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That of April 15 and 16 will be overcast on Saturday, with some showers expected and which will be welcome in a context of marked drought throughout the department.
A bright sun will be back on Sunday with around twenty degrees expected.
Continuation of the garden festival on the Côte d'Azur
The fourth edition of the garden festival throughout the Côte d'Azur continues until May 1.
The theme “Surprising perspectives” has been chosen, which means that visitors will be able to stroll through the various green spaces of the cities of the Riviera and as far as Monaco, letting themselves be lulled by the play of light and shadow.
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This weekend, visitors will be able to take advantage of the Jean-Honoré Fragonard villa in Grasse, where presentations on perfumed flowers will be offered.
On Sunday, visitors will be able to awaken their senses with taste and perfume flowers.
An introduction to the manufacture of balcony scarecrows, cyanotype, kokedama and seeded papers will also be presented, in addition to a cooking workshop with flowers, therefore, as well as demonstrations to create your scented toilet water.
For those who prefer an active escapade, on Saturday, at the Parc des oliviers in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, interactive orientation games will be offered all day.
With an electronic chip slipped on the finger, the visitor becomes a player and can choose a challenge on a theme previously drawn by lot.
He will then choose the playing time and his course in order to adapt it to his desires.
Registration is done on site.
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The “Art fair” fair in Antibes
Celebrate spring and art at the same time.
This is the promise of the “Art fair” fair in Antibes, which begins on Saturday and will be open until April 24 at Port Vauban, on the Pré des Pêcheurs esplanade.
For its 51st edition, tastes, colors and trends will once again mingle through the galleries where visitors will be able to contemplate paintings as well as various decorative objects.
Artists will exhibit and merchants in a more vintage style will install their various pieces, including leather goods.
Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Entrance fee: 10 euros.
Piano to replay "The beautiful era of the Côte d'Azur"
In Nice, the Westminster hotel opens its doors to receive a piano concert on Sunday at 3 p.m.
The notes of "the beautiful era on the Côte d'Azur" will allow spectators to immerse themselves in an atmosphere of yesteryear.
The “President” room of the hotel located on the Promenade des Anglais will contribute to this since it was inaugurated in 1881. This is where works by composers who have stayed within its walls will be interpreted.
On the program, compositions by Verdi, Saint Saëns, Ravel, Fauré and Debussy.
International soloists such as Michel Lethiec (clarinet), François Salque (cello) and Xénia Maliarevitch (piano) will shine, with André Peyrègne at the presentation.
Price: 20 euros.
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An adaptation of
Little Red Riding Hood
at the Franciscans Theater in Nice
“Free and Cheerful”
Adaptation
.
This is the promise of this recovery, by Édouard Signolet, of the story of
Little Red Riding Hood
.
The piece is titled
Je m'appelle pas
, in reference to a little girl who does not have a first name.
Characters from other tales cross his path to offer the viewer a re-enchanting moment that dusts off a classic.
The solitary girl reappears in new passages.
“Jubilatory composition”
, warns the Théâtre des Franciscains de Nice, where the performances will take place on Friday evening (8 p.m.) but also on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The acting of the troupe's actors aims to question anonymity and identity in society, all with lightness, offset and humor for an accessible play.
Price: from 39 euros.
Nice stand-up returns to Stockfish
Return Saturday evening from the “Tchoup Comedy club” to the Stockfish,
“the smallest of the big rooms”
as it presents itself and makes itself known in Nice.
Two young comedians will have thirty minutes to make you laugh for an evening.
From 8 p.m. on Saturday, Wahib will take to the stage.
He will share his daily life with its vagaries in an energetic and almost disconcerting tone.
Will continue “Amy London”, the character of a disillusioned young English teacher.
By detailing his professional life with irony and without complex, the comedian from Marseille will try to seize his audience as she does in many comedy clubs but also in the first part of the show of Manu Payet this year.
The two comedians will this time be put to the test of the Nice stand-up.
Price: 10 or 18 euros depending on the positioning.
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