Jules Gros spent a lifetime writing down how Trégor actually talks, and the Domaine départemental de la Roche-Jagu has turned that record into a room to walk through. Olivia Blondel made the sculptural half and Gaby Kerdoncuff the sound. This guided reading of the exhibition is given entirely in Breton, announced by the estate as Gweladenn heñchet en diskouezadeg. The manor runs it as one of its own Breton language visits.
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« Transmission(s), regards croisés » à Redon
The Groupement Culturel Breton opens its photographic archive at the Centre social Confluence, on Rue Guy Pabois in Redon. The series holds scenes of transmission: a geste, an air, a pas de danse, a story. Some travel de bouche à oreille, others de main à main, and together they shape a collective memory. The show hangs alongside the Bogue d’Or, the town’s gathering of chant, conte, musique and danse de tradition populaire, and entry is free.
Luigi Odorici, fondateur du musée de Dinan
The Bibliothèque municipale de Dinan gives a long run to Luigi Odorici, an Italian political refugee who settled in the town. He became its librarian, then founded the museum and kept it for close to forty years. The display gathers pieces that passed through his hands: the Portulan de Pascoal Roiz, a portrait of saint Dominique, and the first book printed in Dinan. His bequest still forms the core of the museum’s holdings, and access is free.
De phare en lumière: Ramiro Chaves at the Pointe du Raz
Ramiro Chaves photographed the Breton coast after dark, with the beam of a lighthouse for his only light. He made the series along this shore during a residency run from Brest by the Centre Atlantique de la Photographie. A photographer from Córdoba who has long lived in Mexico, he sets those images against a stronger southern light. The show joins the Maison de site’s season on lighthouses and the Curieux Mexique cycle of a Cap Sizun collective.
Solomon Rossine : La Bretagne qui est toujours avec toi
The Chapelle des Ursulines at Lannion hangs the series Solomon Rossine completed after thirty-five years in the town. 77 oil paintings and many drawings came out of excursions made on foot, by bike and by car, always with a sketchbook. Visitors follow what those sketchbooks brought back: the old train station, the streets of Lannion, rain in the countryside. Wayside shrines, Breton festivals and the Pardon give the series its subject.
Agnès Pormenté opens her pastel gallery, Paimpol
Agnès Pormenté works in dry pastel, and she opens the gallery where she shows nothing but her own work. Its four exhibition rooms hold about sixty paintings, nearly all of them landscapes of the country around Paimpol, taken in every season. A trained musician, she carries piano technique across into the pastel, and she lets callers watch how she works. Children from six are admitted, and the visit goes ahead only if two people come.
Benoît Stichelbaut, the coast of Brittany in photographs
The media library gives its walls to Benoît Stichelbaut, who has photographed the sea for thirty years from his base in Concarneau. The prints follow the coast he knows best: the lighthouses of the Iroise Sea, the islands of the Ponant, small hidden harbours and the yards where boats are built. His racing work runs alongside them, from the great transatlantic starts to the skippers he has followed. The series is Brittany read from the water.
Les églises Beaumanoir, une épopée en Trégor
A mantle of churches and chapels rose over the western bishopric of Tréguier and the eastern fringe of Léon at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Tradition credits their features to the Beaumanoir workshop in Morlaix, and this travelling exhibition makes the case on 15 panels. The Saint Nicolas chapel in Plufur and the parish enclosure in Trédrez carry it. The Pays d’art et d’histoire du Trégor built it with Morlaix Communauté.
Les Minutes Bleues at La Galerie, Binic-Étables-sur-Mer
Rue Touroux holds La Galerie, where the contemporary artist Elsa Tomkowiak sets strong colour, volume and movement through space at the crossing point of painting and sculpture. A café follows the walk through the rooms, and the group trades what it noticed. The fifth edition of Les Minutes Bleues puts such sessions in the natural and cultural patrimoines of the Côtes-d’Armor, read in the blue light of dawn or dusk. Admission is free, every age is welcome, and booking is strongly advised.
Exhibition « Le fest-noz s’affiche »
A fest-noz poster is first an announcement and then a keepsake of a night already past. The exhibition asks what such a poster is for, what it can do visually, and where it turns up: billboards, bus shelters, EDF transformers, the rear window of a car. It also sets out a short history of the fest-noz, carried on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ti ar Vro Treger-Goueloé and Dastum Bro-dreger are partners in it.