The 2026 programme - 80e Festival d'Avignon

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Dear Mr President

SUNDAY 12 JULY 2026

The recent announcements of budget cuts affecting companies and performing arts institutions at national level are placing considerable uncertainty over the whole sector. Artists, technicians, and directors of venues and festivals fear for the future of their professions and for the public service mission of culture.

The Festival d'Avignon, a member of Syndeac, fully supports the mobilisation movement calling for a moratorium on the cuts announced for 2026, and for culture's share of the state budget to be defended at 1% by 2027.

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Under the Flag of Questions

  • EDITORIAL

To celebrate its 80th edition, the Festival d’Avignon raises the flag of questions. Poetic and political, intimate and collective, theatrical or choreographic, in French or Korean: a multitude of inquiries carried by the creativity of artists from across the country and around the world.

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A Sunrise with Christiane Taubira, Boris Charmatz, Laura Vazquez and Many Others

  • AUBE DES QUESTIONS

On 26 July at 5am, the Cour d’honneur will host L'Aube des questions, the final gathering of the 80th Festival d’Avignon. Alongside Aurélie Charon, Patrick Boucheron and Tiago Rodrigues, new guests will join this collective journey shaped by questions, including Christiane Taubira, Boris Charmatz, Maria Melchior, Régine Chopinot, Laura Vazquez, Blandine Rinkel, Camille de Toledo, Léonor de Récondo and many others.

A way to greet the rising sun and carry forward the spirit of an edition shaped by curiosity, dialogue, and the questions that connect us.

L'Aube des questions

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