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Immerse yourself in the heart of Gallo-Roman history during a discovery trip to Lyon. Croix-Rousse, Old Lyon or Confluence. Between tastings in the famous Lyonnais traffic jams and activities of all kinds, there's no time to get bored!Wandering the streets of Lyon by mountain bikeThere are several ways to visit this metropolis: on foot, by car or even by bus. The most fun, however, is the bike. Once saddled up, start your ride on Place Bellecour, with a superb view of Fourvière. You will pass in front of the statue of Saint Exupéry, then head for the banks of the Rhône! While some are lively, others offer a quieter setting where you will be surrounded by greenery. If you wish, you can end your mountain bike ride at the Tête dOr park. Between its botanical garden, its emblematic statues, its zoological park... It is a little corner of paradise. Then continue towards the Opera to finish in front of the painted wall of the Lyonnais, this 800 m2 fresco emblematic of the city.Discovering an exceptional casinoLyon is not limited to its old buildings or its fascinating history. I

While a deliberation of the municipal council on Monday evening consisted of a vote on the authorization of payments on account of subsidies to associations, the opposition questioned the elected official in charge of culture at length , Marc Chassaubéné, regarding his decision to withdraw the 54,000 euros in subsidies usually granted by the City to the Arcomik comedy festival. The evocation of the subject by Isabelle Dumestre and Pierrick Courbon, of the group Saint-Etienne Demain au Conseil, follows the article published last Wednesday in the Canard Enchaîné, directly questioning the assistant to Culture. Arms between the two parties, the debate will have been the opportunity to learn that the GSM association led by Simon Javelle and Grégory Cometti, which made a first request for subsidies for the organization of another humor festival in Saint-Etienne finally gave up, at least temporarily, presenting neither a date nor a schedule. Not having these elements, the allocation committee decided to

Parilly is open Return to the Hippodrome de Parilly for the Bron Book Festival which will reconnect with round tables and face-to-face meetings, according to the expression consecrated by the management. With this year, a strong new theme based on current events and current issues ecology, feminism, social violence, freedom, utopia, identity where the threat and the principle of precaution is king: run the risk. With the idea that literature is perhaps one of the last bastions of assumed risk. As every year, we will find there the best of the authors of the September and January intakes, mainly national, but always with a small touch of international, between confirmed writers and emerging voices, children's authors and illustrators and a large part left to the social sciences. . The program is not known but you can make an appointment for the opening of March 11, the festival traditionally begins with the presentation of the Summer Prize awarded by readers of libraries and media libraries in the region. A lau

This Friday, January 21, the municipality and the metropolis of Saint-Etienne could respectively grant, via an allocation commission, a subsidy of 55,000 and another of 20,000 euros to the GSM association. Recently created by Simon Javelle, also boss of CKel Prod and programmer of the Words and Music festival, the latter would carry a new comedy festival project on the territory. Here is the information reported by Le Canard Enchaîné in its pages of this Wednesday morning Information that the web-footed parallels with the recent withdrawal of subsidies of 54,000 and 9,000 euros, hitherto allocated each year by the same two communities to another festival of humor, born Arts Burlesques in 2003, before becoming Arcomik in 2019. Enough to create some rififis between these different cultural actors, especially since, still according to Le Canard, the affair would be eminently political, and potentially linked to support from Simon Javelles wife for Mayor Gaël Perdriau during the 2020 campaign. Business ?Director of the Arcomik festival, Farid Bouabdellah confirms all of what the

It must be recognized that the consecration of European Capital of Culture would fit him like a glove. In 2023, we will know which of the candidate cities will be in the spotlight in 2028. Here, the National Stage is brand new, the FRAC is preparing to move to expand, the Cooperative de Mai is one of the most stirrings of France and the short film festival is preparing to show 154 films. From one place to another, stroll through the anthracite city where the colorful posters of Castelbajac and the socialist mayor Olivier Bianchi wish passers-by a Happy New Year.Clermont, right in the centerThe Christmas market has just packed up its huts and the Place de la Victoire can reveal the majesty of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption. Built like so many houses in the city in andesite, it surprises with its austerity immediately contrasted by the liveliness of the interior stained glass windows. This Volvic stone

Two large stages separated by a field of potatoes without the potatoes, a campsite, almost non-stop music for 3 days, sun, heat, sweat but it doesnt matter, encounters, love in the midst of thousands of other people who love it at the same time, sharing, big marades, a sick summer experience: 2022 marks the long-awaited return of Foreztival on the track of summer festivals. this news is enough to thrill aficionados, - Foréziens in their blood or in their hearts -, the others should also start wriggling when discovering part of the line-up of this edition. First name, first nice shot for the group of friends in charge of organizing the event, the first great moment in perspective for the Foreztivaliers version 2022: Damso, artist caressing the peaks of current French-speaking rap with Qalf Infinity (the most listened to album on Spotify in 2021), will undoubtedly set the Saturday evening on fire.

