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The Région SUD ensures the general interest and wellbeing of its inhabitants, as well as equality of opportunity on its territory. A land of culture, with over 1,200 events a year, it welcomes the greatest diversity of festivals in the world. Its Culture budget in 2023 was 62,028,350€, or 4% of the Region’s total budget. Cultural effervescence is in its DNA. The Festival d’Avignon dazzles and unsettles, and the Région SUD supports it for the power and influence of its artistic project as well as for its dynamic impact on the territory. Artists, technicians, spectators, tradesmen, artisans... all meet there. Culture is life!
The Région SUD celebrates the arrival of the Festival’s new direction and will take part in the Café des idées, a new event created by Tiago Rodrigues. 120 highschoolers from 10 local high schools will take part in the “Première fois” panel to talk about their experience as new spectators. A collaboration to raise awareness among young audiences about contemporary creation while sharpening their critical thinking.
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Performers' Services organisation: Rights Management, Project Funding, Advocacy and Career Counseling. Eight Talents Adami Théâtre actors play the game of reading in public by interpreting three English texts translated into French for the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon, which honours the English language.
Spedidam works to guarantee all artists the pay rights they have been granted. Spedidam distributes rights to 100,000 artists, over 40,000 of whom are Spedidam associates. In accordance with the law, Spedidam allocates part of the sums it collectes to aids to the creation and diffusion of the performing arts, to artistic and cultural education, and to the training of artists.
Spedidam is happy to renew its partnership with the Festival d’Avignon and to support this major European artistic event. In 2023, we are providing support for 6 shows, for a total of 37 performances and almost 31,000 spectators.
Employers and permanent or casual employees working in the world of theatre, of the performing arts, and of culture in general... Audiens is your partner when it comes to social protection. When it comes to supplementary persions, health funds, or Congés Spectacles: we’re here to serve. We also conduct many actions to help performing arts professionals in precarious situations or wanting to change careers. Audiens is a nonprofit group administered by the industry’s social partners.
Audiens is here to serve you in Avignon. Our counsellors and experts welcome you from 10 to 15 July at the Maison des professionnels in order to offer solutions that best fit your needs and to answer all your questions.
Part of a worldwide network, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni promotes French language and culture and encourages cooperation between France and the UK. The Institut welcomes over 100,000 people each year, thanks to its wide range of events, from film screenings and debates to festivals and concerts. With its flagship Franco-British programmes, Fluxus (contemporary art fund), Magnetic (visual artists residency network) and Diaphonique (contemporary music fund), the Institut supports the most ambitious artistic collaborations between French and British institutions and fosters creation from both sides of the Channel. The Institut français du Royaume-Uni is partnering with the Festival d'Avignon to celebrate the English language and to foster the promotion in the UK of French playwrights, by organising a special event on the Festival d'Avignon in London and by translating into English texts by French-speaking playwrights presented at this year's Festival.
The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia supports contemporary art and creativity in Switzerland on behalf of the Swiss Confederation. It seeks to disseminate and promote them abroad and cultivates national and international exchange. Pro Helvetia supports all artistic disciplines with the exception of film. Through its own initiatives, it contributes to the development of contemporary cultural life and creates new networks for Swiss cultural practitioners in Switzerland and abroad. The Foundation is based in Zurich and has a worldwide presence through its network of offices.
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. In the arts we work with a strong network of partners and cultural professionals to support new opportunities for artists, collaborations, partnerships, and artistic exchanges between the UK and French creative sectors. The British Council is proud to support the participation of UK artists in the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Avignon, and its focus on the English language. It is also a partner of the series of professional meetings in the frame of the Café des Idées.
The Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in France aims to develop and intensify cultural cooperation between France and Spain, to encourage mutual knowledge and to promote the collaboration and development of both countries. Particular priority is given to Spanish avant-garde artistic expression and the dissemination of emerging Spanish artistic production in France. The Spanish Embassy in France supports the presence and work of Spanish companies and artists in the Festival d'Avignon.
Camões – Portuguese cultural center in Paris promotes Portuguese culture in France as well the teaching of the Portuguese language. The Cultural Center fosters and supports projects that contribute to the internationalization of Portuguese culture in its various forms of artistic expression.Camões – Portuguese cultural center in Paris is regularly associated with this strong moment of creation and diversity, unique in the world by its ability to bring together artists and audiences.
The Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF) is the cultural section of the Austrian Embassy in Paris and is part of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.
It aims to strengthen the international image of Austria as a modern, open and dynamic cultural country and to promote cultural and scientific exchange between France and Austria. The promotion of contemporary Austrian cultural forms of expression is at the centre of the Austrian Cultural Forum's commitment.
The objective of the Austrian Cultural Forum is to support the presence and work of artists living in Austria at the Avignon Festival. This year it is the artist Michikazu Matsune.
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ARTE's mission is to bring Europeans closer together through culture. Fully in tune with the times, the channel, its arte.tv platform and its social channels give priority to creation, innovation and investigation, with a rich and diverse editorial offering and increasingly innovative original formats. Now available in 6 languages, ARTE is a cultural label unique in Europe.
As a long-standing partner of the Festival d'Avignon, ARTE is accompanying this 77th edition with the live broadcast of Philippe Quesne's Jardin des délices on July 10, and two events around H24, the series that inspired Mathilde Monnier for her new creation, on July 20 and 21 at the Collection Lambert. Arte will also be capturing and broadcasting Philippe Quesne's Le Jardin des délices at the 77th Avignon Festival on July 10 at 10:30pm, and making it available on arte.tv.
With its national and regional channels (France 2, France 3 and its 24 regional antennas, France 4, France 5, and France info), and its digital platforms (france.tv, francetv.sport, francetv.Slash, Okoo, Lumni, CultureBox and Outre-mer La 1ère), France Télévisions offers its public a rich, ambitious and unifying programming aimed at informing, educating and animating democratic debate, at national, local and international levels.
France Télévisions reaffirms its support for the Festival d'Avignon, a place of creative freedom and an unmissable event combining all forms of diversity and creativity. The France.tv website is the Festival's digital relay, offering daily updates on the cultural life of this major annual event. France Télévisions is also responsible for capturing Julie Deliquet's Welfare at the 77th Avignon Festival.
France 3 affirms its identity as a major general-interest channel with a dual national and regional vocation. With its unique network and 13 regional branches - including France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur – it combines major television genres with local programming, close to the public and on all media.
