FESTIVAL OF COSTUME

The most beautiful costumes are out in style: each year, more than 500 participants parade down the streets of Arles.

30 June, from the Place de la République to the Théâtre Antique.

COCARDE D’OR

This prestigious bull-run is a key event of the bullfighting season.

1 July, in the Arènes.

FESTIVAL VOIES OFF

The Festival Voies Off offers an alternative look at emerging photography.

1 - 6 July, Cour de l’Archevêché, Place de la République.

CAPTURES

Captures presents a selection of stills from the film Three of Us by Brigitte Bauer.* Making a film unspool frame by frame, going to the heart of the film, singling out these very brief moments where something particular happens while we watch and then it’s gone. Literally capturing every 25th image, extracting it, blowing it up, passing from the screen to paper, and thus proposing a fragmented and out of sync reading, beyond the temporality specific to film.

* Coproduced by Voies Off / 2013 Marseilles-Provence.

2 July, Cour de l’Archevêché, 10.30 pm.

QUARTIER D’AFRIQUE

This multidisciplinary festival which theme is 'From the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope' offers concerts, African dishes and a photographic exhibition, 'Views of Tunisia'.

2 - 6 July, Place Patrat.

SYMPOSIUM

The association for the former students of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie launches Symposium, a rendezvous for its members, along with photography professionals and the general public. On the programme: conferences, roundtables, forums and a festive evening at the Cargo de Nuit.

4 - 6 July, 16 rue des Arènes.

LES SUDS

The 18th edition of this huge world music festival brings Arles’ neighbourhoods alive with concerts, festivities and events! Featuring: Goran Bregovic, Rokia Traoré, Miguel Poveda...

Nuit Blanche in Arles’ Old City coproduced with 2013 Marseilles-Provence, on Saturday 13 July from 7pm to 7am.

8 - 14 July, Théâtre Antique, Cour de l’Archevêché and other venues.

LES ESCALES DU CARGO

Arles’ Théâtre Antique vibrates for the 9th edition of this topical music festival in which new talents share billing with internationally renowned artists. Featuring Archive on 19 July.

17 - 21 July, Théâtre Antique.

LEGENDS OF EQUESTRIAN ART

The world’s four greatest schools of equestrian art—the Spanish School in Vienna, Cadre Noir in Saumur, Portuguese School in Lisbon and the Royal Andalusian School in Jerez de la Frontera—have been invited to give nine gala performances in Arles’ prestigious Arènes, renovated and decorated by Christian Lacroix.

Spectacles at 10pm, on 26 and 27 July, and 9, 10, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24 August in the Arènes.

FESTINS DE MÉDITERRANÉE

Restaurateurs providing regional specialities, local associations and growers cook for a thousand people on the Rhône’s banks. This feast, inspired by a ‘Delta cuisine’ theme, coincides with the opening of Les Rues en Musique festival.

3 August, from Quai Saint-Pierre to Trinquetaille.

ARELATE, JOURNÉES ROMAINES D’ARLES

The Arelate festival offers a week of various events staged in Arles’ monuments and streets and inspired by the Roman past of this city classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

25 August - 1 September, throughout the city.

EPIC MOVIE FESTIVAL

The 26th edition of the festival features the presentation of an epic film each evening at 9 pm.

26 - 30 August, Théâtre Antique.

FERIA DU RIZ

Rooted in Arles’ age-old bull tradition, the Feria du Riz is a celebration that takes over the streets in the heart of town.

6 - 8 September, central city.

RODIN, LA LUMIÈRE DE L’ANTIQUE

Visitors will note the imprint of an omnipresent but almost invisible Antiquity in the great sculptor’s oeuvre, through 132 sculptures, assemblages and drawings by Rodin and 132 exceptional antiquities.

6 April - 1 September, Musée Départemental Arles Antique, Presqu’île du Cirque Romain.

NUAGE (CLOUD)

The exhibition is concerned with the anthropological structures of the imagination, as seen through a theme of universal resonance, blending nature and culture, art and natural sciences.

16 May - 31 October, Musée Réattu, 10 rue du Grand Prieuré.

AGNÈS VERRIER

Installation of about fifty large screen-printed pieces by Agnès Verrier. The exhibition deals with the attempt of our world to organize and master the unpredictable.

30 May - 1st June, Bar des Sports, 8 boulevard des Arènes, Salin-de-Giraud.

THE MASTOC

A building dishevelled by Les Pas Perdus art group: Guy-André Lagesse, Nicolas Barthélemy and Jérôme Rigaut, will be exhibited as part of the Creative Urban Projects programme of the 2013 Marseilles-Provence, European Capital of Culture.

1 June - 29 September, Esplanade Jules Vallès, Rue du Dr Albert Schweitzer, Griffeuille.

REEVE SCHUMACHER & ANDRES DONADIO

A collaboration between Andres Donadio’s photographs and Reeve Schumacher’s sculptures.

