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Festival ADN (Art Dans la Nature) au Bois des Rêves
Open-air land-art and nature festival in the provincial Bois des Rêves park.
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Promote regional tourism and local cultural experiences through an immersive land-art festival that attracts art enthusiasts and nature lovers to a provincial destination.
- Behind-the-scenes artist spotlights and land-art installation previews
- Local food & craft vendors participating in the festival
- Family-friendly nature art activities and workshop schedules
- Photo-worthy installation locations for social media discovery
Programme
Festival ADN celebrates summer with a family-friendly afternoon focused on ecological transition, wellbeing and living together, inviting visitors to encounter nature and the arts. The programme features spectacles, stories, workshops, processions and surprises, with visitors wandering from activity to activity from 13h30 until the closing show at 18h.
Line-up
Musée de l'Eau et de la Fontaine (aquatic sounds)Cie Balltazar (Festa Colletta)Marie Fripiat l'Art-Tisane and Fabrice George (sung circles)Circus Katoen (Grasshoppers)"label": "13h30–17h30","detail": "Open access to continuous activities: aquatic music, wood carving, natural butterfly art, grimages/face painting, and more (no reservation needed, drop in anytime)"},"label": "14h30 & 16h (30 min each)","detail": "Sung and danced circles at the forest heart with Marie Fripiat l'Art-Tisane and Fabrice George"},"label": "13h45 & 16h (45 min each)","detail": "Grasshoppers cirque performance with Circus Katoen"},"label": "Throughout afternoon","detail": "Processions and mobile performances, including Festa Colletta (colourful farmers on pedalo-cargo with juggling, acrobatics, dance, music)"},"label": "18h","detail": "Closing spectacle (final show of the day)"- Magic aquatic sounds from the Musée de l'Eau et de la Fontaine – explore a unique sonic world where water becomes music with amazing instruments (ages 2+)
- Festa Colletta with three colourful farmers celebrating harvest with juggling, acrobatics, dance and music from a pedalo-cargo transformed into a mobile stage
- Sung and danced circles at the forest heart at 14h30 and 16h – collective world songs with simple gestures forming a living mandala honouring nature
- Creative natural wood-carving and a monumental collective butterfly artwork using elements gathered on-site at the forest heart
- Grasshoppers cirque performance (ages 8+) exploring nature's resilience and human role using grass as a play partner
- Watch for processions happening throughout the afternoon