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The Paris Jazz Festival
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 | Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
You are on holiday in Paris this summer, and looking for some entertainment? To make the most of the weather and take your mind off things, go to the Bois de Vincennes to the east of Paris. This big park in the English landscape manner, organizes annually a summer jazz festival.
Every week-end from June 11th to July 31st, jazz music is king at the Parc Floral de Paris – Vincennes. During this 18th edition of “Paris Jazz Festival”, the concerts presented on the main stage will develop a wealth of stylistic themes: every week-end, famous jazz bands will play a concert for you, and introduce you to various sounds from the United States, Europe, Middle East or Africa. Come listen to “le Jazz au cirque”, which combines music with acrobatics or “Latin Jazz” who will captivate you with its sounds and rhythms from the Carribean. If you like the piano, don’t miss the opening concert “Pianissimo!” a tribute to the royal instrument!
During this event, the Park will be turn into a huge showroom where works of art will be exhibited. Some animations will also be organized in the open air. With family or friends, let’s have a good time listening to jazz music!
Find an hotel in Paris Vincennes:
Hotel Best Western Saint Louis***
Cranach and his time, at the Musee du Luxembourg
Friday, February 11th, 2011 | Main events | No Comments
After several months of work, the Luxembourg Museum has finally reopened its doors! Since February 9, the museum new spaces designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (the ones who recently designed the Pompidou Centre in Metz), is featuring a major exhibition about Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Little known to the French public, this great painter of the Germanic Renaissance has actually deeply marked the history of art by his very personal manner: subtile portaits, nudes and landscapes richly detailed, and often tinged with religious symbolism.
But if his name reminds you something, it’s also because Cranach made headlines this winter! An exceptional appeal for donations has been actually launched in past few months by the Louvre Museum in order to raise the lacking million euros to acquire this masterpiece. › Continue reading
Nuit Blanche 2010 : what’s on in Paris?
Friday, September 17th, 2010 | About Paris, Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
Since 2002, year of the first edition, the “Nuits Blanches” (White Nights) have emerged as a key event in Paris every year, in October. Here, as well as in Brussels, Toronto, Lima and Madrid where the concept has spread out, the streets of the city become the scene of ephemeral artistic events for one night.
The “Nuit Blanche 2010” will take place during the night from Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd of October. The curator is the new director of Venice’s Palazzo Grassi, Martin Bethenot.
Unlike the previous editions, this Nuit Blanche 2010 will focus on three geographical areas (East / West / Centre of Paris) connected by the metropolitan lines 9 and 14 (NB: all metros will run until 2am): Alma-Trocadero, Marais and Belleville. This voluntarily central configuration aims at reducing the distances, making a Nuit Blanche 2010 on foot finally possible! With installations every 100 meters, the viewer will regularly encounter works of art throughout his walk. The works shown will be “discrete and poetic” for a decidedly “intimate” night.
Here are some of the works of art that particularly intrigued us: Dominique Blais’ voice-over in the metro line #14, a choreography by Tino Sehgal inspired by the most famous kisses of art history at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a church Notre-Dame plunged into darkness by Thierry Dreyfus, or the fascinating neon signs projected by Hakima el Djoudi on the facades of the Rue de la Fontaine au Roi.
The event will be covered by 20 Tweet-reporters and 10 photographers selected by the City of Paris. Tweets and Pictures that will best restore the atmosphere of the White Night 2010 will be elected by the public and rewarded by professional kits.
If you’re planning to be in Paris on 2nd October, let’s choose your own program for the “Nuit Blanche 2010”!
Find an hotel nearby:
Best Western Ducs de Bourgogne***
Best Western Louvre Saint Honore***
Best Western France Europe***
Paris Hotel Gare de Lyon**
Hotel Alexandrie***
Best Western Aurore***
The 6th Long Night of the Museums
Monday, April 26th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Dusty? Plain? Elitist? We believe this cliché about museums has had its day, as the curve of attendance of exhibitions in France and abroad continues to grow.
Indeed, in recent years, institutions demonstrate obvious efforts to be accessible and to offer the public a playful and friendly framework to its visit. But when the spirit of the party enters the doors of the institution, it’s even better!
Such was the bet of the “Nuit des Musées” at the beginning of the 2000′s: an opening doors of the museums overnight and for free, aimed to make young people and persons who are not used to the national collections, getting into them.
