80^e Festival d'Avignon D-86 4 to 25 July 2026

The shows, exhibitions, debates and talks for the 2026 edition are available online on our website. You can filter the programme to create your own schedule and add ♡ to your favourite events, to create a personalised itinerary!

Did you know that the 80th Avignon Festival poster features a question mark banging its fist on a table? It is a way of celebrating an edition characterised by questions, fruitful doubt and curiosity.

Brand identity designed by the Marseille-based agency Perméable

…but features a predominantly female line-up. For this 80th Festival d’Avignon, 27 female project leaders have been invited alongside 16 men and 6 collectives.

To ensure smooth access and prevent the website from becoming overloaded, the first phase of online ticket sales this year will operate on a time-slot basis. Once registered, each ticket holder will be allocated a specific time slot in which to make their purchases.

A discussion with Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Festival d'Avignon, focusing on the key themes of the programme for the 80th edition. This will be followed by a free ticket pre-sale. The Festival d’Avignon team will be on hand to offer advice and answer questions.

What if young people were at the very heart of programming in Europe's major cultural institutions?
That is the ambition of the EUphoric Youth project, supported by the European Commission: to give young people from across Europe a voice so that they can actively participate in artistic and cultural life and beyond that, in democratic life. The Festival d'Avignon is committing to this endeavour until 2029, alongside 10 European organisations from Norway, the Netherlands, Latvia, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal.