Southern cultural events
March 2022
MEET, SEE, READ, LISTEN AND DON'T MISS ANYTHING IN THE COMING WEEKS
BEASTS OF SETE
The animals of the singular island and its surroundings
Beast. Dictionaries persist in excluding us from it—if not from the adjective—at least from the feminine noun. They give a touch of it by specifying: “every living being, with the exception of the human being”. And to support what seems obvious to them, to cite an example without suspecting the irony: "horned animals".
In this native bestiary, a few inhuman beings are therefore treated with fraternal attention, a qualifier which I hope they will take as a compliment.
Jean-Renaud Cuaz
ANTHOLOGY
Until March 27, 2022
Chapel of the Upper Quarter – Sète
Sindre Foss Skancke is a contemporary Norwegian artist born in 1980. Many key galleries and museums such as Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain have featured Sindre Foss Skancke's work in the past.
Free admission and free access every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday included
Contact : 04 99 02 87 62
Corner rue Borne / Grande rue haute in Sète
Crazy about papers: collectors and collections, from Languedoc and elsewhere
Until March 26, 2022
Medard Museum – Lunel
Starting from the raw material of the book, this exhibition wants to parallel the taste for the accumulation of documents, books, images, different objects, all in paper and brought together with the ambition of creating a reference collection, a fulfilling intimate universe or a unique set of multiple curiosities.
Open Wednesday to Friday
from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays & public holidays
71 place of the Martyrs of the Resistance
Information: 04 67 87 83 95
or visit www.museemedard.fr
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.
Objects as actants de Bianca Bondi
From March 12 to May 22, 2022
Crac Occitanie, Regional Center for Contemporary Art – Sète
The installation that Bianca Bondi is producing specifically for the first floor of the Crac Occitanie is the result of a three-week residency, in partnership with the Paul Valéry school complex in Sète, which welcomes her in February for a period of creation. , immersed in the city.
Contact : 04 67 74 94 37 / crac.laregion.fr
26 Quai Aspirant Herber – Sète
Open every day from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., weekends from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays
Earth ! Roger & Jacotte Capron – Ceramic sculptures
Until April 29, 2022
Black Pearl Gallery and Workshop – Agde
Roger & Jacotte Capron were among "the most prolific and important artisans of post-war European design" — New York Times
From the 1950s their reputation was established internationally, with their furniture and works of art, jewellery, etc. in ceramics: gold medal at the X Triennale in Milan (1954), Brussels (1959), and in 1970 with the international ceramics award. In 2003 a retrospective exhibition at the National Ceramics Museum of Sèvres, Les Capron, devoted their considerable artistic production.
For the occasion, the creators of the Ateliers d'art de la Perle Noire have created a sculpture or a jewel. Designer, ceramist, serigrapher, sculptor, theater props designer, fashion or jewelry designer... A diversity of practices and unprecedented expressions. Visit their workshops in the historic center!
Black Pearl Gallery
Place Moliere, Agde
Contact : 04 67 26 94 12galerielaperlenoire@agglohm.net
BETES DE SÈTE The animals of the singular island and its surroundings
Order it in bookstores or on Audasud.fr
Marie-Nicole Lemieux Recital
Saturday March 5 at 7 p.m.
Pasteur Room / The Corum – Montpellier
In Montpellier, last season she was an exceptional Charlotte in Werther by Massenet: Quebec contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux returns with pianist Olivier Godin to the stage of the Opéra Comédie to enchant you with this program straddling the baroque (Durante, Gluck, Pergolèse, Cesti, Marcello), romantic (Gounod, Tchaikovsky) era to the prank of French music, Francis Poulenc, both monk and hoodlum, "without label", as he defined himself -same.
Single price 20 €
Book here
Reservation at the Opéra Comédie box office and by telephone 04 67 60 19 99 from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Corum, Place Charles de Gaulle – Montpellier
Bastard Countryside – Robin Friend
Oil and moss – Igor Tereshkov
Until March 6, 2022
Documentary photographic center – imageSingulières – Sète
Opening in the presence of the photographers Thursday January 13, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
Robin Friend's Bastard Countryside explores the British landscape as a series of metaphors. Each photograph is a representation of how our modern way of life is destroying the planet.
Oil and moss, by Igor Tereshkov, features photos taken in the Khantys-Mansis Autonomous District in western Siberia, where about 50% of Russia's oil is produced. This work denounces the irresponsible way in which we treat fossil fuels.
15 rue Lacan, Sete
Free entrance
