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Featuring guitar teachers and students from the Conservatoire populaire and dancers from the pre‑professional contemporary class of Emilio Artessero Quesada, this program stages a dialogue between dance and guitar rooted in Cuban repertoire. Works by Leo Brouwer — including the complete 20 Études simples and Paisajes cubanos — weave minimalism, serial techniques and Cuban folklore into a dense rhythmic tapestry. The performance balances precise instrumental textures and kinetic, communal choreography, offering vivid sonic colours and pulsing movement.
Quatuor Terpsycordes overturns chamber music conventions by forging a direct, living relationship with the audience. Combining boldness and sensitivity, the quartet moves fluidly through repertoire from pre-classical works to contemporary creations, searching constantly for balance between tradition and freedom. Their Haydn cycle on period instruments and a recent album have crystallized this rigorous, inspired approach. Violinists Girolamo Bottiglieri and Raya Raytcheva, violist Caroline Cohen-Adad and cellist Florestan Darbellay shape luminous textures and intense chamber dialogue, inviting deep listening and vibrant emotional exchange.
Part of Recluses Fest #10, this evening brings a rare tribute to Parabellum alongside performances by Ring of Cash and Vikie. Former members of Parabellum reunite with guests and local scene stalwarts to revisit cult anthems with raw intensity and communal fervour. Ring of Cash blends power-folk-rock energy with Juliette Canouet’s captivating voice, supported by Mika Garcia, Jean-Philippe Soler and Xa Mesa. Vikie opens with a punk-tinged, politically charged chanson, creating an exhilarating, sweat-soaked atmosphere.
Created and performed by Sandra Widmer Joly, this theatrical piece confronts finitude with a blend of poetry, tenderness and dark humour. Drawing on the author’s fifteen years as a funeral celebrant, the work weaves personal testimony, quiet rituals and moments of levity. Dramaturg Antoine Jaccoud provided textual guidance following a writing workshop, and members of the Célébrys network bring lived professional experience to the stage. The overall tone is intimate, reflective and surprisingly warm.
In French.
Explorer Rémi Camus returns to present the results of a scientific study carried out after descending the Rhône from its source in the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean. The evening examines the presence of PFAS and other contaminants along the river, combining field exploration with environmental research.
A 52-minute documentary by Benoît Prabel is screened, followed by a presentation of the main findings and a discussion with the speakers and audience. A round table brings together Rémi Camus, Cécile Georget, Davide Staedler, Adrien Bonny and Nicole Gallina.
Join us for a community celebration marking 40 years of solidarity, care, and commitment in Geneva. This free gathering brings together people supported by the foundation, residents, volunteers, partners, and friends for an evening of sharing and connection. Enjoy the official moments, a complimentary meal, live concerts, and an all-style disco in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Together, we honour four decades of support and the spirit of hospitality that continues to bring people together.
Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard is central to this selection of graphic treasures: prints, drawings, pastel portraits and rare illustrated books. The presentation highlights Liotard’s cosmopolitan practice — an itinerant career across Europe and the Ottoman Empire — and examines how social status shaped portrait execution. Through pastels and works on paper, it contrasts European and Ottoman visual codes, considers unidentified sitters, and reveals how technique and medium negotiate identity, status and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century portraiture.
Featuring guitar teachers and students from the Conservatoire populaire and dancers from the pre‑professional contemporary class of Emilio Artessero Quesada, this program stages a dialogue between dance and guitar rooted in Cuban repertoire. Works by Leo Brouwer — including the complete 20 Études simples and Paisajes cubanos — weave minimalism, serial techniques and Cuban folklore into a dense rhythmic tapestry. The performance balances precise instrumental textures and kinetic, communal choreography, offering vivid sonic colours and pulsing movement.
Quatuor Terpsycordes overturns chamber music conventions by forging a direct, living relationship with the audience. Combining boldness and sensitivity, the quartet moves fluidly through repertoire from pre-classical works to contemporary creations, searching constantly for balance between tradition and freedom. Their Haydn cycle on period instruments and a recent album have crystallized this rigorous, inspired approach. Violinists Girolamo Bottiglieri and Raya Raytcheva, violist Caroline Cohen-Adad and cellist Florestan Darbellay shape luminous textures and intense chamber dialogue, inviting deep listening and vibrant emotional exchange.
