80th anniversary of the Landing. Discover the meetings in Coutances until 2025

Coutances (Manche) is fully part of the memorial calendar of the Mission 80th anniversary of the landing, the liberation of France and the Victory, by proposing, since Wednesday February 21, 2024monthly meetings until fall 2025.

Overview upcoming events in the coming months.

Women’s right to vote

Just over a month awaya democratic meetingwith the European elections on Sunday June 9, 2024, the City of Coutances is focusing on women’s right to vote, a right obtained April 21, 1944 After 150 years of civic mobilizations.

From April 22 to June 7, 2024, an exhibition will retrace this story at the town hall reception.

Jazz is coming

From May 4 to 11, 2024, the Jazz sous les pommiers festival will give a nod to the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings while bringing a historical look on jazz which arrives with the liberation of France.

He proposes a new creation “ Let freedom swing! ” with a Franco-American big band taking up the repertoire of Duke Ellington on May 11, 2024, a lindy hop ball on May 5, 2024 preceded by a introductory course on May 4, 2024 and a conference to resituate the face of jazz in the 1940s in France and the United States, on May 11, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. at the Barbey-d’Aurevilly room (at Unelles).

40 years of celebrations

From September 16 to 1, 2024, the Unelles esplanade will welcome yoularge format photo exhibition tracing more than 40 years of commemorations.

Jean-Yves Desfoux, former photographer of West France, will share thirty photos that he captured during the big anniversaries of D-Day in Normandy. This return to images will plunge the audience In the past of these strong moments of memory.

Hidden child

On May 17, 2024, Colette Zeif, today aged 86, survivor of the Shoah, hidden child whose parents were deported and killed in Auschwitzwill come and speak to young people at Nature high school.

When Vel’d’Hiv roundup, on July 16, 1942, she was separated from her mother who instructed her two daughters to hide and of do not give their name.

Colette Zeif is the author of two pounds which evoke in particular the destiny of a child Jewish 6 years old, orphan, which crosses the war And occupation.

Memorial concert

On Sunday May 26, 2024, the Cosedia Cantabile choir from Coutance will give a concert for Peace at the Coutances Cathedral. She will perform “ Jenkins’ Gunman », a work in 13 pieces, composed to respond to an order from the British royal armories.

Relay of Remembrance

On Saturday June 1, 2024, Coutances will host a relay which leaves the same day from Utah Beach to join Plumelec in the Morbihan.

The relay for this race will take place, around 6:10 p.m., at monument to the dead of Flandres-Dunkerque square decorated for the occasion where a patriotic ceremony will be held at the same time. This moment will be accompanied by the city’s marching band.

Diversion operation

On Wednesday June 5, 2024, the public will be able to discover “ Fortitude, the true story of Operation Fortitude », a theatrical performance by the company of Cœurs Vaillants, on the esplanade des Unelles (in case of rain, retreat to the Marcel-Hélie room).

This show will retrace a false landing in Pas-de-Calais to divert the attention of German troops from the Normandy coast.

Reconstruction

From June 4 to December 21, 2024, the Quesnel-Morinière museum will present Archi’Moderne, a exposure on the reconstruction Coutances 65% destroyed by bombing.

“The city has been completely redesigned by an architect, Louis Arretche, whose name is also associated with the reconstruction of Saint-Malo. The Coutançais lived in a construction site which lasted more than 20 years. »

In the colors of the 80th

On June 6, 2024, the town hall will be decorated with colors of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings:

“ 16 flags of nationalities who officially participated in this historic moment will be displayed: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France (Free French Forces), Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, Denmark , South Africa, India”.

At 7:30 p.m., a ceremony will take place at the municipal cemetery for pay tribute to the civilian victims of the bombings.

The Liberation

Coutances has been liberated by American troops on July 28, 1944. To celebrate this anniversary, the city is preparing “ an important event over 2 days », kept secret for the moment. It will take place on July 27 and 28, 2024.

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