Résonance places works from the Frac Franche-Comté alongside the collections of the Musée de l’Abbaye in Saint-Claude. Paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings connect artists including Picasso and Braque with Djamel Tatah, Silvia Bächli and Xavier Veilhan. A dedicated display explores Josette Coras’s engravings, drawings and paintings inspired by the landscapes and heritage of the Jura.
Topic: events
Coulée du Mont d’Or in Pontarlier: Local Tastes
Mont d’Or takes centre stage in Pontarlier at a feast hosted by Julien Locatelli. Cheese tasting, a wrapping workshop and a Mont d’Or quiz explore the product through flavour, practical skills and play. Cow milking and vintage tractors bring farming into the programme, while wooden games, drawing and a giant slide give families further ways to take part.
Atelier Patois in Saint-Germain-du-Bois: Storytelling Events
Short stories and legends form the repertoire of Atelier patois in Saint-Germain-du-Bois. Occasional improvisation gives the sessions room to move beyond a fixed telling. The gathering recreates the atmosphere of shared evenings from the past, bringing remembered tales and the traditions surrounding their telling into a convivial setting.
Farmers’ Market & Barbecues in Dole: Local Flavor
Marché de producteurs & Barbecues Paysans brings local producers and craftspeople together in Dole. Shoppers can buy food at the stalls and eat it at the barbecue tables, with benches provided for the shared meal. Concerts accompany the market, organised by Rendez-vous saveurs bio et savoir-faire in partnership with Arts tout terrain and with municipal support.
Marché bio de Tarragnoz in Besançon: Organic Market
Marché bio de Tarragnoz is Besançon’s only weekly farmers’ market devoted entirely to organic produce. It is organised by the Village Tarragnoz association, which brings local residents together with organic producers from the area. The association also runs a wider programme of events alongside its market activity.
Ribesthèque in Nuits-Saint-Georges: Liqueur Tasting
Fruirouge’s Ribesthèque centres on Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne IGP Bio en Sélection Parcellaire, an organic blackcurrant liqueur made with fruit from selected plots. The Olivier family presents rare cuvées from its collection in a historic cellar. Tasting across vintages explores the liqueur’s concentration and the character of its terroir.
Sand Flaubert Conference in Saint-Palais: Literary Dialogue
Sand Flaubert, une amitié féconde enters the private and intellectual dialogue between two major writers through a lecture-reading by Georges Buisson. Their letters carry literary debate, personal confidences and sincere tenderness, revealing a relationship sustained despite markedly different temperaments. Sand, the celebrated writer rooted at Nohant, and Flaubert, associated with Croisset, tested ideas against one another while maintaining a deep mutual regard. Buisson’s adapted presentation allows the correspondence to speak with dramatic immediacy without losing its historical texture. In Saint-Palais, the reading connects this wide literary exchange to Berry and to Sand’s lived geography. What emerges is not a sequence of biographical facts but a friendship built in language, where criticism, humour and care illuminate how two writers thought about art, work and one another.
Exposition “Raconte-moi George Sand” in Gargilesse-Dampierre
Raconte-moi George Sand presents the writer through drawings made by children from many parts of the world. Their images explore Sand as a woman, author and free spirit, while also responding to her ideas, passions, heroines, heroes and close relationship with nature. Contributions from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean create a deliberately plural portrait, showing how a Berry writer can be reimagined far beyond France. The exhibition gives the children’s point of view full weight and never asks them to imitate an adult historical account. Literature meets visual imagination as each drawing selects a detail, character or principle that feels worth carrying forward. In Gargilesse-Dampierre, a place strongly linked to Sand, this international chorus gains a local anchor and offers an unusually direct way to see cultural memory pass between generations.
George Sand Exhibition in Lignières: A Local Tribute
Local artists, residents and associations contribute objects, paintings and photographs to this George Sand exhibition in Lignières. Documents and loans from the community place the writer alongside Berry’s everyday heritage. The display brings together artistic responses and historical material from the territory associated with her rural novels.