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7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Friday 10 April, 21:00

Rash Panzer have been playing hard, powerful rock since 1979. Onstage they deliver relentless guitar-driven energy, raw riffs and propulsive rhythms that push toward catharsis. The quartet’s sound emphasizes muscular grooves, gritty vocals and an unpolished intensity that favors sweat and crowd momentum over refinement. Presented by BAG within the ‘Beyond the Blues’ concert series, the performance promises a visceral, communal experience that foregrounds physicality and sonic impact.

9 – 12 April

Produced by the Madre de la Culebra company, this music, circus and dance performance imagines a world emptied of sound after music has been stolen. Two courageous performers, dancers and acrobats, embark on a quest to reclaim melody, encountering unexpected figures along the way. They fuse contemporary dance, acrobatics, floorwork and folk steps around the Chinese pole, creating gravity-defying tableaux. On-stage musicians supply original compositions, while the staging probes identity, power and the fragile interplay of sound and movement.

7 April – 30 June

This session offers personalised research support from professional librarians to help develop accurate bibliographies for exams and assignments. Librarians guide selection of authoritative sources, citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago), database searching strategies, and reference-management techniques. Participants learn to structure references, apply citation norms consistently, evaluate sources critically, manage citations with digital tools, and streamline literature searches to enhance academic writing and citation accuracy.

7 March – 16 August

Carlos Schwabe’s retrospective traces the symbolism and pictorial imagination that defined his practice. Trained in Geneva, Schwabe is celebrated for evocative book illustrations and ambitious pictorial compositions that blend allegory, myth and musical ideas. The exhibition presents paintings, illustrations and preparatory drawings drawn from public and private Swiss and French collections, exploring technique, materiality and the spiritual and literary currents that shaped his visual language around the turn of the twentieth century.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Friday 10 April, 21:00

Rash Panzer have been playing hard, powerful rock since 1979. Onstage they deliver relentless guitar-driven energy, raw riffs and propulsive rhythms that push toward catharsis. The quartet’s sound emphasizes muscular grooves, gritty vocals and an unpolished intensity that favors sweat and crowd momentum over refinement. Presented by BAG within the ‘Beyond the Blues’ concert series, the performance promises a visceral, communal experience that foregrounds physicality and sonic impact.

9 – 12 April

Produced by the Madre de la Culebra company, this music, circus and dance performance imagines a world emptied of sound after music has been stolen. Two courageous performers, dancers and acrobats, embark on a quest to reclaim melody, encountering unexpected figures along the way. They fuse contemporary dance, acrobatics, floorwork and folk steps around the Chinese pole, creating gravity-defying tableaux. On-stage musicians supply original compositions, while the staging probes identity, power and the fragile interplay of sound and movement.

7 April – 30 June

This session offers personalised research support from professional librarians to help develop accurate bibliographies for exams and assignments. Librarians guide selection of authoritative sources, citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago), database searching strategies, and reference-management techniques. Participants learn to structure references, apply citation norms consistently, evaluate sources critically, manage citations with digital tools, and streamline literature searches to enhance academic writing and citation accuracy.

7 March – 16 August

Carlos Schwabe’s retrospective traces the symbolism and pictorial imagination that defined his practice. Trained in Geneva, Schwabe is celebrated for evocative book illustrations and ambitious pictorial compositions that blend allegory, myth and musical ideas. The exhibition presents paintings, illustrations and preparatory drawings drawn from public and private Swiss and French collections, exploring technique, materiality and the spiritual and literary currents that shaped his visual language around the turn of the twentieth century.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Friday 10 April, 21:00

Rash Panzer have been playing hard, powerful rock since 1979. Onstage they deliver relentless guitar-driven energy, raw riffs and propulsive rhythms that push toward catharsis. The quartet’s sound emphasizes muscular grooves, gritty vocals and an unpolished intensity that favors sweat and crowd momentum over refinement. Presented by BAG within the ‘Beyond the Blues’ concert series, the performance promises a visceral, communal experience that foregrounds physicality and sonic impact.

9 – 12 April

Produced by the Madre de la Culebra company, this music, circus and dance performance imagines a world emptied of sound after music has been stolen. Two courageous performers, dancers and acrobats, embark on a quest to reclaim melody, encountering unexpected figures along the way. They fuse contemporary dance, acrobatics, floorwork and folk steps around the Chinese pole, creating gravity-defying tableaux. On-stage musicians supply original compositions, while the staging probes identity, power and the fragile interplay of sound and movement.

7 April – 30 June

This session offers personalised research support from professional librarians to help develop accurate bibliographies for exams and assignments. Librarians guide selection of authoritative sources, citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago), database searching strategies, and reference-management techniques. Participants learn to structure references, apply citation norms consistently, evaluate sources critically, manage citations with digital tools, and streamline literature searches to enhance academic writing and citation accuracy.

7 March – 16 August

Carlos Schwabe’s retrospective traces the symbolism and pictorial imagination that defined his practice. Trained in Geneva, Schwabe is celebrated for evocative book illustrations and ambitious pictorial compositions that blend allegory, myth and musical ideas. The exhibition presents paintings, illustrations and preparatory drawings drawn from public and private Swiss and French collections, exploring technique, materiality and the spiritual and literary currents that shaped his visual language around the turn of the twentieth century.

7 – 17 April

Make a pocket almanac full of stories, drawings, crosswords, recipes and collectible postcards. In a series of workshops, participants experiment with printmaking techniques, play creative writing games and learn simple bookmaking methods to shape their own small journal. Sessions encourage playful collaboration, colourful illustrations and hands‑on discovery as children turn ideas into a printed object to share with family.

Kids ages 6–12.

9 – 12 April

Produced by the Madre de la Culebra company, this music, circus and dance performance imagines a world emptied of sound after music has been stolen. Two courageous performers, dancers and acrobats, embark on a quest to reclaim melody, encountering unexpected figures along the way. They fuse contemporary dance, acrobatics, floorwork and folk steps around the Chinese pole, creating gravity-defying tableaux. On-stage musicians supply original compositions, while the staging probes identity, power and the fragile interplay of sound and movement.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Saturday 11 April, 11:00

Join a convivial gathering of Swiss winemakers for tastings, bottle sales and the discovery of recent primeur cuvées. The event brings together producers from several cantons for shared tasting sessions, free introductory tasting workshops, live concerts and communal food stalls serving fondue, boards, burgers and tapas. It’s aimed at adults (18+) while organisers also announce children’s activities on site. The atmosphere emphasises community, conversation and convivial discovery.

8 February – 26 April

This thematic exhibition examines how street-name plaques conceal biographies, choices and memories that shape Carouge’s identity. It highlights figures commemorated in the urban fabric—political actors, artists and local personalities—through photographs, archival documents and works from the museum collection.
Combining historical records and visual materials, the show reconstructs the city’s transformations and collective memory, questioning how naming practices inscribe social values and local histories into everyday streetscapes.

28 January – 23 December

This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Friday 10 April, 21:00

Rash Panzer have been playing hard, powerful rock since 1979. Onstage they deliver relentless guitar-driven energy, raw riffs and propulsive rhythms that push toward catharsis. The quartet’s sound emphasizes muscular grooves, gritty vocals and an unpolished intensity that favors sweat and crowd momentum over refinement. Presented by BAG within the ‘Beyond the Blues’ concert series, the performance promises a visceral, communal experience that foregrounds physicality and sonic impact.

9 – 12 April

Produced by the Madre de la Culebra company, this music, circus and dance performance imagines a world emptied of sound after music has been stolen. Two courageous performers, dancers and acrobats, embark on a quest to reclaim melody, encountering unexpected figures along the way. They fuse contemporary dance, acrobatics, floorwork and folk steps around the Chinese pole, creating gravity-defying tableaux. On-stage musicians supply original compositions, while the staging probes identity, power and the fragile interplay of sound and movement.

7 April – 30 June

This session offers personalised research support from professional librarians to help develop accurate bibliographies for exams and assignments. Librarians guide selection of authoritative sources, citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago), database searching strategies, and reference-management techniques. Participants learn to structure references, apply citation norms consistently, evaluate sources critically, manage citations with digital tools, and streamline literature searches to enhance academic writing and citation accuracy.

7 March – 16 August

Carlos Schwabe’s retrospective traces the symbolism and pictorial imagination that defined his practice. Trained in Geneva, Schwabe is celebrated for evocative book illustrations and ambitious pictorial compositions that blend allegory, myth and musical ideas. The exhibition presents paintings, illustrations and preparatory drawings drawn from public and private Swiss and French collections, exploring technique, materiality and the spiritual and literary currents that shaped his visual language around the turn of the twentieth century.

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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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