Fifth anniversary of the seed library

Friday, September 18, 2026 - Inauguration of the vegetable garden beds and murals. 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM. All audiences: vegetable garden beds were installed at the back of the library, canal side, in June 2026. The children of Créanature (5-8 years old) planted vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees there. On the other hand, murals created by the participants of a Service Jeunesse workshop on environmental preservation will be installed on the library walls. The official inauguration of these elements will take place during this festive moment that is the seed library's anniversary. - Cocktail and nature toast workshop. 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM. All audiences: to celebrate this inauguration, the library facilitators will offer the public the chance to make their own drink and nature toast with various plants, vegetables, and flowers. - Intervention Les Incroyables Comestibles + PCDN + Apiary + Seed exchange. 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Adults: the beds provided are intended for the children of the Créanature workshop but also for the citizens of Seneffe. In this context, Sabine Meunier, representative of the Incredible Edibles of La Louvière, will come to share her experience in the field. Other speakers, this time from Seneffe, will inform citizens about the organizations linked to Nature present in the entity: PCDN, Didactic Apiary, seed library activities. - Screening-debate. 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Adults: film Plat de résistance by Marie Royer and Zinia Scorier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desAiSJza7s (Through audio recordings taken in the field and poetic animated images, this animated film portrays activists who use food as a tool in their anti-consumerist struggle) + film Mauvaise graine by Nadège Herrygers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desAiSJza7s (multi-award-winning short film that addresses the theme of the prohibition of peasant seeds and the food security that results from it). These screening-debates linked to the Incroyables Comestibles will be followed by a seed exchange. Saturday, September 19, 2026 - Manège Arbre nomadic. 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. Children: This fairground animation for children will be placed on the Place Penne d'Agenais. Between a mobile and a carousel, this tree is a metallic construction where a dozen subjects made of ironwork, wood, and ropes are mostly suspended or hooked. The majority of them are arboreal animals from all continents: Blanche des Clochers, the owl, Mimi Strella, the bat, Papy Léon, the butterfly, Miss Black, the spider, Doudou and Dam Dam Doudou, the monkeys, the Amiral Belle, the panther, Sigismond the snake, to which are added a nest, a pippin apple and its little worm... Lulu. - Local products stands. 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. All audiences: Around the carousel, on the Place Penne d'Agenais, various stands will be installed. These stands will be dedicated to Nature and the participants are actors of the Commune de Seneffe. Some stands have an informative vocation: such as the Compost Guides, the Didactic Apiary, others will also sell their products: the Potager Naturel de Petit-Roeulx-Lez-Nivelles, the Youth Center will hold a drinks and light catering stand with natural products. - Yoga on the theme of the seed. 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM. Parents-children (from 6 years old)*: Sophie Mutsaarts, creator of Art-Corps-Life, will offer a yoga session oriented on the evolution of the seed. Through different postures, children and parents will be invited to center body and mind around vegetation and its development. - Kamishibai bike ride. 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM and 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Parents-children (from 6 years old)*: The facilitator from the support operator will take the children accompanied by their parents for a bike ride that will be punctuated by stops with stories on the theme of Nature presented using a kamishibai fixed to the bike. An opportunity to enjoy the Seneffe landscape while listening to pretty bucolic tales. - Artistic nature sketching animation. 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Adults*: For 2 hours, adults will be introduced to naturalistic sketching techniques after a discovery walk of the local fauna and flora. This workshop invites you to take an attentive look at what surrounds us and keep a trace of it through drawing and color. The theme of this walk will be the seed. - Reading. 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Children: Our facilitators will deploy the wonders of the library's children's literature to take children into multiple stories on the theme of Nature. If the weather permits, this open-access activity will be given outdoors, near the vegetable garden beds. - Mini-scarecrow creations. 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Children: This artistic workshop will revolve around the creation of mini-scarecrows for the garden. Wooden stick, fabric, oil pastels, cord, and raffia... and that's it to protect the plants from little feathered gourmets and embellish the green beds. - Nature-themed board games. 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Children: facilitators experienced in the world of board games will deploy their board or card games for the amusement of young and old. The games presented will all be oriented towards the environment in order to play and learn at the same time! - Digital animation around the seed. 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Children: digital technology will be at the service of nature by offering interactive PC animations to children. On the screen, children will help the seed become a tree and click on the little animals that surround it... a fun and instructive moment. Registration essential: 064/52 17 87 or biblio@seneffe.be Free!