This guided exhibition visit focuses on sonneurs, the biniou and bombarde players who have long set Breton gatherings in motion. Paintings, photographs, drawings, engravings and sculptures reveal how artists responded to the musicians’ sound, presence and social role. Seen together in Le Faouet, the works connect instruments, costume and collective memory, showing why these paired players became such enduring figures in Brittany’s visual culture.
Region: Brittany
Cuisine Breizh Workshop
This Cuisine Breizh workshop links cooking, tasting and book culture through Fanny Le Hir’s Breton recipes. Seaweed tartare, seaweed butter and Breton cake place the session between shore ingredients and household baking memory. Hosted in Primelin, it is a small but precise food heritage event, showing how edible sea plants and familiar cakes can carry regional identity.
L’Assemblee des Bourdons
L’Assemblée des Bourdons draws from Breton culture and dance, especially traditions of Upper Brittany, to create a contemporary choreographic work. The Pied en Sol company works with breath, step and voice, supported by deep viola da gamba sound and traditional singing. Inherited dance is treated as a living vocabulary, open to new movement, sound and stage forms.
Gouel Sant Roch Pardon
Gouel Sant Roch links a Catholic pardon with Breton village celebration at Saint-Roch chapel. The rite moves from mass to the fountain, where small fern crosses recall the hymn dedicated to Saint Roch. Mignoned Sant Roch frames the day with food, craft stalls, fest-deiz and the Kelc’h Keltieg Rostren circle, keeping Plounévez-Quintin’s devotional and dance traditions in the same gathering.
Moby Dick Distillery Heritage Visit
Moby Dick distillery presents Breton craft through plants, copper stills and slow double distillation near Pointe du Raz. The visit explains spirits made from cultivated or gathered botanicals, from whisky and gin to lambig and liqueurs. The heritage visit connects rural botanicals, traditional distilling methods and contemporary experimentation on the Pointe du Raz coast.
Miss Bretagne Election
The Miss Bretagne election is a regional stage event built around representation, performance and the public image of Brittany. Candidates from the four Breton departments appear before the audience in a production tied to the wider Miss France route. The evening turns regional representation into a public performance, selecting the candidate who will carry Brittany’s name onto the national stage.
Huitres Voiles et Compagnie
Huîtres, Voiles et Compagnie gathers Locmariaquer around oyster farming, traditional boats and harbour hospitality. Crews arrive to oysters, bread, butter and white wine, while sea shanties, Breton music, folk dance and an oyster-shucking contest animate the port. Growers and the festival committee serve shellfish, far breton and other local dishes, turning maritime work and Morbihan food culture into a waterfront celebration.
Les Estivales in Le Guilvinec
Les Estivales brings Le Guilvinec’s open-air gatherings together around Breton dance music and food shared beside the fishing port. Bal Floc’h and Ollu Tad a Mab shape the concert with a repertoire made for communal listening and movement. Fish soup, mussels, sardines, kouigns and other association-served dishes place the evening firmly in the working seafood culture of the Pays Bigouden.
Visions Bretonnes in Plougoulm: Corentin Kembraeg Exhibition
SOZO takes its name from the Japanese words for creation and imagination, and every piece at the Médiathèque Ty Koulm, Plougoulm, is printed by the sun. Cyanotype lays plants on sensitised paper and lets daylight do the exposing; a rinse in water leaves their silhouettes white against deep blue. A fern, a blade of grass, a leaf forgotten on a path: the subjects grow underfoot. Exposure times vary, so blues and shadows shift print to print.
Nocturnes du mercredi in Pléneuf-Val-André: Streetside Concerts
Nocturnes du mercredi turns Pléneuf-Val-André into a street music route shaped by merchants, terraces and the seaside promenade. Bagad Salicornes brings Breton and Celtic sound, while folk, blues, pop and DJ sets spread through Val-André and Dahouët. Seafood counters, cafés and pedestrian streets join the performances, giving the resort a civic evening ritual rooted in coastal public space.