If the weekend is marked by the first round of legislative elections, we can have fun after voting. Alone, with family or friends, it’s here for outings: music at the museum, street theatre, urban art, folk festivals, not forgetting the return of flea markets.
This weekend of June 11 and 12 promises to be busy, there is no shortage of ideas for outings. Here is our selection.
Find the Music Festival at the Museum which still takes place until Sunday. No less than 21 events in 19 museums to help us discover the exhibited collections in a different way. On Sunday, the Métalu A Chahuter collective invites you to visit four museums in Flanders. Each artist has created 30-minute concerts for the occasion with compositions illustrating the places they invest and surprising instruments. Meet at all four locations from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Find the full program by clicking on this link.
A festival and around fifty meetings around two main threads for this edition: the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók and the Spains. It’s a total of three days of immersion in the extraordinary world of piano and keyboards: piano, organ, harpsichord, electronic keyboards, percussion.
On the program a dance and music recital: a concert for children, “the sorcerer’s apprentice”.
Classical recitals / Jazz / Electro / World music / Rap… It is the pianist Francesco Piemontesi who opens the ball this Friday evening, June 10 at 9 p.m., at the Nouveau Siècle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA12IZ3YDOc
Another unmissable event, it takes place in the old Lille : bargain-hunters, don’t miss “la Vintage” The second-hand sale in old Lille which, after a two-year absence, returns this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. This is the clearance sale for local merchants, but also locals: 500 exhibitors waiting for you to sell comics, books, furniture or clothes. With plenty of entertainment throughout the day: five groups will tour every street corner from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. To see the unmissable cafe waiter race in the morning, magic shows or games for children on the Place des Archives.
You will have understood that old Lille is celebrating this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The sale will be present at Place du Concert, Rue de la Collégiale, Place des Archives, Rue Saint-André, Rue du Pont-Neuf, Rue de la Halle, Rue Saint-Sébastien, Place Saint-André and Rue du Metz.
The festivals But where are we going?, which takes place this weekend in the town of Fléchin, in Audomarois. A transdisciplinary festival which highlights for its tenth edition, nineteen companies for an explosive program Theater, Street Arts, Circus, Music, Puppets, Dance, give pride of place to a multiple and multicolored freedom of expression deliciously rebellious and poetic.
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A great meeting place to discover urban art. The urban art that has become commonplace today and our region is a good example of this with its many frescoes in the Lille metropolis. The Renart collective is constantly making urban art accessible to as many people as possible through various events. This is the case this weekend with Can’Art. Artists will paint legally under bridges, along the canal between Deûlémont and Wambrechies, and with the agreement of the three partner municipalities Wambrechies, Quesnoy-sur-Deûle and Deûlémont.”
A real open-air workshop, coupled with the Renard village, open from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. all weekend at the Quesnoy nautical stop, where you can attend artistic performances, follow workshops and even try to leave with a free silkscreen by the Desperados Foundation. To get them, it’s simple: you have to find the gold sprays scattered on the path between the three partner cities. Each number corresponds to a work. An artistic treasure hunt
Direction Mons in Belgium, where after the years “sans”, due to Covid, the City of Doudou revives this year with its folklore, listed as a UNESCO heritage site. This folk festival is marked by the Descent from the shrine of the relics of Madame Sainte Waudru, founder of the city (Saturday evening) or the Car d’O Procession (Sunday morning). The shrine is placed on a ceremonial float, the Car d’Or. One thousand seven hundred and fifty participants parade in period costumes to retrace the medieval history of the city.
Another highlight: the Montée du Car d’Or, where the public gathers massively behind the Car d’Or. Thousands of hands hoist the team to the top of the collegiate church. The stakes are high: the legend says that the Car d’Or must climb the ramp in one dash to avoid misfortune in the city. And not to be missed, on Sunday, the fight between Saint George and the dragon, during which the public will try to tear off the “lucky” horsehair from the tail of “el biête”, the dragon.
We end with music with the Mindset Tape project, a project to put northern rap in the spotlight, which brings together Artists and Composers from the region for five days to produce nine titles, with in the end, on June 24th, during the URBX festival, a documentary about this musical adventure.
Their first clip “Cypher” (see above) is available since Wednesday June 8 on You Tube.
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