29 June - 3 August, L’HOSTE Art Contemporain, 7 rue de l’Hoste.

S’EN ALLER

Photographic portraits of women turning their backs, and videos by François Talairach.

30 June - 7 July, Atelier Archipel en Arles, 8 rue des Douaniers.

BOS by South-African photographer Christo Doherty

COMPOSITE AFRIQUE DU SUD by French photographer Jean-Christophe Ballot,

two exhibitions presented in the frame of the Seasons France-South Africa 2012 & 2013.

30 June - 13 July, Galéa gallery, Hôtel particulier Frédéric Dervieux, 5 rue de Vernon.

RUSSIANS AND ROYALS

In this work by English photographer Thomas Stanworth, we discover four outstanding sites in the centre of Kabul. Devastated by war or simply abandoned, they have become the backdrops to a singular survival.

1 - 7 July, Maison-Galerie chez Arthur et Janine, 56 rue du Quatre Septembre.

CARAVANE(S), LES CHIENS ABOIENT

This photographic exhibition around a caravan theme has a triple perspective to do with history, sociology and the work of memory. It endeavours to bring together photography professionals and amateurs.

1 - 14 July, L’Atelier du Midi gallery, 1 rue du Sauvage.

WORK IN PROGRESS—ENSP STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

This year, under the artistic direction of François Saint Pierre, ENSP students reveal their photographs in an exhibition they have designed and curated.

1 - 15 July, Église Saint-Julien, rue du 4 Septembre.

CROWNING HEAD MACHINE

Photographs by Dana and Stéphane Maitec. ‘Beyond appearances, there where thoughts are superposed between dreams and fantasies, between oblivion and renaissance, crowning oneself becomes possible.’

1 - 15 July, Galerie de Poche, 23 rue des Porcelets, La Roquette.

LE TEMPS D’AIMER ET DE MOURIR

Photographs, happening, paintings: exhibition of works by young photographer Ludovic Zuili and painter Guillaume Flageul.

1 - 27 July, Joseph Antonin gallery, 40 rue Émile Barrère.

QUATRE RIVES ET UN REGARD

A photographic and literary exhibition by Serge Assier, coming under the 2013 Marseilles-Provence banner, focused on four port cities: Antwerp, Barcelona, Marseilles and Rabat.

1 - 31 July, Maison de la Vie Associative gallery, 2 Boulevard des Lices.

THIBAUT CUISSET: PAYS CLAIR

A presentation of Thibaut Cuisset’s photographs realised during an arts residency in Camargue, initiated by the Asphodèle Association, in partnership with the Tour du Valat. The exhibition is part of the FRAC PACA Ulysses Programme.

1 - 31 July, Espace pour l’Art gallery, 5 Rue Réattu.

ASSOCIATION DES PHOTOGRAPHES DU PAYS D’ARLES

Instantanés belges, une fois ! - Robert Rocchi

Images snapped in the streets to illustrate a Belgian daily newspaper, often tinged with an odd sense of humour.

Fragments d’un bout du monde - Vincent Recordier

The Camargue, and its semi-desert dimension, through the prism of a contemplative vision.

1 - 31 July, Maison de la Vie Associative d’Arles, 2 Boulevard des Lices.

Lumières de Camargue - Jean-Louis Puech

A variation on the changing colours of the Camargue landscape, at the uncertain border of earth and water.

22 Rond Point des Arènes.

D’AUJOURD’HUI ET D’HIER

The Thalassinos association, the expression of culture from all over the world, introduces a diaporama with French photographer Gheorghe-Tudor Mirica-Vulcan and Greek photographer Dimitris Vamvakousis.

1 - 31 July, in four shops downtown: Point d’encre, 14 bis rue du 4 septembre; Nude Attitude by CY, 8 rue de l’hôtel de ville; Marinette, 34 rue de la République; Sudelec, 2 rue de la République.

INCENSE AND MYRRH Pascal Maitre and guests artists

SI C'ÉTAIT SACHA Sacha, portrait chinois

MANUEL RIVERA-ORTIZ FOUNDATION for Documentary Photography

1 July - 3 August, Galerie Huit, 8 rue de la Calade.

COMPTOIRS ARLÉSIENS DE LA JEUNE PHOTOGRAPHIE, ÉTRANGE ÉTÉ

An exhibition and a screening with Marie Maurel de Maillé (Raiponce), Françoise Nuñez (Valparaiso), Jean-Michel Fauquet and the members of the Comptoirs Arlésiens.

1 July - 21 September, 2 Rue Jouvène, Place Honoré Clair.

ASSOCIATION DES PHOTOGRAPHES DU PAYS D’ARLES

L’instant J - Jennifer Renaud

Instants of lives lived, created or recreated, along with portraits so as to enter into an intimate world, between illusions and realities.

