The cultural service of the city of Biot is organizing for the third consecutive year an original event around the advent calendar during the month of December.
The tradition of the advent calendar becomes both a playful and symbolic canvas for this event and an opportunity for the public to discover unique works. This year, the shutters created by schoolchildren are to be discovered on Fish Street (Rue de la Poissonnerie), which is entirely dedicated to them. This event is punctuated by street entertainment for all ages: creative workshops, singing, storytelling… Don’t miss this exceptional event!
A WHOLE VILLAGE IN CELEBRATION!
From December 1st and throughout the holidays
From 5pm, merchants illuminate their shop windows with candles. Decorated with white firs, the village streets are adorned with silver. The shutters created by children are displayed on Fish Street.
Sunday, December 3rd
11am: Fanfare and opening: departure from the village entrance (corner bar) with the group “Bosinaires de Nissa.”
Afro-Brazilian percussion, procession through the village to the Church square to find the surprise character of the Advent Calendar “The Smiling One.” Return in music, Place de Gaulle, for a festive aperitif offered by the municipality.
At this aperitif, presentation of Santa’s sack: value to estimate to win the contents, €1 per ticket. Opening of the merchant window display contest elected by visitors (2 days of thalassotherapy to win).
Friday, December 8th
Opening from 6pm of the “Gold and Silver” exhibition proposed by MAMAB, until January 21st at the Tourism Office.
Sunday, December 10th
From 10am to 4pm: find the animals of the small farm (donkey, goose, sheep, goat, rabbit,…), at the Arcades square and take pony rides for your children through the village.
1:30pm – 3:30pm: Creative workshops for children: initiation with Pascal Guyot (master glassmaker), earth, ceramics and decoration workshops, at the Museum of History and Biot Ceramics square 2pm-4pm: Batucada with the Bosinaires de Nissa through the village streets.
Explorer of new forms of expression of traditional music, this group returns to the practice of street serenades to announce celebrations and cultural associative events. This formation of percussion and Catalan oboes (grailles) will make the streets of Biot vibrate with samba and afro-samba rhythms. Choreographic show “The Set,” with the Jabirue Company at Place de Gaulle.
Located in Salernes in Provence, Jabirue divides its heart and activities between the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes. A female trio, this company consists of 2 dancers and a visual artist performer. Jabirue offers contemporary street dance performances, close to the audience, as well as original entertainment such as stilt-walkers or batucadas. A company with an unusual character, Jabirue creates a unique show at each performance.
4pm: Snack for children
4:30pm: Puppet show “Skin Flower” by Loïc Bettini, at Place de Gaulle.
Loïc Bettini, puppeteer, takes us into a magical and poetic world where emotion and tenderness are present at every moment. He shapes masks, costumes and accessories and breathes into his puppets these bubbles of life that he has decided to offer them, in the harmony of fabrics, colors and sounds.
Wednesday, December 13th
4pm: Children’s tales “Snow in Your Ears,” performance, music and storytelling by and with Laurent Carudel at Saint Exupéry Library.
Duration: 50 min – All audiences from age 6
André, 8½ years old, is one of these charming spoiled children. For him, Christmas boils down to gifts and that’s it. In fact, to be faster, he will use the Christmas tree as a bridge to get his gift directly from Santa Claus. André’s physical ascent is also that of his conscience. Through his encounters, he will realize what the true values of Christmas are…
This show takes little and big ears on different tales. So if you’re not afraid of having your ears frosted by tall tales, climb aboard the sleigh of imagination and fly away!
The session will be followed by a snack for all.
Free admission with reservation (04 93 65 57 99 or 04 93 65 24 54).
Saturday, December 16th
4pm: Clown and storytelling show “That Night” by and with Anne Laure Desmesnay at George Sand Library.
Duration: 50 min – All audiences from age 5
A clown takes the stage. He comes from the cold, he comes to talk to children about that night, the night of Christmas. Thanks to his empathy and complicity with the audience, he takes the children into three different scenic universes. Inside these universes, the clown removes his nose and gives the floor to the storyteller who transports the audience to an imaginary country. She will tell you about that night, at those people’s place… Poetry and magic are in store!
Session followed by a snack for all.
Free admission with reservation (04 93 65 57 99 or 04 93 65 24 54).
5:30pm: Concert with the Purcell Chamber Choir (15 singers and 4 soloists) which offers you for Christmas a rousing tour of song and performs songs that you’ll all sing together (Blue moon, Over the rainbow, Autumn leaves, Jingle bells,…) at Sainte Marie-Madeleine Church.
