty artists from 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries and a dozen French artists, in a symphony of videos made in confinement. This unique journey of sound alliances crosses borders to take the public to discover the new Latin American and Caribbean scene. Many languages ​​and an even greater number of musical notes will be on the social networks of 200 French Alliances and will have Rio participants, in the region of the French Alliance of Rio de Janeiro.

The Music Festival 2020 Latin America and the Caribbean Edition is the first cultural event organized at regional level between the French South American and Caribbean Alliances and opens the way for future collaborations without borders.

Those interested can access the official page of the event “Music Festival 2020 Latin America and the Caribbean Edition” on Facebook (www.facebook.com/events/556826431647436) and follow the broadcast on social networks of the participating French Alliances, among them the French Alliance Rio de Janeiro.

On the same day 21 From June, registrations for the 13Edition of Song Festival Alliance Française 2020, unprecedented in virtual form with live transmission on social networks of the French Alliances. Interested parties can register until the day 21 August 2020 on the festival's artificial website: festivaldacancaoaf.com.br

In 2020, the complete French Alliance 135 years of presence in Brazil. In addition to language teaching, the French Alliance offers a rich range of cultural activities. The French language is, naturally, at the center of your schedule, and will be celebrated through Song Festival Alliance Française. Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic and the safety recommendations of health authorities and WHO, the French Alliance decided to try this new artistic format, in line with current trends. So, the Festival, which is already part of the French Alliances calendar in Brazil, may occur with a guarantee of the safety of candidates and our public.

The contest is free and open to amateur and professional singers and aims to promote the discovery of new talents and publicize the diversity of the musical repertoire in French. To participate, French language skills are not required, the important thing is to take care in the interpretation and pronunciation. Any person of Brazilian nationality and over 18 years. Each candidate can only register once with a song, the use of pseudonyms is prohibited, under penalty of summary disqualification. The items will be judged: tuning; pace; interpretation (ability to convey the feelings evoked by text and music); pronunciation; staging (creativity in the aesthetic thinking of the video) and originality. The regulation is on the website: festivaldacancaoaf.com.br.

The Phase of selection of registered candidates is 22 august to 19 September 2020. The dissemination of the selected ones on the site happens from the day 20 September 2020. Those selected in the first stage will have the opportunity to perform live, in October, before a jury composed of professionals from the musical environment or those linked to the artistic environment, members of the French Alliance, supporters and representatives of French entities in Brazil.

The regional semifinal stage will be the responsibility of the French Alliances of the cities of Aracajú, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

The 7 (Seven) candidates classified in the 2nd Stage, winners of each regional stage will participate in the National Final in November 2020 and the big winner of the night will be awarded a trip to Paris with Air France tickets, and the runner-up will receive a weekend at a festival partner club in the country.

The contest will consist of three eliminatory and qualifying stages. The first stage will be with or without local selection, at the discretion of each participating French Alliance.

1nd Stage: evaluations of valid registration material; and, at the discretion of each participating French Alliance, organization of a local selection, with music presentation.

2nd Stage: face regional phase (semifinal) with music presentation and selection for national stage (final).

3nd Stage: national phase (final) presence in one of the cities organizing the regional stage, with presentation of the music scene.

They will be awarded the top three in the 2nd Stage of the Festival.

The awards will be selected by each organizing AF Step Regional. The first place of each Regional Stage will participate in the National Final. The prizes will be delivered at the French Alliance, within a maximum of 15 days after the award.

The regional stage awards in Rio de Janeiro are:

1th place:

Participation in the National Final, , and a lunch or dinner for two at a restaurant chosen by the Festival organization, no maximum value 500 (five hundred) reais.

2th place:

A dinner or lunch for two in a restaurant chosen by the organization of the Festival's regional stage, no maximum value 300 (three hundred) reais.

3th place:

Gift certificate in a Festival partner bookstore worth 200 (two hundred) reais.

The awards are the final step:

The first three classified in the 3rd and last Stage of the Festival will be awarded :

1th place: 2 round-trip tickets to and from Paris (Air France) out of Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo + 6 nights of accommodation in Paris with breakfast, in a hotel chosen by the Festival organization;

2° place: a weekend at a Festival partner holiday club, For two people.

3° place: a dinner for two in the restaurant chosen by the Festival, in the city of contemplated, the maximum amount of R $ 500,00 (five hundred reais).

The judging panel will be comprised of three to five individuals connected to the arts, the Alliance Française, the French authorities and / or representatives of sponsors.

In 2019, Julian Barreto, from Porto Alegre (RS) interpreted the song She tells me, Ben l'oncle Soul and was the big winner of the National Final of the Aliança Francesa Song Festival 2019. Juliano won a trip for two to Paris. For the third consecutive year, Rio Grande do Sul wins the national stage of the event. The show took place the day 30 November, at the UFRGS Hall of Acts, in Porto Alegre. The second place went to the Rio de Janeiro candidate (RJ), Flavia Melo, who sang Comm Dab, de Vitaa e Stromae. The third place was Nalini Menezes, representative of Aracaju (SE) with the music S.O.S. Of A Terran In Distress, from Michel Berger.

The Festival

In 2020, the complete French Alliance 135 years of presence in Brazil. In addition to language teaching, the French Alliance offers a rich range of cultural activities. The French language is, naturally, at the center of your schedule, and it is the French language we wish to celebrate through the Aliança Francesa Song Festival.

The French Song Festival emerged, for the first time, in 2008, on the initiative of the French Alliance of Porto Alegre. Due to its great success, the event became a reference in the field of french and francophone contemporary music in the country and started to happen on a national scale.

Adopted by the network of French Alliances throughout Brazil, the Festival has regional semifinals and a grand final based in a different city every year. In 2019, the festival was renamed the Aliança Francesa Song Festival, with the intention of valuing the cultural diversity that exists behind the French language, integrating songs from French-speaking countries of Africa, America and Europe.

About the Alliance Française

Completing 135 years of activities in Brazil, the French Alliance is a reference in the language and, no doubt, the best-known institution in the world, when it comes to the spread of the French language and Francophone cultures. Has, currently, more than 830 units 132 countries, where they study about 500.000 students. In France, it has schools and cultural centers for foreign students. Brazil has the world's largest network of French Alliances with 37 associations and 68 units.

It is the only institution in Brazil authorized by the Embassy of France, to apply the tests that give access to international diplomas DELF and DALF, recognized by the French Ministry of National Education. The Alliance Française is also official examination centre for international testing validity of two years TCF (The French Knowledge Test) TEF and Canadian (French Assessment Test) and the national test valid for one year Capes (recognized by agencies CAPES and CNPq MEC).

This year, in celebration of its 135th anniversary, the French Alliance will have lot of news. Amongst them, the change in teaching method, that will bring greater dynamism to the classrooms, with digital tools and current content on all French-speaking culture, transforming lessons into real centers of debate of ideas and collaborative learning.