Urbaka Limoges Street ShowUrbaka Limoges Street Show
©Urbaka Limoges Street Show|Association Urbaka
Urbaka Festival in Limoges26-29 June 2025
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Urbaka Festival in Limoges

The Urbaka Festival is a multi-disciplinary festival of street art and live performance, taking place free of charge for 4 days in the streets of Limoges in summer. 🌞

This year, for the 36th edition, it will take place from 26 to 29 June 2025!

So put your dates in your diaries. 📆

What is the Urbaka Festival?

Urbaka: when the street becomes a stage, when art invites itself everywhere!

For the last 35 editions, Urbaka has transformed Limoges into an open-air theatre, where every street corner becomes a playground for the imagination.

Free and open to all, this street arts festival reinvents the everyday, injecting poetry and surprise into the most unexpected places. 👀

Théâtre, dance, circus, performances… Artists from a wide range of backgrounds bring the city to life, sharing suspended moments of motion and creativity with the public. ✨

Festival UrbakaFestival Urbaka
©Festival Urbaka|David Debord photographie - Photolim

    Urbaka, a street story

    The brainchild of Andrée Eyrolle, Urbaka was launched in 1989 in Limoges, becoming the first street arts festival in the Haute-Vienne.

    Its name mimics the urban and the Akas, the Pygmies known for their open-air festivals. Free, committed and accessible to all, Urbaka takes to the public space to encourage encounters, sharing and creativity.

    For more than 30 years, the festival has mingled artistic disciplines and horizons, welcoming 4,000 artists and more than 200,000 spectators, with one ambition intact: to make the city vibrate to the rhythm of live art.

    Urbaka Festival LimogesUrbaka Festival Limoges
    ©Urbaka Festival Limoges|David Debord photographie

      Why is Urbaka essential?

      Because it embodies everything that is most vibrant about the street arts: surprise, proximity and shared emotion.

      Every summer in Limoges, Urbaka transforms squares, forecourts and alleyways into living stages, where acrobats, giant puppets, comedians and jugglers come to life.

      Here, art is everywhere, without stage or curtain, reaching out to all audiences through theatre, circus, dance, music and visual installations.

      Urbaka is all about encounters: between artists and passers-by, between artistic expression and the city. It’s a free, popular and committed festival that turns everyday life into a wonderland.

      Two new scenes for Urbaka

      This year, the Urbaka festival is expanding its playground and going beyond the borders of Limoges to reach out to new audiences.

      Feytiat and Beaune-les-Mines on 5 and 6 July 2025, for 2 evenings of street arts. It’s a way of opening the doors to culture even wider, by bringing it to the very heart of the partner towns.

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      We like

      The guinguette atmosphere of the Urbaka village, nestled in the garden of the Eacute;vêché with its gourmet foodtrucks, local produce and friendly entertainment.

      Between a vintage second-hand shop, meetings with artisans and solidarity initiatives, it’s the perfect spot to take a festive and committed break during the festival!

      Worth noting

      Drinks and refreshments can only be purchased with tokens, which are available at the festival reception desk.

      There is no need for tokens at the foodtrucks: payment is accepted in cash or by card directly on site.

      Coming to the festival

      Due to ongoing works in the area, access to the festival site can be complicated by car.

      For greater ease of use, opt for soft mobility: come on foot, by bike or by public transport. There are several bus routes nearby: routes 1, 13 or 43 (stop G. Péri) or routes 2, 4 and 13 (stop Place Wilson).

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      Good to know

      Entertainment

      There’ll be plenty of entertainment on site!

      Address

      See you in the Cité district, particularly Place Saint-Etienne at the foot of the cathedral and in the gardens of the Eacute;véch;

      .

      Catering

      Buffet, food trucks and food stalls on site where you can sample delicious local and international cuisine.

      The little extra

      All the festival’s shows are free and without reservation, although a hat will be passed around at the end of each performance: free participation to support their artistic development.

      Here are some other ideas for outings this summer