For this weekend of Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29, cultural, but also festive and family events await you in Marseille. The Provence gives you his best ideas for outings and leisure activities for this weekend.
The Santon Fair
The oldest demonstration in the region has been taking over the Quai du Port since November 16. The Santon Fair is open until January 5. An edition once again rich in festivities which has resisted wars, pandemics and other controversies since 1803.
Date and Time : Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lieu : Port quay
Tariff: free
The Christmas market for a few more days
At the bottom of the Canebière, the Christmas market remains in place from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day and until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Mulled wine, biscuits and other delicacies are to be enjoyed.
Date and Time: Friday, Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Lieu : la Canebière
Tariff: free
The children's village at Place Bargemon
Place Bargemon (2nd), the magic of Christmas continues with the Children's Village, open until January 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The opportunity to admire the illuminations and other decorations, and to say hello to Santa Claus one last time before next year.
Date and Time: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Lieu : place Bargemon
Tariff: free
“On the trail, kids!” : the Mucem highlights activities for children
Macha Makeïeff's exhibition at the Mucem, On track! Clownsclowns and acrobats, never ceases to amaze young and old. As proof, the rich program of activities to do with the family, offered this weekend, linked to the circus world in the spotlight in the exhibition.
– The Little Fun Fair allows children to discover a traveling exhibition with games, projections and attractions, Friday to Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (free).
– The Raoul puppet Lala holds a conference under the big top Friday at 3 p.m. (free entry) and reveals secrets about the exhibition on display, but also about the world of circus and magic, with a lot of humor of course.
– For children aged 3 to 6, the workshop What is this circus? (€5-8) offers an introduction to the Art of the circus, to the techniques of various acts, from Friday to Sunday at 4 p.m.
– For older children, from 7 years old, Abracadabra (€5) is a visit to the exhibition En Piste! with mentalist Clément Freze, Saturday at 3 p.m. The latter performs interludes and magic tricks during the visit, and allows you to better understand the works presented.
– Sunday at 3 p.m., Dark Circus is a musical show drawn from a story by Pef, which tells the life of a circus where all the artists fail their numbers, until the day when the magic finally happens. From 8 years old (€6-8).
Theater for little ones
– “Au fil des pages” at the Badaboum theater: The Zita la Nuit company offers a dance and voice duo through books and their stories. A moving show suitable for toddlers from 6 months, but also for older children, which appeals to the imagination, invites characters and words. The books here are both the pages that are full of stories to tell, and objects with which we can hide, play and build an entire fictional village.
Date and Time: Friday at 10 a.m.
Lieu : Badaboum theater, 16 quai de Rive Neuve (7th)
Tariff: 5-7 euros
– “Toc Toc Noël” at the Divadlo Théâtre: A mad race to prepare for Christmas on time: this is the mission of two characters, Alice and her neighbor Matéo. This short comedy from the Poisson Pilote company will delight children from the age of 1. Enough to prolong the magic of Christmas for a few more days, or relive the preparations in rapid succession with humor.
Date and Time: Friday and Saturday at 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.
Lieu : Divadlo Theater, 69 rue Sainte-Cécile (5th)
Tariff: 5.90 to 7.90 euros
– Christmas Tale À L’art Dû: With Le Boréal Express, Hélène Costaglioli presents an interactive and immersive show with role plays, choreographies and songs in which the audience takes part. For 50 minutes, a fantastic journey to the North Pole takes young and old into the mountains and snow-covered woods, without forgetting the star guest: Santa Claus himself on the stage of the Art Dû Théâtre.
Date and Time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Lieu : l'Art Dû, 83, Marengo Street (6th)
Tariff: 6 to 8 euros
– Captain Frimousse at L’archange Théâtre: The adventures of Captain Frimousse promise to be thrilling and full of surprises. Stranded on a desert island, the young sailor will encounter rather friendly but very mischievous wild animals, playful ghosts and other fantastic and prankish characters. He will thus experience an astonishing, funny and fantasy-filled epic. A joyful moment to share with family, staged by the Lazara Company. From 3 to 10 years old.