France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is proud to count the Festival d'Avignon among its partners. Through our news editions, on all our channels, we will be highlighting this major regional event, which arouses emotion and gives rhythm to the life of the region. France 3 PACA will also be recording and broadcasting Gwenaël Morin's show Le Songe on July 27, to coincide with the 77th Avignon Festival.
La Trois, Musiq3 and Auvio are RTBF's reference channels and platforms, showcasing the cultural life, creations, artists and venues of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, and offering a wide range of live performances, interviews and themed programs.
RTBF is a partner in the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both!" project organized by the Avignon Festival.
France Culture is the channel for knowledge, ideas and creative disciplines. Every day, it aims to enlighten the public on contemporary issues, on its terrestrial and digital channels. In tune with the evolution of all uses, France Culture develops different formats to broadcast more and more varied programs, in a way that is as accessible as it is demanding: magazines, interviews, discussion programs, news bulletins, documentaries and fiction. A benchmark for current affairs in all fields, France Culture is the 3rd most podcasted radio station, with a catalog of podcasts and a lively library of audio and video content. France Culture also records record audiences, with 1.7 million listeners every day.
The relationship between the Festival and public radio is a long-standing one, and one that is always renewed. Every summer, France Culture sets up its microphones at the Musée Calvet for readings and radio shows. These prestigious and popular programs attract a large and loyal audience.
France Inter, France's No. 1 radio station, with over 7 million daily listeners, the most listened-to morning show in France and over 45 million monthly podcasts, is fully committed to its mission as a general-interest public service channel, attracting an ever-growing and diverse audience. Committed to culture and artists,
France Inter is once again mobilizing to bring the Avignon Festival to life, with two programs of the emblematic "Le Masque et la Plume" being recorded on July 15, 2023.
France Bleu is the No. 1 media for local life, with 44 radio stations throughout France. France Bleu ranks among the TOP 3 media brands (radio/TV category) thanks to its digital offering, which attracts more than 10 million unique visitors per month. All year round, France Bleu Vaucluse informs and accompanies Vaucluse residents in their daily lives, throughout the territory and as close as possible to their centers of interest, and is committed to promoting "short circuits", the local economy, culture and those who are the pride of the Vaucluse.
Every summer in July, France Bleu Vaucluse lives to the rhythm of the Avignon Festival, offering daily encounters, show selections and interviews on stage or backstage. From 6 a.m. onwards, Vaucluse news and festival information is available on France bleu Vaucluse, francebleu.fr and the app HERE.
RFI is a French news radio station, broadcast worldwide in French and 16 other languages*, via 151 FM relays, shortwave, some 30 satellites to all five continents, the Internet and connected applications, with more than 1,870 partner radio stations carrying its programs. Thanks to the expertise of its editorial teams based in Paris and its network of 400 correspondents, RFI offers its listeners news and magazine programmes that provide keys to understanding the world. In 2022, RFI's worldwide radio audience reached 59.5 million listeners every week. Its digital environments record 24.6 million visits each month and bring together a community of 31.1 million subscribers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. RFI is the leading French news radio on Facebook. rfi.fr
RFI presents the 11th edition of its Ça va, ça va le monde cycle of readings at the Carmel d'Avignon. The six readings in this third-location venue are designed to introduce readers to authors from Africa and Haiti. RFI is also a partner of the Avignon Festival's "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project.
*English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Hausa, Khmer, Kiswahili, Mandenkan, Persian, Fulfulde, Portuguese, Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese.
The France Médias Monde group brings together France 24, the all-news channel (in French, English, Arabic and Spanish); RFI, world radio (in French and 16 other languages) and Monte Carlo Doualiya, Arabic-language radio. All three broadcast worldwide, in 21 languages. The group's journalists and its network of correspondents offer listeners, viewers and Internet users information that is open to the world and to the diversity of cultures and points of view, through news bulletins, reports, magazines and debates. 64 nationalities are represented among the employees. Each week, RFI, France 24 and Monte Carlo Doualiya attract 259.6 million contacts (average 2022). The group's three media gather more than 100 million subscribers on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Instagram, and counted more than 3.4 billion video views and audio starts in 2022. France Médias Monde is the parent company of CFI, the French media cooperation agency, and a shareholder in the French-language general-interest channel TV5MONDE. francemediasmonde.com
France Médias Monde is partnering 11 shows at the 77th Avignon Festival.
Free, inquisitive, festive and creative, Radio Nova is a pioneering musical medium that invites you to discover the many emerging talents on the international musical and cultural scene.
Radio Nova supports the 77th Festival d'Avignon with the broadcast of Transformer - Trilogie 72 by Silly Boy Blue.
Since 1986, Les Inrockuptibles has been following the path of prescription. For over 35 years, we've been scouring the margins and the world for those who are building tomorrow's culture. In their magazine and on their website, they transmit their discoveries and their singular points of view with rigor and impertinence. Music, cinema, literature, art, performing arts... Les Inrockuptibles takes a close look at the latest developments in all areas of creativity.
Performing arts, theater and dance are part of Les Inrockuptibles' DNA, and we're proud to be celebrating 20 years of history with the Festival d'Avignon this year! Les Inrockuptibles is a partner in the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project set up by the Festival d'Avignon.
With 6 million readers, 1 million socionauts, 430,000 subscribers and over 500 partner venues and festivals, the Télérama community continues to grow. Shows, arts, music, books, films, series, documentaries, radio, podcasts... Since its creation, Télérama has accompanied the evolution of cultural uses and practices of today's and tomorrow's culture lovers.
Every summer, the Festival d'Avignon is one to look forward to! This year, with new management, the anticipation is even greater. So it's with immense pleasure that Télérama offers a special supplement and issue for this wonderful celebration of the performing arts, an invitation to see and hear together! A wonderful Festival!
Founded in 1944 as a daily newspaper, Le Monde has become a media company that also publishes themed supplements and its magazine M, with a focus on independence, rigor and high editorial standards. Every month, Le Monde reaches 22 million readers, Internet and mobile users. Continuous daily coverage of international, French, economic and cultural news. Every day, four pages devoted to culture, with enriched content, portfolios and videos on its website and apps. That's why Le Monde is delighted to be associated with the Festival d'Avignon, and to share its enthusiasm for the event with its audience.
For almost 50 years, Libération has been a major player in the French press, thanks to its headlines, its inimitable style, its fights, its stances... And it's not about to stop! Libération is read by millions of readers every month, who come to discover exclusive investigations, revelations, reports, opinion pieces... Every day, the editorial team scrutinizes cultural and societal changes, initiates or actively participates in debates, and shakes up the powers that be. In recent years, Libération has reinvented itself by modernizing its editorial offering (more investigative reporting, new newsletters) and launching a new website. That's why Libération is delighted to be associated with the Festival d'Avignon and to share its enthusiasm for the event with its audience.
