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C'est de la Danse Contemporaine : from 21 January to 12 February 2010
C'est de la Danse Contemporaine ! This International Festival offers members of the public the chance to discover contemporary choreographic creation over a period of one month. It is open to world influences.The festival is punctuated by various visual installations in which the body is placed at the crossroads of other disciplines.
more informationMade in Asia : from 26 January to 14 February 2010
Although Toulouse is a Southern capital, a Latin city and the departure gate for an epic adventure with Africa and South America, it cannot shut its eyes to the Asian world, a key player on the world's geopolitical, economic and cultural scene in the 21st Century.
For the third time, from 26 January to 14 February 2010, MADE IN ASIA offers a meeting with the Asian continent that is unique...
Le Printemps du Rire : from 15 to 27 March 2010
Every year, the Printemps du Rire, Europe's leading comedy festival, gives the people of Toulouse a dose of fun to help them ease their way out of winter. Now in its fourteenth year, the festival offers 50 shows and 120 performances with top-of-the-bill artists standing alongside the future great names of comedy.
more informationLes Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine : from 19 to 28 March 2010
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela Latin America is on the big screen in Toulouse for a period of 10 days. Hitherto unseen films, avant-premieres, recent films and heritage works, encounters with the actors and directors , altogether there are 180 films and 70 guests. This meeting with Latino cinema and those who make it is an absolute must!
more informationFestival Flamenco : from 9 to 14 March 2010
The finest flamenco artists are to converge on Toulouse.
With shows, beginner or advanced classes in the art of flamenco, exhibitions and film shows... whether you are a diehard enthusiast or just curious to share intense emotional experiences, there is something here for everyone.
Zoom arrière : from 2 to 13 March 2010
4th edition of the Zoom Arrière Film Festival at the Toulouse Film Library and Archives
From the 2nd to 13th March 2010, the Toulouse Film Library and Archives is organizing the 4th Zoom Arrière Film Festival, a festival that explores film heritage. The international actress Maggie Cheung will preside over this 4th edition dedicated to the Stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood...
Le Marathon des mots : from 2 to 6 June 2010
Actors and authors from all over the world will meet in Toulouse over a 4-day period, to celebrate words and texts in all their forms and all their genres.
4 days of celebrations, 200 readings, performances and shows in Toulouse city centre, from poetry to music, from children's literature to the whodunit, from fiction to erotic literature, from the cinema to the visual arts, via a few...
Rio Loco : from 17 to 21 June 2010
The Rio Loco festival invites a single river of the world to come and mix its waters with those of the Garonne for a week of festive and popular sharing on the banks of the Prairie des Filtres. The open air musical presentations are completed by all the conviviality of a village - with meeting places, exhibitions and tastings.
The programming for this festival is designed to reflect the...
Les Siestes Electroniques : from 24 to 27 June 2010
Les Siestes Electroniques is a festival devoted to the new sweet and restful music, during which the park of Prairie des Filtres is host to the best in contemporary music.
Year after year, this festival stimulates the curiosity of the audience and continues to be a uniquely unusual event, festive, pleasant, simple and open, at the same time as uncompromising. Exceptional concerts, club...
Toulouse d'été : July - August
Toulouse d'été offers every style of music to bring magic and rhythm to the summer evenings. Listen to the music and let the Pink city cast its spell over you! Toulouse Council offers everyone who takes the time to explore an opportunity to take part in an astonishing event that combines the architectural splendour of its monuments with the harmony of sound.
Over a period of almost a...
Festival Ravensare : from 7 to 11 July 2010
The Ravensare festival unveils the new faces of the up-and-coming scene. Through a group of short works, Ravensare offers a dance scene where bodies express themselves with emotion, humour and imagination. The 8th edition invites artists from the four corners of France to Toulouse. On the programme: dance, concerts and exhibitions.
A spectacular range of creations will sparkle for 6 rich,...
Tangopostale : from 7 to 11 July 2010
It all began with the birth of Carlos Gardel in 1890, the voice that made the tango sing throughout the world. And Toulouse became a tango city forever. Since that day, the number of "tangueros", experienced, passionate dancers of the Argentinian tango, has risen constantly.
Tangopostale is the name chosen for this festival, which aims to share the Tango as an urban culture from Rio de la...
Piano aux Jacobins : September
In the gentle brightness of a concert, Piano aux Jacobins offers a unique alchemy: a venue imprinted with spirituality and history, combining listening to hearts and the emotion generated by generous acoustics.
The aims of the festival are to design these musical events in a spirit of open-mindedness, present today's composers in a way that throws light on the composers of the past and...
Le Printemps de Septembre : from 24 September to 17 October 2010
Le Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse is an entirely free festival dedicated to the visual arts and live shows. Painting, drawing ,sculpture, photography, video and performance, choreographies, cine-concerts and concerts of current music , a contemporary creation statement is presented to you every year.
more informationFestival Occitania : September - October
The Occitània Festival is an illustration of the links between Occitan culture and the Mediterranean and Oriental worlds (Judeo-Spanish, Arab-Andalusian, North African, Byzantine Turkish, Berber, Greek, Catalan), with over 400 artists taking part in fifty events covering the whole range of artistic disciplines!
A highly colourful programme that incorporates every aspect of cultural creation,...
Toulouse les Orgues : from 7 to 17 October 2010
Toulouse is the organ capital of Europe and there are plenty of good reasons for this. It is not by chance that this event has been brought to life by the people - and the organs - of Toulouse.
The city has a rich and varied organ heritage, including many different styles of instruments from all periods of history. The exceptional number of organs in the city (30, 9 of which are classified...
Cinespaña : from 1er to 10 October 2010
Toulouse and the entire Midi-Pyrénées region has organised a ten-day tribute to Spanish cinema.
Thanks to the quality of its programmes and its convivial atmosphere the festival has become an important landmark in Hispanic cinematographic culture, an opportunity for exchange and dialogue centring around creative film talent.
Séquence Court-Métrage : November
A short film festival that takes place mainly at the Toulouse "Cinémathèque" and the ABC cinema, but also at other venues in the Midi-Pyrénées region: Lavaur, Auterive, Foix, Vic-en-Bigorre and Ramonville.
French-speaking film competition, international prize-winners, Midi-Pyrénées film prize, secondary schools workshop prize. Programmes for children, video programmes, other...