Southern cultural events
April 2022
MEET, SEE, READ, LISTEN AND DON'T MISS ANYTHING IN THE COMING WEEKS
STOPOVER IN SETE
Maritime Traditions Festival
From April 12 to 18, 2022
This long-awaited edition of the biennial of maritime traditions will bring together an armada of historic ships, with visits on board, parades at sea, naval battles, nautical competitions, concerts, demonstrations, gastronomy...
Along the quays and in the heart of the port, villages of exhibitors from all over the seas offer dozens of discovery workshops on the maritime heritage of yesterday and today, for all audiences.
Book your tours of the tall ships online
Download the event map
Download the agenda of highlights
Sacred music concert
Friday 1 April at 8.30 p.m., N.-D. from the Assumption to Balaruc-les-Bains
Sunday April 3 at 4 p.m., St Joseph Church in Sète
Jean-Michel Balester, baritone
Jean-Guillaume Cuaz, violinist
Adrian Sbarra, pianists
Works by Bach, Gounod, Franck, eternal and inseparable from Lent and Holy Week.
Prices (free for children under 18):
€15 on site or €10 in presale at the Cellier des Cigales:
5 avenue of the Roman Baths
Balaruc-les-Bains (04 67 48 92 75)
353 place Edouard Herriot
Sete (04 67 53 61 39)
Sale of posters for the benefit of SNCM
by the Rotary of Sète Bassin de ThauSaturday 16 and Sunday 17 April
Limited prints on Magistra Deluxe paper of 3 works by Sète artist Alain Delmas
Poster and drawing of the port to color for children by Christel Vernhes
Solidarity Village - SNSM Stand
Quay of Morocco - Sète
Exhibition and sale of photos by Jean-Loup Gautreau for the benefit of the Ukrainian people
Opening Friday, April 15 from 7 p.m.
Sale of photos and lottery of an exceptional large-format work.
Sygim Galleries
5 Quai Léopold Suquet - Sète
BETES DE SÈTE The animals of the singular island and its surroundings
Order it in bookstores or on Audasud.fr
book fair
The booksellers welcome you from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.:
Saturday April 2 in Mèze
Place Aristide Briand
Sunday April 3 in Sète
Place Leon Blum
Saturday April 23 in Frontignan
Liberty Square
The Companions of the Book
06 08 32 04 76
lescompagnonsdulivre34@gmail.com
Stopover in Marseillan - maritime traditions
from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 April
A few days before Stopover in Sète, the city of Marseillan will host its own Stopover in the port of Marseillan! Discover old Croatian rigging, two commercial barges and a Chinese junk, all in a musical and festive atmosphere.
Port of Marseillan
Program: archipel-thau.com
Read the introduction of BETES DE SÈTE
in the Blognote of Audasud
“Mr. Jules Verne going to collect authentic information on the underwater world from the right sources. »
Title of the satirical Oran newspaper L'Algérie Comique & Pittoresque which recounted Jules Verne's visit to Algeria in two issues and devoted its cover page to him on June 15, 1884. Illustration by J. Chape whose caricature represents the author of Vingt Mille Leagues under the sea sitting at the bottom of the water, with the city of Oran and the hill of Santa Cruz as the horizon.
Below: Coat of arms issued in 1743 to the town of Cette, whose port was created from 1666. They represent a cetacean in front of Mount Saint-Clair, under Neptune and his trident.
Valerie Ticket
from April 1 to 15
Seraphine Gallery in Mende
Le Tram: A series of paintings on the theme of urban scenes.
A self-taught painter, Valérie Billet is particularly sensitive to everything that has to do with humans, urban environments, the discovery of others, the feeling of incommunicability, the fragility of our realities.
Seraphine Gallery
9 place René Estoup, 48000 Mende
seraphine-galerie.com
Ariadne in Naxos
by Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
April 10, 12, 14, 2022
at the Opéra Comédie de Montpellier
Opera in one act and a prologue to a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal premiered at the Vienna Hofoper in 1916.
Direction musicale : Christian Arming
Director: Michel Fau
Sung in German, surtitled in French
Duration: 2h30 with intermission
Opera Comedy
11 boulevard Victor Hugo, Montpellier
Online booking (10€ to 50€)
