Arts Trans’ Fabrik travelling festival

Arts Fabrik
Meet, Performance, Residence, All public, Grand Pic Saint-Loup, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

workshop – François Rascalou
Saturday May 13
10 am – 1 pm / 2 pm – 5 pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
reservation

AVEC LE TEMPS – Cie Claire Ducreux
thursday, august 24
8:30pm
Esplanade de la mairie, Paulhan
open to all – free

KISS AND FLY – Cie Yann Lheureux
Saturday, August 26
6pm
Esplanade de la mairie, Paulhan
open to all – free

EL BOTINIÈRE – Cie Al Badil
friday, september 8
7pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
open to all – booking required

EL BOTINIÈRE – Cie Al Badil
Saturday September 9th
6pm
Parvis de la Salle polyvalente, Vailhauquès
open to all – free

PRÉMICES – Cie Action d’espace
friday, september 15
6:30 pm
Place Jean Jaurès, Prades-le-Lez
open to all – free

PRÉMICES – Cie Action d’espace
Saturday, September 16
7pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
open to all – booking required

SILENCIS – Cie Claire Ducreux
friday september 22
7pm
Cour de l’école élémentaire, Saint-Martin- de-Londres
open to all – free

SILENCIS – Cie Claire Ducreux
Saturday, September 23
7pm
Cour Charles Flotte, Grabels
open to all – free

ERRANCES – Cie Chasseurs de Vide
Saturday, September 30th
6pm
Stade, Notre-Dame-de-Londres
open to all – free

Stage – ONE SHOT – Mark Tompkins et Meg Stuart
Monday, October 2 to Friday, October 6
10 am – 1 pm / 2 pm – 5 pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 route du Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
open to all – booking required

CHAOS – Cie LeMoovenement
Thursday, October 5
10:30am
Halle des sports, Mireval
for schoolchildren only

book presentation ONE SHOT – Meg Stuart et Mark Tompkins
Thursday, October 5
7pm
Théâtre Molière, Sète
open to all – free

CHAOS – Cie LeMoovenement
friday, october 6
11am
Salle polyvalente, Causse-de-la-selle
open to all – free – book on 04 67 71 35 42

ONE SHOT – Mark Tompkins et Meg Stuart
friday, october 6
7pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 route du Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
open to all – booking

ONE SHOT – Mark Tompkins et Meg Stuart
Saturday, October 7th
7pm
Salle Bagouet, ICI-CCN Montpellier, Montpellier
open to all – booking required

CHAOS – Cie LeMoovenement
monday, october 10
11am
Médiathèque intercommunale, Lunel
open to all – free – book on 04 67 71 35 42

AUTREMENT QU’AINSI – Cie Yann Lheureux
Saturday, October 14th
6pm
Église Saint-Hilaire, Mèze
open to all – free

ERRANCES – Cie Chasseurs de Vide
Saturday, October 21st
2:30pm
Parc Rimbaud, Montpellier
open to all – free

DE L’AVANT – Cie Yann Lheureux
friday, october 27
7pm
Arts Fabrik, 910 route du Mas de Gentil, Combaillaux
open to all – booking required

The association Arts Fabrik invites local, European and African choreographers for periods of residence, mediation and communication in and around the Grand Pic Saint-Loup area. Each dance company has an assigned researcher who provides a perspective on the artistic processes, facilitating the sharing of knowledge and experience. All dialogues and shows are open to the public.

© Chasseurs de vide - Celia Talie - Errances

Espaces capitale: seeing and (re)inventing, an architectural and cultural trail

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier
Meet, Public space, All public, Grand Pic Saint-Loup, L'Agglo Hérault Méditerranée, Lunel, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée, Vallée de l'Hérault

Geddès course
setting up of a structure of observation of the city and organization of an exhibition in connection
Collège de Ecossais, plan des quatre seigneurs

Jardin partagé
from May
testimony of the residence of students and teachers of the ENSAM in the district of Mosson and restitution of the various proposals and works carried out, in the form of exhibition, round tables, sharing
Mosson

Choreographic tour and summer school Corps en mouvement
Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 July
Chai Saint Raphaël

L581-13
A project combining urban planning, urban art, visual arts, literature and graphic design.

  • Tuesday, September 12
    Launch of the operation with a lecture by Arzhel Prioul and Mathieu Tremblin at 6:30pm at ENSAM (Anphi 1).
    At the same time, white cards will be sent to around fifty artists, and the following day two groups of ENSAM students from Sète and Montpellier will scout the billboards.
  • In October, once the completed boxes had been returned, the students reproduced them to scale.
  • Wednesday, November 22 at 9 a.m.
    All the posters collaged will be listed and located on an online digital map, and then published in the form of a publication featuring an account of the poster collage experience.
    → more information

The title of the project is the number of the article in the Environmental Code that guarantees freedom of expression in the public space, by requiring the provision of public display panels.
Two artists, Arzhel Prioul and Mathieu Tremblin, propose a protocol for taking over these free billboards by sending postcards in the form of carte blanche to other artists. After identifying the appropriate panels and contexts for the works, the completed cards are then reproduced to scale and displayed. The public space is altered, but it’s a very ephemeral art form, since anyone can cover these panels freely.

Situation.s à la Paillade” installation-performance
November 13 to December 1, 2023
ENSAM
free admission, information at communication@montpellier.archi.fr
→ program
→ more information

Pedagogy and cultural dissemination are among the main objectives of the approach of the National School of Architecture of Montpellier. This project by the ENSAM school of architecture is a philosophical reflection on what habitation means in the broader, poetic, cultural and artistic sense. Observation of the city and its environs from Collège des

Écossais (Outlook Tower), take over the free expression panels with L581-13, take up a residency at Le Jardin, a third cultural venue in La Mosson.

© Alexandra Lagnier

Destination Gaspésie-Occitanie

Printival Association
Meet, Music / Concert, All public, L'Agglo Hérault Méditerranée

Residency
Petite Vallée in Gaspésie (Quebec) on interpretation, vocal harmonies and accompaniment by acoustic instruments
from Wednesday March 29 to Monday April 3

Concert at the end of the residency
Monday April 3rd
7 p.m., Camp Chanson in Petite-Vallée (Quebec)

Concert at the end of the residency
Wednesday April 5th
8 p.m., at Théâtre Alphonse Desjardins in Repentigny (Quebec)

Residence
Pézenas (Hérault) with one day for the creation of two collective songs on the theme of trans’culture based on the differences of cultures and origins of the chosen artists and 5 days of stage work and arrangements.

Day of collective writing on the theme of trans’culture
Saturday April 22nd
from 10 am to 6 pm
open to artists participating in the project

Stage residence
Sunday April 23 to Thursday April 27
from 10 am to 6 pm
open to artists participating in the project

Meeting time with children from the leisure center (10-14 years old)
Monday April 24th
2 pm at the Gare du Nord in Pézenas
reserved for children from the leisure center

Workshop with journalist Patrice Demailly (RFI)
Wednesday April 26
from 9 am to 11 am

Concert
Friday, April 28
12 pm, during the Printival Boby Lapointe festival – Place Gambetta, Pézenas

Association Printival invites three Canadian and three European artists to join their voices, share their repertoires and create two collective songs. Two residences in France and Canada with six coaches, the objective being to foster new talent and cultural exchanges with a view to creating a Maison de la Chanson Francophone – a centre for French chanson. The final stage will take place in Pézenas at the 2023 edition of the Printival Boby Lapointe festival.

