Budget cuts
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The Yvelines scene has just learned that its budget will be cut by 350,000 euros by the department in 2025. And announces that it will be obliged to cancel the 2026 edition of their biennial festival dedicated to youth.
The ax has fallen. The Sartrouville Theater and Yvelines, spearhead of the performing arts for young people, finds itself deprived of an essential part of its subsidies. The departmental council chaired by Pierre Bédier (LR) has decided to drastically reduce the envelope allocated to the place: the budget will be cut by 350,000 euros from 2025. This sum corresponds precisely to the annual sum granted to its biennial Odyssées festival which will therefore not be able to take place as planned in 2026. In a press release published this Wednesday, December 4, the theater announces that it is in “grief” faced with this news. The National Union of Artistic and Cultural Enterprises (Syndeac) believes that this is, for the moment, one of the most significant reductions announced in the cultural sector on a national scale.
The director of the national drama center (CDN), Abdelwaheb Sefsaf, was quick to express his indignation in an open letter addressed Tuesday, November 29 to Pierre Bédier and the departmental council, deploring an “incomprehensible decision” which endangers the existence of a twenty-seven year old festival, emblematic of the Théâtre de Sartrouville. Dedicated to youth and contemporary creation, the place had the ambition to nourish “the imagination and life of the greatest number of young Yvelin residents”, in the words of Franck Borotra, minister and president of the general council at the moment