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Transfuge is a cultural magazine. Each month, it features long articles and interviews on current events in literature, the stage, cinema and the visual arts. Founded in 2005, it favors a demanding, international and multidisciplinary vision of art.
Transfuge has been a partner of the Avignon Festival since 2019, participating in the Territoires cinématographiques at the Utopia cinema by organizing debates between filmmakers and directors around a screening.
L'Humanité is a daily newspaper founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, published by Société Nouvelle du Journal L'Humanité. The press group also publishes L'Humanité Magazine, a weekly magazine, and the literary monthly Les Lettres Françaises, long edited by Louis Aragon. It has taken over the publication of La Terre, Le Magazine du Vivant, founded in 1937 and now a quarterly magazine as well as a cooperative digital platform. TAF, for Travailler au Futur, is also a quarterly magazine that doubles as a cooperative digital platform, entirely dedicated to work-related issues. Several special issues a year are dedicated to personalities, historical events and social movements. Since 1930, L'Humanité has organized the Fête de l'Humanité every second weekend in September.
L'Humanité is a partner of the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project organized by the Avignon Festival.
Created in 1992, the free monthly La Terrasse is the benchmark media for the performing arts. The journal, which also includes a website, has been covering the latest theatrical, choreographic and musical news for over 30 years, and is a memory of contemporary creation. The magazine is widely distributed by hand in the Paris region, as well as by mail order throughout France.
Since 2008, La Terrasse has published a special edition of Avignon en Scène(s), covering virtually the entire Avignon Festival program, as well as a selection of quality shows from Avignon Off. An essential tool, Avignon en Scène(s) strengthens the reputation of the title and consolidates its audience.
La Scène is the leading source of information for entertainment professionals. A reference magazine for keeping abreast of all the latest entertainment news and trends in the cultural world. A tool for analysis and reflection, it helps you better understand the performing arts industry, keep abreast of upcoming cultural projects, and expand your contacts and address book. Available by subscription and in specialized bookshops.
La Scène is a partner of the Crédit Coopératif-Festival d'Avignon meetings and of the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both!" scheme set up by the Festival d'Avignon.
Théâtre(s) is the French magazine dedicated to theatrical life. It places creation and the dramatic arts at the heart of its editorial concept. Théâtre(s) takes a fresh, lively and committed look at what's happening in the world of theater and those who make it. Combining reading pleasure, critical viewpoints, knowledge and a wealth of content, the magazine is aimed at audiences and professionals alike. Théâtre(s) is available from newsstands, specialist bookshops and by subscription.
Théâtre(s) is a partner of the Festival Côté Livre, organized by the Maison Jean Vilar, and of the project "Entre journalisme et culture, je choisis les deux!" organized by the Festival d'Avignon.
For over 10 years, Sceneweb has been keeping its readers up to date with the latest news in the performing arts, minute by minute, seven days a week. More than 800,000 unique visitors consult the site every year, which is becoming increasingly influential thanks to the freedom of tone of its team of professional journalists, experts in their fields, from puppetry to dance, circus to theater, opera to shows for young audiences.
Sceneweb is a partner in the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project set up by the Avignon Festival.
Les Echos is the benchmark daily newspaper for French decision-makers. The editorial team's journalists, experts in their fields, offer a better understanding of the world through economics. With topical issues, major investigations and podcasts, Les Echos offers comprehensive, in-depth coverage.
Les Echos is a partner of the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project set up by the Avignon Festival.
L'ADN is the mutant medium for a society that is absolutely reinventing itself. Because ecological disruption and technological acceleration present us with an unprecedented challenge, and because with their great power comes great responsibility for companies, we are committed to the advent of a new economy: based no longer on exploitation, but on the regeneration of our natural resources and human energy.
L'ADN is a partner of the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both!" project set up by the Festival d'Avignon.
Founded in 2016 by Guillaume Lacroix, Renaud Le Van Kim and Laurent Lucas, Brut is now France's and Europe's leading social media, with nearly 37 million people reached every month. Brut is aimed at 100% of 15-35 year-olds, and has won the support of this new generation thanks to the subjects that matter to them: culture, the place of women in society, mobilizations against global warming, the fight against discrimination...
By becoming a partner of the Avignon Festival for the first time, Brut hopes to encourage conversations around culture. Brut is convinced that the performing arts, as defended for years by the Festival d'Avignon, appeal to a young audience that shares its values every day, in culture as in society.
Zébuline is an independent community newspaper dedicated to promoting culture and the arts in the south-east of France. With a team of journalists specialized in these fields, Zébuline does not depend on any shareholder, and places culture at the heart of its reasoning and editorial construction, while taking a critical look at environmental and cultural policies, and discrimination.
Zébuline is a partner in the "Between journalism and culture, I choose both" project set up by the Festival d'Avignon.
Radio Campus France is the federation of 29 student radio stations localized in 30 cities in France, broadcasting continuously on FM and DAB+ and/or the web. Representing 29 independent student radios with eclectic editorial lines, Radio Campus France promotes the local expression of young people at a national and European level, showcases new talent from France and abroad, and provides a space for training and sharing radio know-how. Every year, our federation carries out a large number of collective or shared projects in the fields of music, cinema, literature, new technologies, sound creation, information and representation to institutions, focused on decoding different forms of artistic and cultural expression.
As part of its partnership with the Festival d'Avignon in 2023, Radio Campus France is relaying information on its website and broadcasting channels about the Festival's "A la jeunesse les micros" radio project, aimed at young people. Several campus radio stations will broadcast the programs produced by Making Waves.
Radio Radio is an independent radio station based in Toulouse. Since 2010, in partnership with Radio TER and Radio Radio +, it has been running a temporary radio station, "L'écho des planches", dedicated entirely to the Avignon Festival. Its programs are broadcast from the Maison Jean Vilar in Avignon, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, Bagnères-sur-Bigorre and on the Internet. Like a myriad of echoes, the editorial line aims to make the Festival's voices heard in all their diversity. The microphones are open to artists, directors, programmers, technicians, thinkers and intellectuals... for daily live and/or public meetings at the Maison Jean Vilar...
theatre-contemporain.net aims to make available to as many people as possible online resources in the form of texts, photos, audio and video documents, based on writing and stage design, with a particular focus on contemporary theatrical creation. Visited by 2.7 million unique visitors each year, who consult over 8 million pages, the site offers over 15,000 videos of interviews and extracts from shows documenting theatrical creation in the 21st century.
theatre-contemporain.net has been a partner of the Festival d'Avignon for over fifteen years, making archives of meetings, press conferences and extracts from shows available to all.
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The Maison Jean Vilar is a place for exhibitions, resources and meetings on theatre and performing arts, run jointly by the Association Jean Vilar and the branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Maison Jean Vilar was founded in 1979 by Paul Puaux, Jean Vilar's right-hand man and director of the Festival d'Avignon from 1971 to 1978. It gathers archives, in particular those of Jean Vilar and the Festival d'Avignon, and a specialised library dedicated to the performing arts.
The common heritage between the Festival d'Avignon and the Association Jean Vilar has led to a continuous and fruitful partnership around Jean Vilar and his impact on today's theatre, through round tables, meetings and the setting up of the Festival bookshop.
The Maison Jean Vilar is a place for exhibitions, resources and meetings on theatre and performing arts, run jointly by the Association Jean Vilar and the branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Maison Jean Vilar was founded in 1979 by Paul Puaux, Jean Vilar's right-hand man and director of the Festival d'Avignon from 1971 to 1978. It gathers archives, in particular those of Jean Vilar and the Festival d'Avignon, and a specialised library dedicated to the performing arts.
Created in 2016 under the impetus of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Corodis - Commission romande de diffusion des spectacles, the Sélection suisse en Avignon (SCH) is an association of public utility whose objective is to promote contemporary Swiss creation in the fields of theatre, dance and performance. Each year, it offers Swiss artists a time to present their work at the heart of theFestival d'Avignon, but also a personalised accompaniment to make this presence in Avignon the generator of contacts and tours in the networks of theatres and international professional festivals. In 2023, the Swiss Selection in Avignon and the Festival d'Avignon will co-host the show L'œil nu by choreographer Maud Blandel.
With a demanding yet popular artistic proposal focused on creation, emergence, and discovery, Printemps de Bourges Crédit Mutuel heralds the arrival of summer festivals each year by showcasing the finest in contemporary music. This renowned event features 150 artists, each equally distinct and talented, including the "iNOUïS," emerging from the largest national program for identifying, selecting, and supporting young artists, piquing the curiosity of thousands of industry professionals. As the foremost festival of contemporary music creations, Printemps will showcase "Trilogie 72," a retro-futuristic series led by Léonie Pernet, Silly Boy Blue, and la Maison Tellier, propelling the year 1972 and its masterpieces, Ziggy Stardust, Transformer, and Harvest, into the 22nd century.
The Ceméa have been developing their educational action for over 80 years, in close collbarotation with the most emancipatory cultural and social currents of our society: artistic creation, scientific progress, and social struggles. As part of the association Centres de jeunes et de séjours, the partnership between the Festival, the Avignon city hall, and the Ceméa guarantees the political and educational success of this project for the attraction of new audiences and the training of actors of cultural action.
The stays, training sessions, and dialogue spaces at the Café des idées are part of a project of cultural openness and popular education. Based on the programme of the Festival and on active education methods, this partnership works towards individual emancipation through artistic experience.
The National Higher Institute of Artistic and Cultural Education is a public institution of higher education created within the Cnam in response to the wishes of the Ministries of National Education and Youth, Higher Education and Research, Culture, the Brittany Region, the Côtes-d'Armor Department, Guingamp-Paimpol Agglomeration, the City of Guingamp and the Cnam to deploy a place dedicated to training, research and production resources in EAC.
Inseac, within the Dicen-IDF laboratory, has the mission of carrying out the survey on the audiences of the Festival and the implementation of the EAC. In 2022, 15 students from a Breton college were supported as part of the Ceméa.
Creation aimed at children and youths is rich and inventive. It’s a symbol of hope, a project for our society. That’s the promise of Scènes d’enfance - Assitej France, which brings together all the forces of this sector, on the national and international stage. The association leads several ambitious projects as part of a multi-annual convention with the State. Its aim is to contribute to the definition of cultural policy aimed at younger generations.
Scènes d’enfance - ASSITEJ France leads the project “Avignon, enfants à l’honneur”. It allows hundreds of children from all over France, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to experience artistic creation. Those children take part in a special project in the Cour d’honneur conceived with the team of the Festival, and attend several shows.
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The Crédit Coopératif Foundation acts at the forefront and in the wake of the bank that created it, to support the innovations of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) at the service of transitions. Because the ecological emergency and social fractures are the major challenges of our time and because the SSE is a pioneer of solutions, the Foundation supports projects that help the SSE to grow and strengthen its influence for a fairer and more united society, in harmony with the planet.
The Fondation Crédit Coopératif has been the main sponsor of the Festival d'Avignon since 2011. This loyal relationship is based on a shared conviction: that popular attendance of the performing arts is an essential driver of citizen emancipation and the collective imagination that the world needs.
Ammodo supports the development of arts, architecture and science by contributing to innovative projects and cutting-edge scientific research. Ammodo supports the creation of two new co-productions for the 2023 edition of Festival d’Avignon. These are Welfare by Julie Deliquet and Antigone in the Amazon by Milo Rau.
The members of the Cercle des entreprises mécènes : Acceo, l’ADN Groupe, AXA-Agence Sentilhes, BMW MINI Foch Automobiles, CBA Informatique, CAE "Concept assainissement Environnement", Canon, Cars Bouisse, l’Echo du Mardi, Facil’iti, Granier Assurances, Hôtel des ventes d’Avignon, Hôtel La Mirande, JAL Conseil, J. Causse & Associés, La Maison du Bon Café, Point Vision Cavaillon, Le Répertoire, Ressources, Timcod, Voyages Arnaud.
