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Three restored Laurel and Hardy shorts—An Eye for an Eye, Long Live Liberty and The Battle of the Century—directed respectively by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey and Clyde Bruckman. The program foregrounds their precision of gesture, rhythmic choreography and comic timing, framed in silent-era textures and restored prints. A newly composed symphonic score performed live by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande weaves with the images, creating a dialogue between music and motion. The mood alternates between nimble slapstick and melancholic lyricism, highlighting the duo’s enduring cinematic modernity.
François Rappo, internationally renowned typeface designer and former ECAL professor of twenty-four years, has developed typefaces for both private commissions and large digital audiences.
He presents his approach to contemporary typeface design, examining digitization’s impact on form, legibility and scalability. The lecture explores design processes, production workflows and the adaptation of type for diverse digital platforms, revealing how typefaces move from bespoke commissions to mass online distribution while addressing technical and aesthetic constraints.
In French.
Celebrate the end of summer at HINIVUU with DJ sets by Jim Chury and MAX, cocktails, and Damascus-style chicken shawarma. Dance until midnight in the unique setting of the Red Cross Museum’s garden.
Explore Le Fesses-tival, a community festival bringing together exhibitions, performances, cinema screenings, workshops and concerts across multiple neighbourhood spaces. Designed for everyone, this gathered programme invites neighbours, families and newcomers to share experiences, creative encounters and collective reflection. Come together to discover diverse artistic practices, take part in participatory sessions and celebrate communal creativity. Activities range from intimate performances to hands-on workshops, fostering connection and a welcoming spirit across the festival.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Led by choreographer and pedagogue Guillaume Siard, the junior Area Jeune Ballet de Genève responds to a contemporary exhibition by turning visual motifs into movement. The young ensemble investigates ways of seeing, using layers and superposition as a choreographic device. Sparse gestures, precise groupings and shifting light suggest new perspectives on the artworks, while an attentive staging balances playful experimentation with rigorous technique, creating an intimate, contemplative atmosphere that invites reflection and renewed visual attention.
Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, is one of the leading voices in contemporary francophone literature. Her work investigates filiation, exile, questions of identity and relations of domination. This meeting revisits her remarkable career, examines her writing process and probes the major themes that run through her oeuvre, offering critical insight into narrative strategies and ethical concerns.
In French.
Three restored Laurel and Hardy shorts—An Eye for an Eye, Long Live Liberty and The Battle of the Century—directed respectively by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey and Clyde Bruckman. The program foregrounds their precision of gesture, rhythmic choreography and comic timing, framed in silent-era textures and restored prints. A newly composed symphonic score performed live by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande weaves with the images, creating a dialogue between music and motion. The mood alternates between nimble slapstick and melancholic lyricism, highlighting the duo’s enduring cinematic modernity.
François Rappo, internationally renowned typeface designer and former ECAL professor of twenty-four years, has developed typefaces for both private commissions and large digital audiences.
He presents his approach to contemporary typeface design, examining digitization’s impact on form, legibility and scalability. The lecture explores design processes, production workflows and the adaptation of type for diverse digital platforms, revealing how typefaces move from bespoke commissions to mass online distribution while addressing technical and aesthetic constraints.
In French.
Celebrate the end of summer at HINIVUU with DJ sets by Jim Chury and MAX, cocktails, and Damascus-style chicken shawarma. Dance until midnight in the unique setting of the Red Cross Museum’s garden.
Explore Le Fesses-tival, a community festival bringing together exhibitions, performances, cinema screenings, workshops and concerts across multiple neighbourhood spaces. Designed for everyone, this gathered programme invites neighbours, families and newcomers to share experiences, creative encounters and collective reflection. Come together to discover diverse artistic practices, take part in participatory sessions and celebrate communal creativity. Activities range from intimate performances to hands-on workshops, fostering connection and a welcoming spirit across the festival.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Led by choreographer and pedagogue Guillaume Siard, the junior Area Jeune Ballet de Genève responds to a contemporary exhibition by turning visual motifs into movement. The young ensemble investigates ways of seeing, using layers and superposition as a choreographic device. Sparse gestures, precise groupings and shifting light suggest new perspectives on the artworks, while an attentive staging balances playful experimentation with rigorous technique, creating an intimate, contemplative atmosphere that invites reflection and renewed visual attention.
Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, is one of the leading voices in contemporary francophone literature. Her work investigates filiation, exile, questions of identity and relations of domination. This meeting revisits her remarkable career, examines her writing process and probes the major themes that run through her oeuvre, offering critical insight into narrative strategies and ethical concerns.
In French.
Three restored Laurel and Hardy shorts—An Eye for an Eye, Long Live Liberty and The Battle of the Century—directed respectively by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey and Clyde Bruckman. The program foregrounds their precision of gesture, rhythmic choreography and comic timing, framed in silent-era textures and restored prints. A newly composed symphonic score performed live by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande weaves with the images, creating a dialogue between music and motion. The mood alternates between nimble slapstick and melancholic lyricism, highlighting the duo’s enduring cinematic modernity.
François Rappo, internationally renowned typeface designer and former ECAL professor of twenty-four years, has developed typefaces for both private commissions and large digital audiences.
He presents his approach to contemporary typeface design, examining digitization’s impact on form, legibility and scalability. The lecture explores design processes, production workflows and the adaptation of type for diverse digital platforms, revealing how typefaces move from bespoke commissions to mass online distribution while addressing technical and aesthetic constraints.
In French.
Celebrate the end of summer at HINIVUU with DJ sets by Jim Chury and MAX, cocktails, and Damascus-style chicken shawarma. Dance until midnight in the unique setting of the Red Cross Museum’s garden.
Explore Le Fesses-tival, a community festival bringing together exhibitions, performances, cinema screenings, workshops and concerts across multiple neighbourhood spaces. Designed for everyone, this gathered programme invites neighbours, families and newcomers to share experiences, creative encounters and collective reflection. Come together to discover diverse artistic practices, take part in participatory sessions and celebrate communal creativity. Activities range from intimate performances to hands-on workshops, fostering connection and a welcoming spirit across the festival.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Led by choreographer and pedagogue Guillaume Siard, the junior Area Jeune Ballet de Genève responds to a contemporary exhibition by turning visual motifs into movement. The young ensemble investigates ways of seeing, using layers and superposition as a choreographic device. Sparse gestures, precise groupings and shifting light suggest new perspectives on the artworks, while an attentive staging balances playful experimentation with rigorous technique, creating an intimate, contemplative atmosphere that invites reflection and renewed visual attention.
Aldo Locatelli presents a diverse body of work spanning decades, rooted in experimentation and improvisation.
Paintings in oil, mixed-media pieces, ink drawings, sculptures, floral assemblages under plexiglas and repurposed objects converse through a tactile visual language. His practice moves between abstraction and figuration, privileging matter, color and gestural mark-making to explore observation, the living world and unexpected material affinities. The show reveals a restless creativity driven by curiosity, collage-like associations and continual recomposition.
Opening: Wednesday, 16 September, 18:00
Closing event: Sunday, 27 September, 17:00
Astral Festival Geneva – Equinox Night brings an all-night electronic journey through house, tech house, melodic techno and techno. The programmed lineup mixes international DJs — including Carlos Pulido — with local selectors, weaving pulsing rhythms and warm melodic threads. Production favors immersive lighting and a taut sound design that shapes a charged, communal atmosphere, shifting from intimate grooves to euphoric peaks. The event reads as a choreography of sound and movement, inviting dancers to lose and find themselves in waves of rhythm.
Peter Evans Extra brings together three of contemporary music’s most daring improvisers in a high‑velocity sonic pursuit that redefines the jazz trio. The band fuses Evans’s sculptural trumpet vocabulary with Petter Eldh’s hyperactive bass and Jim Black’s unpredictable rhythmic bursts, producing a kinetic, ever‑shifting soundscape where silence and noise collide. Their 2024 debut, EXTRA (We Jazz Records), was praised as one of the year’s best jazz records for its technical daring and anarchic spirit.
