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Thursday 26 March, 18:00

Join us for an informal afterwork gathering welcoming neighbours, friends and visitors of all backgrounds. This relaxed meet-up, held as part of a local history festival, invites conversation, shared reflections and light social activities. We’ll connect over ideas, meet new people, and exchange perspectives in a friendly, open atmosphere. Whether you come alone or with friends, everyone is invited to contribute, listen and leave feeling more connected to the community and to new stories.
As part of the History and City Festival

24 – 29 March

Performed by Françoise Courvoisier (voice), pianist and composer Moncef Genoud, and saxophonist Valentin Conus, this project sets Henri Michaux’s poems against a sensual jazz soundscape. Genoud’s original compositions and borrowed motifs intertwine with Courvoisier’s vocal phrasing and Conus’s supple saxophone, leaving space for improvisation. The piece explores memory, fragility and shifting ground through fragmented text and elastic musical lines, creating an intimate, dreamlike atmosphere where language and music open doors to the imagination.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 19:00

Madeleine Leclair presents a unique sound performance based on recordings from Borneo and other threatened forest environments. She creates a live mix using vinyl records from the International Archives of Popular Music at MEG and her personal collection, highlighting the acoustic richness of these habitats. This performance is a side event to the exhibition “SAUVAGES: behind the scenes of Claude Barras’s film.”

Thursday 26 March, 20:00

Since 2016 the duo Tribade delivers sharp, feminist rap that confronts heteropatriarchy and capitalism. After a breakthrough debut (2019) and the confrontational album Dyke (2022), their 2024 release La Tregua marks clear artistic growth. They forge a raw sound blending Afrobeat, flamenco and breakbeat, pairing pointed lyrics with propulsive rhythms. On stage the pair’s confrontational attitude and vocal intensity create an explosive, cathartic atmosphere that merges protest and celebration.

24 – 29 March

La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.

19 – 29 March

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 18:00

Join us for an informal afterwork gathering welcoming neighbours, friends and visitors of all backgrounds. This relaxed meet-up, held as part of a local history festival, invites conversation, shared reflections and light social activities. We’ll connect over ideas, meet new people, and exchange perspectives in a friendly, open atmosphere. Whether you come alone or with friends, everyone is invited to contribute, listen and leave feeling more connected to the community and to new stories.
As part of the History and City Festival

24 – 29 March

Performed by Françoise Courvoisier (voice), pianist and composer Moncef Genoud, and saxophonist Valentin Conus, this project sets Henri Michaux’s poems against a sensual jazz soundscape. Genoud’s original compositions and borrowed motifs intertwine with Courvoisier’s vocal phrasing and Conus’s supple saxophone, leaving space for improvisation. The piece explores memory, fragility and shifting ground through fragmented text and elastic musical lines, creating an intimate, dreamlike atmosphere where language and music open doors to the imagination.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 19:00

Madeleine Leclair presents a unique sound performance based on recordings from Borneo and other threatened forest environments. She creates a live mix using vinyl records from the International Archives of Popular Music at MEG and her personal collection, highlighting the acoustic richness of these habitats. This performance is a side event to the exhibition “SAUVAGES: behind the scenes of Claude Barras’s film.”

Thursday 26 March, 20:00

Since 2016 the duo Tribade delivers sharp, feminist rap that confronts heteropatriarchy and capitalism. After a breakthrough debut (2019) and the confrontational album Dyke (2022), their 2024 release La Tregua marks clear artistic growth. They forge a raw sound blending Afrobeat, flamenco and breakbeat, pairing pointed lyrics with propulsive rhythms. On stage the pair’s confrontational attitude and vocal intensity create an explosive, cathartic atmosphere that merges protest and celebration.

24 – 29 March

La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.

19 – 29 March

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 18:00

Join us for an informal afterwork gathering welcoming neighbours, friends and visitors of all backgrounds. This relaxed meet-up, held as part of a local history festival, invites conversation, shared reflections and light social activities. We’ll connect over ideas, meet new people, and exchange perspectives in a friendly, open atmosphere. Whether you come alone or with friends, everyone is invited to contribute, listen and leave feeling more connected to the community and to new stories.
As part of the History and City Festival

24 – 29 March

Performed by Françoise Courvoisier (voice), pianist and composer Moncef Genoud, and saxophonist Valentin Conus, this project sets Henri Michaux’s poems against a sensual jazz soundscape. Genoud’s original compositions and borrowed motifs intertwine with Courvoisier’s vocal phrasing and Conus’s supple saxophone, leaving space for improvisation. The piece explores memory, fragility and shifting ground through fragmented text and elastic musical lines, creating an intimate, dreamlike atmosphere where language and music open doors to the imagination.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 19:00

Madeleine Leclair presents a unique sound performance based on recordings from Borneo and other threatened forest environments. She creates a live mix using vinyl records from the International Archives of Popular Music at MEG and her personal collection, highlighting the acoustic richness of these habitats. This performance is a side event to the exhibition “SAUVAGES: behind the scenes of Claude Barras’s film.”

