– Festival de la Cité 2024: schedules, stages, stands…
From this Tuesday until Sunday, Lausanne residents will live to the rhythm of the festival. We take a look at what’s new.
Published today at 09:52
The Balcons de la Mercerie stage will be back this year.
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In numbers
The 52e The Cité edition offers from July 2 to 7 and in fifty-seven hours of opening, six days of festival and program, on 26 stages, 136 artistic projects including 61 performances of live arts, 66 concerts and 35 DJ sets. There are notably 41 Swiss premieres, four shows for young audiences and six others for all audiences.
Among the invited artists, 33 nationalities will be represented. In total, 52 bars and stands will line the open area on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 5pm to 1am and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 2am. Some 100,000 festival-goers are expected.
Hermitage Park
The City is expanding this year to the park overlooking the city. In addition to the play «Les Ossip»created in situ by Vincent Fontannaz and performed all week in the park, the orchards will host around ten performances from Friday to Sunday. An opportunity for the public to fill up on greenery and suspended moments.
Other scenes
Regulars will find the Grand Canyon, the stage of the Place Saint-Maur, that of the cathedral, the Perchée, the Bonnard square and the garden of the Petit-Théâtre, among others. Inaugurated last year, the stage of the Balcons de la Mercerie will see its scenography completely redesigned.
Outside the walls
In addition to the Hermitage, the festival will leave its historic stronghold for Tridel for the famous afters (Fri 11pm-4:30am and Sat 10pm-4:30am). It will also offer a few escapades to the lakeside, to Bellevaux, to the Vallon wasteland, to Plateforme 10 and to the Arsenic.
Nursery
From Tuesday to Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., parents can have their children – aged 3 to 8 – looked after at the CVE de la Cité, rue Charles-Vuillermet. A space dedicated to families will also be set up under a teepee in the courtyard of the gymnasium. The same applies to the vergers de l’Hermitage, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Bars and restaurants
In the City, food stands will be set up along Rue Pierre-Viret, on Place du Château, on the Esplanade de la Cathédrale and in the courtyard of the gymnasium, where four Lausanne institutions have been invited, united under the banner of “L’Alliance des Chef·fe·s”. All stands will offer at least one vegetarian or vegan option. Around ten bars will also line the entire perimeter of the festival.
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