Sounds and drawings offer different ways of following the Cher at Nitray. An audio walk introduces the river, while an exhibition pairs sketchbook artist Lapin’s work with creations from workshops involving La Croix-en-Touraine schools. Board games and a Micro-Folie digital museum visit add activities for children aged eight and over, connecting river heritage with artistic and participatory approaches.
Tag: art-exhibitions
Chaumussay in Black and White: A Village Album
Chaumussay appears through old photographs and postcards in Le temps suspendu, an exhibition devoted to the commune’s past. Black-and-white views bring together images that once circulated as cards and others preserved as photographs. The collection forms a village album, inviting attention to the places recorded and to the ways earlier photographers chose to frame them.
George Sand’s Addresses: From Paris to Berry
George Sand’s addresses become a route through her life in Jocelyne BARON’s exhibition. Photographs, old postcards, maps and documents follow her from Parisian homes to the places where she grew up and lived in Berry. Sand’s own texts accompany the journey, linking physical settings with the writing they helped shape and with changing views of those places.
Lignières: Women Artists and the Journée du Matrimoine
Women artists receive the attention of the Journée du Matrimoine at Les Bains-Douches in Lignières. An exhibition shares the programme with an unusual literary tour, readings and improvised theatre. Conceived as a counterpart to the Journées du Patrimoine, the gathering uses these different forms to give women’s creative contributions a more visible place in cultural memory.
Les Grands Feux: La Borne’s Wood-Fired Ceramics
Wood-fired kilns set the pace of Les Grands Feux in La Borne, with loading, firing and unloading carried out in public. Ceramicists from many places exchange working knowledge around the furnaces. Studio visits, exhibitions and practical workshops extend the programme from utilitarian pots to sculpture, revealing the range of practices sustained by this pottery village.
Val de Sully: Photography and the Art of Building
Photographer Thierry Cantalupo explains how images serve the region’s heritage inventory in a Val de Sully architecture programme. Exhibitions connect that documentary work with the materials used to build in Centre-Val de Loire. A visit to Saint Germain church and an architectural walk in Sully-sur-Loire carry the subject outdoors, linking recording methods with buildings encountered directly.
Chinon’s Fairy Worlds at the Royal Fortress
Medieval tales supply the fairy world that unfolds through Chinon’s royal fortress. A walking route reveals creatures hidden in the décor, an imagined forest, a cradle under watch and a table laid for celebration. Photographs of the Cottingley Fairies add a different kind of enchantment, bringing questions of belief and illusion into the encounter with these elusive beings.
Ferrières: Four Decades of Heritage in Photographs
Four decades of research and preservation come together in the anniversary exhibition of the Association Recherches, Sauvegarde et Patrimoine Ferriérois. Photographs draw attention to the Gâtinais heritage it has worked to protect. Archives and discoveries add the story of that continuing effort, placing the association’s accumulated knowledge alongside the places and traces it studies.
Loches: Paintings and a Shared Heritage Mural
Restoration of local heritage becomes the subject of a shared mural in Loches. Members of the public are invited to take part in painting it, bringing their own contribution to a collective image. A painting exhibition accompanies the activity in a garden setting, placing finished works beside a new piece that develops through participation.
A Tours de Bulles: Comics, Creators and Screenings
Comics move beyond the printed page at A Tours de Bulles in Tours. Meetings and signing sessions bring readers face to face with authors, while exhibitions offer another way to encounter their visual worlds. Performances, screenings and participatory activities widen the festival’s programme, connecting the culture of the bande dessinée with other forms of storytelling.