© Fabien Espinasse

Orange wrappers – an object of graphic design research.

Association de l’art modeste pour le Miam (Musée International des Arts Modestes) et la Fenêtre
Exposition, Residence, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Research and creation residency
in Sète and Montpellier, aimed at graphic designers, researchers in language and communication sciences, theorists, historians and curators specializing in the fields of graphic design, visual culture and popular culture, around several collections of citrus fruit wrapping paper.
The prize-winner will develop his/her approach with a view to publication, and will support specific mediation and promotion initiatives.

The residency project
Orange wrappers, an object for research in graphic design and popular culture.
Orange wrappers were part of the popular cultural heritage of the 20th century. They were produced into the 1980s, when the use of fungicides and wax caused them to fall into disuse.
In 2022, Pascal Casson donated his collection of nearly 20,000 orange wrappers to MIAM. In 2023, this collection was presented as part of the “Modestes et Appliqués” exhibition, co-produced by MIAM and La Fenêtre, who now intend to showcase this exceptional collection once again as part of a research and creative residency aimed at continuing and extending the conceptual approach initiated by Hervé di Rosa and MIAM, while at the same time contributing to the current dynamic development of graphic design research.

The dates
Application deadline: September 30, 2023
Jury: The jury will deliberate during the second half of October 2023. It will be made up of representatives from MIAM, La Fenêtre and invited experts. Following the jury, successful candidates will be notified immediately by telephone. Other candidates will be notified by e-mail.

→ download the application form

Orange wrappers were part of the popular cultural heritage of the 20th century. They were produced into the 1980s, when the use of fungicides and wax caused them to fall into disuse. In 2022, Pascal Casson donated his collection of nearly 20,000 orange wrappers to MIAM. This collection was showcased at the Modestes et Appliqués exhibition coproduced by MIAM and La Fenêtre. Now, they wish to highlight this outstanding new collection with a research residence. The aim is to pursue and extend the concept begun by Hervé di Rosa and MIAM while participating in current efforts to develop graphic design.

© Papiers d'agrumes, toutes provenances. Collection Casson - MIAM

Global Cameroun

TROPISME
Meet, Music / Concert, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Thursday, July 13

  • Exhibition
    2pm to 8pm: IBal an exhibition by Jean Michel Dissake
  • The village – Discovering Cameroonian cultures // Africa in miniature
    2pm to 6pm: Stands, workshops, tastings and exchanges to discover all aspects of Cameroon with the Association des Camerounais d’Occitanie
  • Food – Cameroon on the plate
    6pm: Meals prepared by chefs from the Cameroonian diaspora à la carte prices
    paying
  • Fashion show – AFRÓKREMA X Donald Chindjou
    6:30 pm.
  • Concert – Armand Biyag x Ruben Binam & The Kemit 7
    7:45pm

Friday, July 14

  • Exhibition
    2pm to 8pm: IBal an exhibition by Jean Michel Dissake
  • Workshops for children and adults
    2pm to 6pm: Dance, music, hairdressing, textiles, gastronomy with Cameroonian artists and members of the Cameroonian diaspora in Occitanie.
  • The village – Discovering Cameroonian cultures // Africa in miniature
    2 pm to 6 pm: Stands, workshops, tastings and exchanges to discover Cameroon in all its facets, with the Association des Camerounais d’Occitanie.
  • Food – Cameroon on the plate
    18 : Meal prepared by chefs from the Cameroonian diaspora
    paying
  • Dance – Naouele X Fanny Abega
    6:30 pm.
  • Concerts by Sandrine Nnanga x Ruben Binam & The Kemit 7 by Lydol x Ruben Binam & The Kemit 7 and by Ruben BINAM and orchestra
    7:45pm

open to all – free
Halle Tropisme, 121 rue Fontcouverte, Montpellier

The young generation of the Cameroon art scene are making a stopover at La Halle Tropisme. Fashion, music, performances, film projections and food feature on a two-way trip between ancient rites and contemporary narratives. Inventing new means of cooperation between our two continents – on an equal footing and with the emphasis on the wealth of initiatives and responses by and from young people on contemporary African and European issues with the aim of building possible futures.

@ Keulion

Transborder

AFIVAM
Exposition, Public space, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Afterwork Voyage
Thursday March 9
7 pm, at the Social Bar, 48 Square de la Babote, Montpellier
registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Café Voyage
Thursday March 30th
8 pm, at the Gazette Café, 6 Rue Levat, Montpellier
registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Afterwork Voyage
Tuesday April 11th
7 pm, at Casa Cubana, 2 place de la Chapelle Neuve, Montpellier
registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Café Voyage
Thursday April 27
6:30 pm, at Gazette Café, 6 Rue Levat, Montpellier
registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Afterwork Voyage
Thursday, May 11th
7:00 pm, at La Panacée 14 Rue de l’École de Pharmacie, Montpellier
registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Ciné-Voyage evening
Wednesday, September 13th
7 p.m., at the Centre Rabelais, 27 Boulevard Sarrail, Montpellier
paying- registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

Installation of the work
September / October

This project organised by Afivam trains the camera lens on players from the area (volunteers, film producers, adventurers, partners, etc.), while reinforcing the relationship between the different protagonists who are to photograph one another in dedicated workshops. . Once printed via the participatory art project Inside Out, developed by the photographer JR, the portraits will constitute monumental works placed in emblematic venues around the city.

registration : info@watmontpellier.fr

© AFIVAM

Camille, an installation by Sylvain Fraysse

Montpeul Artistic Project
Exposition, Meet, Projection, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Opening
Tuesday, March 21
5 pm at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, old dissection room of the historical building, 2 rue de l’École de Médecine, Montpellier

Exhibition
from Wednesday March 22 to Tuesday April 18
Wednesday to Friday from 2 pm to 7 pm and Saturday from 11 am to 7 pm
Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, former dissection room of the historical building, 2 rue de l’École de Médecine, Montpellier

Screening of “Le Mépris” by Godard
during the month of April
Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, former dissection room of the historical building, 2 rue de l’École de Médecine, Montpellier
open to students

Debate/discussion workshop
between March 21 and April 18
open to students – registration required

Workshop with the UM of engraving with the artist Sylvain Fraysse
between March 21 and April 18
open to students – registration required

Immerse yourself in a sensory experience in the dissecting room of the historic Montpellier Faculty of Medicine building. With the support of Frac Occitanie Montpellier, the atmosphere created by artist Sylvain Fraysse’s installation, inspired by Godard’s film Le Mépris, will be put into focus and into words by the medical students of the Montpellier Artistic Project association, which is behind the project.

