The major cultural events not to be missed in 2025 in Nîmes and the surrounding area

Flamenco festival at the Nîmes theater

In Nîmes, the year always begins on a Spanish note with the Flamenco festival, which celebrates its 35th anniversary between Thursday January 9 and Saturday January 18. On the program in particular, great classics, the return of Israel Galvan with The Golden Agea Rocio Molina marathon with his guitar trilogy, three performances by Andres Marin, two curtain raisers for Tomas Perrate. But also young artists like Yinka Esi Graves, Paula Comitre, singer Maria Terromoto or free shows across the city with the CarmenCycletta from the Dynamogen company.

Biography Festival at Carré d’Art

The biography festival will once again bring together around a hundred authors, at Carré d’art from Friday January 24 to Sunday January 26. This year’s theme will be “Memories of Adventurers” and will be co-chaired by academician Jean-Christophe Rufin, who has just published a travel diary along the Amazon River, and by Olivier Weber, award-winning writer and reporter. , recently author of a Adventure Lovers Dictionary.

Also announced, in very different registers as always, are Sylvain Tesson, Thierry Lentz, Boris Cyrulnik, Xavier Mauduit, Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot, Alexandra Schwartzbrod, Patrick Sébastien and Nelson Monfort.

Winter Trad’in in Sommières

From Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 January, the Trad’hivernales bring popular cultures to life with concerts, balétis, meetings… Among the artists to discover, the journey between Occitanie and Armenia by the duo Hamraaz, the Breton electro, jazz and rock music of Fleuves or Boucs!, the new poetic project of Sam Karpiena, a figure on the Occitan scene in particular with his group Dupain.

Puppet getaway with the Periscope

An approved stage for the puppet arts, the Périscope theater will pilot a puppet escapade through the city from Friday May 16 to Sunday May 18, with shows, workshops, surprise activities…

On the program in particular, a trip into space with Secular at the Odéon or a nod to the 80s with Just a clarification of the Big Up company at the Christian-Liger theater.

Alone on Stage Festival in Uzès

For its third edition, the Seuls en scène festival, led by Patrick Timsit, is lining up around ten events for the weekend of May 8 in Uzès. And there will be something for everyone, humor of course with Nora Hamzawi, Constance, Alex Vizorek, Manu Payet, dance with the upsetting Tickles by Andréa Bescond, of the song with Michel Jonasz. And then, very special moments with Thierry Lhermitte or Coline Serreau.

Bring your kids back to the Christian-Liger theater

After a great success for its first edition, the Christian-Liger theater young audience festival is back for the February holidays with both shows and workshops.

On display, Rita’s Journey of the Cie La Houleuse to stroll in the open air to the rhythm of the symphodeon. Also showing, A short history of humanity through that of the potatoobject theater by the Cie Sens Ascensionnels, the Ricochets by Sylvain Levey by the Cie Le Grand Bleu, a Street Opera with songs and barrel organ on the theater square or danced tales Vassilissa et Baba-Yagapar la Cie Buzzing Grass.

All music in Paloma

As usual, there will be something for everyone this first semester at Paloma, with well-known figures and discoveries. On the program in particular, the rapper Hatik on January 25, Yuri Buenaventura on March 26, the precursor DJ of the french touch Étienne de Crécy on March 28, the dandy of French song Alain Chamfort on April 11, the Mediterranean rap of Carbonne on April 3 or the Quebec singer Pierre Lapointe on May 21.

The Roman days of Nîmes

The great Roman festival of Nîmes will take place from Friday April 25 to Sunday April 27, with around 500 re-enactors and activities throughout the city. The show at the arenas will evoke The Birth of Rometo dive back into the legendary story of the twins Romulus and Remus.

Nîmes Festival at the arenas

New announcements will come in the coming weeks, but several dates are already known, with as always a curious mix between international tours and young shoots.

On the program for the Nîmes festival, the tenor Roberto Alagna on June 22, the pop singer Mika on June 26, a Marvel film concert evening on June 27, the legendary Eddy Mitchell on June 28, the British group London Grammar on June 29, the rapper Tiakola on July 3, DJ Snake on July 9, rappers Soprano and Youssoupha on July 10, the return of Michel Polnareff on the 11th July, the two French stars Jean-Louis Aubert and MC Solaar on July 15, the comedian Artus on July 18, Santa and the gypsy music of Kendji on July 19, rap, trap and reggae with Kalash and Franglish on the 20 July, the Latin guitarist Santana on July 21, the rapper Gims on July 22, a traveling evening with Softlythe project of M and Ibrahim Maalouf on July 23 and the rock group Scorpions on July 24.

For the moment, 17 evenings are scheduled. Last year, there were 21…

Exhibitions of the year in Nîmes and Alès

After Lithuania, Carré d’art will head to Brazil with two exhibitions, from April 30 to October 5. To discover first, the historical work of Ivens Machado, who lived through the years of dictatorship and who worked a lot around the body, the performative gesture in a very political way. Also at the picture rails, the first major French exhibition by Lucas Arruda, painter represented by the Zwirner gallery, whose research develops around landscape, thought and the experimentation of our capacity to live through the mediation of light and from the look.

During the coming months, the museum’s documentation center will host a residency by the choreographer Laurent Pichaud who will present a series of meetings, ballads and performances. In the fall, Carré d’art will welcome the Colombian-born photographer Felipe Romero Beltran, already present in the collections.

Prefiguring the transformation of the Museum of Old Nîmes, a transversal program will take place across all the city’s museums around textiles, including draping at the Museum of Fine Arts, matador costumes at the Museum of Bullfighting Cultures or wax at the natural history museum.

The Museum of Romanity will present “Gauls, but Romans!”, from May 29 to January 4, 2026. Immersion in the history of Roman Gaul to understand the way in which Gallic and Roman cultures intertwined to shape a new identity, rich and complex: Gallo-Roman.

At the CACN Contemporary Art Center, the artist of Korean origin Won Jy, a graduate of the Beaux-arts de Nîmes, whose work is interested in the notions of hospitality, the natural, the artificial, the memory of places and ceremonial.

Finally, you must at all costs head to the PAB museum in Alès next summer, to see “Alechinsky on paper” from June 20 to January 4, 2026. Almost a hundred years old, Pierre Alechinsky knew Pierre-André Benoit well with whom he collaborated. A founding member of the CoBrA movement, he is one of the last giants of the European artistic scene, the author of a free and poetic work, nourished by surrealism and calligraphy.