Ideas for outings in Toulouse for this weekend
These January 8 and 9 are going to be rainy and rather cold. This does not mean that you have to remain cloistered at home. So, the Journal Toulousain offers you a selection of outings, indoors, for this weekend. Circus, cinema, theater and an exhibition are on the program.
Aerobatics at the Grainerie
Vibrant characters meet, collide, caress, dance and flutter in a universe similar to life, where violence and gentleness intermingle. This is the whole universe of the show “Hurt me tender”. On rock music, live, falls and jumps, acrobatics and choreography tell us about happiness and despair. A physical generosity as close as possible to our letting go, our releases, but also our victories and our failures. “Hurt me tender” contains 10 acrobats, three musicians and more than 500 spectators under a large red tent 20 meters high. An aerial, energetic and lively aerobatic show to be seen as a family, proposed by the artistic collective of CirkVOST.
Practical information: “Hurt me tender”, Sunday January 9 at 3:30 pm, under the big top of the Grainerie, 61 rue Saint Jean in Balma. Full price: 19 euros. online booking.
Charlie Chaplin at the film library
Until February 16, the Toulouse film library pays tribute to Charlie Chaplin, the first idol of the seventh art. On the occasion, several of his films are programmed to sweep 40 years of the career of “Charlot”. “It is the cinematographic trajectory of this man, from Charlot to Chaplin, that we can see here, the struggle between Dr. Chaplin and Mr. Charlot”, explains Franck Lubet, in charge of the programming of the film library. This weekend, three films will be screened: ”The street to gold”,”Modern times” and “The circus“. What to get an idea of the fragility of an artist who wanted to give everything to the cinema and that the cinema has ended up vampirizing.
Practical information: ”La Ruté vers l’or”, Saturday January 8 at 4 pm, “Les Temps Modernes”, Saturday January 8 at 9 pm and “Le Cirque”, Sunday January 9 at 4 pm. At the Toulouse film library, 69 rue du Taur. online booking possible. Full price: 7.50 euros.
Sugar at the Grand Rond theater
The Basque Mouka Company takes up residence at the Grand Rond theater to present “L’Enfant sucre”, a puppet show, in a setting made entirely of sugar. That’s good, it’s tea time! Locked in a travel trunk, two characters with English charm invite young and old to taste them. On the menu, a wordless tale, inspired by the ”Wolf and the seven kids”, in which a wolf and a tasty baby come alive. This spectacle of object theater, where the sweetness of sugar meets the wickedness of a hungry wolf, plunges young spectators into a disturbing and poetic universe.
Practical information: “L’Enfant sucre”, Saturday January 8 at 3 pm, at the Grand Rond theater, 23 rue des Potiers in Toulouse. From 6 years old. Full price: 13 euros. Online reservation possible.
The Municipality at the media library
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of La Commune de Paris, the José-Cabanis media library in Toulouse is dedicating a comic book exhibition by Jacques Tardi, “The Cry of the People”, adaptation of the famous novel by Jean Vautrin. Beyond the police investigation and the formidable banter of its multiple characters, here is a spectacular and poignant chronicle of La Commune de Paris. A few weeks of insurrection and total freedom during the course marked the Parisian people to undertake to live Utopia without delay. Thus, around fifty reproductions of comic strips, a virtual exhibition of the Departmental Archives on the Municipality of Toulouse, terminals for listening to revolutionary songs as well as a selection of comics by Tardi and works on this period of History, will be unveiled.
Practical information: ”Tardi, Le Cri du peuple”, from Sunday January 9, at the José-Cabanis media library, 1 Allée Jacques Chaban-Delmas in Toulouse. Free admission.