15 days that we are seated, a month and a half that we are not allowed to dance anymoreInevitably, at some point, we will have to stretch a little. That's good (and it gives a little breath of fresh air just thinking about it): the beautiful days of 2022 are already shaping up to be full of high knee lifts and small hops. In Saint-Chamond, the La Rue des Artistes team has just unveiled the program for its 25th edition, all in catchy rhythms. Come on, a little more patience, the track is not very far away. Friday, June 17, the festivities will start with a stage shared between the French-reggae-always-acclaimed-of Danakil, and the warm voice on hypnotic beats of Karimouche . Something to sweat hard and let go gently to a welcome letting go, irremediably calling to come back the next evening to continue to jiggle On the flagship titles of the reggae icon Tikken Jah Fakoly (this time, its the good one , after several postponements due to the health context), and on the cumbia made by the 7 girls of Las Gabachas. Sunday June 19, in free entry version, meet at the foot of the main stage in

The choreographic year begins in a big breath signed Mourad Merzouki. With his new piece Zephyr, the figurehead of French hip-hop launches ten performers into the turbulence of a very concrete wind on stage, with which and against which it is a question of dancing, on music by Armand Amar and at the through a scenography rich in diverse and astonishing objects (at the Maison de la Danse from January 11 to 21). a violin concerto by Philip Glass, a veritable vertigo of movements set to the accelerated tempo of the music (from January 26 to 30 at the Maison de la Danse). Hip-hop will return to the Maison de la Danse (March 23 to 26) with two companies, including an all-female Femme fatale, and Mazelfreten, which hybridizes hip-hop and electro. There will still be electricity in the air with the tenth edition of the Sens Dessus Dessous festival (at the Maison de la Danse in March), dedicated to emerging talents in contemporary dance, with for example the Flemish Jan Martens and his d

In one of these streets that the curfews plunged into darkness, we are celebrating again. We now also eat Thai food there, thanks to Chan. We are on rue Désirée. Pedestrianized, but nevertheless bottled up every evening Google Street View has not ventured there yet because people converge there when the bars close, to hang around a little longer, especially near Ayers Rock. A night bar opposite which an unexpected Thai stall has just opened. , red, green, yellow. And above all a counter, equipped to keep warm the dishes prepared by Jiraporn Chosson, who arrived in France in 2016 from the province of Udon Thani, where she practiced architecture she naturally took care of the decoration of this Chan: the pistachio walls, the back of the earthenware bar, a wall filled in with gold leaf.Here she offers pad thai (the famous fried noodles with shrimp), vegetables with tofu but lacking in sauce

Since 2003, the Le Bal des Ardents bookshop — and its collection of some 25,000 books — has become a veritable sanctuary for lovers of good literature, alternative magazines, art and humanities books … Le Bal also offers second-hand books but, over time, space has run out. Francis Chaput-Dezerville (who runs Le Bal) has therefore just opened, since the end of November, a new space located in the same street, a few meters from the parent company. Les Fleurs du Bal (is there a reference to a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire in the name of the place?) are devoted to second-hand books and also to exhibitions of artists linked to the tastes of the bookseller (artists participating by example to the Cahiers Dessinés, or to magazines of art brut or alternative art). Currently, it is Nylso who presents d

The opening of the exhibition To death, to life snaps! We are welcomed by a sculpted family from Nigeria, all made of wooden bones. A half-joking, half-worrying family, where the skeleton parents carry their little skeletons on their shoulders, where we dance and grimace, where we freeze and look towards nothingness... Around these sculptures, the painter Erro composes his farandoles of mocking skeletons (1950s), and engravings from the 16th to the 17th century represent the Triumph of Death, the Allegory of Death, Victorious Death, the dances of death! Dizziness of death, then, where it dances among eras, from the 16th century to the present day, from the beginnings of vanitas in the Middle Ages to their rereadings and their reappropriations throughout the history of art. From the plague to the Covid-19, knowledge and views are evolving, but not human finitude or existential questions. Etc'

Why an exhibition on the Sioux to evoke the popular representation of American Indians? Because Steve Friesen, former director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, tells us, these representations have in a way made particular features, those of the Sioux, a generality, that of the Indian. Largely because the first vector of this imagery, the Wild West Shows, essentially recruited Sioux riders (mostly Lakotas). Because of their experience, the same Lakotas will be recruited by the Hollywood of the first westerns. The horseman of the plains becoming little by little and for a long time the archetype of the Indian. An archetype that still remains indelible today. So to dissect this image factory, the scientific committee of the exhibition On the trail of the Sioux began by commissioning CREDOC to carry out a survey on the representations of American Indians from the North in France. Whose result sits at the opening of the exhibition

However, in recent years, new technology has brought video game rooms up to date, even if it is a specific part of this field. Virtual reality sounds like the new fun thing. As user-friendly as it is immersive, it has already conquered many people. Focus on a craze that is likely to panic in the years to come. A new chapter in video games If today the video game world has taken on enormous importance through the an ever-growing public is also thanks to the good health of the industry, which is always innovating a little more. Virtual reality headsets thus offer a whole new gaming experience that is revolutionary.

In Saint-Etienne, Le Méliès has its “ambassadors”. In Saint-Chamond, Le Véo Grand Lumière will soon have its “team”. The idea? Familiarize young people with the cinema, allowing them to participate actively in the life of the structure. To enable young people to develop their taste for films at the same time as their knowledge, the Véo is now opening its backstage to volunteers. A first team will indeed soon have the task of participating in the programming of the cinema. A second, accompanied by a group of professionals, will be responsible for working on the development of a film festival. A final group will be given between 2 and 3 invitations per month to come and see films at the cinema, and then share their feelings via video clips or written testimonials, relayed on the cinema's social networks. An information meeting for

Mini World Lyon, the Omescape Live Escape Game, the Tony Bertrand Nautical Centre the city is full of places to visit. For this winter 2021-2022, here are those where you absolutely must go to have a good time.Cinema outings in LyonAre you a movie buff and wondering what to do this winter? The city of Lyon offers screenings for all ages. Until the end of December, the Cinema Comoedia welcomes young children. Various projections and animations will allow them to discover behind the scenes of certain films. Enthusiasts will also have the opportunity to discover 2 incredible retrospectives. The Lumière Institute invites you to watch the complete works of Stanley Kubrick in restored versions. It is also an opportunity to admire the best of Marcello Mastroianni, the famous Italian actor. These screenings are accessible for the whole month of December and until January 19, 2022. Make your arrangements, and above all, find out about the availability of a

Laughing with Arcomik No sooner had the 2021 edition - shifted from February to October ended than the dates and the first names of the 2022 edition of the Saint-Etienne humor festival were already beginning to fall. For its 19th year, the event will take place from February 17 to 26 in Saint-Etienne and the surrounding area, with no less than fifteen comedians present on various stages in the department. This does not include the opening night, the 16 February at the Forge du Chambon-Feugerolles, captured just like last year by France Télévisions, and broadcast on Culture Box. On the menu of this multiple set entitled "Humor is better for two", another fifteen artists including the regular Alex Vizorek, Gérémy Crédeville, Popeck, Waly Dia, Aymeric Lompret or Les Wriggles . The next day, head for a multitude of one man/woman shows with Chantal Ladesou, Guillermo Guiz, Elodie Poux, Guillaume Meurice, or even Morgane Cardignan, to keep busy during a good part of the winter holidays! The dates are to be saved, and the ticket office is already open.www.arcomik.com

Do you want to get away from it all for a few days without having to fly? Go on a road trip in the Rhône. This little getaway by car will give you a unique experience. Indeed, it is the best way to enjoy the magnificent landscapes. Discover the advantages of such a stay near Lyon.Why choose the Rhône for your trip?When someone talks about the Rhône, the city of Lyon immediately comes to mind. Known as the capital of French gastronomy, it is the ideal city for a road trip. It has plenty of surprises in store for you in its charming streets. In addition, Lyon is home to many tourist sites and historical monuments. However, the Rhône is not limited to Lyon. Indeed, the region still has a lot to offer in terms of landscape and tourist spots.

Born 40 years ago into a family of music lovers, Jasmine was immersed in song from an early age, in Saint-Héand. Father baritone and mother alto sang (still sing) in the Arc-en-Ciel choir, in Sorbiers. “At home it gave voice from the kitchen to the bathroom! For her part, the young girl will begin with dance, classical, rock and modern jazz, a discipline that she will not let go of for twenty years. “I went to my first gala when I was five years old, in Saint-Héand, and much later I tried the entrance exam to the Lyon Conservatory, just to see my dream through. I discovered a not very benevolent environment there, with a lot of pressure, which no longer suited me at all. I realized that it was better to dedicate myself to singing to gain true freedom. »Furthermore, every summer, from the age of twelve to twenty, Jasmine was also the official assistant of her brother, Greg the magician, no doubt enough to taste the pleasure of the stage. But although a guitar has always been lying around in a corner of the family home, Jasmine will not take up the six-string until the dawn of life.

For the 4th consecutive year, the Paris bookstore is organizing its Les Gueules Noires festival, dedicated to thrillers. Sonja Delzongule, Frédéric Paulin, Patrice Gain, Chantal Pelletier, Olivier Truc, Jacky Schwartzmann and François-Henri Soulié will all take part in thematic round tables led by the booksellers, but also in signing sessions. The opportunity to meet them, and dive into each of their universes, where suspense sometimes takes on political, funny, societal or even gastronomic guises. To devour! Les Gueules Noires du thriller, from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 November at the Librairie de Paris

After a first edition hastily put together shortly after the episode of the Yellow Vests, the Pléiades festival spreads its wings to take over various places in the city center of Saint-Etienne. For 5 days, shops, public spaces, cultural establishments and heritage monuments of the city will host a multitude of digital works, and will showcase the artistic vitality of the territory. Interactive for some, immersive for others, these creations have for the most part been designed by local and regional hands (and brains!). Because art and digital sometimes go very well togetherFestival Pléiades, from November 9 to 14 across the city

30 years, 19 concerts, 8 venues, 11 days: four numbers for a 2021 edition of the festival deeply rooted in the territory, and marked with the seal of the local. At the helm, a Tibert* who, after holding the wolf by both ears last year, is now turning his eyes to the future, happy and proud of the artists programmed: multigenerational, multistyle, and with strict respect of parity Proof of the current vitality of French music, the poster for this 30th edition aims to be eclectic, inclusive and mixed: or how to offer a little piece to everyone, and culture to all.In addition to Maxime Le Forestier, head poster of the festival (shared set with Tibert, November 20), the event will therefore focus on several local artists, the guitar and the hat of Yvan Marc (shared set with Feloche & The Mandolin Orchestral November 18), the Léonid singing tour (+ Tracer la Route, November 19), via the Tour des Oreilles on November 10, which will see MamZelle Lune and Maxence Merlot perform on the Pax stage, two young artists from Saint-Etienne.

When they embarked on this adventure, like a group of friends obsessed with electro music, they never imagined that they could one day go beyond the borders of the Rhône-Alpes region. 10 years later, in the light of edition #5, the organizers of the Positive Education festival are rocking between surprise, joy, pride, and the certainty of having done what was necessary to bring their event to where it is today. today. In this month of November 2021, 12,000 people are expected at the festival, 8,000 of whom are not from Saint-Etienne. “When we opened the ticket office, we thought there was a technical problem,” smiles Charles Di Falco, who initiated the project. In 20 minutes, we sold all the passes at preferential rates, and in one day, the public had already bought hundreds of places. It was crazy. Thank you Vice! Everything was not won in advance, however. We did, Charles continues. We had to show our credentials, and strangely, it was the recognition that we were able to obtain outside of

A world after "open and inclusive", this is what promises this 5th edition. Inclusion, we will have it from day one, with workshops for children at the Cité du Design. Certainly much more comfortable than their parents in front of a computer, these toddlers will be able to practice the creation of Computer Aided Music (MAO). , Wednesday night. The Londoner with a futuristic hip-hop style announced as the new figure of the underground scene will shake up the programming of this festival, which is nevertheless very techno-oriented. After a first festive night, the next day, nothing like a screening at the Le Méliès cinema in Jean Jaurès to breathe a little. Laurent Garnier will come to present "Off The Records", a documentary that traces the career of

Terya Circus They come from Conakry in Guinea, and are totally part of the African circus tradition as it has always been: performative and festive but no less poetic, always carried by music and history of which he is the heir… Never very far from dance, too. In Yé!, a new creation directed by Yann Ecauvre, the acrobatics of these outstanding circus performers serve a topic that is highly topical and yet very little discussed: the ecological challenges in Africa, which cannot be told any longer than they are. also a priority.Yé!, by the company Terya Circus, on November 13 at 6 p.m. at the Comète in Saint-Etienne. As part of the Circus Night. Puéril PérilCompany name: Puéril Péril (pretty). Goodwill: taste for risk (that's good). Characteristics: tendency to irony (laughs to be expected) and creativity

