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Sorède expo - painting on Yupo paper

Webmaster — 2013-05-23T17:55:31Z

until June 7th
Office de Tourisme de Sorède ART ON YUPO PAPER
Canadian-born Francine Savoie is presently exhibiting her work at the Office du Tourisme de Sorède. Here is what Francine tells us about her art on YUPO paper:
“All of 43 paintings have been created with acrylic colours on YUPO paper. This paper is unlike any other, as the water and the pigments flow on its surface, mix and separate, always resulting in fluid, fresh, colourful effects. I fell in love with it (...)

Cafeclat: Print-making techniques of William Blake

Webmaster — 2013-05-22T12:35:00Z

Cafeclat 2013
Friday 31st May 2013
Writers on writing at the Templiers, Collioure 18h30
Le dernier vendredi de chaque mois, Caféclat invite des écrivains à présenter leurs œuvres et à partager leur amour pour le mot juste.
Rendez-vous au premier étage du café des Templiers, Collioure de 18h30 à 20h00. Entrée libre.
Caféclat 31 mai 2013- écrivains sur l'écriture aux Templiers, Collioure18h30
Michael Phillips, (...)

P-O Concerts by World Class Musicians.

Webmaster — 2013-05-22T07:40:00Z

Mare Nostrum Musicae
Mare Nostrum Musicae (formed in 1995) is a group of professional musicians, all living in Languedoc Roussillon or Catalonia (north & south). The artistic director is François Ragot, the Ceret-born cellist with an international reputation.
They are supported by the association FCPC (Formations de Chambre des Pays Catalans) which, based in Céret, was formed in 2007 to ensure that people in the Pyrenees Orientales have the opportunity to hear, for an (...)

Vide-greniers (car boot sales) in Pyrénées-Orientales - 2013

Webmaster — 2013-05-21T15:02:00Z

Vide-greniers in the Pyrénées-Orientales 2013
DATES DEPENDENT ON WEATHER AND OTHER VARIABLES. IT IS ADVISABLE TO CONFIRM WITH THE MAIRIE A FEW DAYS BEFORE - OUR INFORMATION IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PEOPLE WHO SEND IT!
If you're a car boot sale fan, or have items you wish to get rid of, it's well worth checking out the vide-greniers around the region, which take place mainly on Sundays. Get there early if you want to get the bargains and avoid the rush!
If you wish to (...)

Festival Folklorique 2013 - Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda

Webmaster — 2013-05-21T13:54:00Z

Thursday 1st - Sunday 11th August 2013
Festival Folklorique International
Amélie-les-Bains
The yearly Festival Folklorique International in Amélie-les-Bains is actually the oldest festival in the Pyrénées Orientales, having been created in 1935 by Jean TRESCASES, founder of the ’Danseurs Catalans d’Amélie’
Originally a national festival, it quickly attracted international attention, first from other Mediterranean countries, and then from Eastern (...)

Fete de la Cerise 2013 - Céret

Webmaster — 2013-05-20T22:00:00Z

Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd June 2013 - Céret
La fete de la Cerise
Ceret cherry festival
POSTPONED FROM MAY DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS. FIND OUT WHY HERE
The annual cherry festival in Céret is a colourful weekend of stone spitting, music, dancing and entertainment in the streets, not to mention the inventive recipes involving cherries served up in the local restaurants.... or why not try a glass of cherry beer, cherry wine, cherry pie, cherry pasty, cherry burger, (...)

Flamenco in Torreilles

Webmaster — 2013-05-20T08:24:00Z

Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd May 2013
ROMERIA
Flamenco avec Ana Morales
Chapelle de Juhègues, Torreilles
Week-end of all things Spanish with show, giant paëlla géante, flamenco courses…
On Saturday in the Théâtre Verdure at Juhègues, famed bailaora Ana Morales, accompanied by a host of talented artistes, will present a show based around the history and origins of Flamenco - styles, cultures, through to present day.
For true Flamenco fans, La Reja Flamenca (...)

Expo Argelès: Mare Nostrum

Webmaster — 2013-05-19T13:26:00Z

5th April to 30th September 2013
A Celebration of Mare Nostrum
By Ellen Turner Hall
This year Argeles is host to an outdoor photographic exhibition about the Mediterranean Sea, “Mare Nostrum” to the Romans. And “our sea”, too! From 5 April to 30 September 2013 you will find 105 photographs by Frédérique Larrey and Thomas Roger documenting the variety of Mediterranean life: fish and seabirds, dolphins and whales, sharks and tortoises.
The beauty of the natural (...)

May: What's on in brief

Webmaster — 2013-05-18T10:33:00Z

AROUND THE REGION – May 2013
When? Where? What? Throughout May 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 Wednesday 1st National La Fête du (...)

THE SAUSAGE MAN COMETH BACK!

Webmaster — 2013-05-17T08:01:00Z

Thursday 23rd May 2013
THE SAUSAGE MAN COMETH BACK!
Time seems to be racing away this year, or perhaps it is just the May bank holiday experience which appears to steal away working weeks like nobody's business. It is therefore already six weeks since I was last on my deliveries round the PO, so high time I came round again!
(Just a quick note should you need bangers in between deliveries, I am down in Perpignan every couple of weeks for the Catalan Dragons home games should you (...)