Festival days at a glance - activities and shows. Full cinema detail lives on its own page.
Cinema day - Wednesday 11 November →
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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Take your lunch break at Le Qu4tre! Watch a show between noon and 2pm, then meet the artistic team over a friendly meal. Bring your lunchbox or a dish to share if you like.
Shows start at 12:30pm!
On Wednesdays and Saturdays, community canteen Raare sells meals if you need one!
Tuesday lunchtime : LISIÈRES
In a world marked by violence, trauma and ecological collapse, LISIÈRES explores the fragilities of a generation still learning how to inhabit the world.
On stage, bodies, sounds, gestures and voices mingle and transform. Language fragments, bearings blur, creating a space where the boundary between presence and absence becomes uncertain.
At the heart of the story, four women - Ismène, Antigone, Jocaste and Eurydice, from the Labdacid line - carry histories of violence, wounds and transmission. Through them we see the traces left by what passes from one generation to the next, and the different ways of facing life and carrying on.
How do you keep living, creating and connecting when your bearings falter?
Conceived and directed by Emmy Houssais, LISIÈRES is a sensitive journey through individual and collective fragilities, at the boundary between what comes undone and what seeks to rebuild.
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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.
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This evening is for the curious! Come along for a string of mini-shows (around 20 to 30 minutes) across all kinds of genres. Diversity and conviviality are the watchwords - there’ll be something for every taste and appetite.
Éléphante
There are the injections, the hypos, the elephants, the doctor and the music rising.
There are the elephants, Malik, the cake wrappers, the appointments and the elephants.
And in the middle there is Lucia, hanging her pieces back together. And it’s been going on for a long time.
Dusk
“it suits the government, a people afraid of the dark. If we behave we get a little light in the evening, a few moments of brightness, a bulb that crackles for a second or two; if we don’t, we have to face our fears. You know, sometimes I tell myself the dark might not be so terrible - it might just be what we think it is, nothing other than what’s there in broad daylight, except we don’t see it.”
An untimely visit
In the excerpt from An Untimely Visit, Cyril’s second anniversary of AIDS has struck. For the occasion, we invite ourselves to the party, provoke death or provoke life - inside a hospital, or a theatre?
Clown duo Enkou & Didou roaming through the festival.
Through short, absurd and poetic videos shared on social media, these two clowns keep questioning the world in their own way: wobbly, tender, offbeat.
Their world speaks of solitude, awkwardness and love.
Four sequences, audience votes, and awards in the evening (Violet night).
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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Take your lunch break at Le Qu4tre! Watch a show between noon and 2pm, then meet the artistic team over a friendly meal. Bring your lunchbox or a dish to share if you like.
Shows start at 12:30pm!
On Wednesdays and Saturdays, community canteen Raare sells meals if you need one!
Wednesday lunchtime : Bouffonnerie (outdoors)
Bella has two lovers. The only hitch: neither accepts the other. One day she sets up a meeting in a car park and nothing goes as planned.
Against a backdrop of convoluted speech and mechanic get-up, Bouffonnerie explores the trials of romantic relationships and their endless ways of working.
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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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After discovering the short films and voting for your favourites, join us in the evening for the announcement of the winners and the awards!
The night continues with a drag show, where you can discover the talented Parraine la bonne fée, Malaka and Le Raton. They’ll perform across every theme of the festival.
Then we carry on with music from these artists, who will set Le Qu4tre buzzing:
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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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Take your lunch break at Le Qu4tre! Watch a show between noon and 2pm, then meet the artistic team over a friendly meal. Bring your lunchbox or a dish to share if you like.
Shows start at 12:30pm!
On Wednesdays and Saturdays, community canteen Raare sells meals if you need one!
Saturday lunchtime : VΛLENTINE
Influenced by Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Adele, VΛLENTINE tells her stories in song - the moments when she feels alone, powerless or misunderstood. Her songs may speak of solitude, loss of confidence, strength, taboo moments or childhood memories. Accompanied by her pianist Yoann, VΛLENTINE offers a moment of tenderness and expression to let go for a lunchtime hour.
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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.
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This electric evening revolves around Julie Aminthe’s text Mission grand air, directed by Ellio Demellier.
In a future that feels both near and strange, a group of young people gather to voice their anger, doubts and hopes.
Facing eco-anxiety, everyday violence, family tension and the feeling of not being heard, the characters search for a space to meet and reclaim their place. When should we act? When should we organise? How do we keep believing in the future when it already seems threatened?
Around this cry of revolt, a gathering takes shape. The night moves through sung voices, a brass band, electronic sounds and drag interventions - forms woven together to share anger, fragility and the need for connection. This ecological voice finds its place in the story and its imaginaries. A collective celebration ending with DJ sets to imagine another future.
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.
