The chairlifts will be open every day until 1st September.
Live, discover, appreciate
MTB TeamUp is an all-round event when the resort’s beautiful mountain-bike trails become the scene of races of every kind over an entire weekend: Enduro - X-country - DH & X-country Enduro. For a fun touch, you can race solo or share the pleasures of your favourite sport by competing in a team!
MTB Team Up attracts enthusiastic mountain-bikers of all levels. They come alone or in teams to compete against the clock or just enjoy themselves, and relax during a moment of togetherness.
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Come and try your hand at Molkky, a Finnish bowling game, in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Meet in front of Vars les Claux tourist office
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
These rocks were formed tens of millions of years ago, when the alpine ocean was closing in. Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometres away on the African plate...
Transport by carshare. Walking shoes required
Free show for children.
Good for the soul and the imagination!
Venue: Place de la Marie, Vars Sainte Marie
Come and create your own rocket and fire it over the moon, without getting wet!
Open to all
Meet in front of Vars les Claux tourist office
Come and play a few games of the summer sport of kings
Meet Point Show Vars les Claux
Come discover this emblematic creature of the Alps.
Venue: Vars les Claux
“Plate Music” is a theatrical performance which explores the sounds produced with the three most familiar items of our everyday lives. The result is an entertaining show that has the audience joining in.
While this could unleash your inner musician, the real aim is to offer the audience something different through a moment of togetherness, playing with every possible noise that can be made with a plate and a knife and fork.
This transformation of day-to-day objects into musical instruments is led in a rather burlesque manner by an eccentric character pretending to be an experienced conductor. Suitable for all, 40 mins.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Stay fit on holiday. Don’t forget to bring a bottle of water.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
A friendly evening with the Vars firefighters.
10.30pm Fireworks display
Vars Sainte Marie
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Enough to give the imagination a boost!
It’s unclear to start with whether this trio are on the same wavelength, or if they’re even cut out for the stage! But with unfailing determination they keep on trying, using all the right gestures and united in a single goal: to entertain the public no matter what!
Here we have an acrobat of immense perseverance, another with a severe case of stage psycho-rigidity, and a carrier who just happened to be passing by. Put them together and you get a lively mixture of complicity and madness.
At least until one of them fails to turn up for the performance, another disappears in the middle of the act, and the third is left to go to pieces on stage! This calls for a little improvisation and a quick idea: Football, wrestling, gymnastics, anything to keep the show going! 30 minutes, suitable for all.
Venue: Maison Chastan, Vars Sainte Marie
Un atelier qui vous permettra d'avoir un regard sensible
sur les trésors insoupçonnés offerts par la nature
RDV au four banal, Vars Sainte Catherine
Traditional bread-making demonstrations and sales
Children’s bread-making workshop: knead the dough and bake your own loaf in the communal oven
Vars Sainte Catherine
Enjoy nature and mountain-inspired films on giant screens! It’s a real feast for the eyes and the soul, under a starry sky.
After Mongolia and Alaska, Eliott spent 4 months alone crossing the Himalayas where he met some of the last nomadic people to walk the earth. Intended as a “march for degrowth”, the aim of his adventure was to fully accomplish what he had previously begun: complete the expedition in total self-sufficiency, having abandoned all items from the nature-destroying “modern” world. Fire made by friction, pelt coat, bamboo bag, video camera in hand and his horse at his side, Eliott succeeded, yet again. Produced by Eliott SCHONFELD in 2018 - 52 minutes
Don’t miss it!
Venue: Vars Sainte-Catherine
Come and (re)discover the flavours of our mountains and the beautiful creations of our local craftspeople.
Venue: Point Show, Vars les Claux
Discover the secrets and virtues of plants found along the way.
Meeting point: Le Fournet car park
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Gabrielle Varbetian (soprano), Colin Heller (Baroque violin), Pablo De Vega (organ)
GF Haendel
Admission: €10, Free for children under 12
Venue: Centre œcuménique, Vars Sainte Marie
The upper part of the Col de Vars is reserved for cyclists: a unique opportunity to enjoy a road entirely dedicated to cyclists. From the peak of the Vars les Claux resort to Saint Paul sur Ubaye, the road will be closed to motor vehicles
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Daytime and evening workshops will be available free of charge.
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Good for the soul and the imagination!
The Moon has disappeared? What a catastrophe! How can we continue to dream without the Moon watching over us? Léo refuses to accept this and goes around the world in search of the moon, with a rucksack full of high hopes and good humour. On his journey he meets other children in different countries. Like him, they cannot imagine having to stop dreaming... Then Léo comes across a little Parisian who dreams every night of being a dancer at the Opera House, a Congolese girl who dreams of humans and nature living as one, and a young American school girl who wants to become the world Hip Hop champion. That’s a lot of adventure for 45 minutes! From 3 years old
Venue: Maison Chastan, Vars Sainte Marie
Meet the farmers and herders, At Vallon des Prises, near the Peynier summit. Access from the Napoleon refuge or the village of Vars Sainte Catherine.
