The mission of the Avignon branch of the BnF, attached to the Department of Performing Arts, is to collect, preserve and enhance the memory of the Avignon Festival, the festival OFF, the Winter festival and other venues in Avignon: archives, programs, press releases and folders, posters, photographies, videos. It also offers a large library specialized in performing arts, free of charge and open to all. In its two reading rooms of 40 places in total, every public is welcome - researchers, students, professionals, amateurs…
Catalogues and research tools
The documents kept at the Bibliothèque de la Maison Jean-Vilar are listed in two online catalogs:
Manuscripts and archive collections
The records of each archive collection contain a short historical presentation as well as information on how to consult them.
For some archive collections, inventories on paper can be consulted only on site.
Manuscripts and Archive collections catalogue
Other documents
To limit your research to the collections of the Maison Jean-Vilar, use the ‘Localization’ filter and opt for ‘Maison-Jean-Vilar’.
Not all the documents are yet listed in the General Catalogue. Some can be consulted on site on file catalogues, sorted by authors, well-known figures, titles, subjects, press or periodical articles.
General Catalogue
Services
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Communication of the archives of Jean Vilar, Jean Rouvert and Sonia Debeauvais: only with the authorisation from the Association Jean Vilar
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Communication of heritage collections and storage book and periodicals
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Free consultation of books, periodicals, programs of the Festival d’Avignon and of the Festival OFF.
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Consultation of digital resources of the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica intra muros, periodicals in digitized format, online database, Internet Archives etc.
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Information and Bibliographic research both on-site and remote
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Article research by topic, place or weel-known figures (actor, director, choreographer, author, scenographer etc.)
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Wifi access: visitors can use the ‘BNF’ wifi network available in both reading rooms of the Maison Jean-Vilar
Enhancing the collections
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We organize pedagogical activities on request and suited to your requirements
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Bibliographies on the Festivals d’Avignon and on Les Hivernales ara available
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We showcase documents on current events of Performing Arts