The Experience

Your ticket includes:

Classic Prix Fixe Bistro Menu

Chef Aaron Gardner
Vegetarian Options Available

Open Bar

Parisian Cocktails, Mocktails, and Wine

Absinthe Drip

Experience the ritual of the Green Fairy

Live Cabaret

Live and Silent Auction, and Fund-a-Cause

Curated gifts from beloved local businesses, artwork,
and a paddle raise

Dancing

with DJL3D

Purchase Tickets

Optional Cognac Tasting Flight with Pairings
+ $25
There’s nothing more French than sipping on cognac and watching a cabaret show. Explore three pours of different houses and ages of cognac, together with food pairings.

Exclusive Lounge Seating

Travel to Paris without ever leaving Staunton. This year’s lounges are inspired by two women who changed the course of modernism. Stein’s salon launched the careers of painters and writers alike, and Beach’s bookshop became the lifeline of an expatriate generation, lending books, forwarding mail, and even publishing Ulysses when no one else would.

Gertrude Stein’s Salon (for 6)
Sold out!

Enjoy the gala in a space inspired by Gertrude Stein’s salon — the epicenter of the early 20th-century avant-garde art and literary world. This legendary gathering space functioned as the "first museum of modern art." It fostered groundbreaking dialogues that defined Western modernism.

Sink into comfortable seating and enjoy appetizers, drink service,
and private absinthe drip.
$660

Shakespeare and Co. Booksellers (for 4)
Sold out!

Enjoy the gala from a space inspired by the “public living room” of the entire lost generation of writers in Paris. Founded and operated by American expatriate Sylvia Beach, this legendary English-language bookstore and lending library became the center of Anglo-American literary modernism between 1919 and 1930.

Sink into comfortable seating and enjoy appetizers, drink service,
and private absinthe drip.
$440

All lounges are sold out -- sorry!

The Cause: We Through Theatre

For six years, Silver Line Theatre Exchange has been shaping Staunton’s cultural landscape through theatre.

We’ve brought people together through theatre — transforming an abandoned warehouse into a vibrant hub anchoring a growing cluster of local businesses.
We’ve grown Staunton’s cultural scene through theatre — adding a professional summer show, a movement studio, and year-round programming that draw visitors and locals alike.
We’ve created pride of place through theatre — offering performances, camps, and classes that make Staunton a community where the arts thrive and people want to live.

This year at Le Paris des Artistes, we’re taking you to Paris during that glittering, restless time between the wars when artists and writers packed the cafés, bookshops, and salons of the Left Bank. Sylvia Beach published Ulysses from her bookshop when no one else would. Gertrude Stein hung Picasso on her walls before he was famous. Artists of all kinds got their start because somebody gave them a room, a meal, and an audience.

This year, we invite you to celebrate that work with us. Enjoy cabaret performances, Parisian-inspired food and drink, and the company of friends who believe that investing in artists strengthens our community.