The Occitan Summer of Agde
For this seventh edition of the festival, discover Occitan culture in all its forms, between concerts, festive rites, meetings and cooking workshops…
TUESDAY JUNE 25
Saint John’s Day Fire Festival – 3rd edition
Fèsta de la Sant Joan d’estiu.Event proposed by the Calandreta dagtenca school and in collaboration with the Social Cohesion and Youth Department.
6 p.m. Stroll through the streets of the heart of the city. Departure from the Calandreta dagtenca school. We invite you to joyfully stroll through the streets of old Agde to celebrate Sant Joan d’estiu together. On the occasion of the longest day of the year, the students of Calandreta dagtenca have prepared an initiatory and dramatized walk for you where rites and traditions but also laughter and poetry combine. Come discover or rediscover the small streets of the historic center through this moment of sharing. In the light of the fire of Sant Joan d’estiu, come and spend a festive and friendly moment: songs, dances, surprises… and of course, jumping from the fire for adults and children. This celebration is intended to be open to all, so don’t hesitate to join us for these celebrations around the beautiful and grand fire of Saint John.
Meet at 6 p.m. at the Calandreta dagtenca school 46 rue Brescou for this great event.
8:45 p.m. Balèti: SARAÏ ON A BALL
Baltazar Montanaro • violon baryton
Sophie Cavez • diatonic accordion
Juliette Minvielle • vocals and percussion Originally, this creation was inspired by a corpus of texts from the 15th to the 21st century, from the rich documentary collection of CIRDOC. Texts that deal exclusively with romantic relationships, in all their forms, deep, mischievous or offbeat. The cultural gold mine that is Cirdòc has made it possible to produce a selection of exclusively feminine poems, spanning several centuries, making it possible to bring together women who have experienced very distant destinies, while sharing a language and a form. of expression which is poetry. Those of Louisa Paulin resonate with those, contemporaries, of Aurélia Lassaque. Marcella Delpastre, L’albanalenca, Bénédicte Bonnet or certain trobairitz finding themselves in the same timeless singing tour. Now, the trio has decided to continue in the same area of inspiration by opening up to balèti.
- Place de la Marine Agde
- free
WEDNESDAY JULY 3
2 p.m. To 6 p.m.
Demonstrations of Languedoc games and sports by the Agde sports club associations: Languedoc jousts, tambourine ball games, fencing, etc.
6 p.m. Inauguration of the CIRDOC panel exhibition “May viste, mai naut, mai fort. Traditional sports, a living heritage”. Carriers of both tradition and modernity, imbued with the Occitan language and culture that they help to bring to life, traditional regional sports constitute a strong element of our heritage. Pétanque, jousting, tambourine, traditional rowing… are today fully anchored in contemporary sporting practices, whether practiced for leisure or competition.
6:30 p.m. Conference “Agde la sportive” by Jean-Claude Mothes of “L’Escolo daï sarret”. From Agathé Tyché to the “archipelago of life”, a brief overview of sporting practices in our dear city.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
FRIDAY JULY 19 9:30 p.m.
OPEN AIR CINEMA “CHILDREN OF THE SEA”
Screening of a Japanese animated film by director Ayumu Watanabe
Ruka, a young high school student, lives with her mother. She devotes herself to her passion, handball. Unfortunately, she is unfairly excluded from her team on the first day of vacation. Furious, she decides to visit her father at the aquarium where he works. There she meets Umi, who seems to have the gift of communicating with marine animals. Ruka is fascinated. One evening, supernatural events occur.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
WEDNESDAY JULY 31 7 p.m.
“THE OUD THROUGH THE CENTURIES”
CONCERT WITH MARC LOOPUYT
Marc LOOPUYT spent his life exploring the Orient and the Maghreb in search of the secrets of the oud lute and those of its cousins. The historical lineage of lutes (up to 15 different lutes): the pharaonic nefer, the North African guembri, the Moroccan lothar, the Andalusian suissan, the dotar of the nomads, the qanbous of Yemen, the oud ramal of Morocco, the oud oriental, the Greco-Turkish lavfta, the Ottoman tanbur. From the Pyramids to the Alhambra: a historical journey that ends with the 18th century flamenco guitar. This concert is in duo formation with a percussionist, it is accompanied by brief presentations evoking the poetic-symbolic myths relating to music and instruments.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14 7 p.m.
CONCERT WITH THE OTXO DUO
Current vintage music from the future
Lolita Delmonteil Ayral and Maider Martineau
Diatonic accordions, Chromatic accordions, Voice, Caramèra, Alboka, Peñaparda drum, Pandero, Podorhythmia, String drum.
The Otxo duo is a playground where the fusion of two musical personalities that are both very similar and different takes place. Maider and Lolita are both lovers of traditional and popular music. Singers, accordionists, percussionists and blowers, their music has several faces: it is a mixture of their original traditions (Basque music, Occitan music), the music of their respective lands of borrowing (Quebec music, Galician music, Brazilian music); but also original compositions, where we find their love of melody and harmony. Otxo is a duo full of sensitivity, humor, energy, and sound and cultural richness.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
FRIDAY AUGUST 23
2 p.m. TRADITIONAL CUISINE WORKSHOP “AGATHOISE ANCHOVIES”
places limited to 10 people
7 p.m. CONCERT WITH THE DUO AIMÉ BREES AND MATIA LEVRÉRO
Aimé and Matia take as their playground ancient songs, mostly collected in the villages of Occitania (from Auvergne to Haut Agenais, via Languedoc…). Love songs, songs of labor, stories of cuckolds… It is with great complicity that the artists, both keen on musical crossbreeding, immerse themselves in this very particular repertoire, adding a completely personal freedom, and never leaving aside humor and the pleasure of meeting an audience.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28 7 p.m.
CONCERT WITH THE BONBON VODOU GROUP
Song to bring back your loved one in less than 24 hours. Bonbon Vodou is Oriane Lacaille, daughter of a large family of Reunion musicians, and JereM, son… of two Lacanian psychiatrists. A double bottom writing, two soft and sunny voices which fit together like a dream, this duo shapes an exotic and unpredictable song, diverted by Africa and Reunion, with both feet in 20 countries. Bonbon Vodou plays instruments gleaned from travels, but also a heterogeneous box of everyday objects. Under Oriane’s fingers, bottle of syrup, plastic bag, cans inexplicably become percussion. JereM takes on a transformed guitar, a gasoline can or a Tahitian ukulele…”Metèque” – how noble that word is – bathed in the sweetness of the two clean voices and carried by a minimalist and devastating groove, Bonbon Vodou distills joy and spreads its sound loving wave.
Agathois Jules Baudou Museum – Musèu Dagtenc
- FREE ENTRANCE
- limited places, reservation recommended