Festival Clapotis and Ricochets – ripples of culture for kids

Le Baril
Festival, All public, Vallée de l'Hérault

Ricochet 2 – Residency in a day care center
from Monday 20 to Friday 24 March 2023
creation of supports for collective works
Montpeyroux / Aniane /Lodève
open to early childhood professionals and parents

Finalization of the support of the works. Training to welcome parents during the festival so that they participate in the creation
from Monday 17 to Friday 21 April
Montpeyroux / Aniane /Lodève
open to early childhood professionals and parents

Creation of the scenography of the festival
with the day hospital of Gignac
3 sessions between March-April-May
with the high school students and BTS of the agricultural high school of Gignac
3 sessions between March-April-May

Ricochet 1 – Residency in a day care center
from monday 19 to friday 23 june
training “create a story
Gignac / Montarnaud /Saint-André de Sangonis
open to early childhood professionals and parents

Day of intervention and training
Wednesday June 21
IRTS (training for educators of young children in Montpellier) with the artists of the Baril and the coordination of early childhood of the CCVH
program :
– conference “how to create and organize a cultural event for young children
open to all
– creation of working groups: creating a sensory space for young children

Ricochet 1 : Residency in a nursery
from monday 3 to friday 7 july
formation “interpréter et mettre en scène son histoire”
Gignac / Montarnaud /Saint-André de Sangonis
open to early childhood professionals and parents

Ricochet 2 – IRTS Montpellier
Friday 7, Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 September
program :
– creation of a part of the scenography of the festival
– creation of a sensory space for the young child

Ricochet 1 : Residency in a nursery
from monday 11 to friday 15 september
finalization of the staging and preparation of the festival: creation, story tent, learning to tell a story in front of an audience, conducting a parent-child workshop to pass on the story during the festival
Gignac / Montarnaud /Saint-André de Sangonis

Clapotis Festival
from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 September
Domaine des 3 Fontaines, Le Pouget
Friday day dedicated to professionals of early childhood and culture
Saturday and Sunday open to all
→ program

A free-admission, biennial festival devoted to artistic and cultural stimulation for children aged 0-6 in the Hérault Valley. Having attracted an audience of nearly 4,500 in 2021, Le Baril collective is gearing up for the 10th anniversary of the festival, the objectives of which are: wonderment, arousal of the senses, hiding, developing motor skills, resting. Three days of shows, concerts, reading workshops and more for growing up via culture and play!

© Severine Sayn

On the brink of the world (of tomorrow)

TSV - Centre de formation professionnelle aux techniques du spectacle vivant, de l'audiovisuel et du cinéma
Exposition, Meet, Music / Concert, Performance, Public space, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone

Friday, September 29

  • Professional meetings “Transmitting art and culture in a changing world
    from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
    Théâtre Jérôme Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → program
  • Theater season presentation
    7pm to 7:45pm
    Théâtre Jérôme Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → booking
  • Artistic medley of the season
    from 7.45pm to 8.45pm
    Théâtre Jérôme Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Departure with fanfare to Les Ateliers
    8:45pm
    Grand jardin, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Concerts (BRASS BAND THE GOMBO REVOLUTION ; DJ LA FRANGE)
    9pm
    → more information
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone

saturday september 30

  • Musical meal
    from 12:30 to 2:30 pm
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Games, stalls, CEN (Conservatoire des Espaces Naturels) workshops, outdoor media library, pétanque, Roberta’s merry-go-round & La Serre en chantier
    all afternoon
    Grand Jardin, Les Ateliers, Avis de Chantier, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Sub aqua (sieste sonore), Braquage sonore et cie
    2:30pm
    Pinède, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Soif ! Le tarot de l’eau, Cie Caracol
    2:30pm
    Departure from Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Departure for botanical excursions in natural areas
    2:30pm
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Office of ideas for the future
    2:30pm
    Les Ateliers
  • Marée humaine, École de cirque Balthazar
    3pm and 5:15pm
    Chapiteau Balthazar, Grand jardin, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Revoir les kangourous, Cie Les Nuits Claires
    3:30 pm and 5:15 pm
    Théâtre Jérôme Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Du bout des doigts, Les Amateurs de VLM
    3:45m
    Grand jardin, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Ici et Ailleurs, Ankiff Sandani Ousseni
    4:15pm
    Chapiteau Balthazar, Grand jardin, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Performance by Epsedanse students
    4:30pm
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Bureau des idées pour le futur, performance by Cie En transition
    6:15pm
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  • Speeches, on-site catering and concerts (LADIE’S JAM; BLICK BASSY; RABIE HOUTI BAND)
    from 7.30pm to 12.30am
    Les Ateliers, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone

sunday, october 1

  • RASSEMBLEZ-LEZ, Bipolar
    11am
    at the edge of the ponds (departure from Les Ateliers), Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → booking
  • Soif ! Le tarot de l’eau, Cie Caracol
    from 11am to 12:30pm
    at the edge of the ponds (departure from Les Ateliers), Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → booking
  • Mar I Munt (sieste sonore), Braquage sonore et cie
    from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
    at the edge of the ponds, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → booking
  • Nebula, Cie Arrangement provisoire
    from 4pm to 5pm
    at the edge of the ponds, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
    → booking

 

Over the three days: continuous exhibition Paysages Intimes #1 and #2 between Théâtre Jérôme Savary and Anciens Ateliers. → more information
→ more information

La Lisière, a new cultural third place, is coming into being at Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone. A lagoon area at the heart of a fertile ecosystem which is threatened by the rarefaction of fresh water and the rising sea water level. How can we rethink our relationship with the land, living things, water? Meetings, discussions, shows – fun ways of sparking a playful, festive and creative reappropriation of land, water and living things. An event initiated by TSV, a professional training centre for the performing arts, RECréa, the CEN conservation agency, Atelline, Villeneuve-Les-Maguelone town council and local cultural actors.

© Ozzos

Chemin Jean Hugo, in the footsteps of the painter-poet

Chemin Jean Hugo, in the footsteps of the painter-poet
Meet, Public space, All public, Young Audiences, Lunel

Nature trail / Writing workshop

Saturday June 17th

  • 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
    tour with Sebastien Ranc / CPIE APIEU, nature guide
    Chemin de Béliol, Lunel
  • from 2 to 4 p.m.
    writing workshop at Musée Médard, Lunel
    open to all and free

Nature trail / Writing workshop

Tuesday June 20th
CE2-CM1 school group, with Emma Durante / CPIE APIEU, nature guide
Chemin de Béliol et musée Médard, Lunel

Travel journal workshops

  • Saturday June 17th
    cultural trail, drawing “Lunel vu de la garrigue” (Lunel seen from the garrigue)
    Landscape as viewpoint
    9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
    Chemin de Béliol, Lunel
  • Saturday, August 26
    Meeting with the Vidourle. Memory of a Roman bridge.
    9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
    Ambrussum bridge, Lunel / Villetelle
  • Saturday, September 2
    Lunel canal. The Etang de l’Or fishermen’s huts.
    9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
    Cabanes de Lunel / Marsillargues
  • Saturday, September 23
    Cross the bridges that bind us together, take a look at the sea.
    Sète place Léon Blum, place du Pouffre
    → program
    9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

open to all – free – reservation: Marie-José Doutres 06 10 23 00 70 or instagram and facebook : @mariejosedoutres

Journeys and soundscapes

Saturday September 9th

  • Theatrical poetry walk
    10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
    Cie La boite à Malice
    Sur les traces de Jean Hugo
    rendez-vous at the old Lunel station
  • Lunch on the Grass & Fête champêtre
    12 am
    Clairière, Chemin de Béliol, Lunel
  • Exhibition by Jean Hugo & Jean-Baptiste Hugo
    6pm
    Ancienne gare, 126 rue de Verdun, Lunel

Exhibition of reproductions of Jean Hugo’s landscapes and photographs by Jean-Baptiste Hugo

  • from september 9 to october 9
    Ancienne gare, 126 rue de Verdun, Lunel

By proposing a series of itineraries linking the sites painted by Jean Hugo, the aim is, in the footsteps of the painter-poet, to raise awareness of the diversity of living things and rethink our rightful place within nature. On the program: travel journal workshops, a soundscape tour, writing workshops and a country party.

