Forestry initiatives, artistic visions, scientific research, naturalist curiosities and eco-somatic experiences are brought together in a collective program of creative walks to discover, experience and live to the rhythm of the forest. Each walk will be guided by a well-known expert in his or her field, and punctuated by a variety of talks. By crossing approaches, developing our knowledge and listening to these great creatures, we can better defend and protect them.

A program supported by COAL, the leading association for art and ecology:

SATURDAY JUNE 8 at MONT USSY

CREATIVE DAYTIME STROLLS

• 4pm-7pm: Vivre en vivant: explorations of the forest with Alexandre Butin, forester & Malena Beer, choreographer.
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• 4pm-7pm: Listening to the deep time of the forest, a sensitive and poetic journey into the imaginary world of the Fontainebleau forest, with Michael Jasmin, archaeologist and deep ecology facilitator, and Aurélie Thoreau, ecopsychology practitioner.
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• 5pm – 7pm: Des oiseaux et des hommes, an exploration of avian fauna, with Hugo de Vergès, ornithologist and Idriss Damien, flute and birdcall player.
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ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

• 4pm: FOUGERE TALES: Sandra Lorenzi, artist, will reveal the song of the ferns. Gathering around the fire, fanning the embers so that the words light up, the vigil continues, but here the ferns replace the fire, the slings replace the embers and the forest replaces the evening. Read more
• 5pm: PARENT – CHILD WALK: DISCOVERING THE PLANTS OF THE FOREST, with Natalia Santos, a specialist in wild edible plants. On this playful walk, we’ll awaken our senses to explore the fascinating world of wild plants.
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EVENING SHOWS

• 7-8pm: Wild edible plant tasting aperitif, with Natalia Santos
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• 8pm- 8:45pm: Idriss Damien, the flautist with a soft spot for birds, takes us on a sonic journey around breath, between waking dream and suspended contemplation.
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• 9-10pm: Résistances Poétiques, recital by Cyril Dion x Sébastien Hoog
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NOCTURNAL EXPERIENCES

• 10pm: Chauve Souris walk, with Alexandre Butin, chiropterologist
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• 10pm: meditative journey under the trees, with healer Anaïs Goenièvre
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SATURDAY JUNE 8 À BARBIZON

• 3pm: Reading by Anouk Lejczyk, author of Copeaux de bois: carnets d’une apprentie bûcheronne (Wood shavings: notebooks of an apprentice woodcutter)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9, BARBIZON

• 2:30 and 4:30 pm: Forest walking tour, In the footsteps of Théodore Rousseau, with Gérard Bayle-Labouré , from Les Amis de la Forêt de Fontainebleau
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• 3pm: guided tour of the Se souvenir de Théodore Rousseau exhibition at the Musée départemental des peintres de Barbizon
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SATURDAY JUNE 15, BARBIZON

In the footsteps of Théodore Rousseau: changing landscapes from yesterday to today

With the Musée des peintres de Barbizon

DAYTIME

• 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Grand randonnée Par Monts et par Bois
  
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• 3pm-4.30pm: Stroll Evolution of landscapes and struggles to preserve them, from yesterday to today, with Igor Babou, anthropologist and professor of social sciences at Paris Cité University, & Pascal Villeboeuf, President of the association Sauvez la forêt de Fontainebleau.
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• 5pm-7pm: Charcoal drawing workshop, with Sarah Cheveau
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IN THE EVENING

• 8:30pm: Concert by Naïssam Jalal Quest of the invisible
  
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SATURDAY JUNE 15, AT THE BARBEAU RESEARCH STATION, BOIS LE ROI, FRANCE

• 10 and 2pm: Hike – meeting with Daniel Berveiller and Claire Damesin, Barbeau station researcher.
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Find out all about the program on nuitsdesforets.com

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Join us on Friday, May 24 from 7pm for a festive, committed evening in the heart of the museum garden until 11pm.

On the program: a sensory and meditative experience with Malena Beer in the garden, “La Clef des Chants” choir, a performance by The BadWeeds and a concert by Toh Imago!

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► Eclipse: a sensory and meditative experience for an intimate connection with nature
Hosted by Malena Beer
Choreographer, dancer, sociologist and yoga teacher Malena Beer invites visitors to reconnect with a perception of reality that passes through the body before the mind, to plunge into an introspective, sensory experience of waking sleep. The invitation is to slow down and listen. The sense of sight will be eclipsed, in order to open up, refine and sharpen the other senses and immerse ourselves in the world of the invisible. Using her voice as a guide, Malena will gradually take you into a modified state of consciousness by suggesting new perceptual correspondences: breathing an image with your skin, savoring a sound with your chest, listening to a temperature with your feet…. Through this prelude, Malena Beer aims to create an intimate and unusual ambrosial experience between the outside and inside worlds.

