This weekend you can enjoy films and run or walk for a good cause. Learn what else you can do and where to go to get the most of your free time.
The Monte-Carlo Film Festival is an international film event entirely dedicated to comedy, held from Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th November 2026.
Each year, the festival welcomes leading personalities from the worlds of cinema and entertainment, as well as internationally renowned directors and artists.
Hosted by Ezio Greggio, the Grand Gala is broadcast on Mediaset channels and platforms and features the presentation of awards to the winning films of the official selection, as well as the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Ready, set, give: No Finish Line Monaco returns from November 14 to 22! Every step counts!
Since its inception, the No Finish Line has been a major sporting, intergenerational celebration, combining self-improvement and conviviality for a single cause: helping children. Thanks to this surge of generosity and this sporting enthusiasm, this race of the heart is a shining demonstration that happiness is always a quest to be renewed, shared, and offered.
Participate at your own pace, but for the same cause.
The principle is simple: walk or run the circuit as many times and for as long as you like (with a chip issued on site to count the kilometers). For each kilometer run, Children & Future commits to donating €1 to support projects that benefit sick or disadvantaged children. A race open to all, and kilometers that change lives!
Opera in three acts “Porgy and Bess” will be on stage of Salle des Princes – Grimaldi Forum Monaco on Sunday 15 November 2026 at 3 pm, Thursday 19 November 2026at 7 pm (by invitation from the Palace) and Saturday 21 November 2026 at 8 pm.
Porgy and Bess mirrors the French operas by Ravel and Debussy, which Cecilia Bartoli has been programming at the Opéra since the beginning of her tenure. George Gershwin’s admiration for the former, for instance, is clearly audible in his piano concertos, whereas Ravel was famously impressed by Gershwin‘s compositions, and beyond that excited about American popular music, brought to France in the 1920s by the likes of Josephine Baker.
Songlike numbers such as “Summertime”, jazzy rhythms, traditional Black American tunes and even street cries, which Gershwin heard during a study period in Charleston, determine his only opera’s sound. But its descriptiveness, the imaginative orchestration, the powerful choruses and dramatic solo parts are direct descendents of Europe’s impressionist and verismo movements.
The story itself is typical verismo and shows us ordinary people – the inhabitants of a South Carolina fishing town – with their ups and downs, their small joys and far greater pains. At the centre stands an impossible love between the crippled beggar Porgy and the beautiful Bess, whose longing for a better life makes her an easy victim of a former boyfriend‘s violence, and of “happy dust”, pressed upon her by a devilish drugdealer.
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You can take a stroll around the traditional Monaco Funfair in the Port of Monaco.
Rides, games, and food stalls await visitors of all ages for a fun time shared with family or friends.
Opening hours:
– Food stalls and children’s rides: from 11:00 am.
– All stalls: from 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
– Fridays, Saturdays, and the eves of public holidays: until midnight.
The Monaco Department of Cultural Affairs presents “Mémoire des lieux” (Memory of Places), an exhibition dedicated to the heritage and memories that shape the Monegasque landscape.
From October 1, 2026, to January 24, 2027, the Quai Antoine Ier Exhibition Hall becomes the setting for a thoughtful exploration of what remains when buildings vanish, landscapes transform, and the city reinvents itself.
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!