Date and Time: Friday at 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Lieu : Archange Theater, 36 rue Négresko (8th)
Tariff: from 8 to 10 euros
– Briac, from France has an incredible talent at Art Dû: with Vaste Jogue, the former journalist who has converted to humor for ten years will try to convince the spectators of one thing: he has finally understood the meaning of life, namely that everything is just a joke, in everyone of its aspects.
And to do this, the Marseillais will use his famous flipchart, which viewers have been able to discover in recent weeks. Because after two years of failing, Briac participated in the France Has Incredible Talent competition in 2024, which he left in the quarter-finals on December 4. An experience which brought visibility to the comedian, determined to increase the number of dates in the South. From the start of the school year, you will be able to find him at Art Dû on January 10 and 16, 2025.
Date and Time: Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Lieu : l'Art Dû, 83, Marengo Street (6th)
Tariff: 16 euros
– Before that, you will be able to applaud a classic of humor at the theater this evening: Stop crying Penelopewhich has attracted more than two million spectators over the last twenty years. The show, which traces a friendship that ages poorly between four friends, will be performed for the last time
Date and Time: Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Lieu : Comedy of Marseille
Tariff: 22 euros
– Marseillais Tibo Rugi will perform on Saturday at 9:30 p.m. (from €8.95, comedieclubvieuxport.com) for his show Requin. Sarah Jatombo and Vincent Tdifinally, will close the weekend for a 2×30 minutes on Sunday at 9 p.m. at Garage Comedy (€7, garage-comedy.com).
Starmania ends its tour at the Dôme
At the helm of this version since 2022: Thomas Jolly, to whom we owe the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games. His Starmania is thus marked by a bold and innovative aesthetic and staging, while remaining faithful to the original spirit of the work. A clever mix rewarded with two Molière awards in 2023: for best musical show and for best visual and sound creation.
On the stage of the great fictional sprawling capital, Monopolis, thirty artists, singers and dancers, animated by the inventive choreographies of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, bring to life the cult hits of Starmania and its ever-current themes. When we arrive in town, The world is stoned, The businessman's blues, SOS from an earthling in distress, Need for love, A boy like no other (Ziggy)… We can no longer count the hits that have become timeless and are so many tributes to their original performers, like Daniel Balavoine or France Gall.
If Starmania continues to touch and bring together a large audience, nostalgia for the hits aside, it is also because the themes addressed by this musical show still resonate deeply, more than forty later. The obsession with celebrity, political issues, excessive media coverage, the rise of terrorism, ecology, homosexuality, the question of gender: rock opera remains resolutely current.
Date and Time: Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
Lieu : Dome of Marseille
Tariff: from 29 to 119 euros
– Four groups for a punk Xmas party at the Molotov: For a Christmas evening full of energy, it's Saturday evening at the Molotov that it's happening. Where four ensembles will come together that will raise the temperature. To the Marseillais of Rakel Traxx and their glam rock, Blackbeer will follow, with their hard-hitting heavy metal. Then we will listen to the hardcore of Rats Don't Sink and the stoner rock of Odd Beast.
Date and Time: Saturday at 8 p.m.
Lieu : Le Molotov (6e)
Tariff: 7 euros
– The SuperSoul Brothers in Christmas mode tomorrow at Club 27: Well-felt melodies, polished arrangements, the soul-funk rock band coming straight from Béarn will perform tomorrow evening at Club 27. This time bringing on stage their new album By the Way, whose sounds recall artists like Otis Redding, James Brown, Little Richard and Lee Fields.
Date and Time: Friday from 8:30 p.m.
Lieu : Club 27 (4th)
Tariff: 20 euros
– 100 years of the Marseille Opera behind the scenes at the Municipal Archives: The Marseille Opera: a first! 1924-2024 celebrates the centenary of the reconstruction and inauguration of the Art Deco temple of lyrical art that the people of Marseille love so much. This exhibition at the City Archives looks at the complex reconstruction of the building, following the fire of 1919, but also at the Opera's rich programming over the past hundred years. Posters, photographs, programs, recordings of shows but also models of sets and costumes offer a plunge into the history of the Opera and allow an immersion behind the scenes of daily life, driven for a century by creation and passion.
Date and Time: Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Lieu : 10 rue Clovis-Hugues (3e)
Tariff: free
