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Vibrations #2

   Palace of the Popes   From August 11th to October 12th – every evening
 
 

Discover the brand-new monumental 360°show in the heart of the largest gothic monument: The Palace of the Popes! For the second year in a row, Vibrations returns to the Honour courtyard of the Palace of the Popes for even more sensations and wonder.

An exceptional show, enriched with new sequences, which opens the doors of the monument at nightfall for a totally immersive experience: a dreamlike and thrilling journey, for the whole family.

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La bella Italia in Avignon
Edition #3

   October 2nd to 13th - every day
 
 


Italy is once again in the spotlight in Avignon!
Concerts, conferences, theatre, cinema, exhibits, and a great market of crafts and foodstuffs, from 15 to 28 October on the square in front of the Palace of the Popes. Not to be missed.
For centuries there have been deep and strong connections between Avignon and Italy. This Italian week involves key players in many sectors of activity in Avignon who have prepared many events with something for every taste! Not to be missed!

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Parcours de l'art
festival d'art contemporain
25th edition

   October 5th to 20th
 
 


Theme: TOHU-BOHU with 35 artists
An annual event to promote and support contemporary creation in its amazing diversity: painting, sculpture, photography... Also the opportunity to meet the artists and exchange with them on their work. Entrance to exhibitions and events are free of charge.
Every year, the selection of French and international artists gives the public the opportunity to see work that is resolutely contemporary, displayed in heritage venues throughout Avignon. A real "parcours" - itinerary, throughout the city to see the different works in the different venues.

The Parcours de l'Art has created a real sense of effervescence around contemporary art in the heart of Avignon through the exhibitions and the related activities: children's workshops, conferences and debate, readings and screenings, visits of the exhibitions with a mediator.
More information on: www.parcoursdelart.com

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Medieval Festival of the Rose d'Or

  Sunday October, 13th from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
 
 


Several thousands of enthusiasts revive the Middle Ages ... re-enactments, strolls in music, battle, medieval market, archery tournament ... await all the public. This gathering, which takes place every two years, is one of the largest in France.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Words and motets in relation to Philippe de Vitry

   Palace of the Popes   Saturday 16 November à 8:30pm
 
 


Haute Ecole de Musique from Geneva – « Que ceux qui pleurent sèchent leurs yeux » Words and motets in relation to Philippe de Vitry Featuring David Chappuis conductor, Anne Delafosse soprano, Baptiste Romain violin, Olivier Bettens narrator With participation from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva and the National Music Conservatory in Lyon Co-produced with Avignon Tourisme and Opéra Grand Avignon

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Artists’ Studios – Open House days

        November, 16th and 17th
 
 


For two entire days, the public is invited to artists’ studios and workshops to discover their work – painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, calligraphy, graphic arts, illustration, design, street-art, video, digital art, animated film installations, … in a word, the entire universe of local artistic creation, an ebullient scene.

In 2018, 86 artists, 63 studios including 6 collectives were open to the public in and around Avignon.

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Blues, jazz and world music in Avignon

   Avignon   From November, 15th to 23rd
 
 


Avignon Bridge Festival becomes L'écho des Riffs!

9 days full of music for this festival devoted to Blues, to Jazz and to World Music! This festival is an outreach - a hand reaching out to men and women full of hope, a bridge between talent and between different musical and geographical horizons. This event is a bridge spanning the river of life.
L'écho des Riffs Festival means concerts and conference and venues open to all with original and eclectic programming: Boney Field and Eliott Murphy, Ida Nielsen and Randolph Matthews and Magasin du Café...

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Millévin

   Palace of the Popes   November 21st
 
 


Millévin celebrates the new vintage with festive events in the heart of Avignon: discovery and tastings of the Côtes du Rhône Primeur wines, sales of the recent Côtes du Rhône vintages, parade of the wine-making brotherhoods, the evening continues in Avignon restaurants which propose special Côtes du Rhône menus.

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Bienvenue à la ferme

   Avignon   November 23rd -25th
 
 


The farmers that are members of the French network Bienvenue à la Ferme are back on the Place de l’Horloge in Avignon for a great gastronomic weekend.

Farmers present their products and offer tastings. Come discover the charcuterie, cheeses, wines, fruit juices and other products. A fun and friendly market featuring farmers from throughout France offering regional products both sweet and savory.
A wonderful atmosphere and a great way to do your marketing, place orders for special products for the upcoming holidays, and meet new people. “Bienvenue à la Ferme” is a network of growers all of whom certify the quality of their farm production.

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Comics Festival

  Place de l'horloge Avignon   November 30th and December 1st
 
 

2nd edition of this comic book festival in Avignon.
Dive into the world of the 9th art. Authors, inkers, illustrators at the festival welcome you. Come meet the 25 speakers and discover the many and diverse spheres in which they work. Place de l’Horloge, in heart of the city. Exhibition of works by Olivier Berlion and Dominique Rousseau inside the Town Hall.

 
 
 
 
The Christmas Season
in Avignon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 December 2019
 
 

Christmas also means dreams, poetry, discovery, imagination…
There are several performances, parades and concerts scheduled for the weekends, transforming the city into an ongoing sparkling stage.

Christmas in Avignon means a great deal more than just a great Christmas market to prepare your holiday receptions.

Christmas in Avignon… it’s the story of a maze, the story of lots of fun events proposed by shopkeepers and associations, tales and markets featuring creators’ work. Initiatives of all kinds to celebrate Advent and make way for children, the priority.

