Events and festivals in Brittany on September 19-20, 2026: an ATP Challenger tournament wraps up in Rennes, alongside a fest-noz in Poullaouen, a comics festival in Brest and a parade at the Carnac megaliths.
Saturday afternoon, on the indoor courts of Le Liberté. Rennes hosts, through September 20, 2026, the final stretch of its professional tournament, which wraps up its week while a fest-noz, a comics festival and a parade at the megaliths share the rest of the Breton weekend.
The Rennes ATP Challenger tournament
The Rennes Tennis Open is nearing its end. Since September 14, this men's professional tennis tournament has occupied Le Liberté, in the heart of Rennes, through Sunday, September 20, 2026.
The event has been held every September in Ille-et-Vilaine since it was created in 2006, and belongs to the ATP Challenger Tour, the professional tier just below the main international circuit.
Thirty-two players compete in the singles main draw. Sixteen teams face off in parallel in the doubles draw, on the same indoor courts at Le Liberté, in central Rennes.
The matches are played indoors, at Le Liberté. Also known as the Open Blot Rennes, the tournament has established itself, over its editions, among the most important indoor events in France.
The weekend of September 19-20 closes out this Rennes edition, on the same courts where it opened six days earlier.
Comics, fest-noz and megaliths for the rest of the weekend
Saint-Brieuc didn't wait for this weekend to fill up. The Côtes-d'Armor Trade Fair still brings together, through September 20, more than 250 exhibitors across 54,000 square metres of halls, an event running for over fifty years and drawing close to 45,000 visitors a year. A few streets away, the Shake Art Festival paints the walls of the town centre through Sunday: this international street art festival puts architectural heritage in dialogue with contemporary creation, echoing European Heritage Days.
Finistère mixes comics, dance and Breton gavottes. In Brest, Brest en Bulle brings together comic-book authors and readers at the Ateliers des Capucins, free entry, this Saturday and Sunday, with drawing workshops, exhibitions and live-drawn concerts. In Concarneau and eight neighbouring towns, CAP Danse circulates contemporary dance through performances, workshops, screenings and dances, through September 27. In Carhaix-Plouguer, Ki Du Fest mixes a craft market, an exhibition and punk and alternative concerts, benefiting the Diwan and Div Yezh schools. In the hills above Poullaouen, the Nuit de la Gavotte brings together dancers and musicians for a fest-noz born in 1989, which took its current form in 1994.
Two shorter gatherings round out the picture, each running a single day. In Le Rheu, ten minutes from Rennes, Le Son d'Gaston mixes pop, rock, electro, hip-hop and reggae, run by the S.M.I.L.E association, with a stated focus on closeness between artists and audience, and a stage kept open to emerging acts. In Carnac, Mégalithes en Fête brings together sports challenges, workshops and shows around the megalithic alignments, backed by the local council, the tourist office and the town.