From AFSTG web site:
It does no harm just this once, the annual AFSTG stick seminar will hold under the sun and at the seaside. Take your swinsuit, bath towel and flip-flops, it will be hot!!!!

This year, the AFSTG offers you to spend two days in Toulon for some intensive courses with two excellent musicians, Jo Ruffier des Aimes et Jim Lampi.

Jo Ruffier des Aimes has a nonstandard career : multi-instrumentalist and arranger of late "Les Négresses Vertes", he co-created the funk brass band Tarace Boulba. Now, he’s playing, writing and recorded the second cd of the band La Serpent.

Jim Lampi is a well-known Stick veteran. Born in California now living in London, he’s one of the most skilled musician on the Chapman Stick. He’s comfortable with every music with real pieces of groove thrown in it : jazz, latin, blues... all about groove music! (www.lampimedia.com)

Our two guests are singers too : with the local drummers who accepted here to be part of this seminar, evening shows will be just burning moments!

Here’s how these two days will happen:
Friday, 30th of May
10h am - 1h pm: Stick lessons
1h pm - 2h30 pm: Meal
2h30 pm - 5h30 pm: Stick lessons
5h30 pm - 8h pm: free time (beach for everyone?)
8h pm - 11h30 pm: outdoor concert with Jim Lampi and Jo Ruffier des Aimes at L’Art Café (Toulon - Place de Dame Sibille)

Saturday, 31st of May:
10h am - 1h pm: Stick lessons
1h pm - 2h30 pm: Meal
2h30 pm - 5h30 pm: Stick lessons
5h30 pm - 8h pm: free time (beach for everyone?)
8h pm - 11h30 pm: outdoor concert with Jim Lampi and Jo Ruffier des Aimes at Les Chantiers de la Lune (La Seyne sur Mer)

160 euros is the price set for these two days. Be careful, number of students is limited to 20 students.
This price includes:
teachings
mid-day meals
admissions to the shows
This price do not includes:
evening meals
accomodation (we will give you quickly some information about cheap accomodation : hotels, discount hotel and campings)

Ways to come in Toulon:
By plane : the Hyères/Toulon/Saint-Tropez links Toulon with some french towns and european capitals, such as Rome, Bruxelles, Rotterdam et London (http://aeroport.var.cci.fr/)
By ship : for Italian players, there’s a line linking Toulon to Rome. Prices could be very cheap depending on the period (www.gldlines.com)
By train : a TGV line links Paris to Toulon in 4 hours at some very cheap prices (www.idtgv.com). You could find some one-way travels for 19 euros...

Available solutions for lodging
Here are an hotel selection near the rehearsal rooms. These hotels have been selected for their prices and site. Rates are given as a rough guide and come from a 2007-2008 touristic guide. I didn’t check these rates, it’s up to you to do it!!
- www.hoteldestroisdauphins.com: from 30 euros
- Hôtel des Allées : contact@hoteljaures.fr: from 30 to 35 euros
- La Résidence: hotellaresidence.toulon@orange.fr : from 30 to 45 euros
- www.hoteljaures.fr: from 37 to 39 euros
- www.etaphotel.com: from 39 to 47 euros
- www.acanthid.com: from 41 to 49 euros
- www.aunouvelhotel83.com: from 44 to 50 euros
- www.grandhoteldauphine.com: from 49 to 60 euros
- www.grandhotelgare.com: from 48 to 75 euros
- www.hotel-littlepalace.com: from 50 euros
- www.hotel-bonaparte.com: from 52 to 57 euros
If you want to share an hotel room with some other students, please drop me an e-mail, I’ll get you in touch with them.
I’ll try in the next days to negociate a discount for the students in some hotels, but I can’t promise anything (hotels are rarely empty here...)
If some of you wants some information about more expensive hotels or rather cheaper lodging solutions (camping...), send me an e-mail, I’ll send you all the information I can obtain.
Contact
If you want to get some further information about the whole organization of these two days (accomodation, ways to get in Toulon...), please get in touch directly with me at grozeil_AT_wanadoo.fr

ON LINE REGISTRATION FOR THE SEMINAR