Street Arts Festival: SélesTArue

" A day dedicated to street arts in Sélestat. Laughter and wonder expected, be ready! "

The town centre squares will host a variety of shows for all ages, with a few nice nods to sport in this year of ‘Olympism’ in Sélestat.

All the ingredients are there for a great family day out in Sélestat: entertainment and support for local businesses! Shops will also be open for the Vitrines de Sélestat Autumn Day.

Place d'Armes :

• 2pm-6pm: Kozmo and Marink'arts decorate the glass bins in Rue de St Dié and Rue Wiederkehr. These artists from the Strasbourg collective ‘Colors Urban art’ will be decorating the last 2 bollards of the ‘l'art urbain s'invite à Sélestat #4’ event.
• 2pm-6pm: family and children's activities organised by the SMICTOM Alsace Centrale and the Service Jeunesse de la ComCom de Sélestat. Sustainable development wheel, Furoshiki zero waste workshop, craft and sensory workshops, board games...
• 2pm, 3.15pm, 4.30pm & 5.30pm: La Camelote des frères Lindecker, Cie l'oreille Absolue. Brocante de chansons - all audiences - 4 sets of around 20 to 25 minutes. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! 3 musicians with ‘cinema faces’ and a singer with a devastating wit... La Camelote unpack their stall of old-time tunes! They'll sell you dreams and joy with a few vintage, popular and festive songs!

Place de la Victoire :

• 2pm & 4.30pm: Le Rat dit noir, humorous circus show - all audiences - 45 minutes. ‘Attention ladies and gentlemen, it's about to start! Open your eyes and ears wide, and warm up your zygomatic muscles. This funny, caustic and spectacular circus show will amaze you with its whip-smart originality.
• 3pm, 4pm & 5.30pm: Cie Louves - dance - all ages - 15 minutes. Cie Louves is a collective of jazz-urban dancers. These 6 dancers will introduce you to their world.

Square Ehm :

• 2.30pm & 5pm: ‘On the green - the sporting challenge of the year, so swing who can!’ - Cie Mister Fred - burlesque theatre - all audiences - 35 minutes. A trolley, clubs, balls, grass and the game can begin! A golfer and his trusty caddy try to play a round. But on the green, nothing goes smoothly. Hierarchical disorder and rivalry quickly set in between the two men, turning the relationship into a clownish sporting competition. Who will come out on top?
• 3.30pm: La Coupe des Rubafons - Cie Les Rubafons - participatory sports burlesque show - all audiences - 55 minutes. Funny and offbeat, this participatory show transports you into a competition as crazy as it is sporting, giving you the power to choose the winner. Like acrobats, the Rubafons juggle different roles, becoming journalists and sportsmen in turn, to give you a unique experience. Is the public ready to be the impartial judge of these crazy Olympics?

Cour de l'école Sainte-Foy :

• 2.30pm & 4.30pm: ‘One Man Show’ - Cie PCCR - circus disciplines - all audiences - 30-35 minutes. Thomas Staath will perform a mashup of his diabolo, mast, juggling and strongman acts.
• 3.30pm & 5.30pm: Carott'cartoon - Cie Sapristelles - puppet show - open to all - 35 minutes - limited seating. Hercule and his grandfather cultivate their vegetable garden using chemicals and an X-terminator 3000 helicopter to control slugs. Capucine, the neighbour, uses plants and animals to help her. When fast-food giant Maxi-Krash Burger buys up the wasteland between their gardens to build its new complex, they decide to do something about it. What will our merry band come up with to get out of this predicament?

Cour de l'école du centre :

• 3pm & 5.15pm: ‘Quand je serai grand’ - Cie les Aéronautes - aerial circus and harp - all audiences - 30-35 minutes’. Inspired loosely by two children's albums, ‘Quand je serai grand’ (When I grow up) evokes dreams and encounters. Music and movement meet at the top of a very, very high fabric... A musical and circus encounter that turns everything upside down and makes real what we imagined as children.
• 4pm: ‘Les P'tits C.U.L.S’ - Cie La Chose Publique - sports music - all audiences - 45 minutes to 1 hour. Quincy and Quentin, Coachs Light et Sexy, are metronomic sports musicians. Come along, join in, get moving, dance, it's Carrément Unique Loufoque et Synchro and you'll get a real treat for your muscles and your eardrums! A colourful electric duo!

Place du Dr Maurice Kubler: stage for cultural players from Sélestad and Centre-Alsace

• 2pm-6pm: L'Evasion invites the public to create a fresco on the ground, rue du Sel and rue des Chevaliers
• 2pm & 3pm: Percussion ensemble from the Ecole de Musique de Sélestat - 15-20 minutes
• 2.30pm & 5pm: performance by the Choeur Lyrique d'Alsace, conducted by Eric Vivion-Grandi, on the theme of Olympism - 30 minutes
• 3.30pm: ‘Supervision’, a play by Sonia Chiambretto performed by the Autres Scène company - 50 minutes
• 4.30pm & 5.30pm: Tanzmatten improvisation theatre group - 15-20 minutes

Strolling through the lively squares

• 2pm-6pm: sports walk by the Cie les Arventuriers on the theme of football and horse riding, two artists come to meet you.

Vitrines de Sélestat Autumn Day

• 2pm-6pm: town centre shops open