Bouzigues (musée de l'Étang de Thau)
On Saturday 7 November, at 6:30 and 9:30 pm, the Thau Lagoon museum hosts "20 000 rôles sous les eaux", a role-playing evening run by Le Manoir du Crime to relive the story and sinking of the Justine and the Olympia. Ages 12 and up, €2 or €4, tickets on manoirducrime.fr.
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1 letter a month, the first at the end of October: what’s on during the autumn half-term (Toussaint), addresses around the Thau lagoon and walk ideas. Free.
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On Wednesday 14 October at 8:30 pm, three musicians from the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie perform Bach's Goldberg Variations at La Tuilerie, in Dmitri Sitkovetsky's string-trio arrangement. Free introduction at 7:30 pm; ages 7 and up, €7 to €15.
The festival opens on 10 October with a “La Traviata, from Dumas to Verdi” gala at the Foyer des Campagnes. The week continues with “Sacre Mozart” by the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, a Little Prince musical tale, a lyric gala, a jazz night and the master-class final concert on the 18th; the two Apér’Opéra events are free.
For its 13th edition, the festival offers six concerts across Montpellier, Guzargues, Gignac, Le Rouet and Saint-Martin-de-Londres, with a carte blanche for Argentine lutenist Eduardo Egüez. It closes on 18 October at 5pm in the church of Saint-Martin with Jean-Marc Andrieu and Les Passions; full price €20, reduced €15.
What to do this weekend? Autumn & half-term
On Saturday 17 October, from 10 am to 9 pm, Place du Théâtre in Marseillan-Ville hosts the 11th Eel Festival, with traditional recipes (Provençal style, with parsley, bourride, ravioli) to eat on the spot or take away. Entry is free, as are the eel-smoking workshops (1 pm and 7 pm) and the boat trips that leave the harbour every hour from 11 am to 5 pm.
From 17 to 31 October, the Cistercian abbey of Valmagne, founded in 1139, runs "Octobre à Valmagne": meetings with craftspeople in the Gothic naves, games and afternoon snacks for families, and lantern-lit night tours by reservation.
On Friday 20 November, the Salle Jeanne-Oulié in Mèze hosts a double bill from the Festival de Thau's Itinérances series: Erwan Naour solo, followed by the duo Léna Vassiliu Music, mixing jazz, bossa and swing. Seated concert, €18 (€15 in advance).