Zone géographique: Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

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Rivages sensibles – Océans infinis

L’Avis des Rêves

Music / Concert, Residence, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Le duo Lila Bazooka investit chaque territoire pour un travail de recherche-création avec des scientifiques locaux spécialistes des milieux lagunaires, autour des sons spécifiques du territoire et la composition de musiques à partir de ses captations.

Au bassin de Thau, les artistes se laissent inspirer par le son des huîtres et des poissons de la lagune pour un voyage à la rencontre de l’univers sous-marin.

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Superbemarché, papiers d’agrumes & Co

La Fenêtre - le MIAM

Exposition, All public, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

La Fenêtre et le MIAM élaborent deux expositions et une édition autour des papiers d’agrumes, éphémera modernes qui voyagent à travers l’Europe et le monde, et véhiculent les icônes et symboles surannés d’une industrie agroalimentaire globalisée.

Chargés de valeurs mercantiles, émotionnelles ou artistiques, des images imprimées traversent plus ou moins discrètement nos vies de consommateurs en les rendant plus belles. Fuyant leur destin éphémère, certaines deviennent objets de collection. Parmi eux, les papiers de soie qui entourent les agrumes et dont le Miam possède plusieurs milliers de spécimens, suite à des donations d’importantes collections institutionnelles et privées. Souvent anonymes, ces lettrages, ces signes et ces images qui voyagent et passent des frontières, au-delà de leur esthétique chatoyante, véhiculent à travers l’Europe et le monde, l’image d’une industrie agroalimentaire globalisée dont nous sommes héritiers, et nourrissent notre imaginaire.

L’exposition Superbemarché nous invite à déambuler dans l’impressionnante collection de papiers d’agrumes du MIAM, et nous guide à travers cette imagerie populaire pour nous raconter une mythologie moderne de l’orange, de son origine biologique et mythique à sa mise en commerce mondialisée, en passant par son agriculture, son transport et sa consommation.

Cette collection y est mise en écho avec des œuvres d’art, des documents et d’autres collections d’ephemera liés au commerce, pour interroger plus largement ces objets d’Arts Modestes qui à la frontière entre œuvre et document tentent de rendre notre quotidien de consommateur mondialisé plus beau.

Informations

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Atlas culturel et relationnel de la rivière Mosson

Exploration sensible de la Mosson

Bipolar

Atelier, Déambulation, All public, Grand Pic Saint-Loup, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Vallée de l'Hérault

Entre garrigue et méditerranée, en passant par des espaces à forte pression urbaine, cette rivière à l’image et à la qualité fortement dégradées, constitue toutefois la colonne vertébrale d’une présence vivante sur la périphérie ouest de la métropole, un espace de contact riche entre les humain·es et leurs milieux de vie.

C’est à cela que s’intéresse Bipolar aujourd’hui : cartographier avec l’artiste Julien Rodriguez, les attachements, les usages, les relations que les habitants et les habitantes entretiennent avec la Mosson.

Pour mener cette enquête fouillée sur tout le linéaire du cours d’eau, Bipolar multiplie les différentes modalités de rencontres avec les habitants : des balades exploratoires le long de la rivière, des ateliers de cartographie sensible dans l’espace public, des discussions en tête à tête…

De mars à mai, Bipolar propose 9 balades sensibles, à différents endroits du cours d’eau, pour explorer la rivière Mosson sous un autre angle : celui des émotions, des sensations et de ce qui nous lie à elle.

Marchez au plus près d’elle, en essayant de ressentir, porter attention, et en écoutant vos histoires de vie avec elle.

Chaque marche sera suivie d’un temps d’atelier et de partage qui permettra de le positionner ensemble sur une grande carte ; une carte sensible, affective de la Mosson.

Entre le 26 septembre et le 5 octobre 2025, Bipolar présentera une ou plusieurs cartes relationnelles de la Mosson à l’occasion d’une journée publique, au plus près des berges, dans le cadre de L’événement 25 – Les chemins du vivant porté par M28 – Terres de culture.

Ce projet est soutenu par l’Office Français de la Biodiversité et mené en partenariat avec l’EPTB Lez Mosson Etangs Palavasiens et les communes riveraines.

Informations et inscriptions

Marjolaine Combes – 06 61 77 31 89
marjolaine.combes@bipolar-production.com
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La Mosson

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.

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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.
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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

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.

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
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Theater season presentation
7pm to 7:45pm
Théâtre Jérôme Savary, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
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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
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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
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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
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Mar I Munt (sieste sonore), Braquage sonore et cie
from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
at the edge of the ponds, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
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Nebula, Cie Arrangement provisoire
from 4pm to 5pm
at the edge of the ponds, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
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Over the three days: continuous exhibition Paysages Intimes #1 and #2 between Théâtre Jérôme Savary and Anciens Ateliers. → more information
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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.

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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.

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).

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.

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

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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.

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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…

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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.

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.

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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

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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.

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

Montpellier, a sense of place

Chap. 1: martror, es la davalada!

CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura

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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

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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.

L’Air génial 2023 (Nichts als Luft – The genial air)

Nichts als Luft – The genial air

Centre for scientific and technical imagination

Meet, All public, L'Agglo Hérault Méditerranée, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Vallée de l'Hérault

Workshops
Entertainment
Exhibitions

Saturday, July 1
from 2 to 6 p.m.
Take part in the first of the 2023 workshop series.
Artists, writers and scientists welcome you to a choice of three themes: air and animals (ages 7 and up) / hydrogen and innovation (ages 12 and up) / wind (ages 15 and up).
L’Alternateur Fablab, 58 avenue de Montpellier, Saint-André-de-Sangonis
free of charge – reservations recommended: contact@imaginairescientifique.fr

Thursday, July 20 to Saturday, July 22
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Three days of events and exhibitions, with a special tribute to the pioneers of aviation.
– You’ll find large-scale models of airplanes by Blériot, Santos-Dumont, the Wright brothers and, of course, Pézenas-born genius Louis Paulhan.
– Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 7pm: take part in a workshop for all ages (from 7 upwards) on flying techniques and all the uses of air and wind, and play our big air quiz, with lots of prizes to be won!
– Saturday at 5pm: don’t miss the final lecture-projection by Frédéric Feu (CIST) on the pioneers of human flight, and the presentation of creations from the participatory workshops.
Maison du Peuple, Place Frédéric Mistral, Pézenas
free

sunday september 17
10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sign up for the final workshop, dedicated entirely to air in living things (animals, plants…).
At 4 p.m., witness the final rendition of the 2023 workshop creations: an intense and spectacular moment!
A special tribute is paid to the work of Italo and Françoise Bettiol, creators of the cult children’s series Chapi-Chapo and Pépin la Bulle (with authentic figurines from the 1970s and films, as part of the European Heritage Days).
Parc de Lunaret, 50 avenue Agropolis, Montpellier
from 5 years – free – reservation recommended: contact@imaginairescientifique.fr

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3, 2, 1: blow! Breeze in to The Genial Air 2023 with CIST (the centre for scientific and technical imagination). Creative workshops where everyone discovers air as seen through the prism of art and science. The programme includes slots for discussion between the audience, artistes and European scientists, created works, shows and prototypes.

