“Ménestrelles et loubardes” – Journée des arts 08.11.25

Every year, far° takes part in La Journée des Arts – Nyon, inviting the public to come and meet the permanent team and contemporary artists for stage workshops and other artistic discoveries. The event is part of the “fabrique des arts vivants”  and takes place in La Salle des Marchandises.

On Saturday, November 8, 2025, those who wish to imagine stories and take part in a collective embroidery are welcome, solo, as a family or in a group. Two temporalities of workshops around the same artistic proposal are offered during the day.

Program
Ménestrelle et les loubardes with La collective Fléchir le vide (en faisant une torsion de côté)
10:00-12:00 and/or 14:00-17:00*
No experience required
From 10 yo
Have you ever considered to tell a story through an embroidery? The artists from this collective will teach you the straight stitch, accessible to all, inviting you to give form to the story Menestrelle et les loubardes. In the manner of ancient embroideries, you’ll embroider a fictional universe between dreams and science fiction imaginary worlds in collective joy.

Continuous creation 2026-2027
This creation is a part of the cycle Aquarium Fraîche Fontaine, a science-fictional saga which tells the story of the planet-island Aquariæ 2F, from its formation to the adventures of the ones who are a part of it : the gods and goddesses, the aliens and other cyborgs. This episode forms a subpart to the Aquarium Fraîche Fontaine galaxy and is called Ménestrelle et les loubardes. It is a giant, narrative and participative embroidery. In parallel, creative writing workshops and radio workshops are organised on other territories.
The saga  contains two other stories : Vêtus Orbia, a radio-scenic show & Petit monde brave mais sale, a solo for dirty spaces.

*It is advisable to stay for the duration of the workshops to get the most out of the experience, but entry and exit are possible at any time. There will be indeed different workshop sessions. Each group of participants will take in charge one or two parts of the embroidery. 

Morgane Cornet ^fr writing
Comedian and stage manager in the collective Fléchir le Vide en Avant (en faisant une torsion de côté), she co-creates AmourSuper and la Coletterie and is active until the beginning of 2024 in the Multigrouillaes. In 2011, she graduates from the performing arts faculty from Lille. She also studied with the DeFracto company, during an internship, for their creation Yokaï Kemame. She is comedian for La Ponctuelle company on the show Bolide and is assistant in the stage management for the Ring Theater, on the trilogy le Bal du Nouveau Monde. She has collaborated with the Y’a pas quelqu’un qui company on the project Plateforme Bonjour, until 2023. 

Jehanne Cretin-Maitenaz ^fr sound and musical creation
Sound creator for the theater and author of sound documentaries, she studied at the CREADOC (master d’écriture et réalisation documentaire à l’université de Poitiers) and at the Angoulême conservatory (Diplôme universitaire Electro-acoustique). She works with companies and colelctives such as Fléchir le vide en avant (en faisant une torsion de côté), Le Ring Théâtre, Arts-Pauvres, La Femme coupée en deux, La Collective Ces Filles-là, Le collectif #MetooThéâtre. She has co-written and realised the series Détective 80 released in 2024 on Arte Radio.

Juliette Lamas ^fr conception and embroidery realisation
Visual artist, her researches focus on materials close to her and forms mixing internal and external landscapes. She writes, sings and is active in performances. She draws, works on installations and scenographies. After studying fine arts at Villa Arson, medicine, and reflecting on institutional psychiatry, she decided in 2018 to devote herself to her artistic practice. She has been the coordinating artist for the Fléchir le Vide collective since 2019, where she co-created and performs in Les Multigrouillaes, Stéréo Vulcani and Amour Super. She works occasionally with other companies and collaborates with Julie Kieffer in a drawing and collage duo called Les mauvaises perdantes.

Valentine Palanghi ^fr production
After studying modern literature in Lyon, Valentine trained in cultural event coordination and worked for the 30th edition of the Salon Régional du Livre Jeunesse de Troyes (Troyes Regional Children’s Book Fair), the Bron Digital Arts Biennial [RVBn] and the Festival XS at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, a festival of short forms in theatre, dance and circus. She repeated this experience in Brussels, working once again on the production and coordination of the XS Festival in 2020, before returning to the WB National Theatre for the 2022–2023 season, this time in charge of delegated productions. Since 2021, she has been based in Besançon, where she works in administration for the company Les Trois Sœurs, in production with the companies Fléchir le vide en avant (theatre) and Dafqa (circus), and in distribution since 2020 with Ring Théâtre.