Culture Hérault

With the Mediabus, it is the library that comes to your meeting in the municipalities of the Béziers-Mediterranean region! The Médiabus are small mobile librarians in which you can learn about the André library and borrow books, BD, CD and DVD! This new service covers the inhabitants of Gannet, Béziers, Corneilhan, Espondeilhan, Lieuran-les-Béziers, Sauvian and Seaside-Plage with two new vehicles - one for the small, one for the big ones! - in the colours of Béziers-Méditerranée, parked on the villages or near schools.

Since September 13, 2008, it is now one of the city's pride… Out of land with a little delay compared to the original calendar - twenty months late! -the Biterrois will have waited for a total of eleven years between the launch of the project in 1997 and the inauguration of the building designed by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Modern, the media library is certainly with pleasant spaces to discover the numerous publications - books, magazines, magazines, newspapers… - cds, CD-roms and DVD… Everything revolves around six poles: " science and society "," literature and languages "," training, research and heritage "," news "," childhood "," music, arts and cinema ". The rayonnages and bacs will delight the eyes of the most curious readers and the ears of the most demanding music lovers. It is possible for them to borrow twelve documents, including two Dvds, for four weeks, soon the return of the documents will be 24 h/24 thanks to a automate.

In the heart of Boujan, in a renovated bourgeois building, the library library offers many services to relax and learn. From CD loans, tapes, music journals - about 1 200 documents - through the consultation of cds, consultation and Internet initiation, and over 9 000 books and magazines, nothing is missing. The various documents and services apply to adults and children alike.

This library member of the Library for All network offers more than 400 works to the inhabitants of Corneilhan in all styles - police, novels, biographies, comics… Regularly new titles enrich the shelves of the library. If a book is not available, you can search it in one of the other libraries in the network.

This small municipal library is available to residents of the village, whether small or large, books and magazines. On-site, one of the computers connected to the Internet can be used free of charge. At the opening hours of the library, computers are reserved for children and adolescents.

Adjacent to the town hall, it offers various animations and exhibitions around the book.

A very warm and welcoming media library, full of books for all audiences. On the first floor, the Image-Sound-Multimedia Center is mainly dedicated to comic books, CD and DVD collections; 8 computers connected to the Internet are available to the public. A news area offers the regional and national daily press as well as general information and leisure magazines. Numerous events are scheduled throughout the year.

In this old discount converted into reading space - books, magazines, newspapers… - and in multimedia space - CD, DVD and Internet - free for residents and accessible for the outside, subject to a modest annual contribution.

The tourist office, through the associations of the city, offers various activities in various fields, from painting to pottery through patchwork, sewing or singing.

Founded in 1992, the Maison de la Vie associative aims to facilitate the life of associations in the city. It proposes a wide range of services ranging from the free provision of premises - with equipment, video in meeting rooms of 15 to 300 people - legal, financial and technical advice - aid for the creation of associations, making available to the Official Journal, the Lamy association… -, aid for organising events… c it is also this public service which is responsible for organising the associations forum in September, the Associations are taking the steps and publishing the directory of biterroises associations.

Opened since 1969, the Maison des jeunes et de la culture is, as its name does not indicate, open to all. Theatre, dance, music, video, computer science, graphic arts… BÉZIERS de Béziers offers a list of endless workshops for children, teens and adults. If your children stay in Béziers for the holidays, no problem! The DJC organizes activities for 6-16 years, with a leisure centre and internships on various themes. But this house also knows how to studious when necessary. During the year, a volunteer team provides school support to students from the EC 1 to the terminal. A bar - without alcohol, of course! -under the name Baobar, has even been opened to develop a health culture for children and young people from leisure activities.

The premises of the old hospice have been completely renovated and now houses the tourist house, the cultural service, the space of contemporary art, the Maison des Arts, the audiovisual library and the music school. At the heart of this immense building, the Saint-Louis church houses a Cavaillé Coll organ classified as a historic monument. A reflection of the historical and cultural heritage of the region, the house of the Arts, located in the former hospice Saint-Louis, exhibits all the year of local celebrities and artists. At two parts, the Humour Museum is dedicated to the humoriste of the Jacques Lucky country. On the walls are accrochés caricatures, sketches, objects… The regional heritage rooms contain the fauna and flora, the folk arts and traditions, geology, archaeology and a rail museum. In the backyard of the house, a botanical garden in the many plants of the Country of Oc invites to the walk and visit the library. On the ground floor a new space of contemporary art welcomes artists of our time.

The Cebenna centre in the heart of the village in a former hotel of 1889 is a place of exchange and communication both scientific and educational. It is managed by a team of passionate scientists who have joined with specialists in multimedia, education and environment. The Cebenna centre has an auditorium which offers regional documentaries, a library, scientific workshops, exhibition halls… and offers regional films and documentaries, books, CD-roms… Everything to better communicate with the region. Cebenna also organizes numerous visits and discoveries of heritage and nature discoveries.

Set in the consular house, it wants to be a coordinating tool for promoting and valuing the trades of wood, stone, iron, and the crafts of the stage (Ah! Molière!) in the form of exhibitions, lectures and demonstrations.