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Urb'Art urban art festival in Argelès-sur-Mer

The URB’ART urban art festival is back for its 3rd year!

From 23 May to 1 June 2025, Argelès-sur-Mer will once again become a playground for street artists! Live murals, performances, breakdance battles… This edition has plenty of surprises in store for you.

Highlights of the Festival

Saturday 24/05 at 18:00 at the Galerie Marianne | Inauguration of the Urb’Art 3 exhibition

Saturday 24/05 at 20:30 at the Espace Jean Carrère | Show ‘Identities: the musical journey of Catherine Lara and the Kumo Company
The most beautiful journeys begin with an encounter. And when this encounter is as beautiful as it is unexpected, it promises an exceptional destination. Catherine Lara and her violin take us into the world of the dancers of La Cie Kumo, to the rhythm of her compositions and film music. Let yourself be enchanted by a journey full of emotion and poetry, where each person strongly embodies the journey.
Admission: €15. Tickets available here.

Wednesday 28/05 at 16:00 at the Cinéma Jaurès | Sénce cinema ‘C’est assez bien d’être fou’
‘At the wheel of an old 1970s truck, Bilal, a street artist, and Antoine, a director, set off on a journey of several months to the far reaches of Siberia. As the truck breaks down time and again and they meet the locals, an adventure takes shape that will take them from the Carpathian Mountains to the boat graveyard of the Aral Sea, from Odessa to Vladivostok. An artistic journey, alternating between drawings and video, between road movie and documentary tale.

Wednesday 28/05 from 18:00 on Place Gambetta | Festival inauguration
On the occasion of the festival inauguration, you will find the 40 artists, live painting on canvas, but also a big raffle run by the traders’ association organised as part of the URB’ART urban art festival, the funds of which will be donated to a charity.
Tickets will be on sale
in the city’s shops from 2 May to 28 May inclusive
on 28/05 in Place Gambetta from 5 pm to 7.30 pm
There are lots of prizes to be won: prizes from partners, shopping vouchers, paintings, 2 tickets to shows of your choice (for the season announced in October)
Draw at 7.30 pm in Place Gambetta

18:00: Breakdance demonstration and audition
19:30: Raffle draw
21:00: Breakdance battle with jury and prize-giving
23:00: Dance party with DJ RSK

Baludik treasure hunt Urb'Art

This tour, created by the Casa de l’Albera team, will enable you to discover the artists and their creations … as well as a few bonuses….

Enjoy the tour!

The starting point for this tour is near the Marasquer parking lot.

Saturday 31/05 from 10:00 to 18:00 on the seafront (south beach)
Live painting: 28 artists and collectives in live painting all day on the theme ‘Mother Earth’

Village of associations: Activities all day long on the theme of food and sustainable development. You will also find many stands:

Slow Food Pays Catalan – Good, clean, fair Slow Food Catalan Countries, environmentally friendly food – Slow Food was created in 1986 in response to the development of fast food and fast life. Slow Food aims to raise awareness of the importance of where our food comes from, how it is grown, reared and processed and the impact of our choices on the environment.

Association Unis – Vers – Connaître pour protéger – Christophe Agret will be running an activity on the richness of the soil: its biodiversity, the origin of the living world (permaculture, chronology, composition of soil and compost, soil improvement).

La Chouette Buissonnière: Workshops for young and old on food and the seasons – Meet under the pergola to discover all the activities offered by Elsa.

Ramène ta graine 66: Environment, gardening and seed swapping are the values shared by the association Ramène ta graine. This association of enthusiasts organises seed swaps to preserve plant varieties.

Collectif Agit’hé: Urb’Art Festival goodies. Yes! But created by you! The Agit’Hé collective and its artists invite you to recycle and customise the artists’ spray paint cans in the colours of the Urb’Art Festival.

Les ateliers de Lola: Lola invites you to a friendly setting consisting of workshops, a relaxation area and a reading area. She will offer workshops for families that combine collective intelligence, arts and participatory sciences around the theme of sustainable food.

Games to awaken the senses: Learning to recognise herbs without seeing them (smell, touch). Observing and drawing them: Creating pages of a poetic herbarium.

Ecological Transition Stand of the Town Hall of Argelès sur Mer: Nicolas Bourret (scientific mediator and facilitator) will be offering awareness-raising games throughout the day on the issues related to sustainable food and the protection of biodiversity. Sarah Maurel (food transition project manager) will present the city’s projects in the context of the food transition.

CCACVI: The Waste Prevention and Reduction Service ‘The best waste is the waste we don’t produce.’ According to this principle, waste prevention is the action of preventing a substance, material or product from becoming waste. It is therefore the stage that takes place at the beginning of the life cycle of objects: at the time of their production, distribution and finally their consumption. Action is taken before sorting takes place, to enable waste to be recycled and recovered. The Department will be present throughout the day to raise awareness among passers-by and consumers.

FOOD: short supply chains and local sourcing.

Food truck ‘LE POINT JAY’ Travelling Catalan canteen – Jérôme shares with us his passion for short supply chains and the delights of Catalan cuisine. He will be proud to present his original creations, subtly combining local Catalan flavours with street food influences.

The nomadic cook, Félicia Ségovia, will be offering 100% vegan raw food dishes, delicious and full of vitality. Félicia will help you discover all the benefits of raw food. From nature to the plate.

Beertruck La mise en bière: A travelling craft beer bar and much more! Chris’s bar serves 100% local juices and soft drinks!

PARTICIPATIVE DISHES: GET YOUR COVERS OUT!
The event aims for zero waste by setting up a shared washing-up area for the pleasure of the Festival’s consumer activists. To reduce the impact of waste on the environment, we have decided to use sustainable, reusable and therefore washable crockery! You can also come with your own picnic cutlery to help us move in this direction.

(We warmly thank LA RECYCLERIE for the donation of equipment)

THE RESISTANCE PLATE OF DJ POLVORILLA (& Co)
Polvorilla is a DJ and event organiser. He has played in the main clubs in the south of France and Spain and has also taken part in the main local festivals such as Platja Festival, Vermeille and Electrobeach.

He will be offering you a very elaborate menu of the most delicious house and techno.

Sunday 01/06
Producers’ market, from 9am to 1pm
Live painting, from 11am to 5pm
B.A.A.D concert: 2 one-hour sets
Theatre with the Perpignan Conservatory – ’À table’