Geneva Brass celebrates its identity and journey in a portrait-like concert led by Antoine Courvoisier. The first half honours works that shaped the quintet, blending major repertoire pages and emblematic pieces for brass. The second half plunges the audience into a cabaret world inspired by the Roaring Twenties, mixing energy, humour and theatricality. The programme is virtuosic and festive, rooted in collective joy and sharing, staged with careful mise-en-scène.
La Princesse eSt le Chevalier is a playful and visually captivating family show combining shadow theatre, acting and live music. Follow Maylis, a curious princess who challenges the beliefs imposed by her kingdom and sets off in search of answers. A joyful celebration of curiosity, science and freedom of thought.
In French.
With razor-sharp wit and neon-pink hair, comedian Sarah Mottet questions whether looking woke and queer is enough to be a good person. This debut solo show mixes personal stories, quick improvisation and pointed social satire to include everyone — except cyclists and property managers. Touring stages from Romandie to Quebec, Mottet blends warm vulnerability and biting humour to turn identity politics into intimate, laugh-out-loud reflections.
In French.
Explore how vegetables grow and where our food begins. Dig into rich, living soil and feel its warmth and smell. Plant, touch, and watch tiny seeds push up colorful leaves. Learn why the soil is magical and how caring for the earth and animals helps produce healthy food. Hear birds, see bright greens, and taste fresh farm flavors at a shared midday meal. Join a hands-on adventure full of discovery and simple wonders.
In French. Kids ages from 6 to 12.
Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, is one of the leading voices in contemporary francophone literature. Her work investigates filiation, exile, questions of identity and relations of domination. This meeting revisits her remarkable career, examines her writing process and probes the major themes that run through her oeuvre, offering critical insight into narrative strategies and ethical concerns.
In French.
Three restored Laurel and Hardy shorts—An Eye for an Eye, Long Live Liberty and The Battle of the Century—directed respectively by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey and Clyde Bruckman. The program foregrounds their precision of gesture, rhythmic choreography and comic timing, framed in silent-era textures and restored prints. A newly composed symphonic score performed live by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande weaves with the images, creating a dialogue between music and motion. The mood alternates between nimble slapstick and melancholic lyricism, highlighting the duo’s enduring cinematic modernity.
François Rappo, internationally renowned typeface designer and former ECAL professor of twenty-four years, has developed typefaces for both private commissions and large digital audiences.
He presents his approach to contemporary typeface design, examining digitization’s impact on form, legibility and scalability. The lecture explores design processes, production workflows and the adaptation of type for diverse digital platforms, revealing how typefaces move from bespoke commissions to mass online distribution while addressing technical and aesthetic constraints.
In French.
Celebrate the end of summer at HINIVUU with DJ sets by Jim Chury and MAX, cocktails, and Damascus-style chicken shawarma. Dance until midnight in the unique setting of the Red Cross Museum’s garden.
Explore Le Fesses-tival, a community festival bringing together exhibitions, performances, cinema screenings, workshops and concerts across multiple neighbourhood spaces. Designed for everyone, this gathered programme invites neighbours, families and newcomers to share experiences, creative encounters and collective reflection. Come together to discover diverse artistic practices, take part in participatory sessions and celebrate communal creativity. Activities range from intimate performances to hands-on workshops, fostering connection and a welcoming spirit across the festival.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Led by choreographer and pedagogue Guillaume Siard, the junior Area Jeune Ballet de Genève responds to a contemporary exhibition by turning visual motifs into movement. The young ensemble investigates ways of seeing, using layers and superposition as a choreographic device. Sparse gestures, precise groupings and shifting light suggest new perspectives on the artworks, while an attentive staging balances playful experimentation with rigorous technique, creating an intimate, contemplative atmosphere that invites reflection and renewed visual attention.
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