Fête de la Montagne Limousine

In early August 2026, the association published the schedule, the layout of the spaces in the town of Eymoutiers, the start of the opening evening, and the list of proposals registered as of July 31st. The full schedule is announced for the end of August: the "Program" page of the official website is still empty as of mid-August.

Schedule

• Friday, September 25th — from 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM
• Saturday, September 26th — from 9:30 AM to midnight
• Sunday, September 27th — from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Street lighting turns off at 11:00 PM: bring a flashlight.

Friday, September 25th, 2026

• 5:00 PM — Festival opening
• First act — a band playing revisited traditional Greek music
• 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM — Sukunati, an Indonesian group, as the second act. The group will first present the struggle led in their country and introduce their gastronomy before taking the stage.

Saturday, September 26th, 2026

• 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM — Stall setup
• 9:30 AM — Opening
• All day — The festival runs alongside the Eymoutiers Saturday market, located on Rue de la Paix
• 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, then 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Wild edible plant foraging walk, cooking workshop (pestos, butters, drinks), and tasting
• 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM — "Meet your training rights," workshops by the Reliefs and Pivoine teams on training funding
• 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM — Digital Fresco in 15 minutes for adults and a digital-themed board game for 8-11 year olds, by Qu'est-ce qu'on attend?
• 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM — Botanical outing "Between meadows and wetlands," National Botanical Conservatory of the Massif Central. Meet at the locality Le Mont, walking and observation. Closed shoes, weather-appropriate clothing, and water are recommended. Registration required with Julie Bornes ([email protected], 07 56 47 93 98)
• 3:00 PM — Discussion meeting "Criminal European migration policies, what are the responses?", by MAS and La Cimade, at the MAS premises, 6 impasse Stalingrad
• 5:00 PM — "Migrant Journey" game by La Cimade, under the market hall, approx. 1.5 hours

Sunday, September 27th, 2026

• 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM — Stall setup
• 9:30 AM — Opening
• 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, then 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Wild edible plant foraging walk, cooking workshop, and tasting
• 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM — "Meet your training rights," Reliefs and Pivoine
• 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM — Digital Fresco and digital-themed board game, Qu'est-ce qu'on attend?
• 4:00 PM — End of the festival

Spaces in the town

• Place Stalingrad — main stage, most themed stalls, two catering points, and a refreshment bar
• Place des Coopérateurs — more intimate stalls, small stage without sound system with bleachers, refreshment bar, catering, and toilets near the passage to the solidarity grocery store
• Pré l'Annaud — games, sports, exhibitions, nature stalls, dance, refreshment bar, and Yap caravan
• Toulondit — shows and dances
• Jean Gabin Cinema — screenings and Yap concert
• Town Hall 4th Floor Hall — screenings and dances
• Place Jean Jaurès — small stage and stalls
• Foyer — health stall
• Rue de la Paix — closed to traffic except for heavy goods vehicles, market location
• Boulevard Karl Marx — closed to traffic, like on market days

Projects announced by the organization

• A carnival parade with giant puppet(s), towed floats, and customized bicycles
• A puppet show
• A soapbox race for teenagers on a pre-defined course
• An intergalactic soccer tournament with teams of five
• A traditional "Òclandestin" dance, referring to a Resistance tradition: the location is only revealed on the day of the festival
• A photo exhibition by the Vienne river
• A cine-concert, screening accompanied by a live concert
• Screenings at the Jean Gabin cinema and the town hall exhibition hall, linked to debate themes
• A tour of the town following the footsteps of the Resistance, screenings about the Algerian War and Guingouin, treasure hunts for children
• Participation of the Espace Rebeyrolle

Registered concerts and shows

The days indicated are the availability declared by participants as of July 31st, 2026; performance times are not yet published.

