ANGELA BIRD'S

The
Vendée

WHAT'S ON IN THE VENDEE
January 2010

(entries in red indicate new additions)

	PLEASE NOTE This website is really just a supplement to Angela Bird’s guidebook, The Vendée (left), which gives full details in its 176 pages of hundreds of interesting and off-beat tourist sites throughout the region. What you see on the website consists of either extra topics not covered in the book (Calendar, Restaurants, Travel routes, Internet links etc), or updated information (new tourist attractions open – or old ones closed) since the most recent edition of the book appeared. For the complete picture, order The Vendée through bookshops in the UK and Ireland, or from Amazon ; it is also on sale in good bookshops throughout the Vendée.	The listings on this site are supplied in good faith, gathered by the author from various Vendée sources. However it is always wise to check details with organisers or tourist offices before making a special journey.

Until 17 Jan 2010	Cinq siècles de chasse en Vendée Large exhibition on the history and variety of hunting practised in the area over the centuries. It looks at deer-hunting; at shooting (particularly wildfowling); and has an interesting short film on falconry, with a member of the Puy du Fou falconry team demonstrating the techniques of hunting rabbits etc with the birds. (All in French, of course.) Not for the squeamish. Mon-Sat 9.30am-6pm, Sun 10am-6pm. Closed 15 Dec & 1 Jan. 6 euros (also admits to house, garden and Vendee Wars trail); under 25s 3 euros; under 18s free.	Logis de la Chabotterie, St-Sulpice-le-Verdon, near Rocheservière (tel : 02 51 42 81 00)
Until 31 Jan 2010	Aurélie Nemours / Extraits de la collection du musée de Grenoble More than 30 abstract geometric works – paintings, pastels and collages, by an artist considered one of the major figures of the post-war era in France. Nemours studied with Fernand Léger, and admired Mondrian.	Musée de l’Abbaye Ste-Croix, Rue de Verdun, Les Sables d’Olonne.
Until 14 Feb 2010	Charles Lapicque, le dérangeur Exhibition devoted to an unusual 20th-century French painter. Around 60 paintings show the bright, jazzy subjects faboured by Lapicque (1898-1988).	Musée de l’Abbaye Ste-Croix, Rue de Verdun, Les Sables d’Olonne.
Until mid Feb 2010	Crèches animées Wonderful displays of animated nativity scenes in model-village settings and landscapes of all kinds. Daily 2-6.30pm. 5€, children 3€, under 10 free.	Maison de l’Art, Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche
Until 13 June 2010	Soldats du feu: les Sapeurs-Pompiers de la Vendée (1813-2009) Exhibition on almost a century of the Vendée’s fire service, whose members are revered by all. Tues-Sun 10am-6pm (from 1 Apr until 7pm). Admission 8€ (includes all of museum), children free.	Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne.
1 Jan	JOUR DE L’AN New Year’s Day (public holiday)

10 Jan 2010	Concert du nouvel an New Year concert by members of La Simphonie du Marais, difrected by Hugo Reyne. 5pm. 19€ .	Logis de la Chabotterie, St-Sulpice-le-Verdon, near La Roche-sur-Yon (tel: 02 51 42 19 39).
22-24 Jan 2010	La Folle Journée Chopin et ses influences Classical music fest.	Espace Culturel René Cassin, Fontenay-le-Comte
23 Jan 2010	La Folle Journée Concert-polonaise Music on a Polish theme played by members of Hugo Reyne’s Simphonie du Marais. 4pm. 4€	Theatre, La Roche-sur-Yon (tel 02 51 47 83 83)

The Conseil-Général’s website also has a regularly updated calendar of events
on its site www.vendee.fr, under “Agenda”.

A free quarterly publication called Musique-Danse lists many concerts of all kinds in the Vendee. You can find it in Mairies and tourist offices.

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