Cathedral Nights

First Cathedral Night: "FIAT LUX

• Starting at 8 p.m.an equestrian parade, led by some forty Camargue mares and their foals, manadier Renaud Vinuesa, will set off from the Château de Bongenoult, in the commune of Allonne, one of the extraction sites for the stones used to build Saint-Pierre de Beauvais. A stopover at 8.30pm at the Jacques Brel cultural center is scheduled for volunteer riders to join them! Follow them to the cathedral square!
• Starting at 9:00 pm, vou're invited to come to the cathedral forecourt with a candle, available free of charge from partner retailers, the tourist office and cultural establishments. Lit over the course of the evening, this candle symbolizes the presence of Beauvaisians around the cathedral, forming a monumental "800". The candles collected after the evening will be melted down and reused for redistribution in the form of wax seals on the closing night.
• Starting at 9:30 p.m., deginning of the "narrative recital". Installed at the top of the steps leading to the south portal, pianist Vanessa Wagner, director of the Festival de Chambors since 2010, performs a recital of sacred and secular works (Saint-Saëns, Bach, Chopin...), interrupted by the interventions of Calixte de Nigremont, narrator, who tells the story of the construction of Saint-Pierre Cathedral.
• At 10:15pm, street arts company Transe Express presents "Maudits Sonnants", an aerial show in which a celestial chime rises above the audience, with carillonneurs, drummers and circus trapeze artists.
• At 11pm, it's the end but not the end of your evening! You're invited to visit the museums in the Episcopal Quarter that are still open, the Mudo and the Quadrilatère, as part of the "^21st European Night of Museums".

Second Cathedral Night: "IN LIESSE

As part of the Jeanne-Hachette festivities, this second cathedral night celebrates joy. A joy shared in a family-friendly evening of music and strolling through the city.

• From 21h30Calixte de Nigremont, master of ceremonies, welcomes the Friends of the Hachette Fêtes parade.
• At 10:15 pm, Luc Arbogast, a medieval-inspired poet and troubadour discovered by the general public on "The Voice", begins his concert. Accompanied by his musicians, Luc Arbogast gives a recital of original pieces inspired by the Middle Ages, grouped together under the title "Via Antika".
• At 11:30pm, Calixte de Nigremont kicks off the traditional "torchlight procession" organized by the Association des Amis des Fêtes Jeanne Hachette. The procession, torches in hand, makes its way to the funfair.
  

Third Cathedral Night: "Plus Haut!

Like the builders of the great Gothic cathedrals of the same period, the builders of Saint-Pierre Cathedral aimed to erect the tallest monument possible. Here, perhaps more than anywhere else, this assault on the sky, though thwarted by the successive collapses of the vaults and the lantern tower, is a fundamental feature of the monument's personality.

The program for this closing evening is devoted almost exclusively to "aerial" circus disciplines.

Under the baton of François Morelthe emblematic composer of the prestigious "Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain", a live orchestra accompanies each act. An exceptional musical creation for this occasion!

On stages set up all around the Cathedral forecourt, exceptional acts by jugglers, acrobats, Korean plank specialists, trapeze artists from Cirk VOST, the Puéril-Péril company and the duo of Quentin Signori and Célia Milesi will follow one another throughout the evening, with a grand finale!

Please note that the dress-code for the evening is "Tous en blanc! If you play along, you'll be rewarded with a unique collector's gift...