Thursday 26 March, 20:00

Since 2016 the duo Tribade delivers sharp, feminist rap that confronts heteropatriarchy and capitalism. After a breakthrough debut (2019) and the confrontational album Dyke (2022), their 2024 release La Tregua marks clear artistic growth. They forge a raw sound blending Afrobeat, flamenco and breakbeat, pairing pointed lyrics with propulsive rhythms. On stage the pair’s confrontational attitude and vocal intensity create an explosive, cathartic atmosphere that merges protest and celebration.

24 – 29 March

La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.

19 – 29 March

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

Saturday 28 March, 14:00

This illustration workshop explores how generative AI can visualise hybrid insects born from plastic pollution and non-recyclable waste. Combining ecological speculation and visual fiction, it examines metamorphoses of life and matter in the Anthropocene and the aesthetic, ethical and material implications of synthetic lifeforms. Participants investigate creative image-generation techniques, concept development and critical reflection on the technological mediation of ecological narratives.

24 – 29 March

Performed by Françoise Courvoisier (voice), pianist and composer Moncef Genoud, and saxophonist Valentin Conus, this project sets Henri Michaux’s poems against a sensual jazz soundscape. Genoud’s original compositions and borrowed motifs intertwine with Courvoisier’s vocal phrasing and Conus’s supple saxophone, leaving space for improvisation. The piece explores memory, fragility and shifting ground through fragmented text and elastic musical lines, creating an intimate, dreamlike atmosphere where language and music open doors to the imagination.

In French.

27 – 29 March

Discover a lively weekend of storytelling, hands-on creativity and playful discovery across Geneva’s public libraries and partner institutions. Families will find musical readings, creative workshops, participatory animations, book-based games, treasure hunts, toy-making ateliers, guided visits, film screenings and a varied youth programme. Children can explore sounds, colours and movement, make things with their hands and spark their imagination through shared stories and playful activities designed to inspire curiosity and creativity.

28 – 29 March

“Ambre” is an engaging and interactive show that encourages children to reshape society through political creativity. Inspired by the season’s theme of children’s voting rights, this performance puts young participants front and center alongside Ambre, an actor, and a children’s rights expert. Blending elements of play, portraiture, and documentary, children in the audience are invited to explore and share innovative ideas from around the globe.

In French.  Kids ages 8 and up.

19 – 29 March

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

Saturday 28 March, 21:00

Led by percussionist and vocalist Kahil El’Zabar, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble blends jazz improvisation with African ritual traditions. Rooted in El’Zabar’s AACM legacy, the quartet navigates trance-like grooves, call-and-response phrasing and open, exploratory solos. Trumpeter Corey Wilkes, baritone saxophonist Alex Harding and cellist Ishmael Ali respond with textural depth, while El’Zabar’s drums and percussion anchor a meditative, spiritual energy that unfolds across dynamic improvisations, conjuring both intimacy and communal intensity.

Thursday 26 March, 18:00

Join us for an informal afterwork gathering welcoming neighbours, friends and visitors of all backgrounds. This relaxed meet-up, held as part of a local history festival, invites conversation, shared reflections and light social activities. We’ll connect over ideas, meet new people, and exchange perspectives in a friendly, open atmosphere. Whether you come alone or with friends, everyone is invited to contribute, listen and leave feeling more connected to the community and to new stories.
As part of the History and City Festival

24 – 29 March

Performed by Françoise Courvoisier (voice), pianist and composer Moncef Genoud, and saxophonist Valentin Conus, this project sets Henri Michaux’s poems against a sensual jazz soundscape. Genoud’s original compositions and borrowed motifs intertwine with Courvoisier’s vocal phrasing and Conus’s supple saxophone, leaving space for improvisation. The piece explores memory, fragility and shifting ground through fragmented text and elastic musical lines, creating an intimate, dreamlike atmosphere where language and music open doors to the imagination.

In French.

Thursday 26 March, 19:00

Madeleine Leclair presents a unique sound performance based on recordings from Borneo and other threatened forest environments. She creates a live mix using vinyl records from the International Archives of Popular Music at MEG and her personal collection, highlighting the acoustic richness of these habitats. This performance is a side event to the exhibition “SAUVAGES: behind the scenes of Claude Barras’s film.”

Thursday 26 March, 20:00

Since 2016 the duo Tribade delivers sharp, feminist rap that confronts heteropatriarchy and capitalism. After a breakthrough debut (2019) and the confrontational album Dyke (2022), their 2024 release La Tregua marks clear artistic growth. They forge a raw sound blending Afrobeat, flamenco and breakbeat, pairing pointed lyrics with propulsive rhythms. On stage the pair’s confrontational attitude and vocal intensity create an explosive, cathartic atmosphere that merges protest and celebration.

24 – 29 March

La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.

19 – 29 March

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

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The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain)  has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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