Free workshops - registration required
Discover every activity and meetup at CHUT Festival. Workshops are free, registration required - online or on site, while places last.
Come and express yourself on the walls of Le Qu4tre!
On the menu: a moment of kinship around the activist art of collage. We’ll make a participatory work where everyone can put their words on the façade.
It’s also a chance to discover a few protest songs - and maybe take a snippet home with you.
Because collage resonates all the more today, we hope to see you there in numbers!
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Step into the movement worlds Ellio Demellier and Romane Lambert explored while creating Mission Grand Air (Saturday 14). Over two hours, they invite you to (re)discover the activist body - as individuals and as a group - to craft striking images, and the techno body moving to electronic beats in a protest context.
Meet local, committed associations, discover their struggles and chat at their stands. Expect discussions, encounters, little games - and flyers worth pinning on your wall. Find the full list under Partners.
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Who hides in the gardens, shelters under the roofs or crosses Angers at a quiet pace? Which animals share our city, sometimes without us noticing? Through games, observation and sensory experiments, let’s meet these discreet neighbours and discover how they inhabit the city.
What if we extended the encounter by inventing gentle stories for them? Where might their steps lead? What unexpected friendships, what small joys could we imagine? For a little while, let everyday life slip away and imagination take over.
Guided step by step by two facilitators, you’ll choose your characters, imagine their adventure and bring them to life through drawing. From the first line to the sequence of panels, you’ll be guided to create your own graphic-novel page, at your own pace - no need to know how to draw.
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Take a seat, bring herbal tea, crochet and attentive ears for a collective conversation about children's place in our society. Hosted by the enfantiste collective and the Queer Education collective, this evening focuses on struggles for children's rights. What oppression do the youngest face? What micro-violences have we internalized or reproduced? How do we prevent and protect against these violences? How can we shape a world at child height?
Physical and sexual violence against minors will be discussed during this evening.
Meet makers ready to give your objects a second life, for free! Sewing, textile linocut, hand massage and plenty of other skills to discover on site. And for bargain hunters: thrift and flea finds, gems at tiny prices.
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Learn the basics of drag makeup! From brows to contouring, tips shared with care and precision. Some materials will be available - still bring your own makeup: we don’t all share the same shades or tastes.
A collective reading (“arpentage”) of Fatima Ouassak’s book For a Pirate Ecology. What’s an arpentage? A way to discover a book together without having read it first: we share passages, each person reads a part, then we pool our thoughts - with blankets and warm drinks.
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The Caravan is a dark, poetic role-playing game where hope is gone. Players become children living in a Caravan on Skull Island. At nightfall, Mama turns them into fearsome, powerful monsters. They try to help villagers - but in this world, everything has a cost.
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What if fallen leaves turned into flowers? Come and make an autumn-coloured bouquet from leaves gathered on the ground. A creative, ecological workshop to give nature’s treasures a second life - and leave with a one-of-a-kind piece: a seasonal decoration or a handmade gift.
All week long, the Chut Festival is running a mega raffle! Take a ticket and try to win lots of gifts. Made sometimes by our own hands, sometimes with local shops, we’ve put together a lovely gift list for you:
* You can collect your prize after the festival if you can’t pick it up on the day.
Closing the week: an afternoon designed for kids - each following their own energy and pace. Cosy corner (soft toys, cushions, shorts, books), movement space (DJ set, karaoke, games), creative workshop with reclaimed materials, and a free snack. Explore, express, drift - no pressure to join in.
Short-film sequence screened during the kermesse.
During chutKERMESSE
Directed by Vriens Maya
At the Hôtel les pieds dans l’eau, Rosa, an exhausted chambermaid, dreams of escaping for a moment.
Directed by Léo RIEHL
Tom is eleven. He lives with his mother near the forest. With his friend Tristan, he fights monsters.
Directed by Raphaël BAGET
Trapped in nostalgia and haunted by impermanence, a sad little ghost cannot escape the liminal space he occupies.
Directed by Caroline Casanova, Veronika Korotaeva
In a lush forest, scientists gather data - until the ecosystem collapses. An elder among them decides to act to save the woods.
Directed by Michaël Marie, Anthony Légal
Carole, a young singing apprentice, is feeling low. Her father uses a cup, water and fire to show her what really matters. Will the metaphor be enough to lift her heart?
Directed by ERIK SEMASHKIN
A maggot leaves an apple in search of new food.
Directed by Noé Lojkine
In a content factory that only makes pretty images without metaphors, a young worker falls by accident into the world of the unspoken.
Directed by Brice Legrand
Once upon a time… the yew of Offranville could soothe anyone who hugged it. Generation after generation, the village gathered the world’s anxious souls… Among them, Jérémy and Tristan, two brothers who work in the parks department. One day they find the tree has fallen ill from taking in so much human stress. The hugs must stop.
