Exposition Sacrés Trésors presents exceptional works from the sanctuary collections of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray. Statues, paintings, silverware and Breton costumes reveal gifts offered to Saint Anne by pilgrims from many parts of the world. Video, audio, games and models place four centuries of devotional art within the history and living culture of one of Brittany’s major pilgrimage sites.
Region: Brittany
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne in Saint-Broladre: Art Show
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne places contemporary art inside a small Breton chapel whose restoration remains part of the story. Pastels, paintings, watercolors, graphic pieces and photography share the space, so the building reads as both gallery and protected local monument. The seasonal program also keeps the Pardon Ste Anne and the Fête des Peintres in view, linking Saint-Broladre’s religious setting with living artistic practice.
Guided Tour of Saint-Malo: Corsair Legacy
The guided tour of Saint-Malo explores the Cité corsaire, its ramparts and the seafaring identity of the walled city. Privateers, major voyages and a long tradition of civic independence place the port at the centre of French and Breton maritime history. Conducted in French for a limited group, the visit explains why the phrase neither French nor Breton, but Malouin remains attached to the city.
Soirée ‘Au Coin du Phare’ in Landunvez: Local Lore
Au Coin du Phare brings an open-air Breton storytelling gathering to the ruins of Landunvez’s old semaphore. Local tales unfold against the coastal view as participants identify the lighthouses that appear across the Pays d’Iroise. The combination of oral tradition, navigation landmarks and a weathered maritime site gives the evening a distinctive sense of place.
Les Rues en Scène in Carantec: Street Arts Showcase
Les Rues en Scène transforms Carantec into a route for free street arts and live performance. A poetic storytelling walk leads into Miror, a dance and circus encounter between a performer and a suit of steel, followed by the aerial mechanics of La Panne. Cie C’Hoari connects skateboarding with Breton culture in Da Gouskate, while La Volte-Cirque invites the crowd into a record-chasing giant seesaw act. The varied programme makes the town itself part of the performance.
Pardon de la Clarté in Combrit: Pilgrimage Tradition
Pardon de la Clarté centres on the Notre-Dame de la Clarté chapel in Saint-Vennec, where worship is followed by a procession to the fountain. The pilgrimage belongs to the tradition known as Pardon an Teir Vari, linking three Marian sanctuaries in southern Finistère. Pilgrims still dip handkerchiefs in the reputed fountain water and touch their eyes, preserving one of the observance’s most distinctive devotional gestures.
Concert in Quimperlé: Punk and Breton Fusion
Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs bring their punk force to La Loco in Quimperlé, linking electric riffs with Breton musical identity. The band is known for a loud, cross-generational audience and for carrying traditional elements into a contemporary punk frame. The concert gives Quimperlé a direct encounter with one of Brittany’s most recognisable fusion acts, where local sound and political stage energy meet.
Maritime History in Concarneau: Jean-Paul Mathelier
Jean-Paul Mathelier recounts a photographic campaign aboard a Concarneau trawler within a lecture on the great fisheries. Images from voyages to southern Ireland and later work on a live-bait tuna boat record Breton sailors through labour, routine and quieter moments at sea. His testimony connects those photographs with routes reaching from northern waters to Mauritania and with the port memory preserved by the Musée de la Pêche.
Fest noz, Arvest in Ploemel: Dance and Tradition
Les Attrape-Rêves anchors the Ploemel club’s anniversary programme, alongside a parade and music from Songria. A fest-noz follows with Arvest and Iskis. Arvest combines guitars, electronic programming and kan ha diskan, while Iskis draws on a broad traditional dance repertoire shaped by the four musicians’ own influences.
Endro Concert in Guilvinec: Celtic Harp Duo
Endro brings Celtic harp and guitar together in a close musical dialogue at Guilvinec. Klervi Rouyer and Neven Le Pennec shape pieces around travel and the sea, combining delicate melody with the harp’s lower register and the guitar’s rhythmic colour. Improvisation opens their Breton and Celtic foundations to touches of jazz, funk, South American and African sound.