THE PROJECT
Conceived in 2020 by La Cartonnerie / Césaré / La Comédie / Le FRAC / Le Manège / Nova Villa / L’Opéra, faraway – festival des arts à reims is expanding internationally to better look at our world through the lens of performing arts, and to question it with the help of boundary-pushing artists.
Every year, the festival features over 150 artists from more than 10 different countries. With 35 shows and an average of 50 performances over a 10-day period, the festival takes place in more than 10 venues across the city of Reims and its greater metropolitan area. The festival is a hub for new work, hosting an average of 5 brand-new shows per edition. The festival schedule is designed to allow audiences to make the most of all the artistic offerings and to easily move between venues. Approximately 50% of the program is offered free of charge to the public.
With a collaborative program shared among the seven cultural organizations, advantageous ticket packages, and curated itineraries to see all the shows, discover multiple venues, and get a taste of new artistic disciplines, faraway truly takes us on a journey.
As the first festival of the year in Reims, FARaway – Festival des Arts à Reims aims to position itself as a major festival for performing arts and contemporary creation in France and internationally. It is a festival that is committed to artists, giving them a voice and reflecting the current world.
THE NEXT EDITION
2026 Edition #7
Tuesday 27 January – Saturday 7 February 2026
imagined by la cartonnerie / césaré / la comédie / le frac / le manège / nova villa / l’opéra
+ 150 artists / + 30 performances / + 12 days
theatre / music / dance / circus / visual arts
A tribute to Argentina
In 2026, the Reims multidisciplinary arts festival, faraway returns with a fascinating edition entirely devoted to Argentina’s unique and thriving arts scene.
Shaped by its Amerindian roots, the influence of the countries that line its borders, as well as a host of European cultures, Argentina is a multifaceted country, rich in contrasts, but one that is currently marked by a rocky political landscape.
Audiences can discover new creations, emblematic works, and even classics revisited by this year’s audacious performers, shining a light on the complexities of contemporary Argentinian society. Collective memory, gender inequalities, politics, and personal relationships are just some of the subjects explored as part of the seventh edition of faraway.
For the twelve days of the Festival, with performances programmed at venues around the city, the public can go from one show to another, taking advantage of the eclectic range of performing arts events spanning theatre, music, dance, circus, performance, and much more…
This year sees a new event, Les Midis faraway (faraway Lunchtime Dates) where the public is invited to learn more about the different performances through themed encounters and discussions with artists during a more relaxed lunchtime setting.
With its rich and pertinent artistic programme, the 2026 edition of faraway once again offers a discovery of the international performing arts scene that is open to all!
PROGRAMME
Discover the full Festival programme on Tuesday, 25 November 2025.
Les Midis faraway
Meet the Festival’s artists at lunchtime in the foyer of the Reims Opéra. The public can bring their lunch box!
Wednesday, 28 January + Friday 30 January + Saturday 31 January + Sunday 1 February + Wednesday 4 February 2026
Tickets
Tickets on sale for all performances + Triple Performance Pass: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Opening evening
Tuesday 27 January 2026 at Le Manège – Reims
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prévious edition
2025 EDITION #6 29.01 > 08.02 2025
Crossings in Northern Europe
Welcome to the 6th edition of FARaway – Festival des Arts in Reims!
This 2025 edition puts the spotlight on artists from northern Europe.
From the Baltic States to the British Isles and the Nordic countries, this artistic excursion takes a captivated look at the richness of contemporary creation and the diversity of identities that irrigate these territories. FARaway 2025 is the promise of a sensory and political journey guided by the intersection of artistic disciplines, which explores climate sustainability, the boundary between reality and fiction, our relationship to time and the meaning of our humanity.
With curiosity and through a journey between the scenes of city of Reims, artists from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, of the United Kingdom and Lithuania offer you to live unexpected artistic and human encounters at the address of all!
theatre/ music/ circus/ dance/ performance/ young audience/ installation/ meeting/ exhibition…
Discover the full festival program on November 25, 2024! 💚
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Previous edition
2024 EDITION
30 January > 10 February 2024
+ 150 artists / + 35 shows / + 15 countries / + 10 days
For its 5th edition, the multidisciplinary festival FARaway – Festival des Arts in Reims highlights agitating and agitating artists around the Mediterranean, a space for meetings, exchanges, social, political and economic struggles.
This trip to the Mediterranean waters is an invitation to take a sensitive look at the multidisciplinary creativity of this region inhabited by peoples with diverse histories and identities. At once a threatened space – human rights, social models, biodiversity… – a land of wandering and welcome, the Mediterranean concentrates major issues of our time.
From Greece, Egypt, Israel, Tunisia, Italy, Turkey, Algeria, Spain, Lebanon and Morocco, from one shore to another, the contemporary creation of the Mediterranean countries faces to act.
