For those of you who can't wait for all the great local summer music festivals to begin, there is a festival going on in Nyon this weekend called Les Hivernales which should keep you going until the weather warms up. Various venues in the town have linked up together for two nights, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th Feb to create this mini music festival. The venues involved are The Usine a Gaz, La Parenthese, Le Cactus Jack, The Fishermen's Pub, the l'After night club and le Sky and also the associations of the Bains des Trois Jetées. The price of entry to the festival for one night is CHF 25 and this will enable you to move between venues to check out all the music. See the site for details of the bands playing each night (under programme). There was an interesting article in La Côte newspaper this week about how many groups and societies in this region have a presence on Facebook, from the Paléo fans (8,500 members), to the Gymnase of Morges (1113 members) to the nautical society of Nyon (39 members). Living in Nyon has recently started a presence on Facebook and also has a Nyon group on Mamicafé (see side bar). Visions du Réel the documentary film festival that takes place in Nyon in Spring, has announced that the video films of Tracey Emin will be shown at the festival for the first time in their entirety in collaboration with the Bern Kunstmuseum. There will be an evening of debates alongside the projections.
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