Day: 3 December 2016

As part of its Eco-Hub movement, launched in June of this year, Stars’n’Bars continues its monthly workshops on nutrition and wellbeing with its first “Wellness with Movement” day, Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm at StarDeck.

Free participation for all ages this weekend, events will include Kids Zumba, Bollywood, Pop Pilates, Posturo-Therapy, Pole Fitness, Yoga Digestion and Anti-age, Qi-Gong and Ski Fitness.

Dress code: comfortable!

In October, EcoHub hosted,“Beauty Inside and Out”, an all-day fair focusing on how to be beautiful and healthy using natural methods and products, while “respecting the environment and the body’s natural needs”. And later, they promoted better health with a cancer prevention talk with Henri Joyeux, a professor of cancer treatment and surgery, and a conference on lifestyle and beauty.

READ ALSO: The Women of Monaco Life, A Series: Kate Powers

The Telethon Village will offer many attractions and entertainments this weekend at Darse Sud on Port Hercules.

The event was inaugurated 5 pm on Friday by HE Prime Minister Serge Telle in the presence of its patron, Mme la Baronne de Massy. A dance gala followed with the Association Baletu Arte Jazz at the Theatre des Variétiés, then, at 7:30 pm, there was the Diner Spectacle Country and Chorale under the big top in place.

On Saturday many more events are scheduled, starting at 1 pm, most of them featuring music and attractions for all ages. Many sporting associations will be represented, offering activities such as laser target shooting. Various food stalls will cater for appetites large and small during the two days. For more information see Facebook.

Feature image: Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Stéphane Valeri. Photo: gouv.mc

It’s the annual Ecumenical Kermesse jumble sale today at the Fontvieille Chapiteau. Entrance is free and the doors open from 10 am to 6 pm..

With 25 stands, this is a great opportunity to pick up some stocking stuffers like books, houseware goods, tech gadgets and toys, and sort through quality clothes, jewellery and shoes. You’ll also find Christmas decorations, Monegasque, Greek and British speciality tables. 

This year’s Tombola has over 20 prizes and tickets are just €2 each. The Snack Bar is open all day with a wide selection of delicious and inexpensive food and drinks.

Money raised will go to the charitable work of La Société de Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Paul’s Church, the Eglise Réformé de Monaco, British Association of Monaco, La Communauté Espanagnole, and La Paroisse Grecque Orthodoxe.

Also, La Poste Monaco has announced that with three weeks left until Christmas, Santa has opened his office in Monaco. Anyone wishing to write to Father Christmas, or send a drawing, can post their letters in any mailbox in the Principality before Friday, December 23. To receive a reply, it is important, says La Poste, for correspondents to write their names and addresses legibly on both the envelope and the drawing.

The office also reports that Santa has an excellent internet connection.

The 11th Christmas Ball takes place at Hotel de Paris tonight at 8:30 pm, with a Sotheby’s auction in aid of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation. Auction sale and tombola organised by Five Stars Events.

Across Casino Square, at the Salon Bellevue at Café dé Paris, the Child Care Monaco Gala Dinner kicks off with a cocktail at 7:30 pm, followed by a gastronomic meal with live music. Tickets €140/person, €110 for members and €50 for under-15. Reservations: childcare@monaco.mc.

READ MORE: Princess Charlene marks World First Aid Day
READ MORE: Ladies Vintage Car Rally: more than just pretty faces …

Monaco’s discerning music lovers will have an excellent opportunity to hear two international ensembles at concerts on Tuesday, December 6 and Friday, December 9 at the Chapel of the Visitation on the Rock. Both events start at 8:30 pm.

The concerts of baroque music are centred on programmes that concern a major event of the liturgical calendar: the preparation of the Christmas celebration.

The first concert features Veni Emmanuel by The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park, with Guy James (countertenor), Alex Chance (countertenor), Joseph Wicks (tenor), Josh Cooter (tenor ), Michael Craddock (baritone) and Sam Mitchell (bass).

The ensemble favours ancient music and, more precisely, the polyphonic repertoire of the Renaissance, but also offers programmes combining modern and sacred and secular works. Since its creation in 2014, The Gesualdo Six has given numerous concerts around the UK and is preparing other tours and concerts abroad, notably in Germany.

Friday’s concert – Natale in Italia (Christmas in Italy) – by La Fenice Ensemble is directed by Jean Tubéry, who also plays the cornet, featuring Stéphanie Pfister (violin), Nicolas Achten (theorbo), Keiko Gomi (cello), Jan Van Elsacker (tenor) and Mathieu Valfré (harpsichord and organ).

La Fenice focusses largely on the magnificent Venetian music of the seventeenth century. The repertoire of the ensemble nevertheless embraces all Europe, and covers more than two centuries of music.

Entrance for both concerts is free, but depends on spaces being available. Doors open at 8 pm. For further information: +377 98 98 83 03.

Article first published November 29, 2016.