Fete de la Sardine in Saint-Guenole ties food, harbour life and Breton music into one port celebration. Grilled sardines, sea shanties by Gwen Aod, the Stones Land Pipe Band and a grand fest-noz with Jean-Charles Guichen, War-Sav and Zonj give the event a strong maritime and dance identity. It also supports memory work around the Square Tower, rooting festivity in place.
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Galerie Metairie Visit
Galerie Metairie in Scaer brings together minerals, historic cameras, paintings, photographs and collections assembled across different fields of interest. Breton costumes give the display a strong regional anchor, preserving forms of dress and material detail within a wider cabinet of curiosities. The unusual juxtapositions reward close looking and show how a small local gallery can hold fragments of social, technical and visual memory.
Pardon de Sainte Barbe
Pardon de Sainte Barbe belongs to the Breton chapel tradition, where procession, fountain and mass form a compact sacred route. In Plouharnel, the gathering makes the bond between local devotion and landscape visible around Sainte Barbe. Its importance is not in spectacle but in continuity: a community repeating a gesture of faith, place and memory.
Jeanne Malivel Craft Conference
This conference places Jeanne Malivel at the centre of the Breton applied arts revival. Historian Olivier Levasseur examines her projects and the role of artisans and industrial partners, often from the Côtes-d’Armor, in renewing regional forms. Malivel’s work connects modern design and craft production with the search for a distinctly Breton visual language.
Sonneurs Exhibition Guided Visit
This guided exhibition visit focuses on sonneurs, the biniou and bombarde players who have long set Breton gatherings in motion. Paintings, photographs, drawings, engravings and sculptures reveal how artists responded to the musicians’ sound, presence and social role. Seen together in Le Faouet, the works connect instruments, costume and collective memory, showing why these paired players became such enduring figures in Brittany’s visual culture.
Cuisine Breizh Workshop
This Cuisine Breizh workshop links cooking, tasting and book culture through Fanny Le Hir’s Breton recipes. Seaweed tartare, seaweed butter and Breton cake place the session between shore ingredients and household baking memory. Hosted in Primelin, it is a small but precise food heritage event, showing how edible sea plants and familiar cakes can carry regional identity.
L’Assemblee des Bourdons
L’Assemblée des Bourdons draws from Breton culture and dance, especially traditions of Upper Brittany, to create a contemporary choreographic work. The Pied en Sol company works with breath, step and voice, supported by deep viola da gamba sound and traditional singing. Inherited dance is treated as a living vocabulary, open to new movement, sound and stage forms.
Miss Bretagne Election
The Miss Bretagne election is a regional stage event built around representation, performance and the public image of Brittany. Candidates from the four Breton departments appear before the audience in a production tied to the wider Miss France route. The evening turns regional representation into a public performance, selecting the candidate who will carry Brittany’s name onto the national stage.
Huitres Voiles et Compagnie
Huîtres, Voiles et Compagnie gathers Locmariaquer around oyster farming, traditional boats and harbour hospitality. Crews arrive to oysters, bread, butter and white wine, while sea shanties, Breton music, folk dance and an oyster-shucking contest animate the port. Growers and the festival committee serve shellfish, far breton and other local dishes, turning maritime work and Morbihan food culture into a waterfront celebration.
Gouel Sant Roch Pardon
Gouel Sant Roch links a Catholic pardon with Breton village celebration at Saint-Roch chapel. The rite moves from mass to the fountain, where small fern crosses recall the hymn dedicated to Saint Roch. Mignoned Sant Roch frames the day with food, craft stalls, fest-deiz and the Kelc’h Keltieg Rostren circle, keeping Plounévez-Quintin’s devotional and dance traditions in the same gathering.