Culture Vienne

For 30 years this year, Espace Mendès France has seized the current social topics to highlight them with audiences of all ages through exhibitions, conferences, round tables, shows and workshops. His challenge: popularize scientific research to make it accessible to all and put it in a local contact. Hundreds of events are offered every year. Dive into the program. It is dense. Exhibitions are often visited. Designed for all ages, they allow to manipulate and experiment to better understand. Within the EMF, dedicated to digital creation, the Multiple Place offers shows and workshops. Let's do experiments!

The setting is absolutely suitable for culture, since you are at the castle Harcourt, heritage châtelleraudais 15th, its 50,000 documents in the form of books, CD, CD-ROM, sound recordings divided into three rooms are available for hire. Other possibilities: interlibrary loans, corner burlesque, consultation of 65 6 magazines and newspapers, Internet, funds old, microfiches players and microfilm, photocopier, etc. the consultation on site is completely free. You can also find a photocopier, and Internet access. A quiet location, a few activities on different themes of culture.

Passionate about books? You off them one after another? Do your children not give them even less gifts? So you need to visit the staff in the Minimal library. As in any good library, you can subscribe to it and enjoy the 3000 available references, in free or empruntables access. Although modest by size, it addresses adults with children and is located in the Minimes centre of the Small, whose extra-curricular activities for children are numerous.

It's the children's library. Regularly, animations are offered to our dear!, such as storytelling readings. A place for children to make them discover the world of reading, images, culture. Exhibitions on the theme of photography are often organized and open to all. Most of this library is the diversity of proposed events for both small and large, as well as a very large choice of books to enjoy reading.

Book loan service, CD, audio and video cassettes, consultation with magazines, photocopier (same rates as at castle), CD-rom workshop on Monday and Thursday (adults, free access) and on the 1 st and 3rd Wednesday of the month (children, by appointment). A large space dedicated to the discovery of reading, to its learning, both on paper and on media. A space filled with various activities, entertainment for the small, workshops organized. A place open to everyone for 20 years, full of life in this neighborhood!

Youth House? Not only is the DJC the main provider of animation in the city. Concerts more than regular (not to be missed, the festival Gartempo, free, during the month of August), quality theatre, exhibitions you want here… A superb Energy Pole.

The three levels of this library combine various books to count on some 21 000 titles, 50 periodicals, 4 000 discs and 400 cd-roms. On the ground floor is the welcome space, and then the youth corner. First, the Multimedia and Internet Forum, documentaries (funds for regional history and culture) and teen space with comics. In the last, under the apparent frames, disco and adult literature. But the media library develops a fonds «Cité de l'Hara et des Métiers du Livre»: historical books of book and reading, enluminure, calligraphy… A fund deposited by the Society of Authors of Poitou-Charentes and another favouring manual works and needle works in partnership with the association «at the Wire of the Poitou». Shows for children, exhibitions, conferences amplify the cultural life of the city.