The two local groups Cœurs à Chœurs and Corps Accords fill the salle des fêtes at Pouligny-Saint-Pierre with a free show in three parts. One sings French chanson, the other dances the traditional repertoire. The pair also open the hall earlier for music and dance workshops. A bar serves the interval, and whoever wants to stay ends the night on a shared picnic with the singers, players and dancers.
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Concert Brahms au Château de Villechauvon
A programme dedicated to Johannes Brahms brings Paul Zientara and pianist Arthur Hinnewinkel to the Château de Villechauvon. Patricia Alfred’s exhibition accompanies the concert. The house also welcomes artists in residence through Arts au Château de Villechauvon. Set in the Champagne Berrichonne near Vatan, it maintains a music salon within a six-hectare park.
Halloween au château des Comtes du Perche
The town of Nogent-le-Rotrou and its library bring a Halloween programme to the Château des Comtes du Perche. Families can explore the Mission Hôtel Dieu game booklet or join an escape game and outdoor laser tag. Storytelling sessions accompany the Super Chouette show and a puppet workshop, while a medieval play course and face painting add further activities around the castle.
Anaïs Cassiers à la collégiale Saint-Sylvain de Levroux
Before the Lisztomanias open at Châteauroux, the collégiale Saint-Sylvain in Levroux hosts a recital by Anaïs Cassiers. She plays without an interval, on the themes of water and contemplation. The programme sets Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este by Franz Liszt beside Une barque sur l’océan by Maurice Ravel and a Polonaise-Fantaisie by Frédéric Chopin. Cassiers trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, in Olivier Gardon’s class.
Vignobles en Scène : le Sacré Banquet aux caves de l’abbaye
Vignobles en Scène brings a banquet to Bourgueil, inside the former cellars of the Royal Abbey. Workshops open the evening and set the five senses to work before anyone sits down. At the table a single ingredient, cheese, is measured against wines picked to show the five terroirs of the Bourgueil vineyard. The abbey rooms, used the rest of the year for shows, exhibitions and its own cinema, become the dining hall.
George Sand et ses hôtes à Nohant
Rythme et Expression ends each year with a staged tribute to an author, after evenings built around Boris Vian, Colette, Charles Aznavour and Marcel Pagnol. This time the subject is George Sand, 150 years after her death. The show covers the span of that life, and it plays at Nohant-Vic, the village where Sand spent most of hers. It sits inside the commemoration the Indre and the Cher devote to the writer of the Berry. Admission is free.
Transforme ton bâtiment en oeuvre d’art à Vicq-sur-Nahon
The travelling Micro-Folie of the Communauté de Communes Écueillé – Valençay sets up in the salle du conseil at Vicq-sur-Nahon. It belongs to the Journées de l’architecture, on the theme «Réhabiliter, bâtir l’avenir». Children from six upwards and adults draw one collaborative sketch, giving new life to the buildings nearby. Windows are redrawn after Van Gogh, facades after Picasso, figures after Munch, in pencil, paint and recycled materials.
Chartres, douze arrêts sur mémoire: the atelier Aubert
Twelve large prints line an open-air walk through the centre of Chartres, drawn from the atelier Aubert, whose photographer caught the city and its inhabitants at the start of the last century. Many of these images had never been shown. Each panel sets a street, a square or a corner of the cathedral surroundings beside what stands there now, from wartime damage to rebuilt quarters. The city invites passers-by to argue with its own memory.
GEORGE : la tapisserie hommage à George Sand
A single woven panel, the longest ever made on an Aubusson loom, runs the length of the musée Bertrand in Châteauroux. Françoise Pétrovitch designed it as a tribute to George Sand, and the Cité internationale de la tapisserie d’Aubusson unveiled the finished cloth. Its making took more than eight thousand hours at the loom. The museum has the first showing of the piece anywhere.
Plein Patin : a Loire bal trad with bagpipe and banjo
Plein Patin is a trio that plays for dancing, and its repertoire follows the territories the Loire runs through. Elise Kusmeruck’s violin leads the dance, Pierre Blavette’s bagpipes and whistles give it edge, and Vincent Sirote’s banjo sets the pulse; all three sing. The set is announced as a bal traditionnel for all comers. Stomp boxes under their feet keep the floor moving, and children under twelve come in free.