Events calendar Poitou-Charentes

This iconic festival has been held every year at the end of January for 50 years. For four days, the city welcomes the world's greatest comic book artists and scriptwriters, as well as tens of thousands of fans. The National Comic Strip Center (CNBDI) symbolizes this dynamic also carried by Magélis-Pôle Image, the economic development program based on industries, technologies and trades of the image.

The Thursday evenings of summer in Niort are spent in music, with friends or family, in the gardens of the Moulin du Roc, discovering the musicians in the making. Neither really a festival nor completely a concert, and a little bit all at the same time, this event is organized by the town hall, offers free to anyone who wants, to attend the musical performances of emerging groups. Every Thursday, thousands of people flock to the banks of the Sèvre niortaise to listen to two groups grouped by theme. Whatever your musical inclinations, keep an open mind and let yourself be carried away by the musical discovery. Taste one or more quality concerts in a green setting under the inevitably clement summer skies, an invitation that can't be refused!

Without a doubt, this is the largest concert hall in Charente-Maritime and the must-see event of the summer. To get a seat, nothing could be easier! Bring a towel and settle down on the beach of the Grande Conche. Not only will you enjoy an exceptional natural setting, but you will also listen to classical music for three nights. Four to six performers and dancers follow one another on this ephemeral stage, presenting some of the greatest classical music, jazz sounds and world music.

After Paris Beach, Niort Beach starts at summer time. Since 2006, the municipal sports service, the tourist office, the agglomeration community and the Niortaises associations have been mobilizing all summer to animate the Pre Leroy. Sports, cultural and leisure activities are open to all, children, adolescents and adults. They are also proposed to children of leisure centres on reserved slots. To choose: archery, bicross, beach volleyball, sandball, trampoline, taekwondo, fencing and acrobatic parcours through the poplar and chestnut trees of the park… and as any good beach that respects: it's free!

The association Romances à Dienné was created in 2021 and organizes, in collaboration with the town hall, the literary fair dedicated to all types of romances. The fair lasts 2 days and welcomes about a hundred authors, local, national and international, as well as 9 publishing houses. During this event, you can meet your favorite authors and discover new ones. You will also attend round table conferences and readings by authors. Julie Dauge, author and president of the association, makes it a point of honor to collaborate with several local actors, in order to make this festival even more beautiful. The pupils of the school of the commune work all year long to make bookmarks, the association of floral art takes care of all the decoration of the commune for the event and the committee of associations is in charge of the restoration on the spot. A free shuttle is also available for authors and visitors to reach the fair from the Poitiers train station. A fair where the key words are meetings, discoveries and exchanges!

As December 25 approaches, while the magic of Christmas bewitches young and old and the old bearded man is busy finishing the beautiful toys, a red and white horde surges through the Sancto-Benedictine streets. The minimum age required for the runners is 15 years. One hour before the start of the adult loop (7.5 km), the Course des Lutins allows children from 6 to 13 years old to take part in the event for one kilometer.

It is the rendezvous of the greedy people who give their hearts to their hearts for a weekend in Angoulême. In fact, the Gastronomades bring together all the actors from the field of the field to the plate, from the producer to the cook, offering festive animations such as cookery courses or culinary contests. !!

Dominique Besnehard, together with Marie-France Brière and Jean Mardikian, has created a warm, human-sized event that takes place every year at the end of August, where the stars of the big screen come to enjoy the mild climate and the activity of the streets of Angoulême. Ideal for meeting stars in all simplicity and celebrating the French-speaking world of the seventh art, this festival mixes styles: drama, comedy, films for all audiences and open-air screenings, animation, everyone will find what they are looking for.

Every odd-numbered year, clowns from around the world gather in Niort for just over a month. You can visit them at home in their village of Duguesclin, then keep an eye on the program between the Niort festival and the caravan that will be criss-crossing the département. A cascade of antics awaits you, as well as presentations of their offbeat, poetic, tender and funny vision of the problems that plague us all, poor humans. Next rendez-vous in 2025.

The Cognac Festival is a great event both gastronomic, with the possibility to taste the delicious products of the region (cognac, pineau des Charentes, local wines, cagouilles, meat, melon, nuts and cheeses), and musical. Flavour discovery and musical discovery, this is the recipe for this unmissable festive event which takes place around the magnificent port of Cognac for three days, during which you will be able to discover cognac in its festive forms thanks to large bars set up by cognac houses, with a dinner on the spot on the banks of the river Charente to fully appreciate the local culinary products. Cherry in the cognac : every evening there are 2 concerts ranging from jazz to electro and soul music, etc.