The Public Space Tomorrow | Season 2

Cycle of inspiring meetings

Maison de l'Architecture Occitanie Méditerranée

Meet, All public, Lunel, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

The Public Space Tomorrow
Cycle of inspiring meetings

Tomorrow’s struggles to transform our territories
en automne
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

Tomorrow, biodiverse cities
Tuesday June 6, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Espace Voltaire, 3 boulevard Victor Hugo, Frontignan
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

Demain, généraliser un urbanisme vivrier
Tuesday May 9, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
→ podcast LOKKO | Interview with Sophie Ricard, architect, urban planner and coordinator of la Preuve par 7
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with Kelzang Ravach, artistic director of Temple Caché
Espace Castel, 17 Rue Marx Dormoy, Lunel
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

Tomorrow, waterways at the heart of our cities
Tuesday April 11, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with Alexandre Brun, geologist, urban planner and lecturer
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with Mathieu Argaud, artistic director of Bipolar
Espace Jacques 1er d’Aragon, 117 Rue des États Généraux, Montpellier
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

Tomorrow’s urban festivities
Tuesday March 14, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with anthropologist Emmanuelle Lallement
→ podcast LOKKO | Interview with Julien Marchaisseau, Artistic Director of Compagnie Rara Woulib
École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Montpellier, 179 Rue de l’Esperou, Montpellier
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

Tomorrow, meeting in public squares
Monday February 13, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with Joëlle Zask, philosopher, author and teacher
→ LOKKO podcast | Interview with Jean Planès, architect, landscape architect, urban planner and teacher
Salle Pelloutier, 50 Place Zeus, Montpellier
open to all – free – reservation via weezevent

MAOM (Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie Méditerranée), ZAT (Temporary Artistic Zone) and TRANS/ZAT hold a cycle of inspiring talks every month with two speakers. A time for reflecting on issues of public space and imagining how it can be transformed by means of artistic creation and cultural urbanism. Open to all, especially those involved in designing and building towns: writers, architects, philosophers, sociologists, urban designers and students.

Quartiers Capitales – coming together through culture

Ademass

Meet, Public space, All public, Lunel, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Dinner Fraternel de Tournezy
Saturday, February 4th
12am
Conducted as part of the Journée de la Fraternité et des Solidarités organized by the Tournezy technical committee and the MPT Jean-Pierre Caillens
Artistic partner:Théâtre des Origines – Marie Gaspa et Anna Wasniowska
Operational partners : Les Ateliers Ludosophiques, MPT Jean-Pierre Caillens, La Menuiserie Collaborative

Place de Tibériade, Montpellier
open to all – free

Banquet Imaginatif de la Mosson
Saturday June 17th
7pm
Conducted as part of the 1st edition of the Festiv’Arts festival supported by Les Francas de l’Hérault
Artistic partners: Pierre-Maël Gourvennec, Tissy Caldas (FAM) et le Tangara Trio
Operational partners: Les Ateliers Ludosophiques, Théâtre Jean Vilar, MPT Léo Lagrange

Parc Sophie Desmarets, 1069-1179 avenue d’Heidelberg, Montpellier
open to all – free

Quartier Gély’s glittering banquet
~~Saturday, September 16~~ Cancelled
~~from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm~~
Postponed to Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00 pm
On the occasion of the Maison pour Tous Albertine Sarrazin’s back-to-school party and the European Heritage Days, ADEMASS, the Maison pour Tous and their partners are inviting residents of the Cité Gély and beyond to celebrate the neighborhood’s culinary, festive and solidarity-based cultures.
The glitter will be in the spotlight for this great shared meal orchestrated by Mike Tiger: circus performances, flamenco dancing, clown acts, photo shoots, a glitter bar and a faceted ball!
Local residents and associations will be showcasing their culinary culture…
Bring a dish to share, put on your luminous clothes, and we’ll take care of the rest!
This banquet will be an opportunity to reflect on the neighborhood’s cultures and dream together of making Cité Gély a cultural capital.

Parc de la Guirlande, Montpellier
open to all – free

The objective of Ademass: to develop a project that respects cultural rights and includes the poorer districts. The potluck-style “artistic banquets”, originally a pretext to get out and meet people, have become the very point of this grand narrative in the making. At the dawn of urgently needed environmental, economic and social change and at a time when the poorer districts are bearing the full brunt of crises, the cultural sector must, more than ever, be the means for uniting people and fostering the emergence of shared narratives.