Institutes - Cultural centers Midi-Pyrénées

Occitanie boasts a dense network of book professionals, with over 1,200 authors and translators, 280 publishing houses, 250 independent bookstores, 1,000 libraries and archives, and 330 book mediators. With a team split between Montpellier and Toulouse, the agency aims to bring together all book professionals to ensure the harmonious development of the industry in the region, and provides access to resources, animates networks and advises professionals.

The research and documentation centre on Romanesque art contains reproductions of the illuminations of the abbey of Moissac and a library specialising in Romanesque art. The municipal archives of Moissac can also be consulted here. It is an extremely important resource for understanding the past of the town and more broadly the history of the region and even of France. Researchers and students can consult the works on request in order to study them.

The small town of Dunes has an extremely well-stocked and well-known Occitan documentation center. Visitors have access to various types of French and Occitan documents to consult on the spot: books, magazines, video cassettes... You will learn more about the local culture, its history, its gastronomy, its language and much more. It is a necessary stop for those who don't want to just visit the tourist sites, but really learn more about everything that led this region to its particular identity.

Here is a ventilated centre for children between the ages of 6 and 17; a women's sector and family outings as well as sports activities: karate, capoéra and dance.

The Institut des Études Occitanes de l'Hérault develops and promotes the Occitan language and culture in the département. With some thirty affiliated associations, enabling it to be present in almost every canton of the Hérault, the IEO offers Occitan language courses for adults, introductions to the language in schools, and a wide range of cultural events such as conferences, cafés Òc, exhibitions, and traditional dance and theater workshops in Occitan. You'll also find a bookshop-boutique.

In collaboration with the Desbals cultural centre, the Animation entertainment centre offers numerous sports, textbooks and cultural workshops for children. In particular, the centre has set up specific workshops for the women's public (dietary hikes, gymnastics…) and a suitable child-youth reception: a leisure centre (6-11 years old) two homes (11-17 years old) and a-year-old teen club. Cultural workshops offer many techniques, including associations. Adult and senior workshops such as hiking, gymnastics and many planned outings. New: a plastic expression workshop for adults on Tuesday and an associative workshop watercolour and painting.

The Centre Culturel de Quartier Renan is a cultural gem in Toulouse. With its varied programming (theater, puppetry, circus, dance), it offers quality entertainment for young and old. Its digital museum, La Micro-Folie, the first of its kind in the Haute-Garonne department, promises an exciting interactive experience. As well as shows, Centre Culturel de Quartier Renan offers enriching local activities, workshops and courses. It's a warm, dynamic place that promotes access to culture in all its forms.

A showroom, library, library, local and numerous associations, the Rangueil district house allows those who wish to participate in one of the many workshops offered. In choice, mosaic, Esperanto, bocage, drawing, choral singing, plastic arts, salsa, theatre, body and musical awakening for children and adults, young and adults! Don't miss the regular outings organized by the associations hosted by this House House.

Many associations invest the Maison House (inaugurated January 14, 1995) for their activities: rock dance, classical, modern jazz, African, living room, salsa, hip hop…, judo… artistic activities: piano, flute, guitar, painting workshops… Youth home for teens aged 11 to 17. It would be a great surprise if you did not find a sporting or cultural activity that you are passionate about in the very wide range of Bénévoles and its many volunteers.

The Entertainment centre La Terrasse is an integral part of the La Terrasse neighbourhood. It is an entertainment centre and a ventilated centre. Two leisure centres 6-11 years and 12-15 years that operate during school holidays; camps are also organised. The activities proposed are numerous and varied and there are for all tastes, from the most sporty to the quietest, turn to the body or to the mind. Young people and teens will be delighted to be able to share the same passion.

Two leisure centres, two youth receptions, musical workshops and plastic arts, including convivial evenings dedicated to theatre or music, multiple exhibitions… This is the essence of this dynamic cultural centre in the heart of the Soupetard district. This is how you can follow a theatre or sculpture workshop, put you in the gospel or introduce yourself to the guitar before you go to your little Chemin Road to see a beautiful musical tale!

The Saint Simon Animation Centre, inaugurated in March 1992, is a multi-purpose area, with a host of children's leisure and hotlines of local associative structures. These hosted associations develop very popular regular activities. The gymnastics and the 6-12-year leisure centre are managed directly by the municipal service. The leisure centre welcomes 40 children on Wednesday and the school holidays during which outside camps and camps are set up (trappers, gold researchers…), with rates calculated according to family income. The entertainment centre also features rooms, the last of which, with a capacity of 150 seats, opens onto a landscaped garden.

Tennis, martial arts, golf, climbing… with weekends, internships and other challenges, we're doing a great share of sport here. Here you will find many activities for your children, but also for you, thanks to the various associations that organize them here. This way you can indulge in gospel or salsa, such as Cuban percussion. Some activities take place at the cow's quarter (rue Marguerite-Duras) which is connected to the animation centre. Don't miss, on time, exhibitions, concerts, concerts and musicals given here!

On the premises of the tourist office, the House of the Country Viganais is unbeatable, it is the showcase of the best products of the land, since the famous golden, passing through the National Park and to the strings…

International Centre for Cultural Encounters and Musical Creations and an international festival of sacred music led by Michel Wolkowitsky, Sylvanès wanted an organ to serve a wide repertoire open on symphoniq music

La Casa Musicale is a place for amateur practice in music, dance, visual arts and street arts. Every year in June, the Casa organizes the famous Ida y Vuelta festival, a free event for the general public. Thus, at La Casa, children from disadvantaged neighborhoods, music lovers from all walks of life and some of the biggest names in dance and song come together for magical moments. La Casa is a place not to be missed in the Catalan and Perpignan culture. To discover.

Throughout the year, this municipal cultural center hosts a wide variety of theatrical performances, concerts, dance, improvisation evenings, young audience events, comedies... Artistic training courses are also offered, as well as various events: meetings, conferences... This municipal facility offers the possibility of renting and privatizing the entire hall outside of the dates reserved for the cultural program

Theater, comedy shows, jazz or contemporary music concerts, film screenings, exhibitions, meetings for young audiences... Throughout its cultural season, this Balaruc center is full of events for young and old. Its program is dedicated to live shows with a beautiful artistic diversity. A performance hall, it is also a place of residence for creation, a music school, a gallery and an associative space.

Like its IEO neighbors, the Institut des Études Occitanes de l'Aude offers a wide range of events and activities through its allied associations to promote and develop Occitan culture and language. Concerts, lectures, storytelling, exhibitions, public readings, film screenings, historical and heritage tours, language, singing and dance courses, workshops and courses... Something for everyone! The IEO de l'Aude, through its Publishing division, has published 86 works in the Vendémias collection, and 40 in the Farfadet collection.

The centre on Romanesque art contains illuminations, incunabula and other local archives available to researchers. This important collection of documentation on Romanesque art also provides an opportunity to discover the work of the illuminators of Moissag. While sculptors worked on the decoration of the capitals of the cloister in the 11th and 12th centuries, scribes and illuminators produced the often ornate manuscripts in the monastery library.