Regulations, aid schemes
The aids
Theater
- Decentralised aid for live performance: aid for independent teams
The decentralised support for performing arts is awarded by the regional directors of cultural affairs (DRAC and DAC) to about 1,400 independent teams each year in the fields of dance, music, theatre, circus and street arts.
There are two types of aid:
- of the project aid, annual,
- of the convening aid, multi-year.
Eligible audience : Artists, artist collectives, theatre companies, street and circus arts.
. Decentralised aid for live performance - Aid for independent teams
- Tax credit for theatrical performances of dramatic works
The tax credit is intended to support the creation, operation and digitization of theatrical performances of dramatic works and specifically targets the work of performing arts companies promoting artistic employment.
. Device and procedure;
- National aid for the creation of dramatic texts
Each year, creative assistance helps support about fifty texts, particularly through their circulation in francophone and international networks, as well as promoting the influence of their authors.
. Learn more about the device
. Make a request for help
- Companionship assistance:
Since 2008, the Ministry of Culture’s companionship system has aimed to promote the transmission and professional integration within theatre companies, puppets, circus and street arts. The companionship is a process of accompaniment allowing, in a given time of the order of a season, the organization of sequences of exchanges, work and verifications between an artistic team and a companion, young director or author.
2022 Companionship Application Files must be sent by 1 March 2024.
. Device and procedure 2024
- Commission internationale du théâtre francophone (C.I.T.F.)
Created in 1987 to support Francophone theatre creation, the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone (C.I.T.F.) supports projects that give artists the opportunity to discover other francophone cultures to enrich their artistic approach and conquer new audiences.
To consult the programmes and download the application forms > https://citf-info.net/
Research in theatre, circus, puppetry, street arts, storytelling, mime and gesture arts
The call for projects Research in theatre and associated arts was designed to support research conducted by creative actors outside of any immediate objective of creation or production of shows. The objective of the Ministry of Culture is to support the development of new forms of research led by artists, which make it possible to create new knowledge on creative processes and pedagogical practices, that foster the enrichment of heritage and generate technological innovations for creation.
> Presentation of the scheme and call for projects 2023
Street arts and circus arts
- Creation assistance for street and circus arts
These grants concern the creation of shows in the circus arts sector on the one hand, and creative projects, any discipline, taking into account the public space on the other.
Applications are submitted by professional creative structures, including circus arts companies, or delegated producers to whom the artist(s) will have contracted to delegate responsibility for the implementation of the project.
> Consult the Cirque 2024 call for projects
> Consult the Arts de la rue 2024 call for projects
Application deadline: 30 January 2024, 23:59 (Paris time). No file may be filed or taken into account after this date.
- Aid for roaming creative circuses
The purpose of the roaming aid is to cover the specific costs of roaming the tent: setting up and dismantling costs, approach costs (fuel, motorway, etc.), the cost of keeping the equipment current, the wages of the workforce required for roaming the tent. Other costs related to the tour (artists, administrative fees, communication) do not fall within the scope of this aid.
Applications for aid should be sent in paper format AND in digitized format to the companies' reference dracs no later than May 5, 2023.
> Roaming assistance for creative circuses 2023
The files will be examined by the DGCA, with advice from the DRAC, in June 2023 and the subsidy payments will be made by the DRAC in the summer of 2023
- Aid for the roaming of family circuses
Assistance for the homeless in family circuses has several objectives:
- support family circuses which have chosen to roam under tents;
- lighten the costs of transporting and installing marquees for circuses offering their own shows;
- to promote the spread of circus under tent in the territories with particular attention to disadvantaged areas (rural tours, small towns).
> Roaming assistance for family circuses 2023
- Write for the street
Set up by the SACD and the DGCA, Write for the street is a device to accompany the original writings for the public space.
. Find all the information on this system on the SACD portal
. Consult the 2024 call for projects
- Creation open to street and circus arts
Aids to dramaturgy not exclusively textual. Within the aid for the creation of dramatic works, an aid for dramaturgy not exclusively textual has been instituted. This aid aims more particularly at supporting writings other than textual. These may be projects based on multidisciplinary artistic expressions (see Theatre: Help with Dramatic Creation).
- Support for the professional integration of young graduates DSNP - Circus artist
Amateur Artistic and Cultural Initiatives Fund
Presentation of the scheme and call for applications 2023
Immersive Creation Fund
The Immersive Creation Fund supports innovative audiovisual works based on an immersive creation approach. Immersive works are audiovisual creations that offer a dynamic viewing experience related to the movement of the eye and/ or the activation of visual or sound content by the viewer, using virtual or augmented reality technologies or any other device allowing immersion.
Presentation of the device and procedure
National Fund for Sustainable Employment in Entertainment (FONPEPS)
The National Fund for Sustainable Employment in Entertainment (FONPEPS), broken down into 9 concrete measures, is the first fund created to actively support sustainable employment in entertainment.
Device overview
Equipping
The ministry helps performing arts professionals (companies, businesses, schools) to purchase and renew the equipment necessary for their activities: works, rolling stock, heating, various equipment, etc. Such aid may not, however, concern the purchase of decors or other perishable material necessary for a given production. They are allocated by the DRAC.
