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  • Les Maîtres Sonneurs: illustrated musical reading

    Les Maîtres Sonneurs becomes an illustrated musical reading at Théâtre Maurice Sand in La Châtre. Géraldine Gallois adapts George Sand’s novel and composes its music. Olivier Chéné supplies the illustrations, while Manu Tourny plays Centre-France bagpipes. Tiennet, Joseph and Brulette inhabit a peasant world shaped by work and popular dances. The production pays tribute to Sand and traditional music.

  • George Sand Superstar !

    Claire Le Guillou examines George Sand’s celebrity in a literary conference at Le Blanc. The historian of literature considers the controversy, admiration and fascination surrounding the writer. Sand’s status as a celebrated woman of letters is traced through examples from her lifetime. The talk looks at the media excitement that made the Berry author an exceptional public figure.

  • Lamotte-Beuvron d’Hier à Aujourd’hui

    Canton de Lamotte-Beuvron d’Hier à Aujourd’hui traces a rural landscape through photography. The Club Photo-Lamottois returns to the same places and recreates the original compositions. Participants of all ages pose in these new photographic tableaux. In Chaon, the Amis de la Maison du Braconnage host a comparison of the canton’s earlier views and present-day scenes.

  • George Sand: History, memory and creation

    The Amis de George Sand host a dialogue on history at the Domaine de George Sand in Nohant-Vic. Carole Rivière and José-Luis Diaz consider its place in the writer’s thought and work. Brigitte Diaz chairs a discussion linking history, memory and creation. The meeting introduces a new issue of the Cahiers George Sand devoted to George Sand et la fabrique de l’Histoire.

  • Merovingian shield workshop in Chartres

    Children aged nine to twelve make a Merovingian shield in an archaeology workshop in Chartres. Questions about the Franks and their clothing introduce life in early medieval Gaul. The practical activity links these historical themes to the exhibition À l’aube du Moyen Âge. Children work with clay while exploring the beginnings of the medieval period.

  • Les vivants et les morts dans le Berry traditionnel

    Jean-Pierre Surrault examines beliefs about the dead in the Berry of earlier times. The lecture asks how revenants, spells and souls from the beyond figured in that world. Halloween’s popularity provides the starting point for these questions. The speaker is a doctor of history and president of the Académie du Centre. The meeting in Le Blanc is organised by UIPB.

  • Vignobles en Scène : Faïence et Vins à Gien

    Faïence et Vins pairs an introduction to earthenware decoration with a tasting of Coteaux du Giennois wines. The Faïencerie de Gien and Office de Tourisme de Gien host the workshop together. The decoration session explores the world of artisans d’art. The activity belongs to Les Créatives within Vignobles en Scène, admits children from eight and is limited to twenty people.

  • George Sand et les sciences naturelles

    A hundred and fifty years after her death, George Sand is read for far more than her references to the Berry. This Bourges talk turns to the other Sand: the correspondent who came back again and again to flowers, butterflies and fossils. Her letters are set beside her published writings, and together they show a genuinely naturalist way of looking. Among the great authors of her time she is seldom presented in that light.

  • Amaury Babault : stage de bourrées et bal du Berry

    Amaury Babault opens the day with a workshop on bourrées and other little-known dances of the Berry region. The ball that follows brings Grégory Jolivet in a solo set, then the Marivole duo playing alongside friends. The dancers learn the steps in the afternoon and put them to work the same night. A potluck supper sits between the two halves, with a bar open, in the village of Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre.

  • Sainte-Cécile concert: guitars and the Pizzicat’ strings

    The École municipale de musique of Chambray-lès-Tours marks Sainte-Cécile, patron saint of musicians, with a concert in the Salle Marcadet. Its second- and third-cycle guitar ensembles open, on pieces from traditional music and the classical repertoire. The Pizzicat’ string orchestra then travels from the popular feasts of Central Europe to the rhythms of South America, with flute, clarinet and percussion. Admission costs nothing, on reservation.