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| How the Avignon Festival is organised ? |
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| The vocation of the Avignon Festival is to promote new French and foreign drama and dance productions by presenting each year about forty performances to a growing audience (more than 120,000 people attend). |
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How the Avignon Festival is organised ? - Le festival d' avignon
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| The productions are performed in about twenty different unconventional venues in Avignon: in cloisters, churches or the famous Palais des Papes (The Popes' Palace).
The Festival proposes a different programme every year, largely composed of new productions. Some of them are world premieres ("creations mondiales") staged for the first time ever at Avignon, some of them are new productions of contemporary or repertory scripts ("creations"), while others are plays that may have been performed abroad in their original language but never performed in France ("creations en France").
Since 1980, the Festival has been registered as a non-profit-making association (Loi 1901).
Each of the government entities which subsidize the Festival are represented on its board.
The French State is one of them. The others are the City of Avignon, the Vaucluse Department (county), the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Also on the board are qualified members such as founding members, directors of culture organisations or representatives of Festival partners.
The board meets twice or three times each year to discuss the programme, a provisional budget and to monitor its implementation. In accordance with the statutes of the Festival the chair of the board is the Mayor of Avignon. |
| The artistic director and the administrative director are appointed by the board with formal approval from the Mayor of Avignon and the French Minister of Culture. |
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| PS : Since the time its founder, Jean Vilar, and because of his insistence, the artistic director has absolute freedom to choose the Festival's programme and the governments involved have always respected that principle of independence, regardless of the political situation of the time. |
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