Sunday, December 17th: Biot all chocolate
Fondues, exhibition and street shows throughout the village
All day long, musical garden with giant instruments and sound and recreational course, to be discovered in the village streets.
Exhibition and book stand, with the Municipal Libraries participating in this day by lending the original exhibition titled “Chocolate!” created as part of the last Reading Festival (October 2006). An opportunity to enjoy for those who didn’t get to see it at Saint-Exupéry Library at that time! For this gourmet event, the libraries will also highlight a collection of books on the chocolate theme. Yum-yum…
11am, 2pm, 3pm: Theatrical tour by the actors of Antibéa
2pm-3pm: Blown glass demonstration by Marcel Saba, at Arcades square.
4pm: Come sing Christmas carols with the chorus of the Space for Arts and Culture, at Arcades square
5pm: Snack for all with hot chocolate and mulled wine, offered by the House of Crafts and Arts and Artisans of Biot (MAMAB) and the association of Biot merchants (CAPL), at Arcades square.
Tuesday, December 19th
8:30am-12:30pm: Collection of gourmet products at the weekly market by the Red Cross, at the Museum of History and Biot Ceramics square.
Saturday, December 23rd
1pm-4pm: Santa Claus will come meet the children in music through the village streets.
1:30pm-3:30pm: Creative workshops for children: introduction to glass with Pascal Guyot (master glassmaker), earth, ceramics and decoration workshops, at Arcades square.
4pm: Award ceremony for the window display contest by Santa Claus, at Place de Gaulle followed by hot chocolate and mulled wine offered by Biot merchants.
Saturday, December 30th
4pm: Drawing of the Santa’s sack winner, at Place de Gaulle.
Friday, January 19, 2007
5:30pm: Follow the batucada and discover or rediscover the works of the Advent Calendar.
6pm: Closing of the Advent Calendar, with an aperitif offered by the municipality, wedding hall.
Information Tourism Office 04 93 65 78 00
A RAIN OF ARTISTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
December 1st: Camille Oz
Camille OZ’s art is painting-painting, without frills, without dilatory interpretation, with only the courage of the act of painting. The message will depend on its strict value, bearer of sensory and emotional meanings, outside any anecdotal or philosophical readability… Play of light, color or form, she lets her imagination and emotions express themselves, nourished by a color, an impression or current events.
December 2nd: Jean-Louis Charpentier
Jean-Louis Charpentier’s art proceeds from a superior realism that translates the dynamic reality underlying the forms of the world. Expression of formal becoming, it renders obsolete any veristic approach to the object. In his sculptures, he assembles elements as if emerging from the earth or imprisoned within it, recreating a space of dialogue between earth and sky. The forms, born according to such a principle, participate in the restructuring of space in a singular and referenced universe for those who want to enter it.
December 3rd: Stéphanie Hamel-Grain
Visual artist, Stéphanie Hamel-Grain leads a large number of drawing and visual arts workshops, particularly with children. Attracted to the work of cut drawing, forms reveal themselves with light and movement to meet a new figure. Her work revolves around her perception of moments of life, encounters or presence in the world around her where art is a pretext for an encounter with others through drawing, matter and its forms.
December 4th: Massimo Ielpo
Self-taught, Massimo Ielpo works various techniques (watercolor, pastel, charcoal,…) before making collage his preferred technique. Influenced by artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring or Roy Lichtenstein, he creates collages where shadows and colors blend to bring life to his characters that are both real and unreal.
December 5th: Véronique Champollion
Child of comic books and new figuration, Véronique Champollion introduces into her work a sharp humor with, as dominant subject, the history of art through other stories. Her chosen media, selected for their strong symbolic content, are diverse (newspaper paper, photographs, film posters, tourist scarves or Provençal tablecloths). She outlines with bold luminous strokes and bright colors the emblematic figures of classical painting: madonnas with child, naiads, caryatids, or genre scenes, which she diverts as her generally politically incorrect inspiration dictates…
December 6th: Valério Paltenghi
Humoristic illustrator with a sensitive soul, Valerio Paltenghi treats all subjects in an original and simple way. Very invested in the associative world, he leads drawing and theater workshops in libraries and schools and intervenes in middle schools to improve students’ Italian through illustration.
