On your own, with a friend or with the family: get moving against cancer! 3 km or 10 km run and walk, a colourful edition, accessible to all and family-friendly. Adults €10, children €1. Group warm-up at 9 am, refreshments on site.
The Metz International Fair, running since 1928, takes place from Friday 25 September to Monday 5 October 2026. Theme of this edition: “Cap sur le Pacifique” (Heading for the Pacific).
60 authors, almost 30% of them taking part for the first time, mainly from the Grand Est region and 3 from Belgium, with priority given to books from 2025 and 2026: comics, manga, children's and young adult fiction, romance, crime, thrillers, life stories, wellbeing, geopolitics… Patron: Régis Hector, press cartoonist since 1986 and member of Cartooning for Peace, who will run a comics workshop for 10 to 14-year-olds (registration required). Bookmark-making workshop for children and adults with Christelle Baratto Deutscher. At 3 pm, Pascal Wuttke presents the legend of the Druids' Path. Literary quiz all day, prize draw for a basket of local produce in the late afternoon, and prize-giving for the schools' bookmark competition at the opening. Drinks, coffee and cakes all day.