Welders' NightSaturday August 3 and Sunday August 4, 2024

Welders’ Night Festival

Saturday August 3 and Sunday August 4, 2024

The 19th edition ofLa Nuit des Soudeurs will be held this year in the heart of Granville’s Val-ès-Fleurs park, in keeping with the “Peace & Love” theme. The festival was born in 2004, when a group of artists came up with the idea of using the scrap metal abandoned on Granville’s harbor for an artistic night.

Artists, blacksmiths and sculptors

La Nuit des Soudeurs will bring together some fortyartists, blacksmiths and sculptors, who will draw their inspiration from the piles of scrap metal stored in the Val-ès-Fleurs park for the occasion, for unusual artistic creations. This year, on the 1st weekend of August, the artists will take over the Val-ès-Fleurs park in a “Peace & Love” atmosphere. The two-day program includes live sculptures, welding workshops, exhibitions, catering, concerts and, at the end of the festival, an auction of the works created on Quai d’Orléans on Sunday.

Peace and Love

An optimistic and generous theme

This year, welder-designers are invited to create a metal sculpture, live and in front of the public. live and in front of the public on the theme of Peace and Love, an optimistic and generous choice of theme, an antidote to the prevailing pessimism. Equipped with bowstations, grinders, chopsticks, disks, masks and goggles, sculptors will come to create their artistic projects individually or in teams of up to 3. Two skips of scrap metal will be at their disposal to show off their creativity and the quality of their work.

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