lille3000 - FANTASTIC 2012

Festivities will kick off with the opening Parade on the 6^th of October, immersing visitors into a wonderful and unreal world. With original and surreal installations under the theme of “Urban Metamorphosis”, Lille will be truly transformed into a supernatural world. For an idea, there’ll be a flying saucer in Lille Flandres Station, misty fog hanging in front of the Lille Europe Station, plants of the future at Jean-Baptiste Lebas Park and dinner with Gulliver the giant!

Coinciding with this, Lille and its surrounding towns will be welcoming several expositions including:

• Phantasia au Tripostal, from the 6^th of October, 2012, to the 13^th of January, 2013
• Fantastic Attractions at Gare Saint Sauveur, from the 6^th of October, 2012, to the 13^th of January, 2013
• Babel at Palais des Beaux-Arts from the 8^th of June, 2012, to the 14^th of January, 2013
• Mangapolis at the Maison de la Ville et de l'Architecture, October, 2012

Highlights

FANTASTIC will take place in 71 towns. To better help visitors find their way through all of the events, each of the 8 metropolitan areas have each chosen a weekend and a theme to collective decline. Visitors will then be able to discover several villages and their original programmes, crossing fields like public paces or in the movies, museums, cultural factories, music schools, theatrical and musical scenes around the highlights, it’s all both active and surprising.