Meal based on local produce, spit-roast meats, drinks and entertainment.
Information and tickets available at the Tourist Office
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Free workshops in the day and evening will be offered to you with André Cassèse, astronomy lecturer from the Rocbaron observatory in the Var.
Ideal period for observing the Moon and Saturn.
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Free workshops in the day and evening will be offered to you with André Cassèse, astronomy lecturer from the Rocbaron observatory in the Var.
Ideal period for observing the Moon and Saturn.
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Free workshops in the day and evening will be offered to you with André Cassèse, astronomy lecturer from the Rocbaron observatory in the Var.
Ideal period for observing the Moon and Saturn.
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Free workshops in the day and evening will be offered to you with André Cassèse, astronomy lecturer from the Rocbaron observatory in the Var.
Ideal period for observing the Moon and Saturn.
A feminine trio with a myriad of skills (Song, music, theatre, clown, dance).
A combination of the Joyeux Urbains and the Wriggles, with a touch of the Triplettes de Belleville, Camille and Barbara. Les Têtes de Linette are sensitive and elegant, absurd and energetic. Their concert-shows are different every time and win the hearts of everyone. For a family moment of gentle madness and music
Venue: Place de la Mairie, Vars Sainte Marie
Stay fit on holiday. Don’t forget to bring a bottle of water.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
This is the 7th occasion of the “Sky Race”.
Now much-awaited, the Vars Mountain Trail race is back with a vengeance on 25th and 26th July 2020. This year’s participants will compete in 6 different races across this superb landscape of forests, valleys and ridges. For 2 whole days the trail runners will meet challenges, surpass themselves, and enjoy moments of pride, warmth and togetherness throughout the event.
Under the direction of Jean François Sénart, a course entitled “Polyphonie entre ciel et sommets” (Polyphony between heaven and peaks) focuses on orthodox choral music sung without instrumental accompaniment.
For information and registration, contact Chantal de Zeeuw: 06 63 30 94 95 or chantal.dezeeuw@free.fr
Come and (re)discover the flavours of our mountains and the beautiful creations of our local craftspeople.
Venue: Place du marché, Vars les Claux
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Alexandre Peyrol (oboe), Emmanuel Culcasi (organ)
Admission: €10, Free for children under 12
Venue: Centre œcuménique, Vars Sainte Marie
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Good for the soul and the imagination!
Welcome to “The whole circus just for me”!
In this show, Dobran tells us the story of his troubled family. He tells of the circus traditions and music learnt from his grandfather, Emilio, and his memories of travelling with his brother, Zork and their donkeys, Zaskia and Boris. It was a time when their circus acts were their only means of survival. Dobran likes heights, hanging in mid air or performing his balancing act. He enjoys having the public on the edge of their seat as he talks about Zork while climbing a mountain of crates or running around the stage behind his untamed diabolo... As if his brother were still present, Dobran describes their joys, their life in exile and their search for an identity. He makes us laugh and he makes us cry. Dobran has a thirst for life. He is no longer afraid. He is a free man. In his bamboo decor, with his cassette player from Istanbul and his amazing feats, he offers a performance full of tenderness, joy, sadness... and humanity. From 6 years old, 1h.
Venue: Maison Chastan, Vars Sainte Marie
Val d’Escreins under the spotlight with presentations by environment professionals, discovery of the nature reserve and live entertainment.
The mountain leaders of Vars take you exploring Val d'Escreins
The mountain leaders of Vars take you exploring Val d'Escreins
Enjoy nature and mountain-inspired films on giant screens! It’s a real feast for the eyes and the soul, under a starry sky.
Colin is 9 years old. He’s a young city boy like any other. He is intrigued by his grandparents’ work. They make animal documentaries. Come wind or snow, they’re up there tracking the chamois, mountain hare, black grouse, marmot, ibex and other mountain wildlife... Over a period of three years, he spends his school holidays with them in their hamlet perched 1,650 metres above sea level in the Parc National du Grand Paradis. To Colin, this nature reserve is a whole new school. To see the royal eagle as something other than a tiny dot in the sky, and observe the chamois before it disappears in a flash, he has to be patient and put in a lot of time and effort without getting disheartened. Colin learns to move stealthily, identify tracks, use crampons and sleep at high altitude in a tent. But there’s one animal he still hasn’t seen. To do so, Colin needs the help of his grandfather. Will they find it? Produced by Véronique, Anne and Erik Lapied in 2017 - 68 minutes
Don’t miss it!
Venue: Place de la Mairie, Vars Sainte Marie
Discover the secrets and virtues of plants found along the way.
