Category: centre-val-de-loire

La Rêveuse brings De Londres à Edimbourg to Plaimpied-Givaudins in collaboration with Noirlac. Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot perform English music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their programme follows exchanges between traditional and composed repertories as part of the Nouvelles Traversées festival’s wider activity.

Valençay’s Soirée AOC vin et fromage celebrates the town’s wine and cheese appellations. Eleven local producers take part, with the Fanfare de Saint-Genou providing music. The Jeunes Agriculteurs de l’Indre prepare a Berry Burger, adding a cooked dish to the gathering around the area’s wines, cheeses and producers.

Bourges’s Nuits Lumière turns the historic centre into an open-air sequence of scenographic video projections across six heritage sites. The route begins at the Archbishop’s Garden and lets civic monuments become screens for stories embedded in the city’s architecture. A collaboration with the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges gives Place Cujas a contemporary pulse through work by twenty students, including a creation shaped around nature reclaiming urban space. Historical interpretation is available through the Legendr mobile guide, which explains the works and their symbols without interrupting the nocturnal walk. Free access and the meeting of medieval fabric, digital image and local art-school practice make the illumination distinctly rooted in Bourges.

The Marché des producteurs de Pays gathers farmers from the country around Nogent-sur-Vernisson on the parking opposite the town hall. Each stall belongs to the person who grew, raised or made what is on it, so buyers deal with the producer and not with a reseller. The stalls put flowers and plants beside gastronomie and the craftwork of the Artisanat stands. Entry is free, everything stays in the open air, and there is food to eat on the spot.

The planned George Sand talk in Lignières has been cancelled. Mickaël Ragot, author of Promenade autour de George Sand en Berry, was to discuss the writer through places associated with her work. His proposed presentation connected visits to Berry sites with literary interpretation; the public encounter will not take place.

Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre’s organic fair brings producers together for a farmers’ market, workshops and round-table discussions. Organic meals use locally grown ingredients, with food served alongside the programme. Children’s activities and live music accompany the exhibitors, joining practical work on sustainable food with the town’s agricultural gathering.

The leisure park opening at Chemillé-sur-Indrois brings local producers to the lakeside. Ça Trompe Énormément provides live music alongside the market. A visit introduces the leisure park and the development work around the lake, combining an account of the changes to the site with food stalls and an outdoor public gathering.

Les Amis de Villesavin organise Un soir d’été in the château park at Tour-en-Sologne. Local producers prepare food for a meal in the grounds, with picnicking also possible. The band Apple Juice performs Beatles songs, placing the live concert alongside a gathering around local food and the Villesavin estate.

Baraize’s Crafts and Traditions Festival combines craft exhibitors with a farmers’ market. Agricultural equipment, vintage tractors and classic cars form a display of rural work and transport. Games include potato harvesting, while food stalls and fireworks accompany the gathering around local produce, making and farming traditions.

La Châtre commemorates George Sand with readings and music by Compagnie l’Oreille à Plumes at Square George Sand. A tree planting accompanies the ceremony. A Berry banquet follows along Avenue George Sand, and an open-air screening of Diane Kurys’s Les Enfants du siècle completes the programme of literature, food and cinema.