• Sukunati — Indonesian group · Friday evening
• Loukoumaki — psychedelic rebetiko, revisited traditional Greek music · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Nedjma B'Chaï Coeur (Association les Sauvageons) — solo, piano-voice journey tinged with jazz sounds · Saturday afternoon
• Les Mokets — concert · Saturday and Sunday
• Bal-trad clandestin (Paul Gerbaud) — the location in Eymoutiers is communicated at the festival reception and discovered through riddles
• Chorale La Dilettante — small repertoire of five songs · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Karaoké de chants des résistances passées et actuelles (Xavier Dubois) · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Pauline Savary — "Tour de chant à la bouilloire," psychiatric, poetic, and political songs · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Hasard Mania (Loulita Bommelaer) — piano and voice · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Le Théâtre d'Or (Cécile Duval) — Palestinian voices, poetry and music, texts by contemporary Palestinian poets · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Balalavoix (Alexis Lecointe) — dance initiation and small vocal ball · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• La Peuge En Mai (Geoffroy Gesser) — sound, theatrical, and documentary creation, with Geoffroy Gesser on tenor saxophone and acting, and Brigitte Goffart acting · Saturday and Sunday
• Ma petite compagnie (Audrey Langellotti) — "Le fil qui nous lie," intimate show about the Spanish Civil War through a family's history, 45 min · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Capucine Berthon et Samaël — "Le palais du chou et autres contes," queer and feminist tales with two voices, two 45-min sets, aimed at adults, the first part accessible from age 7 · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Télé Millevaches — "Ailton Krenak, récit de voyage en terres françaises," 1-hour documentary by Florent Tillion, followed by a discussion with the director · Saturday
• Chop Chop — kraut-afro-klezmer-rock and Ethio-Andalusian trance · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• L'harmonie intercommunale du plateau de Gentioux — repertoire of approx. 40 min · Saturday and Sunday
• GAD GaleriedArtDebout — "Les Réssuscitances d'Alain Gibertie," film by Patrick Rebeaud followed by 45 min of debate · Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon
• GAD GaleriedArtDebout — "Alain Gibertie Vivant," film by Patrick Rebeaud, about an artist from the post-Fluxus movement · Saturday and Sunday morning
• GAD GaleriedArtDebout — "Rachel et les islamo-gauchistes," film by Pierre Merejkowski, in the presence of the director · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• GAD GaleriedArtDebout — "Mes histoires de Résistance," personal memories of the maquis and unpublished video interviews with resistance fighters, including Georges Guingouin · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Compagnie ET TOC, théâtre de l'opprimé (Léa Genet and Darline Gilles) — "Une histoire qui nous colle à la peau," dance and theater about racism and white privilege, 40 min · Saturday and Sunday
• Les jardins sauvages (Yann Lopez) — "Le Blues du Ver de Terre," peasant-style gesticulated lecture for food autonomy · Saturday afternoon
• Qu'est-ce qu'on attend? — "La Réparation," 65-min documentary followed by a meeting with a victim of sexual abuse who experienced restorative justice · Saturday, Sunday afternoon
• Buro Mulder — "Yapp's Nickelodeon," cine-concert by multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Yapp Mulder, at the Jean Gabin cinema · Saturday afternoon
• Buro Mulder — Gare de l'Est, Balkan gypsy klezmer trio with Gilles Puyfages on accordion, Simon Andrieux on sous-bassophone, and Jaap Mulder on wind instruments · Saturday afternoon
• Gaston Pelouse (Thil Mierzejewski) — danceable synth-pop-punk songs, approx. 1-hour set
• Librariá occitana (I.E.O. Lemosin) — screening "Jan, lo darrier dau Melhau," 52-min film directed by Jean-Louis Cros about the Occitan artist and publisher Jan dau Melhau, in Occitan and French · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Les Tontons Gênants — festive duo rocking French songs from the past · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Julien Defaye — "Buffalo" · Saturday afternoon
• Choralealarache — "Ultimate tour" · Saturday afternoon, Sunday
• Gilles Favreau — "Le vélo chantant," participatory show · Saturday
• La Batucadesque — Brazilian percussion in roaming performance · Saturday
• Batucada Naswakara (Samba de la Plaine) — Creuse group of fourteen musicians, Brazilian percussion with choreography, static or roaming · Saturday
• Syndicat de la Montagne limousine (Rémi Gerbaud) — gesticulated lecture on the Limousin forest · Saturday afternoon
• Association La Courtine 1917 (Jean-Paul Gady) — "Maudites soient les guerres," concert of songs based on texts by Giono, Yves Le Car, Brel, Rostand, Martinet, Ferrat, and Le Forestier · Sunday afternoon
• Slow Burn — acoustic pop-rock quartet, two musicians from Eymoutiers, one from Peyrat-le-Château, and one from Limoges, 1.5-hour set · Saturday afternoon
• 8 Me Again (Association les Sauvageons) — heavy-rock and alternative rock from Périgord-Limoges, four musicians, influences from Californian punk-rock and Brit-rock · Saturday afternoon
• Chorale des Sauvageon(ne)s — jazz songs and world music · Saturday afternoon
• La Fanfare invisible du Limousin — militant and festive brass band, acoustic, roaming or static · Saturday
• Mabàh — harpsichord, keyboard, viola, and vocal duo, unusual songs · Saturday afternoon
• SaxPax — woodwind ensemble, saxophones and clarinets, re-orchestrations of pieces composed for voices · Saturday
• Les crieureuses — show developed from the public crier's classified ads, 35 to 45 min · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Claudine Loudière — "Voix nue, chansons crues," selected a cappella pieces · Saturday, Sunday afternoon
• Duo Tarragán — traditional music · Saturday and Sunday
• Compagnie corde verte (Yann Karaquillo and Laurent Rousseau) — "Mexican funeral," torrents of words and guitar, poetry · Saturday and Sunday

