Montpellier

Fabre Museum Please arrive 15 minutes early at 39 Boulevard, Bonne Nouvelle As part of: Artistic Encounters With the Albert Camus Community Center This workshop invites you to explore contemporary creation through manipulations and transformations of old portraits from the collections of the Fabre Museum. Information: 0434887684 MPT card required - registration required

For Marius Walker, nothing is impossible. His concerts are as much a musical performance as a transcendental journey that profoundly transforms those who listen. A charismatic, rebellious, and driven leader, Marius weaves a lyrical and opulent music where obsession becomes melody. His work springs from a burning spontaneity, centered on a confessional voice and an uninhibited saxophone. Equally capable of bringing us into a state of contemplation as of leading us to a trance, it reveals the invisible hidden within each of us. His music acts as a liberating sonic ritual, offering a powerful catharsis that unties emotional knots and changes the course of the lives of those who listen to it through the sheer force of raw expression. Information: 0434466800 Registration required

Partners: Look for the Light Company Based on the work of Anton Chekhov Since her husband's death a year earlier, Popova has refused to leave the house and considers herself as dead as her beloved late husband. Then, a man named Smirnov, a former artillery officer, appears and forces his way into her home despite her refusal to receive anyone. Popova's husband owed Smirnov twelve hundred rubles, and Smirnov urgently needs the money to pay the interest... Information: 0448186209 Registration required

Laser tag moves to the garden of the Maison pour tous Paul-Émile Victor. Come with your family to enjoy this fun afternoon Children aged 7 and over Registration required Information: 0448186219 MPT card required

William Shakespeare Media Library Partners: William Shakespeare Media Library Challenges to overcome, cooperative video games. Whether you're an experienced player or a beginner, this event is open to everyone who wants to have fun and strengthen team spirit in a friendly environment. (Video games, PS5®, PS4®, Switch®...) Children aged 8 to 14 Information: 0448186214 MPT card required - registration required

🌿 Mois de la Biodiversité à Jacou En mars, la biodiversité est à l’honneur à Jacou ! Un programme riche, varié et entièrement gratuit vous invite à partir à la découverte des insectes pollinisateurs, des oiseaux, des plantes sauvages et de toute la faune et la flore de notre territoire. Expositions Balades nature Ateliers, Projections, Conférences, Contes… [Consultez le programme complet ici](https://www.ville-jacou.fr/mois-de-la-biodiversite/)[ ](https://www.ville-jacou.fr/mois-de-la-biodiversite/) Soirée de lancement Rendez-vous le vendredi 6 mars à 18h30 à l’Espace culturel Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens pour l’ouverture officielle du Mois de la Biodiversité.  🤝 Partenaires Cette programmation a été construite en partenariat avec Vertueux la MJC Boby Lapointe l’Office Municipal de la Culture Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole et Les Écologistes de l'Euzière

EXTREME HOTEL is the name of a hotel in Addis Ababa, a simple place where Raymond Depardon likes to stay during his travels in Ethiopia. A modest base, a quiet place from which to observe the world. The exhibition follows this idea: taking the time to observe what surrounds us. It brings together nearly 150 color photographs, from the 1960s to the present day, and is organized into several series, including The Land of the Peasants, The DATAR, USA, Cartagena, and Tokyo. These images reveal a dual story: that of the photojournalist, during the heyday of news agencies and striking magazine front pages; and that of a man, the son of a farmer, whose gaze gradually shifted towards a freer and more intimate observation of the world. For this "carte blanche" exhibition, Raymond Depardon has opened his color archives to the Pavillon Populaire. He presents his work published in the press during his career as a photojournalist: from Queen Elizabeth to the Lebanese Civil War, from the Olympic Games to the Françoise Claustre affair. Throughout the exhibition, we also discover other, more solitary series in which Raymond Depardon spontaneously photographs places devoid of events, scenes of ordinary life, paying close attention to color and light. This exploration continues today with USA, a new series shot with a large-format camera in Texas, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Each series is a journey, a way of being in the world. Raymond Depardon offers us a colorful exploration of the countries he has traveled through and the feelings that accompanied him during his many stays across the globe. By taking us along on his travels, he teaches us a simple and humanist photography that deeply touches the traveler in each of us. Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon, curators of the exhibition Exhibition Itinerary 1. The Land of the Peasants Created in the 2000s, La Terre des Paysans (The Land of the Peasants) is Raymond Depardon's homage to his roots, a rural world he had long neglected, caught up in the pace of current events. Color accompanies this return to the land, to childhood, to what shaped him. Born in 1942 on a farm in the Saône Valley, Raymond Depardon still cherishes the gestures of his parents and the scenes of daily life in the farmyard, where he took his first color photographs with a Rolleiflex camera. One of the images from the series The Land of the Peasants, the portrait of Marcel Privat, has now become a postage stamp, a discreet symbol of a rural France that is gradually disappearing. 2. Press Color Black and white long dominated photojournalism, perceived as the language of seriousness and truth. Only the covers of major weekly magazines like Paris Match or Life were an exception: color became a tool of seduction, designed to make an impact and capture attention at newsstands. Photographers then worked with two cameras: one loaded with black and white film for the report, the other with color film to try and land the cover, the true Holy Grail for photojournalists. Featuring press clippings from Raymond Depardon's personal archives, the "Press Color" section traces his career as a photojournalist: from Algeria to Vietnam, from the Olympic Games to the Claustre affair. Initially working for the press, color became for him the starting point for a freer, more personal, and more intimate style of photography. 3. The Datar In 1984, the DATAR (Interministerial Delegation for Regional Planning and Attractiveness) commissioned several photographers, including Raymond Depardon, to document the French landscape. Inspired by photographers such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and Robert Frank, Depardon recognized the importance of photographing his own territory and chose to return to his childhood home, the family farm. Shot in color with a large-format camera, the series meticulously captures even the smallest, seemingly insignificant details: a play of light, an oilcloth on a table, a wallpaper pattern. This more intimate approach to his subject marked a turning point in his practice. Thus began a demanding period of work with the large-format camera, which would give rise, 20 years later, to major series such as La France, or more recently, USA. Practical Information Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm (closed between 12pm and 2pm) Free entry. Last entry 15 minutes before closing. Accessible to people with disabilities. Guided Tours Weekly visits: Friday at 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 11am and 4pm Family visits: Wednesdays and Sundays at 11am and 3pm Booking is mandatory for all group visits (guided or unguided): [visites@montpellier.fr](mailto:visites@montpellier.fr)

