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Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
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Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
La Bâtie Festival celebrates its 50th edition from 25 August to 13 September 2026! Over three weeks, theatre, dance, concerts, performances, circus and parties will take over venues across Geneva and the region. This anniversary edition also introduces Le Béaba, a new open-air hub at the Musée Ariana, bringing together free events, performances and concerts in a lively, convivial setting.
La Fonte is a cultural space located in the Halles de la Fonderie in Carouge. These former workshops, made available by the City of Carouge, host a variety of community and cultural activities each year, including a refreshment area, concerts, artist residencies, workshops, and exhibition and lecture series. The eponymous collective is responsible for programming and organizing these events.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
La Bâtie Festival celebrates its 50th edition from 25 August to 13 September 2026! Over three weeks, theatre, dance, concerts, performances, circus and parties will take over venues across Geneva and the region. This anniversary edition also introduces Le Béaba, a new open-air hub at the Musée Ariana, bringing together free events, performances and concerts in a lively, convivial setting.
La Fonte is a cultural space located in the Halles de la Fonderie in Carouge. These former workshops, made available by the City of Carouge, host a variety of community and cultural activities each year, including a refreshment area, concerts, artist residencies, workshops, and exhibition and lecture series. The eponymous collective is responsible for programming and organizing these events.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
La Bâtie Festival celebrates its 50th edition from 25 August to 13 September 2026! Over three weeks, theatre, dance, concerts, performances, circus and parties will take over venues across Geneva and the region. This anniversary edition also introduces Le Béaba, a new open-air hub at the Musée Ariana, bringing together free events, performances and concerts in a lively, convivial setting.
La Fonte is a cultural space located in the Halles de la Fonderie in Carouge. These former workshops, made available by the City of Carouge, host a variety of community and cultural activities each year, including a refreshment area, concerts, artist residencies, workshops, and exhibition and lecture series. The eponymous collective is responsible for programming and organizing these events.
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Directed by Sophie Perez for the Compagnie du Zerep, Sturbzep turns the stage into a machine of collective hallucinations. Drawing on hoaxes, cryptids and literary impostures, the piece mixes haunted-manor atmospheres, neon-free fairground textures and prophetic nightmares. Sophie Lenoir, Stéphane Roger, Erge Yu, Adrien Castillo and Baptiste de Laubier embody a controlled chaos of creatures and smoky visions. Text by Pacôme Thiellement and music by hackedepicciotto shape an uncanny, theatrical odyssey.
In French.
Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.
Additional free performances:
Performed and directed by Eve Aouizerate, this incisive solo creation blends autofiction and faux stand-up to turn fairy-tale promises into a sharp satire. Using humour and precise stagecraft, Aouizerate interrogates reactionary online imaginaries and the contemporary allure of tradwives, exposing tensions between domestic idealisation and feminist inheritance. The piece mixes intimate confession, comic timing and critical observation to probe identity, boredom and the pressures shaping women’s lives.
In French.
Three performers plunge into the ideas of Mark Fisher to question why imagining different futures has become so difficult. On stage, electronic music, rap, projected texts like slogans, militant karaoke and a miniature dancefloor collide. Each performer circulates with an alter ego — a kitsch, radical, excessive version of themselves — as identities slip, overlap and are improvised live. Produced by Superprod in coproduction with La Bâtie and TO!.
In French.
An open talent evening mixing an open mic with scheduled concerts and a communal jam. Performers — musicians, stand-up comics, improvisers, slammers, magicians and circus artists — share short pieces in a lively, informal programme that moves from solo showcases to band sets and culminates in a bluegrass jam. The atmosphere is playful and supportive, inviting experimentation, surprises and spontaneous collaborations between artists of different disciplines.
Join a lively neighborhood fair where kids bounce, climb and play. Try the inflatable castle, scale the climbing wall, and test basic moves in a friendly combat sports initiation. Explore giant wooden games, dress up with bright face paint, and try circus-style tricks. Hear quirky fanfare and the thumping Batucada drums, feel the rhythms, and dance along. Hands-on moments spark curiosity and teamwork while color, sound and movement keep energy high.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
La Bâtie Festival celebrates its 50th edition from 25 August to 13 September 2026! Over three weeks, theatre, dance, concerts, performances, circus and parties will take over venues across Geneva and the region. This anniversary edition also introduces Le Béaba, a new open-air hub at the Musée Ariana, bringing together free events, performances and concerts in a lively, convivial setting.
La Fonte is a cultural space located in the Halles de la Fonderie in Carouge. These former workshops, made available by the City of Carouge, host a variety of community and cultural activities each year, including a refreshment area, concerts, artist residencies, workshops, and exhibition and lecture series. The eponymous collective is responsible for programming and organizing these events.
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