Salbris’s historical festival centres its Roman programme on the Year of the Four Emperors. Re-enactment groups and stunt performers stage episodes of conflict, while a historical banquet introduces food associated with antiquity. Nataverne and Prima Nocta provide music after the meal, bringing performance and reconstructed Roman life into the festival.
Topic: events
Grand PianO Festival in Orléans: A Musical Celebration
Grand PianO brings twenty performances to indoor and outdoor venues across Orléans. Classical music shares the programme with jazz, pop, soul and electronic music. The fourth edition distributes these different approaches to the piano across the city, combining concert halls and open-air settings within the same festival.
Festival International des Jardins 2026
At the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the Festival International des Jardins operates as a laboratory for contemporary garden design. Landscape architects, designers and multidisciplinary teams from around the world turn bold proposals into more than twenty selected projects, joined by invited Cartes Vertes. Around thirty experimental gardens make the estate a field of comparison, where planting, structure, imagination and ecological thought can be read side by side. The current edition takes garden cinema as its theme, inviting designers to translate the language and atmosphere of film into living landscapes. Established practitioners appear alongside emerging names, reinforcing the festival’s role as both showcase and incubator. The garden becomes a temporary work of art and a testing ground for new ways of seeing nature, never mere decoration.
Christiane Sand Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Artistic
Musée Serge Delaveau presents paintings by Christiane Sand in Gargilesse-Dampierre. The exhibition connects her visual work with her interest in George Sand’s literary heritage. Different themes within the paintings form a contemporary artistic tribute in a village associated with the writer, placing image-making beside literary remembrance.
Nohant Festival Chopin in Sainte-Sévère: Piano Evening
Pianist Gabriel Durliat performs at the Château de Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre as part of the Nohant Festival Chopin. The recital takes the festival beyond its home at Nohant to another venue in Berry. Piano performance and the château setting come together in a concert belonging to the festival’s wider regional programme.
Fête de la terre in Massay: 1950s Farm Life
Massay’s Fête de la terre revisits farming practices of the mid-twentieth century. Horses and oxen take part in agricultural demonstrations, alongside traditional threshing and an old-fashioned ploughing competition. Craft and farmers’ stalls accompany models, vintage tractors, vehicles and stationary engines, making rural tools and working techniques central to the gathering.
George Sand and Ecology in Ardentes: Literary Exploration
Astrid Jeanson from the Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire discusses George Sand’s relationship with nature at Ardentes media library. Her talk considers the writer’s literary work, drawings and collections of plants and butterflies. The museum-led presentation asks how Sand’s observations of the natural world relate to ideas about ecology.
Martiz’agri in Martizay: Farming Festival
Martiz’agri gathers farm animals, livestock equipment and agricultural demonstrations in Martizay. Sheep and shepherd-dog activities accompany machinery displays and games for children. A local producers’ market and on-site food complete the programme, with folk music joining the practical demonstrations of farming and rural life.
Campagne(s) in Saint-Lactencin: Literary Tribute
Jean-Yves Patte’s Campagne(s) brings actor Anne Trémolières and musician Sandrine Charluet to the Manoir des Fauves in Saint-Lactencin. Texts by George Sand, Raymonde Vincent and dialect writer Betty Jacquey shape the performance. Literature and music connect the three writers through their attention to countryside and place.