Menton is participating in the Night of Museums, this Saturday, May 17, from 7 PM to midnight, with a rich and varied program. The different cultural and historical sites in the city have shown initiative and imagination to design interesting offerings for the most diverse audience.
For its third participation in the European Night of Museums since its inauguration in 2011, the Jean Cocteau Museum, Séverin Wunderman Collection, wanted to involve the Menton schools and colleges, as well as the students and teachers of the Conservatory, to offer its visitors an exceptional evening.
Video projections, exhibitions of monumental works, puppet theater, and a jazz concert will be offered to night owls in the exhibition halls and on the museum’s forecourt, as well as at the Bastion. A “light painting” workshop will allow for a collective memento of this evening.
Program
7 PM – 7:15 PM Poetry and puppets: The works of Jean Cocteau, from the Innamorati to the Harlequins, come to life thanks to the students of Guillaume Vento College.
7:15 PM – 7:30 PM Recitation “Water, my beautiful mirror”: The students of Frédéric Mistral School reflect on the theme of the mirror, inspired by the poet.
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Light painting workshop: With this workshop open to all and inspired by Pablo Picasso, visitors create a light drawing and participate in a collective work.
8:30 PM – 9:45 PM Concert of the 4 Seasons Conservatory: Émilie Cataldi and Philippe Giroud propose to discover “French composers from the time of Jean Cocteau – Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel, Satie – for piano four hands.”
9:45 PM – 10 PM Theater “Musée haut, musée bas”: Extracts from Jean-Michel Ribes’ play are performed by Lucien Rosso’s class from the Menton Conservatory.
And all evening: The students of André Maurois College offer a video projection, an installation “Reflections,” and an exhibition of monumental works in the museum’s reception hall. Paintings by the Guillaume Vento College students are exhibited in the collection’s path. The Municipal School of Visual Arts presents a slideshow of student works.
Museum forecourt
10 PM – 10:15 PM Theater “Musée haut, musée bas”: The performance of “Musée haut, musée bas” continues on the museum forecourt.
10:15 PM – 10:45 PM Jazz concert: Manu Carré’s jazz class enlivens the museum’s forecourt and esplanade.
The Bastion –
10:45 PM – 11:15 PM Theater “Musée haut, musée bas”: Lucien Rosso’s class concludes their performance of “Musée haut, musée bas” at the Bastion, thus leading visitors to discover the last sequence of the exhibition.
Regional Prehistory Museum
The elements of Nature seen by men of Prehistory and Antiquity.
The stars, water, animals…
This title is for the activity organized within the framework of the 2013 Science Festival for 20 primary school classes in Menton in October and November 2013.
A discovery of the regional prehistory exhibition and the temporary exhibition “Cults, Rites, and Beliefs from the Mediterranean to the Far East” (July 6, 2013 – May 19, 2014) will be offered with an emphasis on elements of Nature becoming symbolic representations or markers once man begins to express himself through images.
The museum will welcome visitors in the company of two valuable collaborators:
Jérôme MAGAIL from the Prehistoric Anthropology Museum of Monaco will talk about Bronze Age engravings from Mont Bégo and his research on engravings serving as chronological markers. The anthropologist will link them to popular traditions of historical times.
Christine DIDIER, historian and archaeologist, will comment on Antiquity in the “Cults, Rites, and Beliefs from the Mediterranean to the Far East” exhibition.
Visitors wishing for more general comments on the exhibitions will be welcome.
A film on Mont Bégo, directed by Jérôme MAGAIL, will be shown in the audiovisual room.
Fine Arts Museums – Palais Carnolès
7:30 PM in the Music Salon: Guitar recital, solos and duo, with Roxane and Roland Radoux.
Roland Radoux, gold medalist from the Lille Conservatory, a concert performer based in Nice since 1988 where he created a guitar school, and Roxane Radoux, holder of a diploma in musical studies from the Nice Conservatory, first prize winner of the Takashi Iwagami guitar competition.
Program: Turina, Assad, Yocoh, Telemann, etc.
9:15 PM and 10 PM: guided tour of the citrus garden of the Palais by lantern.
