Invitation to a walk “In the footsteps of Patrick O’Brian”
Meet at the Patrick O’Brian space on the first floor for a tour that reveals the village through the eyes of this great writer.
The summer 2018 exhibition at the Musée d’art moderne de Céret presents the works of Nadia Mehadji.
One of their great writers, Jean de La Fontaine, produced French versions of fables, in verse and with illustrations. There are twelve volumes, with stories such as The Ant and the Grasshopper, told with elegance, wit and verve, in simple French which is usually easy to understand today. Each teaches a lesson about our relationships with society.
The summer exhibition at Collioure’s Musée d’Art Moderne displays 40 works by Henri Vergé-Sarrat and Rolande Déchorain. Rolande, 18 years his junior, was first Henri’s pupil and then his wife. In love with each other and Collioure, the couple visited the quiet fishing port at various times during the 1930’s.
With quaint, cobbled streets, pretty squares, lively shops, restaurants, and bars, and art and music museums, there is certainly enough temptation to hang around the town, but there is plenty going on around and about too.
Places des Neuf Jets in Céret went back in time to 1943 under the German occupation.
Jean Rochefort is the painter, his young nude model is Spanish actress Aida Folch, and the artist’s wife is a dazzling Claudia Cardinale.
A passionate collector has recently bequeathed her impressive collection of paintings to the Musée d’Art Moderne in Céret.
Published in 2015 this is an important and relevant novel discussing nature and humanity
Here in the Mediterranean south of Europe, celebrations start sooner, as the may trees or hawthorns are already bursting into bloom in April.
A review of the 2011 Man Booker Prize Winner : Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes