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Thursday 12 February, 19:30

An open stage that invites performers to explore voice and presence. Participants — musicians, singers, poets, actors and curious newcomers — share short performances within a warm, inclusive atmosphere. Supportive professional artists offer guidance and artistic feedback, helping participants build confidence and experiment with new ideas. The event emphasises collective listening, creative risk-taking and expressive voice work, creating intimate encounters that highlight vulnerability, play and growth.

11 – 15 February

The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.

In French.

Thursday 12 February, 12:30

Professor Alexandre Pouget is a computational neuroscientist trained in biology and holding a doctorate from San Diego. After appointments at Georgetown and Rochester, he leads research at the University of Geneva on theories of computation and representation in neural circuits. His work focuses on probabilistic approaches to learning, how neurons represent and manipulate uncertainty, and the development of AI systems that model human-like communication.

In French.

11 – 13 February

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Midlake return with a set that balances radiant folk and contemplative rock. The Texan band blends expansive guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies to create a cinematic soundscape where melodies recall The Beach Boys and sixties–seventies folk. Their new album A Bridge Too Far frames the programme, carried by warm arrangements and layered textures. Signed to Bella Union and seldom seen in Europe, Midlake deliver an immersive, nostalgic yet modern musical experience.

Thursday 12 February, 20:00

Théophile Alexandre blends voice and movement in a stripped-back, vibrant baroque creation that fuses early music with contemporary dance. As singer and dancer he delivers a powerful, singular performance, shaped by Jean-Claude Gallotta’s choreography and Guillaume Vincent’s piano. Twenty-one finely honed pieces unfold like the 21 grams of the soul, where music becomes flesh and gesture turns into melody. Between well-known masterpieces and forgotten treasures, the production offers an intimate, organic journey through human emotions, delicate and intense.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

An open stage that invites performers to explore voice and presence. Participants — musicians, singers, poets, actors and curious newcomers — share short performances within a warm, inclusive atmosphere. Supportive professional artists offer guidance and artistic feedback, helping participants build confidence and experiment with new ideas. The event emphasises collective listening, creative risk-taking and expressive voice work, creating intimate encounters that highlight vulnerability, play and growth.

11 – 15 February

The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.

In French.

Thursday 12 February, 12:30

Professor Alexandre Pouget is a computational neuroscientist trained in biology and holding a doctorate from San Diego. After appointments at Georgetown and Rochester, he leads research at the University of Geneva on theories of computation and representation in neural circuits. His work focuses on probabilistic approaches to learning, how neurons represent and manipulate uncertainty, and the development of AI systems that model human-like communication.

In French.

11 – 13 February

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Midlake return with a set that balances radiant folk and contemplative rock. The Texan band blends expansive guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies to create a cinematic soundscape where melodies recall The Beach Boys and sixties–seventies folk. Their new album A Bridge Too Far frames the programme, carried by warm arrangements and layered textures. Signed to Bella Union and seldom seen in Europe, Midlake deliver an immersive, nostalgic yet modern musical experience.

Thursday 12 February, 20:00

Théophile Alexandre blends voice and movement in a stripped-back, vibrant baroque creation that fuses early music with contemporary dance. As singer and dancer he delivers a powerful, singular performance, shaped by Jean-Claude Gallotta’s choreography and Guillaume Vincent’s piano. Twenty-one finely honed pieces unfold like the 21 grams of the soul, where music becomes flesh and gesture turns into melody. Between well-known masterpieces and forgotten treasures, the production offers an intimate, organic journey through human emotions, delicate and intense.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

An open stage that invites performers to explore voice and presence. Participants — musicians, singers, poets, actors and curious newcomers — share short performances within a warm, inclusive atmosphere. Supportive professional artists offer guidance and artistic feedback, helping participants build confidence and experiment with new ideas. The event emphasises collective listening, creative risk-taking and expressive voice work, creating intimate encounters that highlight vulnerability, play and growth.

11 – 15 February

The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.

In French.

Thursday 12 February, 12:30

Professor Alexandre Pouget is a computational neuroscientist trained in biology and holding a doctorate from San Diego. After appointments at Georgetown and Rochester, he leads research at the University of Geneva on theories of computation and representation in neural circuits. His work focuses on probabilistic approaches to learning, how neurons represent and manipulate uncertainty, and the development of AI systems that model human-like communication.

In French.

11 – 13 February

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Midlake return with a set that balances radiant folk and contemplative rock. The Texan band blends expansive guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies to create a cinematic soundscape where melodies recall The Beach Boys and sixties–seventies folk. Their new album A Bridge Too Far frames the programme, carried by warm arrangements and layered textures. Signed to Bella Union and seldom seen in Europe, Midlake deliver an immersive, nostalgic yet modern musical experience.