Meeting point: Le Fournet car park
Stay fit on holiday. Don’t forget to bring a bottle of water.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Under the direction of Chantal de Zeeuw.
For information and registration, contact Chantal de Zeeuw: 06 63 30 94 95 or chantal.dezeeuw@free.fr
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
5 beautiful concerts of classical music, including an exceptional outdoor performance to celebrate the festival’s 10th anniversary in the magnificent setting of Val d'Escreins.
In the Salle Chastan, with its excellent acoustics and human scale, experts, enthusiasts and the newly-converted will be close to the performers.
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Un atelier qui vous permettra d'avoir un regard sensible
sur les trésors insoupçonnés offerts par la nature
RDV Parvis Office de Tourisme, Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Good for the soul and the imagination!
Work, wages and a boss!
50 years after May 68 and we’re still waking up early in the morning to the same old tune... a tune that justifies our existence... and makes us forget our wildest dreams! But what if we had the choice. What would we do? Stay. But why? Leave everything behind. But what for? A forewoman who needs as much work on herself as on the roadworks she’s in charge of. A traveller whose diary is full of words of wisdom. And as for the road... Signs, cones and a forewoman twirl around the stage in a visual combination of the comical and the poetic, with an out-of-control cement mixer thrown in. Should we try to stop this devilish machine that never stops turning? This blend of touching, juggling and manipulating objects carries us off down the road of life... an enchanting road but one which sometimes leads to a bit of a mess! From 3 years old, 45 mins.
Venue: Maison Chastan, Vars Sainte Marie
Discover Vars’ pastoral life in the last century, when the herdsmen spent the summer in the mountains watching over the animals. Access on foot or on the hybrid lift.
Meeting point: herdsman’s hut at the bottom of the ski slope
This film made by Erik and Anne Lapied tells the story of a family of marmots like those you might see in Vars. Come discover this emblematic creature of the Alps.
Venue: Salle Eyssina, Vars les Claux Tourist Office
The two stars of this show, “les Deux Dames” (the two ladies) are not making it all up.
They’re having fun on the stage, playing on their own personalities, flaunting their femininity and exploiting their differences. They act out different situations, some of them comical, others dark, sometimes moving. But these girls don’t play any ordinary games. While others have fun with their kittens, they mess about with heavy metal pipes. While others go gooey watching a romantic film, they’re suspended 7 metres above the stage. But are they not, after all, a mixture of all of the above? Brutes with big hearts, sensitive moaners, sentimental beings in need of a thrill. This 45-minute show is intended for a wide audience of all ages. It is interactive and entertaining and includes music and circus acts with aerial ribbons. A great escape from the daily routine and light-hearted fun when the gantry gets too heavy.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Stay fit on holiday. Don’t forget to bring a bottle of water.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Come and (re)discover the flavours of our mountains and the beautiful creations of our local craftspeople.
Venue: Point Show, Vars les Claux
Every day, a pétanque competition is organised, which culminates in the Dédé challenge during the heritage festival.
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Yukiko Jojima (organ)
Admission: €10, Free for children under 12
Venue: Centre œcuménique, Vars Sainte Marie
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Good for the soul and the imagination!
It’s just a few minutes before the beginning of the show. The director (who is also the narrator and technician) is there, the stage is set, the costumes are ready and the sound system plugged in, but there are no actors warming themselves up backstage! Are they on the side of the road somewhere with a broken down minibus? Have they had a last-minute argument? Or has this theatre company never actually had any actors? Luckily the audience is ready and the show must go on! Suitable for all, 55 mins.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Discover the secrets and virtues of plants found along the way.
Meeting point: Le Fournet car park
Enjoy nature and mountain-inspired films on giant screens! It’s a real feast for the eyes and the soul, under a starry sky.
This film plunges the viewer into the dizzying decor of the Cantabrian Mountains in Northern Spain. It offers an original naturalistic look at the brown bear. On the trail of this emblematic animal recurrently seen here, we discover a natural habitat with a primitive feel, where the vegetation and wildlife offer us nature untouched. These mountainsides are also home to the grey wolf, the Eurasian otter, the griffon vulture and the coal tit. All these species reinforce the impression of being at nature’s primitive source where humans also have their place. The film is based around the words of four people, French and Spanish, who each have their own inside view of the natural world. It makes us reflect on our relationship with nature and the possibility of living in harmony with it.
Cinémathèque de Montagne prizewinner at Le Quattro in 2019. Produced by Vincent Munier and Laurent Joffrion in 2019 - 52 minutes
Don’t miss it!
Venue: Petanque court, Vars Saint Marcellin
Children and adults, everyone to their felt-tip pens and paintbrushes
Traditional bread-making demonstrations and sales
Children’s bread-making workshop: knead the dough and bake your own loaf in the communal oven
Vars Sainte Catherine
Set off and explore Vars village and discover the charm of Vars Sainte Marie with the Vars au Fil du Temps association.
