Spectator

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 monthly electronic newsletter. We advise doing so to receive information about the Festival’s dates, to follow the unveiling of the Festival’s programme, and to be informed of the opening of the ticket office. It’s also a way to receive information about La FabricA and about touring dates of shows that appeared at the Festival d’Avignon.

  Subscribe to our newsletter

If you have any questions,

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

  Link to the FAQ

• 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:

If you’re coming to the Festival with your family, you have several options:

• shows for younger audiences, with reduced rates for children. You can find them easily thanks to the “younger audiences” section in our menu. They most often play in the heart of the city, in the Pénitents blancs.

• free tours specifically designed for families, led by a cultural mediator working with the Festival d’Avignon

• a young spectator’s guide is available and contains games, advice, and anecdotes about the Festival, to entertain and educate children and adults alike! It is available to download on our website, and physical copies can be found at the Cloître Saint-Louis.

  Resources: Young spectator’s guide (french)

• 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

The Festival d’Avignon is made for you!

• Two, three, or even four shows for “younger audiences” are available every year, as well as shows that will make you lust for life and want to take action when you grow up! Not to mention classic texts and great authors who so often inspired your favourite TV shows…

• free tours specifically designed for families, led by a cultural mediator working with the Festival d’Avignon

• a young spectator’s guide is available and contains games, advice, and anecdotes about the Festival. It is available to download on our website, and physical copies can be found at the Cloître Saint-Louis.

  Resources: Young spectator’s guide (french)

• 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

• and lots and lots of projects: J'y suis, j'en suis or 400 enfants à l'honneur, to see shows with other youths and meet artists, Young culture and web.tv reporters, to learn how to shoot and edit videos about the Festival, Web-radio, to learn about how to create radio shows.

You can find more information about many of those projects here, but also in our monthly newsletter. Sign up for it if you don’t want to miss any registration deadline!

19% of individual festivalgoers are under 30! And according to our studies, our younger spectators like shows they can’t see anywhere else, such as hours-long epics! Who said the young don’t like adventure? And the Festival d’Avignon, well, that’s an adventure…

So if you want to experience it in the best conditions, here are a few ideas to save time and money!

• if you want to buy tickets, we have a special rate for young adults under 26, but there is also the Pass 4/40 (4 tickets for 40 euros), as well as partnerships with the city of Avignon, Avignon Université, the region, and the state for their “Pass culture”

• to plan your stay, download the app of the Festival and activate notifications. When tickets become available, you will be the first to know! And for those of you who tend to get lost, geo-tracking can help you get to the venues safely!

• if you want to work on a project during the Festival, some activities, like our Young Culture Reporters project, have been specifically designed to help you discover the Festival behind the scenes!

• if you’re looking for a job, we hire reception staff, custodians, and ticket agents every year. Don’t miss our calls for applications in early April!

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 want to come and organise your stay at the Festival d’Avignon with friends, acquaintances, colleagues, or members of your association, and book tickets for a group?

• a dedicated ticket office for groups is available

• preferential rates are available

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

To know more: groupe@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 of electronic glasses with built-in surtitles, audio description…

More generally, if you want some advice about our programme, or if you want to book tickets at reduced rates or communicate us your individual needs, you can contact us at:
accessibilite@festival-avignon.com

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