Dauphin: WE 26 and March 27, 2011 - FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF THE EARTH AND IRON FIRE - Demonstrations and workshops, working iron, earth and glass, blacksmithing, carving, turning, blowing, cutlery.

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Banon: Exhibition "Forest, must dream" Saturday May 21 to Sunday, June 13 10:30 to 19:00 every day Opening May 21 from 18:00 with Marianne Morucci, painting: The tree in life Cecile NICOLINO, painting, engraving: Strength and weakness Anne Weulersse, painting foliolate.

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Banon: Exhibition "Forest, must dream" Saturday May 21 to Sunday, June 13 10:30 to 19:00 every day Opening May 21 from 18:00 with Marianne Morucci, painting: The tree of life * Cecile NICOLINO, painting, engraving: Strength and fragility ** Anne Weulersse painting: Leaflet *** Free * In its work it implements the link between human beings and the universe ... ** From the tree firmly rooted is this fragile and wrinkled paper ... *** The alternation of light emanating from his paintings made ??of various papers, inks and paint gives a rhythm to ...

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Banon: Saturday, May 28 at 21:00 "The Man Who Planted Trees" by Jean Giono Show performance Alegría, with Clothilde Durieux, narrator, musician, singer * Benjamin Flao, designer ** Text, music and design live simultaneously. Drawing filmed and projected on screen. Everyone

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BANON: Saturday, June 11 at 21:00 Oud solo Pascal Charrier Jazz guitarist, born in Marseilles, he grew close to the Maghreb community. Naturally, he became interested in oud and oriental music. Pascal Charrier improvises imaginative stories based on traditional forms of improvisation Oriental music of the 11th century to today. His experience as a jazz guitarist, mixed with the culture of Mediterranean music, led to the racially mixed and evolving forms of Mediterranean between yesterday and today ...

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SAINT MICHEL L'OBSERVATOIRE: Visit of the Observatoire de Haute-Provence Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon (July 5 to August 31, 2011) - Screening of a film presenting the OHP. - Discover the great dome and its 193-cm telescope still in operation, where the discovery was first planet outside the solar system presentation of current research. - Learning Path in the forest that shows you how it works and our research. - Art exhibitions: ? Archeferrouille Pierre Boutteau installed its famous rusty animals in the forest of the Observatory. The modesty of the material used, parts recovery, diversion from their original function, leads to the achieving a bestiary offbeat and surprising, which makes us wonder about the relationships and interactions between Man and his environment. ? Welcome in my little forest by Emily Lasmartres, an interactive installation and Ecoplast evoking a visual and sound experience through vegetation collected. A futuristic vision of the territory articulating between wild and cultivated ... ? Dear gentlemen of the stars ... by Ségolène Gerard, a writing nourished by the poetic apprehension the infinitely large and a look at the dimensions of the infinitely small, embracing the same spirit of stars and atoms ... (Creations also visible in the home of the book trades in Forcalquier of 11 to 30 July) Duration of visit: approximately 1h30. Ticket at the tourist office. Free parking in the village . Free shuttle every 20 minutes from 14h to 17h. Closure of the site at 18.30.

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SAINT MICHEL L'OBSERVATOIRE: Lecture Series "The chemistry of soil to the cosmos" Free Admission Saint-Michel l'Observatoire - Forcalquier A public lecture is offered every Wednesday at 18h. The decomposition of leaves to galaxies, Chemistry is everywhere in our environment ...

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SAINT MICHEL L'OBSERVATOIRE: Exhibition "The heart of Provence Forest Free admission Couvent des Cordeliers - Forcalquier (from 11 July to 29 August) In the famous city of the four queens, the Franciscan monastery, young and old can dive into the oak Provence. Immersive exhibition with many interactive games and animations, you will discover the forest from a new angle. Explore the characteristics of animals in our area, hug the mammals, birds and insects, in size! Observe microscopically insects and microfauna unsuspected living beneath our feet and into the trees. Learn to recognize bird songs ... A sense of fun and stress friendly! From 11 July to 29 August 2011, daily from 11 to 13h and 16h to 19h except Tuesday and Sunday.

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BANON: Cycling Tour de Haute Provence Cycling - Stage 2 June 18, 2011 at BANON! This year the Tour Cycliste de Haute Provence will take place on 17,18 and 19 June 2011, touring our beautiful roads in the Haute Provence between wheat and lavender. The start of the first stage to Digne les Bains will be the place of Gl de Gaulle to 15h Friday, June 17, 2011. Villeneuve arrived at around 17:30. Our second stage Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 14h BANON on Republic Square. Before the start of the presentation team on the podium. Start of the riders towards the Rock of nails, Pourcin, St Stephen's Organ, Lardiers, l'Hospitalet and again a transition to BANON around 15h or a Sprint will be played before the Info Point. They then continue their journey to Simiane, Reillane, the Col de Montfuron for Arrival in Manosque to 17h Avenue Jean Giono. Third stage, Sunday, June 19, 2011, BARREME departure and arrival at 14 am Gréoux les Bains, Manosque road to 16h.

