Méliscènes Festival

25th edition of the Méliscènes puppet and object theater festival

Since 2025, Méliscènes, the Centre Culturel Athéna's festival of puppetry and object theater, has been touring the 24 communes of the Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique intercommunality.
From October 2025 to March 2026, Méliscènes will be touring the Pays d'Auray with the participatory project Un Appétit de Géant by Cie Les Grandes personnes.

On the program

Let's create our own mini Maxi Bestioles!

Public workshops

In Auray
Come and meet the giants, Anouk and Mao, at workshops to create mini and maxi bestioles.
Saturday 25 to Wednesday 29 October 2025
Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 February 2026

In the Pays d'Auray
Create your own critter to join your local vivarium and meet the giants when they visit in March.
January to March 2026


Giant tour
In the Pays d'Auray
Anouk will criss-cross the region on a bicycle-cart to meet the critters and the locals, inviting them to join her on the way to a big sowing festival.
Saturday, March 7 to Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Sowing ritual
A stroll where residents, mini and maxi beasties and giants weave a colourful ballet of sounds, powders, seeds... and surprises.
A fertile moment to plant the seeds of the great feast of 2027...
From giants with big appetites!
Saturday, March 14, 2026