Saint-Astier, city of light! This is the seventh edition of the festival of light in the city center.
“The idea was to beautify the city for the Holidays with small means. And today, we are lucky to have made this celebration bigger and it is a highly anticipated moment that the whole of the population of the territory expects “, Explain Elisabeth Marty, Mayor of the City.
A bright program
Projections and mapping on the facades of the city center and on the Church are announced from 6 p.m. Residents and visitors are invited to take part in the great celebration by purchasing “Heart of Light” candles, sold for the benefit of the Telethon.
The new Christmas lights of Saint-Astier are also launched that evening, at 7 p.m. in front of the town hall. Better, a pyrotechnic show was created for the occasion by a local company, Brezac Events, and will be pulled in front the fabric, the cultural center of the city.
Police officers eat yogurt to cut energy bills
A thousand lights for the pleasure of the eyes, with in this abundance of light: a concern for energy saving. A pretty party, but not expensive. “The head of the kitchens at the CNEFG (National Training Center for the Gendarmerie Forces) had the idea, for the first time, to recover all the glass yoghurt pots and to place a small candle inside”. Since then, we have been lighting up the city in particular like this, economic. The gendarmes eat yogurt from September. After all, yogurt is good!
A concert at the Church
And it is not in yoghurt that will sing Denis Chevallier and Pierre Marie Donze which proposes to open the festival a concert at the Church at 5 p.m. They will cover French songs and international variety, jazz, Christmas and Harry Potter areas.