Part of Recluses Fest #10, this evening brings a rare tribute to Parabellum alongside performances by Ring of Cash and Vikie. Former members of Parabellum reunite with guests and local scene stalwarts to revisit cult anthems with raw intensity and communal fervour. Ring of Cash blends power-folk-rock energy with Juliette Canouet’s captivating voice, supported by Mika Garcia, Jean-Philippe Soler and Xa Mesa. Vikie opens with a punk-tinged, politically charged chanson, creating an exhilarating, sweat-soaked atmosphere.
Created and performed by Sandra Widmer Joly, this theatrical piece confronts finitude with a blend of poetry, tenderness and dark humour. Drawing on the author’s fifteen years as a funeral celebrant, the work weaves personal testimony, quiet rituals and moments of levity. Dramaturg Antoine Jaccoud provided textual guidance following a writing workshop, and members of the Célébrys network bring lived professional experience to the stage. The overall tone is intimate, reflective and surprisingly warm.
In French.
Explorer Rémi Camus returns to present the results of a scientific study carried out after descending the Rhône from its source in the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean. The evening examines the presence of PFAS and other contaminants along the river, combining field exploration with environmental research.
A 52-minute documentary by Benoît Prabel is screened, followed by a presentation of the main findings and a discussion with the speakers and audience. A round table brings together Rémi Camus, Cécile Georget, Davide Staedler, Adrien Bonny and Nicole Gallina.
Join us for a community celebration marking 40 years of solidarity, care, and commitment in Geneva. This free gathering brings together people supported by the foundation, residents, volunteers, partners, and friends for an evening of sharing and connection. Enjoy the official moments, a complimentary meal, live concerts, and an all-style disco in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Together, we honour four decades of support and the spirit of hospitality that continues to bring people together.
Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard is central to this selection of graphic treasures: prints, drawings, pastel portraits and rare illustrated books. The presentation highlights Liotard’s cosmopolitan practice — an itinerant career across Europe and the Ottoman Empire — and examines how social status shaped portrait execution. Through pastels and works on paper, it contrasts European and Ottoman visual codes, considers unidentified sitters, and reveals how technique and medium negotiate identity, status and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century portraiture.
Featuring guitar teachers and students from the Conservatoire populaire and dancers from the pre‑professional contemporary class of Emilio Artessero Quesada, this program stages a dialogue between dance and guitar rooted in Cuban repertoire. Works by Leo Brouwer — including the complete 20 Études simples and Paisajes cubanos — weave minimalism, serial techniques and Cuban folklore into a dense rhythmic tapestry. The performance balances precise instrumental textures and kinetic, communal choreography, offering vivid sonic colours and pulsing movement.
Quatuor Terpsycordes overturns chamber music conventions by forging a direct, living relationship with the audience. Combining boldness and sensitivity, the quartet moves fluidly through repertoire from pre-classical works to contemporary creations, searching constantly for balance between tradition and freedom. Their Haydn cycle on period instruments and a recent album have crystallized this rigorous, inspired approach. Violinists Girolamo Bottiglieri and Raya Raytcheva, violist Caroline Cohen-Adad and cellist Florestan Darbellay shape luminous textures and intense chamber dialogue, inviting deep listening and vibrant emotional exchange.
Part of Recluses Fest #10, this evening brings a rare tribute to Parabellum alongside performances by Ring of Cash and Vikie. Former members of Parabellum reunite with guests and local scene stalwarts to revisit cult anthems with raw intensity and communal fervour. Ring of Cash blends power-folk-rock energy with Juliette Canouet’s captivating voice, supported by Mika Garcia, Jean-Philippe Soler and Xa Mesa. Vikie opens with a punk-tinged, politically charged chanson, creating an exhilarating, sweat-soaked atmosphere.