Registered debates, meetings, and screenings

• Facto! — independent media for investigation · Saturday and Sunday
• Association Carduelis — screening of the film "La part du loup" followed by a discussion · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• LPO Limousin — cine-debate "Les sentinelles," 53-min documentary on shrikes and their link to agricultural practices · Saturday afternoon
• Association 4 ACG (former Algerian war conscripts against the war) — "Eymoutiers and the Algerian War": an exhibition, a lecture on the town and the Algerian war, including the 1956 mutiny at La Villedieu, and two films followed by debates, a documentary on a humanitarian trip by former conscripts, and the fiction "Loin des hommes," based on a short story by Albert Camus · Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning
• La Résistance — a documentary, a fiction ("Le Grand Georges"), a lecture, and a walk in town on memorial sites · Sunday afternoon
• SHAPE — lecture and debate on the Paris and Limoges Communes in 1871 · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Maiade éditions (Marie-France Houdart) — discussion around reader feedback on "Limousin, terre promise"
• Collectif antifa 23 — how to fight and push back far-right ideas, in sharing with the Haute-Vienne collective against far-right ideas · Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning
• Association Les Écrits d'Août — meetings with invited authors: the imaginary of the National Front, sport and capitalism, the factory of childhood, Iran and affective resistances, youth struggles to survive, digital and anti-digital, "towards the Orient"
• Terre de liens Limousin — agricultural land issues, installation, and transmission in the agricultural world
• Faut-il encore aller dans le sens du courant? — exchange with the journalist and the artist who walked down the Vienne river, with listening to a podcast recorded during the walk and the screening of a film on the work of artist Cécile Pitois · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Faut-il encore aller dans le sens du courant? — collective writing of a text dedicated to the Vienne, in three or four workshops · Saturday and Sunday
• Confédération paysanne — round table on food social security
• L'Élan — being self-employed on the Montagne Limousine · Saturday and Sunday morning
• MilleSoins et MSP Portes de Vassivière — health prevention and education for young people in the Eymoutiers basin · Saturday
• Groupe HLM (light habitats) — screening-discussion on the right to light housing · Saturday afternoon
• Les Tierslieuses, with ADIR, Relier, and Halem — subject currently being defined · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Objectif Vie & Nature — lecture or round table to learn more about the red fox · Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning
• Association Le Champ des Possibles — ecological issues on the Montagne Limousine, presentation led by the association's biologists · Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon
• Association Le Champ des Possibles — "Evolution of the biodiversity of the Montagne Limousine in the 21st century: save who can!" · Saturday afternoon
• ETHER — lecture on the impacts of agrivoltaics in Limousin, by agricultural engineer Juliette Verdeil · Saturday afternoon
• Appel à la Vienne — regional assembly of rivers: sensitive approaches, popular swimming, rights of nature, and ecological struggles, over half a day · Sunday
• Association l'ARBRE — "La culture palliative, naissance et mourance" · Sunday morning
• Carrieras Occitanas — presentation of the Occitan collective and round table on Limousin Occitanism · Saturday afternoon
• ADIR, Les Tierslieuses, Halem, and Relier — reclaiming stories and imaginaries about rural areas · Sunday morning
• ADIR — editorial committee for issue 514 of Transrural initiatives, open to anyone wanting to share ideas, topics, and testimonies · Saturday morning
• APML (pastoralism of the Montagne Limousine) — what future for livestock farming on the Montagne Limousine: assets and constraints of pastoralism in the face of agricultural and climate crises · Sunday afternoon
• Meeting with CRIA (resource center for illiteracy and non-literacy), in the presence of the Limoges coordinator, and presentation of the exile care group · Saturday morning
• Toulondit — the history of the Union de Limoges cooperative, at the Château de Toulondit, with an exhibition on the history of social and solidarity economy · Sunday morning
• International Group of the Syndicat de la Montagne limousine — the war situation and resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a concerned collective (to be confirmed) · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Mouvement post-urbain — discussion around a post-urban ecological society · Sunday morning
• Association Citoyliens — two 1.5-hour meeting-debates around Citoyliens.fr, a Corrèze collaborative web platform for ecology, rights, and solidarity · Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning

Registered workshops, games, and outings

• Treasure hunt — walk through the town for children
• Réseau Forêt Limousine — screening of the short film "Sous nos yeux en Limousin" followed by a discussion on Biosyl and forest management · Saturday afternoon
• Vinyasa yoga session for everyone, dynamic and adapted to all levels, bring your mat · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Au cOchOn dingue! — crafts, demonstration, and visit to the workshop-boutique, shared with three other leather, wood, and textile artisans · Saturday afternoon, Sunday
• Collectif d'artistes multiformes — exhibitions in the street and in shop windows on Avenue de la Paix, with Mai Aela, Christine Chollet, Chloé Alecki, Babé, Christophe Bouchaud, Jérémy Piningre, Sander Troelstra, Iradj Emami, and Nathanaël Fournier · Saturday and Sunday
• Canoë Kayak Eymoutiers — activities around the Vienne river · Saturday and Sunday
• Clairon — tree climbing · Saturday and Sunday
• MilleSoins et MSP Portes de Vassivière — vaccination fresco, to understand vaccination at any age, 1 to 1.5-hour workshop led by health professionals, fifteen spots, registration required · Saturday
• MilleSoins et MSP Portes de Vassivière — planetary health fresco, what are the links between health and environment · Saturday
• Ecstatic Dance Limousin/Felletin — approx. 1.5 hours · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• DancingTree — nature coaching discovery workshop, walk with exercises, approx. 1.5 hours · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• GaleriedArtDebout — music, films by Pierre Merejkowski, texts by Nina Zivancevic, podcast listening of shows on the Limousin Resistance, and continuous broadcasting of the gallery's archives, including unpublished interviews with Georges Guingouin · Saturday and Sunday
• Lodela, Cimade, and MAS — "Les palabres de rue," random discussions while moving around an unusual question, between the market square and the alley leading to the MAS · Saturday
• Wild edible plant foraging followed by a cooking workshop (pestos, butters, drinks) and a tasting, walk from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM then cooking from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM · Saturday and Sunday morning
• Laure Laforge — ceramic mandala decoration, from age 6 · Saturday and Sunday
• L'Aubraie, forestry group of the high Limousin woods — "life of trees" walk
• MSP des Portes de Vassivière and MilleSoins center — disability expression point, 1.5-hour slot · Saturday morning
• Association Atousports — skill games for all ages · Saturday afternoon
• Association les Sauvageons — escape game for teenagers "Le secret des tanneries disparues," approx. 1.5 hours, meet in front of the Teen Club to form teams · Sunday
• Les Zikologistes — "L'insolite Visite," quirky and inventive tour, several sessions possible · Sunday afternoon

