L’Oranger brings early Occitan music from France and Spain into a programme of courtly tunes and folk traditions. Mezzo-soprano Ariane Le Fourmis performs alongside Zuzanna Dubiszewska on traverso and Layal Ramadan on viola da gamba. Pierre Baptiste Brioude-Dhénain completes the ensemble on theorbo and baroque guitar, giving the concert its combination of voice, flute and string instruments.
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Biou Petanque Competition
Pétanque Arboisienne runs its traditional Biou competition in pairs, with four rounds followed by finals. The City of Arbois Trophy heads a prize list that includes hams, restaurant and shopping vouchers, and Arbois wines. A raffle and a rosette weight-guessing game accompany the competition, with food and refreshments available for players and spectators.
Vaslav Cabaret Theatre
Vaslav is Olivier Normand’s flamboyant cabaret-theatre recital, built around a fantastical persona, lavish make-up and sequins. The solo performance explores fluid identities through humour, theatrical transformation and a voice that moves from baritone to countertenor. A shruti box supplies its hypnotic drone as cult songs and popular music pass through the room. Barbara, Grace Jones and David Bowie meet Schubert, West Side Story, Michel Legrand and even the force of a Bizet aria, creating deliberate collisions between genres and eras. Normand treats the stage as a laboratory for character, sound and poetic androgyny beyond the shape of a conventional song recital. Extravagance never stands alone: fantasy and emotion become tools for questioning fixed roles and celebrating the freedom to shift between them.
Prestige Cremant and Hospices Tasting
Veuve Ambal’s audio-guided route follows Crémant de Bourgogne from the ageing cellars through production workshops, with screens explaining the house’s history. The visit shows how traditional-method sparkling wine is made, although the production line is not running during the event. A guided tasting follows: three Crémants and three Burgundy wines, including a Hospices de Beaune cuvée.
Champ Bressan Farm Heritage Days
Guided visits open the Ferme du Champ bressan’s farmhouse during the ecomuseum’s special open days. An exhibition of vintage photographs evokes the interwar world of this Bresse home. A workshop devoted to a photographic technique moves from looking at images to working with the process behind them, combining the farm visit with practical image-making.
Marie-Antoinette Screening
A2c and RegArts include Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette in a festival programme focused on women and cinema. Kirsten Dunst plays the Austrian archduchess sent to France to marry the future Louis XVI, with Jason Schwartzman appearing as the dauphin who becomes king. The film treats its subject freely, following the young royal’s passage from Vienna to Versailles and the pressures surrounding marriage, court life and succession. Coppola’s production competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and received an award from the French Ministry of Education. Presented at the Megarama cinema in Chalon-sur-Saône, the screening places a modern interpretation of a prominent European woman within a regional cultural programme, connecting historical biography, performance and film authorship for local audiences.
Blackcurrant Weekend at Ferme Fruirouge
Ferme Fruirouge explores blackcurrants through three tastings in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits. A savoury aperitif pairs kir bourguignon and cassis condiments with cheese, charcuterie and gougères. A copper-pot workshop visit follows family recipes into preserves, while the final tasting ranges from buds and hydrosol to crème de cassis, with stories of the farm’s organic orchards and Ribesthèque collection.
Longchaumois Organic Fair
Humeur Bio’s organic fair in Longchaumois brings local producers and craftspeople together around the theme of building your own home. Talks, documentaries and environmental activities accompany the market. POKOR LER performs Maloya and Sega, blending standards from Réunion’s Creole repertoire with original compositions alongside the fair’s sustainable-living programme.
Heritage Days at Chablis Wine City
At the Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne in Chablis, European Heritage Days centre on an exhibition devoted to Burgundy’s wine history. The multisensory route explains the region’s vineyards and wine culture, with both self-guided access and guided interpretation of the displays. A tasting of Burgundy wine accompanies admission, connecting objects and historical material with the flavours discussed along the route. Younger visitors can use an activity booklet designed to turn the exhibition into a structured family exploration, with an accompanying adult. Beyond the galleries, the terrace and garden host picnic-style refreshments and tabletop games, so the programme combines museum interpretation, regional wine knowledge and informal outdoor time at the Chablis site for mixed-age groups.
Arbois Wine and Pasteur Excursion
Arbois provides the setting for an excursion that pairs Jura wine culture with the life and work of Louis Pasteur. At Cave de la Reine Jeanne, a listed Gothic cellar associated with a daughter of the Dukes of Burgundy frames a tasting of local wines. Château Pécauld houses the Vine and Wine Museum, where reconstructed vineyards, cellar displays and production methods explain vin jaune, vin de paille and Macvin traditions. The Maison de Louis Pasteur preserves family rooms, furnishings, a billiard table and the scientist’s restored laboratory, linking private life with his research on vaccination and pasteurisation. Together, these visits present Arbois as both the historic capital of Jura wines and a place where medieval architecture, vineyard practice and scientific heritage remain visible.