Positive Education Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–3 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

TBA, Saint Etienne, France

Sound

Electronic · House

Tickets

€35 · 1 tier tracked

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Saint Etienne · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

8 artists so far

The story

The Positive Education Festival takes place in Saint Etienne, France, specifically at the Cité du Design. This festival will return on November 6th and 7th, 2026, following a one-year hiatus. The event showcases a range of musical performances and includes a variety of artists. It features both announced and surprise acts, emphasizing sound exploration and innovative performances.

Positive Education Festival is a 3-day electronic, house festival at TBA in Saint Etienne, France. The November 2026 edition runs 1–3 Nov 2026.

Announced so far: Quelza, Ship Sket, gyrofield, Lechuga Zafiro, Hewan Aman, Jan Loup, Proc Fiskal and Small Crab. Expect stages split between Electronic and House. The line-up is spread across the 3 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at TBA, in Saint Etienne. Saint Etienne · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Positive Education Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Tuesday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Saint Etienne are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Cité du Design as the venue
• Features back-to-back performances
• Tickets available on Resident Advisor

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Saint Etienne · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Positive Education Festival works out at roughly €214 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 16% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is bus · 8h 11m each way, at €59 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Positive Education Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Positive Education Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Sunday 1 November

  Quelza, Lechuga Zafiro, Proc Fiskal

• Day 2 — Monday 2 November

  Ship Sket, Hewan Aman, Small Crab

• Day 3 — Tuesday 3 November

  gyrofield, Jan Loup

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  1–3 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Quelza, Ship Sket, gyrofield

• 2024

  1–3 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Ship Sket, gyrofield, Lechuga Zafiro

• 2023

  1–3 Nov 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: gyrofield, Lechuga Zafiro, Hewan Aman

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is TBA, in Saint Etienne.
• Book a bed in Saint Etienne early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus8h 11m · €59
• car6h 42m · €134
• air4h 7m · €140
• train4h 54m · €151