Jazz remains one of the most inventive musical currents, like an impetuous river that has crossed eras and landscapes, enriching itself and blending with a thousand influences, sublimating its performers and giving birth to multiple offspring responding to the sweet first names of Rock, Soul, Funk and other Rap. Jazz is freedom incarnate, a liberation, a set of codes that all jazzmen never stop reinventing, seeking, diverting and improvising to better land on their feet. A freedom claimed, visceral, intrinsic, but always demanding. It is undoubtedly this spirit of freedom that the 43rd edition of the Rhino Jazz(s) Festival wishes to nourish by offering its Grand Barouf: a rediscovered creative freedom to be shared again. Because it is live, in concert, in the flesh and in notes, that jazz takes on its full meaning, that of sharing. Jazz on all floorsIn addition to the historical model of the festival (60 concerts in 26 partner cities), the Rhino is offering this year a musical and iconographic journey on the site of the Grande Usine Créative in Saint-Étienne. As was the case in the last two

The electronic music festival without illères, the Positive Education Festival, has published the schedules for its next edition which will take place from November 9 to 13, 2021 near the Cité du design. We had already announced it to you, but the programming for this edition sets the bar very high, with a string of names as enticing as each other, including the bouncy and massive rap of Shygirl, the greasy techno sets of Anetha , the Brodinski & Lowjack as well as Ivan Smagghe & Vladimir Ivkovic, or the timeless Laurent Garnier and Manu le Malin.Positive Education Festival #5, from November 9 to 13

In the radius of the essentials, it is not an artist, but an event that has become the most interesting electro festival in the region no offense to our friends from Lyon and Nuits Sonores j I named Positive Education. The fifth edition, which is looming from November 9 to 13, once again promises a great musical slap. All this in a very Saint-Etienne conviviality. “Our next world, we wanted it to be open and inclusive,” explains the organization. A challenge that the meeting will undoubtedly meet with a string of names on the menu that are already making us shake our sneakers: among others Laurent Garnier, Jennifer Cardini, Ivan Smagghe or Low Jack & Brodinsky. Unmissable, we tell you!Positive Education Festival #5, from November 9 to 13 at the Cité du design in Saint-Etienne

Yes, it's true, she has Melba peach and it shows on stage. But beyond the easiest puns, the Lyon artist digs her furrow with her energetic and luminous pop. With her first EP Coeur Combattant released in 2019, in self-production, Melba marked minds and eardrums, just as she had done during The Voice 9, a show during which she particularly impressed with her cover of Toxic by Britney Spears . Bold choice if any. Melba, Friday October 8 at the Château du Rozier (Feurs) and Thursday February 3, 2022 at the Théâtre des Pénitents (Montbrison)

"Silences épanouis" is the theme chosen by Geneviève Dumas for her biennale of contemporary music Festyvocal. It will honor the composition students of the Massenet Conservatory: Emmanuelle Da Costa, Xavier Fontanier, Julien Gaudin or Pablo Villebrun, and others from more distant horizons: Thomas Nguyen, Hana Do or Raphaël Terreau. From London, Madrid or Firminy, the interpreter, just like the listener, will win his scallop shell in the Church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy. He will receive a little human warmth there, so characteristic of this strange acoustics.

This is a huge disappointment. While the Le Tour du Forez festival only posted very good mid-term attendance results a few days ago, it is now forced to stop the adventure. "Following Emmanuel Macron's announcements on Monday July 12, we are helpless, appalled, exhausted, heartbroken... explains in a press release the FZL association, organizer of the event. This Monday, July 12, we are given 9 days to modify the entire philosophy of a project that we have been building for 9 months. We are given 9 days to achieve the impossible. How can we imagine that in 9 days we can bring together the human, financial and logistical strength for the implementation of these unsuitable and inconsistent conditions..." The team also recalls that the festival is carried in particular thanks to a equity investment of the association

The Celtic Rocks festival is back this July. It started yesterday at Saint-Charles Cathedral in Saint-Etienne for an inaugural concert by Awen Celtic Voices. It continues until July 11 between Rochetaillée and Les Condamines with concerts by several notable groups from the Celtic music scene such as the Toxic Frogs (Saturday July 10 at 11:45 p.m. in Les Condamines), the O'Dinkys trio and their Irish folk who the atmosphere of the pubs smells good (Thursday July 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Rochetaillée) or even the tap-dance flights of Celtic Ovation (Friday July 9 at 8:30 p.m. in Rochetaillée and Sunday July 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Les Condamines). All concerts are free, with health pass requested at Les Condamines. Roches Celtiques Festival until Sunday July 11 at Rochetaillée and Les Condamines Full program to be found on this page.