© Jean Hugo , le port de Sète

Say it with books

MOTIFS D'EVASION
Meet, Public space, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

ERASMUS + International Student Special
sunday may 14
6:30pm, terrasse du Mirador, 56 cours Gambetta, Montpellier

Special for children
Sunday, July 2
8 p.m tram arrêt Halles de la Paillade, Montpellier

Youth Special
Friday, August 25
6:30pm, tram arrêt Saint Paul, Montpellier

Special Montpellier in Sète
Sunday, September 24
4 p.m., Brasserie Le Victor Hugo, Sète

Special for international students from Montpellier
sunday, october 29
4pm, Mirador Gambetta, Montpellier

Motifs d’Évasion has invented a new literary agora. Motifs d’Évasion has invented a new literary agora. Foreign students from all over the world are invited to step up to the mike to give a five-minute talk in a public place on the importance they place on a book, an idea, an author, etc. 6 encounters to show how enriching Montpellier’s foreign students are and how proud the city is to host these budding ambassadors. There is an urgent need to listen to them, question them and do more to make our paths in the city cross, with books as the motivation for coming together. There is an urgent need to listen to them, question them and do more to make our paths in the city cross, with books as the motivation for coming together.

reservation: motifsdevasion@gmail.com

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© Prisca

The Roma, a culture and European cultural heritage

CAP GELY FIGUEROLLES
Music / Concert, Projection, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Montpellier

The Roma, a culture and European cultural heritage
Saturday April 8th
3 pm to 10 pm, at Halle Tropisme, 121 rue Fontcouverte, Montpellier
open to all – free

on the program:

  • 11am: official commemoration, in the gardens of Montpellier town hall, in front of the Stèle des Justes, in the presence of leaders of Gypsy cultural and defense associations, Cimade, officials and elected representatives, who will speak.

animations, exhibitions, screenings, conferences, dance shows, gastronomy, concerts at the Halle tropisme :

  • 3 pm: Paul Guta Family, gypsy music
  • 4 p.m.: projection/lecture on gypsies and music: a diversity of music and highly talented artists
  • 5:30 p.m.: dance performance by the “El sol de Espana” company
  • 6:30 pm: “Los Kémados”, Gipsy pop
  • 9 p.m.: “Los Graciosos” and “Miliu Calabuch”, heir to the Catalan rumba of “Péret”.

Gypsies, a European culture and cultural heritage The purpose of this official day is to celebrate and highlight the Roma culture, but also to remember all the discrimination this population has suffered for centuries up to the present day, and to commemorate the victims of the Roma genocide during World War II.

© Marielle Rossignol

Au(x) fil(s) du sel – salt paths

Association Les Rasants Compagnie de théâtre
Meet, Performance, All public, Terre de Camargue
Aigues-Mortes

Writing workshop
Saturday, March 4
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Médiathèque André Chamson, Rue Nicolas Lasserre, Aigues-Mortes

Theater and singing workshops
Monday March 6 to Saturday June 17
Mondays from 6 pm to 7.30 pm at Salle Carrefour 2000, Avenue Jean Lasserre, Le Grau du Roi
registration: compagnie.lesrasants@gmail.com

Percussion workshops
from April
Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. at École des Arts Eric Turquay, Palais des sports et de la culture, Le Grau du Roi
open to École des Arts Eric Turquay percussion students

Reading of “Au(x) fil(s) du sel” text
Friday April 14th
7pm at Médiathèque André Chamson, Rue Nicolas Lasserre, Aigues-Mortes

Reading of “Au(x) fil(s) du sel” text
Saturday April 15th
3:30 pm at Maison du grand site de France, Route Du Môle, Aigues-Mortes

Performance of “Au(x) fil(s) du sel” show
Saturday June 17
7 pm, strolls around the towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes
paying – on reservation

 

This project highlights the area of Petite Camargue and the life of its inhabitants. Objective: to talk with the guardians of the place – the salt workers – and the inhabitants, to elicit questioning about the future. Firstly, to transpose these writings into a text for the theatre, create a work and perform it. Secondly, to turn them into a scenario for a film.

© Au(x) fil(s) du sel

Making diversity a fact in the performing arts

La Bulle Bleue
Meet, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Making diversity a fact in the performing arts [such stuff as dreams]

  • friday june 2
  • saturday June 3 (meet the artistic team after the performance)
  • Sunday, June 4
  • friday june 9
  • saturday June 10
  • sunday June 11th

7:30pm at Théâtre des 13 Vents, Domaine de Grammont, Montpellier
paying – book on 04 67 99 25 00

Public meeting: Building Diversity in the performing arts on a European scale
friday june 9
2:00 pm to 6:30 pm at Théâtre des 13 Vents, Domaine de Grammont, Montpellier
registration required

Professional meeting: Building Diversity in the performing arts on a European scale
saturday June 10
at 2:00 pm at Domaine d’O, 178, rue de la Carriérasse, Montpellier
open to professionals – registration required

An innovative “artistic factory” run by ADPEP34, La Bulle Bleue has worked to promote the employability of actors and stage technicians since 2012. With La Tempête et Le Songe d’une nuit d’été [such stuff as dreams],[such stuff as dreams] a free adaptation from Shakespeare performed by 21 actors of diverse backgrounds, coproduced by Théâtre des 13 Vents-CDN in Montpellier and Le Printemps des Comédiens drama festival, Marie Lamachère (Interstices) and La Bulle Bleue make diversity a fact on stage. Two performances of European stature dedicated to the professional integration of artistes with disabilities are scheduled for 9 and 10 June.

Such Stuff As Dreams Interstices Et La BulleBleue © David RICHARD ©LBB ©Marie Clauzade

À l’Endroit du Bal! – dance for all

L’Institut Nazareth de la Fondation de l’Armée du Salut
Meet, Performance, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Workshop to build Le Bal Populaire
Monday April 3, Tuesday April 18, Tuesday April 16, Monday May 22, Tuesday May 30, Tuesday June 6, Tuesday June 20 and Monday June 26
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, at the Salle du Lavoir Institut Nazareth of the Salvation Army Foundation, 862 avenue de la Justice de Castelnau, Montpellier
sold out

Screening of the documentary Le Grand Bal by Laëtitia Carton
Thursday May 25
7 pm at salle du Lavoir de l’Institut Nazareth – Institut Nazareth de la Fondation Armée du Salut – 862 avenue de la Justice de Castelnau, Montpellier
open to all – free

Dress rehearsal
Monday, July 3
6 to 8.30pm, outside the Salvation Army Foundation’s Institut Nazareth, 862 avenue de la Justice de Castelnau, Montpellier
sold out

Performance
Tuesday, July 4
7 p.m., outside the Salvation Army Foundation’s Institut Nazareth, 862 avenue de la Justice de
Castelnau, Montpellier
open to all – free – reservation

At Mèze in September:

Masterclass with a group of amateur participants
Tuesday 12 and Friday 15 September
from 6 to 8.30pm at Salle Jeanne Oulié, 25 Rue Sadi Carnot, Mèze
open to all – free – reservations required: lebal@entrelacs.eu

Screening of the film Le Grand Bal by Laëtitia Carton
thursday, september 21
8pm at Le Taurus cinema, Rue de la Méditerranée, Mèze
open to all – free

Bal Populaire performance
friday september 22
8pm, Place des Micocouliers, Mèze
open to all – free

A medicosocial structure, a troupe of artistes and a support structure for the development of hybrid projects have joined forces. The Salvation Army Nazareth Institute, Compagnie Satellite and Entrelacs question Being, Becoming, the body, and explore seeing from multiple perspectives. A strong gesture to unite people via dance and encounters between laypeople and professionals.

