La Divan Du Monde
Performances range from rock to jazz and feature artists from France as well as from other parts of the world. Monday nights free, and regular concerts draw mixed crowds. New French bands often play. Tel 01 44 92 77 66. 75 rue des Martyrs (Arr. 18) Metro: Pigalle.
Paris Rollerblading
The mission of Pari Roller is to organize and promote the Friday night skating tour and to encourage roller skating as a leisure activity, as a sport or as a means of transportation… The association is a non-political, not-for-profit, and non-religious--in short, independent! The tour is free and open to anyone who can control his or her speed. This weekly ride gathers the largest number of skaters in the world. The Place Place Raoul Dautry in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. between the Montparnasse office tower and the Paris-Montparnasse train station. The Date All year round, except in case of rain or when road surfaces are wet (slippery road=danger). Every Friday. Start at 10pm for a 3-hour ride through Paris (return to Montparnasse at 1am).
•1 January, 2012: New Year's Day (Thursday)
•8 April: Easter Sunday
•9 April: Easter Monday
•1 May : Labour Day(Friday)
•8 May : WWII Victory Day (Friday)
•17 May: Ascension Day (Thursday)
•28 May: Pentecost Sunday
•29 June: Pentecost Monday
•14 July: Bastille Day,(Tuesday)
•15 August: Assumption Day (Saturday)
•1 November: All Saints' Day (Sunday)
•11 November: Armistice Day 1918 (Wednesday)
•25 December: Christmas Day (Friday)
Interesting
Horse & Carriages are permitted to gallop through the streets of Paris, even the Champs Elysee for the first time in 40 years. Can you imagine a more Romantic experience?
The Royal Opera, an integral part of the Palace of Versailles, is the perfect example of a court theatre and is one of the remarkable elements of the estate of Versailles through its architectural, decorative, technical and theatrical arrangements.
Paris is one of the most entertaining cities in world. With endless museum exhibits, conventions, shows, restaurants and cruises, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Below are just a few highlights of what is going on in 2012. What an exciting year!
Coming Up
Art Lovers Wine & Food Tasting Evening
December 28th, 2011 at 7:45PM
Restaurant Chateau de l'Ouest, 75014
Cost: 80 Euros per person
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The Paris Cookbook Fair is the world’s largest fair devoted to cookbooks and wine books. Based on a huge network of publishers from over 50 countries, the fair is balanced between trade and pleasure. Publishers, authors, photograhers, stylists, printers, distributors, booksellers negotiate projects. At the same time, books are promoted with constant cooking demos by the greatest celebrity chefs, and wine tastings at the international bar.
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Date: March 9-11, 2012
Time: TBD
Where: Le 104 - 104 rue d'Aubervilliers 75019 Paris
Cost: 8 Euros. Includes access to the whole fair during for one day, including the stands, the show kitchens, the International Bar, conference rooms and exhibitions.
Description: This is Paris: culture, cuisine, fun, wine, elegance and glamour. Enjoy non-stop cooking demonstrations while celebrity chefs and authors present their cookbooks. At the International Bar, taste wines and spirits from all over the world while discussing wine books with their authors and publishers.
It was 1863: the year Manet sparked a scandal with his Déjeuner sur l’herbe, and the year of Delacroix’s death. Shocked by the lack of official recognition, for the next Salon, Fantin-Latour created his Hommage à Delacroix.
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Fantin-Latour, Manet, Baudelaire: the Hommage à Delacroix
Date: December 7, 2011 - March 19, 2012
Description: The exhibition traces the journey of the painting and tells the story of the artistic fraternity through other portraits of the artists shown in the painting and the works tying them to Delacroix’s legacy.
The first major monographic exhibition in Paris devoted to Edgar Degas (1834-1917) since the 1988 retrospective at the Grand Palais, Degas and the Nude contributes to the ambition of the Musée d'Orsay.
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Degas and The Nude
Date: March 13, 2012 - July 1 2012
Description: This exhibition explores Degas's evolution in his practice of the nude, from the academic and historical approach of his early years down to the inscription of the body in modernity throughout his long career. A predominant element in the artist's work, together with dancers and horses, nudes are presented through all of the techniques used by Degas, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printing and above all pastel, which he brought to its highest degree of achievement.
Organised in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition takes advantage of the very rich collection of graphic works of the Musée d'Orsay, seldom shown due to its fragility, to which will be added exceptional loans from the largest collections, such as those of the New York Metropolitan Museum and the Chicago Art Institute.
The Centre Pompidou is dedicating a brand new exhibition to the connections between the visual arts and dance, from the 1900's to today.
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Date: Nov 23, 2011 - April 2, 2012
Where: Place Georges Pompidou,
75004 Paris
Description: "Danser sa via" ["Dancing through life"] shows how these sparked off modernity and fed the major movements and the figures who constitute the history of modern and contemporary art. The exhibition illustrates its point through works by artistic figures of the 20th Century, through movements that founded modernity, and through the research of contemporary artists and dancers. It presents the common interest of art and dance for the body in movement. "Danser sa vie" ["Dancing through life"] creates a dialogue between all disciplines, of fine art and choreographic art. A wide range of paintings, sculptures, installations, audio-visual work and choreographic pieces, illustrate their incessant exchanges, in a language that is often fusional.
The Museum if Impressionism has organized an exhibition exploring the theme of spring in the work of Maurice Denis (1870-1943).
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Maurice Denis, The Eternal Spring
Date: April 1, 2012 - July 15th, 2012
Description: The exhibition comprises approximately eighty works – paintings and drawings – and is accompanied by extensive documentation in the form of photographs, publications and correspondence. The works on show include loans from the most prestigious public and private collections, some of which have been displayed publicly only rarely or never at all in France.
The exhibition is divided into three main sections: The Awakening of Nature in Springtime; Christian Spring and Earthly Paradise; The First Signs Of Love and The Spring Of Life. It will also present throughout a little known aspect of Denis’s production, that of his talent as a painter-decorator, by recomposing constitutive elements of some of his large decorative projects.
A champagne counter has been installed on the top floor of the Tower for an unforgettable and festive moment.
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Champagne at the top
Feel like doing something a little bit chic and original ? Well in that case stop off for a moment at the champagne bar on the top floor to enjoy a unique festive experience.
Nestling into the very structure of the Tower, the bar offers you a choice of a glass of either rosé or white champagne, served as chilled as you like. What an elegant way to toast a sensational experience at the top of the Tower !
The bar is open daily from midday to 10 at night (a glass of champagne will cost between €10 and €15)
Rosé or white champagne will heighten this Parisian experience
Open every day from noon until 10pm.