December 7th: Pascal Guyot
For him, the magic of glass began more than thirty years ago. This master glassmaker, installed in the heart of the village, creates unique pieces of blown glass with a thousand and one colors, obtained through a means of mixing oxides and inclusions of gold and silver leaves, before the always admiring eyes of visitors. Vases, tableware and whimsical pieces hold no secrets for him.
December 8th: Joseph Zanni
Joseph Zanni’s sensitivity led him to explore the facets of triangular geometry. Each composition is meditated to reveal this fusional bond between the subject and its environment. Fauvist in inspiration through the chromatic intensity of his palette, original in his relationships of colors deliberately in monochrome or gradients, he manages to sublimate the brilliance of colors and give particular relief to the elements of the world around us. Intervening in primary schools, he also ardently advocates for art that benefits hospitals and similar institutions.
December 9th: Driian and Alexan De Badco
Possessing two distinct entities which, under the signature of the same name, form only one, Driian and Alexan weave, through different artistic media, a spider’s web in which our emotions come to be caught. Sometimes soloists, sometimes duettists, they form an artistic and gemellary couple, which outlines the contours of their imaginary world, reinvented by form, color, fixed or moving images.
December 10th: Jacques Parnel
Opposite to his path as an advertising illustrator, Jacques Parnel turns, since 2001, towards a work without subject, with non-figuration as his party line. He lets Chinese ink and paper express themselves through their prohibition. Thus, in his works, we find the principle of the grid, as a pretext to weave on paper a network, a web, a geometry, that of the feelings of the moment.
December 11th: Christine Tabusso
Visual photographer, she uses her body as material for her creation. She metamorphoses, disguises herself using artifices, but also involves and stages herself in installations. For her photographs, she is both the model and the photographer. Drawing much inspiration from popular culture, her work today takes another path through photographic installations using strong representations of women who remain stars such as Marilyn Monroe or Cicciolina.
December 12th: Hervé Courtain
Versatile artist (oil, Chinese ink, mixed techniques,…) Hervé Courtain searches in his works, behind an apparent simplicity, an accumulation of strata and a proliferation of meaning that tend toward complexity. What matters is the guiding thread and the journey that accompany the production so that it is in perpetual tension between perfection/imperfection, simplicity/complexity.
December 13th: Claudine Meyer
Self-taught, Claudine Meyer discovered sculpture in South America. For a long time she works with bronze. Airy passages, labyrinths fragile ramparts, half-open paths, the material fades. Secret silences, bare breaths, fragments of intimacy: the gaze slips inward.
December 14th: Sophie Féraud
Using papier-mâché to make people smile and seduce, such is the challenge of visual artist Sophie Féraud. Once the paper is shaped, painting and finishing then bring to life a funny bestiary… and whether you are small or big, everything should only be a pleasure for the eye with this hint of madness to make the spirit more Pop! Amusing shapes and sweet colors, here is Sophie’s world that will surely seduce you!
December 15th: Jean-Charles Roméro
At his beginnings, Jean-Charles Romero paints on cardboard marouflé on canvas. Today, his universe evolves toward the “cut-up” method: acrylic painting and collage of visuals, posters, texts or advertisements that overlap and collide. In his painting, the artist seeks to intertwine these two contradictory poles that are the madness and genius of the human being.
December 16th: Claude Giorgi
Memory of the ocean, memory of wrecks, fossils of wrecks… His work consists of reusing recovered materials (driftwood, metal,…) from Mediterranean beaches and seabeds (wrecks, end-of-life boats,…). Through his sculptures, he gives a second life to these pieces of metal abandoned by man.
December 17th: Daniel Fillod
Daniel Fillod is a poet who addresses old stones. No madness at the beginning of his approach, just a hint of humanity. Painting these large stone blocks allows him to express himself and communicate. He tries to know what these rocks have seen or experienced, he listens to them speak and they dictate to him the patterns he must create based on their appearances. Often, these are fabulous animals and women, symbols of life, like the earth, full of curves like his stones.
December 18th: Keïko Courdy
Artist, director, she creates shows and multimedia installations. She invents immersive and interactive environments in search of new sensations. She stands out through the multidisciplinary nature of her projects which involve digital media, dancers, sensor systems and video and 3D image projections. Science fiction characterizes the vast majority of her creations.
December 19th: Martine Polisset
Fascinated since always by our environment, whether mineral, plant or marine, Martine Polisset likes to reproduce by oversizing her models. Each form, roundness or contour is respected. Thus are born star fruit, pomegranate, coral,… fruits and vegetables are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Her
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