Cloître Saint-Louis

Le Masque et la Plume, France Inter, Café des idées, Cloître Saint-Louis, 2023 © Alexandre Quentin / Festival d'Avignon

Events in 2026

La matinale – 4 July

  • Café des idées
With Julien Gosselin, Kyung-Sung Lee, Rebecca Chaillon et Jaha Koo

Free entrance

La matinale – 6 July

  • Café des idées
With Tiphaine Raffier, Lucie Antunes & Mathilde Monnier, François et Christian Gremaud, Carolina Bianchi, Inbo Lee

Free entrance

La matinale – 5 July

  • Café des idées
With Ahmed El Attar, Sung Im Her, Jinyeob Lee, Muriel Imbach, Oriane Delacroix

Free entrance

La matinale – 11 July

  • Café des idées
With Christiane Jatahy, tg STAN, Valérie Dréville & Guy Cassiers, Gwenaël Morin

Free entrance

La matinale – 13 July

  • Café des idées
With Daria Deflorian, Katerina Andreou, Johann Le Guillerm et Pascal Paradou

Free entrance

La matinale – 15 July

  • Café des idées
With Madeleine Fournier, Julie Deliquet, Étienne Minoungou, Salim Djaferi, Boris Charmatz

Free entrance

13e Rencontres Recherche et Création

What haunts us, what binds us: how can we express the inexpressible?
  • Café des idées
With the Agence nationale de la recherche and Julien Gosselin

Free entrance

Making Waves Avignon #2

Can we still talk to each other without hating each other ?
  • Café des idées
With Making Waves 

Free entrance

Making Waves Avignon #3

How can we stand upright in an exhausting world?
  • Café des idées
With Making Waves 

Free entrance

Making Waves Avignon #5

Who speaks for those how are not there ?
  • Café des idées
With Making Waves 

Free entrance

Accessibility

Site not accessible to people with reduced mobility. Entry for people with reduced mobility is through the main entrance. Adapted toilets are available. Access to the toilets is autonomous. Rest seats are available.

Individual hearing enhancement loops are available upon reservation when purchasing your ticket. Please contact the booking office for more information. This device is compatible with hearing aids equipped with a T-coil setting.

Visit the event pages above to learn more about their accessibility: naturally accessible performances (dance, visual, or non-verbal), performances with French surtitles…

Reception staff are present if needed. Please contact them if you have any requests or question.

Visit the event pages to find out more about their accessibility: naturally accessible events (text shows, concerts, readings and radio programmes), audio description...

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The place

A large and remarkably restored 17th-century building, the Cloître Saint-Louis is one of the Festival's nerve centres. It contains the Festival's offices, ticket offices, the Maison professionnelle du spectacle vivant en Avignon (professional house), as well as the Institut Supérieur des Techniques du Spectacles (ISTS) whose rooms welcome numerous professional encounters. Its courtyard in constent effervescence, is animated by debates and meetings on performing arts and cultural policy issues. Food and refreshments on site.

Café des idées

Centrally located and open daily, it is one of the beating hearts of the Festival, where artists, artistic teams, and spectators can meet and gather. It is welcoming to all who want to exchange thoughts about the shows of the Festival, confront their ideas to others, or listen to debates and criticism. A wealth of aesthetic, scientific, and societal points of view defended by artists, journalists, essayists, and researchers.

With the generous support of Fermob, who furnishes the dining area.

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