Our individual supporters : Sévrine Andre Liebaut, Jad Ariss, Julie Avrane, Constant Barbas, Bensadoun Marie-Hélène, Patrick Blanc, Marc et Isabelle Blanc-Jouvan, Guillaume Bolot, Mohamed Bouabdallah, Sylvie Boulègue, Sylvie Boulle, Hugues Bourgeois, Dominique Butticaz, Pierre-Yves Chopin, Bernard Coron, Christine Cremel, Claude Creton, Florence Curimbaba, Eric et Nathalie de Lacroix Vaubois, Juliette de Wouters-Chevalier, Valérie Dionne, Caroline Douchet, André Dufour, Pascal Duris, Bruno Emsens, Philippe Estivalèzes, Julien Facon, Jean-Pierre Fontanel, Laure Fournier-Kaltenbach, Montserrat Franco, Pierre Frange, Thierry Gadou et Laure Roynette Gadou, Philippe Gazagnes, Antoine Georges, Dominique Gineste, Arnaud de Giovanni, Jean-Claude Grimal, Jean-Marie Gurne, Pascal Houzelot, Judith Housez-Aubry, Mardiros Kaloustian, Pierre Kowalewski, Louis Labadens, Sophie Lacoste Dournel, Laurent Lagadec, Serge Le Borgne et à la mémoire de Patrick Binet, Alain Le Pecheur, Michel Lheritier, Claude Miguet, Corinne Minot, Jean-Pierre Mongarny, Claire Paix, Thierry Pichon, Michel Pinczewski, Paul-Eric Ranchin, Hélène Reltgen, Pierre Saliou, Louis Schweitzer, Olivier Sibony, Bernard Teyssonnieres, Brigitte Tondu, Gérard Trial, Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, Bernadette Voinet-Bellon, Sylvie Wahl, Aline et Boris Walbaum, Philippe Zaoui
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About AXA France
A subsidiary of the AXA Group, headed by Patrick Cohen, AXA France is France's leading insurer. A multi-specialist insurer, it protects 7 million customers, individuals, businesses and professionals, thanks to the expertise and proximity of its sales networks and nearly 14,000 employees.
We see our business as an insurer committed to a sustainable and inclusive world, in line with our local roots.
"By becoming a sponsor of the Avignon Festival, AXA is supporting a key event in French cultural life, which attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators every year. It's a unique event that places the performing arts at the heart of a timeless heritage. Through the sponsorship of AXA Mutuals, we want to contribute to what matters to the French, in the same way that we invent the insurance that suits them every day. We support more than 100 projects throughout France in the fields of health, the environment, solidarity and heritage, so that we can continue to 'act for human progress by protecting what matters'. Clément Rouxel, Head of Strategy, Commitment and Communications at AXA France.
Magirus Camiva is a subsidiary in France of Magirus and belonging to the Iveco Group. With the experience, know-how and passion of Magirus, Magirus Camiva in France is one of the main actor in the fire fighting world. With its maintenance workshop for aerial ladders and fire-fighting vehicles, its customization workshop for finishing new vehicles, its spare parts and accessories services and an after-sales service for the global market, Magirus Camiva offer a complete range of fire fighting vehicles and a global offer to firefighters.
Magirus Camiva is the fire safety partner of the Avignon Festival. Extinguishing means have been put in place to prevent fire risks and to ensure the overall safety of the site. Motor-driven pumps with hoses and lances, as well as the new Heliskid, a self-contained structure equipped with its own motor-driven pump and a water capacity of 3000L, will be in service to support the fire and emergency services.
The non-for-profit Association Georges Hourdin encourages initiatives that enable people and communities suffering from poverty and exclusion to express themselves. It believes that their reflections, drawn from their life experience, are crucial to building a fairer, more humane society.
urbiorbi, le hub is a hybrid and agile structure, which breaks with the traditional model of the communications agency to be more in tune with new uses and working methods. We rely on a modular and flexible approach by combining the skills and expertise of our partners, genuine lovers of words and images. Our goal is to gain thorough understanding of our clients’ challenges, and support them with tailored, creative, bold and meaningful solutions.
Sharing our expertise with the Festival d'Avignon for the third consecutive year was the purpose of this skill-based sponsorship during which we have supported the teams by designing their brochure L'Essentiel, which offers an overview of the initiatives carried out by this unique Festival.
Partners
Through our network of 11 cooperatives spread all over the French territory, we empower citizens, public entities and companies in the energy sector. The cooperatives act to make the energy transition local, citizen-lead and inclusive. They produce and supply renewable and offer energy saving services. Enercoop is highly committed in developing renewable energies, reducing the waste of resources, put humans before profit, develop energy solidarity and support cooperatives
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Enercoop is proud to partner with the Festival d'Avignon and to support its efforts towards a citizen-led energy transition with our 100% renewable electricity supply
The convent at 3 rue de l'Observance was first built in the 15th century. Congregations followed one another, transforming the house over time into a large building of almost 2,000m2, nestled in 1.2 hectares of parkland along the southern ramparts. The most recent community, the Carmelites, had occupied the premises since the early 19th century. They left on 10 October 2022, leaving the "Tiers-Lieu du Carmel d'Avignon" association to come up with a new use for the premises. Renamed La Respélid', the former Carmelite monastery will eventually be transformed into an intergenerational, ecological, social and cultural living space.
Situated in the south of the Rhône Valley, only 20 minutes from Avignon, Vacqueyras is a renowned wine village. Nestled between vineyards, wooded hills and valleys, protected by the famous Dentelles de Montmirail massif which overlooks the village, the Vacqueyras vineyards cover 1,460 hectares. Thanks to its diversity of soils and terroirs, the appellation is made up of 3 colours: red Vacqueyras (94%), white (5%) and rosé (1%). Since 1998, Vacqueyras has been supporting the Festival d'Avignon as part of its commitment to the attractiveness and cultural influence of its region. The Cru has been honoured to be the "Official Cru of the Festival d'Avignon" for 25 consecutive years, in recognition of the know-how of the winegrowers. For each edition, 3 Vacqueyras vintages are selected and given a collector's label combining the Festival d'Avignon poster and the visual of the estate.
Avignon, capital of culture, Vacqueyras land of culture. Vacqueyras has been the official wine of the Festival d'Avignon for 25 years. For 25 years we have been honoured to be chosen each year as the wine of the Festival d'Avignon. For 25 years we have been proud to support one of the most important international events in contemporary performing arts, based in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It seems obvious to us that we should be associated with culture, with cultural works. The Festival d'Avignon, a living theatre and a place of artistic expression, just like the Vacqueyras appellation, a place where winegrowers express themselves through their wines.
Partners of the Café des idées and the Maison des professionnels
The association Alternatives théâtrales has been publishing, since its foundation in 1979, an eponymous magazine dedicated to the presentation, study, and analysis of the performing arts. 148 issues have already been created, focusing on a theme, a discipline, a country, a playwright, or a work. They take part in the constitution of a memory of contemporary drama creation in Europe and in the world.
The Festival d’Avignon and Alternatives théâtrales regularly organise public encounters on jointly chosen subjects. In July 2023, it’s the question of the relationship “Theatre/Landscape” which will be tackled upon the launch of issue 149 of the magazine, headed by Christophe Triau and Chloé Larmet.
For a number of years, the Festival d’Avignon and Amnesty International France have co-organised several events and debates. For this edition, we will focus on the subject of gender and racial discrimination.
Placed under the authority of the ministry of Higher Education and Research, the French National Research Agency (ANR) has supported research in all its diversity since 2005, contributing to the development of sciences and technologies. The Agency finances and oversees research projects across all disciplines, including many projects focused on culture and creativity. The Agency is also piloting a « France 2030 » investment plan in the fields of research and higher education.
Since 2014, “At the Crossroads between Research and Artistic Creativity” has aimed to experiment each year with new means of dialogue for artists and researchers, as well as establish connections between international research and issues that cultural agents are concerned with.
Creation aimed at children and youths is rich and inventive. It’s a symbol of hope, a project for our society. That’s the promise of Scènes d’enfance - Assitej France, which brings together all the forces of this sector, on the national and international stage. The association leads several ambitious projects as part of a multi-annual convention with the State. Its aim is to contribute to the definition of cultural policy aimed at younger generations.
Scènes d’enfance - ASSITEJ France leads the project “Avignon, enfants à l’honneur”. It allows hundreds of children from all over France, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to experience artistic creation. Those children take part in a special project in the Cour d’honneur conceived with the team of the Festival, and attend several shows.
The Ceméa have been developing their educational action for over 80 years, in close collbarotation with the most emancipatory cultural and social currents of our society: artistic creation, scientific progress, and social struggles. As part of the association Centres de jeunes et de séjours, the partnership between the Festival, the Avignon city hall, and the Ceméa guarantees the political and educational success of this project for the attraction of new audiences and the training of actors of cultural action.
The stays, training sessions, and dialogue spaces at the Café des idées are part of a project of cultural openness and popular education. Based on the programme of the Festival and on active education methods, this partnership works towards individual emancipation through artistic experience.
Dark Euphoria is an artistic production agency based in Marseille. We produce projects at the crossroads between art and digital technologies and explore new tools shared between artists, creative technologists and cultural institutions. As a pioneer in the production of XR and live performance, Dark Euphoria is particularly committed to reinvent theatrical, musical and choreographic forms as well as the place of the audience.
In the frame of Le Café des idées, Dark Euphoria, Grenier à Sel, French Tech Grande Provence and Villa Créative are organizing "Spectacle vivant, scènes numériques" on July 12 and 13 to bring together professionals around the question of melting live performance and digital experiences.
The École supérieure d’art d’Avignon is a higher education institution under the supervision of the City of Avignon and the Minister of Culture. Its training courses combine practice and art theory (“creation” option) with the teaching of conservation-restoration (“conservation-restoration of cultural goods” option). The ESAA prepares students for national diplomas conferring university Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. The ESAA is directed by Morgan Labar.
The Festival and the ESAA joined forces in 2022 around shared projects in the serveice of research in the field of art, in partnership with the SACRe research laboratory. The theme for 2023: “Taking care (conserving, preserving, exposing, perfoming) of things and landscapes”.
Go to the ESAA's website (École Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon)
The Laboratoire d’Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (EMMA) is a research unit of Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 University. EMMA is a team of researchers specialising in the language, literature, culture and history of the 19th – 21st century English-speaking world.
EMMA is co-funding the meeting with Tim Crouch organised by Marianne Drugeon, Emeline Jouve, Sophie Maruéjouls and Déborah Prudhon.
Foi et Culture, born in 1966 of the frienship between Père Chave and Jean Vilar, is an association of the Avignon diocese which, every year, builds bridges between the world of culture and the Church. During the Festival, Foi et Culture organises panels with directors or actors. Open to the public, those panels are hosted by Dominican friars.
A collaboration between the Fondation Abbé Pierre, the Scène nationale la Garance, the association Le Village, Emmaüs France and the City of Avignon, C’est pas du luxe ! supports artistic projects throughout France, co-created within associations that fight against exclusions with professional artists. Every two years, an eponymous festival brings those diverse works to Avignon in September to counter stigmatisations and open our eyes to the other.
Concerned by the place of people in precarious situations in society, the Festival d’Avignon and C’est pas du luxe ! work together to organise debates around those questions.
The association La French Tech Grande Provence federates the actors of the digital ecosystem, entrepreneurship and innovation on 16 communities of municipalities and agglomerations. With its expertise in supporting innovative projects for the cultural and creative industries, it opens since 2019 to all sectors of innovation to develop conditions conducive to the emergence, development and sustainability of startups and innovative companies. The French Tech Grande Provence with Dark Euphoria, La Villa Créative and the Grenier à Sel, organizes the professional days "spectacle vivant scènes numériques" as part of the Café des idées.
The Crédit Coopératif Foundation acts at the forefront and in the wake of the bank that created it, to support the innovations of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) at the service of transitions. Because the ecological emergency and social fractures are the major challenges of our time and because the SSE is a pioneer of solutions, the Foundation supports projects that help the SSE to grow and strengthen its influence for a fairer and more united society, in harmony with the planet.
The Fondation Crédit Coopératif has been the main sponsor of the Festival d'Avignon since 2011. This loyal relationship is based on a shared conviction: that popular attendance of the performing arts is an essential driver of citizen emancipation and the collective imagination that the world needs.
Le Grenier à sel is a cultural place whose ambition is to explore new areas of creation, at the crossroads between art, science and technology. With exhibitions, shows, residencies, workshops and meetings, its program invites to invent and dream the world of tomorrow. Le Grenier à sel is a place initiated by EDIS, a general interest organization whose vocation is to support emerging artistic practices and to allow their access to a large and diversified public.
Le Grenier à sel is co-organizing and hosting the event Spectacles vivants, scènes numériques on July 12 and 13, in the Café des idées: two days of meetings and workshops to think about digital transition and innovation in the performing arts.
The Institut de Recherche en Etudes Théâtrales is a team of researchers working on the history of theatre and the poetic sof contemporary creation. The SefeA (Scènes Francophones et Ecritures de l’Altérité) is a collective within the Institut de Recherche en Études Théâtrales which looks into the aesthetics of dramatic productions influenced by colonial history and by the history of migrations, at the crossroads between several territories, several imaginary worlds, several memories.
Developing moments of sharing and reflection aimed at the general public, in the form of panels, conferences, debates, screenings, readings...
The symposium will take place on 14 July 2023, from 3 to 6pm: Jean-Marie Serreau, a visionary builder of the Festival d’Avignon.
The Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) is a research unit of Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès University where researchers work on the main areas of English studies (literature, culture, linguistics, cinema, arts…).
Le CAS is co-funding the meeting with Tim Crouch organised by Marianne Drugeon, Emeline Jouve, Sophie Maruéjouls and Déborah Prudhon.
