Skol Diwan Kraon, the École Diwan Naig Rosmor, opens its buildings and gardens in Crozon for guided and self-guided tours. The school teaches wholly through Breton and has for more than thirty-five years, from the Très Petite Section up to CM2. Former pupils and parents come back to give their own account of life after the school, and the teaching team opens the day over coffee. The travelling duo Antoine et Clairette plays for the occasion.
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La Baie des Livres, salon jeunesse du Pays de Morlaix
The association La Baie des Livres gathers children’s books and illustration at the Roudour hall in Saint-Martin-des-Champs, and its fifteenth edition turns on Gourmandises. An exhibition of Les recettes des contes de fées and another devoted to François Place hang beside the signing stands. Kamishibaï readings, comptines and an Alfajores workshop fill the halls. A Causerie en breton carries the Breton tongue through this Pays de Morlaix fair.
Chantons avec nos jeunes enfants, in French and Breton
The École de Musique Danse Théâtre du Kreiz Breizh sings with parents and children under three at the library of Plouguernével. Songs, comptines and finger games run in French and in Breton, as Kanomp gant hor bugale vihan. Nobody has to sing well: parents hand their own top-50 rhymes round. It is one of twenty-four free meetings the Communauté de communes du Kreiz Breizh spreads over twelve communes, run here with the association RAOK.
Concert de Noël de l’Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
The Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde sings its Christmas concert in the parish church of Saint-Michel at Lesneven. The ensemble states that its first vocation is to promote the Breton language, and it carries the Breton name Laz-kanañ Penn ar Bed. It gathers more than eighty choristers and a dozen musicians under the direction of Gwenn An Dreo. The programme sets original compositions beside arrangements of Breton, Welsh and Celtic songs.
Festival du Livre en Bretagne in Carhaix
Most of Brittany’s publishing houses, about a hundred, set up stands alongside close to three hundred authors. The fair is run by the Centre culturel breton Egin, and publishers time their main releases to it, which makes Carhaix the pivot of the Breton literary season. Roundtables and screenings run in French, in Brezhoneg and in Kabyle. The bill includes a roundtable on contemporary Breton literature and a tribute to the musician Soïg Sibéril.
Initiation au breton et pressage à l’ancienne
The Écomusée du Pays d’Auray runs this Morbihan grandeur nature session in the Verger Conservatoire at Saint-Dégan, where some two hundred apple varieties are kept. Participants follow the stages that turn fruit into juice: broyage, pressage, then a dégustation of what they have made. The Breton language arrives with the work, picked up through the gestures, objects and shared moments the pressing calls for. Boots and warm clothing are advised.
Spontailh at the Fête des Babigoù, Paimpol
Spontailh is a bilingual Breton-French musical tale that Awenn Plougoulm brings to the Fête des Babigoù in Paimpol. She sings and tells of the Samain, the moment when the door to the other world stands open, and glosses her own title along the way: in Breton, spontailh means scarecrow. Her songs and stories are drawn from the repertoire of the Monts d’Arrée. Two sittings are programmed at La Sirène, one for babies and one for older children.
Gouel bro Plistin: thirty years of Dañs Treger
Gouel bro Plistin is the festival the Dañs Treger association built around Breton dance, and this edition marks its thirtieth year. Danse, musique, chant head the programme, with a shared meal, talks and storytelling filling the days between. The screenings are programmed in the Breton language. A salon du livre puts Breton publishing on the same bill as the dancing, at Plestin-les-Grèves on the Côte de Granit Rose.
Chansons en pêche: Fishing Lives in Song
Fishermen’s songs in French and Breton recount working lives at sea and changing fishing practices. Chansons en pêche follows an orally transmitted repertoire concerned with whales, cod, sardines, tuna and lobster. Anecdotes and images accompany the sung poetry, bringing the words of fishing communities into a concert in Douarnenez.
Eskemm: Plouescat Stories, Music and Theatre
Plouescat residents take the floor at Eskemm to talk about their town through sport, crafts, painting, history and Breton. Short contributions move quickly between subjects, with music and theatre connecting the speakers. The format brings personal accounts and local interests together in a programme shaped by the people of Plouescat.