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Attending a show for the first time, going to a Festival for the first time is always an experience. If it turns out to be happy or unhappy, it very quickly becomes an anecdote that everyone likes to tell or a founding event or even a dreaded moment.

If you are coming to the Festival d'Avignon for the first time, here is the essential information to organize your visit at best! The festival is also for you!

Here are some tips on how to best organise your visit to the Festival:

Before the Festival :

• To find all the information you need to come to Avignon, go to the page Prepare your trip.

• To find all the information about ticketing, go to the page box office and prices. We offer many reduced rates thanks to the Festival and 3 Keys cards.

• Keep up to date with all our news by subscribing to our newsletter and by following us on social networks.

During the Festival :

• To get to the venues easily, our "Getting around during the Festival" section gives you all the addresses, as well as parking and self-service bicycle stations.

• Go to the Cloître Saint-Louis, 20 rue du Portail Boquier, where the Festival offices are located: receptionists are there to inform you about the programme for each day.

• Download our mobile application. If tickets are no longer available for the shows of your choice, activate the notifications to be informed of new ticket sales. For those who are not familiar with the city of Avignon: it is possible to create itineraries from where you are to any of the Festival venues.

• Take advantage of our guided tours to discover Avignon and its history through the Festival.

As a new festival-goer, many questions arise: Where to find information? How to choose? How to come? How to book?

All the answers to these questions are in our Q&A Access our Q@A

If you have any unanswered questions, don't hesitate to contact us :festival@festival-avignon.com

Take advantage of the guide "My first time" at the Festival d'Avignon" which is designed to answer all your questions. You will find: recommendations of shows, explanations. This guide is available from June.

This guide will be accompanied by an educational kit which includes a wide range of resources to help you make your choices during the Festival.

If you are a group, "first time" mediators will be on hand throughout the Festival. For more information: premierefois@festival-avignon.com

Whether this is your first or tenth time coming to the Festival d’Avignon, here is some information to make your experience more pleasant.

To find more information, you can:

• regularly check all Festival-related news on our website’s homepage

• subscribe to our pages on social networking sites

• subscribe to our newsletter. We advise doing so to receive information about the Festival’s dates, to follow the unveiling of the Festival’s programme. It’s also a way to receive information of cultural actions in the territory and about touring dates of shows that appeared at the Festival d’Avignon.

  Subscribe to our newsletter

If you have any questions,

• an Q&A lists the most common questions shared by festivalgoers, and yours might have already been answered.

  Link to the Q&A

• if your question hasn’t been answered yet, you can contact us at:
  festival@festival-avignon.com

Finally, to prepare for the Festival, find information about booking and ticket prices, learn more about the history of the Festival, etc., here are some more answers, by theme:

You come to the pleasure of the Festival with your family, take advantage of our accessible proposals for the youngest as for the adults!

• Do not hesitate to consult our first time shows, which are more accessible to a younger audience

• Discover the Festival and Avignon and its heritage by taking advantage of guided tours throughout the city

• stays for adults and children who want to live to the rhythm of the Festival and in the spirit of the Ceméa:

  Youth centres of the Festival d’Avignon

To make the most of your stay at the Festival, here are some ideas to save you time and money!

Booking:

Buy your 3 Keys Card for 1€ and benefit from reduced rates

We are partners of the Pass Culture of the City of Avignon, of the Ministry of Culture, of the Patch Culture of Avignon University and of the e-Pass of the Region, find out more on the page Booking

Organisation:

Download our application and activate the notifications. When tickets go on sale, you will be the first to know! For those who are not familiar with the city of Avignon: it is possible to create itineraries from where you are to any of the Festival venues.

Project:

Some proposals such as the Young Culture Reporters, À la jeunesse les micros or Between journalism and culture I choose both! have been specifically designed to let you discover the backstage! To find out more, see all our actions with the youth.

Employment:

We recruit receptionists, guards and ticket agents every year. Don't miss out on the online recruitment files from the first days of March!

Since the 77th edition and every year, a guest language is honoured at the Festival. In 2023, it is the English language that we wish to highlight. Many shows are accessible in English (interpreted and/or surtitled in English)

To find all the shows accessible in English, go to the "for English speakers" category.

If you are a teacher (at a primary or secondary school, or at a higher education institution) and are looking for resources to create a project for your class and/or to come with your students to the Festival, we encourage you to do so thanks to the following options:

• you can use pre-existing programmes or create an artistic and cultural education programme specifically tailored to your students; we can provide tools to help discover the performing arts and acquire skills such as eloquence, critical thinking, self-sufficiency, or creativity

• a lot of resources are available to you such as training sessions, educational booklets, online reports or recordings of shows

  Resources

• we also have a dedicated ticket office for groups, and you can use the passes created by the city, Avignon Université, the region, or the state to encourage youths to attend shows (you can contact us starting in April)

You are the relay of an association, a CSE, a company, a school, a medico-social or socio-cultural establishment and you wish to organise the visit of your group to the Festival d'Avignon:

• a dedicated ticket office for groups is available

• preferential rates are available

• there are, however, some specific modalities for group bookings (bookings available in April only, limited number of tickets and performance dates)

To know more: groupe(at)festival-avignon.com

Every year, the Festival d’Avignon works to make sure that people with disabilities aren’t excluded from culture, and we have been developing measures to respond to individual needs: maps of the venues with access information for people with reduced mobility, training of our staff to better respond to the needs of people with disabilities, increased number of subtitled plays and audio description…

An accessible website
With FACIL’iti, our website’s layout adapts to the needs of people with visual, motor, or cognitive disabilities. Many profiles are available to fit the needs of as many people as possible: visual impairment, Parkinson’s disease, age-related muscle loss, colour blindness, dyslexia, etc.
For a more comfortable experience, you can now customise the layout by choosing the profile that best suits you.

Access the service

Please let us know your needs so that we can adapt our reception. If you wish to receive advice on the program, make a reservation, or benefit from adapted rates:
accessibilite@festival-avignon.com

More practical info

In order for the shows of the Festival d’Avignon to be part of the offer for tourists in the region, we have been developing our partnerships with tourism professionals.

Tourist offices, hotels, hosts

• Programme: the programme is available at the Cloître Saint-Louis, but also at the Avignon tourist office and the Avignon Fnac.
  You can also download it from our website.
  We can also provide you with leaflets with summaries of the plays both in French and English to give to your customers, tourists, and guests. The deadline to be added to our mailing list is early April.

• Posters can be sent to tourist offices in April, and can be bought from our online store

• Ticket office: during the Festival, we send out a daily newsletter to inform you about what shows are available. We also recommend you download our application, which will automatically send you a notification when tickets for a show become available, and you will be able to buy them online wherever you are.

• Venues: how to come? Where to park? The answer to those questions can be found in our “venues” section, where you’ll find information about distances, car parks, and the fastest way to go from one venue to another.

  Venues of the Festival

• History: what better time to learn new things than the holidays? You’ll know everything about the history of the Festival d’Avignon thanks to our daily guided tours in French or English.

If you have any question:
festival@festival-avignon.com

Trip organisers

If you want to book tickets or organise an event at the Festival d’Avignon, you have two options:

• you focus on social tourism and want to introduce your customers to the Festival d’Avignon: we can work together to create a programme that fits your public:
  groupe@festival-avignon.com

The Festival d’Avignon is a partner of the UNAT. Every year, it provides their members with an activity plan to discover the history of the Festival.

• if you are a tour operator and you want to offer your customers the option to spend an evening at the Festival: cecile.asmar@festival-avignon.com