Founded in 2005, the Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) is a research unit of Aix-Marseille University (UR 853), where researchers work on the English-speaking world, its languages, cultures and cultural productions, as well as its interactions with the various geographical areas.
The LERMA is co-funding the meeting with Tim Crouch organised by Marianne Drugeon, Emeline Jouve, Sophie Maruéjouls and Déborah Prudhon.
Since 1927, the Licra has been at the forefront of all the struggles against racism and antisemitism. Deeply attached to the values of the Republic, it defends a simple principle: the universality of human rights. The Licra network now includes 62 sections, for over 3,000 members in France and abroad. In the face of the tensions dividing our society, the Licra is committed to the construction of a more fraternal Republic and to the development of an antiracist culture.
For the past several years, the Festival d’Avignon has asked the Licra to host a debate.
Born of a meeting between journalists, directors, and actors of the social field, Making Waves was founded to encourage, through radio and podcasting, the appearance of spaces of dialogue, transmission, and creation. In a spirit of both inclusion and education, our activity is structured around three poles, all connected – via the field of audio creation – to the promotion of freedom of speech and access to information and culture: Making Waves ONG, Making Waves Insertion, and Making Waves Studio.
As part of the 2023 Festival d’Avignon, Making Waves will create a temporary radio station overseen by fifteen young adults aged 16 to 25 from working-class neighbourhoods in Seine-Saint-Denis and Avignon. They’ll host a daily public show in the courtyard of the Cloître Saint-Louis, which will be broadcast live on the Radios Campus network.
News Tank Culture is a reference medium for professionals of the cultural sector. Dedicated to cultural policy and to the economics of culture, it is aimed at company directors and policymakers. Through original interviews, legal and policy reporting, and daily newsfeeds, News Tank Culture tackles strategy, economic models, and innovations. It offers decision-making tools and relays important nominations in the field.
For the 3rd year in a row, News Tank Culture and the Festival d’Avignon are organising a two-day event with debates for professionals and artists around the question “The performing arts in 2050?”
This year’s theme: “Power to the artists?”
Esprit is a monthly ideas and culture magazine. Founded in 1932 by philosopher Emmanuel Mounier, it has been characterised, throughout the 20th century, by its powerful and seminal commitments to anticolonial struggles, to the emerge of an anti-totalitarian left, or to the development of international criminal justice. Today, it continues to bring together writers and readers looking for keys to “understand the world that is to come.”
As part of the Café des idées, Esprit will host two round-table discussions to contrast the perspectives of intellectuals and contemporary artists about the social challenges we currently face.
The Région SUD ensures the general interest and wellbeing of its inhabitants, as well as equality of opportunity on its territory. A land of culture, with over 1,200 events a year, it welcomes the greatest diversity of festivals in the world. Its Culture budget in 2023 was 62,028,350€, or 4% of the Region’s total budget. Cultural effervescence is in its DNA. The Festival d’Avignon dazzles and unsettles, and the Région SUD supports it for the power and influence of its artistic project as well as for its dynamic impact on the territory. Artists, technicians, spectators, tradesmen, artisans... all meet there. Culture is life!
The Région SUD celebrates the arrival of the Festival’s new direction and will take part in the Café des idées, a new event created by Tiago Rodrigues. 120 highschoolers from 10 local high schools will take part in the “Première fois” panel to talk about their experience as new spectators. A collaboration to raise awareness among young audiences about contemporary creation while sharpening their critical thinking.
SACRe is a laboratory and a doctoral studies and creation project by the Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres), which brings together six internationally renowned schools with a history of artistic and scientific excellence (CNSAD-PSL, CNSMDP, ENSAD, La Fémis, les Beaux-Arts de Paris, ENS-PSL). The SACRe laborartory aims to explore the relationships between research and creation through various artistic disciplines and scientific fields.
The SACRe laboratory of the Université PSL and the Ecole supérieure d’art d’Avignon partner with the Festival d’Avignon to present a programme bridging the gap between research and creation around a shared theme: “Looking after things and landscapes”, on 20 and 21 July 2023.
The ACDN represents the 38 National Performing Arts Centres. The organisation coordinates the strategic thinking, actions and joint work across the network, in order to promote its missions and catalyse its development. By establishing relationships with both other portfolio organisations supported by the Ministry of Culture and with leading stakeholders of the performing arts sector, the ACDN fuels the dialogue across the arts ecosystem with a view to championing the sector's shared objectives.
Through this pivotal role, the ACDN actively supports and create improved conditions for Performing Arts Centres to achieve their mission and deliver against their agreed objectives, as the organisations responsible for ensuring audience access to theatre in all its diversity and across the country.
Funded by the ministry of Culture
Afdas is the opérateur de compétences (Opco) for professionals in the culture, creative, and recreational industries. Its mission is to accompany institutions and individual beneficiaries, intermittent entertainment workers and artists-authors, in their respective process of professionalisation, through the creation and financing of training and consulting actions. Dedicated to social innovation, this Opco’s ambition is to help individuals and, through them, all its sectors, grow.
Through its commitment to local action, Afdas is a partner of the Festival d’Avignon, in the service of professionals of the performing arts.
Employers and permanent or casual employees working in the world of theatre, of the performing arts, and of culture in general... Audiens is your partner when it comes to social protection. When it comes to supplementary persions, health funds, or Congés Spectacles: we’re here to serve. We also conduct many actions to help performing arts professionals in precarious situations or wanting to change careers. Audiens is a nonprofit group administered by the industry’s social partners.
Audiens is here to serve you in Avignon. Our counsellors and experts welcome you from 10 to 15 July at the Maison des professionnels in order to offer solutions that best fit your needs and to answer all your questions.
COFAC, associative cultural coordination, gathers 28 federations and national associations working in all fields of amateur artistic and cultural practices. It allows associative actors to reflect and act in a concerted manner on the place of associations, volunteers, amateurs, and the public in the elaboration of cultural policies. From cultural heritage to performing arts, from music to theater, radio or video, COFAC represents more than 40 000 cultural associations.
Main cultural federations and associations’ coordination, COFAC creates an environment for cultural rights, amateur practices, and voluntary commitment to reinforce cultural democracy, where everyone is a cultural actor.
European Theatre Convention is the largest European network of public theatres, with 61 members in 30 countries. ETC offers a wide range of activities, some of which are open to non-members, supports contemporary theatre creation in Europe, the training of theatre professionals and represents the interests of the sector at a political level. The network works in particular on issues of sustainability, gender equality, diversity, and links with audiences and digital practices.
