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Upcoming events in April and local news

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Flowers, sculptures and wine festival in Morges, The Sound of Music in English at the theatre, Classical music at the Conservatoire. Living in Nyon talk/future films in Nyon, parking in Nyon, late local shopping hours and thankyou to a reader in Neuchatel.

Finally, if Shakespeare were alive today would he be on Facebook? (see sidebar)
An eclectic mix of events and news for you below.

Tulip festival in Morges – Morges High Street with flags out


The Tulip festival in Morges has now begun and will continue until May 16th. Over 200,000 tulips have been planted in the Parc de l’Indépendance near the edge of the lake and when they finally come into bloom there will be a spectacular display of flowers, (blooming is a little late this year due to the cold Autumn). However there are also daffodils, hyacinth and crocusses too and they should be coming into flower very soon (if they are not already).
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the festival and there are many special events organised over the following weekends. This year there will also be 15 sculptures in the park in an exhibition organised by the International Symposium of Sculpture.Tulip festival brief round up below, see the site for full details

Park keepers preparing for the festival


This weekend 10 to 11 April  Weekend for families

Bouncy castles, Clown puppets, Captive flights in hot air balloon, climbing wall, bicycle race,

17 and 18 April   Swiss Weekend

Orchestra, Accordions, carriage rides, raclettes,

23, 24 and 25th April  Turkish weekend and International children’s festival

Processions, result of contest of giant tulips, folk dancing, shadow theatre, workshops for children Turkish food.

1st and 2nd May  Dutch Day

Bike rides guided tour on bicycle, Circus Klomp, Songs from Holland

8th and  9th May  80 potters in the Tulips

Ceramic artists on site in the park, pottery demonstrations and pots for sale. Brass band music etc

15th and 16th May  Medieval animations

Reconstruction of craftsmen from the 15th Century. Stringed instrument maker

Boat parade 16 May

Morges Harbor

Note, each year in a different town along the lake there is a Naval parade of all the “Belle Epoque” boats from the CGN company. This year it is the turn of Morges and on Sunday 16th May from 13:30 to 15:00 there will be a naval choreography which will be visible from the quays at 14:15. It’s quite spectacular and worth a visit.

Wine fair

Also in Morges on the 14-19 April it’s the Arvinis wine fair which is open to the public, lots of stands and tasting of local wines, this year the “guest of honour” wine at the fair is Californian wine.

Sound of Music

Sound of Music

The hills or rather the Theatre du Léman in Geneva will come alive with the sound of music in a couple of weeks with the GAOS production in English of The Sound of Music on 23, 24 and 25 April. If this show is one of your favourite things, then check it out on the GAOS website

Classical  Music Concert

Bach and Handel will be played by Georges Kiss at a clavecin Sunday afternoon recital at the Conservatioire of Nyon on Sunday 18th April at 17:00

Living in Nyon – Documentary Film talk


Thankyou to all who came to the last Living in Nyon event on Tuesday night. Mr Jean Perret and Madame Gabriela Bussmann (Director and Deputy Director) of Nyon’s upcoming documentary film festival Visions du Réel gave a very interesting talk about the festival to a full house of Living in Nyon readers. They explained all about the festival, the logistics of choosing films amongst the 2,000 submitted. Mr Perret talked about the diversity of the films the aim of the festival and what is on the agenda for this year. Madame Bussmann talked about the market and pitching of films, she explained that this festival is rated highly in the documentary film world  and how film makers come from all over the world to Nyon. The event was held in  a new venue down by the lake, a perfect setting for a glass of wine and a chat and an interesting discussion.  Watch this space for another Living in Nyon event!
A short round of some news items taken and translated from La Côte newspaper

Park prettily please

From next Monday drivers who park their car in the Place Perdtemps car park will have to park in the designated parking areas. Those who have been sneaking their car into other parking places such as on the grass will find these areas blocked off, and if they discover a sign at the entrance saying “Car park full” it will mean just that and drivers will have to  look elsewhere and not try to park illegally. Those who do, will be fined.

Late shopping hours

Discussions are under way at the moment between Nyon council and the commercial organisations to come to an agreement to enable the shops in central Nyon to open until 19:00 from Monday to Friday and until 18:00 on Saturday. Nothing is decided yet but when it is, this site will keep you posted!

There are also seperate ongoing discussions as whether to install CCTV cameras around the town.

New art installations by the castle until the 10th October

There are some new shapes on the ground near the chateau, one is called “Formations” by Adriana Stadler and the sculpture hanging near the castle is called “Collier de la Comtesse” (the countesse’s necklace) by Roland Heini.
Thankyou very much to the reader who is moving to (or has moved to?) Neuchatel and contacted me with a very nice email after a visit to Nyon. Many apologies as I seem to have lost your email (amongst the many I receive) I was going to reply but your email seems to have disappeared into cyber space. So if you would like to send an email again then that would be great and I can reply!

Comments

  1. Bill Harby says

    Salut encore, Catherine. I think I may be the person whose email you lost. I wrote to you about how, passing through Nyon a couple weeks ago, it all seemed familiar and friendly to me from having been following your blog for the last couple months before my move to CH.

    My wife and I have been getting settled in our little cottage in Serroue, outside of Montmollin, which is just above Neuchatel. We're loving our new life together here in the country. If you're ever in the area, please give a shout.

    Cheers,
    Bill Harby

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