The travelling Micro-Folie of the Communauté de Communes Écueillé – Valençay sets up in the salle du conseil at Vicq-sur-Nahon. It belongs to the Journées de l’architecture, on the theme «Réhabiliter, bâtir l’avenir». Children from six upwards and adults draw one collaborative sketch, giving new life to the buildings nearby. Windows are redrawn after Van Gogh, facades after Picasso, figures after Munch, in pencil, paint and recycled materials.
Region: centre-val-de-loire
Chartres, douze arrêts sur mémoire: the atelier Aubert
Twelve large prints line an open-air walk through the centre of Chartres, drawn from the atelier Aubert, whose photographer caught the city and its inhabitants at the start of the last century. Many of these images had never been shown. Each panel sets a street, a square or a corner of the cathedral surroundings beside what stands there now, from wartime damage to rebuilt quarters. The city invites passers-by to argue with its own memory.
GEORGE : la tapisserie hommage à George Sand
A single woven panel, the longest ever made on an Aubusson loom, runs the length of the musée Bertrand in Châteauroux. Françoise Pétrovitch designed it as a tribute to George Sand, and the Cité internationale de la tapisserie d’Aubusson unveiled the finished cloth. Its making took more than eight thousand hours at the loom. The museum has the first showing of the piece anywhere.
Plein Patin : a Loire bal trad with bagpipe and banjo
Plein Patin is a trio that plays for dancing, and its repertoire follows the territories the Loire runs through. Elise Kusmeruck’s violin leads the dance, Pierre Blavette’s bagpipes and whistles give it edge, and Vincent Sirote’s banjo sets the pulse; all three sing. The set is announced as a bal traditionnel for all comers. Stomp boxes under their feet keep the floor moving, and children under twelve come in free.
Vincent Barré: Sculptures at Les Hauts de Sancerre
Vincent Barré fills the gardens of Les Hauts de Sancerre with monumental sculptures cast in aluminium from polystyrene models cut by hot wire. Column, Core and Triple Hulls have the archaic look of archaeological fragments and tell no story. Their surfaces keep the striations, corrections and splices of the work, so the hand that made them stays legible. Visitors enter by the Porte César esplanade, at the top of the wine town.
Les petits explorateurs du patrimoine, Vernou-sur-Brenne
Children set out from the front of the church in Vernou-sur-Brenne with a sheet of clues and no guide, hunting for the marks that will open a treasure chest. Each clue points at a doorway, a wall or a carved stone they would otherwise walk past. An adult comes along, and the trail keeps to the old village. The route is drawn by the Pays d’art et d’histoire Loire Touraine, which reads this stretch of the Loire through its own architecture.
Concert Ô Marché : l’Escadron Volant de la Reine
The Escadron Volant de la Reine brings its Concert Ô Marché series into the salle des Colonnes of the Nogent-le-Rotrou town hall. The players set out a short baroque programme on viole, violon, contrebasse and guitare, announced under the title La Tarte à Timbre. Entry costs nothing and the set runs about thirty minutes, so it can be caught between errands on the market forecourt. Each date of the season digs into another corner of baroque music.
Halloween au château des Comtes du Perche
The town of Nogent-le-Rotrou and its library bring a Halloween programme to the Château des Comtes du Perche. Families can explore the Mission Hôtel Dieu game booklet or join an escape game and outdoor laser tag. Storytelling sessions accompany the Super Chouette show and a puppet workshop, while a medieval play course and face painting add further activities around the castle.
Anaïs Cassiers à la collégiale Saint-Sylvain de Levroux
Before the Lisztomanias open at Châteauroux, the collégiale Saint-Sylvain in Levroux hosts a recital by Anaïs Cassiers. She plays without an interval, on the themes of water and contemplation. The programme sets Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este by Franz Liszt beside Une barque sur l’océan by Maurice Ravel and a Polonaise-Fantaisie by Frédéric Chopin. Cassiers trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, in Olivier Gardon’s class.
Ensemble vocal Garance : concert de Noël à Saint-André
The Garance vocal ensemble returns to the Église Saint-André in Châteauroux for its long-standing Christmas concert. Anne JeanJacques, a lyric singer who teaches at the Conservatoire, conducts the choir and its soloists. Programme notes place the evening under the title Tous à l’opéra, setting opera repertoire beside Christmas carols. From ten euros, seats are sold at the Comptoir Local de Châteauroux.