Chemins de découverte presents Mahalon as a rural commune to explore through hands-on culture and landscape. Farm visits, cider-house tours, artisanal jam making, Breton games and a guided walk around Poulguidou pond link craft, food and place. Practical countryside knowledge emerges as heritage in its own right, shared through the routines and skills of everyday Breton life.
Region: Brittany
Pardon de Luzunin
Pardon de Luzunin is a compact expression of Breton religious and village continuity. A procession to the fountain gives the event its sacred path, while the shared meal roots the gathering in sociability as well as devotion. Its importance comes from scale and persistence: a lieu-dit, a fountain, a table and a community repeating inherited gestures.
Marche Cuisine in Ploubalay
Marché cuisiné turns the Ploubalay market into a practical portrait of local food culture. Producers, farmers, retailers, restaurateurs, associations and chefs appear together, showing how supply, cooking and communal eating connect. Stalls, prepared dishes and shared tables make the gathering less like a simple market and more like a public tasting of Beaussais-sur-Mer’s culinary network.
Fete de la Sardine
Fete de la Sardine in Saint-Guenole ties food, harbour life and Breton music into one port celebration. Grilled sardines, sea shanties by Gwen Aod, the Stones Land Pipe Band and a grand fest-noz with Jean-Charles Guichen, War-Sav and Zonj give the event a strong maritime and dance identity. It also supports memory work around the Square Tower, rooting festivity in place.
Galerie Metairie Visit
Galerie Metairie in Scaer brings together minerals, historic cameras, paintings, photographs and collections assembled across different fields of interest. Breton costumes give the display a strong regional anchor, preserving forms of dress and material detail within a wider cabinet of curiosities. The unusual juxtapositions reward close looking and show how a small local gallery can hold fragments of social, technical and visual memory.
Cali Revoltes et Amour fou
Cali brings Révoltes et Amour fou to Quimperlé with Catalan guitarist Pierre-Andre de Vera, revisiting his own repertoire and songs tied to revolt, solidarity and hope. Voice, guitar and text give the evening its intimate scale. La Loco provides a close setting for a leading figure in contemporary French chanson.
Rallye Solex in Quiberon
Rallye Solex turns the Quiberon peninsula into a cheerful procession of vintage machines, costumes and club culture. Decorated Solexes carry a retro mechanical memory through the landscape, while the public side of the ride gives the event its festive tone. Local passion, humour and shared nostalgia for small engines give the procession its unmistakable peninsula character.
Sur des Chardons Ardents
Sur des Chardons Ardents returns to Lianver with a programme that honours its fest-noz roots while opening toward electric and alternative sounds. The anniversary of the dance night gives the festival a clear Breton anchor, even as the line-up crosses styles. Fest-noz memory, cider-country conviviality and adventurous stage culture remain in productive tension throughout the programme.
Pardon de Sainte Barbe
Pardon de Sainte Barbe belongs to the Breton chapel tradition, where procession, fountain and mass form a compact sacred route. In Plouharnel, the gathering makes the bond between local devotion and landscape visible around Sainte Barbe. Its importance is not in spectacle but in continuity: a community repeating a gesture of faith, place and memory.
Jeanne Malivel Craft Conference
This conference places Jeanne Malivel at the centre of the Breton applied arts revival. Historian Olivier Levasseur examines her projects and the role of artisans and industrial partners, often from the Côtes-d’Armor, in renewing regional forms. Malivel’s work connects modern design and craft production with the search for a distinctly Breton visual language.