Open-air venues in Paris
Elena Lazzarini
Where the city breathes: Paris’s finest open-air venues
Spring is the perfect time to hang out with your friends and spend the evening dancing to house, techno, electro, and even rock. Indeed, an open-air venue is the best place to both enjoy a drink at sunset and listen to music until late.
During this season, Paris offers a variety of open-air venues, some set in a former railway station, others opposite a floating barge, but you are guaranteed to have a great time at all of them.
Le Sample: where community and open-air culture meet
Le Sample is a creative cultural venue in the heart of Bagnolet. It brings together concerts, DJ sets, exhibitions, performances, and community gatherings. Accordingly, its 2,000m² garden makes it one of the most generous open-air spaces in the inner suburbs. This place builds solidarity, openness and shared creative energy.
Virage: a venue built from recovery and recycling
Located under the ring road at Port de Saint-Ouen, Virage is a unique, avant-garde venue open to all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin or any other identity.
Furthermore, the scenography is designed as a journey into a different reality, where all materials come from recovery and recycling.
Jardin 21: an open-air green oasis along the Ourcq Canal
Jardin 21 hides as a green oasis along the Ourcq canal in the 19th arrondissement. What was once an old orchard is now a lively cultural open-air venue. Here you can garden, dance, eat, laugh, and simply exist without any agenda. Markedly, it is a rare place where conviviality feels genuinely effortless.
La Prairie du canal: an urban farm where music meets community
This venue is an urban farm that hosts musical events and DJs sets. Located in Bobigny, this open air allows you to spend a convivial afternoon with your friends and family thanks to the different activities. For instance, you can chat with your friends while sunbathing comfortably on the deckchairs, as well as challenge them on a volleyball or a pétanque match.
Kilomètre 25: open-air electronic nights beneath the ring road
Finally, hidden beneath the ring road, Kilomètre 25 transforms an industrial constraint into something poetic. In addition, its vast open-air space hosts electronic music nights, pop-up shops as well as art exhibitions. It is loud, free-spirited and completely unique to this corner of the city.
Paris has an open-air venue for every mood this spring. Overall, all this spaces share a deep commitment to culture and togetherness. And yet, they each make the city feel, for a few hours, like a place without walls.
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