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Saint’s
Day 2012 : 27 April to 1st May
« Les Riches Heures
Musicales de la Rotonde » Early Music Festival
from 5 to 20 August 2012
L’Art
de Mai 28 April to 19 May 2012
Garden of
the « Abbaye de Valsaintes » Program
2012
Saint’s Day 2012
Fairground attractions from 27 April to 1st May
Friday 27 April 18.00 Opening of the Fair – attractions
and refreshments
Saturday 28 April 10.30 Sainte Victoire’s Mass followed
by drinks
Street Entertainment by the SUCCA Company
14.00 Boules competition
21.30 Musical entertainment by the “Compagnie des Ménestrels”
at the Village Hall (Salle des Fêtes)
Sunday 29 April 12.00 Lunch : Mixed grills- followed by dancing
– animated by J-C Roussel.
Reservations for lunch at the VIVAL shop, tel 04 92 75 98 20
22.00 Concert by « Mechta »
Monday 30 April Throughout the day, street entertainment by Vigo
on stilts
22.00 Fireworks with « La caravane de feu » at the
Boulodrome.
Tuesday 1st May Street entertainment with « Les diablotins
» throughout the day
Simiane Festival of Early Music «
Les Riches Heures Musicales de la Rotonde »
5 to 20 August 2012
Theme for 2012 : « Bacchus comes to our 30th anniversary
»
CONCERTS :
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Thursday 4th August at 9 p.m.
Ensemble « Parnassie du Marais » (voice and instruments)
directed by Brigitte TRAMIER.
« The Secret Garden of André CAMPRA ».
Monique ZANETTI (soprano), Sabine Weill (recorders), Sylvie MOQUET
(viola da gamba), Brigitte TRAMIER (harpsichord)
Works by André CAMPRA (1660 – 1744) : cantatas, airs,
extracts from « Carnaval de Venise ».
Sunday 5 August
« LA RÊVEUSE » Ensemble Musical direction Benjamin
PERROT & Florence BOLTON
Wednesday 8 August
DUO Aline ZYLBERAJCH & Martin GESTER
Saturday 11 August
« CONCERTO SOAVE » Ensemble Musical direction Jean-Marc
AYMES
Wednesday 15 August
«OBSIDIENNE » Ensemble Musical direction Emmanuel
BONNARDOT
Friday 17 August
« DOULCE MEMOIRE » Ensemble Musical direction Denis
RAISIN DADRE
Monday 20 August
« LES CALISSONNES » Ensemble Musical direction Natalia
CHERACHOVA
Festival
Programme 2012
Further information on International
Festival of early music page or on the website www.festival-simiane.com
L’Art de Mai (in partnership with the Conseil Général)
28 April to 19 May
Theme 2012 « Hidden Forces »
Fields of force half-hidden ;
Spaces filled with evocative silence ;
Shapes seething with colours…
Once again Simiane artists are on show with their latest work
in the heart of the Rotonde for the annual
« Art in May » 2012.
Collective exhibition by Simiane artists :
Nicole Barnoin paintings
Marie-Laure Couet Delinchant paintings
Pascale David ceramics
Georges Derie paintings/sculpture
Françoise Dubouchet paintings
Maxime Equestri sculpture
Christi La Liberté photography
Stéphanie Mutrux paintings
Isabelle Oudot paintings
Dominique Quévédo sculpture
Dadou Roche engravings
Paul Salmon paintings
Guest artist : Marianne Morucci (Mane) paintings
Exhibition included in the entry fee for visiting the medieval
château
Private view on Saturday 28th April at 19.00
Garden of the « Abbaye de Valsaintes »
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Sunday 1st April Open Day, free entry, from 10.30 to 18.00
7 to 13 April 2nd « Bulb Week »
On Saturday 7, Sunday 8 and Monday 9 April, from 14.30 Guided
visit of the garden by Jean-Yves Meignen. The price of this
guided tour is included in the entry fee.
26 May to 10 June 12th year of « Roses at the Abbey
»
Part of « Rendez-vous aux jardins »
Saturday 2 June at 15.00 : lecture by J-Yves Meignen : «
Natural care of roses (homeopathy – aromatherapy –
mulching with local Lavender straw – useful insects
in the garden…)
Sunday 3 June at 15.00 : lecture by Dominique Massad, rose
grower and creator from Marseilles « The story of
the rose in France.
23 to 29 July First String Festival
Monday 23 July : poetry and cello with Roselyne Sibille
& Christian Sakharov
Tuesday 24 July : poetry & cello with R. Sibille &
C. Sakharov
Wednesday 25 July : Classical & celtic harp with Murielle
Schreder
Thursday 26 July : voice workshop in the garden with Murielle
Schreder
Thursday 26 July : cello with Annabel Gordon
Friday 27 July : Classical and celtic harp with Murielle
Schreder
Sunday 29 July : Classical and celtic harp with Murielle
Schreder
By reservation only from 1st April onwards at 04 92 75
94 19
17 July to 16 August Every Tuesday and Thursday from 16.00
until 17.00 – guided visit of the abbey
garden and the church. Visit included in the entrance fee.
18 to 23 December Winter Solstice Concert and the
light of the sun in the church of the Abbey of Valsaintes.
Murielle Schreder (Classical and Celtic harp)
By reservation only from 1st October at 049 92 75 94 19
Further information at 04 92 75 94 19 or
Jardin de l’Abbaye de Valsaintes
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