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BANON: Visit and demonstration of Stained Glass Workshop Banon Sign up for the Wednesday afternoon visit to the Point 15h-info. Price: € 2 / person. For 12 years, free.

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BANON: Discover Banon during our tour of the old village Register for the Tuesday evening and go to 17h before the Info Point Price: € 2 / person. For 12 years, free.

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BANON: Second day of know-how of craftsmen - Sunday, July 10, 2011 from 10 to 18 instead of the republic

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BANON "Art'Nous" August 25 to September 14, 2011 - High Church 10:30 to 19:00 every day with painters Tony Fusco, Louis-Jean GAL LETOUBLON Martine, George Martin, Van THAT Opening reception Thursday, August 25, from 18:00 Free entry / Free
Tony Fusco: "The emotion I try to share the play of color is the main vector of this allusive painting ..." Louis-Jean GAL: Footprints of tenderness and humor, his paintings are the result of a long process in which chance has no place ... Martine is a literary LETOUBLON painted ... It identifies the elements in their daily lives that interest plastically and intellectually ... George Martin says in his works a volunteer detachment of academic drawing and the purely figurative ... VAN THAT is the opposite of a painter in the process, it seems even escape anything that could pass for a repeat ...

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BANON "The Nomad and the Madonna" - Saturday 1st October 2011 - 20:30 - High Church

"The Nomad and the Madonna" is an adventure-meeting between the sounds and dreams of Dominique Rabatel recorded on the spot during his travels (Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, ...) and then reworked in the studio, only to be mixed live and the "instruments of the World" Martine FRANCE (Reported, too, travel) that it uses in a very personal and fun.

FRANCE is a musician fascinated by both our entire musical heritage from the beginning and the creation, the area of freedom, discovery and construction that is given to invest. She shares her artistic activities between concerts, improvisation and collaboration with other musicians, but also with dancers, actors, painters and poets with whom she has produced varied creations. Guitar and vihuela, it also plays many other plucked instruments and Zarb, with whom she develops a repertoire and a very personal technique. It occurs in nompbreux festivals as a soloist in orchestra (with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain) and in various formations: the Orion Ensemble, the and timbral duos Eurydice!, the group Aperline. She has recorded eight CDs. Gold Medal and Grand Prix de la Ville de Marseille, a graduate of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, which holds the Certificate of Aptitude, Martine FRANCE is a professor at the Conservatoire Régional d ' Avignon . Dominique Rabatel looking, eager for sounds and dreams of notes out of reach, unheard of, absolute and unfinished fugues attended the CNR (Conservatoire National de Region in writing class) in Grenoble, the Conservatory (National Conservatory of Music in Electroacoustics) of Paris and the GRIM (Creation and Computer Music Designer) from Marseille ... Teaching writing (instrumental and electroacoustic), improvisation and Travel: Mexico, North Africa, Indonesia, New York, six months around the Indian Ocean, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Africa, ... Navigating to, but mostly sound, random winds, strings and wood, a questioning look and then the micro small and great, rich and beggars, winning voice their treasures. In return, he worked on the sound material and confronts those oral cultures for musicians (singers, instrumentalists) Western culture for re-creating original. In show sets Melting Meals, Aperline, Free Ethnic Band.

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BANON: Library with support from Banon banon.culture presents a show proposed by the departmental Media ------- Friday, November 25 - 20:30 - Cultural Center of the LPAC - The District Pous - Banon "Life of Miss Amanda" by Jean Giono Dramatized reading by Sabra BEN ARFA ------- Free show - Free admission ------- This is the story of a healing encounter between the narrator-Giono, a prey to great distress, with a woman whose purity and simplicity will help to restore the will to live. Three long stories, written probably in 1933, make up this story. Of this triptych is the median part - that gives voice to the heroine - as Sabra Ben Arfa a living by reading and gesture. During a long evening, Miss Amanda recounts to his host came to take refuge in the mountains of the Jura Vaudois, the course of his life. This account of learning and complicity that develops between these two people will allow the narrator to find inner peace and meaning in life. ------- Sabra BEN ARFA "A woman who plays women's texts" Actress, director and singer, was born in Tunis, has studied theater at the Insas and studied singing and dancing.