This event has a waiting list opened. If you would like to attend, please reach out to JC Agid - +19173498361 or jcagid@blerancourtusa.org
In celebrating our fall gala, it has become tradition that AFB welcomes new members at a summer cocktail party.
Join us on Monday, March 25th, 2019 at the Webster Library on 1465 York Avenue, NY for a Q&A with Miles Morgan and Christine Nelson.
The American Friends of Blérancourt (AFB) has the pleasure to invite you to a dinner party to support its Arts Fellowship Program with the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt, and to celebrate all of AFB’s 2019 educational programs. We are honored to host our Dîner en Blanc at the Fritz Gallery with a private preview of its next opening exhibition.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at the Fritz Gallery
Join us for our elegant Annual Gala at the Colony Club in New York City on November 9, 2018 and enjoy a weekend in New York with friends and fellow Francophiles!
We are very honored to be invited to present “L’autre Chemin des Dames” (Anne Morgan’s War) at the Embassy of France to the United States in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2018, as part of the Centennial commemoration of the end of WWI.
AFB and Argosy Travel invite you to join us in Florence and Tuscany this Fall!
Join us for a day of lectures from renowned historians and professors. Talks will be given on diversity in the U.S. armed forces and one of the Museum’s curators will discuss the American women volunteers, followed by apéritifs and performances by French and American high school students.
If you are in France, come join us at the the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt!
Join us for a day of film and documentaries at the Franco-American Museum at the Château de Blérancourt located approximately 75 miles northeast of Paris and 1 ½ hours by car or by train and taxi.
If you are in France, come join us at the the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt!
The American Friends of Blérancourt have the pleasure to invite you for an evening party to present a new Arts Scholarship Program with the Franco-American Award of Blérancourt.
Date:
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Cocktails at 7:00 pm, Dinner at 8:00 pm
Location:
The Breakers Beach Club
1 S County Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480
Thank you for joining us as we celebrated a new era for the Franco-American Museum at Blérancourt at our Annual Gala Dinner at the Colony Club in New York City on Friday, November 10, 2017.
On June 24, 2017 the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt reopened to the public after more than 10 years of construction, renovation and expansion.
For its annual Prestige Tour, this year AFB organized a tour of nine rarely seen châteaux in Picardy, not far from the Franco-American Museum.
The American Friends of Blérancourt cordially invite you to a Kick-off Celebration of the re-opening of the Franco-American Museum Château de Blérancourt and a Commemoration of the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I, on Monday, April 3 at Sant Ambroeus, Palm Beach, Florida.
After years of construction, rebuilding and expansion, our beloved Museum will finally reopen in 2017. Details will be forthcoming in the weeks to come.
Honoring AFS Intercultural Programs (originally known as the American Field Service)
Lecture and book signing by author Alan Govenar on the new book “Anne Morgan: Photography, Philanthropy & Advocacy”
The book signing (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm) is followed by a luncheon at the Colony Club (1:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
Special guided visit to the “Diane Arbus – In the Beginning” exhibition
AFB 's next trip will be a special one: an insider's trip to Cuba from March 8-14th, 2016, before Cuba fully opens to mass tourism. The lucky travelers will be visiting historic mansions, the famous Tropicana Club, artists' private studios, world-famous cigar shops, several renowned national museums, dance companies, the Xanadu Mansion, an architectural tour of Old Havana and much more.
There are a few remaining places. If you are interested, please let us know right away so we can submit the required documents for a visa and reserve a hotel room for you in time.
The lovely Terrace of the Wally Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach was the site of American Friends of Blérancourt's sold-out Gala dinner of 120 people on March 7th, 2016 thanks to the generosity of James Borynack. It featured the floral paintings of French artist Isabelle de Ganay, plus a slide show of Anne Morgan's photos of Blérancourt during the First World War and AFB's seasonal gardens. Guests included members of several royal families, other Palm Beach icons, AFB Board members and friends, as well as Miami's French Consul General Philippe Létrillart and his wife.
Alan Govenar, author and documentary filmmaker will discuss his book Anne Morgan: Photography, Philanthropy & Advocacy, co-authored with Mary Niles Maack which has just been published in January 2016.
February 11th, 6:30pm
American Friends of Blérancourt’s Annual Gala Dinner
We will officially celebrate our 30th Anniversary and honor Founder didi d’Anglejan and President Eugénie Anglès.
Special guided visit to the recently-opened Whitney Museum.
The Whitney focuses on 20th and 21st century art
The French Consul General is hosting this event in honor of AFB’s 30th Anniversary.
The Frick Collection is an art museum located in the Henry Clay Frick House on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. It houses the collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).
This year’s Prestige Tour will take people into the homes/châteaux of the families of exceptional Frenchmen who helped us win our War of Independence.
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