Editing Amiens (section)

===Cultural events and festivals===
Throughout the year, Amiens is the seat of many cultural, traditional or economic events.

[[File:Royal de luxe à Amiens en 2005.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Royal de luxe]] company during the 28th ''Fête dans la ville'' in 2005.]]
[[File:Hortillonnagesdamiens2010.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Festival Art'', city and landscape in the ''hortillonnages'']]
[[File:Amiens Cathédrale Spectacle 190908 05.jpg|thumb|right|Detail of the [[son et lumière (show)|son et lumière]] show of ''Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs''.]]
[[File:La Grande Réderie d'Amiens 2013.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Grande Réderie d'Amiens'']]
[[File:La façade de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens illuminée en tout couleur.JPG|thumb|right|''Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs''.]]
[[File:Fête au bord de l'eau 2013 à Amiens.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Fête au bord de l'eau'']]
[[File:Vue generale.jpg|thumb|right|The 13th {{interlanguage link|Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d'Amiens|fr|3=Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d'Amiens|lt=''Rendez-Vous de la Bande Dessinée d'Amiens''}} in 2008.]]
[[File:Marché de Noël d'Amiens.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Carnival of Binche|Gilles of Binche]] at the inauguration of the Christmas market in 2013.]]
[[File:Un été en musique Amiens.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Un été en musique'' event at the Jules Bocquet bandstand.]]

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;margin:1em auto"
|+ Annual Events
! Month
! Event
! Subject
! Number of editions (In 2015)
|-
! January
| style="text-align:center;"|''Festival Tendance Europe''
| This festival, organised by the {{interlanguage link|Maison de la culture d'Amiens|fr}}, is dedicated to contemporary creation. Programming highlights emerging European artists in a variety of areas: Theatre, dance, music, circus arts and visual arts.
| style="text-align:center;"| 9
|-
! February
| style="text-align:center;"|''Salon des Antiquaires''
| The ''Salon des Antiquaires'' of the city is held, every year, at the {{interlanguage link|Megacity of Amiens|fr|3=Mégacité d'Amiens|lt=Megacity}}. Its reputation makes it one of the most important events of its kind in the north of the France.
| style="text-align:center;"| 12
|-
!rowspan="2"| March
| style="text-align:center;"|''Festival du jeu et de l'imaginaire : À toi de Jouer''
| This festival is dedicated to playing and imagination, featuring board games, card games, video games, roleplaying, comics and manga. Many tournaments are organized during this event which takes place at {{interlanguage link|Megacity of Amiens|fr|3=Mégacité d'Amiens|lt=Megacity}}. The first edition was held on 12 and 13 May 2012 with {{interlanguage link|Simon Astier|fr}} for sponsor.
| style="text-align:center;"| 4
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Salon du chocolat et gourmandises en Picardie''
| For three days at the {{interlanguage link|Megacity of Amiens|fr|3=Mégacité d'Amiens|lt=Megacity}}, the fair offers demonstrations, parades, contests around the theme of chocolate and food in general.
| style="text-align:center;"| 5
|-
! April
| style="text-align:center;"|{{interlanguage link|Grande Réderie d'Amiens|fr|3=Grande réderie d'Amiens|lt=''Grande réderie de printemps''}}
| The {{interlanguage link|Grande Réderie d'Amiens|fr|3=Grande réderie d'Amiens|lt=''Grande réderie de printemps''}} ([[jumble sale]]) is a popular event that takes place twice a year: in spring (the last Sunday in April) and autumn (the first Sunday in October). After the [[Braderie de Lille]], the Réderie of Amiens is the second largest event of its kind in France. It hosts more than 2,000 professional traders and individuals as well as 80,000 to 100,000 visitors to each edition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.destination-somme.com/fr/actualites/51-grande-rederie-de-printemps-a-amiens-/|title=La Réderie d'Amiens|work=destination-somme.com|access-date=11 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726073136/http://www.destination-somme.com/fr/actualites/51-grande-rederie-de-printemps-a-amiens-/|archive-date=26 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
! May
| style="text-align:center;"|''Leitura furiosa''
| This festival, organized by the association "Cardan", offers various free activities relating to the world of words: Workshops, calligraphy, typography, writing games, [[Poetry slam|slam]] and shows.
