Plume et pierres de Sand presents stained-glass work by Stéphanie Bidaud in Gargilesse-Dampierre. The Creuse Valley artist takes part in the tribute to George Sand through glass, colour and crafted panels. The exhibition brings a contemporary local craft practice into the village’s wider programme devoted to the writer.
Topic: events
Lentil Green Festival in Vatan: Taste & Celebrate
Vatan’s Fête de la lentille verte du Berry puts the region’s emblematic green lentil at the centre of public life. Tastings allow visitors to understand its culinary character, while new-crop sales create direct contact with the people who cultivate and prepare it. A farmers’ and crafts market broadens the celebration to other local products and forms of making, giving the festival a strong rural economy dimension. Street music and parade floats carry the subject beyond the stalls and into the town, joining food culture with collective spectacle. Jérôme Maugis contributes a stage show devoted to Patrick Bruel, adding a familiar popular-music reference to the programme. The festival’s identity remains grounded in the lentil itself: a Berry product encountered through taste, knowledge, trade and the community that celebrates its harvest.
Animal Photography Exhibition in Villedieu-sur-Indre: Local,
Local photographer Alain Nicault presents animal photographs at the Villedieu-sur-Indre multimedia library. The exhibition concentrates on wildlife through images of different animal species. It gives the photographer’s work a public setting in his local area, with the library hosting this encounter between photographic practice and observation of animals.
Marché des Producteurs in Yzeures-sur-Creuse: Fresh Tastes
Yzeures-sur-Creuse’s Marché des Producteurs brings local producers together for direct sales and tastings. Food can be bought from the people who produce it, with sampling forming part of the market. The gathering centres on regional ingredients and prepared goods, placing food shopping and tasting alongside conversations with the sellers.
Festival de Bouche et de Blues in Chédigny: Heritage Feast
Chédigny’s Festival de Bouche et de Blues brings Touraine dishes together with live blues performances. Rillettes, goat’s cheese and beuchelle tourangelle are among roughly forty culinary offerings from which meals can be assembled. Food stalls and concerts share the village setting, putting the regional cooking programme alongside its musical bill.
Foire Bovine in Saint-Benoit-du-Sault: Livestock Fair
Saint-Benoît-du-Sault’s Foire Bovine brings more than 140 Limousin and Charolais cattle together for presentation and sale. Breeders receive awards during the livestock fair. A communal meal and an artisan market accompany the agricultural programme, joining breeding, rural trade and local food within the same gathering.
Exposition ‘Promenade autour de mon village’ in Gargilesse
At the Maison de George Sand in Gargilesse, Atelier du Loup presents engravings in tribute to Alexandre Manceau. The artists’ collective occupies the house’s temporary exhibition room. Printmaking connects the contemporary works with Manceau’s own practice as an engraver and with the artistic circle associated with George Sand.
Sidiailles Summer Market: Traditional Dance Evening
Sidiailles’s summer market gathers producers and craftspeople beneath the chestnut trees opposite the church. Dédé and friends lead a traditional ball alongside the stalls. A pottery workshop is available for children by reservation, with snacks and refreshments supporting the gathering of food, making and folk dance.