MAY 2024

Are you looking for great bargains? Then now is the right time to mark your diary: Don't miss the opportunity to experience an extraordinary day where you can meet nice people and track down many a treasure!

But that's not all:

Our famous omelette with garlic awaits you at lunchtime for a festive moment of culinary delights.

The Banda Bandas Bande de Copains will be there to bring you their festive music and plenty of good humour!

See you on Wednesday 1 May 2024 in Lembras for what promises to be an unforgettable experience.

The municipality of Val de Louyre et Caudeau is organising the event ‘A la Nouvelle Orléans’ on Thursday 2 May at 8 pm at the Espace Culturel André Malraux in Cendrieux as part of the Scènes d'agglo programme in collaboration with AGORA PNC and this time also in collaboration with the Festival Musiques de la Nouvelle-Orléans en Périgord (MNOP).

A la Nouvelle Orléans - D. L'Homond, M. Herblin, G. Wilmot [Fairytale - Jazz].

‘Daniel L'Homond, poet and storyteller from the Périgord, has a humorous and mischievous approach to the French language.

Fuelled by his travels, his creative talent shapes pieces of contemporary stories that are both astonishing and imaginative, experimental and wondrous.

À la Nouvelle-Orléans is a mixture of fairy tales and jazz, a tasty musical cocktail of blues notes coloured by Guillaume Wilmot on piano and Michel Herblin on harmonica.

From the Mississippi to the Rue Bourbon, intrigue is brought to life. The music shapes the story, just as the story shapes the music. And when it rains in New Orleans, the night suns spit rainbows, they say... This laboratory of narrated life bubbles over with generosity. An enchantment for the ear? Just listen’.

Reservations can be made directly at the Agora ; telephone +33 5 53 35 59 65 or

It's that time again: the Bergerac trade fair will take place from 3 to 5 May 2024. Organised by Alliance Expo, you will find numerous stands with over 200 exhibitors.

Two concert evenings are planned:

• Friday, 3 May 2024 = Breton evening with MANAU + SOLDAT LOUIS (seat price = 23 €).
• Saturday, 4 May 2024 = L'Héritage Goldman (seat price = 35 €)

Also to be noted:

• Catering on site
• Evening entertainment on Friday and Saturday with performances
• Free car park

Opening hours of the fair: Friday from 11 am to midnight / Saturday from 10 am to 2 am and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Trade fair exhibition 2024

Picquecailloux Allée Lucien Videau

24100 BERGERAC

Phone +33 5 53 45 72 12  

foire-expo-bergerac.fr

The Dordogne's biggest funfair, traditionally held on the first Sunday in May, will be back from 3 to 6 May 2024. Once again, 85 attractions will be set up in rue Talleyrand-Périgord and adjacent streets. The first fairground stalls are expected to open on Sunday 28 April. The opening is scheduled for Friday 3 May, from 5 pm. And for the second year running, the fireworks display is scheduled for around 10.30 pm on the quays of the Isle.

The other highlights are well known. On Saturday 4, from 10 am, the Banda du Périgord will be strolling through the market squares of Périgueux, as well as through the heart of the festival, which starts at 2 pm. On Sunday 5, the fishing competition will take place on the quays from 9 to 11 am, followed by mass at the bumper cars and the resumption of the attractions at 2 pm. On Monday 6, the cycling grand prix kicks off at 3pm, when the attractions resume. In the evening, the Bande de copains brass band will be livening up the festivities from 8 pm to 10 pm.

This event is organised by the Association Laïque d'Education Populaire de Bergerac. There will be 17 choirs and no fewer than 600 singers performing over the weekend.

The choirs come from the Charente, Lot, Lot et Garonne, Gironde and, of course, the Dordogne.

The groups' repertoires are extremely varied, ranging from classical music to contemporary songs, French and English variety and world music.

Admission to the various concerts is free, but donations are appreciated.

The final choir reception is at 6 pm.

Le Foyer Rural, the festival committee of Saint-Félix-de-Villadeix is pleased to welcome QUATUOR 4D on Sunday 5 May 2024 at 4 pm in the church of Saint-Félix.

Admission 12 €

Reservations are recommended: +33 7 85 83 97 59 or +33 6 09 94 29 84 (by SMS)

It's one of Sarlat's major food events of the year. The Journées du terroir will take place on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May 2024, with a farmers' market through the medieval town, free tastings and entertainment. With milk, honey, wine, foie gras, chestnuts, mushrooms, charcuterie and Neuvic caviar to choose from, you'll be spoilt for choice. You'll also be able to watch how beer and walnut oil are made, pick strawberries, learn how to cut up and cook duck, and watch demonstrations of hollowing out and grafting chestnut trees. Children will not be forgotten. An area will be set aside for them in the Cour des Fontaines.

In the heart of the Bastide Monpazier the Arts & Crafts Fair takes place every year on Ascension weekend to bring you closer to (and make you savour) the arts and crafts! In this beautiful village, which has been awarded numerous quality labels, the fair is a unique meeting place for crafts and art, reflecting the diversity of French talent and expertise.

Practical information :

• Free admission (including demo, workshop for young audiences, lectures. For the exhibition Les Mains d'Or at the Bastideum, the exhibition leaflet must be presented)
• Workshops for young people by appointment
• Thursday, 9, Friday, 10 and Saturday, 11 May: from 10 am to 7 pm
• Sunday, 12 May: from 10 am to 6 pm

Practical information :

Adress :  Espace Eugène Le Roy - Allée Paul Jean Souriau 24260 Le Bugue

Programming for all ages :

• On Friday 17 May at 20:30 / opening of the site and catering available from 19h.
• Saturday 18 May at 2pm / opening of the site from 1.30pm. Small catering throughout the day and food trucks on site in the evening.
• Sunday 19 May at 11 am / opening of the site from 10.30 am. Snacks will be available throughout the day until 6pm.

Prices :

In the evening: Full price: €13 / Reduced price: €10

During the day: between €5 and €8 depending on the performance

Among the events organised in Périgueux as part of "Châteaux en fête", due to the weather, the one on Saturday 27 April has been postponed to Friday 17 May 2024, still at 8.30 pm: torchlight procession and fireworks display. Free admission.

Animation, traffic, route... The procession of the Olympic flame in Bergerac on Wednesday 22 May 2024 is "a historic moment" for the town of Cyrano.

From 8.30 am, 150 musicians from the Trèfle gardonnais and the school orchestras from Bergerac and Eymet will play the anthem of the Olympic Games in the car park of the Collège Eugène-Le-Roy. Afterwards, the Olympic Village on Quai Salvette and Rue de la Résistance will come to life from 10.30 am with a climbing wall, a USB Rugby bouncy castle, motor skills courses and areas for various disciplines such as judo, fencing, football, volleyball and athletics. There will be a focus on health sports and a stand on the subject of sport and secularism. The programme includes numerous sports demonstrations and presentations. Music bands, parades and clown shows will also be on offer. From 7.30pm to 9.30 pm, the city and the Union interprofessionnelle bergeracoise are also planning an Olympiad in the Rue de la Résistance with various competitions.

The route of the Olympic flame will not be limited to the city centre. The convoy will leave at 8.50 am from the Gymnase du Tounet sports centre (Rue Léger-Vauthier) on the Left Bank. It will pass through Rue du Bois-Sacré and Rue de la Marseillaise before joining Avenue du Maréchal-Leclerc and Avenue Paul-Doumer. It will pass through Rue Georges-Clemenceau, Vieux-Pont, Rue Neuve-d'Argenson, Boulevards Maine-de-Biran, Jean-Moulin and Beausoleil, then Rue du Pont-Saint-Esprit, Rue Saint-James and Rue Saint-Georges before arriving at Quai Salvette at 10 am. The convoy will continue towards Sarlat at exactly 10.12 am. From Tuesday 21 May at 5 pm, parking will be prohibited on all roads used by the convoy. On Wednesday 22 May, traffic on these roads will be completely closed from 7 am to 11 am and will only be gradually reopened afterwards. Please note that although it will be possible to drive within the city centre area, no exits will be permitted between 7am and 11am. As access to the city centre is not possible between 7am and 11am, the Wednesday weekly market will not take place on 22 May in the morning. The city has decided to bring it forward to Tuesday evening, 21 May, when the small organic market traditionally takes place around the Notre-Dame church.