Culture Toulouse

With its spectacular arch and monumental door, the José-Cabanis multimedia library is a pleasant place to live, where everyone can find a thousand ways to learn or be entertained. Over 350,000 documents are available on loan in all media: books, national and regional press (no fewer than 190 titles), videos, CDs, DVDs, vinyl, sheet music and even musical instruments! Dedicated areas: games, music, drawing, digital (with 150 workstations). Conversation, DIY and digital initiation workshops, and a reader's club. A rich cultural program: exhibitions, concerts, screenings. There's so much to do and experience in this place of discovery and encounters! Let yourself be tempted!

The area of the Seven Deniers, the Job space is a place for turbulent history. Historically, this building, called the "flagship", housed the Job cigarette paper factory. Remaining unaffected for ten years, he was promised destruction. But it was not counting on the mobilization of neighboring associations, who fought to do what it became: a place open to all that now houses a swimming pool, a theater and cultural activities. Three structures are resident there: the MJC of Twin Bridges, the Music 'Halle Associative Music School and the association of neighborhood 7 animated, offering local animations, workshops for children and adults (choir, aquagym, theater, writing…) and activities around shared gardens. The Job space is also the meeting place of the Job group, which brings together the dozen associations responsible for its creation and today organizes meetings, debates, Republican balls, projections, amateur scenes…

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!

Founded in 1996, the Association Heritage and Art History in Volvestre and Midi-Pyrénées organises Visits to Toulouse and Midi-Pyrénées with art Historians and Lecturers accredited by the Ministry of Culture. The visits are open to all, whether or not members of the Association. Some themes for visiting: the breath of the Renaissance in the peculiar hotels and the history of pastel; the Dalbade district; trades on the streets: the life of craftsmen and traders in the Middle Ages; places, wells and fountains from antiquity to day; History of the Cathari, the Crusade and the Inquisition… Head of the Association: Christine Jiménez, a keynote guide approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, approved National Education, Doctorate in Art History.

With its 70 creations and 7,000 public performances, the Théâtre Interrégional Occitan places the Occitan language and culture at the heart of its artistic approach. The company develops original creations that go against the grain of existing formats, bringing a singular view of the world and affirming its commitment to the transmission and development of projects serving new generations. It supports other Occitan theater companies in their distribution.

The aim of the Arts et d'Oc association is to raise funds to bring in artists who express themselves in Occitan or about Occitan culture. With these funds, it can organize shows, workshops and concerts in high schools, colleges and schools, in response to requests from Occitan teachers. These workshops are offered primarily to secondary school students studying Occitan in Haute-Garonne. The association is committed to supporting Occitan teachers and those who wish to raise awareness of the Occitan language among pupils.

Bolegadis members, from associations, politics and civil society, work to help create an economic and cultural virtuous circle within the Occitanie region around Occitan and Catalan cultures. Since the end of 2016, Bolegadis has contributed to advancing projects for a historical frieze for the Occitanie region, a label produced in Occitanie, the introduction of autonomous barges on the Canal du Midi, as well as work on remuneration in the rural environment in Occitanie. A major commitment for the region!

The association Les toiles d'oc's purpose is the production, animation, technical and artistic services as well as the training for projects concerning the audiovisual and the cinema in the Occitan cultural space. It can produce videos, films, events and shows in Occitan or linked to Occitan culture. The association can also provide training courses and offer productions to broadcasters. Please do not hesitate to contact the Ostal d'Occitania (the House of Occitania) for further information.

Cadres Catalans de Toulouse aims to promote northern Catalonia (the Pyrénées-Orientales department) in Toulouse, both economically, socially and culturally. For them, Catalans and Occitans share the same struggle: to defend their language, which is threatened with extinction. They also perpetuate Catalan tradition by organizing conferences, meals, exhibitions and festivities such as the Benvengut Festival or the Arrival of the Canigou Flame for Toulouse's Saint Jean festivities.

Created by the city of Toulouse, Rosalis is a digital library that disseminates and promotes the old, rare and precious collections of its municipal library. The "Langue d'oc" collection includes poetry, plays, linguistic surveys, revolutionary writings, musical pieces and theological writings in Occitan. This collection contains several dozen manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the ^20th century.

To rediscover the richness of Toulouse's Occitan heritage, head to the Bibliothèque d'Etudes et du Patrimoine. Inaugurated in 1935 and also called "Périgord", it is very popular with students and researchers. With a surface area of 9,000 m², it is one of the largest in France and houses more than 35,000 books published since 1990 in all fields, including 5,000 documents since 1945 concerning Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrénées region.

This library depends on the University of Toulouse. It specializes in the history, languages and literature of the great South of France and Spain, from antiquity to the present day. It serves the entire university community, but is also open to the general public. It holds a very wide range of documentation on the history, languages and literature of southern France and Spain and has an Occitan collection.

If you'd like to discover theater in Occitan, this troupe performs in Toulouse and the Lauragais region. One of the group's proudest achievements is the production of Sophocles'Antigone and many of Molière's plays, all translated into Occitan. Do you speak Occitan and have the soul of an actor? We'd love to hear from you! The association is always on the lookout for Occitan-speaking actors! For further information, please contact l'Ostal d'Occitania.