The Porcelaine declassee workshop at Musee Crozatier introduces young visitors to porcelain through a hands-on format. It connects museum context with making, helping children understand a material, a craft and the value of looking closely at objects.
Topic: events
Vogue de Montrigaud in Valherbasse: Village Festivities
The Vogue de Montrigaud in Valherbasse keeps the village festival form alive over three late-August days. It is a local celebration built around public gathering, shared space and seasonal festivity rather than a single headline attraction.
Les Nuits de Fourvière – 80e anniversaire
Les Nuits de Fourviere turns Lyon’s Roman theatres into one of the region’s great summer stages. Music, theatre, dance and circus share the programme, while the ancient hillside setting gives each evening a scale that feels both monumental and close to the city.
Carnets d’Alpage in Le Grand-Bornand: Artistic Gathering
Carnets d’Alpage gathers artists and sketchbook practice in Le Grand-Bornand, where mountain scenery becomes both subject and studio. The event is less a conventional exhibition than a meeting of drawing, observation and alpine atmosphere.
Journée du Petit Train du Picodon in Dieulefit: Local Legacy
The Journee du Petit Train du Picodon in Dieulefit links local railway memory with the Picodon country around it. Centred on the old station, the day gives visitors a way to read the area through transport heritage, cheese culture and the stories that connect them.
Calf Market in Saint-Laurent-de-Chamousset
The calf market in Saint-Laurent-de-Chamousset is a recurring livestock appointment tied to the rural economy of the Monts du Lyonnais. It remains culturally relevant because it reflects agricultural practice, trading habits and a form of local continuity that weekly produce markets do not always carry.
Marché des Producteurs de Pays in Cusset
Cusset’s Marche des Producteurs de Pays brings local producers to Place Victor-Hugo for a one-day terroir event. Its value is direct and concrete: food, producer contact and a town-centre setting that connects the market to the Vichy area’s everyday food culture.
Goat Festival in Saint-Front
Saint-Front’s Fete de la chevre is a rural summer day built around goats, local produce and agricultural know-how. The programme combines a farmers’ market, animal parade, herding-dog and shearing demonstrations, pony rides and goat walks, with a film on agriculture in the Mezenc Loire Meygal area adding useful local context.
Feu de la Saint Jean in Saint-Restitut: Community Fiesta
Saint-Restitut’s Feu de la Saint Jean is a community evening built around music, dance and the seasonal symbolism of Saint-Jean. The local scale is part of its appeal, placing the event closer to village tradition than to a staged summer show.
Guided Tour of Picodon in Dieulefit: Culinary Insights
This guided Picodon visit in Dieulefit uses the cheese as an entry point into local food heritage. Rather than presenting terroir as a slogan, it places visitors in the landscape and memory of a product closely tied to the Drome hills.