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Annick Guillemot
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June 15, 2024 at 11:16 a.m.
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A must-see when visiting the region, the maritime abbey has Paimpol (Côtes-d’Armor) has already welcomed, since its reopening in the spring, 2,000 more visitors than last year.
The season begins with its share of new products in this emblematic site of the region, the only one with the Vallée des Saints to have received this year a second star in the new “Michelin Green Guide North and South Brittany”.
NEW SOUND COURSE
In the abbey itself, from the beginning of July, the sound device MURmures, will allow you to explore the monument independently.
Listening cones will reveal additional content on “the secrets of the abbey“. A way to discover the monument differently in addition to the permanent route, with the voices of storyteller Yann Quéré and of the singer Marthe Vassalowho came in residence for two days on the site to record this new sound journey.
The season’s events
• From June 22 to September 22, Pays-Ages exhibition:
Dorian Etienne returns to Beauport and presents his latest creation: the Mont Saint-Michel tapestry, accompanied by two other monumental works created during collective projects. All his works bear witness to coastlines threatened by climate change.
• From July 17 to August 19, trip to the beach:
Free concerts every Monday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the café-tea room, l’Herbe Folle, near the abbey.
– July 15: Ukrainian and Afghan songs with Morgan Touzé (harp and vocals) and SiiAn (rubab and vocals).
– July 22: Fred Guichen (accordion) and Erwan Moal (guitar), Breton music.
– July 29: March Mallow quartet, jazz, swing, blues.
– August 5: Soïg Sibéril and Alain Genty, Celtic music.
– August 12: Yann Honoré, poly-instrumental performance, music from here and elsewhere.
– August 19: Jean-Philippe and Christophe Lavergne, Tommy Halferty, jazz.
• From August 1 to 8, Night Stopovers:
A new creation is set up for two years for the Night Stopovers with the Folie Kilomètre collective. On August 1, 2, 3, then 6, 7 and 8, creation on light pollution. Around the sounds, the noises, how does a passing star resonate?
A SHOP THAT DOUBLES ITS SURFACE
In the guest room, the store has doubled in size thanks to a complete overhaul of the layout.
Two checkouts will now welcome visitors, between the shop area and the entrances to the monument. We will find there 250 references books (Breton heritage, history, medieval cuisine, environment, biodiversity, etc.), a children’s area with wooden toys, artistic and educational games, as well as tools for discovering nature.
This year, a space is dedicated to the theme of the temporary exhibition: on textile art. With books on dye plants, wool craft objects, kits for making your own dye…
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
A living place, Beauport Abbey has welcomed no less than four artist residencies since Christmas. And in particular the company La Folie Kilomètre, based in Marseille, which came for 15 days in April to work on the show which will be presented in August at Escales de nuit (read below) still being written. It invites you to reclaim the night by wandering around the site, a way of raising public awareness of the night pollution that surrounds us. Beauport is participating in the co-production of this show, and will be a stopover on a tour that will take the troupe across France.
70,000 visitors in 2023
Attendance figures have only increased in recent years. “In 2000, we welcomed 20,000 visitors, explains director Jean-Charles Touzé, there were 30,000 in 2010, 70,000 in 2023.”
Thanks to the eco-meters installed on the grounds surrounding the monastic monument, the number of visits to the site was estimated at 300,000 last year, it was 100,000 in the year 2000, 200,000 ten years later …
FREE CONCERTS
The summer season will begin with the temporary exhibition of another artist already hosted in residence in 2023, the upholsterer-designer Dorian Etienne who will return with three monumental works and will offer an introduction to tufting.
Finally, a place for a refreshing stroll, Beauport awaits you every Monday in the summer after the beach for some free concerts on the terrace of the l’Herbe Folle café-tea room. A musical and gourmet break to enjoy the natural area in another way.
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