Festival d'Automne
Paris
For over 50 years, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne have played a key role in redefining the cultural landscape, driven by a bold commitment to artistic creation and the promotion of contemporary art on both national and international stages.
Building on their long-standing partnership, they are once again joining forces this year to present a programme enriched by the connections it weaves between disciplines, thought, and the performing arts.
Born in 1972 in Niodior, Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese economist, academic, writer, and musician.
His "Evening School" begins with a central question: In an age of deepening global divisions and fractures, how can we imagine the possibility of a shared life on a planetary scale?
The programme unfolds in three thematic sequences, each featuring a
- three multidisciplinary lecture with Felwine Sarr and major voices in contemporary thought and creative practice;
- three "sensitivity workshops" involving other artists and approaches.
Discussions:
- 19 October 2025
Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris 4th
Cosmopolitics of Hospitality
with Judith Butler, moderated by Debarati Sanyal
- 2 November 2025
MC93, Bobigny
Community of the Dead and the Living
with Faustin Linyekula, Alice Diop and Dorcy Rugamba, moderated by Francesca Corona and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
- 14 December 2025
mk2 Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou, Paris 13th
Confronting the Planetary Crisis of Mutuality
with Alain Gomis, Nadia Yala Kisukidi and Sammy Baloji
Sensitivity workshops:
- 20 – 21 September 2025
Maison des Métallos, Paris 11th
With Lia Rodrigues andNacera Belaza
- 13 December 2025
Ménagerie de verre, Paris 11th
with Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
This Parisian invitation is accompanied, for Felwine Sarr, by a two-month stay at the Résidence Tallard— a living and thinking space initiated by KADIST in the heart of the city.
Rooted in the values of hospitality—understood both as a gesture of welcome and as openness to the voices and experiences of the world—and interdisciplinarity, the Tallard Residency hosts 4 to 6 individuals each year: thinkers, writers, researchers, artists, and international figures known for their innovative ideas and societal impact. Its ambition is to spotlight significant contemporary ideas, to amplify them, and to embed them sustainably within the French intellectual and cultural landscape—as proposals for a shared world.
A multidisciplinary festival dedicated to contemporary creation, the Festival d’Automne in Paris presents each year, from September to December, more than 80 events across nearly 60 partner venues in Paris and the Île-de-France region. Theatre, music, dance, visual arts, and performance come together in a spirit of openness, continuity, and discovery.
In 2025, the Festival will support artists from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas by producing and presenting their work to a broad audience, while also developing major artistic outreach programs throughout the year.
Photo : Miet Warlop, Inhale Delirium Exhale (détail) © Reinout Hiel
