La Guinguette Littéraire





Literature invites itself, savours itself, reinvents itself and is shared in the garden of the Maison Losseau, this splendid art nouveau residence of a personality who loved great literature.

On April 23 – May 25, 2015, Belgian author-illustrator Kitty Crowther (won the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s literature: the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award) invite us to enter a lounge which opens out onto the garden through a little, very little door where we can dive in the wonderful world of the slag heap. An imaginary scenery in real size, drawn from the floor to the ceiling. Little creatures, crazy trees, unbelievable worlds. By entering Kitty’s box, we all take the risk to fall back to childhood, to leave the world for a little while in order to better tame it afterwards and especially to better feel it, because after all, what’s the use of drawing a fish if we can’t imagine what it feels like to swim against the tide?

As dusk falls, the Guinguette lights up and the music gently cradles the words that have been waltzing all day long. Musicians join forces with the poets, and over six evenings invite us to dance and dream.

Jardin de la Maison Losseau
Rue de Nimy 37
April 23 – September 26, 2015
Thursday-Friday, 1 - 7 pm
Saturday, 11 am – 8 pm
Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm