Depending on the dates of your stay at Domaine de la Barre, you can participate in many festivals in the region.
They are all located within a maximum of an hour’s drive, and some are just a few minutes away!
- In May
Ah? – Location: Parthenay and Gâtine Festival of theatre and street arts
- In June
Les arts osés – Location: Thouars Festival around Urban cultures, organizing concerts (Reggae, Rap, House, Urban music…), and amateur practice workshops.
- In July
The Festival Ludique International de Parthenay (FLIP) – Location: Parthenay 11 days of games, animations, and sharing throughout the city where players, publishers, and game creators of all forms meet.
Le rêve de l’aborigène – Location: Airvault This festival welcomes traditional music of indigenous peoples and highlights some of their instruments and techniques (didgeridoo, jaw harp, overtone singing).
De bouche à oreille – Location: Parthenay For more than 30 years, in the heart of the medieval city, this festival of traditional music mixes unclassifiable concerts and original and unpublished creations.
Music and dances of the world – Location: Airvault Meetings around world cultures, world music, and traditional dances.
- In July and August
Les Nuits Romanes – throughout the region Throughout the summer, more than 150 free evenings to discover the Romanesque heritage of Poitou-Charentes. Evenings, performances by troops and orchestras, illumination of buildings.
- In August:
Les murs ont des oreilles (The walls have ears) – Location: Airvault and surroundings More than 60 classical music concerts in more than 40 locations (churches, castles, barns…) combining music, heritage, and encounters.
Lyric evenings – Location: Sanxay Every year, open-air opera in the Roman amphitheater of Sanxay.
Lumières du Baroque – Location: Celles-sur-Belle Baroque music festival allowing the discovery of unknown instruments, hosting painting exhibitions, activities for children, and of course splendid concerts.
- In September
Eco festival ça marche – Location: Parthenay Since 2011, this festival has been showing social, economic, and ecological pathways for an ecological and solidarity transition.
- In October
Eclats de voix en bocage bressuirais – Location: Bressuire and surroundings A rich program of concerts and choir competitions.
International Ornithological Film Festival (FIFO) – Location: Ménigoute Created in 1985, FIFO is one of the world’s major wildlife cinema events. Besides the directors and producers presenting their films, you will meet many wildlife artists: sculptors, painters, authors.