Created and performed by Sandra Widmer Joly, this theatrical piece confronts finitude with a blend of poetry, tenderness and dark humour. Drawing on the author’s fifteen years as a funeral celebrant, the work weaves personal testimony, quiet rituals and moments of levity. Dramaturg Antoine Jaccoud provided textual guidance following a writing workshop, and members of the Célébrys network bring lived professional experience to the stage. The overall tone is intimate, reflective and surprisingly warm.
In French.
Explorer Rémi Camus returns to present the results of a scientific study carried out after descending the Rhône from its source in the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean. The evening examines the presence of PFAS and other contaminants along the river, combining field exploration with environmental research.
A 52-minute documentary by Benoît Prabel is screened, followed by a presentation of the main findings and a discussion with the speakers and audience. A round table brings together Rémi Camus, Cécile Georget, Davide Staedler, Adrien Bonny and Nicole Gallina.
Join us for a community celebration marking 40 years of solidarity, care, and commitment in Geneva. This free gathering brings together people supported by the foundation, residents, volunteers, partners, and friends for an evening of sharing and connection. Enjoy the official moments, a complimentary meal, live concerts, and an all-style disco in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Together, we honour four decades of support and the spirit of hospitality that continues to bring people together.
Choreographer Aurélien Dougé investigates the relation between body and material in Sans titre (Barre d’acier). Performed solo on a square platform, the artist rotates continuously while holding a four‑metre steel bar that acts as both constraint and bodily extension. The piece foregrounds shifted weight, altered lines of tension and extremely slow gestural transformations against a persistent rotational rhythm. Rudy Decelière’s sound design suspends time, and a video triptych created with WIPART extends the work’s sculptural presence across contexts.
Founded in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) is one of Geneva’s longest-standing cinema festivals and among the first in the world to integrate television into its programming. A hub for experimentation, encounters, and celebration, the ten-day festival presents films, series, and immersive audiovisual experiences to some 35,000 visitors each year. GIFF also hosts the Geneva Digital Market, Switzerland’s only meeting point for professionals in innovation and audiovisual content, and maintains year-round activities including school programmes and GIFF UNLIMITED events. Recognized as a key driver of Switzerland’s audiovisual sector, GIFF combines artistic ambition with international reach.
Directed by Eléonore Bonah and staged by scenographer Maria Clara Castioni, CHRÜSIMÜSI transforms Adelheid Duvanel’s terse, poetic fragments into a multilingual theatrical tapestry. Performers Eléonore Bonah and Maria Clara Castioni inhabit hypersensitive, marginal characters whose everyday gestures oscillate between absurdity and tenderness. Sparse staging and a careful interplay of voice and silence highlight Duvanel’s Kafkaesque intimacy, while language shifts (French, German, Italian) create a fragile, dreamlike atmosphere that balances humour and quiet despair, celebrating stubborn acts of resistance.
Art en Vieille-Ville (AVV) gathers a wide panorama of contemporary and historical practices across painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking and installation. Artists such as Marta Blanc, Jérôme Zonder, Sonia Zannettacci, Rosa Turetsky, Natacha Mercier, Jean‑Louis Perrot and Alexandre de Spengler present works that juxtapose sacred imagery, urban realism and historical engraving. The exhibition explores dialogue between past and present—from 17th‑century references and Futurist echoes to New Realism’s poetic reworking of the city—revealing how technique and memory shape collective cultural narratives.
Recluses Fest #10 presents a raw, high-energy punk evening featuring The Exploited, Les Clébards and Bad Nasty. The Exploited bring their aggressive classic punk roar, Les Clébards mark their 20-year tour with a distinctive Swiss date, and Bad Nasty deliver street punk rooted in 1990s US scenes. The bill mixes celebrated headliners and local voices within an inclusive, volunteer-run festival atmosphere that prioritizes community, loud performance and sonic immediacy.
Antoine Magyar presents his first solo show, an intimate and inventive performance that probes what it means to live with oneself. Mixing sharp humour and quiet vulnerability, the piece stages an intrusive inner voice, candid therapists and an IKEA-style manual used to assemble a tailor-made relationship. Playful stagecraft and precise comic timing shift between reflection and laugh-out-loud moments, offering both tenderness and unsettling insight.
