Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2024: play and concert at Château d'Auvers-sur-Oise

June sees the return of Rendez-vous aux Jardins! The first weekend of the month, which we hope will be sunny, opens the doors to the most beautiful parks and gardens in the Île-de-France region, for exceptional visits and events, accessible to all to enjoy nature.

And what better way to discover a place that has inspired so many artists than in the town ofAuvers-sur-Oise, a veritable haven for Impressionist painters such as Corot, Daumier, Pissarro, Cézanne and Vincent Van Gogh. The Château d'Auvers-sur-Oise welcomes you to its luxuriant gardens, with a superb nine-hectare park, fountains, decorated and sculpted parterres and shady walkways.

The gardens are divided into three sections, laid out in three different styles: those of the Italian Renaissance, with high and low terraces, planting carefully arranged to create screens or plant windows that punctuate the stroll, notably the Nymphée shell fountain. The French-style gardens are much more symmetrical, with paths lined with boxwood, parterres and bosquets.

Finally, English gardens add a touch of madness, to break up all that tidy nature. Here, flowers, trees and bushes are free to grow wherever they please, creating a feeling of a natural, untouched garden. A very pleasant walk, with irises, roses and clematis, landscapes that undoubtedly inspired the painters of the time.

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The Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2024 program

• Theater: Madame Van Gogh by Cliff Paille
  Saturday, June 1, 6:30 p.m.
  

  Saturday June 1, 2024
  
  Play
  Madame Van Gogh by Cliff PAILLE at 6:30pm
  Salle événementielle du Château d'Auvers
  
  By Compagnie, Hé! Psst!
  
  1891, Vincent Van Gogh has been dead for a few months, and his brother Theo has quickly followed him into the grave. One painted, the other financed. What remains are hundreds of worthless paintings, and an abundance of epistolary correspondence between the two brothers.
  
  Based on real historical events, the play tells five stories. The first is that of Johanna Van Gogh, Theo's widow, who gradually discovers the power of her brother-in-law Vincent's work, and the second that of a friend, Emile Bernard, eager to save Van Gogh from oblivion.
  
  The play presents a meeting between these two brilliant minds. An erudite, mischievous, subtle and passionate conversation. Above all, it's about a work of art and, above all, about its author: who was Vincent Van Gogh, the man?
  
  Open to all I free I with registration

  
  
  
• Animation: Portrait photography in the gardens of Château d'Auvers
  Sunday, June 2, 11:00 a.m.
  

  Portrait photography 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  "A trip back in time!"
  For one afternoon, come and discover mobile photography. Once the mobile studio has been set up, the shooting and development of the prints will take place before your very eyes, so that you can participate as fully as possible in this timeless photographic experience.
  It only takes a few minutes to create your portrait, and you'll leave with an original and unique print.
  All public I Free of charge I In the château gardens

  
  
  
• Concert: Midis musicaux in partnership with the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival at the Château d'Auvers I Ensemble Siébel "6 voix en voyage" (6 voices on a journey)
  Sunday, June 2, 12:00 noon
  

  MIDIS MUSICAUX in partnership with the Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise at 12 noon
  ENSEMBLE SIEBEL "6 voix en voyage"
  
  ENSEMBLE SIÉBEL
  Rebecca Moeller, soprano
  Louise Alexis, mezzo-soprano
  Joséphine Geoffray, alto
  Victor Wetzel, tenor
  Benjamin Muzy, tenor
  Swann Veyret, bass-baritone
  
  Exultate Deo, G.P. da Palestrina
  As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descendin, T.Weelkes
  Light of my soul, Pearsall
  Dessus le marché d'Arras, R. de Lassus
  Les tisserands, Poulenc
  
  Masterpiece - Paul Drayton
  
  Sweet spirit, gospel
  Kaipaava, Finnish traditional song (arr. Jussi Chydenius)
  Santianna, Scottish folk song (arr. Swann Veyret)
  I'm troubled in mind, gospel (arr. Swann Veyret)
  Nova Jerusalem, Brazilian song (arr. Swann Veyret)
  
  The Siébel ensemble brings together six young singers to perform a varied repertoire of a capella music. Passionate about music since childhood, they trained at Parisian conservatories. Most are graduates of the Académie du Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris, and it was under Lionel Sow's baton that they developed a taste for "un par voix" singing and a capella repertoire.
  
  Open to all I free I booking required I Cour d'honneur, Château d'Auvers