La Cité des enfants - Call for participants

The Festival de la Cité is looking for young helpers aged 6 to 12 to help put together its programme for young audiences!

Before and during the Festival, join other children to brainstorm ideas, get creative, share your thoughts, meet artists and present shows.

You don’t need to be a pro: what matters here is your curiosity, your imagination and your enthusiasm to get involved. ☺

To take part, sign up for the preparation workshops.

Registration deadline: 15 April 2026 

Your children become active participants in the Festival

‘La Cité des enfants’ is an innovative participatory project that gives children a real and active role in designing Le Festival de la Cité's programme for young audiences. Much more than just a programme ‘for’ children, it is a co-creation initiative that recognises young people as true cultural actors — today as well as tomorrow.

This pilot project is part of the Festival's desire to act as a true laboratory for cultural innovation. It extends and amplifies the momentum already initiated several years ago in favour of children aged 3 and up, with the ambition of firmly establishing their participation at the heart of the Festival's activities.

Why involve children in cultural creation?

Because your children are not just tomorrow's spectators : they have a unique perspective, unfiltered curiosity and ideas that enrich artistic creation. ‘La Cité des enfants’ offers them the opportunity to take an active part designing and implementating projects, alongside professional artists and other generations.

Practical benefits for your children

This experience allows children to develop their self-confidence, refine their critical thinking skills and nurture their artistic curiosity from an early age. Throughout collaboration with their peers and with adults, they become aware of the diversity of artistic forms and experience the power of collective creation.

An impact that extends beyond the Festival

By involving children, ‘La Cité des enfants’ generates a tremendous ripple effect: young participants become cultural ambassadors to their families and social circles, enabling the Festival to reach new audiences and strengthen cultural inclusion.

For the artists, this collaboration raises their awareness of the specific needs of young audiences and encourages them to develop new forms of cultural mediation. The Festival itself is enriched by this dynamic: its offering is renewed, its audiences are diversifying and its cultural sustainability is being built with those who will be its actors in the years to come.

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