In French.
Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.
In French.
Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard is central to this selection of graphic treasures: prints, drawings, pastel portraits and rare illustrated books. The presentation highlights Liotard’s cosmopolitan practice — an itinerant career across Europe and the Ottoman Empire — and examines how social status shaped portrait execution. Through pastels and works on paper, it contrasts European and Ottoman visual codes, considers unidentified sitters, and reveals how technique and medium negotiate identity, status and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century portraiture.
Featuring guitar teachers and students from the Conservatoire populaire and dancers from the pre‑professional contemporary class of Emilio Artessero Quesada, this program stages a dialogue between dance and guitar rooted in Cuban repertoire. Works by Leo Brouwer — including the complete 20 Études simples and Paisajes cubanos — weave minimalism, serial techniques and Cuban folklore into a dense rhythmic tapestry. The performance balances precise instrumental textures and kinetic, communal choreography, offering vivid sonic colours and pulsing movement.
Quatuor Terpsycordes overturns chamber music conventions by forging a direct, living relationship with the audience. Combining boldness and sensitivity, the quartet moves fluidly through repertoire from pre-classical works to contemporary creations, searching constantly for balance between tradition and freedom. Their Haydn cycle on period instruments and a recent album have crystallized this rigorous, inspired approach. Violinists Girolamo Bottiglieri and Raya Raytcheva, violist Caroline Cohen-Adad and cellist Florestan Darbellay shape luminous textures and intense chamber dialogue, inviting deep listening and vibrant emotional exchange.
Part of Recluses Fest #10, this evening brings a rare tribute to Parabellum alongside performances by Ring of Cash and Vikie. Former members of Parabellum reunite with guests and local scene stalwarts to revisit cult anthems with raw intensity and communal fervour. Ring of Cash blends power-folk-rock energy with Juliette Canouet’s captivating voice, supported by Mika Garcia, Jean-Philippe Soler and Xa Mesa. Vikie opens with a punk-tinged, politically charged chanson, creating an exhilarating, sweat-soaked atmosphere.
Created and performed by Sandra Widmer Joly, this theatrical piece confronts finitude with a blend of poetry, tenderness and dark humour. Drawing on the author’s fifteen years as a funeral celebrant, the work weaves personal testimony, quiet rituals and moments of levity. Dramaturg Antoine Jaccoud provided textual guidance following a writing workshop, and members of the Célébrys network bring lived professional experience to the stage. The overall tone is intimate, reflective and surprisingly warm.
In French.
Explorer Rémi Camus returns to present the results of a scientific study carried out after descending the Rhône from its source in the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean. The evening examines the presence of PFAS and other contaminants along the river, combining field exploration with environmental research.
A 52-minute documentary by Benoît Prabel is screened, followed by a presentation of the main findings and a discussion with the speakers and audience. A round table brings together Rémi Camus, Cécile Georget, Davide Staedler, Adrien Bonny and Nicole Gallina.
Join us for a community celebration marking 40 years of solidarity, care, and commitment in Geneva. This free gathering brings together people supported by the foundation, residents, volunteers, partners, and friends for an evening of sharing and connection. Enjoy the official moments, a complimentary meal, live concerts, and an all-style disco in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Together, we honour four decades of support and the spirit of hospitality that continues to bring people together.
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An intimate museum in the heart of Geneva, the Musée Tatiana Zoubov presents the refined collection assembled by its namesake collector. Paintings, furniture, porcelain, silverware and decorative objects evoke the atmosphere of a private European collection, offering a glimpse into the tastes and art of living of another era.
In the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the International Museum of the Reformation traces the history and legacy of the Protestant Reformation from the 16th century to the present day. Historical objects, artworks and immersive displays explore a movement that profoundly shaped Geneva and influenced societies around the world.
Located in the historic heart of Carouge, the Musée de Carouge explores the artistic and cultural heritage of this distinctive town. Its collections and temporary exhibitions bring together fine and decorative arts, local history and contemporary creation, reflecting Carouge’s unique identity and creative spirit.
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