Festivals and cultural events Tours

The ^9th art has its local festival! Comic enthusiasts gather in the Place Châteauneuf or the Salle Ockeghem to stroll between the stands, discover new releases and have their comics signed by the authors on hand. The program also includes exhibitions, film screenings (and often a drawing concert!), and entertainment for young and old. Drawing workshops are a big hit, as are conferences. LSF interpretations and read-alouds are also organized. See you on the 2nd weekend of September!

Among the many festivals hosted by Studio cinemas, the FICAT (Festival International de Cinéma Asiatique de Tours) offers screenings of films, documentaries and shorts, as well as a special program for young audiences. In the space of just a few days, spectators can experience the full diversity of Asia, with films from various Asian and Far Eastern countries. Other partner venues host screenings, calligraphy workshops, conferences...

Initiated by the CCNT, this festival offers a week of contemporary dance performances to be discovered on its premises, but also in numerous partner venues and more unusual places such as museums and historical monuments in the metropolis. In keeping with the CCNT's year-round programming, the event is an opportunity to discover contemporary dance in all its diversity, with a host of international companies at affordable prices.

La Saugrenue is a collective of musicians founded in Tours in 2002. With an impressive musical diversity, the collective offers concerts and live shows for all kinds of events. In its 20 years of existence, La Saugrenue has performed nearly 130 concerts in France and abroad. The collective is made up of 8 musical groups and over 280 artists and technicians. To support artists in the development of their projects, La Saugrenue employs an administrator, a distribution manager and a communications and coordination officer. The collective is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Centre-Val de Loire region, the DRAC Centre-Val de Loire, the FRACA-MA, the Indre et Loire departmental council, Tours Métropole, the city of Tours, SACEM, CNM, SPPF, Adami and Spedidam.