News of the Day-5/15

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EXHIBITION "QUE LA LUMIÈRE sorr Our island has a multitude of artistic talents. In order to highlight them and allow the entire population to discover them, the Collectivité% 3B de Saint-BarthelemyeHUS calls on the association Artists of St Barth There will therefore be 5 artists, painters, photographers and sculptors who will be in the spotlight until August 31, 2021 at the Wallhouse Museum. Julie Fumat, Luca Bornoffi, Pati Guyot, Vanessa Thuillier and Igor Couston will be the artists of this group exhibition "Let there be light."

ST BARTHÉLEMY THEATER FESTIVAL FROM MAY 6 TO JUNE 20 Special edition, almost 100% local and 100% comedy with a guest show. Everything about my brother! " by and with Jean Franco and Guillaume Mélanie. Find the program on the festival website and the Facebook page. Ticket office on site at the Théâtre du Paradis in Gustavia (next to the Catholic Church) between 7 pm and 7:45 pm in the evenings performance or on the festivaldetheatredesaintbar- thelemy.com website UPWARDS 15/16/17 May at 8 pm - 18 € By Jean Franco and Emilie Ridard Directed by: Nadège Emmanuelian With Joanna and Samantha Un coup de feu dans la nuit . A clearing in a forest, and two young women, a little banged up. One is burying the body of a clown. The other is pointing it with a pistol. Every ten minutes, we go back in time. , and little by little, let's piece together the puzzle of that crazy night. A funny game of massacre with a corrosive and scathing tone. A crazy and raw road movie. upside down.

TRIPLETTE PETANQUE CONTEST On the occasion of their participation in the Raid Amazones, the Ouanamazones with Marina Legallais, Cindy Plaçais and Maddy Amiaux organize a triplet pétanque competition Open to all, Sunday May 23 at 10 am at the Saint Jean pétanque club! Registration is € 7 per participant, with prizes up for grabs as the key to this competition! Quickly come and register for the pétanque club or on the facebook event created for this occasion.

MASS TIMES Saturday May 15: 5:30 p.m. in Gustavia Sunday May 16: 8:30 a.m. in Lorient

DOUBLE SITUATION TRANSAT AND WEEKEND WEATHER Friday 14 May, the sailors tackled along the Spanish coast to cross the dreaded Cape Finisterre in the evening. A complicated night is now looming in a sustained wind. The two leaders, Guyot Environnement - Ruban Rose and Bretagne - CMB Performance, are neck and neck, followed by a compact pack. Sun, smoothness, beautiful slips under spinnaker, double-digit speeds, flat sailing ... This is exactly what the 36 sailors of the Transat en Double - Concarneau - Saint-Barthélemy do not experience. currently. But it is also their medium-term outlook (probably Sunday morning), and what gives them balm in their hearts Saturday May 15 In the morning, under a south-westerly wind of 15 to 20 knots, they will begin a long edge with a southerly heading along the Portuguese coast. The sea will gradually become less rough and speeds will accelerate. Their objective will be to find the Portuguese trade wind as quickly as possible, which will set up on the other side of the ridge located at the latitude of Lisbon. In the meantime, in the afternoon, the fleet will continue to sail upwind in a south-westerly wind of about fifteen knots. In the evening, the wind will start to weaken as the ridge approaches. The wind will take a little right to orient itself to the unstable west-southwest sector. The following night, the wind will continue to weaken, moving west-north-west with the arrival of the ridge. The navigation speeds will slow down, and this period could prove to be decisive because the sailors will have to avoid the risk of light winds even if a little air should be observed on the right edge of the Azores high pressure system. You should always be wary of this type of situation which can be conducive to the faster arrival of the backbone on the fleet. Sunday May 16 At the end of the morning, the wind will continue to take from the right to move north-west around 10 knots. The fleet will find good conditions for progress, in a downwind allowing them to gradually accelerate. However, it is not until the evening of this Sunday after having passed the latitude of Lisbon that the conditions will become really favorable to accelerate. The wind will take a north-northwest component and will strengthen between 12 and 18 knots, possibly a little more. A rapid navigation under the Portuguese trade winds will then begin, which will propel them towards tropical latitudes. This will put an end to the cool and wet conditions that the skippers have experienced so far. www.transatendouble.bzh Cyril Bonnefoy, Météo Consult

ÉCHECS CALL FOR SPONSORS Saint-Barth Ếchecs is looking for partners who would like to see the practice of chess evolve in St Barth (chess school, training of a trainer, com - petitions, new equipment ..). Thanks to ALUVER who renewed their commitment to the tune of € 300. We would like to thank those who already support the association with donations in kind which allow tournaments and championships to be held. Please call President Jef Follner on 0690 55 12 14.
 
JEK will be happy I googled ‘petanque’ and found out the differences between bocce, and petanque and what the term boules covers.
Is petanque the game we see people playing near the water as one enters Gustavia from the Public area? We thought it was some form of bocce all these years.
We read petanque balls are smaller; made of steel and thrown differently than bocce balls.
Learned something new.
 
I don’t know how you dig things up from 14 years ago. I guess the search and ‘pétanque.’ Thank you for your info about the game.
 
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