The Nuit Blanche returns to Paris on Saturday, June 6, 2026 with a new free program dedicated to contemporary art. For one evening, museums, cultural centers, heritage sites, and even more unexpected spaces will throw open their doors to host installations, performances, exhibitions, and artistic encounters. In the 20th arrondissement, the Pavillon Carré de Baudoin takes part in the event with the Nuit blanche de la poésie, staged for the second time at this Parisian cultural venue.
The Pavillon Carré de Baudouin is one of the key cultural venues in Ménilmontant. Built in the 18th century, it began as a pleasure residence linked to Nicolas Carré de Baudouin, an adviser to the Parliament of Paris. Having evolved into a cultural hub, it now welcomes exhibitions, talks, concerts, workshops and gatherings throughout the year. Its history, its architecture, and its deep roots in the 20th arrondissement make it a well-recognized fixture of Parisian cultural life.
For Nuit Blanche 2026, the Pavillon Carré de Baudoin presents an evening centered on poetry, from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event invites the public to discover a different way of approaching this venue, through readings, creations, and moments of sharing around words. A free offering that brings poetry into Nuit Blanche's nocturnal itinerary, at the heart of a heritage site where culture is experienced at the neighborhood scale.
Performances, interactive happenings, recitals, video poems, an exhibition, poetry and music, a poetry bar… With poets and performers Sophie Loizeau, Jacques Bonnaffé in a duo with the slammer-bassist Dgiz, Aurélien Dony, Eugénie Hersant-Prévert, Lisette Lombé, Christophe Fiat, Séverine Daucourt accompanied by Nicolas Repac, Pierre Vinclair with saxophonist Matthieu Donarier, the company Les Ecriés, and screenings of the film Naufrage, based on the text by Lautréamont, by Malo de La Tullaye, and Dominique Fajnzang’s Voyage au pays du visage about Victor Segalen.
Performance, Music, Theater
The Haut des Cimes Festival in Ménilmontant offers a vibrant, accessible celebration of poetry. This event acts as a true companion to poetry and contemporary writing, built around a range of outreach methods—happenings, workshops, urban strolls, varied listening installations, immersive and interactive formats—and a spectrum of tools—theatrical, playful, interpretive—that empower everyone to become an actor and keeper of “keys” to analysis and meaning, opening access to the boldest forms of contemporary writing. The program also roots itself in the local landscape, inviting participants to discover and engage with the surrounding environment through poetic urban promenades. Activities are designed to be inclusive, giving all a chance to read, write, and listen to poetry in a way that resonates with the neighborhood they traverse, inhabit, and imagine. The festival invites everyone to explore these new and distinctive uses of language, to listen, to read, to write—with the poets.
In partnership with Le Carré Baudouin.
A wonderful evening to enjoy with your loved ones!
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Dates and Opening Time
From June 6, 2026 to June 7, 2026
Location
Pavillon Carré de Baudoin
121 rue de Ménilmontant
75020 Paris 20
Prices
Free
Official website
www.pavilloncarredebaudouin.fr
