Festival du Livre : Free as Art

From Saturday 02 to Sunday 03 August 2025

Location : Chef lieu
  • Festival du Livre : Free as Art_Abondance

Presentation

50 Franco-Swiss artists and authors.
Conferences, adult dictations, free activities and workshops for the whole family, book signings... Musical entertainment, treasure hunts.
Program :


Saturday, August 2 :

- 11h00: Yvonne's dictation
Great contest with prizes to be won (registration at the Tourist Information Office in Abondance - Free)

- 12h00 : Prize-giving ceremony

- 2:00 pm: Artist-authors' round-table discussion
"Between fiction and reality: how to deal with the lived experience in oevures?" - Free access

- 3:30 pm: Drawing workshop with Alicia Besson
Adults and teens (registration at the Abondance Tourist Information Office - Free)

- 4:30pm: "Have you written a story? Come and tell us about it with Mehdi's interview!"
Teen special - Free access

- 7:00 pm: Madvig in concert
Free admission

All day long: Large participative artistic fresco, creative workshops for children, meet a public poet, exhibitions and meetings with artists and authors, refreshments and food.


Sunday, August 3 :

- 9:30 am: Storytelling walk with Cédric Cordonnier
Stroll through nature and the village with our storytelling guide (registration at the Abondance Information Office - Free)

- 10:30am: Co-scriptum workshop with Marion Curtillet
"Imagine and write the legend of the Cornette ibex" (registration at the Abondance Registration Office - Free)

- 11:30 am: Storytelling stroll with Cédric Cordonnier
Stroll through nature and the village with our storytelling guide (registration at the Abondance Information Office - Free)

- 2:00 pm: Lecture by Ronald Cicurel
"Perception, language and the construction of reality" - Free admission

- 5:00 pm: Tombola draw
Lots of prizes to be won!

All day long: Grand marché d'Abondance, creative workshops for children, meet a public poet, exhibitions and meetings with artists and authors, refreshments and catering.
OpeningsFrom Saturday 2 to Sunday 3 August 2025.
Event details
  • Cultural and artistic :
    • Festival
  • Art and culture :
    • Story
    • Reading
    • Comic strip
    • Litterature

Tarifs

Free access.
Bureau d'Information Touristique d'Abondance
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Location
Chef lieu
74360
Abondance
  • Spoken language(s) :
    • French

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