Events calendar Hellemmes Lille

In Hellemmes, you can celebrate the festival and the Festival des Popotes Roller proves this. Created by the Mayor in 2016, this original festival brings together food-trucks and a great musical scene within the Engrand park. What better than good music and street food to celebrate late summer? On the music side, the town hall selected artists found on the net or at local festivals. The program? Pop rock, new wave, hard rock… there are for all tastes. Not forgetting the tributes paid to the largest rock and pop groups, some of them are not missed, for their side resolutely décalé! Side flavours, you will travel. New York hot dogs, pizza, Breton cakes, grilled cheeses, revisited cheeses, etc. And it will of course be sprayed with beer from the collective All Hops, which also breaststroke a 100% hellemmoise beer! It's easy, funny, tasty… it's a little festival like you love!

It was in 2002, after having been on one of the steps of the Four Days in Dunkirk, that the mayor of Hellemmes puts himself in the lead of providing his own commune of cycling (for newcomers, know that a critérium refers to sporting events that are not championships!) After many discussions and a first race organized in 2003 in the form of a "gentleman" (understanding a race where a cyclist is interviewed the time of the journey), the first criterium hellemmois is finally organised in 2004. And over the years, it has become an essential part of the cycling landscape. Indeed, it is one of the only championships still organised in France, making it a very popular event of national and international cyclists. The Golden Handlebar is a journey that the athletes will take the tour 25 times… that is 35 km! But the Golden Handlebars is first and foremost a great, family-run holiday. Animations start at 14 pm on Hentgès Square. Workshops for the practice of cycling, space dedicated to the conduct of original and fun equipment, a baby-bike circuit, BMX track, initiation, initiation… A family run is also organised in the streets of Hellemmes. It allows you to discover the city and meet its traders (whose Union is co-organizer of the event with Hellemmes Organisation Cycling and the Town Hall!) A 16 h 45, the first championships start for the women riders, the small and the senior. At 18 p. m. and for 45 min, visitors can, if they wish, ride on the course of the race. And at 19 p. m., it's the launch of the real Gold Handlebar that celebrated in 2017 its 15 years (eh the idea was born in 2002) to see the race, to take the street Roger Salengro, near the metro station Mairie d'Hellemmes. A family feast that places cycling in honour: The Golden Handlebar is an event not to be missed for all lovers of the Little queen!