► “La Clef des Chants” choir
Under the direction of Benoît Reeves, the Choeur & Orchestre La Clef des Chants Ensemble (a Parisian student choir) will bring together some 50 choristers, a number of instrumentalists and 2 guest speakers to tackle the issues surrounding today’s forest ecosystems in a sensitive and scholarly way. The choir’s repertoire combines sacred songs (Mozart, Bach, Handel) and the most contemporary/popular songs (Britney Spears, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa, musicals, etc.), and will be punctuated by spoken word from Ronan Moinet and Claire Damesin.

► Performance by The BadWeeds / Rocio Berenguer
They grow out of oblivion, out of cracks, out of the most inhospitable, wild and anarchic places, coexisting with us, between us, their existence a gesture of resilience, living proof of resistance. THEBADWEEDS is a group of wacky weeds, a trans-species group, half human and half plant, who have come from the plant kingdom to share their message with humans!

► Toh Imago concert
DJ and producer Toh Imago presents his “Refuge” project (InFiné). Recorded in the forest of Mormal, the largest forest in the Nord department, the album skilfully combines bird song, wind noise, synthesizers and drum machines. The album was recorded on the 432 Hz frequency described by scientists as the natural frequency. Oscillation at 432Hz is considered to be the resonant frequency of atoms and molecules in nature, including water. By extension, it is considered to have the power to cleanse negative energies.

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An artistic proposal by Lauranne Germond, Sara Dufour ( COAL. )

// RENDEZVOUS AT MONT- USSY //

— FRIDAY, JUNE 9

6:30 pm: LAUNCH OF NUITS DES FORETS 2023

6:30 pm – 8 pm: WORK PARCOURS

listening to nature, by artist Laurent Tixador

7pm: VEILLÉE
On adapting the forests of Île-de-France to climate change.

20h : SPECTACLE Promenons-nous dans l’émoi, by actor and director Jacques Bonnaffé and flautist and bird singer Idriss Damien.

Show followed by a call demonstration by Idriss Damien

22h: OBSERVATION
Discovering bats with Alexandre Butin, ONF.

22h – 00h: OEUVRE NOCTURNE
Nous sommes pierres devenues chair, a work by G & K – Stéphane Guiran & Katarzyna Kot.

— SATURDAY JUNE 10 —

10am & 2pm: WALK to discover the industrial past of the Fontainebleau forest with students fromUniversité Paris Cité.

RDV ROUTE de la Faisanderie, quarry trail entrance.

10am-1pm: CITIZENS’ ACTION Removal of invasive plants with the association Sauvez la forêt de Fontainebleau.

2pm – 9pm: WORK PARCOURS

listening to nature, by artist Laurent Tixador

2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm: Plant creation WORKSHOPS for young and old with Dany Lof.

3pm: WALK
in the footsteps of the Denecourt trails, with the Amis de la forêt de Fontainebleau and an actor.

3pm & 5:30pm: SHARED DANCE
Occult, an immersive experience in nature with Robin Decourcy.

6pm: WALK
Hot on forests: Fontainebleau and climate change, with Alexandre Butin, ONF.

6-10pm:PERFORMANCE Armature variable by Claude Cattelain, echoing the balance of the forest.

7:30-9pm: WALK to listen to the forest with an ornithologist from the LPO, along the route of works by Laurent Tixador

9pm: PERFORMANCE In Hybird, Violaine Lochu reinvents herself as a bird-woman.

Followed by a discussion with an ornithologist from the LPO.

9pm: TALES DU SOIR,
with storyteller Violaine Robert.

22h – 00h: OEUVRE NOCTURNE
Nous sommes pierres devenues chair, a work by G & K – Stéphane Guiran & Katarzyna Kot.

10:30pm: SPECTACLE Trève, a spellbinding performance with Robin Decourcy, Abdullah Miniawy and Peter Corser.

— SUNDAY JUNE 11 —

8:30am – 9:30am: WALK to discover forest birds with the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux.

2pm – 10pm: WORK PARCOURS

listening to nature, by artist Laurent Tixador

3:30 pm TALES AND LEGENDS told by Florence Desnouveaux at the foot of a large oak tree.

