Every year, the “Cours Eau Jardins” Festival attracts more visitors keen on architecture, gardens as well as people who like shows and concerts.

This is indeed what this festival is aiming at : to promote its architectural and natural heritage thanks to diverse programme throughout summer. This sixth edition promises to be full of surprises !

The programme:

• Exclusive trails: The “Cours Eau Jardins” Festival will be the opportunity for visitors to discover unknown areas, sometimes unusual and amazing places.
• Unique gardens: More than ever, gardens unveil new aspects and become fun and educational places. This was the idea which initiated the so-called “water gardens” with a special guided tour.
• Exhibitions: come and discover the Dingue Ding Dong exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum
• A wide range of activities: games, workshops, shows, poetry and concerts for the young ones and grown-ups : at the Kiosque located in Place Carnot, at the Hotel Boussard de la Chapelle, at the Bouzaize Parc.

Useful information:

Location: Beaune, Côte d’Or region

Dates : From June 25 to September 19, 2010

Prices:

• Full price Pass: €9,50
• Reduced price Pass: €6,50 for under 15 years old

This pass includes exhibitions at the Fine Arts Museum, at the Wine Museum and Beffroi, as well as the different shows at the Bouzaize Parc (educational workshop and water gardens). The pass is valid for a few days, each activity is valid one time, the Pass will be stamped for each activity.

More information: Beaune Website – http://www.beaune.fr/spip.php?article1435

Source: presse release 6th Cours Eau Jardins Festival

After a stunning first edition, the second International Thriller Film Festival will be held from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 April in Beaune. For this event, many celebrities will walk on the red carpet in front of Cap Cinema.

Screenings of the world’s best thriller films and a feature film challenge will be presented. These films will be watched by a merciless and expert jury from the film industry and the international police, for everyone’s delight, from film lovers to any passers-by ! The ideal time to spend a pleasant weekend in Burgundy’s main city and enjoy a thrilling atmosphere.

The Thriller Film Festival is also an opportunity to pay tribute to celebrities from the literary world with the Roman Noir Award ( “Roman Noir” is the French equivalent for hardboiled detective fiction style) given to a French author and a foreign author.

It is finally an opportunity to pay tribute to a city. After “Paris Polar” (literally “Detective Paris”) for the first edition, this year the Festival will highlight New York dealing with the theme “Detective New York, Naked City.” Festival-goers will discover a selection of emblematic films such as Killer’s Kiss by Stanley Kubrick, 1955; The Wrong Man by Alfred Hitchcock, 1956; Detective Story by William Wyler, 1951; Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, 1976, and many others!

More information: Beaune International Thriller Film Festival – www.beaunefestivalpolicier.com

This year again, the town of Beaune invites you to its « Cours Eau Jardins » festival, which was very successful the last four times and received some 8,000 visitors each year. Until 20 september 2009, festival-goers are invited to discover Beaune’s unique architectural heritage with entertainment and recreational nature discovery. Convents and monasteries, the town’s hidden gems, are the main theme of this 2009 festival.

The festival divides into three parts:

A stroll at the heart of extraordinary gardens:

A 40m² garden is dedicated to cereals and vegetables we forgot. This summer they will grow again in the garden of Bouzaize. You will lift the veil from these foodstuffs with enchanting name, which used to be the monks’ diet in the Middle Ages.

For the fifth year, Beaune shows temporary gardens designed by landscape school students from all over France. Nine different gardens were created in Lions Square with a focus on « monasteries’ gardens, history and modernity ».

Discovering Beaune’s ancient convents and monasteries:

Their doors are now opened to unveil their secrets through a special visiting itinerary, which offers you two ways of discovering this architectural heritage : a free visit and a guided tour.

Prices: €7 per person, €12 for a couple and €5 for child between 12 and 18 years old. The guided tour is free for children under 12 years old.

An eclectic programme for everyone:

A festival is also about entertainment and shows! Local and national artists will be in the streets and gardens of Beaune to bring hapiness to passersby. The programme will be very diverse : there will be concerts, theater and street art so that children and adults can enjoy special  entertainments at the heart of unusual places.

More information:

Beaune Events Agency: www.beaune.fr – Phone : +33 3.80.24.58.50

Beaune Tourist Office : www.beaune-tourisme.fr – Phone : +33 3.80.26.21.30

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The 7^th Association Fair of Beaune is one of this month major events. It will be held during the weekend of September 5 and 6 at the Palais des Congrès of Beaune. There will be at least 80 associations presenting their activities and know-how for this occasion. This is a special opportunity to get together and find new activities to practise all year in Beaune.

These associations will be divided into different areas: culture, leisure, sport, solidarity …

What is new this year: a competition will enable visitors to win many prizes, in partnership with associations and retailers of Beaune. You will just have to fill in the questionnaire given out to you on the fair.

Throughout the weekend many activities, shows and workshops will be organised for this event, which is held by the city’s department of community life: relaxation and Tai Chi Chuan shows, choral singing with the Beaune in Burgundy choir, dance shows, rescue demo by the Red Cross Association, fishing workshop in a pond specially installed inside the Palais des Congrès for the occasion… You will be able also to play chess against the best chess players of Beaune Chess Association.

About the event:

Opening hours:

• Saturday 5 september:  from 2 to 7pm

• Sunday 6 september: from 10am to 5pm.

Place: Palais des Congrès de Beaune

Price: free entry

More information: Service de la Vie Associative – Phone : +33 3.80.24.55.21

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