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THOIRY- LAST MINUTE NEWS !
WEDNESDAY JULY 20th - 1:30 pm to 2 p.m from 2:15 to 2:45 pm.
BISHOP STORTFORD HIGH SCHOOL BANDS
This group of 48 musiciens from Essex in the southeast of England forms three bands directed by three professional musiciens. This highly accomplished concert group also splits up into a 15 strong swing band and a 5 man jazz band. They perform a great selection of popular standards, traditional jazz, classical marches and much more in 2 thirty minutes sessions in Thoiry's 'Jardin d'Hiver' restaurant courtyard.
THURSDAY, JULY 21ST :"MANJAZZ and INVOICE"
MANOR C OF E SCHOOL JAZZ BAND, CHOIR, AND DANCE GROUP.
A hot afternoon of jazzy rhythms with 69 English teenagers from York jamming it up.Including a Choir of 25 and a jazz band of 25, as well as a dance and drama group, they will be presenting a varied program of popular and classic music.
TUESDAY, JULY 12TH from 1:30 pm to 2 p.m and 2:15 to 2:45 pm :
SANDBACH HIGH AND SIXTH FORM COLLEGE CONCERT BAND, SAMBA BAND, AND CHOIR
From the North of England, 80 Young English musiciens on a school tour through France. Their concert band of 40 performs popular film themes and classical works from Bizet and Tschaikovsky. The 15 member Samba band also play salsa, and the 60 strong Choir has a repertoire of Classical and popular songs. They will be playing in Thoiry's 'Jardin d'Hiver' restaurant courtyard.
SUNDAY, JULY 3RD, 2005 : "CELEBRATION OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS " of the "GARDENS AND CASTLES NEAR PARIS ASSOCIATION".
The Perfume Garden, the Rose Garden, the Arboretum and Shrub Gardens, the Maze and Thoiry's extradordinary inversed perspective of the Desgot/LeNôtre parterres offer moments of beauty, emotion, and pleasure and incarnent the themes of Scent, Taste, Hearing, Touch, and Sight every day.
Private "Privilege" Tours in the Château (by reservation) et exceptional exhibitions in the drawing rooms titillate les 5 Senses.
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, AT DAWN : THE THOIRY SUMMER SOLSTICE PHENOMENON
From June 13th to July 1st every year, at the Château de Thoiry, the extraordinary esoteric Renaissance monument near Paris (as seen from the south-west facade ), the sun rises in the central arch of the Grand Vestibule and the axis of the northeast perspective.
June 21st , on the exact day of the Summer Solstice, is the optimum moment to see and photograph this remarkable phenomenon, planned and calculated using the Golden Mean, by the 'initiated master architect , Philibert de L'Orme in 1561.
Thoiry, constructed to be a transparent bridge of light, a solar calendar on landscape scale, is the incarnation of Occidental equivalent of "Feng Shui" , the ancient secrets of an initiated elite dedicated to the capture of the cosmic and telluric forces to create a harmonious ambiance propitious to well-being, happiness and a successful life.
Friday, June 3 - Sunday June 5, 2005
FRENCH NATIONAL GARDEN WEEKEND "RENDEZ-VOUS AUX JARDINS "
(Under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture)
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2005 : "ADOPT A GARDEN DAY"
with a Garden Discovery Game for School Groups by reservation
SATURDAY JUNE 4 , 2005 , 10.A.M.: GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH OF THOIRY'S MAGNIFICENT GARDENS at the peak flowerings of thousands of rare trees and shrubs.
SATURDAY JUNE 4 , 2005 , 7:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. :
GARDEN PARTY PICNIC
on the lawns of the Automn Garden surrounded by 150 yr old rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias..........Don't forget to bring your picnic basket !!! (by reservation, tel: 01 3487 5365 or e-mail : chateau@thoiry.tm.fr )
SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2005 :
THOIRY GARDENS MUSIC FESTIVAL
- The Sound of Music everywhere in the gardens, a day of gaiety and rhythms from all times and countries with over a dozen orchestras from the Music Federation of the Yvelines.
JUNE GARDEN MONTH IN YVELINES COUNTY -
Thoiry's magnificent gardens in the Yvelines County, the Parisians' country garden, offers a spectacular succession of flowerings and events.
The Perfume Garden, the Rose Garden, the Arboretum and Shrub Gardens, the Maze and Thoiry's extradordinary inversed perspective of the Desgot/LeNôtre parterres offer moments of beauty, emotion, and pleasure and incarnent the themes of Scent, Taste, Hearing, Touch, and Sight every day.