That's it, it just fell and the least we can say is that it's massive. The programming of the next Positive Education is very heavy, as one might expect. The Saint-Etienne electro festival offers a plethora of names that are as avant-garde as they are sure values. Let's cite, pell-mell, the sound explorations of the Swedes of Carbon Based Lifeforms, the sometimes luminous, sometimes dark odysseys of Aho Ssan, the hypnosis of Tamburi Neri live, the b2b of Low Jack & Brodinski or even the essentials Jennifer Cardini and Ivan Smagghe. On the regular side, of course the presence of Manu le Malin but also of Laurent Garnier. The pope of French-style techno will come to present his first film Off the record during an unprecedented meeting at the Méliès. Also note the presence for the first time of a day devoted to children with Djing and computer-assisted music (MAO) workshops as well as the establishment of a partnership with the Mutual Aid Group, thus allowing people with disabilities to come and enjoy the party in a serene way. As the organization explains: "Our next world, we have it

The weekends of July will be punctuated on the side of the kiosk of the place Jean-Jaurès. With seven scheduled dates, the Music on Jaurès municipal festival highlights sunny rhythms with several formations that will offer creations with Latin tunes. Jazz tinged with Afro-Cuban sounds, samba, forro, zouk, biguine or even sanfona, there will be something for everyone who loves the start of warm and dancing evenings.Music on JaurèsFrom Thursday July 8 , kiosk at Place Jean-Jaurès Free concerts at 7 p.m. and complete program to be found on this page

The Saint-Etienne humor festival, Arcomik, has just announced the creation of a national competition for humorous texts in partnership with the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers). This competition will "bring these 'shadow creators' to light" according to the organisers. Authors and authors are invited to work on the theme of the 2021 edition entitled "Enjeux environnement... ou tard?". The texts can be free-form and in a format of 2 to 3 sheets (5,000 to 7,000 characters, spaces included). To participate, simply go to this page. A jury of professionals, chaired by Jean Dell, will meet in September to select three lucky winners who will be invited to the Talents Nouveaux evening on October 25, 2021 at the performance hall of the Maison de l'Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne. On this occasion, students from the School of La Comédie in Saint-Etienne will perform these writings on stage. One of the three authors will be awarded a prize of 1,000 euros following a selection the same evening by the jury

What a shock! Its official: there will therefore be no Musilac to liven up the evenings at the start of next summer. The long uncertainty that hovered over the event came to an end on Friday April 2, at lunchtime. We obviously knew that the capacity limited to 5,000 people, seated and distanced, severely complicated the organization of the festival, as well as the probable impossibility of offering refreshments and catering the usual source of a good part useful recipes. A poll suggested that the public remained in solidarity with the team, but resistant to a formula of this type. That is to say ready to accept constraints, but almost unanimously hostile to the idea of ​​a seated festival. However, a study was still in progress to validate (or not) the holding of an event under another configuration. From now on, it is certain: nothing will be possible. "The untenable situation for us" The organizers explained themselves through a press release: "As a year ago, too many things are against us: the health situation , first of all, which remains the essential and of which we understand well how different it is.

Second edition for the Bike and Troc on July 10, the bike meeting concocted by the teams of the Loire Department in the Chalmazel resort. On the program, several two-wheel events ranging from 18 km to 76 km in mountain biking, Enduro or even a Bike and Climb. To close the day, a double concert is planned with the Clermontois The Doug but also the arrival of the LEJ trio. On the news side, note that the great Bike and Troc bicycle market will be there but will extend beyond Chalmazel this year with three dates before Saturday to allow sellers to maximize their chances of selling. their two-wheelers: July 7 at Place Jean-Jaurès in Saint-Étienne from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., July 8 at Espace Bords de Loire in Roanne from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and July 9 at Espace Guy Poirieux in Montbrison from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. . Bike and Troc, Saturday July 10 at ChalmazelMore info on bikeandtrocfestival.fr

It's a bit like teens now have their own Book Party. The City of Saint-Étienne has indeed announced the holding of its first festival entirely dedicated to teenage literature. On Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July, Livreurs d'histoires will bring together ten authors whose works are aimed at 12-18 year olds. Among them, Clémentine Beauvais (godmother of this premiere), Élise Fontenaille, Myriam Gallot, Jean-Claude Mourlevat - whose portrait we drew this month -, Zac Deloupy or even Jhon Rachid & Leni Malki. Note that these two days will also be punctuated by several activities such as Tik Tok workshops (notice to the uninitiated...), vocal and writing coaching but also a concert with the rapper Djemin and a dance adaptation by the Ballet 21 of the book Decomposed by Clémentine Beauvais.Festi

It is one of the festivals that fell by the wayside in 2020, much to the chagrin of all those who made it an unmissable early summer event. Rest assured, after a year of scarcity, the 7 Collines are back in better shape than ever, with a festive program - because you have to recover from your emotions -, and audacious - because you have to go. forward, even if it means being pushed around a bit. With nearly 20 shows in 15 days over a large part of the city of Saint-Etienne, the event is finding its bearings, faithful to its longstanding ambition: to popularize contemporary creation, and see the circus, world music, dance and performance bring smiles to the lips and boom-boom in the hearts of all the spectators. no doubt there will not be room for everyone. In the midst of a multitude of committed, spectacular pieces, or sometimes both at the same time, we will opt without trembling for the French company Cabas. Coming from the Paris region, this one will settle for a single week.

