Going out
Fri.25Sept
MetzFrance
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).
· Exhibition centre (Parc des Expositions)
Sat.03Oct
MetrichFrance
Music with Cony & Marcel Delvo. Homemade flammekueche and pizzas for €7.50. Food and drink on site. Free entry and parking.
· Metrich
Sat.03Oct
RustroffFrance
Double concert with Canti di Corsica and Manfred Pohlmann & Yannick Monot. Wine from Contz, Greechen, soft drinks, local snacks. Entry €10, platter €8. Booking: 06 07 31 11 89 or dany.bellot@gmail.com.
· Socio-cultural centre
Sun.04Oct
RettelFrance
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.
· Multi-purpose hall