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From March 3rd to July 11th 2010

At the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.

Warning: this is a really joyful event!

Who hasn’t got an impertinent little phrase in his mind, an amusing play on words or a witticism coming from one of Ben’s so characteristic texts?

You really must not miss the biggest ever retrospective devoted to the work of Ben Vautier, a major 20th century artist.

Over 1,000 works (videos, paintings, texts, photographs of performances and objects) cover fifty years of creation on the 3000 m2 which form the Museum’s exhibition surface.

Around the exhibition, the Museum has set up a whole programme of events for all types of public.

Take a trip through Ben’s lively, rich and joyous universe that forms an intimate blend of art and life!

From March 1st to March 21st 2010

in Lyon

For 3 weeks, 45 composers from 16 countries, 15 video-makers, 74 works and 10 new creations, to celebrate contemporary creations.

The 2010 Music on Stage biennial gives us the opportunity of discovering twenty or so works by the female Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who has been given the place of honor.

Her creativity has been strongly influenced by technology, IT and electronics and has given birth to original, colorful, rich and varied works.

Her opera “Emilie” is presented as a world première.

It is a production and an order placed by the Lyon National Opera Company.

The Biennial festival not only creates gangways between different forms of artistic creation represented by music, image and video, but not forgetting literature, it also proposes concerts and shows by Pierre Jodlowski and Alexandros Markeas, together with the following composers and musicians Michel Van der Aa, Raphaël Cendo, Samuel Sighicelli, Michael Jarrell, Martin Matalon, the Bubar trio, Roland Auzet, or even Rioijy Ikeda… with a recurrent theme for this 5th edition – the fall.

The Biennial festival mixes genres, styles, aesthetics and points of view.

It also brings new talent to the forefront via the Forum of Young Creation, with the Ircam, the Lyon Intercontemporary Orchestral Ensemble and the CNSMDL.

From March 25th to 28th 2010

At the Subsistances

15 shows and performances including 8 new creations, 2 installations, an exhibition, concerts of music from all over the world, 40 “one-minute language courses”: a short programmed incursion to the tower of Babel with more than 50 artists from at home and abroad…

This is the invitation offered by the Subsistances, a weekend without any frontiers!

Without any frontiers between languages and art forms: theatre, circus, dancing, music, performances and exhibitions, without forgetting numerous surprises…

This year, the new Anticodes festival, bringing Paris, Lyon and Brest together, has been joyously and successfully incorporated into the program.

The Subsistances, a laboratory of contemporary creation, will astonish, disturb and trouble us, but give us the greatest pleasure at the same time!

Funerary rites in Lugdunum from the 1st century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.

Until May 30th 2010

At the Lyon-Fourvière Gallo-Roman Museum

Take a trip through time and discover the funerary rites of our Roman ancestors…

Every stage from death to burial is evoked using reconstitutions…

Ceremonies, vigils, processions, the evolution from incineration rites to burial, funeral banquets, rites, objects, symbols, epitaphs… all provide better understanding of the way in which life came to an end in those times, when death did not have today’s tragic character.

Epitaphs provide information on the origins of the deceased: their family, background, daily-life, craftsmanship, trade, etc. and add perspective to the texts.

Lugdunum’s necropolises offer a great deal of information and provide everything required for an extremely rich collection, enhanced even more by means of reconstitutions which make the exhibition extremely accessible to all.

This exhibition has been recognised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Office of the Museums of France as being of national interest.

From January 29th to June 27th 2010

At the Lyon Printing Museum.

Incredible! Magnificent!

Do not miss this exhibition of the most remarkable graphic arts creations: miniature books over the centuries.

The four hundred works selected present all the diversity and technical exploits needed for making these miniature masterpieces.

Challenge-raising expertise, unusual and precious materials and a wide range of subjects ... result in real gems of incomparable delicacy.

From October 16th 2009 to March 28th 2010

At the Lyon Fabric Museum (Musée des Tissus de Lyon)

Gloves are to Millau what silk is to Lyon: a field of excellence, resulting from exceptional know-how recognised and applauded throughout the whole world!

The Fabric Museum is exhibiting some 350 gloves, the oldest of which go back to the end of the Middle Ages. Designed by the most renowned houses such as Hermès or Chanel…, and made by famous workshops like the Maison Causse…

Gloves belonging to stars and celebrities the world over, gloves of men in power, sports’ children’s or dolls’ gloves, gloves in different materials and forms: embroidered fabrics or leather…

The exhibition draws a panorama of all the aspects of gloves’ symbolism, of its protective role, its role of power or a fashion accessory…

Leather tawing, dying, glove-making with the glove-cutters’ work and then commercialising, every stage reveals fascinating, meticulous and rigorous craftsmanship.

We really enjoyed this original and rich exhibition.