A Musées Vous
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 January 2024
On the occasion of “A Musées Vous” and in partnership with the Comité Régional du Tourisme Côte d’Azur France, come and enjoy some special family time at the Château de la Napoule on the weekend of 27 & 28 January 2024.
La Napoule Art Foundation is offering children aged 3 and over and their parents a guided tour of the collections, followed by an art workshop based on the play of light. Come and share a creative moment in a workshop where parents and children can experiment together with artistic concepts and practices.
It’s a chance for young and old to discover the museum in a whole new way!
The poetry machine with Stéphanie FILION
Wednesday, February 14, 2pm to 5pm
For Valentine’s Day, come and experience a poetic performance in the gardens of Château de la Napoule under the big mimosa heart! In the setting of the Château’s gardens, discover the world of the poetry machine with Canadian poet Stéphanie Filion. A brief, inspiring chat with Stéphanie will give life to a personalized poem, an ephemeral work created especially for you on her typewriter. Everyone will leave with their own poem. Enjoy the intimacy of this poetic experience in a magical setting.
Free admission with Château entrance ticket.
Poetry and collage workshop with Stéphanie Filion
Sunday, February 18 between 2pm and 5pm
As part of the Fête du Mimosa in Mandelieu-La Napoule, Stéphanie Filion leads a collage and poetry workshop in the gardens of Château de la Napoule.
Free admission with Château entrance ticket.
Egg hunt
Monday, April 1 at 10:30 a.m.
Affiche Chasse aux 🪺Come and enjoy an egg hunt in the gardens of Château de la Napoule!
Reservations required
musee@chateau-lanapoule.com / 0493499505
Workshop with Kathryn Cameron: Making art with recycled paper pulp
Saturday, April 20 at 10 a.m.
Artist and former LNAF resident Kathryn Cameron will host a workshop open to the public. Based in New York, her work focuses on the use of color and materials across time and cultures. She explores the symbolic, psychological and spiritual impact of color on our world. She seeks to discover the links between nature and human beings through the spiritual meaning of forms and by using natural materials, often recycled or reused, including paper, clay, fibers, wood and leather.
The proposed workshop is an introduction to the countless ways of working with paper pulp, focusing on the use of recycled paper. It will cover basic papermaking techniques and share how to work with pulp at home or in your workshop, without expensive tools or equipment.
Making paper by hand can be a very simple process. It’s also a wonderful way to use up waste paper or egg cartons, and instead create an object of handcrafted beauty while respecting the environment.
She will start with a short talk to introduce the basic techniques of papermaking, the materials needed to work with this medium and give examples of works by contemporary artists using this process.
She’ll introduce the basic papermaking set-up, demonstrate the technique for preparing paper pulp and discuss ways in which the material can be used to make art. After the demonstration, participants can use the prepared paper pulp to hand-build a sculpture on a small frame.
CASA CINE – Film and music writing residency
From May 10 to 29, 2024
La Napoule Art Foundation and SERENA Productions are organizing the CASA CINE international writing residency project.
CASA CINE is an international writing residency whose objectives are to support writers in their transition to feature films, to develop networking around projects and to encourage international co-productions.
CASA CINE is an international writing residency whose objectives are to support authors in their transition to feature films, to develop a network around their projects and to encourage international co-productions.
Film music concert
Monday, May 27, 7pm
The M.G.Art association, in partnership with La Napoule Art Foundation and with the support of the Mairie de Mandelieu-La Napoule, invites you to a colorful concert of film music in the courtyard of the Château.
One-week stay – writing and creation – by Swedish director and screenwriter Mans Marlind
May 2024
In partnership with the Alpes Maritimes film commission and the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule. A meeting with CASA CINE residents is planned.
WORKSHOP with Louise Laffaille
Sunday, June 23 at 10 a.m.
Former resident at La Napoule Art Foundation, Franco-Swiss painter Louise Laffaille offers a pictorial and sensory workshop based on gesture and water. Let yourself be seduced by an unforgettable experience in a magical setting! This free painting workshop is designed for beginners as well as for more experienced painters wishing to enrich their practice.
Louise Laffaille: “I’ve spent the last few years exploring the element of water in my painting, through the traces it leaves as it dries, the life it transmits in its forms, and the breath of its freedom, which requires me to let go completely in the gesture of painting.
In this research, I attach particular importance to accidents, to the unplanned that arrives on my sheet of paper, which always leads me on the next path, and to the discovery of unknown lands.
In this workshop, we’ll explore techniques learned from a Chinese master and the plastic richness that water can bring to painting. Through the exploration of pure, raw forms, but also the construction they can bring to a landscape.
In the idyllic setting of the Château de la Napoule on the Mediterranean coast, we’ll use the landscape we observe as inspiration and means of creation.”
Reservations essential: mfrance@chateau-lanapoule.com
Fireworks at the Château!
Monday, July 15 at 8:30pm
TWO FORMULAS AVAILABLE:
15€/ PERS.
Admission at 8:30pm, with access to the Matt Sheridan exhibition
At 9:30 pm, welcome to the private garden to admire the fireworks.
100 seats available. Reservations required.
Free for children under 7.
50€/ PERS.
Admission at 8:30pm, with access to Matt Sheridan exhibition
At 9pm, welcome to the private terrace with a glass of prosecco, followed by a charcuterie & cheese board*, and a glass of wine**.
. For a sweet treat, a chocolate moelleux* and coffee.
50 places available. Reservations required.
INFORMATION: MFRANCE@CHATEAU-LANAPOULE.COM
Music concert – Piano recital by young prodigy Stella Almondo
Tuesday, July 16 at 9pm
Born in 2006, this Monegasque pianist already boasts an impressive track record. Her first concert was at the age of 10 with the Cercle Musical de Cannes, followed by her first recital two years later, at the Nuits Musicales du Suquet.
A pupil of A. Briggen, at 13 she obtained the highest distinction at the Nice Conservatoire and joined the class of pianist I.Lazko.
At 15, she performed her first concerto with the Orchestre national de Cannes. She unanimously passed the entrance exam for the CNSMDP and joined the class of MJ. Jude’s class. Stella regularly performs for the Monte-Carlo Opera, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Princess Charlene Foundation and SBM establishments.
With astonishing maturity, her playing combines power and precision, mastering all the nuances of the Romantic repertoire.
Tickets
https://my.weezevent.com/stella-almondo
Flute quartet concert
Thursday, July 18 at 9pm
M.G.Art is organizing a concert with the support of the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule and the La Napoule Art Foundation.
Made up of French flautists from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, the Flume quartet was founded in 2022.
Influenced by Belgian music of the 20th and 21st centuries, they are determined to defend the little-known repertoire of the flute quartet.
Tchaikovsky, Bach, Jongen, Delibes, Beethoven, Ravel.
A program combining original pieces and arrangements of great classics, to help you discover the different facets of the transverse flute.
The Quatuor Flume offers a magical, interactive experience that will delight young and old alike!
Sara DI COSTANZO and Lisa KORDIC, both from the region and trained at the Cannes Conservatoire, will be delighted to perform again in their native South of France, accompanied by Zoé BEAUDOIN (Bretagne) and Tom FILCZINGER (Occitanie).
Tickets
https://my.weezevent.com/quatuor-flume
Matt Sheridan THE LINGERING LOVERS
Exhibition from July 5 to 26
Matt Sheridan is a former resident of La Napoule Art Foundation and a contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles. His animated videos, installations and abstract paintings in motion are held in private collections worldwide and exhibited in galleries in New York, Miami and Los Angeles (USA), London (UK), Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Singapore, Brisbane and Sydney (Australia).
Matt Sheridan is a visual artist, researcher and teacher. Early in his career he became interested in the moving image as a means of self-expression, as a renaissance of painting. He studied visual media at New York University/Tisch School of Arts and is a graduate of the Passadena School of Design in California.
His videos, projections and animated images are “paintings in motion”. They combine painting and video through abstraction, movement, localization and re-materialization. He marries physical reality with virtual images.
“In Sheridan’s videos, multiple points of view present themselves at once: the digital, the pictorial and the animated”.
Sarah Wang in Liberated, Rendered Alien, liner notes for Trips, 2015.
La Napoule Art Foundation is delighted to welcome Matt Sheridan’s exhibition The Lingering Lovers to the Château for the first time. A former resident of the Foundation, Matt spent several periods at the Château working on this extraordinary exhibition project! A time of experimentation, research, discussion and exchange.
Festival des mots
Monday July 29th at 9pm
Once again this year, the Festival des Mots du Département des Alpes-Maritimes invites spectators to be transported through great texts read by renowned artists. For one evening, brilliant actors perpetuate the oral tradition of the storytellers of yesteryear, bringing words to life with their talent. Charles Berling and Bérangère Warluzel will read extracts from Albert Camus’s “Le premier Homme et autres textes”.
Phone: 04 89 87 52 00
Dramatised tours
Wednesday 31 July in French
Come and enjoy a unique theatrical tour of the Château de la Napoule! Beth Blatt, a former resident of the Foundation, brings the story of Henry and Marie Clews to life through a lively and sometimes even lilting text 😍 Not to be missed!
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €20 per person
📍 Visits in English
19 July at 6pm
7 August at 6pm
📍Visits in French
31 July at 6pm
21 August at 6pm
By reservation mfrance@chateau-lanapoule.com
Les Farfadais – ÉVEIL
14, 15 and 16 August 2024
What if you were to travel to a magical, poetic world?
Life appears: two beings awaken and adapt to the reality of the world around them.
Inhabited by dreamlike, enchanting creatures, this Universe leads their souls to make sometimes difficult choices, but it will change their story forever…
ÉVEIL is a poetic circus show that will capture the imagination of young and old alike, giving you a magical, fairytale experience!
Tickets at
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