Weekend Events in Nice, discover them all!

VINTAGE & LUXURY MARKET EXPO

Sunday, March 24, 2024, from 8 am to 6 pm at Place du Palais de Justice.

Over 100 exhibitors (luxury fashion, jewelry, and leather goods).

EVENT: FESTIN DES COUGOURDONS

Sunday, March 24, 2024, from 11:30 am to 6 pm at Jardin des Arènes de Cimiez.

This festival is characterized by cougourdon, vegetables from the gourd family of various shapes and sizes.

These vegetables are emptied, dried, and transformed into containers of all kinds: pumpkins, ladles, and even lights. Their original shapes are a source of inspiration for artisans. Often painted, they are also engraved with geometric motifs or woven, giving them an aesthetic and decorative dimension.

On the program: entertainment for adults and children, folk dances and music, balèti, world petadou championship, Niçoise specialties…

CONCERT: ORGUES ET 2 TROMPETTES

Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 3:30 pm.

Bach, Telemann, Wagner, and Elgar by:
Hans-André Stamm: Organs
Martin Schröder: Trumpet
Ralph Schmuck: Trumpet

CONCERT: THE BOOTLEG BEATLES

Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 6 pm.

The Bootleg Beatles pay tribute to the iconic Fab Four for 44 years.

After the success of their first tour From Love Me Do to Let It Be in June 2023, they return to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the albums Hard Day’s Night and Beatles For Sale. Throughout the evening, the first and best Beatles tribute, with the help of their orchestral ensemble, will take you on a journey back to the revolutionary decade of the Swinging Sixties.

https://www.nikaia.fr/

CHILDREN’S OPERA

Sunday, March 24, 2024.
Opening hours Sunday at 10 am and 11 am.

Bring your children to the Opera and introduce them to the world of live performance from an early age!

Viens avec ton doudou will introduce children to the musical instruments played by the musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice and invite them to interact with the dancers of the Ballet Nice Méditerranée.

https://opera-nice.notre-billetterie.org/formulaire?dial=sommaire

Weekend Events in Nice

MUSIC: NOSTALGIA ANNI 80 (NOSTALGIE 80S)

Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 7 pm.

A great evening orchestrated by Nostalgie, for fans of 80s hits!

https://etudiants.nice.fr/stockfish/

CONFERENCE – ASSOCIATION L’ARON

Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 3 pm.

The ARON conferences take place in the foyer Caballé of the Opera.

ARON (Association pour le Rayonnement de l’Opéra de Nice) is the cultural arm of the City of Nice, working to promote the Opera’s program among its members.

https://www.opera-nice.org/fr

JAZZ CAFÉ – FOYER CABALLÉ

Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 11 am.

Why not spend a Saturday morning at the Opera, enjoying coffee, pastries, and jazz in the sumptuous foyer of the Caballé?

In collaboration with the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Nice, the Opéra de Nice gives space to young professional musicians who will take you on a journey from New York to New Orleans, passing through Nice!

https://opera-nice.notre-billetterie.org/formulaire?dial=sommaire

CINEMA: LA FÊTE DU COURT MÉTRAGE (SHORT FILM FESTIVAL)

From Wednesday, March 20 to Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

Facilitating access to short-format works to discover exceptional films and directors. This is the purpose of this annual event, La Fête du Court Métrage, which this year will take place from March 20 to 26, 2024, throughout France!

CINEMA: 38ES JOURNÉES DU CINÉMA ITALIEN (38TH DAYS OF ITALIAN CINEMA)

From March 16 to March 30, 2024, every day.

The best of contemporary Italian cinema: 15 full-length films and 8 special evenings.

https://www.espacemagnan.com/cinemaitalien

Weekend Events in Nice

EXHIBITION: DJAMEL TATAH

From March 16 to May 27, 2024, from 10 am to 5 pm.
Closed on Tuesdays.

From March to May 2024, the painter Djamel Tatah (born in Saint-Chamond in 1959) will offer a new visit to the Musée Matisse in

Nice.

He has subjectively selected from the museum’s collections around a hundred graphic and sculptural works by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), covering his entire career, supplemented by exceptional loans from the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA). The exhibition will alternate with about thirty personal paintings, generally monumental in size, selected from his production of the last twenty years and coming from public and private collections.

https://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/

MARS AUX MUSÉES (MARCH AT THE MUSEUMS)

From March 9 to March 23, 2024, every day.

Mars aux Musées is a cultural festival celebrating its 23rd anniversary this year.

Organized by the Université Côte d’Azur and the city of Nice, the festival takes place in various museums of the city, offering residents and students exceptional cultural events and activities.

https://marsauxmusees.com/

EXHIBITION: POP’EXPO, FROM THE WORKSHOP TO THE CATWALK

From February 17 to March 31, 2024, from 11 am to 6 pm.
Closed on Tuesdays.

