Positive Education Festival (Saint-Étienne, France) 2026

Positive Education returns to the Cite du Design in Saint-Etienne on 6 and 7 November 2026 after a year away, running from 6pm on the Friday through to 6am on the Sunday morning. The organisers have deliberately scaled this edition down to three stages and a more intimate format, built around time, attention and discovery rather than volume.

The Friday opens with live sets from Hajj, Machine Girl and Microplastics alongside Renoiterrible, Saintetine and secret guests, before the night programme brings A Guy Called Gerald live, Eris Drew with Octo Octa, Mike Servito, Manuka Honey, Lechuga Zafiro, Abadir with Hogir, Proc Fiskal back to back with Ship Sket, Aawadh, CWTCH, Chewlie, DJSport, Philip Kylberg, Prieste5s, Sindh with Axymt, So-Fi, Suutoo, Vlada and Zaltan with Babsi.

Saturday evening runs Andy Stott live, K Wata live, Seiva and Yama Niyama, with the night carrying Surgeon and Norbak live, Jane Fitz with 69 DB, DJ Storm, Quelza, Decoder, Tammo Hesselink, gyrofield, Biocym, Aksamit, Anta Doma, Emilia Grima, Hewan Aman with Jan Loup, ILAYRUNI, Neska, Orokaiva, Parallele Attitude, Small Crab, Softi, Varuna Agosti and Yuta. A pass is 35 euros and covers both evenings and both nights, entry is 18 and over, and the Cite du Design sits at 3 rue Javelin Pagnon, 40 minutes from Lyon by train. It is the French experimental music festival that programmes furthest out.