Since 2016, Zone Franche has pub­lished the Prac­ti­cal Guide to Visas, which aims to pro­vide tech­ni­cal answers to ques­tions pro­fes­sion­als have about bring­ing for­eign artists into the Schen­gen area

On the occa­sion of the Before Babel Music XP dig­i­tal trade show in Novem­ber 2020, Zone Franche and the Comité Visas Artistes had pub­lished the sec­ond edi­tion of the Prac­ti­cal Visa Guide for cul­tur­al pro­fes­sion­als on Novem­ber 27, 2020. The first edi­tion had been launched in Decem­ber 2016 dur­ing the Ren­con­tres Trans Musi­cales de Rennes.

Avail­able free of charge online and in paper for­mat, it reports on recent leg­isla­tive and reg­u­la­to­ry advances relat­ing to the cir­cu­la­tion of artists in France and abroad.

The dig­i­tal ver­sion of this guide is reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed in line with feed­back from the field and changes in the geopo­lit­i­cal con­text.

We would also like to thank the mem­bers of the Comité Visas Artistes for their care­ful review, includ­ing the SFA-CGT, SNAM-CGT, UFISC, Prodiss, Cité Inter­na­tionale des Arts and Insti­tut Français, who are asso­ci­at­ed with this pub­li­ca­tion.

And spe­cial thanks to Anaïs Lukacs of Mobi­Cul­ture for her close part­ner­ship in the writ­ing of this guide.