Stalls, artisans, associations, and producers

• Facto! — independent investigative media
• LPO Limousin
• NB Poteries — stoneware creations, stained glass, and Tiffany stained glass
• MAS Eymoutiers-Peyrat and Cimade — reception and support for exiles, at the entrance of Impasse Stalingrad
• Savonnerie Ludz — healthy and ethical soaps
• Marichou — soaps, solid shampoos, and candles
• Réseau Forêt Limousine — around forty structures working for living forests in Limousin
• Fabrique des livres — handmade books · Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Télé Millevaches — the Media Caravan
• Maiade éditions — "Limousin, terre promise"
• Éditions Libertalia
• Collectif antifa 23 — books, posters, bulletins, and stickers
• Revue Casse-Rôles — feminist and libertarian journal at free price
• Journal IPNS — information and debate journal of the Millevaches plateau
• Créafripesolidaire — thrift store
• Terre de liens Limousin — preservation of agricultural land
• Les sens de l'arbre — wood turning and sculpture, demonstration
• Graines de printemps and Les abeilles du moulin — organic plants and seeds, organic honey
• Croqueurs de pommes de l'Ouest limousin — local ancient apple and pear varieties, grafting, pruning, bookstore
• RapéMoulinette — collages, postcards, and books · Saturday, Sunday morning
• Microbrasserie des MalCulottés — artisanal beers from Creuse, with organic malts, unfiltered and unpasteurized, in 33 and 75 cl bottles · Saturday
• Éditions de la Veytizou — regional works on Limousin culture and history
• Le Monde allant vers — bicycle repair, speech carrier, target game, and presentation of community gardens · Saturday
• Belge à croquer — Liège waffles
• Librariá occitana (I.E.O. Lemosin) — books and music in the Occitan language and culture of Limousin
• GAD GaleriedArtDebout — "Actualité résistante" and lecture "Archaeology of the GAD, born from a thread stretched between two plane trees"
• Qu'est-ce qu'on attend? — digital fresco and board game, with books at the stall
• Atelier Ducroq — artisanal Limousin harness leather goods
• Bière qui Sait? — beers brewed in Eymoutiers
• Thalanderia — blacksmith, toolmaker, and cutler, sale of tools and knives, hand sharpening on site
• L'Élan — being self-employed on the Montagne Limousine · Saturday and Sunday morning
• MilleSoins et MSP Portes de Vassivière · Saturday
• Groupe HLM — information and mobilization for the right to light housing · Saturday
• Buro Mulder — "Ce qui reste inavoué," photo exhibition by Dutchman Sander Troelstra, who photographed characters along the Vienne river, from the source to Confolens; location to be determined · Saturday and Sunday
• La République du sarouel — sewing, clothing, and accessories for children and adults
• Naturalist stall — kakemono exhibition
• Objectif Vie & Nature — book signing for "Dans les yeux de Renard" and mini-exhibition of naturalist photos
• Brasserie de la Combade
• Association Le Champ des Possibles — biodiversity atlas and ecological issues
• La Bibli Koi — library stall, with the possibility to join and borrow, and second-hand books · Sunday
• APNE-Alleyrat 19 — information on agrivoltaic projects in the regional natural park · Saturday
• Pépinière Pour après — organic perennials and shrubs, processed plant-based products
• Citoyliens — communication platform for eco-citizen initiatives and places in Corrèze
• ETHER — agrivoltaics in Limousin · Saturday afternoon
• L'Aubraie — association news · Saturday
• Stop Mines 23
• La Ocheline — wool originating from Limousin, knitting yarn, and finished products
• ADIR — Transrural initiatives magazine, brochures, and works on agricultural and rural installation
• Relier, Halem, and Les Tierslieuses — shared stall
• Association La Courtine 1917 — books, brochures, and exhibition catalogs
• Emmaüs Montagne limousine and MAS — presentation of actions
• Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park
• Bohèmatéba — hair accessories
• Association Carduelis — La Cardère magazine and films

Catering and refreshment bars

• Association les Sauvageons — hot and cold meals and desserts
• La Ferme de Simon et Nadine — pork grill
• GAEC des Fontenelles, ferme de Lachaud — organic and farm-to-table meals
• La Cuisine du Saisonnier — vegetarian fast food, piadinas
• Food-truck La Dégustafette
• Le Verger de la Lune and Les Fées Cueillettes — medicinal plants and sorbets
• Caravane Tisane Tzigane — coffees, herbal teas, chai and matcha lattes, golden milk, hot chocolate, kombucha, and bissap
• Emmaüs Montagne limousine — RAMO products from the cannery and vegetarian grilled toasts
• MAS Eymoutiers-Peyrat and Les Sauvageons — meal stall, reception, and support for exiles, at the MAS premises, 6 Impasse Stalingrad
• Refreshment bars run by the association at Place Stalingrad, Place des Coopérateurs, and at Pré l'Annaud
• On Saturday, the Eymoutiers market adds to its local fruits and vegetables: scotch eggs from English pig farmers, Reunionese samosas and accras, Vietnamese spring rolls, Moroccan stuffed crepes, Iraqi delicacies, Belgian waffles, gypsy drinks, Canadian salmon, a Creuse cake, and the local potato cake