From Saturday, December 13, 2025, the Hôtel de Cabrières-Sabatier d'Espeyran, a private mansion located next to the Fabre Museum, will host Guimet+ Montpellier, born from a partnership between the Montpellier metropolis and the Guimet Museum in Paris. Discover an exceptional selection of masterpieces, a first approach to the ancient civilizations of China, the Indian world, Japan and the Himalayan world. A rich cultural program, combining artistic practices, conferences and debates, will enrich and nourish this new axis of openness to the world, in the great tradition of sharing knowledge and cultures in the city of Montpellier. Welcome to Guimet+ Montpellier! IMPORTANT The Cabrières-Sabatier d'Espeyran hotel is open on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.

Partners: Emile Zola Media Library Co-organized with the Mama Sound association A friendly, cultural and festive moment programmed every second Friday of the month to be enjoyed with family or friends at Rimbaud Park. Kids' area from 5:30 pm followed by concerts until 10 pm. Suitable for all audiences Information: 0448186208 Free admission

With the company Les Ours Molaires Online booking only Suitable for all audiences Information: 0448186208 From €5 - registration required

The Espace Dominique Bagouet is pleased to host, from February 11 to April 5, 2026, the exhibition "Where the Molt Begins" by Christine Masduraud. Highlighting the work the artist has done with women in exile, this exhibition brings together collective creations imbued with great sensitivity, in dialogue with the artist's personal work. This journey invites visitors to immerse themselves in a visual and cultural universe where artisanal skills and life stories intertwine. Exhibition opening Tuesday, February 10th at 6:30 pm. Designed with the association B comme Bombyx, which helps refugee or asylum-seeking women, the project "Where the molt begins" opens a space for dialogue between art, current events and individual experience. This artistic collaboration originated from an idea of the association: to offer women in exile embroidery workshops guided by Christine Masduraud, in a time of sharing, sheltered from the noise of the world. Embroidery, an age-old, manual craft, then becomes a form of healing, a space for self-invention between here and elsewhere. Simultaneously, the artist enriches her own practice through these encounters and creates personal pieces that extend this experience of sharing. With its strong social and inclusive dimension, the project "Where the molting begins" invites us to reconsider migratory journeys, strengthening the links between exiled people, artists, cultural actors and inhabitants of the Montpellier Metropolis. Artist Biography Born in 1961 in Lahr, Germany, Christine Masduraud lives and works in Montpellier. An osteopath and psychoanalyst by profession, since 2010 she has cultivated an artistic practice devoted to textiles, in particular embroidery, revealing its relational, aesthetic and political potential. Her first experiences with textiles date back to her childhood, spent with her grandmothers who were embroiderers and knitters in the Limousin region. After a long absence, she rediscovered embroidery in 2010 and has since made it a true means of artistic expression. Christine Masduraud presented her work to the public for the first time in 2014, at the exhibition Dans la tête at the Librairie L'ivraie bookstore in Montpellier. Since then, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at several institutions in the region, including Espace Saint-Ravy in Montpellier, the CRAC – Centre régional d'art Contemporain in Sète, the Galerie Agnès B in Montpellier, and the ICI – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier / Occitanie. The artist continues to explore social and political issues, and is particularly committed to fighting violence against women. Practical Information Espace Dominique Bagouet, Esplanade Charles de Gaulle 34000 Montpellier Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm FREE ENTRANCE Free guided tours: Adults: Thursdays at 4pm Families and children: Saturdays at 11am and 4pm Group visits (by reservation only: visites@ville-montpellier.fr or by phone: 04 67 66 88 91)

