Events for the Weekend of July 6 and 7, 2024 in Antibes
Events for the Weekend in Antibes
For a More “Sustainable” Côte d’Azur
Operazione NaturaScan: Combining Boat Trips and Environmental Protection
Join us on Sunday, July 7th, for Operazione NaturaScan, a nautical event based on participatory science. All interested boaters are invited to the sea for an observation trip within the defined perimeter of the Natura 2000 area off Cap d’Antibes.
Volunteer sentinels, come count dolphins, sunfish, sea turtles, jellyfish, and perhaps even sperm whales and whales! This useful excursion is also linked to the collection of floating macro-waste.
https://www.marineland.fr/blog/operazione-naturascan-en-details
Exhibition at Transartcafé
“Concorde” brings together Matthieu Astoux and Jacques Lavigne, artists from Antibes, and Patrick Rosiu who works in Vence. Recent works. Opening on May 31st at 6 PM
Olympic and Paralympic Torches from 1936 to 2022
Starting June 18th, the Espace Culturel des Arcades hosts the exhibition “The Olympic and Paralympic Torches from 1936 to Today.” A collection of over 130 items related to the history of the Olympics, owned by the Greek private collector Stratos Klimou. The ties between Antibes and its twin city Olympia have made it possible to hold this exceptional exhibition during the Olympic Games in Paris. You can admire 41 Olympic and Paralympic torches, including the one from the 1936 Berlin Games, an Olympic altar from the ship used to transport the flame, a priestess dress from the flame-lighting ceremony in Olympia, champion medals, and many other memorabilia, symbols of the Games’ history.
From June 18 to July 28, Free admission.
The Garoupe Plateau in Celebration!
Music, tastings, art… Enjoy a village atmosphere, somewhat old-fashioned and so warm, on the Garoupe Plateau. The Guinguette de la Garoupe from 6 PM: May 8, June 10, July 8 and 22 (as part of the Nights of the Garoupe), August 12 and 26 (Night of the Garoupe), and June 9. Contemporary Art Exhibition: June 15 from 11 AM to 10 PM and June 16 from 10 AM to 5 PM
From May 08, 2024, to September 09, 2024
Athletes!! Claude Serre
In 2018, the museum had proposed a vast thematic retrospective from which sports were strangely excluded. It would have been a shame to deprive ourselves further. Olympic year, 2024 corrects this injustice. Here again is this sarcastic genius, subversive as he pleases, funny, brilliant. He remains, as sports like to cite records, the cartoonist who has sold the most albums worldwide with his title “Black Humor and Men in White.” A gold medal, then. Coluche would have enjoyed this, undoubtedly throwing him a crunchy and invigorating “Athlete!!”
INFO: +33 (0)4 92 90 54 29 / 30
Joan Miró. Masterpieces from the Nahmad Collection
From June 30 to September 27
The Picasso Museum offers a unique experience: presenting twelve masterful works by Joan Miró, from one of the world’s most important private collections, the Nahmad Collection. Miró is at home here, as a guest in his friend’s house. The friendship that, since their first meeting in Paris in 1920, tied the two artists for life, was also a ferment of their creative passion. The rooms host one work, sometimes two. Unlike the traditional exhibition that gathers and associates, this is not about accumulation, but about concentration and reception of the object in its singularity for contemplation and interpretation.
Note: From June 4 to 29, 2024 Installation of the summer exhibition and closure of the first floor. Discounted admission with access to the second floor, ground floor, and terrace.
INFO: +33 (0)4 92 90 54 20
Without All the Ceremony
As a maritime and border city, Antibes has long had to defend itself, and much of its heritage is directly inherited from this context. The Saracen towers, the old Grimaldi castle, the Fort Carré, the walls from the Saint-Jaume bastion to the Saint-André bastion, are all markers in our urban planning of a violent reality, the fear of assaults, looting, bombings, in a word, war. But what is war? The programming of Fort Carré this year proposes points of view, reflections on commitment, the duty of memory, the traumas it generates: thematic visits, workshops, café-museums for discussions, a cinema-visit around Roberto Rossellini’s “Paisà,” and a theatrical walk in collaboration with the Antibes Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts.
INFO: +33 (0)4 92 90 52 13
