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  • De Londres à Edimbourg in Bourges: Historical Celtic Music

    Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot bring La Rêveuse’s De Londres à Edimbourg programme to Bourges. The duo works with English music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, moving between traditional repertory and composed music. The concert is presented in connection with Noirlac’s Nouvelles Traversées festival.

  • A. Puifferat Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: George Sand

    Aurore Puifferat exhibits paintings in Gargilesse-Dampierre in a tribute connected with George Sand’s writing. Her work brings romantic and impressionist approaches together through colour. The exhibition places a contemporary painter’s response to Sand within the Creuse Valley village associated with the writer and its continuing artistic life.

  • Duel au Carillon in Luisant: A Medieval Spectacle

    Chartres Médiévale and Le Carillon present Duel au Carillon at the equestrian centre in Luisant. The seventy-five-minute show combines theatrical humour, sword fights and equestrian choreography. Medieval scenes and dances bring the performers and horses together in a programme intended for children and adults.

  • 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.

  • George Sand Exhibition in Vatan: 150 Years Later

    This travelling exhibition from the George Sand and Black Valley Museum presents the writer through twelve illustrated panels. It follows Sand as an author, thinker and activist whose place in French cultural and political history rests on both her work and her choices. Living by her pen, she asserted personal and intellectual independence in a society that withheld civil rights and public recognition from women. Her writing became a means of defending freedom, justice and equality, giving the exhibition a clear human and political argument. In Vatan, the panel format makes that story accessible while retaining the authority of a museum-led presentation. Images and concise interpretation allow visitors to connect a celebrated literary name with the conditions she challenged, revealing modernity not as a slogan but as a sustained practice of work, thought and commitment.

  • Printemps Bio in Montigny-le-Chartif: Farmers’ Market

    Printemps Bio takes place at Ferme Beauchêne Paillot in Montigny-le-Chartif. Local organic producers bring seasonal vegetables, red berries and eggs to the market. A family workshop accompanies the stalls, and the programme introduces La Table d’Annick, a cooking project centred on local ingredients and creative dishes.

  • George Sand Lecture in Le Blanc: Letters Revealed

    George Sand, une plume à soi uses a staged reading to follow the writer through her correspondence. Letters to Musset, Michel de Bourges, Maurice Sand, Victor Hugo and Flaubert reveal personal and literary relationships. In Le Blanc, those exchanges are placed beside novels including Indiana, La Petite Fadette and La Mare au Diable.

  • Terres du Son 2026

    Terres du Son brings national and international musicians to the Domaine de Candé in Monts. The festival combines its concert programme with a free-access Eco-Village. Activities devoted to ecological transition accompany the performances, bringing the musical gathering and its environmental commitments together on the estate.

  • 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.

  • Fête de la Sange (Sully-sur-Loire)

    The Fête de la Sange in Sully-sur-Loire brings fishing, hunting and practical knowledge of nature into a large popular gathering. Demonstrations and displays speak to traditions formed around rivers, forests and field sports, while free activities give children accessible, practical ways to take part. Savoie appears as guest territory, adding another regional culture to the fair’s established local identity. The emphasis remains on discovery and exchange, with competition kept secondary while associations and practitioners explain the skills behind their pursuits. Organised by the Comité de la Sange, the celebration reflects how outdoor practices, family participation and regional representation continue to sustain a living culture of nature in the Loire Valley.