Folklore and traditions are also part of the Christmas celebrations. At the Church of the Célestins, the Christmas crèche will be on display. There too, the santon-makers village will go up, an important part of local heritage. At the Palais du Roure local historians welcome visitors and explain the crèche and the traditional Provençal Chritsmas table and “gros souper”, answering any questions. And our guides propose various visits and activities too.

The Christmas Season in AVIGNON soon on : www.avignon.fr

 

 

 
EXHIBITIONS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ernest Pignon Ernest

   Palais des Papes   From June 29th to February 29th 2020
 
 


Artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest takes over the Great Chapel at the Palace of the Popes starting on 29 June and running until 29 February 2020. The exhibition, christened Ecce Homo and produced by the City of Avignon and Avignon Tourisme, goes back over Pignon-Ernest’s work and explores his artistic, intellectual and political involvement from the past 60 years.
A range of works from the gallery Lelong & Co, in Paris, from private collections, from the Montauban museum, and a photographic tribute to his prolific work in streets the world over, are displayed.

Nearly 400 works - photographs, collages, charcoal drawings and black ink – are on display, reflecting his work from 1966 to the present. Ernest Pignon-Ernest is considered to be the initiator of street art due in part to the large format images made with black stone and charcoal, to the collages that he has been making in the streets of cities and on the walls of cities, for nearly 60 years now.

He travels, draws on the encounters that come his way, makes sets for the theatre and paints portraits, posters, collages…thousands of works and always in a spirit of political and social involvement, defender of our collective memory and shared history.
www.avignon-tourisme.com


Maison Jean Vilar
Signé Jacno
Raw graphics for popular theatre
Through to 14 December
Posters, sketches, models, journals and other familiar treasures pay tribute to the graphic artist who worked for Jean Vilar. Marcel Jacno, who redesigned the Gauloises pack of cigarettes, created the TNP stamp and the graphic identity of many other theatres, was also the designer of the three keys that have become the iconic signature of the Festival.
https://maisonjeanvilar.org/

Maison Jean Vilar
Macha Makeïeff
Spoilsport, Curious collections and disquieting things
Until December, 14th
A journey through a dream world inspired by Lewis Caroll, peopled by strange beasts, mirrors, and whispered stories. An astonished childhood dream in which objects have a soul we can listen to.
https://maisonjeanvilar.org/

Musée Vouland
Jean-Claude Imbert, face to face
50 YEARS OF PAINTING, DRAWINGS, ALBUMS
“I am what I paint”
26 June 2019 to 5 January 2020
The Vouland Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marseille artist Jean-Claude Imbert (1919-1993). Imbert’s work, profuse and unique, brings together the spirit and the flesh, the visible and invisible, light and shadow, generosity and austerity. He shapes his paintings in thick layers which give rise to shape and light. www.vouland.com

Palais du Roure
Folco de Baroncelli (1869-1943), the poem of his life
Through to 20 June 2020
À l’occasion des 150 ans de Folco de Baroncelli, cette exposition donne à comprendre la vie et l’œuvre d’une personnalité attachante. Descendant des constructeurs du Palais du Roure, très épris de ses racines avignonnaises, poète en langue provençale, il se fit éleveur de taureaux et chevaux en Camargue, et s’attacha fondamentalement à préserver cette terre, sa culture et sa nature. L’exposition est accompagnée de nombreuses animations.

Ardenome - ormerly the Grenier à sel - Avignon
The Great Escape
5 October to 21 December.

Dreamed up by Lionel Vivier, The Great Escape is a global project that looks in depth at the place of the image today. The hegemony of the image in this digital, post-Internet era has diluted photography in the flux of images with no territorial references, plethora of images leading to the constant transformation of what is real, uncertain and volatile. Through photography, video, 3-D sculpture, the artist gives us his melancholic and pictorial vision that lies somewhere between repetition and symbolic disintegration of what is real. In collaboration with the duo Gourau & Phong (Benjamin Roulet and François Bellabas).
www.ardenome.fr

Collection Lambert
¡ VIVA VILLA !
Festival of artists in residence
12 October to 10 November
This exhibit displays the work by some fifty researchers and visual artists, musicians, graphic artists, designers, cinema makers, writers, art historians and ... This work, proposed by the artists inspired by their stays in Madrid, Kyoto, Rome and elsewhere will be shown side by side in a game of cross-references with works from the permanent collection. 11 October to 16 October, a programme of performances, concerts, readings, films, get-togethers, will all be part of the festival
www.vivavilla.info

De leur temps (#6)
20 years in private French collections (1999-2019)
Collection Lambert
7 December 2019 – 15 March 2020
“De leur temps” proposes a snapshot of French collections of contemporary art by means of a selection of works acquired by private collectors over the past twenty years. The objective is to take an incisive look at private collections as they are put together, and to observer the options decided upon, the choices made from among the field of current creation.

 

Municipales Archives
Boëtes, registers, layettes: see the City’s archives once again
After having spent 130 years stored inside the County Archives, the city’s archives, which go back to the period before the area had even become part of France in 1791, are returning to their rightful place of residence on Rue Saluces! No charge.

Until 13 December : selection of original documents on display in the former chapel of the Mont de piété on Rue Saluces.

Until 12 May 2020 : 49 panels showing 100 archive documents on the outside walls on the streets Rue Saluces, Rue du Mont-de-piété and Rue de la Croix, and the inside courtyard at the Archives on Rue Saluces.

Courtyard and former chapel open Monday 10-12 and 1:30-5pm / Tuesday to Friday 8:30-12 and 1:30-5pm. Street panels can be seen every day.
http://archives.avignon.fr

 

 
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