Events calendar Champagne-Ardenne

Four days of music and festivities! Le Cabaret Vert attracted 127,000 festival-goers to its 2023 edition, and never ceases to thrill the crowds. 18 years of fun and sharing. Lomepal, Nekfeu, Niska, Pomme, Dionysos, the festival is open to all kinds of music and has a strong ecological conscience. But Cabaret Vert isn't just a music festival, it's also a comics festival, bringing some forty talented artists to the fore each year, as well as street shows and screenings.

Go back in time and dive into the heart of another era: the Middle Ages. Every spring, the Remois pay tribute to Joan of Arc who succeeded in leading Charles VII to Reims so that he could be sacred in the cathedral. Over the course of a weekend, the Cité des Sacres returns to its former costumes and customs and offers you an exceptional programme: pyrotechnic shows, sounds and lights, concerts, falconry, fire-eaters, jugglers... not to mention the medieval village, with its camps and market and the torchlight parade of Jeanne in armour.

In May, organized by cultural Alternative, in partnership with the City of Saint-Dizier, the festival of school and amateur troops of the Champagne-Ardenne region, all framed by professionals, presents about thirty pieces across the city.

Every other year, some 150 troupes from 5 continents come to present their puppet shows! Now a worldwide event, it is aimed more at adults than children, who will nevertheless find plenty to dream about. Poetry is on every street corner in Charleville-Mézières. There's also an "off" festival version, which brings the city's streets to life like an urban fairy tale. See you in 2025!

In 2024, the fortress will be celebrating 29 years of festivities! Entertainment resonates in the main courtyard, music fills the air, swords clash and taverns pour the precious brew. Caught up in this whirlwind of time, you're plunged into a unique adventure. Stroll through the stalls and encampments, appreciate the meticulous work of the craftsmen. you'll be joined by 10,000 other visitors for an unforgettable experience. And don't forget, during the festival, there's always the chance to visit the castle!

The Châlons fair, the ^second largest agricultural event in France, brings together nearly 800 exhibitors and 250,000 visitors every year! The programme is rich in activities with more than 200 conferences, exhibitions, parades, gourmet tastings and a village of trades and training with demonstrations throughout the day. The Châlons fair is also a musical festival: Fair on stage. 11 days of concerts that bring together a heteroclite crowd who come to move to the sound of Big Flo and Oli, Joe Cocker, Shaka Ponk, Deep Purple... A still human event, where you can take advantage of the fair all day long to end the evening in style!

Every year around May 10 (in reference to Dimey), this festival celebrates French poetry and song and pays tribute to the poet-chansonnier, a child of the village, Bernard Dimey. Passed away in 1981, we owe him the famous Syracuse, Memère, My feather thing… So the song song is honored during these few days. Many artists went through the stage of the nogentese cultural center: Juliette, Barcella, Thomas Pitiot, General Tour, François Corbier, Graeme Allwright… But this festival also involves exhibitions, tributes, films… Dimey, who would be suing us' I am sure of interest later, you will have machines to speak the dead ', did not mistake: He is still there, with lovers of poetry sung like Yves Jamait… The association also offers occasional shows. Jean-Claude Dreyfus has been released to play there. Intimate but with a beautiful palette of shows!

This champagne house, in corner and in height, has been skillfully restored and is part of the ancient Champagne heritage of the city. A perfect postcard of the houses in the region, she welcomes behind her half-timbered exhibitions with free entrance, such as those of Michèle Caillaud-Houël, Piero Cavalerri who holds Galerie Pass'art in Troyes. You can continue on Grand-Rue to reach the Passion Chapel.

It is the story of a single monument in France: that of the church of Asfeld, to the singular baroque architecture evoking a violin of gambe, which is the rendez-vous of baroque music brought to the bues thanks to its exceptional framework for lovers of luth, theorina, floral flute, inspired singing and, of course, violin. The 10 th edition of the 10 th edition will be held in June 2018: concerts, toy salon, initiation to the violin of gambe… What to spend a very entertaining and rewarding weekend.

For the fifth edition, spring took its neighbourhoods. It's time for the Site site to host, during the last days of May, a festival of tendances trends mixed with pop, jazz, electro, funk, with some poster heads and many discoveries and surprises. A crazy troubadours forum that has its unconditional. Great novelty 2012: A giant tent to host the scene and all festival goers! The Cassine is also a covered forum with 1 700 seats to rest, capitals for the bar and dining points… What to spend a good festival in all circumstances. A poster: Da Silva, Great Sophie, Blankass, Bénabar… and many others.

This festival dedicated to comics has been going strong for 16 years. A weekend of book signings, meetings, workshops and activities for young and old alike. The festival gets up to date, with screen-printing workshops, digital tablet stands, and free exhibitions in the cellars or at the tourist office. Some twenty authors take part each year. On the program for this 2024 edition: Étienne Willem, Jean-Claude Denis and Elizabeth Holleville.

A national operation that works well in the department. It is an opportunity to discover parks, public gardens and also private gardens that are open to you. Three days to also meet events, readings, guided tours, tastings, exhibitions, meetings, demonstrations and workshops. The green heritage is thus placed in honor, with sites inaccessible daily and yet exceptional such as the French garden of the Château de Barberey-Saint-Sulpice (10). A hundred sites are open throughout the region.

This year, the theme chosen is "the garden and its creators". Attention, in some municipalities like Epernay, you need to book your tickets for visits to the Tourist Office.

Info. Pending the PDF of the 2013 edition, you will find online the details of the 2012 edition: http: //www.culture.gouv.fr/champagne-ardenne/pdf/rdvj_2012.pdf

An unmissable meeting place for Champardennais who love the green attitude, this show is a real oxygen bubble for nature lovers. Conferences, organic market, gardening workshops, organic home cosmetics manufacturing, eco-tourism, outdoor activities, nearly 250 exhibitors are present to share their knowledge and help you adopt an eco-responsible and more environmentally friendly lifestyle. As for leisure activities, the accrobranche course and its zip line will transform young and old into adventurers: monkey bridges, vines, suspended trunks, all these are challenges to be overcome with skill and complete safety with the animators of the Arboxgène park.

On the occasion of the 1 500 th anniversary of the birth of the franc kingdom (512-2012), the Saint-Rémi Museum offers a journey to the th century. De of daily life in the Champagne-Ardenne region, this exhibition is structured around three tombs and their treasures, discovered in 2002 in Saint-Dizier. On 27 November 511, Clovis, king of the Franks baptized in Reims, died. His eldest son, Thierry (Theodoric), inherited most of his kingdom. At the beginning of 512, he chose Reims as the capital. The City of Reims chose this anniversary date to highlight the rich collection of the Musée Saint-Rémi: more than 400 jewels and objects of the daily life of our ancestors, which these people gain in their grave. Beside the fund of the Musée Saint-Rémi, the exhibits of this exhibition: three tombs of the Carolingian Upper Aristocracy in the Kingdom of Reims. There was a young woman and two high-level chiefs, as evidenced by the wealth of their funeral furniture.