The City of Montpellier is pleased to host at the City Scales, from February 18 to March 29, 2026, the exhibition Les Montpelliérains, bringing together a collection of photographs taken by photojournalist Jean-Michel Mart. His images reflect on 34 years of the small and large history of Montpellier and invite visitors to perceive, with a new eye, the sensitive and unexpected charm of everyday life. Opening on Tuesday, February 17 at 6:30 PM. Montpellier photojournalist, Jean-Michel Mart conveys, through his snapshots, a poetic and human vision of the city's daily life. The exhibition Les Montpelliérains highlights 34 years of encounters, significant events, and emotions captured during the professional and personal journey of the reporter. With this project, Jean-Michel Mart aims to pay tribute to press photography, as well as to all the reporters and editors who have accompanied him throughout his career, without whom, he says, many of these images would not have come to light. Les Montpelliérains is a photographic stroll between smiles and tears, punctuated by stolen moments. The exhibition captures the truth of a moment, plays with unusual juxtapositions, and showcases the unique and poetic gaze of Jean-Michel Mart. “It is a tribute to the people who have come to visit, whether they are famous or not, artists, politicians, athletes, or nothing, as some would say. It is finally a love letter, yes, yes, to this great city that is Montpellier, its streets and their light, and especially to its inhabitants, always more numerous and always more diverse, so diverse that one never feels rejected by them. You may recognize them, young, old, rich, poor, on two or four legs, solitary or in a crowd but proud to be from this city made of all the others, which is worth them all and in which I have simply been happy.” Jean-Michel Mart Biography Jean-Michel Mart was born in Reims in 1964. After obtaining a scientific baccalaureate, he joined the ETPA School of Photography in Toulouse. He first became a photojournalist at L’Indépendant in Perpignan, and then in 1991 he joined the editorial team of Midi Libre in Montpellier. Recognized in the press, his photographs gradually established themselves as standalone works. Since the late 1980s, his work has been the subject of several exhibitions, notably at the town hall of Perpignan (1988), at the Chapel of Carcassonne (2004), and at the Heidelberg House in Montpellier (2005).

Fun and cultural activities, youth projects From 10am to 6pm. Hours subject to change Teenagers Information: 0448186222 Based on family income bracket - MPT card required - registration required

Join the Teen Club! A space just for you, to meet other young people, share ideas, have fun and participate in various activities: games, outings, creative projects, sports, workshops… A friendly place to relax, express yourself and have fun with your friends! Schedules are set according to the program Teenagers Information: 0448186210 Based on family income bracket - MPT card required - registration required

Teenagers aged 11 to 17 Information: 0448186211 Price: based on family income + MPT card - registration required

Partners: La Phonolite Association Are you drawn to music and songwriting? Join us to discover the basics of computer music production with Ableton Live! During the workshop, you'll learn to create your own tracks, write your lyrics, and record yourself. Over five sessions, we'll build several songs together, which will be presented at a small public showcase at the end of the course. A creative and fun experience to get started in music production! Children aged 9 to 13 Information: 0448186209 MPT card required - registration required

Partners: Balthazar Presented by the Balthazar Company Come and learn the basics of the circus! Children aged 3 to 5 years Information: 0467473174 MPT card required - registration required

Partners: Brice Depoortere With Brice Depoortere Come and learn the art of illusion by learning different tricks, discovering secrets of magic and practicing staging in front of an audience. Children aged 7 to 10 Information: 0448186211 Price: €15 + MPT card - registration required

Hosted by Maud Saurel from the Sismographes association A talking tree doesn't exist except... in stories. Imagine your tree as a character and bring it to life in a story you invent. Between drawing and writing, the accordion book created will be the place to record the adventures, drawings and conversations that each budding author will have had with their tree. Children aged 6 to 12 Information: 0434887684 Price: €70 - MPT card required - registration required

An introduction to basic movements, energy, rhythm and creativity. A session to get started and have fun. Children and teenagers aged 7 and up Information: 04 67 60 35 65 Information: 0434887684 Depending on the Family Quotient: 300: 55€ 300-600: €70 600-900: €100 over 900: €120 Registration required