National Center for Street Arts and Public Space — itinerant performance season in southern Haute-Garonne (Comminges, Volvestre)
Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne is one of the fourteen National Centers for Street Arts and Public Space (CNAREP) labeled in France, and the only one located in a rural area. Based in Encausse-les-Thermes (31), it annually deploys an itinerant season of outdoor live performances — street theater, circus, dance, puppetry, storytelling — in more than 25 communes in Comminges and Volvestre, in the south of Haute-Garonne. Created in 2001 in continuity with a cultural dynamic led by the city of Saint-Gaudens since 1991, the association was labeled CNAREP in 2011 and will celebrate its 27th season in 2026.
Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne is an association (loi 1901) created in June 2001, which extends the artistic and cultural adventure led by the cultural services of Saint-Gaudens between 1991 and 2001. Labeled National Center for Street Arts and Public Space (CNAREP) in 2011 by the Ministry of Culture, it is the only CNAREP in France located in a rural territory.
Pronomade(s) develops two main missions in accordance with the CNAREP specifications: artistic support (support for creation, residencies, production of professional street art companies) and cultural and social support for the territory (mediation, workshops, participatory projects with the inhabitants of Comminges and Volvestre).
Rather than a festival concentrated over a few days, Pronomade(s) offers a season spread from May to December, organized in two phases: a first part in spring-summer (from May to July) and a second from autumn to the end of December. Each season brings together about twenty artistic proposals and more than sixty performances, given in about twenty communes in the south of Haute-Garonne. Most shows are free and take place in public spaces (village squares, lake shores, market halls, bistros, multi-purpose halls).
The action of Pronomade(s) benefits from the renewed support of the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne, the Occitanie region, the DRAC Occitanie and the Ministry of Culture. The structure works in close collaboration with the communes of Comminges and Volvestre, the inter-municipalities of Cagire Garonne Salat, Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises and Cœur de Garonne, as well as with institutional partners such as ARTCENA and the other CNAREPs.
Pronomade(s) is carrying out a structuring project for a Factory dedicated to public arts in the former thermal baths of Encausse-les-Thermes: a future place for creation, residency and transmission that will sustainably consolidate the place of the CNAREP in the regional cultural landscape.
The 27th season of Pronomade(s) in Haute-Garonne, National Center for Street Arts and Public Space, runs from May to December 2026 in about twenty communes in Comminges and Volvestre. Street theater, circus, dance, puppetry, storytelling: about twenty artistic proposals and more than sixty performances, mostly free and outdoors.
The 27th season of Pronomade(s) in Haute-Garonne takes place from May to December 2026, in two parts:
For this 27th edition, Pronomade(s) confirms its formula: not a festival concentrated over a few days but a spread-out season, which spreads across more than 25 rural communes in the south of Haute-Garonne — Marignac, Saint-Gaudens, Mancioux, Carbonne, Martres-Tolosane, Barbazan, Cazaunous, L'Isle-en-Dodon, Proupiary, and many other villages.
Almost all shows are free and take place outdoors (village squares, lake shores, market halls, bistros). Some limited-capacity proposals require prior reservation. The complete program, schedules, and reservation procedures are published on pronomades.org.
Detailed program to come, published on pronomades.org from late August 2026.
Pronomade(s) is an itinerant season: performances are given in about twenty communes in the south of Haute-Garonne (Comminges and Volvestre). The administrative headquarters are located in Encausse-les-Thermes:
Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne — CNAREP
Rue de la Fontaine
31160 Encausse-les-Thermes
Most shows are free and outdoors. Some proposals may require prior reservation (especially for shows with limited capacity), sometimes with free participation or a modest fee.
Online reservations and detailed information on pronomades.org. Some highly demanded shows sell out quickly (example: Naïade in Barbazan in June 2026, 750 tickets sold out).
Phone: 05 61 79 95 50
Email: [email protected]
Official website: pronomades.org
Facebook: @pronomades.org
Instagram: @pronomade.s
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Pronomade(s) — CNAREP (siège à Encausse-les-Thermes, spectacles itinérants dans le Comminges et le Volvestre)
Rue de la Fontaine, 31160 Encausse-les-Thermes, 31758 Encausse-les-Thermes