Avignon Festival
Embark on an exciting adventure through the Avignon Festival with a thrilling Collage Style By blending posters featuring a variety of performers with captivating snapshots of famous streets and landmark venues, this visual journey perfectly captures the lively spirit and dynamic atmosphere of Avignon's cultural celebration. Among these scenes, different performers emerge, including dancers, bands, vocal ensembles, and street theater acts. Throughout the collage, newspaper headlines and text are transitions, leading to a rapid succession of overlapping posters. The crescendo reveals the Festival d'Avignon's official logo.
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The Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest existent festival in France. Articulated in two separate entities, the “IN” and the “OFF” festivals, it offers for about three weeks the possibility of attending more than 1,500 shows. There are 27 places listed for performances, including churches, sports halls, art schools, museums, and outdoor spaces. At the festival, lots of different performance groups put on shows in all sorts of styles: there's theater in cafés, circus performances, clowns, concerts, dancing, puppet shows, mime acts, big musical shows, Performance art on the streets, installation, video.
In
The "In" refers to the official programming of the Avignon Festival, organized by the festival's main organizers. It includes performances, exhibitions, and cultural events held in established venues within Avignon, curated and managed by the festival organizers.
off
The "Off" festival is organised by a non-profit organisation composed mostly of theatre companies and is performed in theaters schools, streets and all places suitable for performing.