Institut Grand Festif

La Briche Foraine

Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
12 September - 9 November 2025

Step inside, dip your hand into the great bowl of life, let the Curly Saint melt on your tongue, take a deep breath, and you’ll be entering the heart of the Institut Grand Festif’s experimental laboratory for an adventure whose outcome is anyone’s guess.

Board at the Gare Saint-Sauveur and the space-time journey will take you from the prehistoric beginnings of the nouba to the most cosmic horizons of the shared party experience.

Imbued with the afterglow of a rich festive mythology, you’ll be the confetti at the heart of a luminous whirlwind, you’ll be the breath, the rhythmic pulse and the melody. Finally, you’ll shed the shrouds that weigh down your body (and your soul) to transform yourself into a strobe light, a wild animal of the dancefloor, a monster with false eyelashes from the farthest reaches of time, a magnificent child of the Great Festivities, a transistor of love, an infinite entertainer.

As well as your unquenchable appetite for joy and your determination, you’ll benefit from cutting-edge equipment, supplied by our research teams, to get you through the different spaces you’ll encounter on your quest.

Your contribution to the scientifestives advances underway is priceless.



Gare Saint Sauveur
17 Bd Jean-Baptiste Lebas, 59800 Lille

Wednesday > Sunday
10am > 7pm

↑ La Briche foraine Saint Denis 2015 © Dominique Secher 

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