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
|-
!rowspan="4"| June
| style="text-align:center;"|''Foire Exposition de Picardie''
| It takes place at the park of the congress and exhibitions of Amiens, the {{interlanguage link|Megacity of Amiens|fr|3=Mégacité d'Amiens|lt=Megacity}}. During nine days, it hosts approximately 50,000 visitors, 300 exhibitors and more than 20 activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.foire-de-picardie.com/|title=80e Foire exposition de Picardie|website=foire-de-picardie.com|access-date=11 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612212701/http://www.foire-de-picardie.com/|archive-date=12 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 76
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|{{interlanguage link|Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d'Amiens|fr|3=Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d'Amiens|lt=''Rendez-Vous de la Bande Dessinée d'Amiens''}}
| This comic strip festival, organised by the association "Explorers on the bubble", is one of the most important [[Festival de bande dessinée|comic strip festivals in France]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog-picard.fr/bulles-picardes/non-classe/la-bd-en-2012-toujours-plus/ |title=La BD en 2012, toujours plus |date=30 December 2012 |work=Le Courrier picard |access-date=28 January 2014 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160524015615/http://blog-picard.fr/bulles-picardes/non-classe/la-bd-en-2012-toujours-plus/ |archive-date=24 May 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Created in 1996, it takes place each first weekend in June, in the University Library of the Cathedral hub. Various activities in connection with the festival are also organized at different places in the city.
| style="text-align:center;"| 20
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Fête dans la ville''
| This international festival of [[street theatre]] is also known under the name of "The street is in Amiens". Created in 1977, it invited 20 companies for four days of performances, parades, fairground theatre, and circus performances in the streets of the city.
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|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Marché sur l'eau''
| Once a year, in the context of the "Festival in the city", the walking on water takes place. Growers (gardeners) in traditional costumes boat down the [[Somme (River)|Somme]] with their crafts loaded with fruit and vegetables from the ''hortillonnages''.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
! June to July
| style="text-align:center;"|''Foire de la Saint Jean''
| It is the largest funfair in the north of the France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-13h/la-foire-saint-jean-rendez-vous-incontournable-a-amiens-7393577.html |title=La foire Saint Jean rendez-vous incontournable à Amiens |work=JT de 13H de TF1 |date=29 June 2012 |publisher=TF1 |access-date=29 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708085846/http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-13h/la-foire-saint-jean-rendez-vous-incontournable-a-amiens-7393577.html |archive-date=8 July 2012 }}</ref> It takes place during 3 weeks between mid-June and mid-July on the esplanade of {{interlanguage link|Parc de la Hotoie|fr|3=Parc de la Hotoie|lt=Hotoie}}.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
!rowspan="2"| June to September
| style="text-align:center;"|''[[Amiens Cathedral#Renaissance polychrome sculpture|Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs]]''
| Created in 1999, this [[Son et lumière (show)|son et lumière]] show is the first world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB99052794|title=Colorisation cathédrale Amiens|work=JT de 20H de France 2|date=25 December 1999|publisher=Institut national de l'audiovisuel|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115011/http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB99052794|archive-date=24 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Daily from mid-June to mid-September as well as in December, in the dark, the medieval colors of the portals of the façade of the [[Amiens Cathedral|cathedral]] are reborn thanks to projections of digital images. Since its inception, nearly two million people have attended the free event.
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Un été en musique''
| This summer event, conducted from June to September, offers a series of free concerts outdoors (at ''Place René Goblet'' and ''Place Gambetta'', and the Jules Bocquet bandstand). Programming is mainly of local artists.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
! June to October
| style="text-align:center;"|''Festival Art, villes et paysage – Hortillonnages Amiens''
| This festival, organized by the {{interlanguage link|Maison de la culture d'Amiens|fr}}, was born in 2010 under the heading "Imagine it now". Invited are landscapers, visual artists, architects and designers involved in the ''hortillonnages''. In total, twenty artists facilities and landscaped gardens are located in several places in the ''hortillonnages''. These unusual works (such as floating sculptures, reinvented huts, diverted gardens, revisited gardens) are visible either by walking track or boat, from June to October.
| style="text-align:center;"| 6
|-
!rowspan="2"| July
| style="text-align:center;"|''Voyage au cœur de l'été''
| The event, which takes place every July in the ''Espace Dewailly''. The programming consists of live performances around world cultures, traditions, folklore and modernity.
| style="text-align:center;"| 11
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Bal du 14 juillet''
| This ball takes place on the ''Place de l'hôtel de ville''. It is followed by a fireworks display at the {{interlanguage link|parc de la Hotoie|fr}}.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
! July to August
| style="text-align:center;"|''Un été à Amiens''
| This summer event, conducted by the city hall of Amiens, brings together four concepts spread across three sites in the city: "Amiens-les-Bains" (children) and "Beach Attitude" (adolescents) in the Parc Saint Pierre, "Zen Attitude" in ''Place Gambetta'' and "Sportez-vous bien" at Grand Marais.
