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  • La Givaudine: Berry Folk Dance in George Sand’s Honour

    La Givaudine honours George Sand with a programme of Berry’s traditional dances in Plaimpied-Givaudins. The group’s repertoire includes bourrées from Haut-Berry and Bas-Berry alongside polkas and waltzes. Its practice brings dance together with hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes and diatonic accordion, sustaining the folk music and movement associated with the region.

  • 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.

  • L’école d’autrefois: Schooldays and George Sand

    A classroom from earlier schooldays is reconstructed for L’école d’autrefois in Chassignolles. The exhibition looks at learning through that recreated school setting, then turns to the importance George Sand attached to reading and writing. Education and the writer’s convictions meet in a portrait of how literacy formed part of the world she cared about.

  • 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.

  • George Sand in Music: Natalia Morozova at Bouesse

    Romantic music meets George Sand’s words in a concert bringing pianist Natalia Morozova together with actor Mickael Winum. The pairing sets spoken writing alongside piano performance, following themes of passion, freedom and poetry. Presented in Bouesse as a tribute to the Berry novelist, the intimate format gives each artist a distinct voice in the encounter between literature and music.

  • L’Écume des sèves: Plants, Sculpture and George Sand

    Delicate plant-inspired installations by Duy Anh Nhan Duc meet the stone architecture of the Palais Jacques Cœur in L’Écume des sèves. Sculptures and transparent forms explore both the fragility and persistence of living matter. The project also recalls George Sand’s interest in natural science and trees, drawing a line between contemporary making and the writer’s attentive study of nature.

  • George Sand and Talleyrand: A Missed Encounter

    George Sand’s visit to Talleyrand’s estate at Valençay left sharply different written accounts. This lecture compares the Duchesse de Dino’s concise recollection with Sand’s fierce judgement of the prince and admiration for his grounds. Charles Duvernet, who accompanied the novelist, adds a third perspective to an encounter between two celebrated figures of language and ideas.

  • Unicae unica: Tatiana and Jules Roy’s Love Letters

    Cécile Berly adapts the correspondence of Tatiana and Jules Roy for the reading Unicae unica in Vézelay. Tatiana’s work as a journalist, poet and translator sits beside the couple’s declarations of love and the tensions surrounding women who write. Their shared attachment to Vézelay connects an intimate exchange with the literary life of the town, within the festival devoted to Roy, Rostropovitch and Gainsbourg.

  • Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger: Culture

    Poetry punctuates a conversation between Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger about artistic freedom and cultural policy. Their exchange takes its cue from kan ha diskan, the Breton call-and-response tradition. Censorship, cuts to cultural budgets and the work of artists and volunteers give the discussion its concrete concerns.