Festival

Fête des Voisins: 10 million neighbours in France to meet this Friday

2025 marks the 25th edition of solidarity festival, la Fête des Voisins. Revisit our 2016 interview with founder, Atanase Périfan

Receive a book and a rose: France prepares to celebrate its independent bookshops

The 27th edition of the Fête de la librairie indépendante will take place tomorrow (April 26)

August 15: What’s coming up this week ahead in France?

A public holiday, increased funding for electric bikes, a surfing competition, a classical music festival and more

What’s coming up? The week ahead in France

A fourth heatwave arrives, August’s shooting stars return, the last ‘super moon’ of the year, celebrating left-handed people and celtic traditions - and more

Visit one of France’s medieval festivals and reenactments this summer

Juggling, jousting and dressing up - how to make your summer a most medieval one and party like it is 1299

‘Wine for people in love’: Exploring France’s two most romantic towns

The villages are famous for their names - and especially popular with couples on Valentine’s Day

How passionate farmers are reviving Menton’s iconic lemon

The town’s annual lemon festival, which takes places this month, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors but has to rely on imported fruits after the local industry fell into decline

What big events in France require a ‘health pass’ from today?

Large football and other sports events, music festivals, and conferences are affected but not theme parks or zoos

France reopens: Ideas for what to see and do in summer 2021

Culture is back on the table after a long pause due to Covid-19 restrictions

Covid France: Summer 2021 festivals limited to 5,000 people

The culture minister confirmed the limit, and announced a new €30 million relief fund for festivals

Events in France this month: art, nature and music festivals

Discover the events not to miss in France this September.

British artist to exhibit at major Auvergne art festival

A British artist’s fungi-inspired works will feature at a major outdoor exhibition from July.

Enjoy Languedoc Trilogy author talk

Popular novelist, Kate Mosse is the guest in this Friday’s online series of talks with authors organised for the confinement period by the Franco-British literary festival, Festilitt.

What’s on in France – March 2020

Please note that due to Covid-19 virus, many events are being cancelled or postponed. Make sure you check events are still being held by organisers before you go. Music hits centre stage as France swings into Spring

What’s on in France – February 2020

South parties on parade as 2020 starts to warm up

France celebrates with traditional galette des rois

It is galette des rois season in France, as the country marks Epiphany on January 6, and bakers compete to make the best, most original versions of the popular patisserie.

British artist inspires Chinese light show in France

Artist's work the inspiration for a scene at Chinese Festival des Lanternes in southwest France

French hilltop village scales literary heights

French start-up installs urinals for women in Paris

New female urinals created by a French start-up have been installed in Paris in a bid to cut long waiting times for women at public toilets.

Fêtes de Bayonne opens amid tight security

Up to 1million people expected at annual event, which runs until Sunday, July 28

Entry time for festival’s new literary competition

Budding writers might like to take part in a writing competition organised by the Charroux Literary Festival Association.

Police kill escaped bull in SW France

Animal had escaped its enclosure on the final day of a feria

Dunkirk carnival ‘seagull cry’ contest has new winner

This year’s Dunkirk carnival has crowned a new winner of its annual “seagull’s cry” contest (“ cri de la mouette ”), as the unusual festivities continue throughout the month.

What’s on in France - January 2019

What to do, where to go and what to see in France

What’s on in France - December 2018

What to do, where to go and what to see in France

What's on in France - October 2018

What to do, where to go and what to see in France

Thanks for a great time at Interceltique

Thank you for the complimentary tickets we received for this year’s Lorient Interceltique festival via Connexion.

Anger over security bills for French festivals

Rows have broken out after the government advised prefectures to bill mairies and other organisers of regional festivals for full cost of security at events including national and riot police, gendarmes and snipers.

What's on in France - September 2018

What to do, where to go and what to see in France

Redheads feel the love at Brittany festival

More than 1,200 redheads attend first-ever Red Love festival

Free concert tickets for subscribers to our newsletter

Connexion has tickets for concerts at the Itinéraire Baroque festival in the Dordogne

Santons are a key to Provençal festivities

Nativity scenes are a combination of Christmas and everyday local life

Streets and theatres alive with sound of music

France is a very musical country, with a rich lineage of composers and performers. It also provides countless opportunities to enjoy live shows. Samantha David reveals her favourites

French navy ship festival celebrates 30 historic years

The French navy ship the Maillé-Brézé is celebrating 30 years of being moored up at the Fosse port of Nantes (Pays de la Loire), with a festival in its honour taking place this weekend.

Hard work pays off for festival organisers

"A wonderful experience" says volunteer

60,000 'ravers' expected for illegal festival in Marne

Up to 60,000 people are expected to descend on Marigny in the Marne department this week, for a rave festival dubbed Teknival 2018, despite it being ruled as illegal.

Mayor plans to charge entry fee to Fêtes de Bayonne

Visitors to five-day festival could face entry fee of up to €7

It’s not small beer

Artisanal brewer numbers have soared from just 200 in 2007 to 1,300 today

Stage your own French film festival at home

Short and feature-length films on offer online with English subtitles and you can join in voting

More people are going to festivals in France

Nearly seven million people attended 102 of the larger festivals in France in 2017, figures reveal

This is why “flowers of dead” are popular at Toussaint

Have you ever wondered why chrysanthemum flowers are the traditional symbol of the November Toussaint holiday in France, despite also being known as the “flowers of the dead”?

Paris Christmas market workers threaten to protest

Market stall staff and fairground workers are threatening to march on Paris and block its roads if the police do not allow the traditional Christmas market on the Champs-Elysées to take place.

Festilitt: The little literary festival that could

Girl with a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier will head a list of writers at a Franco-British literary festival in October.

Photo festival puts nature on display

Montier-en-Der, in Haute-Marne, is hosting its annual animal photo festival from October 16-19.

Sober and civilised

In reply to your online article about the [alcohol-free] L’Arbre qui marche festival in St.Martin du Bois (49): I live on the road that leads to the festival car park and the numbers of very polite young people who walked past whilst I was in the garden, all with a polite bonjour or bonsoir , was a delight.