For this journey between sea and land, from January 30 to February 10, 2024, FARaway offers you to navigate between all the scenes of the festival, to discover the many stories of the men and women of these territories!
Among the artistic disciplines present this year:
music / theatre / performance / puppet / dance / young audience / meeting / exhibition …
imagined by la cartonnerie / césaré / la comédie / le frac / le manège / nova villa / l’opéra
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2023 EDITION #4
31 January > 12 February 2023
Art on the loose
FARaway – Reims Arts Festival is back for its fourth edition! Like every year, Reims will once again vibrate to the rhythm of an intense festival, rich in provocative and thought-provoking proposals from artists from all around the world. Through the various disciplines of contemporary creation, the Festival embraces all forms of live performance in order to question the relationship between art and current events, with a focus on the human.
This year, FARaway has chosen to put West Africa in the limelight. From Burkina Faso, to the Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria, or Mali, a wide variety of artists invite you to discover their creations, territories, and artistic culture. The proposals generate reflections and exchanges on the issues specific to this region, and their resonances with the rest of the world. The 2023 edition also features work and artists from Brazil, Spain, Cameroon, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Congo, Belgium, Russia, Egypt, etc. A veritable round-the-world look at contemporary creation !
For the ten days of the Festival, Reims becomes a hub of international performance, allowing the public to go from one show to another, between the stages of the seven cultural structures that are the proud hosts of the event. Featuring…
2022 EDITION #3
27 Jan. > 06 Feb. 2022
A transdisciplinary dialogue
For its third edition, FARaway – Reims Art Festival draws on the success of its two previous years by extending an invitation to international artists, with a penchant for provocation and challenging the status quo. Over a ten day period, Reims will be the stage for a wide range of performances and events. Committed to the artists it supports and serving as a mirror for the issues they explore through contemporary creation, the Festival continues to question the relationship between art and reality, creation and current trends.
Coming mainly from Lebanon, the artists participating in this edition will host debates and exchanges around the artistic proposals coming from a country that has been constantly forced to regenerate, recreate and reconstruct in the hope of a more serene future.
The colour green, associated with the Land of the Cedar, is honoured through the logo of this year’s Festival.
The third edition also features artists from Palestine, Mali, China, Russia, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Organized every year by seven of Reims’s cultural institutions, FARaway – Reims Art Festival strives to ensure that all of the performances are accessible with a specially designed itinerary that allows spectators to stroll from one event to the next, or from one stage to the next.
Inherently multidisciplinary, FARaway – Reims Art Festival showcases all forms of art. Its rich and eclectic programming is intended to appeal to a wide public, and particularly younger audiences, with a dedicated children’s programme called little FARaway.
dance / music / theatre / circus / performance / screenings / debates / exhibitions…
imagined by la cartonnerie / césaré / la comédie / le frac / le manège / nova villa / l’opéra
2021 EDITION #2
04.02 to 14.02.21
Beyond borders
FARaway is only two years old, but is already asserting an ebullient personality. The festival shaped in a previously unseen collegiality, by seven cultural organisations from Reims, persists and identifies in its will of overthrowing borders. Stirring artists coming in from world wide – Russia, Congo, Brazil, Great-Britain, Switzerland, Nigeria, Italy, Turkey, Mexico and of course France – will make out of Reims a microcosm of artistic forms crossing over genres and shaking ideas. Lucha libre and quadraphonic round, photographic and sensual dissidence, scanner performances and passinho dancers from the favelas will, among other things, regenerate our imaginations, both aesthetically and in terms of our perceptions of the world. Ten days of live performance that mix the disciplines and invite each of us to think outside the box.
dance / music / theatre / circus / young public / performance / projection / meeting / exhibition …
imagined by la cartonnerie / césaré / la comédie / le frac / le manège / novavilla / l’opéra
2020 EDITION #1
30.01 to 10.02.20
Question the world
Let’s go for the first edition of FARaway! For ten days, Reims will vibrate to the rhythm of an intense festival, with “stirring artists” from all horizons, full of hopes and willing to fight. When others occupy the city streets, they stand on the stage. That’s where they come to delve into History, to wrestle with reality, to sketch out dreams, to share with the audience a time when the human being comes first.
This new festival, carried and imagined by seven cultural structures in Reims, we wanted it to be open to the world, with a focus this year on Brazil and the African continent. Through a programme that is as open to the diversity of forms as it is committed to the subjects it tackles, let yourself be carried away by the excitement of a festival like no other, through thematic routes built to allow you to navigate from one stage to another, to follow one performance after another and to be able to attend all the shows without exception.
In this effervescence, FARaway will not fail to make you travel far, in territories ablaze with questions. Without doubt the most beautiful of journeys…
dance / music / theatre / circus / young public / performance / projection / meeting …
imagined by la cartonnerie / césaré / la comédie / le frac / le manège / nova villa / l’opéra
