Distillerie Dourtan opens its Plouescat production space for a guided account of how its spirits are made. The visit follows ingredients and equipment used for gin, rum, pastis and liqueurs, giving each product a clear place in the workshop’s practice. A concluding tasting connects those methods with the aromas and styles developed by this small Finistère distillery.
Region: Brittany
Bagad Fest-Noz in Carentoir: Breton Dance Night
Musicians and dancers from Malestroit take over Place de l’Etoile in Carentoir for a compact Breton gathering. A bagad and Celtic circle begin with a parade before shifting into fest-noz repertoire and communal dance. The sequence lets spectators hear the force of the ensemble, see formal group movement and then join the social tradition on the same public square.
Guided Walk in Le Conquet: Seaweed History
Sur les traces des goémoniers is a guided walk in Le Conquet led by Yoann Créac’h. The route explores seaweed harvesting, one of Brittany’s distinctive maritime trades, through coastal landscape and local memory. Participants follow the traces of traditional harvesters and learn how their labour shaped shore practices, tools and seafaring culture.
Danse bretonne in Ploudalmézeau: Traditional Steps
Danse bretonne in Ploudalmézeau is led by the Dansal e Gwital association at the port. Participants learn traditional steps to local instrumental sounds, with the session open to beginners as well as experienced dancers. The outdoor harbour setting gives the workshop a strong place identity, joining dance transmission, music and the maritime edge of the commune.
Femmes et Phares Conference in Lanildut: Women’s Impact
Femmes et Phares studies women’s roles in lighthouse history from Lanildut, a commune strongly tied to the Iroise coast. The conference places maritime work, family life and coastal memory beside the technical history of lights. Its angle is specific: it looks at women often kept outside the official lighthouse narrative while keeping the subject anchored in Breton seafaring culture.
The Secret of the Last Templar in Lizio: A Quest
Le secret du dernier Templier et la quête d’Hercule uses Lizio’s streets as an interactive heritage trail. Players follow Professor Hercule Baudouin’s notebook, symbols and clues to investigate a legendary Templar presence through observation and deduction. Built heritage becomes an active field of observation, inviting families to read the village as a map of clues and stories.
Festival des Filets Bleus: Free Concerts – 13 August
This day of the Festival des Filets Bleus combines maritime and Breton cultural markers in a dense public programme. Sea shanties, embroidery workshops, costume exhibitions, rescue demonstrations, Bagad Bro Konk Kerne and a fest-noz keep the festival tied to both port life and regional performance. Music, craft and maritime memory come together as a vivid portrait of Concarneau’s civic festival.
Festival des Filets Bleus in Concarneau: Music Night
This Filets Bleus programme day shows Concarneau’s festival through costume, children’s Celtic circles, embroidery, Breton language and public concerts. The Village de la Mer, traditional dress exhibitions and young dancers place transmission at the centre of the day. Children, makers and musicians show heritage in motion, passed on through practice instead of displayed at a distance.
Les Escales Musicales in Perros-Guirec: Kerloi Duo
Etienne Kerbaul’s clarinet and Julian Loiseau’s diatonic accordion form a tightly woven Breton dance duo. Their long collaboration across Côtes-d’Armor lets melody and pulse move as one, building the lift and repetition that guide dancers through a set. The Escales Musicales appearance keeps that regional practice in the open air, centred on instrumental dialogue, collective movement and living fest-noz technique.
Océanolab – Projet Alcid in Brittany: Climate Study
Océanolab presents the Alcid research project through the organisms, instruments and questions used to study Brittany’s changing coast. Work on seaweed and ecosystem resilience explains how marine scientists observe the effects of climate pressure in local waters. Live research material gives the exhibition a precise link between public interpretation and scientific activity at the Brest aquarium.