Cultural events on the French Riviera. Arts and cultural exhibitions in Provence

Arts and Cultural events on the Var French Riviera

On the Var french Riviera, many villages celebrate art and culture through numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, festivals, flower Corsos committing their traditions and roots in the past in Provence mediterranean

WAY OF THE PAINTERS		JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
	In Lavandou, the district of Saint-Clair can be proud to have accommodated two important figures of this pictorial movement created by Seurat		This photographer (1894-1986) fascinated by cinema. Collector of thousand photos, he frequents artists of its time and realizes the official portrait of the French Republic Pdt

LAVANDOU CULTURAL SPACE		A CITY OF CELEBRITIES
	All year the Cultural Space, Av de Provence, welcomes exhibitions, demonstrations, concerts, debates and exposes new regional talents		Historically, cities of Var welcomes personalities of fashion, media or music, painters, singers, poets and sculptors

HALLOWEEN		LALAN NETWORK
	Each year, pumpkin decorating and grand parade of children in the streets of the Var villages. Discover the legend to this feast ancestry		The Lalan network promotes cultural exchange and promotion of art in all its forms. It is chaired by Raphael Dupouy, successor to Marcel Van Thienen

CARNIVAL FLOWER		VAR COAT OF ARMS
	Corso Lavandou, Bormes or Cavalaire in the Var is the start of the season. It's the greatest festival of the sun and flowers you go		The description of arms is made in technical language heraldry. The coat of arms is the action which is to describe arms. The science is very ancient coat of arms

Great retrospective appointments and exhibitions

	Henri-Edmond CROSS		Ernest REYER
	Michel DUFRESNE		Alain SUBY
	Robert DOISNEAU		Henri SALVADOR
	Franck HORVAT		Vintage postcards
	French Riviera Celebrities		Christmas in Provence

VIRGINIO BRUNI TEDESCHI FOUNDATION

Born in Turin on 20 September 1960. He makes daily shots, place a memory and spontaneous poetry in the world. Taken between 1995 and 2005, its black and white and Polaroid are now the artistic heritage of the Foundation, which organizes exhibition in ECC and France

LAVANDOU PRIZE OF SCULPTURE - July and August 2010

Each year during summer, the prize of the City, organized by the cultural service of Lavandou, is open to all french or foreign artist. To participate, the candidates must send a file to the City Hall. The prized works as well as the selected works will be exhibited in the ballroom of the City Hall

CHRISTMAS IN PROVENCE

The traditions of Christmas celebration, origin, Christmas tree, nativity scene and Yule log. Last tradition associated with Christmas in Provence, the Pastoral was originally performed skits at Mass at the approach of Christmas (three tables were represented: arrival of Joseph and Mary, Jesus' arrival, arrival of the Magi)

Var festivals on the French Riviera
Consult regularly the news and the cultural events of the Var. Music, theaters, street entertainments, festivals of music help the artists and you made to discover new talents of the Var coastal which find here their inspiration in the variations of the sea and the waves.