Lyon is forever on the go!
Lyon hosts a number of annual festivals and biennials on a wide range of topics: graphic novels, electronic music and films, to name but a few... Just walk this way!
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Wintower Festival
The Wintower Festival is back! The summer season’s only just ended, it’s already time to tidy away our swimming costumes and pull on our scarves… but...
Lyon Whiskey Festival
The Lyon Whiskey Festival is the Lyon event entirely dedicated to the world of whiskey!
Quais du Polar
In 2023, the Festival Quais du Polar returns for a new edition! A choice of novels, graphic novels, TV series, films, round-tables, meetings and...
Festival Têtes de Bois
Espace Tonkin
The Espace Tonkin starts the year with the puppets "Les Têtes de bois", intended for the young public and their families with a program of workshops...
Wintower Festival
Halle Tony Garnier
The Wintower Festival is back! The summer season’s only just ended, it’s already time to tidy away our swimming costumes and pull on our scarves… but...
Festival Écrans Mixtes
Lieux divers
From 4 to 12 March 2020, the Festival Écrans Mixtes will be combatting discrimination against LGBTQI people and women via the inclusive world of...
Lyon Whiskey Festival
Palais de la Bourse
The Lyon Whiskey Festival is the Lyon event entirely dedicated to the world of whiskey!
Les chants de Mars Festival
Lieux divers : salle Léo Ferré, salle Molière, Le Transbordeur...
The festival Les Chants de Mars still asserts itself today as the festival of French song in Lyon.
Quais du Polar
Lieux divers
In 2023, the Festival Quais du Polar returns for a new edition! A choice of novels, graphic novels, TV series, films, round-tables, meetings and...
Reperkusound
Double Mixte
The festival Reperkusound has become a standard-bearer of electronic, contemporary, urban and ground-breaking music.
Festival Les Intergalactiques
Lieux divers
For the 11th edition, the Lyon Science-Fiction festival comes back in April 2023 to offer a retrospective of cinema, conferences, imaginary literature...
Lyon Beer Festival
La Sucrière
The festival gives a good place to the beverage, which concurs with his varieties more and more public. Find a selection brasserie during this edition...
Jazz Day in Lyon
Lieux divers
Concerts, jam sessions, film screenings, exhibitions, and many more. Jazz Day is 24 hours of jazz in Lyon, Vienne, Saint-Etienne, and other places...
Nuits Sonores
Lieux divers : Le Sucre, La Sucrière, Les anciennes usines Fagor-Brandt
"Nuits sonores" is a French festival entirely dedicated to electronic and independent music and the innovative cultures, visual and digital, which has...
Lyon BD Festival
Lieux divers
Lyon BD Festival gathers the whole universe of the 9th art around varied and original events for BD LIVE ever, ever alive! Cinemas, museums,...
Lyon Street Food Festival
Anciennes Usines Fagor-Brandt
A “great broth” shared between chefs, artists and festival-goers that mixes nuggets from the culinary scene and concerts by internationally renowned...
Les Invites de Villeurbanne - Festival pas pareil
Lieux divers
4 days of free concerts, creations and shows staged to thrill, share and exchange in the streets, squares and residential areas, in every sense.
The Fourvière Nights
Lugdunum Roman Theatres of Lyon
From the 2nd of June to the 30th of July 2022, Lyon’s unmissable summer evening festival will be presenting about 60 performances for over 136000...
Woodstower
Grand Parc Miribel Jonage
The festival Woodstower is returning to Grand Parc Miribel Jonage with a new edition, bringing concerts, shows, activities and plenty of fun! Make the...
The European Heritage Days
Lieux divers
Every year you are invited to visit public buildings, museums, chateaux or private homes free of charge.
The Dance Biennial
Lieux divers
The Lyon Dance Biennale is moving permanently to an odd-year slot. Owing to the health crisis, the edition initially scheduled for september 2020 will...