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Argelès Nature Photo
2022-08-01 - 2022-10-28 | Argelès-sur-Mer, France
Argelès Nature Photo
Environmental awareness and sustainable development
Thanks to the yearly open-air photographic exhibition, Argelès sur Mer has become a key player in the field of environmental activism and sustainable development.
Back for its 14th edition, this recurring summer-long project was originally inspired by the outdoor photography exhibition, Vivants, in Paris back in 2007 and has become a collaborative effort, unique in France.
Renamed Argelès Photo Nature in 2018, the project remains true to its original aims of engaging and educating visitors of all ages.
With exhibitions of nature photographs in large format, along with conferences and discussions from prestigious guests, this one of our must-do events for the summer.
As well as the Esplanade Charles Trenet (beach front), other venues will be displaying the wonderful photographs: place Gambetta, plage Sud and the port, so why not get out and about in Argelès this summer?

This year’s theme is “the ocean is watching” and the three superb exhibitions will run through summer and into autumn, closing finally on the 28th October.
Argelès’ deputy mayor, Julie Sanz explained that the exhibitions will take place in “places where people pass through, where they do not necessarily expect to find pictures representing the extraordinary variety of animals and the richness of life”. The aim is to “surprise in a positive way, to challenge passers-by” by depicting the rare and fragile beauty of our environment.
The official inauguration took place on Friday 13th May at 9.30am in the presence of two of the exhibiting photographers and local dignitaries.
L’océan nous regarde©, Greg Lecoeur
World-renowned underwater photographer, Greg Lecoeur, presents his new exhibition, revealed first on the seafront promenade and the port of Argelès-sur-Mer. The originality of his 50 frontal portraits of animals, the decision to make his subjects characters with whom we could almost converse eye to eye, opens up the waters of a world that is much more sensitive than it appears.

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Toundra, Olivier Larrey (photographs) & Yves Fagniard (water colours)
If certain ecosystems such as the Savannah and the tropical rainforest immediately evoke a specific flora and fauna, there are others that remain a mystery for most of us. This is the case of the Tundra. Photographs and watercolours depict the inhabitants of these icy lands, particularly affected by global warming. Although the polar bear has a rightfully prominent place, the exhibition also showcases walruses, reindeer, polar foxes and birds of the ice cliffs.

El riu d’aqui, Maxime Briola
Argelès Photo Nature continues to explore the fauna and flora of aqui (from here). This year, showcasing the River (riu) Tech and its tributaries.  Essential to all forms of life, fresh water is unfortunately becoming increasingly rare and precious, here as elsewhere, and it is up to us to protect it. This photographic project, carried out with Maxime Briola, proposes a naturalistic and aesthetic vision of the landscapes and species that live in our rivers. A look sometimes above, sometimes below the surface, and sometimes even in between.

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AT A GLANCE September 2022
2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30
Around the region September 2022

WHEN & WHERE?
WHAT?

Throughout the year
Fairs and festivals around the region, little and large, celebrating every imaginable ‘produit de terroir’.

Throughout the year
Catch a bargain or get rid of your junk at one of the many vide-greniers across the region.

Throughout the year
Making Your Novel a Reality. one-on-one mentoring and training in a form tailored to your requirements, from simple ‘sounding-board’ guidance through to structured practical writing techniques, or something in between that meets your particular circumstance.

Throughout September
Forum des associations.

Tuesday 30th August – Saturday 3rd
Collioure
Piano à Collioure.

Saturday 27th August – Sunday 11th
Perpignan
VISA pour l’Image.

Thursday 1st, 6.30pm
Mas Rieres, Toulouges
Canticel Concert.

Thursday 1st – Saturday 3rd
Parc Palauda, Thuir
Festival Pellicu-Live. Cinema, music and gastronomie festival. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Friday 2nd, 6.30pm
Place Général de Gualle, Rivesaltes
Marché des créateurs. Artisan night market. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Friday 2nd, 8.30pm
Banyuls sur Mer
Piano à Collioure.

Friday 2nd, 9pm
Collioure
Les vendredis du jazz. Free outdoor jazz concerts on the colline Pams. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th
Eglise de la rectorie, Banyuls sur Mer
Festival lyrique des pays catalans. Series of 3 live classical concerts. 10€ for 1 concert, 25€ for 3. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 3rd, 4pm
Collioure
Piano à Collioure.

Saturday 3rd – Sunday 4th
Parc des Expositions, Perpignan
Perpignan Tattoo Convention. The best national and international tattoo artists assemble for this annual tattoo convention. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 3rd – Sunday 4th
Port Vendres
Atelier des barques. Assembly of traditional Catalan boats. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Sunday 4th, 4.30pm
Eglise, Saint André
Canticel Concert.

Monday 5th
Atelier Bruno Tosi, Collioure
Stained glass workshop. Join P-O Life advertiser, Bruno Tosi, for a day’s stained glass workshop.

Thursday 8th
Maureillas las Illas
CSF Walk for Life.