The exhibition traces the history of the Carnival, from its creation in 1873 to the present day, highlighting floats and costumes inspired by pop culture.

You will discover original creations with characters from films, TV series, comics, and video games.

It also pays tribute to the craftsmen of the Carnival, who are the true creators of the event.

https://www.nice.fr/fr/culture/musees-et-galeries/musee-massena-le-musee

EXHIBITION: HENRI DAUMAN – THE MANHATTAN DARKROOM

From February 17 to May 26, 2024, from 10 am to 6 pm except on May 1st.
Closed on Mondays.

This retrospective of the unpublished work of French photographer Henri Dauman marks the last collaboration with the photographer, who died on September 13, 2023, in New York.

Almost 170 photographs accompany the public on a journey through the recent history of the United States.

https://museephotographie.nice.fr/

Weekend Events in Nice

EXHIBITION “OH LES 10 ANS | LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA GALERIE EVA VAUTIER” (OH THE 10 YEARS | THE GOOD DAYS OF THE EVA VAUTIER GALLERY)

From February 8 to April 13, 2024, every day.

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Eva Vautier gallery invites 43 artists to participate in a retrospective collective exhibition on the decade of exhibitions, events, and projects of the gallery.

With Agathe Wiesner, Agnès Vitani, Aimée Fleury, Alain Biet, Alain Snyers, Alice Guittard, Anna Byskov, and many others.

Galerie Eva Vautier 2 rue Vernier Quartier Libération + 33 9 80 31 76 63

EXHIBITION: MARTINE DOYTIER, A RETROSPECTIVE

From February 3 to July 31, 2024.
Closed on Mondays and Sundays.

This exhibition is the first retrospective dedicated to Martine Doytier. It brings together all of her known works to date.

Martine Doytier was an artist in Nice from 1971 to 1984. Over thirteen years, she developed captivating work.

Her keen eye and ability to portray characters and tell their stories produced a corpus of works in constant evolution and led her to undertake what would be her last unfinished work: “Self-Portrait,” a painting she worked on for five years passionately describing her everyday world.

https://www.nice.fr/fr/culture/musees-et-galeries/l-artistique

EXHIBITION: TINTIN ET TCHANG

From January 27 to June 30, 2024, from 10 am to 5 pm except on May 1st.
Closed on Tuesdays.

The Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) joins the Département des Alpes-Maritimes to present a double exhibition entitled Tintin, Hergé, and Chang.

The exhibition reveals the multiple facets of the father of Tintin through a superb selection of precious documents, original drawings, and objects, presented for the first time on the French Riviera.

https://maa.departement06.fr/musee-des-arts-asiatiques-13422.html

EXHIBITION – VIVRE POUR L’ART – LES COLLECTIONS TRACHEL ET ROTHSCHILD À NICE (LIVING FOR ART – THE TRACHEL AND ROTHSCHILD COLLECTIONS IN NICE)

From November 24, 2023, to April 28, 2024, every day. Musee des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Palais Lascaris, Musee Masséna, and Bibliothèque de Cessole present the exhibition Living for Art.

The Trachel and Rothschild collections in Nice. The exhibition highlights the works generously donated to the city of Nice by these two great families. These donations, made between 1892 and 1912, include over seventeen hundred works of various types: archaeological objects, drawings, watercolors, paintings, sculptures, prints, but also furniture, ceramics, and fabrics. They form the core of Nice’s museum collections.

Musee des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret 33 avenue des Baumettes

Weekend Events in Nice

LES ELLES DE JEUX (THEM OF GAMES)

From November 8, 2023, to September 22, 2024, every day.

The National Museum of Sport presents Les Elles des Jeux, which shows the spectacular progress made over 130 years, from the almost exclusion of women to the fight for equality.

THE EXHIBITION’S PATH

In an immersive and interactive scenography, the exhibition Les Elles des Jeux retraces over 130 years of our contemporary society through the stories of emblematic women with exemplary destinies. The exhibition is divided into 6 sections, both chronological and thematic. With “Elles ne sont pas les bienvenues” (They are not welcome), the exhibition begins its journey through time with the first Olympic Games of the modern era.

National Museum of Sport Boulevard des Jardiniers – Stade Allianz Riviera CS 43 152

EXHIBITION “ON EST TOUS FOUS” DE BEN (WE’RE ALL CRAZY – BEN’S)

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 10-12:30 and 1:30-6 pm. Musée International d’Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky Avenue de Fabron Château Sainte-Hélène +33 (0)4 93 71 78 33

https://www.nice.fr/fr/culture/musees-et-galeries/musee-d-art-naif

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