3:30PM PERFORMANCE
The lost species, a celebration of life combining costume, dance and percussion imagined by artist Lucy Orta.

4PM PERFORMANCE Enforestation, an itinerant experience guided by Paris Opera dancers Simon Le Borgne and Antonin Monié.

5:30 PM CONCERT
Delicate, nature-inspired guitar-vocals by singer Laura Cahen.

22h – 00h: OEUVRE NOCTURNE
Nous sommes pierres devenues chair, a work by G & K – Stéphane Guiran & Katarzyna Kot.

// OTHER EVENTS IN THE FONTAINEBLEAU AREA //

Le Cyclop,
Bois des pauvres,
Milly-la-Forêt

JUNE 10TH
10:30am-9:30pm EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE
Discover Murmures en fractales in this unique heritage site and enjoy a performance by Virginie Yassef.

Champagne-sur-Seine communal forest, by the commune and ONF

JUNE 10
5:30pm-10pm MUSICAL AND NATURALIST STORYWALK
Musical and naturalist storytelling stroll with Compagnie La Fleur qui Rit and the ONF, followed by a picnic and acoustic concert.

Bois du Val Hochard, Dannemois, by Olivier Bergeron

JUNE 11
11am-9pm LA CABANE
Join us for a day of surprises at the Cabane: exhibitions, dance, yoga and sound therapy.

Franchardecotourism center , by the Fontainebleau & Gâtinais Biosphere Reserve and theSauvez la forêt de Fontainebleau association

JUNE 11
11am-7pm ARTISTS IN THE FOREST A day punctuated by land art, sculptures, lectures and an exhibition, in partnership with the association Sauvez la forêt de Fontainebleau.

Bois de la Commanderie, by Association Ida y Vuelta

JUNE 16-18
10H-22H FORESTRY AND ART WALKS
Art walk, educational co-construction, dance performance in nature, land art, photo installation, ceramics, readings and discussions.

Bois de Champagne, by Mairie de Saint-Fargeau Ponthierry

JUNE 17
4-10:30 PM THEATRE AND CHAMPAGNE PICNIC
Immersive, ecological theatrical show by Compagnie des Aigles de sable, plus country picnic.

Barbizon

JUNE 17

10h-17h30 EXHIBITION
La forêt que nous voyons – Two centuries of landscape painting in Fontainebleau, at Théodore Rousseau’s home and studio.

2PM WALK
In the footsteps of the Barbizon painters with the Friends of the Forest of Fontainebleau.

CLOSING AT LA FOLIE BARBIZON
JUNE18

11H-00H LE CHANT DE LA FORÊT

A day of sensory experiences and a closing evening of the festival around the music of plants, with Priscilla Telmon.

Thanks to our partners:

Fontainebleau & Gâtinais Biosphere
Agglomeration community
Fontainebleau region
La Folie Barbizon
MAIF Social Club
Office national des Forêts
Fontainebleau Town Hall
City of Champagne-sur-Seine
Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Town Hall
Université Paris Cité and its Forest Ecology Station

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L’article Forest Nights 2022 in Fontainebleau est apparu en premier sur COAL.

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AN ARTISTIC WALK

Throughout the weekend, walkers were invited to follow in the footsteps of the rich history of the forest of Fontainebleau and to rediscover the link between the forest and artistic creation. On a marked trail around the former art reserves, they were able to meet visual artists, who in turn are inspired by it and reveal its issues, its richness and its beauty. They were able to observe the peat sculpture of Caroline Le Mehautéan esoteric and immemorial form that revives our sensitivity to the earth element, the source of life; to read, in the leaves of an oak tree, the short story The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, printed in hollow by Jonas Delhaye with the help of a handmade writing tablet, like a secret formula inscribed in the heart of the things of the world; meet the fascinating characters of the artist Beya Gilles Gacha and see her perform her paintings, from the ritual to the canvas, thanks to herbs and medicinal plants harvested and processed.

Gathering the scents of the woods, Julie C. Fortier has created perfumes connected to the territories, to the cycles of life, of the seasons, of light, and to the history of the forest of Fontainebleau, which she shared with the visitors. As for Vincent Laval, he composed with the wood collected during his walks in the forests, a bushy sculpture in the form of a hut, a point of convergence between the human and the forest.

Musicians, singers and other performers also came to punctuate this walk with their practices inspired by the woods.

Finally, at dusk,Erik Samakh‘s Fireflies, a spectacular and immersive installation in the middle of the forest, lit up one by one, evoking throughout the night the magical presence of insects, but also their fragility and their disappearance.

