Our membership has a unique opportunity on Thursday, August, 27

Please join us at GRAM -Grand Rapids Art Museum for a special presentation about American writers who lived in Paris. After that, enjoy the museum’s exhibit, Decadent Spirit: French Art at the Turn of the Century.

When:  Thursday, August 27, 2026

Where: GRAM, 101 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids

What time:  Presentation by Kyle Berlin at 6:30 

Meet at the Alliance Française check in table inside the Museum

Please RSVP below:

This event is free to members, but we need to know how many to plan for

$10 for non members

Join today click here, only $25

The GRAM will be hosting their Thursdays on the Terrace event from 5-9 so come early and stay late to enjoy that event.  Grab a drink or snack before or after our presentation inside.

Meet Kyle Berlin

Kyle grew up in West Michigan, and for the last three years has been living in Paris. A year ago, he started a literary magazine called SOUVENIR, which appears in print 3X a year and is distributed in the US, EU, and UK.

He will be doing a presentation on American writers who moved to Paris, including, most famously, Hemingway, who also of course spent a significant part of his childhood in Michigan.

Please join us to meet Kyle and to hear his unique perspective on Paris’s literary past.

Here is a peek at Souvenir’s Issue 2, about the little Parisian magazines of the 1920s. Click here, if you’d like. The magazine itself will be available for purchase at the presentation!