Tout le monde dehors! + Everyone outside during summertime!


Lyon has a fantastic campaign that it's sponsoring, with more than 200 outdoor events planned in the different arrondissements. Of course, there were the fireworks from yesterday's Bastille Day celebrations, but there's a whole lot more.


Tonight there's an outdoor screening and a movie company brought an inflatable stage for people to watch the movie on. Watching it being pumped full of air was really exciting. There will be screenings here and then they will rotate throughout the various arrondissements. I'd never realized that watching movie outdoors (just like in the drive-ins) was such a fixture of the French summer leisure activities but I kind of like it. It gets people out of their houses and gets them mixing with their neighbors and others in their community.

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LINK:

A complete listing of the events during this period of "soifs d'ete" (thirsty for summer) is available at the following home page:

http://www.tlmd.lyon.fr/tlmd/sections/fr

(tlmd = tout le monde dehors -> everyone outside!)