EVENINGS AND SHARED MOMENTS

At the end of the day, the forest of Fontainebleau also hosted collective experiences, evening events, shows and artistic performances in the forest.

Vigil When art preserves the forest
At once a source of life and a resource for the living, a place of appeasement and a nexus of tensions, a field of dreams and of covetousness, a wild space and an object of management, simultaneously preserved and devastated, a carbon sink and a carbonized one, the forest alone symbolizes the bushy, timeless but burning complexities of the contemporary world. During a vigil, artists, historians and enthusiasts returned to the link between artists and the forest, from yesterday to today. A vigil moderated by Joan Pronnier of the COAL association, with : Geoffroy Delorme known as the Deer Man; Jean-Claude Polton of the Association des Amis de Fontainebleau; and artists Erik Samakh and Julie C. Fortier.

Show Le feuilleton d’Artémis, by Murielle Szac
“I am Artemis, I chose to live without constraint in the forests, I am surrounded by companions who made the same choice as mine and who are not ready to follow the model imposed by Aphrodite… Our toilets interest us less than running in the woods, love is not the center of our concerns. And yet we are all women, yes, like her! A breathtaking mythological tale to the rhythm of the bewitching melodies of the harpist Elisa Vellia.

Performance Hors champ, by Ivana Muller
Thanks to this installation-performance, the spectators were able to invest “a colony” made up of a dozen mosquito nets forming tents scattered among the trees. In their intimacy, far from the eyes, each one could become the interpreter of a conversation, of an encounter, which questions our relationship to nature and to the other, the idea of survival, of leisure, and of culture.

Performance The Solstice Dance by Le Corps Collectif
The twelve dancers of Corps Collectif, led by the choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier have taken over the spectacular rocks so characteristic of the Fontainebleau forest for an original performance, an organic and wild dance echoing the ancient rituals that undoubtedly took place here, in the mists of time.

Performance The Last Supper, by Romina de Novellis
Like a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper by Romina de Novellis brought together around a large meal, a dozen women, professionals, feminists, and ecologists, artists, curators, researchers, scientists, activists. Starting from the allegory of the forest, these women, in a participative and choral performance, took its destruction as a symbol of the ecological crisis and of the exploitation of nature by man.

Four experiences with Catitu Tayassu, shaman and specialist in Amerindian cultures
Listen to the trees, from the movement of the seeds to the stems, be attentive to the microscopic movement, connect with the metaphysics of the sounds of the trees, dance with them, converse about the animism of the trees; discover in resonance with the Afro-American Indian religions, the oracle of 56 sacred trees, or explore the link between the celestial and starry space of the night and the one of the earth under the stars Catitu Tayassu shared his knowledge of trees and nature and invited us to extraordinary sensitive experiences.

Performance Les Taupes, by Philippe Quesne
On the occasion of the Nuits des Forêts, giant moles have emerged from their underground cave to take over the Montusiennes cave, where these strange mammals have decided to set up camp. Under the amused eyes of the walkers, these furry beasts tried to create a common living space. Through these gentle animals wrongly classified as pests, the director and visual artist Philippe Quesne has revealed a poetic of the underground in the heart of the forest.

EXPERIMENTS IN THE DARK NIGHT

Night walk on the tracks of deer with Geoffroy Delorme, author of L’Homme-Chevreuil
The walkers were able to follow at nightfall Geoffroy Delormeauthor of the Roebuck Man (published by Les Arènes) and share the experience of the man who lived for seven years in a forest in the Eure region with deer as his only companions.

Discover and observe bats with Alexandre Butin (ONF)
Thanks to an ultrasound listening equipment, the festival-goers got acquainted, during a night outing, with bats, this unknown and fascinating animal.

The night of dreams, meditating under the stars, with Catitu Tayassu
Exploration of the link between the celestial and starry space of the night and that of the earth, with the shaman and specialist of Amerindian cultures Catitu Tayassu

A storytelling stroll in the dark night with the artist Erik Samakh, a great connoisseur of forests in the heart of his light installation, Les Lucioles.

WOODWORKING

The oak chain, discovery of the wood industry around a mobile sawmill
From felling to processing, through skidding and sawing operations, festival-goers were able to witness, with Christophe Sallé and its mobile sawmill, at all stages of the transformation of oak from the tree to the furniture.

