MONTBRUN-LAURAGAIS
Le Jardin de Flore
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By the Les Aequinoxes ensemble
10.30 am – Performance
1.30 pm–3.00 pm – Floral workshop (cyanotype and monotype)
A gourmet break with pizza-making. Bring your own toppings.
Booking required. Suitable for all ages.
**Performance:**
We pick them, we paint them, we breathe them in, we give them as gifts… and sometimes, we watch them fade away.
Symbolic, beautiful and fleeting, flowers accompany and punctuate our lives. Present in our simplest gestures as well as our deepest rituals, they run through our stories and live on in our memories.
With a baroque flute, a few tales, the shade of a tree and the scent of flowers, Le Jardin de Flore invites you to a moment of poetry and music, to be shared with family or friends.
Through stories and melodies, the flowers speak and reveal their secrets: funny, marvellous, mysterious or moving. A sunflower, a poppy or a snowdrop become your guides on this journey. A sensory journey into the heart of a garden filled with stories and symbols.
A moment of tenderness and renewed wonder for young and old alike.
**Floral workshop:**
Cyanotypes and floral prints, suitable for all ages (from 6 years old), duration 1h30
Invented in 1842 by the English astronomer and scientist John Herschel, and later popularised by the botanist Anna Atkins, the cyanotype technique is an ancient photographic process that allows traces of light to be revealed and fixed by contact.
Participants will learn how to make a light-sensitive sheet and compose their own image using natural elements, letting their imagination run wild. After exposing them to the sun, they’ll have the joy of seeing their compositions appear in water, as if by magic…
As producing cyanotypes requires a certain exposure time and sufficient sunlight, a plant-printing workshop is offered alongside this one — or as an alternative if the sun is not shining. Using natural plants and paint, participants will create unique prints revealing the shapes, textures and details of the plants. These compositions evoke early photographic experiments and the herbariums of yesteryear.
Each participant will take their creations home with them.
