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The temporary nautical base on the bras Marie has just arrived and will be open until 03 September 2023. This is your chance to paddle every Sunday in a canoe or kayak on the Seine, opposite Ile Saint-Louis. It promises to be a hot summer in Paris, and there’s no better way to cool off. The Bras Marie water sports centre is the perfect place to admire the heart of the capital from a cool angle. Located opposite Ile Saint-Louis, you can take to the water every Sunday in a canoe or kayak, all free of charge. A trip along the Seine in the sunshine is a great way to (re)discover the architectural wonders of the City of Light. For unforgettable Sundays, the canoes and kayaks are available free of charge from the age of 15! Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Date: every Sunday until 03 September 2023. Location: Bras Marie water sports centre Address: 68-74 quai de la Rapée 75012 Paris Price: Free. Access: Metro line 5, Quai de la Rapée station.

Come and discover or rediscover the legendary ballet of Swan Lake, adapted for the pleasure of young and old. A choreography of the highest quality, elaborated by Fabrice Bourgeois, ballet master at the Paris Opera, featuring a troupe of professional dancers, under the artistic direction of Karl Paquette, star dancer of the Paris Opera. A simplified story in two acts with a narration that will allow easy access to the mythical story of Prince Siegfried and Odette, to the music of Tchaikovsky. A ballet of a duration adapted to the young public (2×40 mn with intermission).   Date : from November 19, 2022 to March 05, 2023 Place : Théâtre Mogador Address : 25 rue de Mogador 75009 Paris Price : from €25 to €69 Metro : line 12 Trinité d’Estienne D’orves station line 09 Havre Caumartin station RER A station Auber

This exhibition gives us the opportunity to dream about a crossroads of civilizations, in the heart of Central Asia, in Uzbekistan, where the names of Samarkand and Bukhara resonate. But many other commercial oases in this country have revealed works that are now classified as World Heritage sites. World Heritage Site. A large selection of these masterpieces, which have never left the country and have been specially restored, are presented in this exhibition, such as the monumental wall paintings of the ambassadors’ palace in Samarkand and its region, pages from one of the oldest monumental Korans from the beginning of Islam from Katta Langar, in Sogdiana, and other treasures in gold from Bactria (Dalverzintep), in silver, in silk, in ceramics. It is also an opportunity to admire some masterpieces of the famous 16th-century Bukhara school of miniature painting. Thanks to exceptional loans from major European museums, the exhibition brings together nearly 130 works and invites us to take a journey through space and time. This account of seventeen centuries of fabulous history allows us to understand how this region on the borders of China and India was able to fascinate Alexander the Great, but also the Caliphs of Baghdad, beyond the Iranian world, towards the east. This area of exchange and cultural influence allowed Western and Eastern civilizations to dialogue and mix harmoniously.   Date: from 23 November 2022 to 6 March 2023. Location: Louvre Museum. Address : Rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris Price: €17 Schedule: Wednesday to Monday from 9 am to 6 pm. Metro : line 1 Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre station

The Centre Georges Pompidou is holding a retrospective exhibition devoted to Gérard Garouste, one of the most important contemporary French painters, born in 1946, who is a figurationist without concession. Gérard Garouste was a student at the Beaux-arts de Paris at the end of the 1960s, and his reading of Marcel Duchamp’s interviews with Pierre Cabanne prompted him to defy the ban on painting at a time when conceptual practices were the order of the day. Thus, he became a painter, in the most traditional sense of the term, focusing on technique, which he never ceased to perfect, by observing the masters in the Louvre: Poussin, El Greco, Tintoretto… In the 1980s, he began to create large paintings under the sign of Greek mythology, to which he superimposed his personal mythology around the figures of the Classic, the Indian, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, which, according to him, is in all of us. Alongside 120 major paintings, often of very large format, the exhibition also gives a place to the sculpture and graphic work. This exhibition allows us to grasp the full richness of Gérard Garouste’s unclassifiable career, whose life of study, but also of madness, and his enigmatic work, feed off each other in a striking dialogue. With his large figurative canvases, the artist revisits the history of art through the genres of painting, which he seeks to exhaust. The exhibition dedicated to him follows step by step the path and the personal mythology of one of the most important French painters.   Museum : Centre Georges Pompidou Address : Place Georges Pompidou 75004 Paris Price : 15€. Schedule: open from Wednesday to Tuesday from 11am to 9pm. Metro : Hôtel de Ville station lines 1 and 11 Châtelet station lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 RER : Châtelet-les Halles lines A, B, D

On their heads, on their backs, on their shoulders, at arm’s length or close to them, for centuries they have carried children, transported wood, water, food, bricks or mountains of cotton. Follow them through this exhibition, which reveals the spectacular burdens they carry. American photographer Lekha Singh pays tribute to the women of the world. Each in their own way, women carry a part of the world. It is time to bring them into the spotlight, and this is what the American photographer does so brilliantly. On the tracks of the fields, the roads of the markets, the paths of the villages or the tumult of the cities, you will follow sportswomen, mothers, doyennes with ankles cracked by the heat of the day or teenagers who put their nascent strengths to the test.   Exhibition until 02 January 2023. Musée de l’Homme : 17 Place du Trocadéro 75016 Paris Open every day except Tuesdays, 01 January, 14 July and 25 December. Opening hours: from 11am to 7pm. Price: 13€. Metro: line 6 Station: Trocadéro

Like a taste of the holidays, every year for 20 years (and yes Paris-Plage is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year), the arrival of Paris Plage is the iconic event of the Parisian summer.For this new edition, the activities are concentrated on the two historic sites of the capital, the quays of the Seine from the Pont des Arts to the Pont de Sully and on the banks of the Bassin de la Villette.To blow out its candles with us, the City of Paris has gone all out. From July 9 to August 21, many summer activities take over the capital.On the program: free swimming, kayaking, shaded relaxation area, mist garden, petanque…Something to enjoy sunny days.Since 2002 and the publicized example of Paris, many French cities and foreign capitals have taken up this idea, such as Metz, Toulouse, Brussels and Jerusalem.

The 126th Rolland Garros French Tennis Tournament will start on Sunday May 22, 2022.Since 2006, Rolland Garros has traditionally opened on a Sunday with single matches over the first three days. Then the double matches will take place from Wednesday May 25, 2022 and the double mixes on Friday May 27, 2022.In total, the competition brings together 128 players, 64 double teams and 32 mixed teams.The men’s final will take place on Saturday June 4th and the women’s final is scheduled for Saturday June 12th.Price: from 40 eurosLocation: Stade Rolland-Garros, 3 Avenue Gordon Benett, 75116 PARIS.Line 9: Michel-Ange Auteuil, Michel-Ange Molitor stationsLine 10: Porte d’Auteuil, Michel-Ange Molitor, Boulogne Jean-Jaurès or Pont de Saint-Cloud stations