Les Escalpades

The street festival that brings the territory to life

Since 2003, the Les Escalpades festival has enlivened the early summer in the towns of the Beine-Bourgogne territory, northeast of Reims. Led by the ESCAL (Sociocultural and Leisure Activities Center) of Witry-lès-Reims, this street performance festival follows an original and friendly formula: one evening, one show, one town. For six days, from Monday to Saturday, an artistic company takes over a different village each evening to offer a free show accessible to all.

An itinerant festival in the heart of the villages

Les Escalpades transforms village squares, municipal parks, and public spaces into ephemeral stages. The shows, scheduled for 7 PM, mix circus, street theater, humor, and music, for a family and intergenerational audience. This itinerant formula allows street arts to be discovered in rural and peri-urban towns, creating a strong social bond between artists, elected officials, and residents of the territory.

Nearly 50,000 spectators since its creation

In over twenty years of existence, the festival has attracted nearly 50,000 spectators, building a loyal and ever-growing audience. The event has established itself as an unmissable early summer event in the Marne department, offering quality programming in a friendly and accessible setting. Les Escalpades contributes to the cultural dynamism of the Beine-Bourgogne territory and showcases the village heritage of Grand Reims.

Renowned companies on national stages

Each edition invites performing arts companies recognized on national and regional stages. The diversity of disciplines — acrobatics, clowning, giant puppets, physical theater, open-air concerts — guarantees a renewed, surprising, and poetic program year after year, delighting both young and old.