Saturday 26 July 2025
Relive the 79th edition of the Festival d’Avignon through music! Dive into the world of this year’s Festival with a playlist featuring iconic tracks heard during the performances.
A way to extend the Festival experience, ready to take with you anywhere.
Available on Spotify, Deezer, and Apple Music!
Saturday 26 July 2025
With 43 performances, 2 exhibitions, and over 200 other events, the Festival d’Avignon 2025 brought together an ever-growing audience around artistic offerings from all over the world. Diverse forms, stories, and perspectives to think, feel, question, and celebrate the world together.
On the final day of the Festival, attendance reached an exceptional rate of over 98%, a record high since 2016 !
A big thank you to the audience, the artists, the teams, and everyone who made the heart of the Festival beat during this edition.
Monday 21 July 2025
After English, Spanish, and Arabic, the Festival d’Avignon welcomes an Asian language that now shines across the globe: Korean. South Korean culture fascinates the world : K-pop, cinema, series, literature… But beyond this soft power, we seek to highlight the richness of Korean performing arts.
Announced today during a conversation with Tiago Rodrigues, Director of the Festival d’Avignon, as part of the Café des idées, in the presence of Jang Ho Kim, President of the Korea Arts Management Service, and Kyu Choi, Artistic Director of the Seoul Performing Arts Festival.
In the 15th century, King Sejong created the Hangul alphabet, designed to combat illiteracy—a creative, revolutionary gesture and a symbol of the democratization of knowledge. Unlike global languages often associated with dominance or the colonization of less widespread tongues, the Festival chooses to invite a national language that has itself been shaped by the influence of other cultures. A story of resistance and resilience.
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 theatre 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.
Because images, sound and digital technology can whet the appetite for live performances, the Festival develops media education projects. Throughout the year, and then in immersion in July, hundreds of young people appropriate the codes of the new media formats to make their voices and those of others heard.
The Festival d'Avignon offers practical workshops designed for as many people as possible, inviting the public to get into action : introductory modules to the world of the performing arts or to reinforce an artistic and cultural education programme.
