Maïma Couture keeps a craft workshop in Pont-Croix, a Petite Cité de Caractère of the Cap Sizun. From its bench come clothes and accessories made of material that is 99,99% upcyclés. The tour goes behind the scenes of a sewing workshop brimming with life and fabrics. It belongs to the savoir-faire weeks of the Federation of Brittany Tourist Offices, and part of the takings goes to the Fondation du Patrimoine de Bretagne.
Topic: events
Pas après pas, son après son at La Hunaudaye
A 3 km walk sets out from the Château de la Hunaudaye at Plédéliac to meet the autumn sunrise. An immersive sound experience runs alongside the route, so the light and the sound arrive together. The group is capped at 20 walkers and the outing is open from the age of 8. It is one rendez-vous of the 5th Minutes Bleues, the Côtes d’Armor festival that opens 24 sites of natural and cultural patrimoine in the blue light of dawn or dusk.
La Baie des Livres, salon jeunesse du Pays de Morlaix
The association La Baie des Livres gathers children’s books and illustration at the Roudour hall in Saint-Martin-des-Champs, and its fifteenth edition turns on Gourmandises. An exhibition of Les recettes des contes de fées and another devoted to François Place hang beside the signing stands. Kamishibaï readings, comptines and an Alfajores workshop fill the halls. A Causerie en breton carries the Breton tongue through this Pays de Morlaix fair.
Le Vieux Bourg butter works, Plœuc-L’Hermitage
Butter is the gold of the Breton larder, and at Le Vieux Bourg it is still churned in one farmhouse workshop. Arnaud takes visitors into the production room and, depending on what is being made that day, walks them through the steps that turn milk into refined butter. The round ends at the tasting bench. The flavoured butters carry Breton notes, buckwheat among them, from a farm trade that once topped up the income of the region’s smallholders.
Agnès Pormenté opens her pastel gallery, Paimpol
Agnès Pormenté works in dry pastel, and she opens the gallery where she shows nothing but her own work. Its four exhibition rooms hold about sixty paintings, nearly all of them landscapes of the country around Paimpol, taken in every season. A trained musician, she carries piano technique across into the pastel, and she lets callers watch how she works. Children from six are admitted, and the visit goes ahead only if two people come.
Visite flash: the Bretons and the stone giants
A short mediated sequence at the Musée de Préhistoire de Carnac, turning from the stones themselves to what the Bretons made of them. Between reality and imagination, the mediator shows how the megaliths have inspired artists and advertisers. The museum holds one of the richest prehistoric collections in Europe, with 3000 objects from excavations at Carnac and nearby. The alignments themselves run for 4 kilometres. No booking is needed.
Les secrets du lin à l’hôtel des de Gaspern
Sidonie & Compagnie opens its doors around flax, one sitting of the Semaine du Tourisme Economique et des Savoir-Faire in Guingamp. Visitors push open the doors of the hôtel des de Gaspern, in the heart of the town, where the plant’s many faces are unfolded. Charlotte, a naturopathe working there, draws out what flax offers for wellbeing. The visit closes over a sweet creation that each person makes.
Quand l’Antiquité défie vos sens, à Coriosolis
The ArchéoMusée Coriosolis opens to a small booked group at the close of the blue hour. Its three immersive rooms are met by smell, touch and sound, not by labels. Corseul was the antique capital of the Coriosolites, and the collections come from digs on that territory. A headset sets the visitor beside Lelius, a young coriosolite, at a ceremony in the great sanctuary whose ruins stand on the site.
Hatiao Club: Azou’s secret cabaret, Plouzané
Azou kept a club nobody in her family knew about, and at her death her three grandchildren push its door open on the eve of the funeral. What they find is a cabaret, played by Cie La Lavée in song and spoken récit over an omelette and bread and butter. Mathilde Martinage built it from interviews and collected testimony, so the fiction carries real Breton voices. The Centre culturel François Mitterrand at Plouzané takes it from ten years up.
Rozen Création, the workwear ateliers of Lamballe
CRÉATIONS CANTIN – ROZEN has cut professional apparel in Lamballe for half a century, and opens its ateliers for the Semaines du Tourisme Économique et des Savoir-Faire. The route starts in the design studio and reaches the floor where seamstresses train in the ROZEN savoir-faire. Embroidery and screen printing follow, the benches that personalise each garment. A turn through the shop closes the hour, with the range cut for nurses and cooks.