#hello_monaco weekend: what to do on March 16th and March 17th
This Monaco weekend is reach in sports and cultural events. We are ready to guide you through them and to do that we selected the most interesting places to visit.
One of the padel world’s most iconic and spectacular competitions CMB Monaco Master will take place outside the Casino de Monte-Carlo from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 March 2024 on Terrasses du Casino. Book your tickets now on the A1 Padel website if you’d like to attend this fourth edition of CMB Monaco Master. Following wins for Julianoti-Rocafort in 2021, Barrera-Britos in 2022 and Chozas-Augsburger in 2023, all of the top pairings on the tour will be battling it out for the coveted crown. CMB Monaco Master will also see new teams including Alfonso-Aguirre and Torre-De Pascual attempt to show they have what it takes to reach the very pinnacle of A1 Padel.
As part of the Monaco, Capital of Advanced Yachting initiative, the Yacht Club de Monaco, in collaboration with the Fédération Monégasque de Voile and the Fédération Française de Voile is organising Women Leading & Sailing Trophy, a 100% women’s J/70 regatta on March 15-17, 2024.
Les Sérénissimes de l’Humour Comedy Festival continues with David Voinson on Saturday 16 March 2024, at 8 pm, in the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.
Despite his confident demeanour, David wonders whether he might be missing out. Should he make the most of his bachelor lifestyle, or look for The One? Ever at a crossroads in life, this show sees him explore the contradictions of his generation, offering hilarious insights into his own relationships with the world, his friends, nights out, his family, but mainly women. How do you get them to like you? How do you understand them? How do you avoid looking like a horndog? Such is the dilemma he faces. At just 25, he’s the rising star of the comedy scene with an online following of millions, and his comedy blonde character has already assumed cult status.
Le Printemps des Arts (Spring Arts Festival) continues with several concerts. Le Het Collectief, Lucile Richardot and Stefan Cifolelli perform the chamber orchestra version of Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth) composed by Reinbert de Leeuw, an intimate, focused piece that reinterprets Gustav Mahler’s work in an original new way on Saturday 16 March 2024, at 6 pm, in Auditorium Rainier III.
“The inexhaustible stuff of dreams, Contemporary Orchestral Ensemble” is the next concert on Saturday at 8 pm in Théâtre des Variétés.
Sophie Lacaze unveils her latest chamber opera, inspired by Aboriginal culture and dreamtime. “L’étoffe inépuisable du rêve” (“the inexhaustible stuff of dreams”) is an ode to nature and the suffering world around us.
And on Sunday there is a screening of “The Salt of the Earth”, organized at 11 am, in Cinéma des Beaux-Arts.
And in the evening there will be one more concert by Henri Demarquette concert is organized on Sunday 17 March 2024, at 6 pm, in Hauser & Wirth Gallery.
Cellist Henri Demarquette embarks on an impressive solo adventure, blending the virtuoso dances of Johann Sebastian Bach with the inventive and amusing suites of Benjamin Britten.
And sports fans will enjoy French Ligue 1 Football Championship match between AS Monaco and FC Lorient on Sunday 17 March 2024 at 3 pm on Stade Louis II.
Open Doors day at Bosio Pavillon on site and online is organized on March 16, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On Sunday starts the 15th Monaco Blue Initiative, held this year from March 17 to March 18 in Monaco Oceanographic Museum.
The Monaco Blue Initiative is a unique platfrom for debate that brings together major players in ocean conservation and governance to reflect on the key challenges facing our future ocean, in a concrete and forward-looking way.
The Monaco Blue Initiative was launched in 2010 by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and is co-organized by the Oceanographic Institute – Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation, and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The MBI is held every year in the framework of the Monaco Ocean Week, a week of debate, analysis and awareness-raising to better understand the challenges facing our future Ocean.
Among many interesting exhibitions that are held in Monaco these days you can take a look at The Monaco Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology that celebrates the vision of the current museum’s founder, Prince Rainier III with the exhibition: “A Prince, a Museum” held from Friday 15 December 2023 to Friday 5 April 2024, from 9 am to 6 pm.
Step into the history of the creation of the second Museum – a site museum! – in the heart of the Exotic Garden, just a few yards from the Observatory Cave. Learn about the numerous archaeological digs carried out during the Prince’s reign, and the unprecedented donations made by the Prince and Princess Grace Kelly. Explore different spaces on a variety of themes, from promotion of the Monegasque language to the holiday camps planned by the Museum’s then Director, Louis Barral.
Of course there are other interesting events taking place in Monaco. If you want to learn more about them visit our Calendar.
So have fun and enjoy your weekend!