Events around Sarlat-la-Canéda

The reputation of the Sarlat market is well established. High in color and flavor, it attracts all year round gourmets and lovers of Périgord gastronomy.

• Outdoor markets (all year round):

• Saturday: in the heart of the city - all products from 8:30 am to 6 pm.
• Saturday morning: place de la liberté - food market from 8:30 am to 1 pm.
• Saturday morning in winter only: several award-winning markets.
• Wednesday morning: food market - Place de la Liberté: 8:30 am to 1 pm.

• The covered market (all year): former Sainte Marie church - Place de la Liberté.

• During the summer season: open every day, Monday to Sunday inclusive, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (nighttime).
• From mid-November to mid-April: every day except Thursday from 8:30 am to 1 pm.

• The fat and truffle markets: from the end of November to mid-March, Sarlat hosts, on Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the Place Boissarie (near the covered market), important fatty and truffle markets in particular popular with gourmets.

Also, during the year periodically occur events and festivities:

• The Truffle Festival: every year, mid-January. Many activities around this emblematic mushroom are offered. Workshops are open to the general public in order to discover all the subtleties of the truffle, such as the identification and scent of truffle workshops or how to buy a truffle.
• Sarlat Fest'Oie: every year, early March. Tasting stands each more tempting than the next, the carcass soup (a true local tradition) offered to everyone to warm up, the band for the atmosphere, workshops and demonstrations for young and old to learn.
• Les Journées du Terroir: in the heart of the city, every year on Ascension Thursday and Friday. The days of the terroir are an opportunity to discover or rediscover the authenticity, traditions and quality of Périgord Noir products. Alongside identity stands and activities for children, a farm and an organic center have appeared.
• Sarlat Swing It: the first weekend of June, rediscover the swing and good humor of jazz in the pure tradition of American groups from the 1920s to the 1950s. The heart of the city is transformed into an open-air stage, where the meet professionals, enthusiasts, amateurs of this exceptional atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties. A concentrate of good humor with voices, atmospheres, places and the opportunity to meet before the launch of the summer season.
• La Ringueta: traditional festival of games of yesteryear, it takes place on the weekend of Pentecost (only in even years). The Occitan language is given pride of place.
• The Theater Games Festival: the last two weeks of July as well as the first week of August.
• Heritage Night: the 3rd weekend of September.
• The Days of Taste and Gastronomy: end of September. The city of Sarlat joins the national gastronomic meeting and proposes to put the land in the spotlight by organizing a popular and friendly event around the pastoral lamb of Sarladais and the Sarladaise potato. On the sidelines of this event, visitors can also enjoy the specialties on the stands of the producers, participate in workshops and demonstrations.
• The Film Festival: mid-November.
• The Christmas Market: in December. Sarlat at the end of the year impatiently awaits its Christmas market which colors and animates the city. A Christmas village looms and opens its doors to the public in December, made up of about fifty chalets, each as magical as the next; it is organized around the ice rink. The village comes alive and lives to the rhythm of artisans from all over France who come to exhibit their works in the medieval city. A very eclectic craftsmanship awaits you to offer unforgettable gifts.

• From 6 july to 11 august 2024
• Ancien évêché
• Four artists, four studios.

• On 27 july 2024
• Jardin des Enfeus
• Written and directed by Mathieu Rannou - With Franck Desmedt. - Atelier Théâtre Actuel - It's impossible to fit the life of Joseph Kessel (1898-1978) into a single box, because it's so full of surprises ! This indefatigable observer of the 20th century lived his life at a hundred miles an hour, in search of the exhilaration of life, the beauty of the world and, above all, the encounter with others. Born in Argentina, the son of Jewish immigrants, he would have liked to be an actor, but he was a journalist, reporter, war correspondent, aviator at the age of 18, Resistance fighter (with his nephew Maurice Druon, he wrote the "Chant des Partisans"), famous novelist, adventurer and, in 1962, Académicien ? He experienced all the horrors and upheavals of the last century, and traveled the world exploring little-known lands such as Afghanistan, Burma and the Horn of Africa to track down slave hunters.

• On 28 july 2024
• Place de la Liberté
• By Pierre Corneille - Directed by Frédérique Lazarini - With Cédric Colas, Quentin Gratias, Arthur Guézennec, Philippe Lebas, Lara Tavella and Guillaume Veyre. - Artistic Athévains - The 1st performance of Le Cid by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) took place in 1637 under the reign of Louis XIII. The action takes place in Seville, in the kingdom of Castile in the 11th century. The plot is well known : Don Diègue, father of Rodrigue, is about to ask Don Gomès for the hand of his daughter Chimène, and the two young men fall in love. But the king chooses Don Diègue to tutor his young son. The meeting between the two noble fathers degenerates : Don Gomès, jealous and furious, blows Don Diègue away ! The latter, too old, entrusts his son with the onerous task of clearing his name, and Rodrigue is torn between his love and his duty ?

