Festival du Livre : Free as Art

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.