Happy Bastille Day!

Bastille Day on 60th Street
Sunday, July 12, 2009

(The real date is July 14)
From 12 to 6pm between Lexington and Fifth Ave, New York, NY

For additional information email: comitedu14juillet@fiaf.org

If you are in Brooklyn, check out Bar Tabac

located at 128 Smith Street, Brooklyn NY

Seventh Annual Bastille Day

Pétanque Tournament from noon until 10pm.

This should be fun.

For additional click on link below:

http://www.bartabacny.com/index.html

Another Bastille Day party tonight in the big apple.

I found this party on the new york night train website.

Tonight;Santo’s Party House (100 Lafayette), 10pm Sharp, $10 ($5 with advance RSVP).

House DJ Mr Jonathan Toubin, Guest DJs Tim Warren and Jaiko Suzuki, Live Music Les Sans Culottes, Go Go Dancing Anna Copacabana, Hula Hoop Performance: Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne, Projections: Mighty Robot AV Squad;

http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/category/news

This sounds like a fun event and this is great for all those people who don't travel pass 14 St.

French Tuesday is celebrating Bastille Day Ball Tonight in NYC.

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY!

Just in case you didn't get enough of Bastille Day celebration in over the weekend, French Tuesday is having an event tonight at "Spotlight Live".

It's from 8pm to 2am.

To find out more information on the event and to buy tickets:

http://www.frenchtuesdays.com/events/ny071408/

If you are in San Francisco or Miami, click on link below to see where French Tuesday will be celebrating Bastille Day tonight:

http://www.frenchtuesdays.com/index.php?page=search&section=events

Bastille Day at Bar Tabac, Brooklyn NY - Sunday from Noon to 10pm

Brooklyn is having their own Bastille Day on Sunday 13th of July;

outside Bar Tabac 128 Smith Street,

Brooklyn NY 11201 718-923-0918

On hand to help set the festive mood: food and drink from the hood's many beloved restaurants, French and otherwise, and music by local bands like retro jazz and swing group Blue Orchid Orchestra and French gypsy maestros the Francois Wiss Ensemble.

Bar Tabac will be having Brooklyn Petanque Tournament, in front of the restaurant. where America's largest petanque tournament (a French version of the better-known bocce) hosts over 80 international teams with players from as far away as Thailand.

FYI:Pétanqueis a form of boules where the goal is, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (jack). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can also be played on grass or other surfaces. Sandy beaches are not suitable. Similar games are bocce and bowls.

For additional information; http://www.bartabacny.com/index.html

Bastille Day NYC - French National Holiday July 14.

On Sunday, July 13, 2008; FIAF will be having a fair on 60th Street (From Lexington to 5th Avenue).

It's from 12pm to 6pm. This is for everyone to be French for a day. Experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of France right in your own backyard at New York’s "Street Fair with French Flair," Bastille Day.

This year, July 14th marks the 217th annual French celebration.

Bastille Day marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (a French prison) in 1789. To honor the start of the French Revolution and the subsequent unification of the country.

To see the schedule for the fair on Sunday, click here http://www.bastilledaynyc.com/Entertainment.htm

The Can-Can Dancers go on at 1:30pm, then again at 2:45pm at the Fair.

They will be a lot of actives going on Sunday and Monday see link below: http://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2008/2008-07-13-bastille.shtml