WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 2026, 4.30 pm
The Festival d'Avignon invites you to La FabricA for the presentation of the programme. To mark its 80th edition, the event will take on a whole new dimension.
You can also follow it live on festival-avignon.com
FROM 24 MARCH 2026, 10AM
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.
SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2026, 10am
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.
18 MARCH 2026
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.
FROM 4 TO 25 JULY 2026
For this 80th edition, Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Festival d'Avignon, invites us to look to the future: "This edition will be rooted in the future and projected towards the next eighty years of the Festival. It is to the future that the questions raised by the invited artists will be addressed, in line with Jean Vilar's utopia."
For the second consecutive year, the dates coincide with those of the festival off Avignon.
See you in early April to discover the programme for the Festival d'Avignon 2026.
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Today, on the eve of their 80th anniversary in 2027, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Festival d'Avignon and the Holland Festival are joining forces for the first time, combining their artistic visions for a special collaboration that marks the beginning of a shared journey for years to come, adding a new chapter to their shared legacy.
What if I don't understand anything? Will I feel like I belong? Am I dressed correctly?
Faced with these questions that we have all asked ourselves, the Festival works to make performing arts accessible to all. The "Fisrt time" project was born out of the desire to answer these questions, to respond to a desire to feel at home or to make coming to a performance more comfortable.
This programme offers young people from Avignon and the surrounding area the chance to experience the Festival in a different way: shows, workshops, meetings with artists and social events during a three- to four-day stay without accommodation.
The Festival d'Avignon has joined forces with Making Waves to offer young people from all over France the opportunity to discover the world of live performance and learn radio and interviewing techniques.
