Saint-Vallier is the 7th largest city of the department of Saône-et-Loire in Burgundy.
Located on the CEAR (road center Atlantic Europe), it is also crossed by the routes of the Eurovéloroute Nantes-Budapest and around Burgundy by bike.
Saint-Vallier is part of the Urban Community Le Creusot - Montceau-les-Mines is located 20 minutes from Le Creusot-Montceau TGV (1h20 from Paris) station.
The Central Canal linking the Loire Saône through the town.
Like many towns in France, Saint-Vallier is a city without history! Founded by a Roman general, it is not developed until the 19th century. Predominantly rural, it has known in the 17th century strong opposition among residents of a neighborhood and a neighboring lord.
Saint-Vallier received the 19th century the development of mining in the mining area. In 1856, the town has "lost" a part of its territory during the creation of the city of Montceau-les-Mines.
In the 1920s, the Polish immigration has required the construction of mining towns. The "Polish" culture is still very much around associations, culinary practices (delicatessen, pastries ...), exchanges with Poland. Twinning with Rybnik has continued for more than 50 years.
Two other towns are twinned with Saint-Vallier Wallerfangen Umbertide Germany and Italy.
Mostly residential city, Saint-Vallier also has economic advantages with a strong presence of craftsmen and highly innovative companies: construction hoists, Tunnelling, industrial maintenance, textile. Local trade plays its full role.
Saint-Vallier is a rural community with several environmentally friendly farms.
Every year in early July, the "Queulots follies" are a festival around the young audiences. In addition to the performances, activities are organized for children to meet the artists.
Les Cinq Anneaux Perdus - Cie La Baguette
- On 4 may 2024
- 27 rue Victor Hugo, Halle couverte
- Interactive theatre - Young audience aged 4 to 11 - at the Covered Hall. - A show linked to the Olympic Games and awarded the "Paris 2024" label, as part of a day dedicated to sport. - The incredible adventure of two children on a mission to save the Olympic ideal ! - Camille and Charlie, playing marbles, are real champions. During a training session in the countryside, they discover a mysterious light box, animated by the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin. But the light of the Olympics is about to be extinguished. Pierrot challenges them : the little boy and girl must find the five lost rings to save it. Ethiopia, Australia, Brazil, Japan : this adventure will take them all over the world to meet mischievous and determined young sportsmen and women.
Frida - Céline Bernat
- On 14 may 2024
- 22 rue Victor Hugo, Espace Culturel Louis Aragon
- Theatre - All audiences. - An evocation of and tribute to the painter Frida Kahlo, whose struggle for life through painting fascinated and left behind her strength and hope. A great paradox, since her life of suffering ended at the age of 47, in great exhaustion, with these words : "I hope that the exit will be joyful, and I hope never to return". Frida, obsessed with death and in love with life, an emancipated woman with total emotional dependence, extremely feminine and disturbingly masculine, extremely humble and pathologically narcissistic, Frida or the multiplicity of a being. - A show that tells us how, by turning her way of the cross into a flamboyant tour de piste, Frida Kahlo planted her hymn to life in our hearts like a flag.
Drum Brothers - Les Frères Colle
- On 26 may 2024
- 22 rue Victor Hugo, Espace Culturel Louis Aragon
- Music and juggling - For all ages 6 and up. - The Colle brothers, finalists in "La France a un incroyable talent" 2021 ! - Born from the unusual union of a bass drum and a snare drum, the Colle Brothers have been drumming since birth ! - With "Drum Brothers", they bring us an original show, a twirling musical juggling performance packed with humour. It's all about percussion, but the trio's artistic predispositions don't stop there : bagpipes, flute and guitar join in the dance and the objects - Skittles and umbrellas. This virtuoso trio is all about talent, fantasy and passion. - A family show for young and old, orchestrated by the colourful brush of director Éric Bouvron.
Océan
- On 1 june 2024
- 22 rue Victor Hugo, Espace Culturel Louis Aragon
- Documentary film - For all audiences aged 8 and over. - Sailing at 10 knots through a school of hunting tuna, accompanying dolphins on their wild cavalcade, swimming with the great white shark shoulder to shoulder… The film Oceans is like being a fish among fishes. - Following on from Himalaya and Le Peuple migrateur, Jacques Perrin takes us, using unprecedented filming methods, from the polar ice caps to the tropics, to the heart of the oceans and its storms, to help us rediscover the marine creatures that are known, little-known and ignored. - Océans looks at the impact mankind is having on wildlife, and uses images and emotion to answer the question : "The Ocean ? What is the Ocean ?"
Une Chenille Dans le Cœur - Cie La Roue Voilée
- On 14 june 2024
- 22 rue Victor Hugo, Espace Culturel Louis Aragon
- Between theatre and video projection - Sustainable Development Week - All audiences. - Une Chenille dans le coeur takes up one of Stéphane Jaubertie's most beautiful texts. Combining theatre and video projection, words and music, the show invites us into an imaginary world that sails between the worlds of Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki…
On Boira Toute l'eau du Ciel - Collectif La Méandre
- On 15 june 2024
- 22 rue Victor Hugo, Espace Culturel Louis Aragon
- Entre-sort en caravane - Sustainable Development Week - For all ages 6 and up. - On boira toute l'eau du ciel (We'll drink all the water in the sky) is a short performance in a caravan in which four spectators become privileged witnesses to a tale of sound and vision. The story is about a people who disappeared following a flood. Two surviving sisters are the guardians of the drama. Together, they play at reviving the memories, taking care not to let them sink into oblivion.
