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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 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.
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
Presented as part of the Caramelo y Limón festival’s tenth edition, this retrospective gathers the festival’s most beloved Hispanic short films from previous years. The program moves between quick-witted comic rhythms and quiet, intimate tableaux; it sketches varied portraits of everyday life with both warmth and sting. A post-screening discussion with director Alejandro Damiani offers an afterword on craft and audience memory. The selection’s tonal shifts and textured filmmaking create a lively, poignant evening of short cinema.
Screening followed by a discussion with director Alejandro Damiani, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Students’ Association (AEE).
Marc Perrenoud (piano) and Christoph Irniger (saxophone) present a duo that reimagines standards and weaves original compositions with elegance, freedom and improvisation. Drawing inspiration from Lennie Tristano, they transform familiar melodies into new lines, evidenced in pieces such as Dry Sensation and Déjà Vu, exploring delicate interplay, rhythmic subtlety and spontaneous dialogue. The programme, taken from their recent album New Lines, balances lyrical reflection with moments of joyful intensity and open-ended musical conversation.
Move through Geneva’s streets on a lively guided tasting that links nine artisan chocolate shops with local stories and techniques. At each stop participants sample signature creations while the guide explains the historical and craft traditions behind the flavours. The route emphasizes a convivial, exploratory pace through urban passages, offering sensory discoveries and conversations with master chocolatiers. Suitable for walkers comfortable with a city stroll and curious about culinary heritage.
Join Destination Vingt-Sept for a warm evening celebrating ten years of the project, looking back at the journey and the people who keep it alive. The programme brings together an official ceremony, a live performance by Gilles Furtwängler, a shared community meal and a musical night with DJ Schmögel. Open to everyone, the event invites neighbours, collaborators and newcomers to reconnect, share stories and renew their commitment to accessible culture together.
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 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.
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
Presented as part of the Caramelo y Limón festival’s tenth edition, this retrospective gathers the festival’s most beloved Hispanic short films from previous years. The program moves between quick-witted comic rhythms and quiet, intimate tableaux; it sketches varied portraits of everyday life with both warmth and sting. A post-screening discussion with director Alejandro Damiani offers an afterword on craft and audience memory. The selection’s tonal shifts and textured filmmaking create a lively, poignant evening of short cinema.
Screening followed by a discussion with director Alejandro Damiani, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Students’ Association (AEE).
Marc Perrenoud (piano) and Christoph Irniger (saxophone) present a duo that reimagines standards and weaves original compositions with elegance, freedom and improvisation. Drawing inspiration from Lennie Tristano, they transform familiar melodies into new lines, evidenced in pieces such as Dry Sensation and Déjà Vu, exploring delicate interplay, rhythmic subtlety and spontaneous dialogue. The programme, taken from their recent album New Lines, balances lyrical reflection with moments of joyful intensity and open-ended musical conversation.
Move through Geneva’s streets on a lively guided tasting that links nine artisan chocolate shops with local stories and techniques. At each stop participants sample signature creations while the guide explains the historical and craft traditions behind the flavours. The route emphasizes a convivial, exploratory pace through urban passages, offering sensory discoveries and conversations with master chocolatiers. Suitable for walkers comfortable with a city stroll and curious about culinary heritage.
Join Destination Vingt-Sept for a warm evening celebrating ten years of the project, looking back at the journey and the people who keep it alive. The programme brings together an official ceremony, a live performance by Gilles Furtwängler, a shared community meal and a musical night with DJ Schmögel. Open to everyone, the event invites neighbours, collaborators and newcomers to reconnect, share stories and renew their commitment to accessible culture together.
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 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.
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
Presented as part of the Caramelo y Limón festival’s tenth edition, this retrospective gathers the festival’s most beloved Hispanic short films from previous years. The program moves between quick-witted comic rhythms and quiet, intimate tableaux; it sketches varied portraits of everyday life with both warmth and sting. A post-screening discussion with director Alejandro Damiani offers an afterword on craft and audience memory. The selection’s tonal shifts and textured filmmaking create a lively, poignant evening of short cinema.
Screening followed by a discussion with director Alejandro Damiani, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Students’ Association (AEE).
Marc Perrenoud (piano) and Christoph Irniger (saxophone) present a duo that reimagines standards and weaves original compositions with elegance, freedom and improvisation. Drawing inspiration from Lennie Tristano, they transform familiar melodies into new lines, evidenced in pieces such as Dry Sensation and Déjà Vu, exploring delicate interplay, rhythmic subtlety and spontaneous dialogue. The programme, taken from their recent album New Lines, balances lyrical reflection with moments of joyful intensity and open-ended musical conversation.
