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Celtic closing party: Samhain

  • Grand évènement

Everyone knows Halloween, but do you know Samhain (pronounced "his-my-mouth")? This ancient Celtic festival, more than 3,000 years old, was celebrated for 3 nights around October 31. Marking the start of the dark season, Samhain turned more than 1,000 years later... into Halloween!
This Sunday, let’s go back in time and celebrate Samhain together in the heart of a sacred and magical nature. Electro-bestial fanfare, cyclical shadokery, luminous entresorts, creative games and workshops, magical rituals. We have concocted a mystical and liberating program for you!
SHOWS
2.30 pm / 4 pm / 5.30 pm
30 min
Grôöøõv
The Public Thing
Electrø bestial fanfare by bønne compagnie!
General public
Half høms, half-animals, the musicians of Grôöøõv beat the pavement in search of energy and inspiring sensations to enter a hypnotic dance jøyeuse. Their earthy sounds take us into primitive but salutary rhythmical-melereferous prøs.
3 p.m. / 5 p.m.
45 min
Let’s make it run!
The Hive Caravan
Musical and burlesque theater
from 5 years old
Three characters not very talkative, a little crazy, are busy building a strange machine with belts, pulleys, cranks. They have a plan, there are crates full of equipment and they have an obsession: it has to run! So, in music and movement, they search and seek each other...
ANIMATIONS
2 - 5 p.m.
continuously
The door of the invisible
Florie Andrèges
Collaborative work
General public
Let’s celebrate the passage to the dark season and open the door of the invisible by collectively decorating a wicker arch. The sum of everyone’s efforts will contribute to a monumental and immersive work, in which to play and take pictures!
2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
continuously
Lights
The Giraffe Collective
Entresort
General public
Whether you have the artistic fiber or simply the desire to explore new worlds, enter the lair of lights. Together, let’s compose your portrait of lights and leave with your shot. A playful and unusual interplay!
2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
continuously
The circle of flowers
The Mosaïc team
Artistic interventions
The druids and druidesses of the team have concocted for you a magical, secret and liberating program! Still must we dare to cross the circle without fear of falling into the Other World...
Le petit +: participate independently in the liberation ritual, the wishing ritual or the amulet banquet!
GAMES
Search and find the 11 sacred fires
The druids and druidesses of Mosaic lit a sacred fire in every garden. It’s up to you to find them!
Soup!
My, the grand ritual banquet is tonight and the Great Druid has still not come home. Help us make the magic soup!
Le petit +: discover a "Sampivoan" mini-game in every garden
Opening of Mosaïc: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Last access at 6 p.m.
The site is accessible to people with disabilities. Please contact the team for more details about the accessibility of the activities.

Celtic closing party: Samhain

Information

Dates and hours
Sunday 18 October, 14:00
  • October 2026
    Sunday 18
    14:00 - 18:00
Tariffs
Free for druids and druidesses / €6/ €4/ €17 tribe / €0 < 4 years - Shows and activities included in the admission fee.
Place
103 rue Guy Mocquet, houplin-ancoisne
59263 Houplin-Ancoisne
Location accessibility
Intellectual impairment
Hearing impairment
Visual impairment
Psychic impairment
Motor impairment

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