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Urbaka Festival in Limoges25-27 June 2026

Urbaka Festival in Limoges

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

This year, for the 37th edition, it will take place from 25 to 27 June 2026!

So save the dates in your diaries. 📆

What is the Urbaka Festival?

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

For the past 37 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 everyday life, injecting poetry and surprise into the most unexpected places. 👀

Theatre, dance, circus, performances… Artists from a wide range of backgrounds bring the city to life and share suspended moments of emotion and creation with the public. ✨

Urbaka, a street story

Conceived by Andrée Eyrolle, Urbaka was born in 1989 in Limoges, becoming the first street arts festival in the Haute-Vienne.

Its name blends the urban with the Akas, a Pygmy people renowned for their open-air festivals.

Free, committed and accessible to all, Urbaka takes to the public space to encourage people to meet, share and create.

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

Why is Urbaka essential?

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

Every summer in Limoges, Urbaka transforms squares, forecourts and alleyways into living stages, where acrobats, giant puppets, actors and jugglers appear.

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

Urbaka is a celebration of 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 place of wonder.

Book your stay

We like

The guinguette atmosphere of the Urbaka village, nestled in the Évêché gardens, with its gourmet foodtrucks, local produce and friendly events.

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

Worth noting

Drinks at the refreshment stalls can only be paid for with tokens, available from the festival reception.

For the foodtrucks, no tokens are required: cash or card payments accepted directly on site.

Coming to the festival

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

For simplicity’s sake, use 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).

Continue your stay

Good to know

Entertainment

There’s plenty to see and do on site!

Address

Rendezvous in the Cité district, notably Place Saint-Etienne at the foot of the cathedral and in the Évéché gardens.

Catering

Refreshment bar, food trucks and food stalls on site where you can enjoy delicious local and international cuisine.

The little extra

All the shows in the festival are free of charge and no booking is necessary, although a hat will be passed around at the end of each performance: free participation to support their artistic approach.