Thursday 12 February, 20:00

Théophile Alexandre blends voice and movement in a stripped-back, vibrant baroque creation that fuses early music with contemporary dance. As singer and dancer he delivers a powerful, singular performance, shaped by Jean-Claude Gallotta’s choreography and Guillaume Vincent’s piano. Twenty-one finely honed pieces unfold like the 21 grams of the soul, where music becomes flesh and gesture turns into melody. Between well-known masterpieces and forgotten treasures, the production offers an intimate, organic journey through human emotions, delicate and intense.

11 – 13 February

Choreographer Chiara Bersani invites the audience into the undergrowth of an imagined forest, performed in duo with dancer Elena Sgarbossa and a group of workshop participants. The piece stages bodies limited by disability to probe movement, survival and collective care. Inspired by confinement and the inequalities revealed by the pandemic, it turns the stage into an ecosystem — a vibrating floor, layered soundscape and a shared spatial attention — where small gestures, bodily memory and vulnerability become transformative forces and the basis for a newly imagined community.

11 – 22 February

Choreographer Ugo Dehaes replaces his human troupe with extravagant robot-dancers endowed with an artificial intelligence that invents their own choreography. Intimate and unsettling, the performance invites the audience to sit around a table as the mechanised performers execute an uncanny, rhythmic ballet. Marie Peeters’ dramaturgy frames questions about labour, profit and the place of culture, while Wannes Deneer’s scenography and musical composition shape a tactile, immersive atmosphere. The piece blends humour, critique and physical precision.

13 – 14 February

“The Selfie Concert” by Ivo Dimchev at Maison Saint-Gervais is an interactive performance where the artist sings only when spectators take a selfie with him. This concept challenges the notions of narcissism and the interdependence between stars and fans, raising questions about perception and existence. The show highlights our mutual need for both the artist and audience to bring the event to life.

11 – 22 February

Véronique Déthiollaz and Guy Schibler present a dialogue between drawing and photography that confronts mortality through laughter, desire and celebration. Déthiollaz’s graphite, occasional pastel and ink drawings deploy ironic, grotesque figuration—mocking skeletons and humbled reapers—while Schibler’s photographic series documents funerary sculpture and cemetery vistas that reveal provocative sensuality. Together the works probe how humour, eroticism and festivity resist oblivion, refusing pain through visual excess and theatricality, and interrogate cultural attitudes toward death, embodiment and memory.

5 – 15 February

Directed by Geneviève Pasquier and performed by Vincent Babel, LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR stages Eugène’s cathartic gesture of writing to Nicolae Ceauşescu. The production blends intimate monologue with archival echoes, folding fragments of Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue into a jazz-tinged score that punctuates memory and revelation. The creative space favors spare tableaux, tactile sound textures and a nimble rhythm that offsets historical weight with mischievous warmth, transforming personal trauma into a tender, witty coming-of-age confession.

In French.

10 – 22 February

Adapted and performed by Felipe Castro, this solo staging probes the absurdity of war, murderous nationalism and the raw misery at the heart of Céline’s writing. Coach José Lillo supports a performance of muscular, visceral language while Natacha Jaquerod’s set, Rinaldo Del Boca’s lighting and Jean Faravel’s sound sculpt stark, claustrophobic atmospheres. The production balances brutal imagery with moments of surprising humanity, revealing the author’s vocation as a doctor through an intimate, relentless theatrical journey.

In French.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

An open stage that invites performers to explore voice and presence. Participants — musicians, singers, poets, actors and curious newcomers — share short performances within a warm, inclusive atmosphere. Supportive professional artists offer guidance and artistic feedback, helping participants build confidence and experiment with new ideas. The event emphasises collective listening, creative risk-taking and expressive voice work, creating intimate encounters that highlight vulnerability, play and growth.

11 – 15 February

The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.

In French.

Thursday 12 February, 12:30

Professor Alexandre Pouget is a computational neuroscientist trained in biology and holding a doctorate from San Diego. After appointments at Georgetown and Rochester, he leads research at the University of Geneva on theories of computation and representation in neural circuits. His work focuses on probabilistic approaches to learning, how neurons represent and manipulate uncertainty, and the development of AI systems that model human-like communication.

In French.

11 – 13 February

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Midlake return with a set that balances radiant folk and contemplative rock. The Texan band blends expansive guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies to create a cinematic soundscape where melodies recall The Beach Boys and sixties–seventies folk. Their new album A Bridge Too Far frames the programme, carried by warm arrangements and layered textures. Signed to Bella Union and seldom seen in Europe, Midlake deliver an immersive, nostalgic yet modern musical experience.

Thursday 12 February, 20:00

Théophile Alexandre blends voice and movement in a stripped-back, vibrant baroque creation that fuses early music with contemporary dance. As singer and dancer he delivers a powerful, singular performance, shaped by Jean-Claude Gallotta’s choreography and Guillaume Vincent’s piano. Twenty-one finely honed pieces unfold like the 21 grams of the soul, where music becomes flesh and gesture turns into melody. Between well-known masterpieces and forgotten treasures, the production offers an intimate, organic journey through human emotions, delicate and intense.

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Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

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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