Depending on the dates of your stay at Domaine de la Barre, you can take part of many festivals in the region. They are all located within about an hour’s journey at most and some are only a few minutes away!
- In May
Ah ? – Location : Parthenay and Gâtine
Festival of theater and street arts
- In June
Les arts osés (the daring arts) – Location : Thouars
Festival around urban cultures, organizing concerts (Reggae, Rap, House, Urban music…), and amateur practice workshops.
- In July
Parthenay International Game Festival / Festival Ludique International de Parthenay (FLIP) – Location : Parthenay
11 days of games, entertainment, sharing throughout the city where players, publishers and game creators meet in all their forms.
Le rêve de l’aborigène (the native’s dream) – Location : Airvault
This festival hosts the traditional music of indigenous peoples and honors some of their instruments and techniques (didgeridoo, harp harp, overtone singing)
De bouche à oreille (from mouth to ear) – Location : Parthenay
For more than 30 years, in the heart of the medieval city, this traditional music festival has been mixing unclassifiable concerts and original and unpublished creations.
Musiques et danses du monde (world music and dances) – Location : Airvault
Meetings around world cultures, world music and traditional dances.
- In July and August
Les Nuits Romanes (Roman Nights) – throughout the region
Throughout the summer, more than 150 free evenings to discover the Romanesque heritage of Poitou-Charentes. Evenings, performances by troupes and orchestras, lighting of buildings.
- In August
Les murs ont des oreilles (walls have ears) – Location : Airvault and surrounding
More than 60 classical music concerts in more than 40 places (churches, castles, barns…) mixing music, heritage and meetings.
Soirées lyriques (lyrical evenings) – Location : Sanxay
Every year, open-air opera in the Roman Amphitheater at Sanxay.
Lumières du Baroque (Baroque Lights) – Location : Celles-sur-Belle
Baroque music festival allowing the discovery of little-known instruments, hosting exhibitions of paintings, activities for children and of course splendid concerts.
- In September
Eco festival ça marche – Location : Parthenay
Since 2011, this festival shows the ecological, social and economic ways for an ecological and solidarity transition.
- In October
Eclats de voix en bocage bressuirais (Bursts of voice in Bressuirais bocage) – Location : Bressuire et alentours
Rich program of concerts and choir competitions
International Animal Film Festival (Festival international du film animalier) – Location : Ménigoute
Created in 1985, this festival is one of the major world events in animal cinema. In addition to the directors and producers who come to present their films, you will meet many animal artists: sculptors, painters, authors.
