Impressionist Normandy Festival

A major cultural event will be taking place throughout Upper and Lower Normandy from June to September 2010 - the Impressionist Normandy Festival.
The festivities over the summer will provide the perfect opportunity to discover the exceptional cultural heritage and creative talent of Normandy, homeland of the Impressionist movement.

The programme, whether directly linked to Impressionism and its time or perpetuating its avant-garde spirit, has been designed to enchant residents, summer visitors, fans, and art amateurs from all corners of the world.
Painting, contemporary art, music, cinema, theatre, dance, photography, video, literature, lectures, light and sound, picnics in the spirit of déjeuners sur l’herbe, outdoor balls, and more: the Impressionist Normandy Festival is as rich as it is diverse and offers attractions open to everyone and to all forms of artistic expression.
In our département, Seine-Maritime, the much awaited exhibition, “Une ville pour ’Impressionnisme: Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin à Rouen” (“A City for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin in Rouen”) will head up the festival. The Rouen Fine Arts Museum will present a number of outstanding works from public and private collections all over the world. Many are masterpieces which have never been exhibited in France until now.
There will be plenty of opportunities during our weekly courses in 2010 to take part in events planned across the region or to visit some of the major cultural sites in Normandy -
Boudin and Jongkind at the Honfleur Museum
Renoir and Pissarro at the Castle-Museum in Dieppe
Degas and Signac at the Malraux Museum in Le Havre
The Seine at the Impressionism Museum in Giverny
The Fonds “Peindre en Normandie” (“Painting in Normandy” Collection) will also present a prestigious selection of works in Honfleur and Grand Quevilly.
The Normandy Impressionist website gives full details of forthcoming events.