Friday 9th, 7pm
Place des Souvenirs d’Enfance, Torreilles
Apéro Jazz. Free evening of live jazz. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 10th
Salle Crescendo, Mas Guérido, Cabestany
Forum bien-être. Well being salon with kinesiology, ayurveda, reike, naturopaths and more. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 10th, 10am – 6pm
Jardin des Plantes, Saint Cyprien
Salon du livre. Book salon with authors’ signings and workshops. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 10th, from 12pm
Juhègues, Torreilles
Pyrenean Warriors. Heavy metal festival. Online ticket office.

Saturday 10th, 4pm
Cathédrale, Perpignan
Canticel Concert.

Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th
Parc des Expos, Perpignan
Musée éphémère : dinosaures. Discover the incredible prehistoric world of the dinosaurs with a 2 day exhibition in Perpignan. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Sunday 11th
Perpignan
Run’In Perpignan. Various circuits for everyone from competitve athletes to Sunday morning amateurs. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Sunday 11th
Prades
Fête de l’escalade. Climbing festival at Plaine St Martin. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Sunday 11th
Salses le Château
Les Médiévales. Go back in time with a day of medieval fun. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Wednesday 14th – Sunday 25th
Place Gutiard, Céret
Fête foraine. Fairground rides in Céret. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Friday 16th – Sunday 18th
Saint Cyprien
Festa Major. Annual traditional weekend celebration. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Friday 16th, 7pm
Place des Souvenirs d’Enfance, Torreilles
Apéro Jazz. Free evening of live jazz. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

Saturday 17th
Saint Jean Pla de Corts
Bearman XTRI.

Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th
Across the region
Journées européennes du patrimoine.

Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th
Tropique du Papillon, Elne
Festival du Tropique.

Sunday 18th
Céret
La ronde céretane.

Sunday 18th
Les Capellans, Saint Cyprien
Marché Proj’Aid 66.

Sunday 18th
Vallespir
AMUVALL – Festival Automne Musique en Vallespir.

Monday 19th
Atelier Bruno Tosi, Collioure
Stained glass workshop. Join P-O Life advertiser, Bruno Tosi, for a day’s stained glass workshop.

Friday 23rd
Vallespir
AMUVALL – Festival Automne Musique en Vallespir.

Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th
Saint Cyprien
Late Summer Days.

Friday 23rd – Monday 16th October
Across the region
Festival Jazzèbre.

Saturday 24th, 10am – 4pm
Jardin Denat, Collioure
Permaculture garden open day.

Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th
Eglise des Dominicains, Perpignan
Festival International del Disc & de la Bande Dessinée (FID BD).

Sunday 25th, 9.30am
Maison du Temps Libre, Eus
Charity event: les Virades d’Espoir.

Friday 30th, 9pm
Les Collections de Saint Cyprien
Duo Gisèle Vacher-Xerri / Matthieu Millischer. Free live music performance, an eclectic repertoire of traditional Hebrew songs, Afro-American gospel and Spanish classics. Contact the Office de Tourisme for more info.

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*Photo credit: Tourisme Conflent Canigou

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CSF NEWSLETTER: SEPTEMBER 2022
2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30 | Around the Region
Hello Everyone

I like to think I’m an early bird when I hop on my bike around 8 am and make for the hills. Of course I’m not! Out of season I’m usually pipped to the post by mums delivering children to school or by the local walking group setting off up the Albères.
Now, with one more week to go and encouraged by a late spurt of good weather, even the holiday keep-fitters are out there before me! Cycling along the prom there are sweaty bodies who must have left their campsites while I was still having breakfast. Joggers, bikers and a yoga class greeted me this morning. Stretched out on the grass, in the shade, was a class of about 30 yogists who were lifting their legs and twisting their torsos practising the art of Zen.
I’ll have to get up much earlier and join the bread queue before I can call myself an early bird.
Urgent! Two people needed to fill vacancies in the P-O
The Statutes of the Association state that someone can only serve 10 consecutive years on the Sud conseil no matter what. So we are now desperately looking for someone to replace Maggie Longworth as P-O Representative because her time runs out at the end of December!
In fact we are looking for two people to share the role which involves co-ordinating events and activities across the P-O and participating in the general organisation of CSF Sud.
Therefore can we ask you again to please give this some thought and if by any chance you know someone outside CSF, French or English, who might be interested in applying, perhaps you could let Maggie know. Give her ring or email her. Her number is 0680386596 or email sud-maggie@cancersupportfrance.org
Touchlines
Some of you who are members will have already received the July Touchlines. The Newsletter of Cancer Support France is available on the CSF website or you can click on the link here.

Drop Ins
No Drop In at Céret this month.

Monday 19 September, Café des Artistes – Laroque des Albères, 10.30
Do come along, browse the books and have a coffee. Meet friends and stay for lunch.
We have a great deal of books and we would still like you to bring more! But please, no hardbacks (even recent novels, they are too heavy and bulky to pack and carry) and no non-fiction. We have so many books that we have divided them into three. This means that each month we will bring a third of the books so you’ll find a different selection of books each time you come!
By the way, we’re happy to take French paperbacks and also children’s fiction.
Wednesday 21 September Villa Lafabrègue, Prades, 10.15-12

This is a super venue. In case you need reminding, the address is 15 Avenue Louis Prat, 66500 Prades.
Come and join us for coffee or tea and browse the books. Why not pop into Prades for lunch. It’s only 5 minutes walk to the centre of the town.
Other events

Thursday 8 September, Activity for Life, Maureillas las Illas
Our Walk for Life will be at La Farga again this year.
The 2022 Edition of our AFL wiIl be taking place on Thursday 8th September at Maureillas. This year is a celebration year! Cancer Support France National is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. Do come along and join us if you can!
Please contact Penny Parkinson for a Registration Form or if you need any further information (sud-penny@cancersupportfrance.org).
There will be a Tombola and we would be grateful for donations of bottles or goodies. Please let Penny know if you can help and she will arrange pick-up if necessary, or just bring them along on the day.
Looking ahead
Thursday 13 October, Sud P-O Open Meeting, 9.30am – 2pm
Every year we have an informal meeting when we meet up with members, supporters and friends and find out what has gone on in the year with CSF. This is followed by a talk from an invited speaker after which we have lunch.
We will be at the same hotel as before, now a Holiday Inn. Address: 840 Av d’Espagne, 66000. It’s in the Porte d’Espagne area, on the roundabout opposite Darty.
We always invite an interesting speaker to come and talk to us and this year we have Gillie Steele-Bodger who is working with the Restaurants du Coeur. She will tell us why « Restos is so much more than a Food bank »
The official invitation has now been sent to you. Please let me know your menu choices before 7 October and remember that partners and friends are very welcome to join us.
Sunday 23 October, Afternoon tea & painting exhibition, near Céret, 2-4pm
We are delighted to invite you to join us for Afternoon Tea and to see the art work which Bridget Waterhouse, a well known local artist, has generously donated to CSF Sud. Bridget’s work will be on sale with proceeds for CSF. Bridget has said she will be with us so do come along and meet her.
Rita has kindly offered to host this event (weather permitting) in her lovely garden on the outskirts of Céret.
You can see examples of Bridget’s work on her website here.
And find out more about her in this interesting article.
For more information, please contact Penny on sud-penny@cancersupportfrance.org
Wednesday 16 November, Bien Etre Event, Villa Lafabrègue – Prades
Wellbeing is not just the absence of disease or illness. It’s a complex combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors.
We are very excited about out Bien-Etre event which will bring together practitioners in various fields of well-being who offer inspiring, innovative, exciting and practical tools for a balanced mind and a healthy body.
The Villa Lafabrègue is a house of great character and charm. Built in 1873, it’s set in beautiful gardens with a magnificent view of Mt Canigou, a perfect venue for an event such as this.
There are more details to come but here’s what we have so far:
– Speakers on Diet & Nutrition, Reiki and Psychotherapy
– A short presentation on health juice followed by a tasting.
– A speaker from La Maison Entre Parenthèses which is a wellbeing centre in Perpignan for women recovering from cancer.
– During the lunch break, for those who wish to try it, there will be a relaxing session of Indian head massage!
Tea and coffee will be free and for €10 you can have a light lunch.
Visitors will have a choice of four or five experts who will each present their speciality at specific times. Everyone is free to choose or just free to come and look round.

Please remember that if anyone is struggling or needing help, the CSF telephone and email helplines are always open. We are there for everyone needing assistance at this time as well as for those affected by cancer. There is also lots of information on our website.

Diana Eastaff

Romer Kitching Exhibition , Amélie-Les-Bains
2022-09-07 - 2022-09-14 | Amélie-les-Bains
Romer Kitching Exhibition
Until 14th September
Chapelle Saint Valentin (next to the Office de Tourisme).
10am to noon, 2pm to 5pm Monday to Saturday
Part of Les Inédits d’Amélie.Festival.

Romer Kitching is an English painter, born 1995 in London.
He left England at 18 to study at Florence Academy of Art in Italy, a school offering a classical training for aspiring realists.
Working from life under natural light, the school operates much like the great European academies of the past.
Romer Kitching
Students study from nude models every day to gain an understanding of form, anatomy, light and atmosphere. He has been coming to Cèret from a young age and the town holds a special significance for him.

He first painted the area at age 14 and when he is not studying in Italy, Céret is his home.
He has produced many paintings of the area, which are all painted ‘en plein air’ and Romer can often be seen with his easel in the streets of Céret.
He seeks to capture different elements of the area depending on the season, though all his work shows a particular love of light, which in Céret centre is broken by the plain trees that line the streets, casting beautiful dappled shadows.

Romer also has a love of portraiture.
Over the last two years he has produced a number of academic portraits at the Academy, hiring models to help hone his skills. Alongside this, he has painted some more intimate, stylised portraits of family members.

Portraiture, in Romer’s view, should “convey the vulnerabilities of the sitter in a way that flatters them and endears them to the viewer”. For this reason he particularly enjoys painting family and friends.
He works exclusively from life.
From 20th August to 20th September 2021 at La Capelleta in the centre of Cèret, Romer will exhibit a selection of his work from the last three years.
Part of the Les Inédits d’Amélie Festival
