Textes en l'air

21st edition — July 2025

The 2025 edition of the Textes en l'air festival welcomed the public from July 23 to 27 in the courtyards, gardens, and alleys of the medieval village of Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye. For this 21st edition, artistic director Valérie Charpinet has curated a program faithful to the festival's identity: a fruitful dialogue between the village's centuries-old heritage and the most contemporary dramatic writing.

A program between heritage and contemporary creation

As every year, the festival offered a rich diversity of artistic forms: plays, staged readings, poetic wanderings through the village, open-air concerts, conferences, writing workshops, and shows for young audiences. The "Nuit de l'écriture" (Writing Night), an emblematic highlight of the festival, once again brought together lovers of literary creation for an exceptional evening combining readings, performances, and collective writing.

Resident artists

True to its mission of supporting creation, the festival hosted authors in residence whose works fueled the program's thematic thread. The winning companies of the Les Envolées program, a biennial initiative supporting young theatrical creation led by the collective Troisième Bureau, also presented their creations, thus concluding their dissemination tour in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Conviviality and sharing

The 2025 edition confirmed the festival's vocation as a privileged place for encounters and exchanges between artists and the public. The refreshment stand in the Grande Cour, the aperitif-gatherings, and the shared meals constituted moments of conviviality that have been the soul of Textes en l'air since its inception.

Highlights of the 2025 program

• Theater performances: contemporary creations by national and regional companies
• Staged readings: voice and space interpretations of contemporary dramatic texts
• Poetic wanderings: literary and walking tours through the medieval village
• Open-air concerts: music in the Grande Cour and gardens
• Writing Night: exceptional evening of literary creation
• Writing workshops: open sessions led by resident authors
• Aperitif-gatherings: privileged exchanges between the public and artists
• Shows for young audiences: program dedicated to children and families

Key moments of the 2025 edition

• 21st edition of the festival, confirming its lasting presence in the Isère cultural landscape
• Five days and five nights of celebration around words in a village classified as one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France
• Author residencies fueling the program's thematic thread
• Writing Night: emblematic highlight combining readings, performances, and collective creation
• Les Envolées showcase: presentation of creations from the biennial young theatrical creation program
• Conviviality: artist-public proximity, accommodation with locals, shared refreshment stand