Le Toboggan

Le Toboggan is a cultural centre and cinema located at 14 Avenue Jean Macé in Décines-Charpieu, a commune in the eastern part of the Lyon metropolitan area in France. It operates as a venue brand combining a theatre (spectacles) and a cinema (cinéma), with a single ticketing and programming identity. Its public-facing mission, as stated on its own website, is to present a broad range of live performance disciplines and to make culture accessible and popular, treating programming as a shared adventure between artists and audiences. The venue's programme mixes touring theatre, dance, music and family shows with art-house and general-release cinema. Its published season announcements, such as the 2026–2027 season, list concerts, hip-hop and contemporary dance creations, jazz and swing revues, and francophone music acts, alongside film screenings with multiple showtimes per week. The cinema side publishes film pages with cast, synopsis, running time, country of production, age rating and session times, and offers separate cinema and theatre newsletters. Le Toboggan is run by a named team rather than presented as a commercial chain. Its website lists a director, Raphaëlle Rimsky-Korsakoff, and a head of programming with artistic and cultural responsibility, Victor Bosch, together with administrative, box-office, communications, technical and cinema staff. The venue also credits partners and publishes practical information on opening hours, access and pricing and subscriptions. As a brand, Le Toboggan is best understood as a local public-facing cultural venue and cinema rather than a manufacturer or retail chain. Its identity is tied to its building, its address in Décines-Charpieu and its dual theatre-and-cinema programming. Wikidata classifies it as a movie theater in Décines-Charpieu, France, which is consistent with the cinema component of the venue, while the official site presents the fuller cultural-centre proposition.

Le Toboggan is a cultural venue and cinema based at 14 Avenue Jean Macé in Décines-Charpieu, in the eastern Lyon metropolitan area of France. Publicly available evidence describes it primarily through its current operations rather than through a detailed corporate history: its official website presents it as a cultural centre with a theatre and a cinema under one roof, and Wikidata classifies it as a movie theater in Décines-Charpieu, France. The venue's model is that of a publicly oriented cultural centre. Its stated mission is to build programming as a shared adventure between artists and audiences, to cover all types of performance, and to offer a popular culture that gives audiences a taste for every artistic form. This mission statement frames the venue's identity around curiosity, openness and cultural emancipation rather than around a single genre or a commercial chain format. Operationally, Le Toboggan runs two main strands. The first is live performance: its season announcements list theatre, dance, music and family shows, including hip-hop and contemporary dance creations, jazz and swing revues, and francophone music acts. The second is cinema: the venue publishes film pages with cast, synopsis, running time, production country, age rating and session times, and maintains a separate cinema newsletter alongside a theatre newsletter. Ticketing is split between spectacles and cinema, and the venue offers subscriptions for its seasons. The venue is run by a named team. Its website lists Raphaëlle Rimsky-Korsakoff as directrice and Victor Bosch as head of programming with artistic and cultural responsibility, supported by administrative, box-office, communications, technical and cinema staff. Practical information on opening hours, access, pricing and subscriptions is published for audiences, and the venue credits a set of partners. Because the available evidence does not include founding dates, ownership structure or a corporate timeline, the history of Le Toboggan as a brand is best documented through its programming cycles and its role as a local cultural institution. Its season-based rhythm — announcing a new programme each year, opening subscriptions, and publishing regular film and performance listings — is the main public record of its activity.

• Season presentation event announced at Le Toboggan, following which the new programme is revealed.

• Le Toboggan unveils its 2026–2027 season programming.

• Scheduled performance of 'Les Fo'Plafonds', described as a concert of 100% recycled hits.

• Scheduled performance of 'Un petit pas de trop' by Kader Attou – Cie Accrorap.

• Scheduled performance of 'Bal Clandestin' by Aïcha M'barek and Hafiz Dhaou – Cie Chatha.

• Scheduled performance of Caravan Palace's 'High Voltage Jazz Revue'.

• Scheduled double concert with Arma Jackson and Camille Yembe, 'No Man's Land - Le Live'.

• Scheduled performance of 'GANGSTER.E.S - Requiem pour un dé' by Margot Thery – Cie Le Théâtre Marguerite.

• Scheduled cinema screening of 'Histoires de la nuit' by Léa Mysius.

A local cultural centre and cinema offering popular, multi-disciplinary programming for audiences in Décines-Charpieu and the Lyon area.

• Theatre and live performance season

  Annual programme of theatre, dance, music and family shows, announced each season.

• Ciné Toboggan cinema programme

  Film screenings with published cast, synopsis, running time, country, rating and session times.

• Subscriptions 2026/2027

  Season subscription offer promoted on the venue's website.

• Cinema and theatre newsletters

  Separate email newsletters for cinema and theatre audiences.

1. 1Le Toboggan, centre culturel : spectacles, cinéma, expositionsletoboggan.com
2. 2À propos du Toboggan, centre culture à Décines-Charpieuletoboggan.com
3. 3Le Toboggan – Histoires de la nuitletoboggan.com
4. 4Le Toboggan – Wikidatawikidata.org