Visit Beauvais

Local producers’ market: fresh produce (cheese, fish, etc.), foodtruck…

This photography festival covering the whole of the Hauts-de-France region returns this year with some forty exhibitions in an area stretching from Berck-sur-Mer, Amiens, Beauvais, Clermont-de-l?Oise to Noyon.

The theme of this 22nd edition is Habiter, in keeping with the artistic and cultural program surrounding the festivities surrounding the 800th anniversary of Beauvais Cathedral. In Beauvais and the surrounding area, over twenty photography exhibitions will explore architecture and heritage through the eyes of photographers. But also what it means to inhabit a territory, a city, questioning the intimate notion of ?home?, habitat and what it means in a political and sociological context.

Participatory performance Joanne Leighton ? associate artist – WLDN

Every day for 1 year from Saturday October 4 (one hour at sunrise and sunset)

Become actors in an exceptional artistic performance as you watch over Beauvais from the top of the Théâtre. We invite you to take part in a poetic gesture: for one year, day for day, two people will watch over Beauvais for one hour at sunrise and one hour at sunset.

In other words, 730 people will come and go over the course of the year, since each person can only stand vigil once. Watching in this way means reconnecting with light and the passing of the seasons. In a world increasingly invaded by the digital and the virtual, come and experience the clouds, the wind, the stars, the light filtering through cumulus clouds and nimbus clouds, and watch as darkness gradually engulfs the world, or, on the contrary, as day breaks and the dawn brightens. In a shelter specially designed by scenographer and designer Benjamin Tovo, you’ll be installed in the dome of the Théâtre, watching the urban landscape of Beauvais pulsate to the rhythm of the seasons, and for an hour you’ll be in a dialogue with yourself, suspended in time and space, in a parenthesis, a bubble iridescent with your daydreams, your mental landscape. Watching means entering into a secret, gentle relationship with the human beings who are busy below you, preparing for the slowing of the coming night, or, on the contrary, entering into the heat of the day.

Staying awake means reconnecting, for the space of an hour, with the ancestral ability of human beings to come together to write a story that goes beyond their narrow finiteness. For the space of an hour, keeping watch means becoming an actor in a poetic performance that will go down in the young history of theater as an act of hope and rebirth. We dedicate this edition of Les Veilleurs in Beauvais to Guy d?Hardivillers, who was informed of this initiative, supported it with all his passion and would undoubtedly have been the first Veilleurs.

INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
on the Beauvais Watchmen website from September 1.
We are looking for 730 participants to watch over the city of Beauvais.

INAUGURATION
saturday, October 4 at 5pm during an artistic and convivial event

Jardins réguliers puis pittoresques, parcs paysagers ou jardins mêlant des styles éclectiques, venez découvrir 3 siècles de créations paysagères remarquables dans l’Oise.

Ouvert du lundi au vendredi de 9h00 à 17h00.
Ouvertures exceptionnelles les samedis 10, 17 et 24 janvier 2026 de 14h00 à 18h00.