The regulation
The licence of performing arts entrepreneur
For procedures and information related to the production, distribution or operation of live shows, find all the questions and answers on the Performing Arts Entrepreneurs Platform (PLATESV).
The One Stop Shop (GUSO)
The GUSO - One-stop shop for occasional shows - is a system of administrative simplification which makes it possible to declare and pay social security contributions on behalf of the following social protection bodies:
- Afdas (vocational training)
- Audiens (supplementary retirement and provident schemes)
- CMB (medical and occupational health)
- Show Holidays (paid leave - managed by Audiens)
- Unédic (Unemployment Insurance)
- Urssaf (Social Security)
Specific training on show safety
Show safety training, as defined in section 7 of the Order of September 21, 2015, provides for the certification of show safety training limited to the operation of establishments receiving the public (ERP) of this type and category. This certificate may be produced in support of an application for a licence of contractor of live performances of 1st category provided for in article R. 7122-3 of the Labour Code
> List of approved centres to provide specific training on show safety
Artistic agents
The declarative regime for artistic agents is abolished since 1 January 2016 pursuant to the provisions of theorder no. 2015-1682 of 17 December 2015 simplifying certain prior authorisation and reporting schemes for businesses and professionals. As a result, artistic agents can now carry out their activity under the conditions laid down by the Labour Code without first asking the Ministry of Culture to register them in the register of artistic agents.
The provisions relating to the practice of the profession of agent are specified in articles L7121-9 to L7121-13 of the Labour Code and by the Decree 2011-517 of 11 May 2011
To go further: some practical guides
> European and international action
The Directorate-General for Artistic Creation is developing a policy of support for European and international action by artistic creation professionals.
This brochure presents the main devices and organizations accompanying the development of international strategies in the fields of performing arts and visual arts.
This online document also offers resources, in French, English and Spanish, for foreign professionals wishing to develop partnerships and cooperation in France.
> Download the brochure Création artistique - Performing arts & visual arts (French/English) / Artistic creation - Artes escénicas y visuales (French/Spanish)
> Development of a circus arts practice space (Animation – Teaching – Training / Recommendations, instructions and obligations)
January 2018. Developed by the security subcommittee of the Conseil National des Professions du Spectacles, this guide is a vademecum of the essential rules and recommendations to accompany you in the development of a place of practice of circus arts. It has been designed for all actors in charge of the practice of circus arts whatever the forms of practices exercised (animation, professional training, activity for disabled people,...).
> Download the Guide to Designing a Circus Arts Centre
> Organizing an Art Event in the Public Space – Best Practices Guide
Edited by ARTCENA — Centre national des arts du cirque, de la rue et du théâtre
New version updated and increased (2017). Intended for event organizers, elected officials, companies, municipal services, artists and technical managers, this guide proposes a methodology in compliance with the regulations, at the service of artistic creation and centered on dialogue and collaboration between all the professionals concerned.
> Download the Guide des bons usages - Organizing an artistic event in the public space
> The Guide to Social Obligations Related to the Employment of Artists and Technicians in the Performing and Recorded Arts Sectors
The Guide to Social Obligations Related to the Employment of Artists and Technicians in the Performing and Recorded Arts Sectors provides information on the legal and regulatory obligations of performing arts entrepreneurs. It is available to cultural actors of the performing arts. This version, updated in 2016 by the Directorate-General for Artistic Creation, was produced in partnership with the National Centre for Cinema and Moving Images, the Directorate-General for Labour, the Directorate for Health, the Directorate for Social Security, and the CNC, with the collaboration also of Afdas and Audiens.
> Download the Guide to the Social Obligations of Performing Arts
> Illegal work and live and recorded performance
For the purpose of prevention, awareness and information, an information booklet on illegal work in live performance and recorded was developed jointly by the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the National Delegation to Fight Fraud. The social partners of the show were consulted on the drafting of this document.
> Download the brochure 'Illegal work and live performance'
> The Practical Guide to Visas
The Practical Visa Guide, produced by Zone Franche and the Artists Visa Committee, reports on the recent legislative and regulatory advances related to the adoption of the law of 7 March 2016 on the law of foreigners in France whose application decrees were published on 28 October 2016. This new law contains several administrative simplification measures that have a direct impact on the practice of professionals working with foreign artists. This guide summarizes the latest texts published on the subject (decrees, decrees, and circulars).
> Download the Visa Guide
> The memo "Materials and Removable Sets"
The memo "Materials and Removable Sets" published by SYNPASE, National Union of Providers of Stage and Event Audiovisual, presents the "rules of the art" in terms of implementation of removable sets. Resulting from a collective work of 18 months, it involved all the parties concerned by the issues related to the safety of removable assemblies.
A reference tool for event and live performance actors, the memo is intended for all professionals concerned (designers, builders, service providers and verifiers). It is presented here in its 4th edition, its evolutionary character allows it to adapt to technical progress and normative evolutions.
> Download the memo "Materials and Removable Sets"
> Download the memo in English: Memento «Removable Equipment and Sets»
To be consulted atssi : Aid, procedures and subsidy
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