BWd12, the festival at the end of August in Saint-Victor, returns to cheer up the heart this year, always with this emphasis on chamber music. But an accent in the form of umlauts, those of Saint-Saëns more particularly. The works of the composer, whose centenary we celebrate in 2021, will be particularly honored by the musicians invited by the cellist Samuel Etienne, also artistic director of the festival. If we all know the Carnival of the Animals or the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns, we will hurry to the Château de Saint-Victor to (re)discover pieces such as the sonata opus 75 or the piano and strings quintet, opus 14. At the same time, two other creators will have the honors this year, namely the Argentinian Astor Piazzolla (whose centenary is also being celebrated, but this time from birth) and Gabriel Fauré. In short, three defined programs and another with works chosen by the public will sublimate the early evenings at the end of August in the land of Croque-Cerises. -LoireMore info on

The contemporary art gallery of Saint-Etienne Ceysson & Bénétière, created in 2006, continues to expand. While work on its new exhibition space (1,000 m² of surface area, including 700 m² dedicated to exhibitions) is progressing opposite La Comédie de Saint-Etienne, François Ceysson and Loïc Bénétière are opening a new space on June 18 on the side of Lyons. 300 m² located at 21, rue Longue, on the Presquîle, designed by the architecture firm William Wilmotte. After Paris, Luxembourg, Geneva and New York, the Stéphanois are therefore opening their sixth gallery. To begin the cycle of exhibitions, it is a regular at the house, Claude Viallat, who is showing Bâches Militaires.Ceysson & Bénétière, 21 rue Longue in Lyon

Among the festivals that will continue this summer in the Loire, the Rue des artistes is advancing with a program faithful to its DNA. A mix between headliners, discoveries and a full offer of street performances alongside the concerts. On the big name side, we will remember the banter of Java whose rap-musette will have to valiantly make people forget the absence of Tiken Jah Fakoly, Mouss & Hakin (Zebda) who will come in sound-system mode to shake up Nelson Mandela Park or even the regional Wailing Trees who will present their third album with a promising title: Insert Sun (released in 2020). La Rue des Artistes, from 18 to 20 June in Saint-Chamond, Nelson Mandela ParkMore info and tickets at www.laruedesartistes.fr

After having had to cancel the Foreztival in 2020, then having taken the lead by announcing in December 2020 that the 2021 edition would not take place, the organizers of the largest festival in the Loire region will not remain in the shade this summer. Quite the contrary, since they embarked on a somewhat crazy gamble, like the initial project of Foreztival, which has since been transformed into a real local success. This year, the team has decided to animate the 87 municipalities that make up the Loire Forez agglomeration by organizing no less than 87 events from June 2 to August 8. “We are very attached to our territory, announces Laure Pardon, director of the FZL association, organizer of Foreztival. So we thought about a project to help people get to know the towns of Loire Forez better. Highlighting culture in all its forms, this project entitled Le Tour du Forez will offer concerts, shows, aperitif mixes, exhibitions, artistic workshops but also more innovative experiences.

What a joy to see one of our biggest festivals celebrate “the return to life”! And what do the post-pandemic constraints matter. The poster this year is part of the "starry party", of the great "Hector" Three recitals by Jean-François Heisser devoted to the three "Great Ones of Spain" (De Falla, Granados, Albeniz), a firework display signed Saint-Saëns with the enchanters Bertrand Chamayou and Renaud Capuçon, or the Cantata Herminie magnified by the immense voice of Sophie Koch. The intimacy of mutual admiration between Flaubert and Berlioz will be in excellent hands with Véronique Gens and the very talented David Reiland, while LEnfance du Christ will be directed by John Nelson, La Damnation de Faust by Valery Gergiev at the head of the exceptional Marinsky Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg. Many other exceptional dates We wont know where to give ear to the Côte-Saint-André.Festval Berlioz, Côte-Saint-André (Isère), from 17 to 30 August 2021

