Around the region – May 2011
When?	Where?	What?
1st May	Salanque	Fête de l’Artichaut (Artichoke festival)  More info: 04 68 51 27 50
1st	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 classics
Thursday 12th	Toulouges	Festival PAU I TREVA (peace and truce. All things Catalan. Market, street entertainment, exhibitions, lectures, theatre, art, correfocs, concerts
Saturday 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 entry
Friday 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 72
Saturday 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 mer	Bob 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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