The Musée Sérusier in Châteauneuf-du-Faou houses several pieces made by Marguerite Sérusier. From the same town, the association Broderies Traditionnelles / Broerezhiou Gizh Koz ar Vro invites participants to recreate the artist’s designs in embroidery, and each takes home their own creation. The one skill asked beforehand is knowing how to hold and thread a needle. Twelve places are open, from fifteen years upwards, and reservation is required.
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Bling Bling: young apprentice goldsmiths in Vitré
Not everything that glitters is gold, the session starts out, yet everything here is precious. Children of four to six are taken into metal itself, through the materials and then the pieces of metalwork made from them. They go at it as apprentice goldsmiths, with the objects in front of them. The hour is led by the service patrimoine et musées of Vitré, which keeps the town’s heritage, and it is held at the Place du Château.
Les secrets de la coquille Saint-Jacques, marinée et snackée
Chez Kabañ, a cooking studio in the village of Saint-Suliac on the Bords de Rance, hands its kitchen to seven cooks at a time. The scallop is the subject: a tartare de Saint-Jacques aux clémentines et kasha, then the shellfish seared in citrus butter beside farz noir. That buckwheat farz belongs to the Breton table, and the menu ends on le traditionnel gâteau breton. The studio cooks Kig Ha Farz and la cotriade bretonne on its other dates.
L’apéro breton revisité pour les fêtes à Kabañ
Kabañ, an old fishermen’s house in Saint-Suliac, is where Atelier Retour de Pêche sets its collective cooking table. Three festive plates get built by hand: crème de carotte with chantilly au chèvre and roasted hazelnuts, Saint-Jacques à la bretonne, and praires stuffed with parsley butter and beurre aux algues. The seaweed butter is the local signature, cut from the same shore as the shellfish. The produce is seasonal and local.
La vie en bleu: cyanotype at the Château de Quintin
Julie Mainguet brings the old cyanotype technique to the Château de Quintin, and each participant leaves with two plant works in shades of blue. The session is built as a creative and sensory workshop, open from the age of five and taken on booking. Plants or objects brought from home can go into the picture. It sits in Les Minutes Bleues, the festival the Côtes d’Armor stages in 24 hauts lieux du patrimoine naturel et culturel, at dawn or dusk.
Madame de Sévigné: décor workshops for children
Vitré’s heritage and museums service invites children from the age of seven into the château for a workshop on ornament. Madame de Sévigné sets the theme, and the group talks through décor, ornementation and orfèvrerie as the marquise’s own century understood them. The newly opened exhibition room supplies the examples to look at closely. Each child then draws, borrows what they like and invents an ornament of their own.
A tête reposée: the skull-box workshop at Saint-Fiacre
When the light goes, the Office de Tourisme Falaises d’Armor gathers a small group at Saint-Fiacre around a Breton usage that slipped out of memory: the boites à crânes. A teller explains what those skull boxes held and why parishes wanted them in plain sight. The talk runs on questions and contes between the explanations. Each participant then shapes a small box to carry home, and a torch belongs in the bag.
Dansons avec les Rubans!
Dansons avec les Rubans introduces the history of ribbons in rhythmic dance, popular celebrations and Bourbonnais folk dances. Children make a personalised dance ribbon on a wooden ring, then try it out to music. Separate groups cater for ages four to seven and eight to twelve, with each workshop limited to six children.
Ma sorcière mal aimée at Château de Montélimar
Ma sorcière mal aimée introduces families to witches and druids in the medieval imagination in Montélimar. Participants make protective amulets inspired by medieval talismans. The guided activity is designed for children aged seven and over with their families, and the ticket also includes an independent visit to the castle.
Folk dance with Laurent Papon in La Châtre
Bourrée, polka, maraîchine, mazurka, chapeloise and rondeau make up this practical folk dance workshop in La Châtre. Laurent Papon guides participants through the steps and choreography. Dances for pairs, fours and groups offer different ways to join in, with cultural variations explored along the way. Everyone is welcome to learn, and an apéro Jam Trad follows the dancing.