Festival avec ou sans Fil | Office de Tourisme de Vendôme

This 2025 edition will once again offer a wide-ranging panorama of contemporary creation and the repertoire of the puppetry arts to the inhabitants of the Vendôme and Centre-Val de Loire regions.

Numerous nationally and internationally renowned artists and companies will be welcomed to the Vendôme area and throughout the Centre-Val de Loire region, thanks to the participation of some fifteen partner structures, even more numerous for this new edition.

January 22 to February 28, 2025

Creations, repertory shows, large-scale productions, small-scale forms, immersive shows, animated films, exhibitions: a wide range of universes and aesthetic diversity to discover alone, with friends or family.

Un homme et une femme tenant dans la main des marionnettes

Center National de la Marionnette

Since 2009, L’Hectare has been supporting various puppet-related artistic projects as part of its role as a “scène conventionnée” for puppetry and object theater.

2013: 1st edition of the Avec Ou Sans Fils biennial (9 shows for 13 performances) programmed in the Vendôme area. In 2021: 5th edition of the festival (24 shows) programmed throughout the Centre-Val de Loire region, with the participation of 15 cultural partners.

February 2020: l’Hectare-Territoires vendômois, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national, becomes one of the first four “National Puppet Centers”. This is how L’Hectare came to welcome the process of setting up the “Centre National de la Marionnette” label.

October 2022: certification of the first six “National Puppet Centers” (CNMa), including L’Hectare – Territoires vendômois.