© Compagnie Satellite

Joindre l’Eau à la Parole – words and water

LA COULISSE, Expression, Formation
Meet, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Presentation of the Concours d’éloquence Season 1
Tuesday April 4th
2:30 pm at Cité des Arts, 13 avenue du Professieur Grasset, Montpellier (Amphithéâtre)
open to all – free – registration required: lacoulissebienvenue@gmail.com

Concours d’éloquence Season 2
September to November
Missions locales du Bassin de Thau de Sète et de Montpellier
open to all – free – registration required: lacoulissebienvenue@gmail.com

With this public speaking contest, a joust with words on water, LA COULISSE is coaching some 40 young people from Mission Locale social welfare schemes in oral expression in the form of talks, debates, deliberations, rap and slam. Navigating between Sète, the Thau basin and Montpellier Métropole, surfing on the flow of language, drenched by dreams of the future, waves of commitment and the spray of emotion, the young orators deliver their addresses spurred on by exuberant participation from the audience.

registration: lacoulissebienvenue@gmail.com

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© Harald Schmidt

Along the Hérault

Les Muses en Dialogue
Music / Concert, All public, Grand Pic Saint-Loup, L'Agglo Hérault Méditerranée, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée, Vallée de l'Hérault

Au Fil de l’Hérault Festival
Part 1 from Monday July 10 to Thursday July 13
open to all – free

program :

Monday July 10th
Château Capion / Aniane
2pm wine tasting workshop
3pm acoustic siesta / Romaric Martin
4pm wine tasting workshop

Château de Flaugergues / Montpellier
8pm concert / Les Ombres & Fiona McGown

Tuesday July 11th
Pont du Diable / Saint-Jean-de-Fos
2pm wine tasting workshop
3pm acoustic siesta / Romain Martin
4pm wine tasting workshop

Domaine de Rieussec / Gignac
8pm concert / Les Ombres & Fiona McGown

wednesday july 12
Château de l’Engarran / Lavérune
3pm acoustic siesta / Romaric Martin
4pm wine tasting workshop

Abbaye de Gellone / Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
8pm concert / Les Ombres & Fiona McGown

Thursday, July 13
Saint Félix de Monceau Abbey / Gigean
2pm nature walk
5pm acoustic siesta / Romaric Martin

Château Laurens / Agde
8pm concert / Les Ombres & Fiona McGown

 

Au Fil de l’Hérault Festival
Second part from Sunday, October 1 to Saturday, October 31
open to all – free

Saturday, October 1
2pm-5pm nature walk / Little hidden beast of the waterways, what are you telling us?
Domaine de Restinclières / Prades-le-Lez

wednesday, october 4
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm workshop / Animals near you
Marseillan

sunday, october 8
9h-12h ornithology / Observation migration Haute Vallée de l’Orb
Bédarieux

Tuesday, October 10
16h-18h nature walk / Balade botanique
Domaine de Restinclières / Prades-le-Lez

friday, october 13
10:30-11:30 a.m. workshop / Visite d’un atelier de lutherie et présentation du métier
Ganges

Saturday, October 14th
6pm concert / Escapade musicale surprise !
7 p.m. vineyard / Atelier dégustation de vin
Domaine Haut-Lirou / Le Triadou

Tuesday, October 17
4-6pm nature walk / Balade botanique
Domaine de Restinclières / Prades-le-Lez

Saturday, October 21st
9am-12pm ornithology / Observation statique “Tous sur le pont”
Bédarieux
10:30-11:30 a.m. workshop for young audiences / Atelier Kamishibaï et réalisation de semi
Médiathèque William Shakespeare / Montpellier

sunday, october 22
9am-12pm ornithology / Observation statique “Tous sur le pont”
Bédarieux

Tuesday, October 24
2pm-5pm nature walk / Sur les traces du Bagnas
Réserve naturelle du Bagnas / Agde
2pm-3pm workshop for young audiences /Ateliers Kamishibaï et réalisation de semi
Médiathèque Marie Rouanet / Les Matelles

thursday, october 26
2pm-4pm nature walk / Histoire et découverte du littoral
Réserve naturelle du Bagnas / Adge

Saturday, October 28
3.30 – 4.30 pm workshop for young audiences / Atelier Kamishibaï et réalisation de semi
Médiathèque Émile Zola / Montpellier

Tuesday, October 31
2pm-5pm nature walk / Sur les traces du Bagnas
4 – 6:30 pm Enigma / Halloween ! The world of night
Location communicated at registration

This summer, Les Muses en Dialogue invite you to the first edition of Au fil de l’Hérault, an ephemeral festival in 2 parts, the first musical part of which is signed by two local artists: Margaux Blanchard & Sylvain Sartre, co-artistic directors of the ensemble Les Ombres.
From July 10 to 13, 2023, (re)discover the Hérault river and our region: from the majestic vineyards of Pic Saint-Loup to Grau d’Agde, via the Hérault gorges and Causse-de-la-Selle.
4 days where heritage sites, vine culture, terroirs and early music come together in acoustic siestas, tours, concerts, wine-tasting workshops and nature walks.

© Les Muses en Dialogue © Naomi Pecqueux

RESSAC, the messenger of the Bagnas coastline

Creation 2023
Cie MangeNuage
Meet, Performance, Public space, All public, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Exit from residency
Sunday May 28
afternoon: test of mediation tools
6:00 pm at Plage du Taurus, Mèze
open to all – free

Performance “RESSAC, messagers du littoral”
Sunday, July 9
afternoon: meetings with artists and environmental awareness workshops
7:00 pm: performance
Quai Alary, Port, rive Ouest, Frontignan
open to all – free

Residence in Bouzigues
from September 11 to 17

Performance “RESSAC, messagers du littoral”
sunday, october 8

  • 10 h 30
    Discover the treasures of the Mediterranean!
    Animation Malle à Mystères, from age 9
    Ethnographic Museum of the Thau Lagoon (MEET)
  • 2:30pm
    Exhibition on the fragility of the coastline and how to live there sustainably
    Join environmental activist Gritée Iceberg in making knowledge accessible (book-game game)
    Ethnographic Museum of the Thau Lagoon (MEET)
  • 5:30pm
    Circus show
    Plagette Pyramides, next to MEET

This artistic and scientific creation all about the fragility of the seashore is the result of a meeting between Compagnie MangeNuage, the Heritage network of Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée and doctoral student Camille Provendier. By means of scientific mediation tools and a circus performance on the yacht MangeNuage around Thau lagoon and along the Occitanie coastline, the theatre company muses on the evolution of this fragile and fast-changing milieu and the uses we make of it.