Realization of a wooden totem with Julien Colboc
The sculptor Julien Colboc organized the realization of a totem, magnifying a dead tree in edge of forest, in the immediate vicinity of the forest house of the crossroads of 8 roads. The artist has used and shared his ancestral (axes, adzes, planes) and contemporary (chainsaws, laser engraving) skills to transform a piece of raw wood into a colossal work before our eyes.

The Nuits des Forêts association

The Nuits des Forêts association is the result of a collective reflection between actors of the forestry and wood industry and the cultural and artistic sector. It wishes to invite society to take up the issue of the forestry crisis by initiating actions to raise awareness and mobilize the public on forestry issues.
An artistic proposal by Lauranne Germond (COAL) and Sara Dufour.

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L’article THE 2021 FOREST NIGHTS IN THE FONTAINEBLEAU FOREST est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In 2021, the Nuits des Forêts brought together more than 200 artistic experiences and nearly 150 forest owners and managers helped us discover their forests. Sensory immersions to meet the wild, nocturnal experiences between dreams and magic, guided discoveries of forest territories, monumental works between the trees, educational explorations around the forest issues …

Art reserves in Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau was a source of inspiration and a gathering place for many artists. The Barbizon painters, then the impressionists, invested this place from the 19th century and contributed to shape the history of this forest, especially when they pleaded for its protection, making the Forest of Fontainebleau the first natural site classified in the world, with the creation of the Artistic Reserves in 1853.

During the Nuits des Forêts, walkers will follow in the footsteps of this rich history and may come across a peat sculpture by Caroline Le Mehauté, meet the woodcarver Vincent Laval, attend the rituals of Beya Gille Gesha, rediscover the texts of Borges with Jonas Delhaye, smell the scents of the forest with the artist Julie C Fortier and watch the fireflies ofErik Samakh sparkle. At the end of the day, you will be treated to performances by Philippe Quesne, Ivana Muller, Romina de Novellisand many other sensitive experiences such as discovering bats with the National Forestry Commission, following the tracks of deer with the author of the best seller The Deer Man and meditate under the stars with the shaman Catitu Tayassu.

Focus on the National Park of Forests

Just established in November 2019, Forest National Park is the first national park dedicated to lowland hardwood forests. Located between Champagne and Burgundy, it is the repository of a rich and eventful history. The Celtic tribes, the Templars, the monastic orders, the proto-metallurgical industry followed one another.

For the Nuits des Forêts, the Park will host 18 events in a dozen forests: evening gatherings, musical and guided walks, on foot, by bike or even on a donkey, night hikes, shows and artistic works, conferences and educational activities… On the program, transmission of knowledge, ideas and emotions.

Sensory immersions to meet the wild

Listening to the diversity of forest birds thanks to Anthony Carcone’s sound installation in the Forêt domaniale de l’Île d’Oléron (17 ); Awakening sound perceptions with the Station d’Écoute Suspendue (suspended listening station) in the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut Jura and the Forêt du Chapuzieux, La Pesse (39).

Nighttime experiences between dreams and magic

A sensory journey and a dreamy night under the stars by the EVI collective in Les jardins de Toucanne, Brocéliande (35); immersion in the world of mushrooms thanks to mycorhised experiments with the forest, guided by Thierry Boutonnier and Boris Nordmann in the Forest of Bois barbu, Villard de Lans (38).

Sleeping in the forest

Bivouac in the heart of the new Bellastock site, a place of architectural experimentation on a scale of 1 and with preserved biodiversity in the heart of the Arts Architecture Landscape Heritage Center, Evry-Courcouronnes (91) ; Collective immersion on the northern flank of the Serre forest in collaboration with L’atelier Bivouac, a landscape architect association within the Forest of Serre en Don, Ardèche (07).

Guided tours of forest areas

Sensitive and commented visit in the heart of Vassivière Utopia, a project of theCentre International d’Art et du Paysage in the Forest of Lacelle, Corrèze (19); Visit between Brie and Marne in the Castle of Champs-sur-Marne (77) with the Voyage métropolitain.

Monumental works between the trees

Shows and evening events in the heart of the architectural installation of Feda Wardak in the Forest of Bondy in Seine-Saint-Denis (93 ); artistic and meditative journey through the works of the Forest of Contemporary Art, contemporary art itinerary in the Natural Park of Landes de Gascogne in the Forest of Borcas (40)

Educational explorations of forestry issues

Discovery of tropical forests in the Tropical Agronomy Garden of Paris René Dumont (75); visit of the forests of the Meuse and their history on the Vent des Forêts circuit, with the sound intervention of the artist Marjolijn Dijkman in the Verdun Forest (55).

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