• On 28 july 2024
• Jardin des Enfeus
• Based on the novel by Luis Sepúlveda - Directed by Carl Hallak - With Patrick Courtois. - Compagnie Voyez-moi-ça - This show is an adaptation of a short novel by Luis Sepúlveda, the internationally-renowned Chilean writer who was sentenced to 28 years in prison by Pinochet and released thanks to the work of Amnesty International. Since exiled, he has traveled extensively and now lives in Asturias. Famous since his 1st novel, Le vieux qui lisait des romans d ? amour, he was awarded the "Sorcières" prize at the Montreuil children ? S book fair in 1997 for his Histoire d ? une mouette et du chat qui lui apprrit à voler. Here is the "official" summary : "Zorba the cat has promised a seagull, victim of an oil slick, to hatch its last egg, protect the chick and teach it to fly. But how can he keep his word ?

• On 29 july 2024
• Abbaye de Sainte Claire, Côte de Toulouse
• Director : Chantal de La Coste - Adapted and performed by Hervé Briaux. - Sea Art - Montaigne (1533-1592) is close to home for many reasons ! Firstly, because our beautiful town of Sarlat is home to the house of de la Boétie, his dear and famous friend, but also because the château of Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, lies on the border between the Bordeaux and Dordogne regions. He wrote his "Essais" (1580-1588) in his "Librairie", a tower set apart from his château, where he could retreat in fertile solitude and total freedom. A free-spirited man, always in search of the truth, banishing all dogmatism, profoundly humanist but with no illusions about human nature, rich in a life nourished by experience and responsibility (he was mayor of Bordeaux during the wars of religion and the plague)

• On 30 july 2024
• Jardin des Enfeus
• Based on the novel - Compagnie Paradoxe (s) - The film adaptations of the novel have been a great success, and the stage version is no exception. The story is that of Icarus, alias Courgette, a 9-year-old child living alone with his depressive, alcoholic mother, who curses the sky at every opportunity since his father abandoned them. Wanting to free his mother, the child can only think of "killing the sky that brings misfortune". And the dramatic accident occurs when he finds a pistol ? Placed in a "home for broken children", Icarus, at first bewildered, gradually discovers what he has been missing as he forges links with others. Together, children and adults will learn to build themselves up, to "rise up" and to "sew" their hearts back together, so that they can finally be reborn to happiness.

• On 31 july 2024
• Abbaye de Sainte Claire, Côte de Toulouse
• By Nathalie Sarraute - Directed by Tristan Le Doze - With Bernard Bollet, Gabriel Le Doze, Tristan Le Doze and Anne Plumet. - Antibéa Théâtre - Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was a novelist, essayist and playwright. The sixth and final play in her dramatic oeuvre, Pour un oui ou pour un non has been performed over 600 times since its French premiere in 1986. Nathalie Sarraute ? S theater is the theater of language. "As for the subject, it's always what's called nothing" ? According to the author - which is why the spectator won't be distracted, because all that counts is what's left unsaid : two men, H1 and H2, longtime friends but now estranged, clash verbally, pushing each other to the limit.

• On 1 august 2024
• Jardin des Enfeus
• By Marivaux - Directed by Jean-Paul Tribout - With Marilyne Fontaine, Emma Gamet, Agathe Quelquejay, Thomas Sagols, Baptiste Bordet, Xavier Simonin and Jean-Paul Tribout. - Sea Art - After the long reign of Louis XIV, the Regency era liberated ideas and mores. The "party begins", but not for everyone ! Marivaux's play La double Inconstance, first performed in 1723, is a fine illustration of this, for right from the start, a young peasant girl, Sylvia, whom the Prince has set his heart on and claims to love and want to marry, is abducted without her consent, of course ! The young girl, however, loves her Harlequin purely and reciprocally. The challenge is all the greater for the Prince, who uses his sidekick Flaminia to set in motion the plot of double inconstancy.

• On 2 august 2024
• Abbaye de Sainte Claire, Côte de Toulouse
• By Dino Buzzati - Directed by Grégori Baquet and Xavier Jaillard - With Grégori Baquet. - Compagnie Vive - The entire life of Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was devoted to writing : as a journalist for over 40 years at Corriere della Serra, and as a writer whose fame exploded in 1940 with Le Désert des Tartares. These two activities nourished each other through the choice of subjects and, above all, the style, clean, lively, under the seal of the baroque and of a fantasy emerging from the cracks of reality. Le K, published in 1966, is a collection of short stories in which the author presents a summary of his vision of life.

• On 3 august 2024
• Jardin des Enfeus
• By Stephen Temperley - Directed by Agnès Boury - With Agnès Bove and Cyril Romoli. - Arts et Spectacles Production - The play, first performed on Broadway, is adapted for the French version. Told from the pianist ? S point of view, in 1964 in a New York jazz club, it tells the incredible story of an illustrious singer from the 1930s, a sublime anti-diva who not only sang off-key, but dressed in costumes of her own design, which were totally extravagant ! The true story, both heartbreaking and comical, is that of Florence Foster Jenkins (1858-1944), who inherited her father ? S immense fortune in 1909, moved to New York with her mother and led an eccentric, worldly life that made her impossible to ignore.