The week’s program

This week, we start with a dialogue that will lead to the Protestant reform, between Luther and Jean Tetzel, the merchant of souls. Wednesday, it’s time to go to the Capuchin chapel see an exhibition in Aigues-Mortes by local photographer Kalian Lo who freezes the work of Graulens trawlers. Friday, invited by the Labory Jazz Club of Nîmes, the Francky Chicken Jazz Band invests the Mas Merlet and promises a great musical moment. Finally, as early as Friday, the Réattu museum in Arles opens its doors with two exhibitions, including an absolutely fascinating on the prints of Japanese masters.

Prescription therapy

Culture is a natural anti-depressant without any side effects apart perhaps, happiness and ataraxia, a certain tranquility of the soul. From Vigan to Arles, find the shows not to be missed every week at reasonable prices, while waiting for them to be reimbursed by the Social Security.

Damn the right hemisphere of your brain Each week, the side effects will be felt quickly.

Luther, or the ten -round reform, has the fictitious meeting between Martin Luther and the indulgence seller Jean Tetzel in Wittenberg the day before All Saints’ Day 1517, the day Luther is supposed to have displayed the 95 proposals against the indulgences which are at the origin of the reform.

Having come to see officer Tetzel who gives some samples of his talent, he engages the dialogue with him, criticizing him this infamous trade in souls. Tetzel replies not without benevolence, defending the position of the pope that Luther attacks in a rather virulent way.

Contemporary and musical creation
Duration: 1h
Public: all audiences from 15 years old

As part of spring in the Camargue, the sky of Aigues-Mortes was decorated with a surge of multicolored butterflies. On the sidelines of the spring event, the city also hosts an exhibition, let’s stay vague.

An immersion in the world of the sea through the crossed views of the Kalian Lo and Pierre Bessoges artists, in the magnificent Capuchin chapel, Place Saint-Louis. Since 2023, Kalian Lo has produced a photo report aboard trawlers of the Grau-du-Roi fishermen, notably the Marie-Jérémy.

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In Quartet at Mas Merlet, the Francky Chicken Jazz Band will perform in Nîmes during a jazzy and festive evening with New Orleans style.

A bunch of friends who played jazz all over the region (Vaucluse, Gard, Hérault) jazz crazy musicians met around a quintet. These friends who have known each other for a long time, around Francky the trumpeter leader, offer the traditional repertoire that comes from Louisiana, on the banks of the Mississippi, near the Gulf of Mexico, stamped New-Orleans.

But also known song titles revisited in jazz such as dead leaves or friends first. And then a bewildered improvisation will close this evening in the very acoustic room of Mas Merlet, offered by the Labory Jazz Club Nîmes. Not to miss!

The Réattu museum welcomes the master of the Japanese print, such as Hiroshige, Hokusai … As part of the 3rd edition of the Arles Drawing Festival, the National Library of France (BNF) will be present at two exhibitions which will reveal works from the exceptional collections of its Department of Estampes and Photography.

At the Réattu museum, visitors will be able to admire two centuries of Japanese prints, an exhibition bringing together a choice of engravings signed by the great Japanese masters of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Utagawa Hiroshige or Katsushika Hokusai, and another devoted to Henri Rivière, bringing together landscapes drawn and painted by this major artist at the turn of the 20th century.

These prints have become emblematic in Japan, and the influence on Western artists, notably Vincent Van Gogh, was considerable.

Each color is applied to the relief parts of a wooden board, then transferred to paper by pressure. Fruits of a close collaboration between the designer, the engraver, the printer and the publisher, they recall that it is, if not a collective art, at least a united chain of sensitivities and know-how.