Professional guide Michèle François leads this visit to the oyster farms of Carantec in the Bay of Morlaix. The tour explains oyster cultivation and ends with a tasting on site. A game booklet for children is available on request from the Carantec Tourist Office, where reservations and payment can also be arranged; booking online is another option.
Tag: maritime-culture
Fête du Maërl in Plougastel-Daoulas: Celebrate Heritage
Fete du Maerl brings back the Plougastel peninsula’s motto, Var zouar ha var vor, through a celebration of farming and seafaring memory. Maerl, goemon, old boats, dredging gestures and strawberry-growing history explain how the seabed helped enrich the fields. The festival is a rare public lesson in coastal economy, told through food, games, craft and dance.
Heritage Walk on Seaweed Industry in Plouguerneau: History &
ALGAE’s heritage walk follows the Penn Enez dune at Koréjou to read the traces of Brittany’s seaweed industry. Harvesting tools, stone ovens and goémonier boats explain how marine plants moved from the shore into agricultural and industrial use. The coastal route places working knowledge beside the landscape that produced it, with suitable footwear needed for the dune terrain.
Une seule promesse à la fois in Trédrez-Locquémeau: Art & Im
Une seule promesse à la fois was created for Galerie du Dourven by Ulla von Brandenburg with Benoit Résillot. Thirteen shades of blue form an underwater world that responds to the building and to the surrounding meeting of sea, land and sky. Mermaid song and Breton landscape blur interior and exterior, folklore and dream, giving the installation a sensory rhythm tied to its site.
Emmanuel Lepage Exhibition in Guingamp: Marine Art
Emmanuel Lepage’s exhibition presents the sea through the eye of a comic artist named Official Painter of the Navy. Original works connect Breton reefs, the Ar-Men lighthouse and distant ocean voyages, showing how drawing can hold both documentary force and maritime emotion. The exhibition gives Guingamp a wide seascape: local coast, expedition memory and graphic art together.
Guided Walk in Le Conquet: Seaweed History
Sur les traces des goémoniers is a guided walk in Le Conquet led by Yoann Créac’h. The route explores seaweed harvesting, one of Brittany’s distinctive maritime trades, through coastal landscape and local memory. Participants follow the traces of traditional harvesters and learn how their labour shaped shore practices, tools and seafaring culture.
Femmes et Phares Conference in Lanildut: Women’s Impact
Femmes et Phares studies women’s roles in lighthouse history from Lanildut, a commune strongly tied to the Iroise coast. The conference places maritime work, family life and coastal memory beside the technical history of lights. Its angle is specific: it looks at women often kept outside the official lighthouse narrative while keeping the subject anchored in Breton seafaring culture.
Festival des Filets Bleus: Free Concerts – 13 August
This day of the Festival des Filets Bleus combines maritime and Breton cultural markers in a dense public programme. Sea shanties, embroidery workshops, costume exhibitions, rescue demonstrations, Bagad Bro Konk Kerne and a fest-noz keep the festival tied to both port life and regional performance. Music, craft and maritime memory come together as a vivid portrait of Concarneau’s civic festival.
Océanolab – Projet Alcid in Brittany: Climate Study
Océanolab presents the Alcid research project through the organisms, instruments and questions used to study Brittany’s changing coast. Work on seaweed and ecosystem resilience explains how marine scientists observe the effects of climate pressure in local waters. Live research material gives the exhibition a precise link between public interpretation and scientific activity at the Brest aquarium.
Pardon de la Chapelle de la Joie in Penmarch
Pardon de la Chapelle de la Joie in Penmarch joins religious procession, Bigouden costume and maritime thanksgiving. The celebration grew between the world wars and was painted by artists such as Mathurin Méheut and Lucien Simon, who helped fix its image in regional memory. Sailors gather to thank the Virgin for protection, with blessing of the sea and mass keeping the chapel tied to fishing life.