© Cie MangeNuage

Poets translate poets

Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert
Meet, Performance, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Opening of Printemps des Poètes “Frontières?
samedi 11 mars
4pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier

Reading and staging of “Frontalier”.
dimanche 12 mars
3pm
Musée Paul Valéry, 148 Rue François Desnoyer, Sète

La casa fuori” bilingual concert reading
mercredi 15 mars
6:30 pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier

jeudi 16 mars

  • Musical Reading “Sugar”
    6pm
    Musée Paul Valéry, 148 Rue François Desnoyer, 34200 Sète
  • Meeting and reading “Et par le pouvoir d’un mot”
    7pm
    Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier

samedi 18 mars

  • Round table “Géopoétique du voyage”
    4pm
    Médiathèque Émile Zola, 218 boulevard de l’Aéroport international, Montpellier
  • Poetry/music recital “Tresser la lumière”
    5:30pm
    Médiathèque Émile Zola, 218 boulevard de l’Aéroport international, Montpellier

Bilingual French-German musical reading, “Passages / Grenzgänge”
Tuesday, March 21
6:30 pm
Maison de Heidelberg, 4 Rue des Trésoriers de la Bourse, Montpellier

Dance and Poetry “Il se peut que”
mercredi 22 mars
4pm
Studio Cie Taffanel, 278 avenue de l’Europe, Castelnau-le-Lez
paying – 10 euros

Musical Reading “Sugar”
jeudi 23 mars
7pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier

Dance and Poetry “Il se peut que”
friday, march 24
4pm
Studio Cie Taffanel, 278 avenue de l’Europe, Castelnau-le-Lez
paying – 10 euros

Round table and musical readings “Écrire, traduire”
dimanche 26 mars
3pm
salle Pétrarque, 2 place Pétrarque, Montpellier

Encounters with Jena Osman
Thursday May 25
at 6pm and 7:15pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, Montpellier
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Lecture – concert persan/français
Nous sommes la pluie sur le sol nu
Performance autour des œuvres de Forough Farrokhzâd, poète iranienne
par Laura Tirandaz & Arash Sarkechik
jeudi 1er juin
7pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, 78 avenue de Pirée, Montpellier
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Presentation of the “Poets translate poets” project.
lors du Festival Voix Vives, sur le podium Place du Pouffre, 1 Place Léon Blum, Sète
with contributing poets:
Jean de Breyne (poet, and editor of Croatian poets translated into French), Vanda Miksic, Martina Kramer (Croatian poets and translators), Anne Barbusse, poet, translator of modern Greek.
Monday, July 24
7:30pm
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Writing, translating
As part of the « Rentrée littéraire en poésie »
Interview with Jean-Baptiste Para, project sponsor, Eric Sarner, and Sylvie Fabre G.
Tribute to Franc Ducros, recently deceased, by Jean-Baptiste Para and the poets present.
wednesday, october 4
6pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, Moulin de l’Evêque, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier
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Poetry Talks
As part of the « Rentrée littéraire en poésie »
EMMA (Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone) partnership with Philip Metres, American poet, academic and translator and Karim Daanoune, writer, translator, lecturer in American literature, Fiona Mac Mahon, writer, translator, university professor, Lily Robert-Foley, poet, writer, translator, lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3.
Thursday, October 5
7pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, Moulin de l’Evêque, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier
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Poetry Talks
EMMA (Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone) partnership with Philip Metres, American poet, academic and translator and Karim Daanoune, writer, translator, lecturer in American literature, Fiona Mac Mahon, writer, translator, university professor, Lily Robert-Foley, poet, writer, translator, lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3.
friday, october 13
7pm
Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert, Moulin de l’Evêque, 78 avenue du Pirée, Montpellier
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Translating to build bridges, to cross the boundaries of language. This project, presented by Maison de la Poésie Jean Joubert under the patronship of the director of Europe magazine, Jean-Baptiste Para, will run through the entire programme of the Printemps des Poètes poetry festival and its evocative theme: Frontières. Echoing the project: meetings, literary concerts, multilingual readings, and audio and video productions. It will also reverberate through the Festival de Poésie Sauvage (Salvetat-sur-Agout) and at the Paul Valéry Museum (Sète).

© JR

La Galerie éphémère

Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels en Occitanie
Exposition, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
Galerie Éphémère
from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th February
Salines de Villeneuve in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
open to all – free

La Galerie Éphémère is a hybrid event aimed at bringing Nature and Art lovers together. The programme includes illustrations, photos, paintings, videos, graffiti, theatre, music, dance, awareness-raising workshops and guided tours to discover the biodiversity present in the outstanding nature area of Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone salt marshes. Organised by the regional conservation agency Conservatoire d’Espaces Naturels en Occitanie under the artistic direction of the association INKARTAD, this festival is part of World Wetlands Day.

© Cahuate Milk © Olivier Scher

Les Munjettes

Association l'Usine à rêves / Cie la Chouette Blanche
Performance, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Two performances, open to all and free of charge

Saturday, September 23
6pm, in the courtyard of the André Malraux multimedia library, 252 Boulevard Pierre Mendès France, Sète
reservation required from the Médiathèque: 04 67 51 51 07
show: free / show + meal: 5 euros

monday, october 2
6:30 p.m., André Ramel sports field, Montpellier
booking essential at Maison Pour Tous Albertine Sarrazin. Box office opens on September 11: 04 67 47 31 74
show: free / show + meal: 10 euros

→ artistic dossier

A real bean feast Sit down and tuck in! The project invites you to immerse yourself in the uniting, festive and social experience of Mediterranean cuisine. Set off on a quest for recipes from those who cook under the watchful eye of a photographer to document this culinary odyssey. Tales compiled into one grand fictional narrative written by Rémi Chechetto and served up by actors and inhabitants of the Gély district in Montpellier and Ile de Thau in Sète. Amid steaming pans and the sounds of cutlery, the stories of individuals criss-cross, weaving one grand collective story.

© Marielle Rossignol

Mycocons, artistic fruiting structures!

Catfarm Education
Meet, All public, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée
Poussan
Participative worksite

 

  • Wednesday June 7 to Monday June 12
At Catfarm ecolieu 699 Cabrolous, Poussan
open to all – free

 

Brick festival

 
Saturday, October 1

  • 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. work site and shared buffet
  • 1:30 to 3 p.m. café-philo

Jardins des Frères à Poussan
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Opening of the café associatif, during the open day
 

  • Sunday October 15th
    from 2 to 6 p.m.

For the occasion, the ecolieu opens its doors to you! It’s an opportunity to practice your English, if you feel like it, and to talk about resilience, eco-building, culture and philosophy, as well as future projects and interests.