200 short animated films selected, 40 countries, six award-winning competitions. An intense program for this lovely festival which is celebrating its 12th anniversary. With a hybrid form between face-to-face and digital, the event will be able to reach as many people as possible. With 1,600 works received, animated short film continues to grow and makes Roanne a stronghold of animated short films. In a way, the perfect compromise between the Clermont short film festival on the one hand and the Annecy animated film festival on the other. Among the sessions planned, let's retain a focus on Scandinavian animation "where wide open spaces, dark humor and animated delirium intersect" but also a best of session with a selection of films which were to be presented in 2020, like Nuit darling by the Belgian Lia Bertels or Ties by the Russian Dina Velikovskaya, the first work produced with a 3D pen...Festival Ciné-court Animé from June 22 to 27 in Roanne and on animationfestival.roanne.fr

It was to take place from May 17 to 23 but it will not. Unfortunately without much surprise, the 30th edition of the Paroles & Musiques will not be able to take place this spring. The organization decided not to take the risk. “We believed in it for a long time, we adapted to government recommendations by providing seated and distanced gauges as well as all the measures adapted to the situation. Unfortunately, the end of the crisis is taking longer than expected, and we have no visibility on a precise date for the reopening of performance venues three weeks before the event, "explains the Saint-Etienne festival in a press release, before making an appointment. you from May 16 to 22, 2022 for the "30th bis edition". The organization has also clarified a few points concerning this 2022 edition: La Nuit des Stéphanois is postponed to October 2, 2021 at 7 p.m. on Le Fil with Broadway, Arpad Flynn, Doorsfall, Redbong, Radikale Junkypop, An'Om x Vayn and Felower The concert of Ben Mazué (+ Martin Luminet) is postponed

18 evenings, three tributes, eight white cards, this is what Jazz à Vienne promises us for its 2021 edition placed under the sign of "revival", "combat", and "generosity". It will take at least that for the festival to start well on June 23 (next, not 2022) and end like a flower on July 10. That, good doses of vaccines and incidentally luck too. Because when we say "this is what Jazz à Vienne promises us", we have to admit that it is more of a wishful thinking disguised as a promise on the part of an event despite everything aware of the uncertain nature of the future when we carry around such a present. But anyway good since there is programming, so let's talk about programming without dwelling on it, that will change us, on the means of putting it on stage this summer and in front of an audience with that. Everything would therefore start on June 23 with an evening which begins at find the time long since already planned for the year

What a shock! Its official: there will therefore be no Musilac to liven up the evenings at the start of next summer. The long uncertainty that hovered over the event came to an end on Friday April 2, at lunchtime. We obviously knew that the capacity limited to 5,000 people, seated and distanced, severely complicated the organization of the festival, as well as the probable impossibility of offering refreshments and catering the usual source of a good part useful recipes. A poll suggested that the public remained in solidarity with the team, but resistant to a formula of this type. That is to say ready to accept constraints, but almost unanimously hostile to the idea of ​​a seated festival. However, a study was still in progress to validate (or not) the holding of an event under another configuration. From now on, it is certain: nothing will be possible. "The untenable situation for us" The organizers explained themselves through a press release: "As a year ago, too many things are against us: the health situation , first of all, which remains the essential and of which we understand well how different it is.

The decision fell and was expected. The Arcomik comedy festival from Saint-Etienne is forced to postpone the shows scheduled for April again. "We had already postponed this edition for the first time, from April 16 to 24, 2021, but unfortunately we will not be able to maintain these dates. We could simply cancel, but we have made a different choice, explains the organization. So, as we don't want you to have a monotonous autumn, we have decided to exceptionally move the Arcomik Festival from October 22 to 30, 2021. "No major upheaval to note regarding the programming. Only the shows of Guillermo Guiz, Panayotis Pascot and Le Plateau 100% feminine will be postponed for the 2022 edition, which will take place from February 17 to 25. To find the new schedules, go to this page. The organization also specifies that "spectators who have already purchased tickets for previous dates will be notified of the terms of refunds or the new provisions for the postponement".

After the cancellation of the Foreztival, there are only a few festivals left finally affected by the announcements of the Minister of Culture yesterday. The latter has confirmed that standing festivals can be held this spring and summer, with a capacity limited to 5,000 spectators, all seated.Paroles & Music, not really concernedIn Saint-Etienne, the Lyrics & Musiques, which is due to take place from May 18 to 23, is not affected by these decisions. “Yesterday's announcements do not really concern P&M since we are in May in closed rooms, explains Simon Javelle, artistic director who remains positive about the reopening of theaters by May. I am still confident that the festival will be held on the scheduled dates. We did t