Credit: Ievgenii Karanov, Chronicle.lu
On Saturday 6 June 2026, Canopée Produktion asbl hosted its open-air "Rendez-vous au Jardin de Canopée" festival in Luxembourg-Pfaffenthal, welcoming around 150 visitors for a programme of workshops, concerts, performances and guided tours.
According to Tessy Fritz, President of Canopée Produktion asbl, the festival is the organisation's annual open-garden event and forms part of the wider European "Rendez-vous aux Jardins" initiative, held annually across Europe. She explained that the gathering aims to bring people together around creativity, nature and community engagement while showcasing the work carried out at Canopée throughout the year.
Activities included a djembe workshop led by Ebrima Mass, an urban sketching workshop hosted by architect Mauro Doro of Urban Sketchers Luxembourg, and a macro photography workshop with Luisa Maria Stagno focusing on insect life in the garden. The programme also featured a concert by The Stereos, an apéro DJ set by Schallimo, a plant market and multilingual guided tours of the gardens led by members of the Canopée team.
“We have tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, eggplants, melons, zucchini, cucumbers and also amaranths, which are beautiful purple-red flowers that can grow up to two metres high,” said Tessy Fritz, noting that the plant market featured a variety of produce and flowers cultivated in the Canopée gardens.
“We provide two workshops a month: one focused more on artistic practice and another around gardening and biodiversity. So we have people around during the whole season,” she added. The activities are organised as part of Canopée's "Arts et Potager" programme and the annual European "Rendez-vous aux Jardins" initiative, combining artistic practices with environmental awareness and biodiversity projects in the organisation's permaculture garden.
Canopée is set to host a second "Rendez-vous aux Jardins" gathering in its gardens on 12 September 2026.
“We welcome everybody. There's a programme for the little ones, the big ones - for everybody. I think it's a very nice gathering where people can meet, and it's fun,” concluded Tessy Fritz.
