K-Pop Forever! (Rennes): Dates, Tickets & Venue (Rennes)

Borrowed choreography, real lightsticks

This is a tribute show, and that matters. K-Pop Forever! puts a cast on stage to perform live versions of songs by Blackpink, BTS, Twice and other groups. None of the members of those groups appear. If you’re expecting Jennie or Jungkook, this isn’t that night.

What you do get is the catalogue: the hooks, the formation changes and the point choreography that fans have practised in their bedrooms. Tribute shows like this draw a mixed crowd. Teenagers who know every move come alongside parents who know the songs only from the car.

The Rennes stop takes place on Saturday 12 December 2026, with two performances on the same day. Two shows on one date is a common pattern for family-oriented touring productions. An earlier slot suits younger fans, and a later one suits adults coming after dinner.

Le Liberté, on the esplanade

Le Liberté is one of Rennes’s main concert halls. It sits on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, the wide paved square just south of the old town. Across the square stands Les Champs Libres, the cultural centre that houses the Musée de Bretagne, a science space and a planetarium.

The building is a large modern hall used for touring concerts, comedy and stage shows. The smaller room upstairs, L’Étage, runs its own programme. On a show night the forecourt fills with people waiting outside the doors. In December, the esplanade’s open paving offers little shelter from Breton wind and drizzle.

Getting to Charles de Gaulle

The easiest way to Le Liberté is the metro, run by the STAR network:

• Line b: Charles de Gaulle station opens onto the esplanade, a minute or two from the hall.
• Line a: République or Gares stations are each a walk of roughly 10 minutes.
• From Gare de Rennes: the main train station is about a 10-minute walk north. Line b also links it to Charles de Gaulle in one stop.

Fans travelling in from elsewhere often take the TGV from Paris Montparnasse, which reaches Rennes in around an hour and a half. That makes a day trip workable for the earlier performance. Parking in the centre is tight on a Saturday in December, so most locals leave the car at a park-and-ride and finish the trip on the metro.

How the night works at Le Liberté

French venues run bag checks at the door as standard. Attendees usually carry a small bag so they get through security faster. Large bags and anything resembling a weapon slow the line for everyone.

At K-pop tribute nights the audience joins in. Expect a few habits:

• Lightsticks and banners: official group lightsticks show up in the crowd, waving even though the performers are a tribute cast.
• Fan chants: people shout member names and response lines during choruses, the same as at a real concert.
• Dance-alongs: in the aisles and at the front, fans often copy the choreography move for move.

Contactless card payment is normal at French venues and on STAR ticket machines. Your phone or card covers merch, drinks and the metro. A little French helps with staff: billet is ticket, placement libre means unreserved seating or standing, and placement numéroté means an assigned seat.

The show’s ticketing page lists prices and seating categories, so this guide gives no figures. For a family group, the main question is which of the two performances suits the youngest member.

Filling the rest of 12 December

The show falls on a Saturday, which in Rennes means the Marché des Lices. It’s one of France’s largest open-air food markets and fills Place des Lices and its two covered halls every Saturday morning. Fans coming for the evening show often start here with a galette-saucisse, the city’s grilled sausage wrapped in a buckwheat pancake.

From the market it’s a short walk through the half-timbered streets around Rue du Chapitre and Place Sainte-Anne. Then comes the Parlement de Bretagne, the former parliament building. In December the city centre holds its Christmas market, which makes an easy stop between the old town and the esplanade.

Les Champs Libres, across the square from Le Liberté, is the obvious place to wait before the show. Its Musée de Bretagne gives a solid overview of the region, and the building is warm, which a December queue is not.