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What's on > AROUND THE REGION - May 2011
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Around the region – May 2011
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1st May Salanque Fête de l’Artichaut (Artichoke festival)
More info: 04 68 51 27 501st National La Fête du Travail and La Fête du Muguet. The first day of May in France is La Fête du Travail and therefore a bank holiday. Watch out! Everything will be closed and there will be celebratory events and activities in most towns and villages! It is also La Fête du Muguet, and the tradition is to give those you love a little bouquet of lily-of-the-valley, to wish them happiness and good luck in celebration of the arrival of spring. 1st from 9h to 12h Prades, Place de la République « La Journée des ânes en Conflent » Presentation of different species of donkey and blessing of the mules. More info: 0627858757 Monday 2nd Thuir Marché aux Fromages Fermiers (Locally-produced-cheeses fair in Thuir ) Competitions, cheesey workshops, demos on cheesey cookery...... More info: 06 09 05 50 31 Thursday 5th - Sunday 8th Port Barcarès Festival de Tango Argentin 7th to 15th Girona Girona Temps de Flors The whole of Girona covers itself in Flowers. Parks and gardens offer free admission though monument sites may charge. Saturday 7th at 19h30 Maureillas foyer municipal Musical soiree (and Tapas, mezze). Festive evening of music and dance Saturday 7th May - Saturday 4th June Trouillas and around Aspres Music Festival - Festival of Music, Art and Wine celebrating Spring in the Aspres. Every weekend with barber shop, tangos, Spanish, Catalan, traditional French music, jazz, pop rock, Latin American…... For more information and bookings contact ASDAMA, 4 rue des Acacias, 66300 Trouillas or ring 0468 531000 or 06 22 34 22 Sunday 8th Calce ’Les caves se rebiffent’ Buy a specially engraved glass and taste the wines of all the local vignerons. Music and entertainment all day.. Sunday 8th Pollestres Ferme Catalane Gourmande and cheese market with cheese making demos from 10h30 to 16h. Pony rides, bouncy castle...... Sunday 8th
Canet centre and seafront
FETE DE LA VICTOIRE 1945 Military vehicles, including a Sherman tank, re-creation of a 40s style US army camp, Live band playing Glenn Miller classicsThursday 12th
Toulouges
Festival PAU I TREVA (peace and truce. All things Catalan. Market, street entertainment, exhibitions, lectures, theatre, art, correfocs, concertsSaturday 14th at 21h Céret salle de l’union Free concert. Harmonies of Céret and Osséja (more than 40 musicians), offering you an evening of various well known melodies (Pink panter, Abba Gold, ...) Saturday 14th at 18h30 Auditorium du Lycée Charles Renouvier, Prades «Che Tango» Paula ESTRELLA vocals, Horacio QUIROGA guitar and Serge AMICO bandoneón (type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay) part of the ’Samedis Musicaux de Prades’ More info: 0468961135 Saturday 14th Around the region La Nuit des Musées Free evening at Regional museums Free entry to many of the museums of the region and throughout France, to allow the public to (re) discover the culture and colour of the museum, particularly from a nighttime point of view, Many museums will put on special events for this day, but do check before you go – they are not all free. Sunday 15th Canet Festival de la moto. Music from « Rock Country » and motor bike ‘brocante’ Thursday 19th from 16h
Centre Culturel Collioure
Three Scottish artists in residence in Collioure – this year all women: Mary Batchelor,Jackie Watt and Anne Devine. Free entryFriday 20th at 21h Villeneuve de la Raho,chapelle Saint-Julien G rand lyrical concert on the theme ’Romantisme et Vérisme « L’Opéra dans tous ses états » with all the greatest opera work of Puccini, Mascagni, Giordano, Cilea, Massenet, Gounod, Offenbach... .
Reservations 04 68 89 05 72Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd Port-Barcarès Festival Gliss’n Rock - water sports demos and initiations, and music. Free concert on Saturday with BB.BRUNES (French pop rock band) at the espace Lydia and the STARLINERS (French pop-rock band) Saturday 21st at 16h Saint Cyprien(Collections François Desnoyer Rue Emile Zola Puppet theatre. More info:04 68 21 06 96 Saturday 21st from 10h to Saint André "L’art dans la rue" Painters, sculptors and authors met up around the mairie to show off the talents of Saint André Saturday 21st and Sunday, 22nd Park Sant Vicens, Perpignan Discover this new park over a family weekend of ..... farmer’s market of rare plants, bio and Mediterranean (more than 20 producers present), treasure hunt all age groups, workshops offered by the producers (cuttings, creating a miniature garden, tasting, composting ...), all punctuated by musical groups (jazz, bagpipes Catalan street bands....) from 26th
Musée Maillol, Banyuls sur merBob Dylan exhibition,photographed by Jerry Schatzberg from 1965 to 1967 Friday 27th at 20h30 Foirail, Prades Cabaret evening from Purcell to Coltrane. Classical vocals and jazz. More info: 04 68 05 69 40 Saturday 28th at 20h to 23h La Fabrica, Ille-sur-Tet. ’Soirée 1001 nuits’. Flavour of the Orient. Tapas, dances oriental tales. Tarif: 8€. Sunday 29th at 18h Catllar, Chapelle Notre Dame de Riquer Three tenors from the Opéra Bastille. Fernando VELASQUEZ (Chile) Cyrille LOVIGHI (Corsica) and Oh Min HYOUGH (Korea) More info: 0615435060 et 0665128818 Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th Céret Cherry Festival and Festival des Bandas Markets around the region
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