Full of ideas for outings to occupy your weekend
Opera, concerts, photo exhibition, Lantern Festival… There is no shortage of ideas for outings on this first weekend of December in Toulouse. Le Journal Toulousain unveils its selection.
From opera to cinema, it’s possible!
On the giant screens of Gaumont cinemas in Labège and Place Wilson in Toulouse, lovers of modern opera attend the retransmission, live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, of the new work by American composer Matthew Aucoin: Eurydice. He revisits the famous myth by invoking influences as diverse as Verdi, Berg, Duke Ellington or Radiohead. He thus inscribes in the score of his opera a wide range of musical colors. This is found particularly in his use of percussion, with sounds described as “watery” (to represent the river of oblivion in which all the dead must drink) and others, more garish (Eurydice arriving in the underworld on the sound of a metro train leaving its station).
As for the history of Eurydice, it is somewhat revisited. Indeed, the libretto by the playwright Sarah Ruhl looks at the legend from a unique angle and offers a rereading from Eurydice’s point of view. From then on, the story takes on a completely new form: on her arrival in Hades, the protagonist lost her memory. She is brought back there by her father who helps her remember who she is. And when, guided by Orpheus, she is about to come out, she can not help calling his name, inevitably leading him to look behind him …
Practical information: Saturday December 4 at 6:55 p.m., at the Gaumont Labège and Gaumont Wilson cinemas. Reservations on the Pathé Gaumont site.
Last day to enjoy the crazy Pink Paradize festival
Since last October 6, Les Productions du Possible has put on an eclectic and rich program throughout the Pink Paradize festival. From rap to electro, via rock and cumbia, very different musical styles follow one another on stage. And not that … Here and there, a play or a humorous show. A colorful, hybrid, hedonistic, somewhat patched-up festival, which for its eighth edition has once again lived up to the expectations of its fans. And to end this long month of artistic performances, a delirious closing night will take place this Saturday at the Bikini. On the program, the trio Dope Dod, Gargantua, Mara, Le Catcheur la p * te et le dealer, and Elisa Do Brasil. “It promises to be hot,” according to the organizers.
Practical information: Saturday December 4 from 11:30 p.m. at the Bikini, Canal Technological Park in Ramonville-Saint-Agne. Online reservations.
Centenary of Jean Dieuzaide
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Jean Dieuzaide, the City of Toulouse is devoting a major retrospective exhibition to this major photographer. Owner of most of the Dieuzaide collection, the community presents more than 200 works and archives, sometimes unpublished, revealing the talent of an artist capable of transcending reality and the role of a man essential for the recognition of photography. Audiovisual archives complete this retrospective presented in the refectory of the Couvent des Jacobins. The catalog covers the entire exhibition and, with its documented archives, constituting a reference work on Jean Dieuzaide and the world of photography from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Practical information: From Saturday December 4 at the Couvent des Jacobins in Toulouse. 4 € full price.
The Lantern Festival in Blagnac
2,500 lanterns, 180 tons of metal, 80,000 light bulbs, 1 ton of porcelain, 50,000 m² of silk, 30,000 meters of ceramic… Figures that make heads turn. Just as much as the magic of the Lantern Festival. Now located in Blagnac, this unmissable event welcomes visitors from December 1 to February 1, 2022. Every evening from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., the Ritouret park turns into a city of lights and offers a grandiose spectacle created thanks to the talent of 80 artisans Chinese from Zigong – metalworkers, painters, welders, seamstresses… – who have deployed their ancestral know-how to shape and install these monumental sculptures.
Upon arrival in the park, the visitor takes an astonishing luminous corridor, whose ceiling lined with parchments and lanterns illustrates Chinese pictorial art and stages the thousand facets of the traditional art of living as well as the poetic landscapes of the Sichuan. Then he is immersed, through delicate and fantastic paintings, in the heart of Chinese legends such as that of the magical deer Fuzhu or during the discovery of the dynastic epic of the Ming and Quing. The scenes are then linked to each other: dinosaurs, pandas and all kinds of animals are brought to light.
At the same time, visitors will attend the fabulous performances of the artists of the Sichuan Opera, whose particularity is to change their face up to 30 times per performance. Also discover the Chinese craft market which gives pride of place to Sichuan know-how: freshwater pearl jewelry, stone sculptures, traditional paintings, lucky charms …
An immersion in the land of lanterns that you will not soon forget.
Practical information: Until February 1, at the Ritouret park in Blagnac. From 16 €. Online ticketing.