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This December saw an amazing event near Arbresle in the Rhone-Alpes. Over 150 Rugby balls made into an incredible variety of artforms for a charity auction. The creativity from schools, colleges, and individual artists and designers around the region was just stunning. The event made over 8000 euros – an incredible success! www.purefrancenow.com
A new compilation of poetry and art from Brian Franklin will be published soon. Following in the creative page footsteps of the 1st and 2nd series of ‘Tricks of the Mind’, this new 3rd book features an eclectic mix of verse, prose, and observations, including the thought-provoking art imagery of Jean-Marc Dublé. THE TRIP […]
The 7th edition of the International Festival of Animation : • 11 700 spectators during one week • 170 short films from 40 countries, 5 competitions, 60 hours of screening, 2 exhibitions • More than 3500 children for the young audience screenings • Many directors from all around the world came to the festival An […]
The Musèe de Louvre -Lens, less than 2 hours drive from Calais is an amazing architectural building with a continuing rotation of artworks and special themed exhibitions. If you like art and history, this place is most definitely a ‘must visit’. The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France, approximately 200 […]
The 6th International Festival of Animation was held in Roanne during March 2015. 11,800 spectators saw an amazing programme of 170 films during the month. 40 countries were represented with over 60 hours of different, highly creative and original animations. A brilliant event for all the family. Not to be missed for next year! […]
The Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest French and European museums. Located in the heart of Lyon, between the Rhône and Saône rivers, it is situated in a magnificent building dating from the 17th century. The collections are exhibited in over 70 rooms and offer visitors an outstanding sample of art from […]
Lyon (historically spelled Lyons) is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Etymologically it relates to the Celtic God Lugoves, Lugh as do Laon and Leiden. Lyon is located approximately 470 kilometres (292 miles) from Paris, 320 km (199 mi) from Marseille, 420 km (261 mi) from Strasbourg, 160 km (99 mi) from Geneva, […]
Exhibition “Arkeo nineteenth-twenty-first century, when the man had written his” Museum Joseph Déchelette, Roanne, from March 1 to November 11, 2014 From March 1 to November 11, 2014, Joseph Déchelette Museum presents an exhibition outside the box, “Arkeo.” Accessible to all, “Arkeo” tells a adventure of archeology and its repercussions on the history of man. […]
The remarkable and original art and drawings of Jean-Marc Dublé. His prolific drawings and design concepts are found in the many pages of his art diaries, notebooks, and almanacs. They follow each other from page to page like a kind of chronicle, a journal of the daily life of an artist who observes, looks at […]
Welcome to more new gift ideas from Pure France Now. Have a scroll through our online Pure France Now Shop. The Pure Earth Collection of Prints currently featured is a selection of a developing range of art ideas which will be presented during 2014. We hope you like and enjoy them! Unique, charming and […]
The new Pure France Now website has gone ‘live’ this November. Pure France Now is dedicated to promoting the Roannais and Rhône-Alpes in France for great food and gift products, gourmet weekends, business event organisation, weddings, special celebrations, including a superb selection of excellent value properties for sale, and much more. We source and sell beautiful […]