Move through Geneva’s streets on a lively guided tasting that links nine artisan chocolate shops with local stories and techniques. At each stop participants sample signature creations while the guide explains the historical and craft traditions behind the flavours. The route emphasizes a convivial, exploratory pace through urban passages, offering sensory discoveries and conversations with master chocolatiers. Suitable for walkers comfortable with a city stroll and curious about culinary heritage.
Choreographed by Valeska Romero Curiqueo, Pewma (Mapudungun for “dream”) weaves dance, performance, live sound and poetry to trace transmissions between bodies. The piece confronts peripheral, wounded and violently marked identities through ritualized gestures and sensual collisions, invoking Venus as a figure of omen, destruction and rebirth. Live violin, synthesizers and vocals shape a tense, luminous soundscape as bodies dissolve and reconstitute, staging desire, friction and collective memory.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Myriam Baroukh dismantles the checklist of modern life — exams, steady jobs, marriage, children, mortgages — to ask what remains once the boxes are ticked. With sharp, intimate stand-up, she navigates happiness, antidepressants, a difficult birth, artificial intelligence, urban wildlife and the strain of care and exile. Her voice mixes wry observation and emotional honesty, turning personal setbacks into wry, human comedy. Her rapid-fire anecdotes and unexpected images keep the audience off-balance, exploring empathy and absurdity.
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.
Reuniting to celebrate the jubilees of Robin Girod and Nelson Schaer, Duck Duck Grey Duck returns with long-time collaborator Pierre-Henri Beyrière to perform their repertoire with guest musicians. Pioneers of Geneva’s independent rock scene in the 2010s, the band blends artistic rigour, a taste for experimentation and a keen sense of melody. The evening promises a festive, intimate atmosphere shaped by careful arrangements and collaborative improvisation.
Directed by Nathalie Cuenet and written by Valérie Poirier, Dire adieu is performed by Compagnie Volodia. The piece stages fragmented conversations between a daughter and her mother, probing a quest for recognition and the fragile possibility of reconciliation. Its form recalls the codes of Greek tragedy, using heightened language and concentrated staging to explore memory, silence and unresolved grief. The ensemble creates a tense, intimate atmosphere that makes emotional rupture palpable.
In French.
Step behind the curtains in a lively, playful conference-show that reveals how theatre is made. Actors mix humour and fantasy to explore the secrets of creation through unusual demonstrations, slapstick scenes and a reimagined Molière extract. Children watch choices of direction brought to life, discover how staging, movement and voice shape a story, and enjoy colorful, physical moments that spark imagination and curiosity.
In French.
Join Destination Vingt-Sept for a warm evening celebrating ten years of the project, looking back at the journey and the people who keep it alive. The programme brings together an official ceremony, a live performance by Gilles Furtwängler, a shared community meal and a musical night with DJ Schmögel. Open to everyone, the event invites neighbours, collaborators and newcomers to reconnect, share stories and renew their commitment to accessible culture together.
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 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.
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
Presented as part of the Caramelo y Limón festival’s tenth edition, this retrospective gathers the festival’s most beloved Hispanic short films from previous years. The program moves between quick-witted comic rhythms and quiet, intimate tableaux; it sketches varied portraits of everyday life with both warmth and sting. A post-screening discussion with director Alejandro Damiani offers an afterword on craft and audience memory. The selection’s tonal shifts and textured filmmaking create a lively, poignant evening of short cinema.
Screening followed by a discussion with director Alejandro Damiani, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Students’ Association (AEE).
Marc Perrenoud (piano) and Christoph Irniger (saxophone) present a duo that reimagines standards and weaves original compositions with elegance, freedom and improvisation. Drawing inspiration from Lennie Tristano, they transform familiar melodies into new lines, evidenced in pieces such as Dry Sensation and Déjà Vu, exploring delicate interplay, rhythmic subtlety and spontaneous dialogue. The programme, taken from their recent album New Lines, balances lyrical reflection with moments of joyful intensity and open-ended musical conversation.
Move through Geneva’s streets on a lively guided tasting that links nine artisan chocolate shops with local stories and techniques. At each stop participants sample signature creations while the guide explains the historical and craft traditions behind the flavours. The route emphasizes a convivial, exploratory pace through urban passages, offering sensory discoveries and conversations with master chocolatiers. Suitable for walkers comfortable with a city stroll and curious about culinary heritage.
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