Private "Privilege" Tours in the Château (by reservation) et exceptional exhibitions in the drawing rooms titillate les 5 Senses.
SATURDAY, MAY 14th, 8h30-10h30 P.M.: 
"INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM NIGHT- LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT":
A magical candlelight tour of Thoiry Castle's drawing rooms as the Counts de La Panouse saw and enjoyed them in the days before electric and gas lights.
EASTER SUNDAY MARCH 27, 2005 FROM 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
GIGANTIC ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT , thousands of brightly coloured eggs hidden in Thoiry's Bluebell Wood for family fun .
EASTER IS A SPECIAL DAY FOR CHILDREN WITH THOIRY'S ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT.
On Easter Sunday morning, as soon as the gates open at 10 a.m., the Chateau de Thoiry's young visitors run joyfully towards the formal French parterres and the woodland gardens, where thousands of brightly colored eggs and chocolate rabbits are waiting to be discovered in the prairies and hidden in the flowering shrubs.
Annabelle and Paul de La Panouse decided, nearly 30 years ago, to share with their visitors, the pleasure of their annual Easter Egg Hunt which originally was held only for their children, Colomba et Edmond.
10.000 colored hard-boiled eggs and hundreds of chocolate rabbits are hidden for the children's delight. Each child will receive a welcome gift of a small chocolat egg; the perfect stimulant for an ardent Easter Egg hunter!
Annabelle and Paul de La Panouse have each their own version about the origin of Easter :
- Annabelle, believes in the anglo-saxon legend which says that the eggs are hidden by rabbits.
- Paul, following the latin version, affirms that the eggs fall from Easter bells ringing in Rome. Annabelle has won in the end, because she runs the gardens. That's why there are chocolate rabbits, and not bells, hidden in the rhododendrons. In the afternoon, children will be invited to help the animal keeper's feed Easter eggs specially adapted to each species: frozen fruit juice eggs to the lemurians , vegetable eggs to the goats and the lamas , meaty eggs for the lions and the tigers, hard-boiled eggs for the otters, ....
Paris le 8 Mars 2004 - NAT GEO HEBDO AU PARC ANIMALIER DE THOIRYÀ l’occasion de notre soirée consacrée aux zoos, France Swimberge a chaussé ses plus belles bottes de caoutchouc pour visiter le célèbre parc animalier de Thoiry.Ouvert en 1968, à l’initiative du Vicomte de La Panouse, le parc animalier de Thoiry révélait une ambition démesurée en s'adossant sur un principe révolutionnaire, celui d’enfermer non plus les animaux mais les visiteurs ! Depuis, nous sommes quelques milliers à avoir freiné pour laisser passer une autruche… France nous présente l’envers du décor en recueillant les témoignages du Vicomte en personne, de deux soigneurs, Vanessa Wiel et Gilles Tournier et d’un assistant chef soigneur, Christophe Grossiord. Ainsi, tout au long de l’émission, nous découvrons la structure et le mode de fonctionnement d’un zoo au quotidien, les rôles et responsabilités de chacun. C’est aussi l’occasion de comprendre les difficultés auxquelles un tel établissement doit faire face, d’un point de vue matériel tout d’abord, mais également d’un point de vue politique. Sans oublier bien évidemment, les principaux protagonistes : les animaux. Eléphants, ours, lions, varans, loups, girafes, pandas, zèbres, hippopotames…la liste est bien trop longue, mais tous seront au rendez-vous, le jeudi 18 mars à 21h00 dans NAT GEO HEBDO ! Pour illustrer ces propos, nous diffuserons deux documentaires sur les zoos: “Dans la Jungle du Bronx ” et “Sauvetage du Zoo de Kaboul”. Retrouvez toutes les informations sur le site web de l’émission : www.ngcfrance.tv/hebdoSite du Parc animalier de Thoiry : www.thoiry.tm.frContact Presse Hélène Caradec 43-45 avenue de Clichy 75017 PARIS 01 56 99 61 25 presse@ngcfrance.tvNational Geographic Television (NGT), FOX Entertainment Group et National Broadcasting Company (NBC) sont les actionnaires de National Geographic Channels International (NGCI). Ces groupes contribuent, à travers NGCI, à la poursuite de la mission de la National Geographic Society au niveau de l’exploration, de la sauvegarde de la nature et de l’éducation. Aujourd’hui les programmes de NGCI, diffusés en 26 langues, sont regardés par plus de 163 millions de foyers dans 145 pays à travers le monde. NGCI est fidèle aux principes d’exploration, de conservation et d’éducation chers à National Geographic Society.
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