Inside the Maison du site was Delphine Mouysset's exhibition Funny Birds and Ceramics.
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There were many, many people this weekend of November 2 and 3 at the Arjuzanx reserve around the crane and migration festival.
The most important site in Aquitaine for the wintering of the speciesAt the last count, for this start of the period, there were 5,000 of them stopping in the southern part of the reserve, this area of basins (floodable and shallow depressions) converted into dormitories where the wading bird can spend the night in complete safety. , paws in the water safe from predators. From there, every morning and every evening for the returns, the flight of these thousands of birds offers a magnificent and magical spectacle from November to February.
Two days of celebration and entertainmentBut in the meantime, two days were dedicated to them and visitors flocked under the sun to discover the activities on offer: exhibitions, nature games, information, workshops, ornithological and musical walks, when a piano is transported to the foot of the observation towers . Saturday ended with a concert by Franco-Italian jazz pianist Lorenzo Naccarato.
A concert and a dance around the BirdsTitled Murmurationsthe notes of an upright piano ring out and fly away. The melodies of sounds, reworked by the artist form compositions which evolve according to his quest for a perfect sound which is inspired by great flights. Through his music, we hear the murmur of the wind, the rustling of wings, we capture the convolutions of flocks of birds, the heartbeat of nature and the rhythm of the seasons. Sunday as a whole covered the main points of the previous day's activities. Another art form took over with the screening of the film The Crane Dance at the Morcenx cinema in the presence of director Maxence Lamoureux. The documentary is inspired by the love displays of birds which perform a breathtaking choreography of jumps, flapping wings and entwined necks. Very beautiful images that the director has associated with two dancers to take up an ancestral ritual practice from ancient Greece, Japan, Korea and even Canada. And this, in front of an almost full room which, at the end of the session, was able to chat at leisure with the filmmaker. Two days which were a real success, the fruit of several months of reflection and work, and while calm returns to the reserve, the dusk falls at the end of the weekend and resonates the guttural cries which announce the return of the flights of cranes.
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