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Diary in 2009
MAIN EVENTS
Events in the Calvados
11th-15th March Asian film festival in Deauville
17th - 22nd March Aspects des musiques d'aujourd'hui (aspects of today's music) Festival in Caen
11th - 25th April Deauville Easter Music Festival– Chamber and orchestral Music.
11th April Kite flying festival in Trouville
18th - 19th Avril Festival de la tulipe (tulup festival) in the château de Vendeuvre
2nd - 3rd May Cambremer AOC Festival Festival reuniting Normandy's 12 AOC quality labels (local produce market, encounters with producers...)
3rd May Geranium Fair at Beuvron en Auge
8th - 10th May Fête du Pont l'Evêque (Pont l'Evêque cheese fair) in Pont l'Evêque
31st May - 1st June Fête des Marins( Sailor's Fair) in Honfleur
Around the 6th of June:

65th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. The programme on www.normandiememoire.com
5th & 6th June: National commemorative ceremonies in the presence of veterans

Other Events D-Day FESTIVAL in Bayeux and Longues sur Mer - Liberation picnic on Omaha Beach – concert by the English soprano Fiona Harrison in Ver sur Mer, Fête de la Libération (Liberation Celebration) in Tilly sur Seulles with military camp and Battle of Normandy book fair – at Ver sur Mer military camp
3rd and 7 June Houlgate Plein Vent (Kite Festival)
11th - 14th June Cabourg Romantic film Festival
17th - 21st June 4th Tour de Normandie, grand vintage car meeting and tourist rally throughout Normandy
4th - 5th July Medieval Fair in Bayeux
4th - 13th July Les Virevoltés at Vire
July/August The Musical Promenades of the Pays d’Auge
July Nature Festival at the Canon castle
9th July - 28th August Caen Soirs d'été, a variety of events in the grounds of Caen Castle
July/August Deauville, horse capital (races, polo, yearling auctions)
1st - 2nd August Livarot Cheese Fair
2nd - 9th August Medieval nights at Crèvecœur
13th - 16th August Festival des jeux anciens (old fashioned games festiavl) in Falaise
4th - 13th Sept. Deauville American Film Festival
12th - 13th Sept. Hiking weekend in Suisse Normande
12th - 13th Sept. Fête du Port (Harbour fair) in Caen
October Gand market and Cider Fair in Beuvron en Auge
10th - 11th Oct. Honfleur shrimp festival
10th - 25th Oct. Equi’Days, Horse festival in the Calvados (19th edition)
24th - 25th Oct. Scallop festival at Villers sur Mer
30th Oct - 1st Nov Andouille Fair at Vire
7th - 8th Nov. Festival Taste of the Briny at Port in Bessin
5th-6th dec Scallop festival fair in Trouville sur Mer
5th-6th dec Scallop festival fair in Grandcamp Maisy
December Christmas at the Balcony, Street performances at Deauville
December Let's celebrate Christmas at Caen!
 
EXHIBITIONS
Events in the Calvados
From 16th May to 16th Aug 2009

Normandie pittoresque, de moyen âge à nos jours (Picturesque Normandy from the Middle Ages to the present day) In the Caen Fine Arts museum – Information at www.ville-caen.fr/

13th June - 31st Oct:

Deux siècles de tourisme en Normandie (Two centuries of tourism in Normandy) in the Normandy Museum, Caen

June - September Le Calvados en tête d’affiches (Calvados at the top of the bill) exhibition organised by the Calvados departmental archives at the Château de Bénouville.
July - August

Premières photographies de la Normandie (the first photographs of Normandy) at the Marc Pagneux gallery (www.image-culte.com)
2nd Nov – 31st Dec

1961-1989: Frontières, (Frontiers) Mémorial de Caen