At Catfarm ecolieu 699 Cabrolous, Poussan

 

Inauguration evening for the Mycocon “Holistic Mushroom Farm” project
 
Saturday November 11

  • 3:30 pm welcome – coffee
  • 4:30 pm mycocon & l’éco-lieu
  • 5:00 pm mycocon & co. workshops
  • 6:30 pm performance art
  • 7pm music & shared buffet

→ booking
At Catfarm ecolieu 699 Cabrolous, Poussan

How can humans inhabit and use the land simultaneously with other living things? The Catfarm Education association is interested in climate and social issues. Imagine a prototype of a magnificent multicultural building, feeding and benefiting all living things! An artistic, 100% demountable, biodegradable mini-mushroom house that schoolchildren and young European students will have to build, decorate and live in through activities and workshops.

One key event is the grand inaugural evening, open to all. A chance to harvest ideas and make them germinate.

© Catfarm Education

GraphiMs, the festival

LA FENETRE
Exposition, Festival, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Exhibition La Graphique

Thursday March 23 to Saturday May 27
opening
Wednesday, March 22 at 6:00 pm
La Fenêtre, 27 Rue Frédéric Peysson, Montpellier
open to all – free

Exhibition Le Signe presents

Saturday March 24 to Saturday April 22
Opening
Friday March 24th at 6:00 pm
Médiathèque La Gare, Avenue du Grand Jeu, Pignan
open to all – free

Exhibition Mondes d’Avant / Mondes d’Après

Tuesday March 28 to Saturday May 6
Opening
Friday March 31 at 6:00 pm
Médiathèque Jean Giono, 30 Rue Gaston Bazille, Pérols
open to all – free

Exhibition Le Dessous des Maps

Saturday April 1 to Saturday April 29
Opening
Saturday 1st at 4:00 pm
Médiathèque Garcia Lorca, 162 avenue de Palavas, Montpellier
open to all – free

Exhibition Welcome to Pictypolis

Wednesday April 5 to Tuesday May 9
Finissage
Le Voyage de Momo
Friday May 5 at 5:00 pm
Médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 230 avenue du Biterrois, Montpellier
open to all – free

Exhibition Transports Graphiques

Wednesday April 19 to Saturday June 10
Opening
Wednesday, April 19 at 6:00 pm
Médiathèque centrale Émile Zola – 218 boulevard de l’Aéroport international, Montpellier
open to all – free

This festival came about through a meeting between La Fenêtre and the network of media libraries in the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole area. Its first edition takes the form of six exhibitions in more than 15 venues and explores the relationships between graphic design and cartography. If graphic design is the discipline that deals with the visual engineering of quality messages, producing graphic responses to complex issues, and if cartography is a technique for displaying complex data while giving efficacy and means for finding precedence over the possibility of true knowledge, then a map is a graphic object par excellence…

© Sandrine Nugue © La Fenêtre

CIVIS MARITIMUS

We’re all citizens of the seas!
Eyes Wide Open
Exposition, Festival, All public, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Launch of the call for projects for the two Ronan Guillou creation grants
Monday March 6th
Bourses Ronan Guillou
open to all – free

Call for projects closes
sunday april 23

Jury
Thursday April 27

Announcement of winners and presentation of projects
Saturday May 20
from 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Centre photographique documentaire, 17 Rue Lacan, Sète
open to all – free

Two creative grants
Wednesday May 17 to Monday July 31

Restitution of projects
in November
Sète
open to all

Restitution of projects
Monday December 4 to Friday December 8
during the Festival Face à la Mer in Tangier
open to all – free

Starting in Sète and in connection with other Mediterranean shores, Eyes Wide Open proposes a necessary voyage in our relationship to the sea to stimulate the values of this mankind/sea connection in an ever-changing European identity. Photographers share their creative experience to pass on these viewpoints to as many people as possible in Europe (Sète) and the Maghreb (Tangiers).

© Ronan Guillou, Lesbos, impression d'île #2

Mément’Eau – a celebration of water

Agropol'Eat
Festival, Meet, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Montpellier

Le Créathon
Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24
meeting between professionals and students
friday, march 24
public performance
16 h 30
Agropolis International, 1000 avenue Agropolis, Montpellier
open to all – free

Festival
Sunday, July 2
starting at 10:00 a.m.
Base nautique de Lavalette-Agropolis, 1076 rue Jean-François Breton, Montpellier
open to all – free

 

Water is a common good, a vital resource we need to share and protect. At the heart of this project is one key witness and player: the Lez, the nurturing, landscape-sculpting river running through the city.
Act 1: Créathon.
Act 2: Mément’Eau, the Event, part of the Agropol’Eat festival.
The programme includes rambles, “transhumances” down the river on foot, by bike, kayak or raft, discussions, debates, workshops, shows. The grand finale: a banquet and party to celebrate Water, the source of life.

© Agropol'Eat

Biennale des Arts de la Scène en Méditerranée

Biennial of the performing arts in the Mediterranean region
Théâtre des 13 vents
Meet, Performance, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée
Montpellier

Opening night, Réminiscence by Jasser Haj Youssef, with the Montpellier Occitanie National Choir and Orchestra
wednesday, november 8
7pm
Opéra Comédie, 11 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Montpellier
open to all – paying

Program of shows: theater, dance, music, circus, contemporary writing…
Emma Dante, Nicolas Fayol, Bashar Murkus, Samah Mustafa, Rabih Mroué, Christian Rizzo, Lali Ayugadé…: the Biennial offers national and international creations, art workshops and special encounters with venues and artists throughout the metropolitan area and beyond.
wednesday 8 to saturday 25 november
open to all – paying

An ephemeral school: join the ephemeral school to immerse yourself in the Biennial program, meet the artists and take part in a collective journey in the company of spectators from all horizons!
The Théâtre des 13 vents offers a privileged and immersive access to the Biennial’s spectators: to better understand the creative contexts from which the Biennial’s artists come, to grasp and share the challenges of the shows, to cross spectators’ views, to discuss with the artistic te
open to all – paying

Closing day
Saturday, November 25 at Théâtre Molière, Sète
carte blanche to Montpellier collective Maison Lieu! The program includes acoustic naps, readings, piano solos, installations and concerts. An evening to experience, listen to and dance to!
open to all – paying

Initiated by the Théâtre des 13 vents and designed by 15 cultural partners from Montpellier, Sète, Alès… this 2nd edition of the Biennial begins in Montpellier and ends in Sète. For three weeks, artistic teams working on the shores of the Mediterranean come together in a vast program of performances, workshops and encounters at the crossroads of theatrical disciplines: theater, dance, music, circus and contemporary writing. Giving the public a glimpse of creation in the Mediterranean, opening up a time for sharing works and thought, creating a space for solidarity and hospitality, crossing geographical and imaginary territories, collectively sharing the aesthetic and political questions that run through our times – this is the ambition that drives this Biennial, initiated by the Théâtre des 13 vent CDN Montpellier, conceived and supported by a group of cultural partners in Montpellier and beyond.

© Théâtre des 13 vents

Host to Host hybrid opera

Théâtre de la Remise
Performance, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Hybrid opera
Saturday, September 30th
from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Le Mas des Brousses, 540 rue du Mas de Brousse, Montpellier

Closing the next Magdalena Montpellier festival, this project by Théâtre de la Remise promotes cooperation between local and international artists and the local inhabitants with the purpose of creating, experimenting and traversing a common artistic process in an ephemeral venue. Host to Host is a multiplicity of media in a sort of labyrinth, with performances, an exhibition and screenings of visual works from paintings to digital.

