Vatan’s Fête de la lentille verte du Berry puts the region’s emblematic green lentil at the centre of public life. Tastings allow visitors to understand its culinary character, while new-crop sales create direct contact with the people who cultivate and prepare it. A farmers’ and crafts market broadens the celebration to other local products and forms of making, giving the festival a strong rural economy dimension. Street music and parade floats carry the subject beyond the stalls and into the town, joining food culture with collective spectacle. Jérôme Maugis contributes a stage show devoted to Patrick Bruel, adding a familiar popular-music reference to the programme. The festival’s identity remains grounded in the lentil itself: a Berry product encountered through taste, knowledge, trade and the community that celebrates its harvest.
Region: centre-val-de-loire
Open Day at Durbois Farm in Billancelles: Pig Festival
Ferme de Durbois opens its pig farm in Billancelles for visits and activities around livestock. The programme includes encounters with farm animals, horse-drawn carriage rides and activities for children. A local producers’ market accompanies the farm opening, followed by a spit-roasted pig meal with music; the meal requires a reservation.
Grand Night Market in Châtillon-sur-Loire: Summer Flavors
UCAC organises a semi-nocturnal market in Châtillon-sur-Loire. Local produce, handmade objects and food stalls occupy the market, with music accompanying the sellers. Producers and craftspeople take part in the same gathering, bringing shopping and live entertainment into the town’s market programme as the day turns into evening.
Christiane Sand Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Artistic
Musée Serge Delaveau presents paintings by Christiane Sand in Gargilesse-Dampierre. The exhibition connects her visual work with her interest in George Sand’s literary heritage. Different themes within the paintings form a contemporary artistic tribute in a village associated with the writer, placing image-making beside literary remembrance.
Vendôme Market: Local Fresh Produce
The Vendôme market brings fresh products and local producers into the historic centre around Place Saint-Martin and Rue Saulnerie. Direct exchange defines the market: shoppers can identify who grew or prepared an item and ask practical questions about origin and use. Produce changes with local availability, keeping the stalls connected to the surrounding territory, with no standardised selection. The market also gives the square and adjoining street a social function, as everyday shopping becomes a place for conversation and repeated encounters. For visitors, it offers an unembellished view of regional food culture through ingredients, growers and the habits of a working town. Vendôme’s architectural setting adds character, but the essential experience remains human in scale: fresh goods, local knowledge and commerce conducted face to face.
Exposition A. Chartraire in Gargilesse: Art & Literature
Alexis Chartraire exhibits marine paintings at Musée Delaveau in Gargilesse. Oil and gold leaf bring colour and reflective surfaces to works moving between figurative and abstract forms. The painter and writer connects the exhibition with George Sand’s garden in the village, where he made his first drawings.
Animal Photography Exhibition in Villedieu-sur-Indre: Local,
Local photographer Alain Nicault presents animal photographs at the Villedieu-sur-Indre multimedia library. The exhibition concentrates on wildlife through images of different animal species. It gives the photographer’s work a public setting in his local area, with the library hosting this encounter between photographic practice and observation of animals.
Exposition CinéSand in Sainte-Sévère: George Sand’s Legacy
CinéSand examines how cinema has translated George Sand from literature and biography into moving images. The exhibition is organized around three clear strands: screen adaptations of her novels, films drawn from her life and the actresses who have portrayed her. That structure lets visitors compare what changes when a written character, a historical figure or a public reputation is recast for the camera. In Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, the subject returns Sand’s screen image to the Berry landscape associated with her life and writing. The display treats adaptation as a series of choices, never a simple transfer from page to screen. Together, its themes reveal how different periods have pictured Sand, interpreted her work and shaped her visibility for new audiences.
Exhibition “Les peintures du dehors” in Ardentes: Feminist A
Babé combines engraving with embroidery and collage in Les peintures du dehors at Ardentes. The works address collective identity, respect and feminist perspectives through these different materials. The exhibition brings printmaking and textile interventions together in the library, with questions about human relationships and the living world running through the images.
George Sand Exhibition in Ouzouer-sur-Loire: Literary Legacy
George Sand, une vie en liberté uses a selection of documents to follow the writer’s work and public commitments. The exhibition accompanies the commemoration of Sand across the Val de Sully media libraries. Ouzouer-sur-Loire, Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire and Sully-sur-Loire take part in this programme about the author’s independence and literary legacy.