The party continues in Nancy this sSaturday 21 and Sunday 22 December. Find some highlights scheduled this weekend in the ducal city.
Beware of Art
Around forty passionate contemporary artists gathered in a prestigious setting. Gare à l’Art is one of the essential events for original end-of-year gifts.
Saturday December 21 (from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.) and Sunday December 22 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) in the Grand Salons of the Town Hall. Free.
Winter Solstice from the company Osmosis
Dance performance by the Osmosis company
Saturday December 21 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. – Winter Solstice – Square Dusaulx and “Les Aulnes” panoramic tour. Free.
Merry Ch-o-ristmas at the Opera
To celebrate the Christmas season with music, the Opéra national de Lorraine invites you to a festive evening around the choral repertoire intended for this sweet period of Advent. It will essentially be a British and Anglo-Saxon Nativity: choral practice, professional or amateur, is more than a tradition across the Channel and across the Atlantic: it is an institution, which has given rise to the constitution of an immense repertoire of incomparable richness, and tempted the greatest composers.
Saturday December 21 at 7 p.m. – Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy. Prices 38 euros full price, 5 euros reduced rate.
Flash visit: the museum celebrates its 60th anniversary
Do you want to learn more about the collections of the École de Nancy museum? So, take advantage of the flash visits! In a few minutes, presentation of part of the collections, focused on a specific theme.
Saturday December 21 at 2:30 p.m. Full price €7, reduced price €4.50. Nancy School Museum, 36-38 rue du Sergent Blandan.
Under the tree
– Saturday December 21
at 11 a.m.: “Reading Christmas stories #1” – Cie Plein Feux (all audiences)
at 4 p.m.: Fingertip Tales – Cie Incognito (from 18 to 4 years old)
– Sunday December 22 at 3 p.m.
Christmas stories to chew on – Nickelle & Bazar – Cie Ouvre Boites for all audiences)Free contribution
For all audiences
You’re looking forward to Christmas, the winter festivities bring you joy and you’re excited to drop off your packages Under the tree. To you, adults and children, MJC Bazin wanted to offer you these few gifts in the form of shows for all audiences.
Reservation strongly recommended on 03 83 36 56 65
MJC Bazin, 47 Rue Henri Bazin in Nancy
Workshop – In crocodile skin
Sunday December 22, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. at the Nancy Museum-Aquarium
Young audience from 3 to 6 years old
Follow Juju the turtle on her journey to meet the animals covered in scales! Between snakes, fish and crocodiles, discover this armor with multiple benefits. But don’t panic, here, no one ends up in a handbag!
Price: €6 – Online ticketing. Museum-Aquarium of Nancy, 34 rue Sainte-Catherine in Nancy
Exhibition – Chocolate, wonder of the tropics?
Until January 5, 2025 at the Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden
All audiences
Cocoa trees, pods, beans… Chocolate takes place in the botanical garden and reveals its manufacturing secrets to you! From plant to tablet, each step will be explained.
But if we appreciate the taste of cocoa, do we know the many environmental, social, commercial and economic issues raised by its consumption, marketing, production and cultivation?
Chocolate, a wonder of the tropics? An exhibition that raises consumer awareness.
Many local partners will be associated with the exhibition such as the Lycée Stanislas, the CEPAL, the pastry experts of Lorraine…
Exhibition curator: Katia Blairon, professor of public law at the University of Lorraine.
Free up to 25 years old, beyond entry fee to tropical greenhouses
Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden, 100 rue du jardin botanique in Villers-lès-Nancy
Totems
From November 23, 2024 to January 26, 2024
For all audiences
A lucky “totem”, isn’t that a great gift to give yourself or to offer? In this exhibition and sale, Nancy artists express their relationship to nature and the world and invite the visitor to discover their “totem” and leave with it!
Openspace, 14 rue Stanislas in Nancy Free, without reservation.
Exhibition – Fossils
From November 27, 2024 to March 23, 2025 at the Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy
All audiences
On the occasion of the year of geosciences celebrated by the CNRS in 2024-2025, the Muséum-Aquarium and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG) present a selection of fossil fish from their collections. A jump into the Jurassic or Cretaceous to meet extinct species to better understand the principle of fossilization. Also a way to discover how paleontologists enrich knowledge of past and current ecosystems through the study of these fossils.
The Muséum-Aquarium, formerly named the zoology museum when it was created in 1933, mainly had collections of current zoology. In the 1990s, a rich paleontological collection, estimated at 50,000 units, was added to its funds. This collection, established in the 19th century, was brought together in 1913 within the Institute of Applied Geology in Nancy which subsequently became the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). It was during the transfer of the ENSG to its new premises in Brabois that this collection arrived at the Muséum-Aquarium.
Ground floor – Astrolabe gallery
Nancy Museum-Aquarium, 34 rue Sainte-Catherine in Nancy.
And again the villages of Saint Nicolas
To be found again this weekend the 3 villages and 5 hamlets of Saint-Nicolas filled with delicacies and gifts of all kinds.
They remain open until January 5, 2025 with the exception of the Grand village of Saint-Nicolas which will close its doors on December 28, 2024 and the Petit Hameau de Nico et Moujat on rue du Pont Mouja to be found until December 29, 2024 .
