La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon is the Festival's only permanent venue, open all year round. Inaugurated in 2013 and designed by the architect Maria Godlewska, La FabricA is a space where artists, technicians, audiences and local residents come together day after day. It's a place on the move, an open-plan living space where you can share, create and imagine together.
La FabricA
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A show factory dedicated to creation
With a modular stage measuring 38.2 m by 23.4 m, reproducing the dimensions of the stage in the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais des papes, and a grid height of 12 m, La FabricA's technical spaces are constantly changing to keep pace with artistic projects. It's here that artists prepare their shows, refine their productions and push back the limits of their creativity. One creative residency follows another, set designs are assembled and dismantled, and ideas take shape.
Every year, over a hundred days at La FabricA are devoted to hosting artistic residencies.
La FabricA is not just a stage. This building of almost 4,000 square metres, with its 18 flats, living spaces (kitchen, patio, lounge, dining room) and flexible, modular technical spaces (storage space, workshop, dressing room, sound studio), is transformed into a veritable modern cloister for artists and technicians.
A dynamic venue accessible to all
With a capacity of 600 seated and 1,000 standing, La FabricA du Festival d'Avignon is located in the heart of the Montclar and Champfleury districts. Throughout the year, La FabricA comes alive with workshops, meetings, performances, events organised by cultural partners and a wide range of projects for the general public. Young people, schoolchildren, residents of neighbouring districts or visitors passing through: everyone is invited to take part.
Every year, over 7,000 people take part in La FabricA's artistic and cultural education programmes.
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With audiences
La FabricA is fully accessible to people with reduced mobility, whether they are artists in residence or members of the public. The auditorium also has podotactile strips, uniform signage, a tactile model and magnetic loops for hearing-impaired spectators.
To find out more, consult La FabricA's accessibility register (in french).
Towards a model of environmental commitment
La FabricA at the Festival d'Avignon is a model of commitment to a sustainable future.
Optimised energy management
Thanks to the installation of a Centralised Technical Management System (CTMS), La FabricA has considerably reduced its energy consumption. By 2025, photovoltaic panels, shaded areas and vehicle charging stations will complete the system, enabling the ambitious target of 50% self-consumption of electricity to be achieved. This photovoltaic project is being carried out with the support and expertise of Enercoop.
Eco-responsible practices on a daily basis
At La FabricA, every gesture is important. A domestic compost bin is set up all year round, and a second, larger one is shared with the Tipi during the Festival in July, encouraging short-circuit management of organic waste. A La FabricA charter makes artists and visitors aware of the energy impact of their activities.
Promoting sustainable mobility
When travelling, artists, teams and audiences are encouraged to use soft forms of transport such as trains, buses, trams and bicycles. A fleet of bicycles is available for artists and technicians in residence and during the Festival.
By adopting these initiatives, La FabricA becomes a laboratory for eco-responsible innovations, while inspiring artists, technicians and audiences to take a more environmentally-friendly approach.
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The beating heart of the Festival d'Avignon
At La FabricA, we never stop dreaming! We have big ambitions for the future. This unique venue wants to further strengthen its role as an artistic and cultural crossroads, a place where local people, whether budding artists or the simply curious, find their place and help to bring creative work to life on a daily basis. A place where the boundaries between the Festival and the city are blurred, giving way to a collective dynamic.
To achieve this, the Festival d'Avignon can count on the invaluable support of the Mutuelles d'assurances and the AXA Group, major sponsors of the Festival and La FabricA.
By becoming a major sponsor of the Festivall d'Avignon and the La FabricA project, AXA and the Mutuelles AXA are supporting a not-to-be-missed event in French and international 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 historic heritage.
Through our support for artistic creation, we wish to affirm, in the tradition of Jean Vilar and in line with the vision of Tiago Rodrigues, our commitment to a more inclusive society. Art will always be, and today even more so, a catalyst for social inclusion. We are proud to be associated for the next three years with a project that illustrates more than ever our raison d'être: "Acting for human progress by protecting what matters".
Guillaume Borie, CEO, AXA France
Provision / Rental of La FabricA
La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon is available for hire from September to June to host a variety of professional and cultural events: congresses, conventions, seminars, cocktail parties or private concerts... Modular and fully equipped, it can be adapted to the needs of companies and institutions wishing to organise their meetings in a unique setting.
Céline Saad, Head of sponsorship and partnership