Gwennaëlle Lemaire-Debarnot leads a choral workshop for Les Milliaires in Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre. The theme Alliances spans repertoire from the Middle Ages to the present, selected with the conductor. Group teaching and sectional work lead towards a final concert, alongside the festival’s programme in George Sand country.
Topic: events
Organic Fair in Neuvy Saint-Sépulchre: Sustainable Delights
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.
Leisure Park Inauguration in Chemillé-sur-Indrois: Festive V
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.
J’embrasse les deux gros diamants in Saint-Martin-d’Auxigny:
Puzzle Centre stages exchanges between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert at Square du Marronnier in Saint-Martin-d’Auxigny. The performance takes its title from their correspondence: J’embrasse les deux gros diamants qui vous ornent la trompette. Their letters become a spoken dialogue, bringing the writers’ relationship into a theatrical setting.
Gargilesse-Dampierre Gourmet Market: Local Delicacies
Gargilesse-Dampierre’s gourmet market brings local producers together around food and a shared meal. Products can be sampled and bought directly from the people who prepare or grow them. The gathering places tasting at the centre of the market, with a meal providing another way to encounter the regional produce on offer.
Gourmet Market in Mouhet: Local Producers Showcase
Around fifteen local producers take part in Mouhet’s gourmet market in the village square. Each producer offers prepared dishes that can be eaten on site. Food stalls and tables bring the meal into the square, allowing the products sold at the market to be tasted where they are presented by their producers.
Fêtes Franco-Écossaises in Aubigny-sur-Nère: Scottish Celebre
Aubigny-sur-Nère’s Fêtes Franco-Écossaises celebrates the town’s historical relationship with Scotland. Scottish clans, pipe bands, a Grand Tattoo and a parade take part in the gathering. Ceremonies at the Auld Alliance monument and the French Pipe Band Championships connect the musical programme with the Stuart town’s shared heritage.
Photographic Exhibition in Nohant: Presence and Absence
Je suis dans des mondes étranges presents photographs made during FLORE’s residency at Nohant, the home closely associated with George Sand. Waxed silver prints, watercolor prints and one-off works on lithographic stone give the series a deliberately material presence. Across the house and garden, the artist studies presence and absence through the remembered separation of Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Guided movement through those spaces lets architecture, landscape and photographic surface carry parts of the narrative. The historic home becomes an active witness to intimacy, distance and memory as rooms and paths enter the photographic sequence. FLORE’s residency links contemporary image-making with Nohant’s literary and musical history, creating a focused encounter between photography, place and two figures whose relationship still shapes the site’s cultural imagination.
Laissez Verdure Exhibition in Bourges: Artistic Reflection
Laissez verdure begins with George Sand’s final words and treats them as an ecological challenge with meaning beyond a commemorative slogan. Young artists from ENSA Bourges ask how that brief phrase might speak to the environmental questions of the present. Art historian Stéphanie Jamet and artist Vanessa Fanuele shape the project with studio managers Hugo Bonnet-Massip and Jessie Morin, giving the work a genuinely collective authorship. The exhibition unfolds as a tale that looks forward, captured in the phrase Il sera une fois. By joining Sand’s language with emerging artistic practice, the project makes Bourges a place where literary memory can generate new images of nature, responsibility and possible shared futures.
George Sand Tribute in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Art Display
Ce que disent les arbres brings paintings and drawings by Christiane Sand and Louis Jourdan to Gargilesse-Dampierre. Nature provides the subject of the works in this tribute to George Sand. The exhibition places the two artists’ interpretations within a village associated with the writer, joining contemporary images and literary remembrance.