- The night market is held every year in early July.
- The Fair Quasimodo is held annually the weekend after Easter.
- Exhibitions are organized throughout the year in the Chapel of St. Nicolas where the Tourist Office is located.
- The Media and the Hospital also present exhibitions.
- Every year, the festival music Orne Musical September with internationally recognized artists perform there.
Albin de la Simone - Printemps de la Chanson
- On 20 march 2024
- 1, rue de la Feuille, Le Quai des arts
- This concert is programmed in partnership with Quai des Arts and C'61.
Tango Neruda
- On 22 march 2024
- 1 Rue de la Feuille, Quai des Arts
- Piazzolla, Picasso and Neruda come together in a show combining dance, poetry, music and pictorial projections. - With Tango Neruda, Serge Barbuscia invites us on a new journey, a new universe in which he reveals a little-known Pablo Neruda, in intimate correspondence with the paintings of Pablo - Picasso and Astor Piazzolla's tango. - This journey takes its inspiration from the book Toros, published in 1961, for which two Pablo ? S (Neruda and Picasso) put their pens together on the theme of Spain and bullfighting. - On stage, Barbuscia plays Neruda - an obvious choice. - Behind him, Picasso ? S paintings are projected, while the tango steps of Marina Carranza and Pablo Andres Tamburini complete this 100% Iberian tableau.
Le Petit Georges- Printemps de la Chanson
- On 26 march 2024
- 1, rue de la Feuille, Le Quai des arts
- This concert is programmed in partnership with Quai des Arts and C'61.
Visite-Atelier "A la Manière de..." au Musée Fernand Léger - André Mare, Argentan
- On 28 march 2024
- 6 rue de l'hôtel de ville, Musée Fernand Léger - André Mare
- Accompanied by a mediator, visit the museum and enjoy a creative workshop for adults. - This new proposal for adults is entitled "à la manière de ? The theme of this first workshop-visit is cubist portraiture in the style of André-Mare. If the term cubism can scare you, don't panic : the mediator is on hand to explain everything, and will suggest various tools to help you find inspiration for a fun and convivial moment around drawing.
Dans les Forêts de Sibérie
- On 5 april 2024
- 1 Rue de la Feuille, Quai des Arts
- William Mesguich transposes writer Sylvain Tesson ? S exceptional Siberian adventure to the stage. - Far from the city and the crowds, Sylvain Tesson chose to isolate himself in the middle of the Siberian forests, where his only occupations were fishing for food and chopping wood for fuel. He rediscovers the joys of reading and solitary reflection. - The novel is a hymn to elsewhere, to poetry, to beauty. It is a dazzling secret that touches a heart scarred by comfort. It's a hole, an escape that leads to difference and makes us look at the world with fresh eyes, a land of all possibilities. - What if freedom consisted in possessing time ? What if wealth came down to having solitude, space and silence, all things that future generations will lack ?
Yé
- On 10 april 2024
- 1 Rue de la Feuille, Quai des Arts
- Guinean collective Circus Baobab blends traditional African circus forms of expression with new contemporary writing to question our relationship with water. - What if the nooks and crannies of a ruined world were to become the backdrop for a rebirth ? That's what these bodies are saying. Drawing on the source of their creativity, these acrobatic artists and dancers take spectators on a journey along the water, facing up to a host of environmental challenges. From the ground to the air, beyond reason, these acrobatic birds take us on a journey that raises questions about the urgency of climate change, the loss of reference points and the questioning of reality. - Each of their performances resonates as an evocation of man ? S defiance of nature. With lifts in which the acrobats are thrown over 7 meters in the air, play around a Chinese mast and revisited pyramids, Yé ! brings a vital poetry to the stage.
Exposition "La Grandi Histoire du Dessin Sans fin " de Elly Oldman
- From 20 april to 15 june 2024
- 1,3 rue des Rédemptoristes, Médiathèque François Mitterrand
- Digital art exhibition - Elly Oldman, a young illustrator from Rennes, France, is stuck in bed after an accident, and has taken to Instagram to create a drawing ? Without end : @theinfinitedrawing. - In a graphic style all her own, she deploys all her creativity and overflowing imagination. The Great History of Endless Drawing ? Exhibition project was born ! - Elly Oldman tells us a zany, far-fetched tale, set against a backdrop of ecological and environmental considerations, in a giant, evolving interactive fresco, to be discovered in drawings and augmented reality ! - Immersive exhibition from April 20 to June 15,2024
Ycare
- On 26 april 2024
- 1 Rue de la Feuille, Quai des Arts
- If songwriter Ycare had to be summed up in two words : generosity and sincerity ! - Ycare enchants audiences with his refined, poetic writing, sublimated by catchy melodies. His discography bears witness to this. - Since his appearance on La Nouvelle Star in 2008, Ycare has worked both solo and as a duo. In 2022, he released Des millions d ? années, an album crowned with success and rich in collaborations : Ibrahim Maalouf, Zaz, Amel Bent, Patrick Fiori, Axelle Red ? - After a sold-out concert at the Olympia in April 2023, Ycare continues to build on his success, stopping off in Argentan for an evening. - "I only write songs to sing them in front of you, and I've been very lucky to be able to do that for almost fifteen years. I look forward to seeing you again - Ycare
Visite Commentée - Musée Fernand Léger - André Mare
- On 27 april 2024
- 6 rue de l'hôtel de ville, Musée Fernand Léger - André Mare
- Accompanied by a mediator, retrace the personal and artistic paths of Fernand Léger and André Mare. Walk through the museum in the footsteps of these artists. Portraiture, landscape, composition, impressionism, fauvism and cubism are discussed to understand the artistic evolution of these two Argentan-born friends.
Balade Botanique et Musicale Pour les Tout-Petits
- On 30 april 2024
- Halle de Clos Menou, Impasse du Clos Menou
- Family entertainment - It's all about discovering, understanding and coming into sensitive contact with nature. To do so, our little adventurers' sensory capacities will be put to good use : identifying colors, the different shapes and textures of leaves, comparing them, smelling them, commenting on them, etc. The approach is also poetic, musical with flutes and saxophone, or woven with silence and listening, not forgetting a little highlight where Mother Nature will perform a little magic trick of which she alone has the secret, and which is likely to make the eyes of our little ones shine, but…shhhh ! It's a surprise ! - Free of charge - Please register with the Tourist Office.