1 July - 30 September, Balladins, 1 Chemin des Moines.

5 PHOTOGRAPHERS #15

Exhibition organised by the association Fetart. Exhibited artists: Agan Harahap, Alberto Maserin, Stéphanie Rolland, Mathieu Roquigny, Thomas Vanden Driessche. Opening on Wednesday 3 July from 6.30 pm onwards.

2 - 6 July, 55 rue du Quatre Septembre.

BERDINE EN ARLES

Photographic exhibition by Luc Choquer, and theatrical performance of Marcel Aymé’s play Clérambard by the Berdine troupe on 4 July at 7.30 pm.

2 - 6 July, Théâtre de la Calade, 49 quai de la Roquette.

CAPTURES (THREE OF US, 2013)

Color photographs of Brigitte Bauer.

2 July - 21 September, Galerie Circa, 2 rue de la Roquette.

TSIGANES ET GITANS (GYPSIES)

Black and white photographs by Hans Silvester, who hit the roads with Gypsies from 1957 to 1973, and shared their daily lives from Europe to North America.

From 2 July onwards (permanent exhibition), Le Patio de Camargue, Chico's hacienda, founder of the Gipsy Kings, 49 chemin de Barriol.

THÉO GOSSELIN - FAST WEST

Exhibition of photographs by Théo Gosselin, introducing FAST WEST, 10th issue of FAST magazine, dedicated to the sea.

5 and 6 July, Garage du Nord Pinus, 11 rue du Docteur Fanton.

CHEMINS DE TRAVERSE

Black and white photographs by Caroline Robe, Fabrice Poiteaux and Patrice Deregnaucourt, and ceramics by Bertrand Secret in the dark room.

10 - 28 July, Atelier Archipel en Arles, 8 rue des Douaniers.

WOMEN PORTRAITS

The Bouches-du-Rhône Ligue Contre le Cancer pays tribute to women through an exhibition of 60 black and white photographs by Serge Saracco and Henri Berthe.

12 - 28 July, Maison de la Ligue, 16 Place du Sauvage.

SHOW-ROOM 1

Photographs, video, paintings: exhibition of works by Daniel Nouraud, Émilie Jouvet, Guillaume Flageul, Lynn Sk, Ludovic Zuili and Olga Iwogo.

3 - 31 August, Joseph Antonin gallery, 40 rue Émile Barrère.

BLUR LUMINUS by photographer Frank Gonzalez Alonso

LE SOUFFLE DU TEMPS by photographer Raymond Martinez

6 August - 6 September, Musée Galerie «L’atelier Gaston de Luppé», 19 rue des Arènes.

MOVING - NORMAN FOSTER ON ART

Norman Foster is the curator of an exhibition celebrating the Carré d’art’s twentieth anniversary. The museum’s premises will be filled with works by such historic artists as Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder, along with those by contemporary and emerging artists.

3 May - 15 September, Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes.

LES PAPESSES

Five women who left their mark on contemporary art are put in the spotlight in this exhibition: Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbach and Berlinde de Bruyckere.

9 June - 11 November, Palais des Papes and Collection Lambert, 5 rue Violette, Avignon.

DENISE COLOMB, ARTISTS’ PORTRAITS

52 original photographs by Denise Colomb, who photographed such artists as Braque, Picasso, Chagall... are presented along with the permanent collections of the museum.

20 June - 3 November, Musée Angladon, 5 rue Laboureur, Avignon.

GRANDS CHEMINS D’ENVIES’RHÔNEMENTS

This travelling festival combining culture, art and the environment will bring together, in particular, three themes developed by 2013 Marseilles-Provence and the District of Arles: ‘walkers, nomads, territories’, ‘sharing water’ and ‘art in public spaces’.

19 - 28 July, Delta du Rhône.

PRÉSENCES DE JEAN VILAR

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Jean Vilar’s death, the Maison which bears his name proposes an installation reflecting the richness of his collections.

Permanent exhibition, Maison Jean Vilar, 8 rue de Mons, Avignon.

D’UNE RIVE À L’AUTRE: 3D RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Multimedia displays, a film, a museum space and a photographic exhibition allow visitors to discover the fabulous history of the legendary bridge connecting Avignon to Villeneuve.

Until 31 December, Pont d’Avignon (Saint Bénezet).

2013 MARSEILLES-PROVENCE, EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE

Besides the leading international artistic and cultural encounters falling under its banner, Marseilles-Provence presents a profusion of lesser known initiatives, often instigated by associations and community groups. Visitors are invited to discover a ‘capital territory’: natural and urban sites, contemporary creations and art in public spaces, the diversity of traditions and ways of life of the region’s inhabitants...

In 2013. Find all details about the programme at: www.mp2013.fr