Escapades Ligériennes arms the toue cabanée that casts off from the Port de Combleux and lands its passengers on a wild island. A nature guide names the edible plants growing there, each by taste, property and use. Eric, the pilot, spends the crossing on the history of the marine fluviale and on the fleuve royal seen from its own current. The walk closes with a tasting, and the boat takes twelve people at most.
Topic: events
Artistes amateurs à la bibliothèque Maurice Genevoix
The Bibliothèque Maurice Genevoix in Brinon-sur-Sauldre gives its rooms over to amateur artists from the area. Painting, sculpture and ceramics are shown together, chosen to put local creativity and craft forward. Several distinct artistic worlds follow one another along the way round. Entry is free, and the Office de Tourisme Intercommunal Sauldre et Sologne carries the show among its own dates.
Paris-Berry / Berry-Paris: six artists of the in-between
Six visual artists answer a question George Sand lived out: does shuttling between Paris and the Berry produce a place that is nowhere? Their works run from the old oak of the Maitres sonneurs to journeys by train. Danielle Autissier-Vasseur, BerTrand, Catherine Autissier-Maître, Delphine Dewachter and Elise Blanchard show in the Hall des Bains-Douches at Lignières. Phalène-Arts pluriels presents the exhibition, and admission is free.
Canal de la Sauldre bridge restoration
The Maison de la Forêt hosts an exhibition on restoring the Canal de la Sauldre bridges at Brinon-sur-Sauldre. The display follows work to preserve these local structures. Five bridges have stone walls and brick parapets, weakened by theft and falling masonry. The canal once carried marl to improve Sologne farmland. Its restoration connects the exhibition to the agricultural history of this waterway.
Salon du Livre d’Art et d’Histoire, Cheverny
The Salon du Livre d’Art et d’Histoire in Cheverny brings authors, historians and publishers together around writing about the past. Visitors encounter books and authors through talks and activities for children and adults. The salon is supported through Les saisons culturelles ligériennes de Marcilly-en-Gault, linking this literary gathering to Loir-et-Cher’s cultural life.
Conférence : La grande histoire du luxe à Châteauroux
Jérôme Descoux, a curator at the Archives départementales de l’Indre, unfolds the story that made Châteauroux and the land around it a country of luxury. Savoir-faire and innovation are the threads he follows, drawn from the departmental records he looks after. The talk is given at Le Comptoir Local, the Châteauroux Berry Tourisme counter in the town centre. Entry is by prior booking, within a run of autumn visits and talks in the town.
L’âme musicale de George Sand in Bourges
George Sand’s writings on music become a concert-reading with the Paris Mozart Orchestra. Suliane Brahim narrates alongside mezzo-soprano Margaux Poguet. The programme joins Beethoven and Pauline Viardot with Reflets du Berry by Philippe Macé. Cornemuse and vielle à roue bring the Berry’s traditional sound into the orchestra, while FLORE’s photographs accompany the readings.
Grande fête d’automne du Gâtinais à Villemandeur
The Comité des Fêtes de Villemandeur fills the Domaine de Lisledon for an autumn day of trading and rural know-how in the Gâtinais. Brocante dealers and private sellers lay out antiques and collectors’ stalls, no pitch booked in advance. A country market and a stall show of local artisanat sit beside them, and apples go through a pressoir à l’ancienne. Orgues de Barbarie and mechanical music sound across the park, and hot boudin is served.
Fête de la Pomme à Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard
Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard gives its salle polyvalente over to the apple. Juice is made on the spot from the fruit, beignes are offered for tasting and for sale, and the catering sticks to the same theme. A marché fermier and a présentation de métiers anciens run alongside, so old rural trades are worked in front of the crowd. Wooden games, pony rides and archery keep the children busy, while Les Mauvais Garçons du Loiret provide the music.