When the days are getting shorter and the weather is damp and gloomy, a few leafed pages by the fire are welcome to brighten up the evenings. And to stock up on Books, the Châteaulin Book Fair will be held on Sunday November 17, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Coatigrac'h space.
1 Multiple styles
Organized jointly by the municipal library, the Maison qui push and the Gwennili du Faou bookstore, this day includes meetings with 52 authors for a signing and discussion session, workshops for children and activities for a wide audience from the youngest readers to literature lovers. There are many authors to meet on site and the styles vary: adventure or detective novels, documentaries, poetry, youth, illustration… Local writers are favored to put the territory in the spotlight.
2 Authors with news
For Régis Lemersier, sales manager of Locus Solus editions, this collaboration with the Châteaulin Book Fair is completely “natural even if we devote ourselves to it a little less because of our schedule”. The Châteaulin publishing house will present five local authors who are current: Gaëlle Berthelet (youth), Pascal Aumasson (Seiz Breur), Yves Cotten (Haïku), Jean-Jacques Grall (maritime history) and Caroline Troin (literature). For Amélie Valsangiacomo, bookseller co-organizer at Faou, the selection of works is based on several criteria: “The authors must be relevant during the year and be published. It is important for us to promote the book chain. For self-published authors, we work with books on deposit.”
3 Creative animations
As for events, on Caroline Troin's stand, the public is invited to create a mobile around the theme “Meeting others”. As for Hervé Eléouet, public poet from Finistère, he will play with words, absurd and offbeat, on his Adelaide typewriter and compose poems on themes chosen by visitors.
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4 Poetic and offbeat exhibitions
The show will also be the venue for exhibitions which this year will host the photos of Samsofy, an Ardèche visual artist, famous for his creative and scenic universe of Lego figurines under the influence of his Geek culture and whose photo exhibition has brightened up the edges of Alder all summer.
For his part, Brucéro, illustrator of fairies, elves, princesses, knights and other korrigans, will bring to life the Celtic and poetic imagination of a motley fauna of fantastic creatures. The poets will not be forgotten with the photos of Aïcha Dupoy de Guitard who, capturing oceanic, sylvan or mineral elements, restores nature and attempts to reveal its magic. Hervé Eléouet will present his vision of the clothespin struck down by love, the holly leaves which need to go to the hairdresser, without forgetting the exhibition of Haiku poems which were the subject of the poetry competition of the city this year.
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5 Workshops for children
Two workshops will be aimed at children. The first, between 10:15 a.m. and 11 a.m., around “Coq le Rico” for children aged 4 and over, will be hosted by illustrator Gaëlle Berthelet (registration by email: [email protected]). The second is scheduled at 4 p.m. around the figure of “Nathan the Seagull” for children aged 8 and over, with the same illustrator (registration by email with the library).
Practical
Châteaulin Book Fair, at the Coatigrac'h space, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Free entry and free workshops by reservation (registrations by email to [email protected]). Snacks on site and reading area with a reading hut.
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