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Summer Resort News – Annecy 2011

 

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International Festival of Animated Films- every year since 1960 at the beginning of June Annecy is the meeting-place for the world of Animated Films Presentation and showing of films in competition in various theatres in the town, homages, retrospectives, exhibitions
Giant-screen showings every evening on the Paquier. Entry free.  The Annecy Animation Film Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday!

Projections from 10.30 a.m. to 11 p.m. in 8 sites spread around the town, and late night open-air shows on a giant screen by the lakeside.

 

6th June – 11th June 2011

 

 

 

 

The "P'tit bal perdu" comes back for 11 Sundays this summer. With irresistible party atmosphere, friendliness, charm with a hint of nostalgia, family and lovers' picnics, protected by wonderful trees, it is an invitation to dance in the heart of these delicious getaways to forget time just for a while. Every Sunday from 18h to 22h.

 

26th June – 4th September 2011

 

 

 

 

National Celebration - Lake Annecy and its surrounding villages offer you fireworks and dancing. From 4 p.m. events for children, then from 8 p.m. events of different kinds. At 10 p.m. fireworks followed by public dancing at 11 p.m. Free public access.

 

14th July 2011

 

 

 

 

The Noctibules–  Four evenings, four big times in the town featuring street theatre, funfair style theatre, fireworks parade, aerial shows, circus and original brass bands, combining event shows and new inspirations, national and regional companies.

 

20th-23rd July 2011 (evenings)

 

 

 

 

Lake Festival – On the first Saturday of August the bay of Albigny welcomes the biggest pyrotechnic show of Europe…80 minutes of fireworks in rhythm with music, lights, special effects…It is the kind of show that you have to see at least once in your life!

 Born from the great “Venetian style” party of 1860 on the lake in honour of Napoleon the 3rd, this event has evolved and integrated all the new technologies of fireworks.

 Grandiose, unexpected, this is a unique production, played only always inducing the same interest from the 200,000 people gathered near the lake.

 

6th August 2011

 

 

 

 

Swim across Lake Annecy - this mass event, which had several hundred participants, last year, allows you to do a small (1000m) or big (2400m) cross-lake swim in the bay of Albigny.
Enrolment at Annecy Sports Information from August 1st to 14th.

 

15th August 2011

 

 

 

 

Musical and pyrotechnic shows in the bay of Talloires, staged by Jean-Eric Ougier.

9pm – 11pm.

 

25th and 26th August 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Other

 

Antiques market every last Saturday of the month, all day long in the old town. Only professionals can sell. The art market is on Vicenza quay.

 

 



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