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Le Joyeux Week-end

The Fondation Cartier’s new family event

  • Events, Paris
  • Sat 18 Apr → Sun 19 Apr 2026, 14:00 → 17:30
  • For families, for children aged 3 to 10 years old
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Le Joyeux Week end Manufacture 2026
Photo © Marc Domage

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

2, place du Palais-Royal

75001 Paris

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Infos

All the activities are only available in french.

Throughout a joyful and creative weekend, the Fondation's spaces transform into an exploratory environment where children and parents are invited to engage with artworks in novel ways: through observation, manipulation, and experimentation. 

Designed as an extensive platform for artistic exploration, this event features a program of workshops and discoveries focusing on artworks, materials, and creative gestures. Each activity encourages a practical understanding of the works and promotes inventive expression. 

This inaugural edition of the Joyeux Week-end also marks the opening of La Manufacture, the Fondation Cartier's new educational space dedicated to artistic experimentation and the exploration of creative processes. 

Within this dedicated space, children engage with materials, explore various forms, and gain direct experiential insight into the creative process. 

A new, delightful gathering for families! 

Within the Exhibition

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    2 PM - 5:30 PM: The Great Exploration (ages 3+)

    An exploratory game through the works of the Fondation's collection: the journey will lead children on an extraordinary voyage through submarines and ballrooms, kites and jaguars, and many other discoveries!

Within the Manufacture

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    2 PM - 5 PM: Linocut Workshop (ages 3+)

    Introduction to Linocut Techniques Workshop, offered as a free-access activity on foam paper for younger children or on genuine linoleum plates for older participants!

  • La Garde Robe magique Manufacture 2026

    2 PM - 5 PM: « La Garde-Robe magique ! » (ages 6+)

    « La Garde-Robe magique ! » workshop, designed by artist Clément Courgeon, invites the public to imagine and create their own magical attire. Structured like a medieval fair, this event will allow the public to move through several workshops inspired by traditional crafts: mask-making, hat-making, and cape-making. Each participant will thus have the opportunity to play, assemble, and transform themselves.

Within the Studio Marie-Claude Beaud

  • Sieste Ensemble Joyeux Week end 2026

    Saturday 2 PM - 5 PM: Sieste Ensemble (ages 3+)

    The Sieste Ensemble collective is taking over the Studio for a collective relaxation experience. This space, designed in a participatory and holistic way, aims to invite the public to an immersive experience conducive to drowsiness, guided by sonic nuances. The sound program will feature modular synthesizer performances by Alexis Delong, nursery rhymes and tales from the duo TRENTE & Pi Ja Ma, and live Qanun played by Mariam Poussin.

  • MINI·MAXI de Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie 2026

    Sunday 4 PM - 5 PM: Concerts, reservation required

    Young audiences are offered a playful concert, a moment of connection desired by the collective, which continues to redefine children's music through a creative and joyful universe. The artists infuse their creation with varied, captivating, and energetic melodies. They venture into an inexhaustible playground where acoustics meet synthesizers and toy music blends with electronic pop atmospheres. Children and adults are invited to immerse themselves in the group's luminous and multicolored universe. A captivating, joyful, and dancing concert.

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