In the frame of the Festival, ETC holds the European Theatre Academy (4 – 8 July) and the European Theatre Talks (7 July).
The driving force behind many of the profession’s major fights, CGT Spectacle stands alongside employees to defend their interests. It brings together many of the profession’s major unions: SYNPTAC CGT (technical, administrative), the Syndicat Français des Artistes Interprètes and the Syndicat National des Artistes Musiciens.
Dedicated to giving a voice to the workers of the performing arts, CGT Spectacle organises actions which revolve around social dialogue among performing arts regional committees to keep a finger on the profession’s pulse.
Fédération Communication, Conseil, Culture CFDT and the Syndicat national des artistes et des professionnels de l’animation, du sport et de la Culture (SNAPAC) CFDT
The F3C-CFDT and the SNAPAC will be present in the Cloître Saint-Louis from 6 July to 16 July, from 10 to 12 and 2:30 to 5 in the salle commission on the 1st floor—at the ISTS.
Created in 1960, the FNCC is a national association of more than 450 local governments of all size and political tendencies. The federation aims to promote a cultural decentralization respectful of local diversity. The FNCC supports local elected representatives with workshops, exchanges and training sessions and, through her connections with the ministry of culture, the French Parliament and professional organizations, carries the voice of local authorities on a national level.
From the start, the FNCC is deeply involved in the intellectual and political activities of the Festival d’Avignon. Its yearly "Journées d’Avignon" are as important for the statutory meetings than for the workshops and seminars the federation organizes.
The Fonds de Professionalisation et de Solidarité aims to provide security to performing arts artists and technicians in difficult situations or who are no longer entitled to unemployment compensation. Audiens handles the social and professional aspect, offers individualised support and professional aid to jumpstart careers or support professional reorientation projects. It also provides individualised accompaniment for specific situations: motherhood, illness, seniors.
As a partner of the Festival, the Fonds de Professionalisation et de Solidarité works with performing arts artists and technicans who wish to revitalise their careers and will be present from 10 to 15 July at the cloître Saint-Louis (by appointment).
The Observatoire des politiques culturelles (OPC) is a national institution dedicated to cultural policy. It conducts studies, publishes analyses, trains culture professionals, organises public panels, and oversees cooperative actions between territorial authorities. For the past 30 years, it has been an intermediary between the actors who play a part in creating cultural policy.
A longtime partner of the Festival d’Avignon, the OPC organises professional panels to present the results of its studies and discuss cultural policy questions.
Founded in 1944, the SNMS protects the social and legal rights of directors in France, regardless of their professional branch. It has also worked toward the recognition of directing as a dramatic work in and of itself and of the director’s copyright. The SNMS works in a spirit of professional solidarity, which is vital in a context of great difficulty for all artistc professions.
Following on from the debates it organised in 2021 and 2022, the Syndicat Natioanl des Metteuses et Metteurs en Scène is once again partnering with the Festival In to organise a debate focusing on the social issues and challenges that face the profession.
Created in 1995, the Syndicat National des Scènes Publiques—the professional chamber of the performing arts for permanent theatres and festivals—brings together over 250 cultural institutions subsidised for the most part by territorial communities. Those structures play a large part in the dynamism of the country’s artistic life and are an essential link in the chain of production and diffusion. The SNSP defends the idea of the performing arts as a public service for local communities.
Since its foundation, the SNSP has been a partner of the Festival d’Avignon and has organised, at the Maison des professionnels, plenary sessions for its members as well as panels revolving around cultural issues.
Spedidam works to guarantee all artists the pay rights they have been granted. Spedidam distributes rights to 100,000 artists, over 40,000 of whom are Spedidam associates. In accordance with the law, Spedidam allocates part of the sums it collectes to aids to the creation and diffusion of the performing arts, to artistic and cultural education, and to the training of artists.
Spedidam is happy to renew its partnership with the Festival d’Avignon and to support this major European artistic event. In 2023, we are providing support for 6 shows, for a total of 37 performances and almost 31,000 spectators.
The Syndeac (national union of artistic and cultural enterprises) brings together over 450 members—centres dramatiques nationaux, centres chorégraphiques nationaux, scènes nationales, scènes conventionnées, city theatres, and festivals, as well as dance, theatre, lyrical, musical, urban arts or circus companies...
The Festival d’Avignon is an opportunity for the Syndeac to meet its members and sound their opinion on cultural policies. The great debate it co-produces with the Festival d’Avignon aims to promote collective reflection and exchange about topics dear to its members and to the public.
Thalie Santé, the result of a merger between the CMB and the CMPC, is the occupational health service dedicated to the cultural sector. It provides occupational health support to performing arts artists and technicians in France and helps employers prevent occupational risks.
Urssaf acts for a sustainable and solidarity-based social protection. The organization collects from users and redistributes the contributions necessary to finance the French social model. As artist-authors, broadcasters you benefit from a specific regime. Find all the information on urssaf.fr > artists-authors, broadcasters.
Artists-authors, broadcasters, come and meet Urssaf at the Festival In d'Avignon from 18 to 20 July 2023:
- attend a workshop dedicated to the artist-author activity on Tuesday, July 18 at 10am
- talk to an advisor during a personalized appointment.Registration via this link.
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. In the arts we work with a strong network of partners and cultural professionals to support new opportunities for artists, collaborations, partnerships, and artistic exchanges between the UK and French creative sectors. The British Council is proud to support the participation of UK artists in the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Avignon, and its focus on the English language. It is also a partner of the series of professional meetings in the frame of the Café des Idées.
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The Syndeac (national union of artistic and cultural enterprises) brings together over 450 members—centres dramatiques nationaux, centres chorégraphiques nationaux, scènes nationales, scènes conventionnées, city theatres, and festivals, as well as dance, theatre, lyrical, musical, urban arts or circus companies...
The Festival d’Avignon is an opportunity for the Syndeac to meet its members and sound their opinion on cultural policies. The great debate it co-produces with the Festival d’Avignon aims to promote collective reflection and exchange about topics dear to its members and to the public.
The association La French Tech Grande Provence federates the actors of the digital ecosystem, entrepreneurship and innovation on 16 communities of municipalities and agglomerations. With its expertise in supporting innovative projects for the cultural and creative industries, it opens since 2019 to all sectors of innovation to develop conditions conducive to the emergence, development and sustainability of startups and innovative companies. The French Tech Grande Provence with Dark Euphoria, La Villa Créative and the Grenier à Sel, organizes the professional days "spectacle vivant scènes numériques" as part of the Café des idées.