Disability and culture: All Inclusive Festival gets Lyon moving

What if culture finally became a space truly accessible to all? It is the bet of All Inclusive Festivalorganized on May 30, 2026 in Lissieu, near Lyon. Designed as a participatory and inclusive cultural event, this new event highlights artistic diversity, artists with disabilities and local initiatives committed to inclusion. Theater, live concerts, inclusive cinema, photography, immersive sound experiences and even participatory folk dances will punctuate this first edition.

« Inclusion will be considered in all its dimensions: artistic, social, cultural and intergenerational. “, explain the organizers in their press release. An ambition supported by the Hashtag Compagnie and coordinated by Annelise Uhlrich, director and director within the Astrée company (committed artistic collective, bringing together actors from varied backgrounds, including several with disabilities), with the support of the town hall of Lissieu, cultural associations and of medico-social actors.

Disabled people, artists and medical-social actors united

The festival wishes to encourage meetings between audiences with or without disabilities around an eclectic and accessible program. Several artistic proposals will notably highlight professional approaches integrating people with disabilities, who are still too little represented in major cultural events.

From 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., the public will be able to discover short and varied formats in a logic of transmission, collective creation and citizen participation. For the organizers, this first edition also marks the start of a larger project on the scale of the Lyon Metropolis. HAS” This first edition constitutes a founding step “, they underline, with the desire to ultimately develop a real reference festival around disability, accessibility and inclusive culture.