Meeting point: Vars Sainte Marie
All the residents and holidaymakers are invited to share in a beautiful village festival, with the traditional mountain welcome with entertainment and discovery workshops. The village is transformed into an entertainment stage to celebrate the patron saint: procession and mass followed by an aperitif, bowls competition, fête, activities with local craftspeople, mini farm, crouseton-making workshop, car boot sale, games library, village visits, dance, fireworks, etc.
Children and adults, everyone to their felt-tip pens and paintbrushes
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Across the world and through the ages, Mary has inspired many an artist: icons, statues, paintings, cathedrals, poems... and even MUSIC!
She is probably the most popular figure to feature in songs and the most glorified in every culture and every language.
In this concert you’ll hear all your favourite versions of “Ave Maria”, as well as a selection of more recent songs and instrumental pieces written in honour of the Virgin Mary.
Soprano, Muriel TOMAO. Dominique Baillat (mezzo soprano), Vincent Baillat (tenor), Peter Duyster (baritone), Sacha Stojanovic (flute), Chantal DE ZEEUW (organ)
€10, Free for children under 12
Venue: Centre œcuménique, Vars Sainte Marie
The upper part of the Col de Vars is reserved for cyclists: a unique opportunity to enjoy a road entirely dedicated to cyclists. From the peak of the Vars les Claux resort to Saint Paul sur Ubaye, the road will be closed to motor vehicles
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
Free show for children. Good for the soul and the imagination!
Burlesque musical show starring 2 characters:
“Rouge” is a small woman who enjoys giving her lifelong friend “Zèbre” a hard time. All amid song, dialogue and interaction. Rouge and Zèbre are complete opposites who complement one another. They adore and tease each other, argue constantly, playing with words, ideas and notes to try to understand the world around them... Their friendship is unfailing and their differences are their strength! For children aged 5 to 10, 1h.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Val d’Escreins under the spotlight with presentations by environment professionals, discovery of the nature reserve and live entertainment.
Discover space, the stars and the sun with very high-performance equipment, as if you were on board a spaceship! Daytime and evening workshops will be available free of charge.
The mountain leaders of Vars take you exploring Val d'Escreins
The mountain leaders of Vars take you exploring Val d'Escreins
SAVINA... but what on earth is going on, on stage and in the street?
SAVINA is a fabulous group whose lyrics, music and performance pay a solid tribute to French popular music. Enough to inspire the likes of Brassens, Brel and Ferré if they were still alive.
Music, theatre, humour, emotion, imitations, a whole poetic programme with characters as fake as they come.
SAVINA... but what on earth is going on, on stage and in the street?
SAVINA is a fabulous group whose lyrics, music and performance pay a solid tribute to French popular music. Enough to inspire the likes of Brassens, Brel and Ferré if they were still alive.
Music, theatre, humour, emotion, imitations, a whole poetic programme with characters as fake as they come.
Stay fit on holiday. Don’t forget to bring a bottle of water.
Venue: Forecourt of Vars les Claux Tourist Office
Come and (re)discover the flavours of our mountains and the beautiful creations of our local craftspeople.
Venue: Place du marché, Vars les Claux
Presentation of the week's programme with the resort's service providers.
Free drinks will be served at Vars les Claux Tourist Office
At the end of August, joint pilgrimage between the parishes of Vars and Ceillac, with a meeting point at the place known as Le Pas du Curé. Celebration of a mass. Leave from Val D'Escreins or Ceillac
Information and registration: Odile David: 06.09.17.51.02
In the morning,
Vars les Claux
These rocks were formed tens of millions of years ago, when the alpine ocean was closing in. Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometres away on the African plate...
Transport by carshare. Walking shoes required
Free show for children. Enough to give the imagination a boost!
“Fabio the mountain-dweller” is a 10-year-old boy who embarks on an adventure in the Alpine peaks. On his way he makes some unusual musical encounters. He shares his journey with us. Duration 35 minutes. For all audiences from the age of 4 years
Venue: Maison Chastan, Vars Sainte Marie
Discover the secrets and virtues of plants found along the way.
Meeting point: Le Fournet car park
Come discover this emblematic creature of the Alps.
Vars les Claux
With their haphazardly-built interactive jukebox, this group is happy to perform anywhere and in any temperature: auditoriums, street corners, market squares full of stalls and lorries, ski slopes, village halls, café terraces, hospital wards, common rooms, bathtubs, goldfish bowls... you name it! Like their trolleys, they are all-terrain!
Venue: square outside Vars les Claux Tourist Office
The Orienteering Race is returning to Vars in 2020! Armed with a map and compass, go in search of markers among the beautiful natural landscape of Vars. Come along and give it a try, or perfect your Orienteering skills on unexplored territory!
Anyone can join the races, as there are trails for all levels, from beginner to competitor.
