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The DRAC Île-de-France and the Conseil régional d'Île-de-France present the 8th edition of the "Patrimoines en poésie" competition. From 16 September to 15 December 2023, children between the ages of 8 and 12 are invited to compose...

Dans le cadre de l’Olympiade culturelle, la DRAC Île-de-France a souhaité donner la parole aux actrices et acteurs qui portent les projets artistiques et culturels dans notre région. Une série d’interviews à découvrir tout au...

Pour la 9e édition des Journées du Matrimoine, la DRAC Île-de-France donne la parole à Marie Guérini, coordinatrice des Journées à Paris et en Île de France. La secrétaire générale de l'association HF-Île-de-France nous parle...

Les 16 et 17 septembre 2023, les Journées européennes du patrimoine fêtent leur 40e édition. "Patrimoine du sport" et "Patrimoine vivant" sont mis à l’honneur. Incontournable rendez-vous annuel des Français, ces Journées invitent...

Dans le cadre du dispositif Jeunes en librairie en Île-de-France, soutenu par la DRAC, les élèves du Collège Georges Clemenceau du 18e arrondissement de Paris ont mené un projet avec la librairie La Régulière, située en Quartier...

Depuis 2021, la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) d’Île-de-France et l’AORIF - l’Union sociale pour l’habitat d’Île-de-France, sont engagées dans un partenariat destiné à favoriser le développement de...

France will live to the rhythm of rugby from September 8 to October 28 on the occasion of the 2023 Rugby Union World Cup. An artistic program, supported by the DRAC Île-de-France, is offered to the public on the occasion of this international...

Le maillage de bibliothèques publiques se renforce chaque année en Île-de-France grâce à l’action de la DRAC et aux investissements réalisés par les collectivités territoriales, qui bénéficient de l’aide de l’État. À l’occasion...

Dans un an, les Jeux paralympiques Paris 2024 débuteront en France. 22 sports et 23 disciplines pour 549 épreuves, réparties sur 269 sessions et 11 jours de compétition se tiendront sur des sites de compétition exceptionnels. Dans...

Le festival "Mars à l’Ouest" porté par l’association Marionnettes en Seine et soutenu par la DRAC Île de France, invite à découvrir des ateliers de création, des spectacles et performances, notamment "Moon / Cabinet de curiosités...

As part of the 2023 Cultural Summer, Artagon Pantin founded by Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni in 2021 - which welcomes about fifty artists and developers of emerging cultural projects from Greater Paris in a former college in the heart of...

The crises resulting from the climate emergency have led the DRAC Île-de-France to adapt the public policies it implements on the Ile-de-France territory. The Cultural Summer thus proposes for its 4th edition many projects that integrate...

The 4th edition of the Cultural Summer will take place in Île-de-France from June 22 to September 19. 300 projects in 2,000 new free events are to be discovered in the districts and villages of the region. Among them, a hundred projects...

Bringing culture and sport together is what the Cultural Olympiad is all about. The DRAC Île-de-France, fully committed to this great event, supports 100 certified projects, supported by more than a thousand artists.

Director of the Théâtre Gérard-Philipe, Centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis, Julie Deliquet opens the next Festival d'Avignon on July 5 with the show "Welfare", adapted from Frederick Wiseman’s documentary film. Meeting with...

The obelisk of Luxor, which has traversed the centuries and civilizations since its pruning in a pink granite block of Egypt 3,300 years ago, and which has reigned since 1836 on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, has just been topped with...

On 16, 17 and 18 June, 42 sites in Île-de-France will participate in the European Archaeology Days. Visitors to the Ile-de-France region will be able to meet the past in all its diversity and discover the richness of this heritage.

Focus on the project led by the students of the Lycée des métiers de l'horticulture et du paysage Jeanne Baret de Montreuil with the Zeugma bookshop, around the theme "The book and the plant".

The Paris Summer Festival takes place from 10 to 30 July in the capital and its region. A major event for live entertainment, supported by the DRAC Île-de-France, the annual event takes place in many well-known or unusual places, fixed...

"Rendez-vous aux jardins" opens this year on the theme of garden music. From 2 to 4 June, the 200 participating parks and gardens in the Ile de France region will discover themselves and offer the public the opportunity to be charmed by...

As part of the economic recovery plan "France 2030", a total of 350 million euros in grants are allocated to the winners of the call for projects "La Grande Fabrique de l'Image". In Île-de-France, 26 projects were selected.

The DRAC Île-de-France, the Conseil régional Île-de-France and the Comité régional du tourisme Paris Île-de-France are organizing a series of thematic workshops as part of the triennial agreement signed between the DRAC and the CRT...

Since its creation in 2005, the European Night of Museums has become an essential annual event for Franciliens and Franciliens with their museum heritage. On May 13, for this 19th edition, from nightfall until midnight, night owls will...

The Ministry of Culture launches every year, in the direction of territorial museums, associations or foundations benefiting from the designation "Museum of France", a call for projects in order to obtain the label exhibition of national...

50 burial graves (2nd century CE) belonging to the great Gallo-Roman necropolis south of Lutetia, known as the "necropolis of Saint James", were uncovered as part of work on the Port Royal station of the RER B. This preventive archaeological...

The Minister of Culture, Mrs.Rima Abdul Malak, announced on April 11, 2023 an initial assessment of the «Cathedral Security» plan under the France recovery plan. Initiated in 2019, this plan aims to increase the level of the 87 cathedrals...

On April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was the victim of a spectacular fire still imbued in our memories. The DRAC Île-de-France, which was assigned to the monument at the time of the tragedy, organized the security works and...

On the occasion of the project to rebuild the spire of the basilica of Saint-Denis, a preventive archaeological excavation, prescribed by the DRAC Île-de-France, resulted in the release of some sixty plaster sarcophagi, mainly from the...

From April 8 to December 31, 2023, the Great War Museum in Meaux offers a temporary exhibition "Nurses – Silent Heroines of the Great War". Labelled with the National Interest (EIN), this exhibition shows the participation and strong...

For 2023, the Gallo-Roman site of Châteaubleau was selected, as an emblematic site for the Île-de-France, by the Mission for the Safeguarding of Endangered Heritage. Its restoration will benefit from funds raised as part of the heritage...