La Culture Oui, But Why?

La Culture Oui, But Why? is starting its third season with a new format. The podcast will sometimes be in French, sometimes in English, depending on our guest's native language. Let me know if you lik...

14 Nov 20222min

French Writer Marc Levy was invited to the Lycee Francais de New York as part of an artist-in-residence project. He spent a week with the 8th graders on the Power of Imagination. Marc Lévy is a French...

20 Mai 202229min

Laura Nsafou is our guest for this episode. Also known as Mrs Roots, she is a French blogger and author and artist in residence at the Lycee Francais de New York. Founder of the Afrolab workshop, Laur...

18 Mai 202221min

In this new episode of our bilingual podcast, as we celebrate Earth Day with climate change on our minds, we invited an alum from the Lycée Francais de New York, Charles Cohen (Class 2015) who decided...

22 Apr 202223min

In this podcast, French editorialist, book writer, filmmaker, anti-racist and feminist activist Rokhaya Diallo talks about racism in France as well as the idea of race and her interpretation of the co...

12 Feb 202232min

The Future of Fashion In this episode, we talk about fashion and its future with Blandine Velin, Director of Insights and Innovation for a major French fashion brand in New York. As the fashion season...

29 Jan 202225min

Wes Anderson's movie, The French Dispatch, was filmed in Angoulême, France. In fact, Angoulême, presented as "a fictional French town in the '50s", is one of the film's main characters. The movie was ...

7 Jan 202213min

"Built from his own experiences, Stéphane has developed the concept of "gathering opposites." In a French context where social cohesion is increasingly crumbling, he bridges the gaps in the community ...

2 Jan 202213min