| style="text-align:center;"| 2
|-
!rowspan="2"| August
| style="text-align:center;"|''Défi Jules Verne''
| This event, also known as "Montgolfiade", commemorates the first balloon flight (1873) of the most illustrious adopted son of Amiens: [[Jules Verne]]. Its uniqueness lies in the take-off of many balloons and unusual machines (between 20 and 30) from the {{interlanguage link|Parc de la Hotoie|fr}}. Music with readings of excerpts from novels by [[Jules Verne]] accompany their flight in the sky of the city. Subject to favourable weather conditions, this event takes place every month of August.
| style="text-align:center;"| 10
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Bal de la libération''
| This festive event, which is held at the ''Place de l'hôtel de ville'', celebrates the liberation of the city on 31 August 1944. It joins the various commemorations and tributes traditionally organised there on this day.
| style="text-align:center;"| 6
|-
! September
| style="text-align:center;"|''Fête au bord de l'eau''
| This traditional festival, organised by the association "Jacobins Traditions and history", plunges the historic neighborhood of Saint-Leu into a medieval atmosphere for two days with a market, medieval camp, trades of yesteryear, parades in the streets and on the water as well as other activities. It is on this occasion that the popular tournament of [[water jousting]] runs. Created in 1990, this free event takes place every second weekend of September and gathers an average of 80,000 visitors.
| style="text-align:center;"| 25
|-
!rowspan="3"| October
| style="text-align:center;"|{{interlanguage link|Grande réderie d'Amiens|fr|3=Grande réderie d'Amiens|lt=''Grande réderie d'automne''}}
| The autumn edition of the {{interlanguage link|Grande réderie d'Amiens|fr}} is held every first Sunday in October.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Ô mon Cloître''
| Evolution of the [[Nuit Blanche]] (9 editions), this event is dedicated to the performing arts and visual arts and is held in the cloister of the grey nuns.
| style="text-align:center;"| 1
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Festiv'Art''
| This festival, held since 2006 by the association of "Free radicals", allows regional, national and international artists to find themselves on the same stage for an evening which is followed by street arts and circus, theatre, concerts and graphic services.
| style="text-align:center;"| 8
|-
!rowspan="2"| November
| style="text-align:center;"|''{{ill|Festival international du film d'Amiens|fr|Festival international du film d'Amiens}}''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fifam.fr/ |website=fifam.fr |access-date=22 December 2023 |title=43e Festival International du Film d'Amiens |language=fr |date=2023 |publisher=FIFAM}}.</ref>
| This international film festival ranks among the five largest film festivals in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/un-des-4-rendez-vous-qui-comptent-ia167b0n233740|title=Un des 4 rendez-vous qui comptent|first=Estelle|last=Thiébault|date=8 November 2013|work=Le Courrier picard|access-date=28 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110090433/http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/un-des-4-rendez-vous-qui-comptent-ia167b0n233740|archive-date=10 November 2013}}</ref> Created in 1980, it is held for nine days in November and records more than 60,000 entries each year.
| style="text-align:center;"| 35
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Picardie Mouv''
| This festival of {{interlanguage link|musiques actuelles|fr}}, organized by the [[Regional Council of Picardy|Picardy regional Council]], offers eclectic programming that mixes a collage of artists of international, national and local groups.
| style="text-align:center;"| 10
|-
!rowspan="2"| December
| style="text-align:center;"|''Christmas Market of Amiens''
| The largest Christmas market in the north of France,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marchedenoel.fr/|title=Le marché de noël d'Amiens|work=marchedenoel.fr}}</ref> it attracts over one million visitors each year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.francetvinfo.fr/amiens-au-marche-de-noel_485808.html|title=Amiens : au marché de Noël|work=JT de 13H de France 2|date=18 December 2013|publisher=France 2|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222113954/http://www.francetvinfo.fr/amiens-au-marche-de-noel_485808.html|archive-date=22 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The market consists of approximately 135 chalets in the city center and offers various animations (a [[Son et lumière (show)|Son et lumière]] show, [[Amiens Cathedral#Renaissance polychrome sculpture|Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs]], Ferris wheel, ice rink, village of Santa Claus, parades, and carnival rides).
| style="text-align:center;"| 18
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''[[Amiens Cathedral#Renaissance polychrome sculpture|Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs]]''
| Winter Edition of the [[Son et lumière (show)|Son et lumière]] show of the cathedral.
| style="text-align:center;"| –
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;margin:1em auto"
|+ Multi-annual Events
! Month
! Event
! Subject
! Regularity
! Last edition (Number)
|-
! March
| style="text-align:center;"|''Rencontres internationales Jules Verne''
| These meetings, organised by the {{interlanguage link|Centre international Jules-Verne|fr}}, are held every two years since 1997.
| Biannual
| style="text-align:center;"| 2015 (10)
|}