© Marie Clauzade

The four seasons of the universe

Water Babies association
Meet, Music / Concert, All public, Grand Pic Saint-Loup, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

Work residency
Monday April 24 to Friday April 28
open to the public
Thursday April 27, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Campus Triolet – Amphi 5.06, Montpellier
reservation

Spring
Friday June 23rd
from 8:30pm, Esplanade and Théâtre de verdure, Viols-en-Lava
outdoor – open to all – fee required
more informations
reservation
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Work residency
Tuesday August 15 to Thursday August 17
La Grange Bouillon Cube, Causse de la Selle
open to all – free

Summer
Saturday August 19th
from 8 pm at La Grange Bouillon Cube, Causse de la Selle
outdoor – open to all – fee required
more informations

Autumn “The day of the night”
Saturday, October 14th
from 8.30pm in Murviel-lès-Montpellier
outdoor – open to all

Winter
Friday, January 19, 2024
théâtre Jérome Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
indoor – open to all

A series of immersive, participatory astro-musical lectures for the general public.

Captives of our over-lit cities, we’ve lost direct contact with the Universe, with the starry sky.

To renew this lost link, we’re offering a series of 4 astro-musical lectures in which the scientific narrative (by Vincent Guillet, astrophysicist, University of Montpellier) is accompanied by a quartet of musicians led by drummer and composer Arnaud Le Meur. In this lecture staged by Aurélie Namur, astrophysics and music exchange and play, to let you feel the dynamics at work in the Universe.

Our common thread on this journey? The 4 seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter – so characteristic of the European art of living. Three of these evenings will be outdoors, allowing you to contemplate the celestial vault, and one, Winter, indoors.

Each season will have its own musical composition, its own quartet, its own scientific narrative, and its own color. This red thread will enable us to rediscover the evolution of the sky over the course of the year, and to revisit the history of the Universe, in music, with a poetic and philosophical approach.

The story, which is free of mathematical formulas but makes great use of analogies drawn from everyday life, will be illustrated on screen with astronomical images taken by the largest telescopes, as well as live images of the Milky Way taken by a digital telescope. Telescope observation will also be offered by the Association Sétoise d’Astronomie dans le Pays de Thau: observation of the Moon and planets before the show, observation of the deep sky after the show.

Our partners :

  • Montpellier 2028
  • L’Université de Montpellier et son service Art & Culture
  • La Faculté des Sciences de Montpellier
  • Le Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
  • La société Vaonis
  • L’Association Sétoise d’Astronomie dans le Pays de Thau
  • L’Association Ateliers des Sables
  • La Grange / Bouillon Cube
  • ASTEC-PSL (organisateur du festival Jeune Planète)
  • La Commune de Viols-en-Laval

Scientific narrative: Vincent Guillet (LUPM/Université de Montpellier, IAS/UniversitéParis-Saclay, Association Atelier des Sables)

Musical composition: Arnaud Lemeur (Association Water Babies)

Outside view / Stage direction: Aurélie Namur (Cie Les Nuits Claires)

Visual: Véronique Garençon

© NASA/ESA/Hubble - Véronique Garençon

Contre Courant Art & Exploration Urbaine

LineUP Urban Art
Exposition, All public, Lunel

Ador & Mara
Exhibition “NACHAVE!

LineUP continues its collaboration with the Ville de Lunel and the Communauté de Communes du Pays de Lunel to bring you “NACHAVE!”, an exhibition by artists ADOR and MARA, as part of Montpellier’s bid to become European Capital of Culture 2028. This humorous and sarcastic exhibition takes as its starting point one of the themes proposed by Montpellier 2028: trans. A highly topical term, and a symbol of a changing society, artists have seized upon it to deliver multiple interpretations, for young and old alike. Their worlds, sometimes with a touch of cynicism, tell the story of life and our world in transition.

from september 22 to november 18
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Espace Louis Feuillade, 48 boulevard Lafayette, Lunel
open to all – free

→ program

Exhibition opening
Friday Septem
7pm

Guided tours and meeting with artists Mara and Ador
Saturday, September 23 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The LineUP Urban Art project makes a stop at the media library! Rap writing workshop
French rapper from Sète, Dab Rozer brings a new melodic identity to rap, with a light-hearted touch
in a wide-ranging musical universe, with warm tones and spellbinding lyrics that wander between imagination and reality.
Come and try your hand at writing and recording a rap…
two sessions :

  • wednesday, september 27 at 3 p.m. first session: writing texts – duration 3 h
  • Saturday, September 30 at 3 p.m. Second session: recording – 20 to 30 minutes

Médiathèque intercommunale – Lunel – From age 11 – Registration on 04 67 99 06 51

The LineUP Urban Art project makes a stop at the media library! Hip-Hop dance workshop by the Soudures Urbaines association.
This workshop introduces young people to breakdance. The workshop begins with a theoretical section,
followed by warm-ups. Next, the youngsters will discover basic techniques such as toprock (breakdance),
footwork (breakdancing on the floor) and freeze (stopping the music).

  • Wednesday, October 4 at 3 p.m. (2 hrs)
  • Wednesday, October 25 at 3 p.m. (2 hrs)

Médiathèque intercommunale – Lunel – From age 11 – Registration on 04 67 99 06 51

Creation of two frescoes
September 12 to 23
with artists Elisa Capdevila (Spain) and Zoer (France), on the theme “The water that connects us”.

From September 12 to 23, artists Elisa Capdevila (Spain) and Zoer (France) will be dressing the tanks in keeping with the theme of “the water that connects us”, one of the key themes of the second call for projects launched by Montpellier 2028 as part of the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture.
We are keen to highlight the European dimension of this bid, as well as the European influence of the cultural initiatives undertaken in the region, by inviting a French artist on the one hand, and a Spanish artist on the other. In addition to respecting the theme, we felt it was crucial to give this project the scope to match Montpellier’s bid.

Inauguration of the frescoes
wednesday, november 29
station d’épuration, Lunel

LineUP Urban Art presents the continuation of this event. The programme includes an exhibition, an inaugural evening with DJ set, street-art performances and a murals trail through the towns making up Pays de Lunel, the aim being to help people discover all the urban cultures present in this federation of municipalities.

© LineUP

Montpellier, a sense of place

Chap. 1: martror, es la davalada!
CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura
Meet, Public space, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Montpellier
La Davalada
Saturday November 25th
program :
12pm: bar, food stall, face painting and games
2:15pm: official opening
2:30 pm: Balèti with Cabr’e Can
4pm: Djé Balèti concert
5:15pm: performance-ritual “Martror, la fèsta dels mòrts” by Théâtre des Origines and classes from Montpellier (procession departs from the right-hand gate of the counter-alley)
Contre-allée du Peyrou, Montpellier
open to all – free
→ press kit
→ program

Time for the Feast of the Dead (Martror)! CIRDOC, the institute of Occitan culture, sets out to reaffirm the unique character of a capital city which is both cosmopolitan and southern, European and Occitan. To this end, it mobilises the region’s traditions, enriching them with contemporary experiences in a changing social and urban environment. An awareness-raising event with participatory and creative workshops where historic knowledge and know-how revealing the circulation of North Mediterranean myths and rituals are passed on.

© Baptiste Morel