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  • C’est un pays de mystères

    C’est un pays de mystères gathers Erwan Balcou’s engravings, ceramics and artist’s books around worlds of travel, legend and elemental forces. His end-grain method cuts apple, pear, holly or boxwood with a burin, leaving each printed image inside the irregular contour of the branch. Breton and Arthurian echoes meet megaliths, springs and trees; poet Annie Pennanec’h adds a dialogue between carved image and written imagination.

  • Prades Book Fair

    16th Book Fair in Prades, organized by Le Rocher d’écriture with author meetings & signings under the big top (40 authors, equity between writers), conference on patois, Viole de Gambe concert & photo and painting exhibition.

  • Writing Workshop in Lamballe-Armor: Ella Balaert

    This Lamballe-Armor writing workshop is led by author Ella Balaert. The session gives participants a guided framework for producing text, exchanging ideas and working from place-based inspiration. Its cultural value is modest but concrete: a local literary practice shaped by an identified writer and hosted in a Breton town setting.

  • Exposition ‘YS’ in Guimiliau: Celtic Legend

    YS by Benjamin Deroche revisits the Celtic legend through photography, painting and a trail of reproductions across the Landivisiau region. The work draws on sources such as Émile Souvestre’s Foyer Breton, Théodore de la Villamarqué’s Barzaz Breiz and Charles Guyot’s adaptations. Guimiliau’s interpretation centre gives the exhibition a heritage frame where myth, landscape and contemporary image-making meet.

  • George Sand Conference in Nohant-Vic: Editorial Freedom

    Pascal-Henri Poiget examines George Sand’s relationships with publishers and the press in L’écriture de l’indépendance at Nohant-Vic. Sophie Tellier reads passages from the writer’s correspondence. The lecture considers how Sand’s choices shaped her professional independence and her position within the literary world.

  • Sand Flaubert Conference in Saint-Palais: Literary Dialogue

    Sand Flaubert, une amitié féconde enters the private and intellectual dialogue between two major writers through a lecture-reading by Georges Buisson. Their letters carry literary debate, personal confidences and sincere tenderness, revealing a relationship sustained despite markedly different temperaments. Sand, the celebrated writer rooted at Nohant, and Flaubert, associated with Croisset, tested ideas against one another while maintaining a deep mutual regard. Buisson’s adapted presentation allows the correspondence to speak with dramatic immediacy without losing its historical texture. In Saint-Palais, the reading connects this wide literary exchange to Berry and to Sand’s lived geography. What emerges is not a sequence of biographical facts but a friendship built in language, where criticism, humour and care illuminate how two writers thought about art, work and one another.

  • Exposition “Raconte-moi George Sand” in Gargilesse-Dampierre

    Raconte-moi George Sand presents the writer through drawings made by children from many parts of the world. Their images explore Sand as a woman, author and free spirit, while also responding to her ideas, passions, heroines, heroes and close relationship with nature. Contributions from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean create a deliberately plural portrait, showing how a Berry writer can be reimagined far beyond France. The exhibition gives the children’s point of view full weight and never asks them to imitate an adult historical account. Literature meets visual imagination as each drawing selects a detail, character or principle that feels worth carrying forward. In Gargilesse-Dampierre, a place strongly linked to Sand, this international chorus gains a local anchor and offers an unusually direct way to see cultural memory pass between generations.

  • George Sand Exhibition in Lignières: A Local Tribute

    Local artists, residents and associations contribute objects, paintings and photographs to this George Sand exhibition in Lignières. Documents and loans from the community place the writer alongside Berry’s everyday heritage. The display brings together artistic responses and historical material from the territory associated with her rural novels.

  • Le Miroir d’Aurore in Magny: A Historical Performance

    Compagnie l’Oreille à Plumes presents Le Miroir d’Aurore in the streets of Magny. The historical promenade is devoted to George Sand and accompanies the commemoration of the writer. Its wandering format makes the village streets part of the performance, taking the audience between places as the company develops the tribute.

  • Nohant Festival Chopin 2026

    The Nohant Festival Chopin marks its sixtieth anniversary at the Domaine de George Sand in Berry. Concerts and literary events revisit the relationship between music and the writer’s world. The programme also commemorates Sand through an emphasis on women performers, continuing the festival’s longstanding connection with her home.