George Sand wrote a world where women, long pushed to the margins of legends, guard free speech and an invisible realm. Les Poupées Russes bring that writing into the room as a theatricalised, musical reading held by two actresses and a musician. Reading, song and dance braid until the border between real and fantastic stops holding. The evening joins a trail laid by the médiathèque départementale for the hundred and fiftieth year of her death.
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Empreintes et Paysages at Gargilesse
Empreintes et Paysages brings together acrylic painting and gum bichromate printing in a tribute to George Sand at Gargilesse-Dampierre. The pairing places painting beside a non-silver photographic process associated with historic image making. Delajot and Mengual approach landscape through distinct materials, bringing pigment and photographic chemistry into the temporary exhibition room.
En attendant George Sand
En attendant George Sand introduces genealogy by inviting participants to investigate the writer’s origins and descendants. Hosted at the Équinoxe media library in Châteauroux, the workshop turns a famous literary figure into a family-history case that can be followed through names, relationships and documentary traces. Participants learn how genealogical questions are formed and how a lineage can be reconstructed without losing sight of the people behind the records. The approach complements the libraries’ wider exploration of Sand by concentrating on kinship across generations, names and documented relationships. It also gives local history a practical dimension, linking Châteauroux’s collections with a figure deeply embedded in Berry memory. As part of the heritage programme, the session offers a methodical but approachable encounter with archives, ancestry and the construction of a biographical narrative.
Heritage Days in Coeur du Jura
Across Arbois, Poligny and Salins-les-Bains, heritage visits link salt-making, Comté and the life of Louis Pasteur. The programme ranges from the Grande Saline’s underground gallery to cheese dairies and Poligny’s ramparts. Lithography introductions, stained-glass demonstrations and encounters with heritage specialists bring working skills into the picture, alongside concerts and theatre.
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.