For the first time in the Royal City, we present you the Festival of Sacred Art of Senlis. Open to the creative beauty of all religions and spiritual practices, the festival mixes cultures, repertoires and eras.
Concert, exhibition, lectures, stands, it offers eclectic programming, reflecting the diversity and vivacity of sacred arts.
In the programme:
-St. Peter's Space:
International exhibition of contemporary art
Japanese workshops: floral arrangement, tea ceremony, incense ceremony, live painting performance...
Indian Pavilion
Mexican Pavilion
Swedish Pavilion
Stands and Animations
Monastic craft shop
-St-Framburg Royal Chapel
Recitals and shows:
Japan in poetry and music by the French composers from 1870 to 1930, followed by La Colombe de Buddha, performed in one act by Reynaldo Hahn. Compagnie de l'Oiseleur.
Poems of Bassho, Issa, Ryokan, Japanese Zen monks from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Reading by Philippe-André Raynaud and Jacques-Marie Legendre. Sound illustration and Koto by Yuko Hirota.
The Bird of Fire – Mystical Music and Poetry of the East and West. Creation of Gérard Kurkdjian.
Rossini's small solemn Mass with Madoka Ochi (piano) and Frédéric Daverio (accordion), accompanied by the ensemble Michel Piquemal and his soloists
Cosmos Ensemble presented by the Royaumont Foundation
-Prairie St-Maurice
Conferences and symposia:
Jean-Philippe de Tonnac , author, among other works, of a Universal Dictionary of Bread, will animate an evening on this theme by opening the depths of its symbolism.
Gaële de la Brosse will host an evening around the theme of Pilgriming. For more than twenty years she has been travelling the paths of Compostela and will therefore speak about experience.
Gérard Kurkdjian, author of the book The Sacred Musics of the World, will give a lecture on the theme, "The Sacred Musics: A Planetary Odyssey"
Frederika Van Ingen, author of the book Wisdom of Others to Live Today, will give a lecture on the theme: "At the heart of the connection to living and sacred: The notion of Art for Root Peoples".
-Cathedral Notre-Dame de Senlis
Concert on Sunday 28 April to 15h : Choral Copernicus ensemble
Closing concert on 28 April to 20h30 : Te Deum, choir, orchestra and soloists