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Romain Girard’s documentary is an intimate immersion into the theatrical creative process, following rehearsals and performance to expose the labour behind a staging of Molière. Through a careful, observant lens it deciphers Tartuffe and the mechanisms of domination the play interrogates, tracing how a director’s intentions shape the actors’ relation to the text. The film privileges close observation and theatrical detail, offering a reflective, textured portrait of language, control and the pulse of live theatre.
In presence of Jean Liermier and Romain Girard, and by producers Chantal Bernheim and Patrick Siegenthaler (Actua Films).
Céline Zufferey, author of the novel Maxence, brings her literary perspective on love and remembrance, exploring how narrative work confronts fragile memory and the desire to suspend time.
She discusses Maxence’s project of recording the everyday—lists, fragments and intimate details—to ward off disappearance. The session examines themes of archival desire, the ethics of witnessing a loved one, and how fragmentary narrative shapes an emotional portrait, offering reflections on why literature investigates memory and attachment.
In French.
The 72nd Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique brings together leading international scholars for an in-depth exploration of the death penalty in ancient Greece and Rome. Through a series of lectures and discussions, the symposium examines the legal, political, philosophical, religious, and social dimensions of capital punishment across the ancient world, offering fresh perspectives on justice, power, gender, rhetoric, and resistance. Organized by the Fondation Hardt, this renowned academic gathering fosters dialogue between specialists while welcoming all those with an interest in classical studies, ancient history, archaeology, and the enduring questions raised by antiquity.
Booking: admin@fondationhardt.ch or +41 22 736 31 04
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects, KEYSHA and SYLVAN, offering a glimpse into emerging musical voices. The performers reveal intimate, exploratory sound worlds, blending raw creativity with disciplined craft. External experts provide focused feedback, framing each set as both presentation and workshop. The programme celebrates a diversity of approaches and the collaborative energy of a training environment, inviting listeners into concentrated, tactile sonic atmospheres.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to light and what shines. Yet what could be more fascinating than shadow? Shadows have enabled many fundamental discoveries: the shape of the Earth, the calculation of its circumference, the identification of electrons, and the understanding of planetary motion. They accompany us and enrich our thinking. Come and explore them to learn more about their role in science.
Exhibition in French & in English.
EXEM aux urnes – 40 Years of Political Posters brings together 40 political posters by Geneva-based illustrator EXEM between 1988 and 2023. Spanning nearly four decades of Swiss direct democracy, the exhibition explores the distinctive language of political posters at the intersection of graphic art, satire, and political commentary.
Through EXEM’s sharp and engaging imagery, the exhibition traces the political issues and communication styles that have shaped Swiss public life, and offers insight into the artist’s creative process and the stories behind his iconic posters.
Opening: Tuesday 1 September, 18:00
Organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva’s Institute of Art History, the congress highlights the vitality and diversity of contemporary art historical research through a dynamic program of roundtables, thematic sessions, academic presentations, and interdisciplinary exchanges. Exploring the evolving relationship between universities, museums, heritage institutions, and the art market, the event emphasizes innovation in methodologies and digital practices while fostering dialogue around current artistic, cultural, and societal questions. Enriched by exhibitions, visits, and special events across Geneva’s cultural institutions, the congress offers an engaging platform for reflection, collaboration, and the celebration of art history in all its contemporary dimensions.
Romain Girard’s documentary is an intimate immersion into the theatrical creative process, following rehearsals and performance to expose the labour behind a staging of Molière. Through a careful, observant lens it deciphers Tartuffe and the mechanisms of domination the play interrogates, tracing how a director’s intentions shape the actors’ relation to the text. The film privileges close observation and theatrical detail, offering a reflective, textured portrait of language, control and the pulse of live theatre.
In presence of Jean Liermier and Romain Girard, and by producers Chantal Bernheim and Patrick Siegenthaler (Actua Films).
Céline Zufferey, author of the novel Maxence, brings her literary perspective on love and remembrance, exploring how narrative work confronts fragile memory and the desire to suspend time.
She discusses Maxence’s project of recording the everyday—lists, fragments and intimate details—to ward off disappearance. The session examines themes of archival desire, the ethics of witnessing a loved one, and how fragmentary narrative shapes an emotional portrait, offering reflections on why literature investigates memory and attachment.
In French.
The 72nd Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique brings together leading international scholars for an in-depth exploration of the death penalty in ancient Greece and Rome. Through a series of lectures and discussions, the symposium examines the legal, political, philosophical, religious, and social dimensions of capital punishment across the ancient world, offering fresh perspectives on justice, power, gender, rhetoric, and resistance. Organized by the Fondation Hardt, this renowned academic gathering fosters dialogue between specialists while welcoming all those with an interest in classical studies, ancient history, archaeology, and the enduring questions raised by antiquity.
Booking: admin@fondationhardt.ch or +41 22 736 31 04
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects, KEYSHA and SYLVAN, offering a glimpse into emerging musical voices. The performers reveal intimate, exploratory sound worlds, blending raw creativity with disciplined craft. External experts provide focused feedback, framing each set as both presentation and workshop. The programme celebrates a diversity of approaches and the collaborative energy of a training environment, inviting listeners into concentrated, tactile sonic atmospheres.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to light and what shines. Yet what could be more fascinating than shadow? Shadows have enabled many fundamental discoveries: the shape of the Earth, the calculation of its circumference, the identification of electrons, and the understanding of planetary motion. They accompany us and enrich our thinking. Come and explore them to learn more about their role in science.
Exhibition in French & in English.
EXEM aux urnes – 40 Years of Political Posters brings together 40 political posters by Geneva-based illustrator EXEM between 1988 and 2023. Spanning nearly four decades of Swiss direct democracy, the exhibition explores the distinctive language of political posters at the intersection of graphic art, satire, and political commentary.
Through EXEM’s sharp and engaging imagery, the exhibition traces the political issues and communication styles that have shaped Swiss public life, and offers insight into the artist’s creative process and the stories behind his iconic posters.
Opening: Tuesday 1 September, 18:00
Organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva’s Institute of Art History, the congress highlights the vitality and diversity of contemporary art historical research through a dynamic program of roundtables, thematic sessions, academic presentations, and interdisciplinary exchanges. Exploring the evolving relationship between universities, museums, heritage institutions, and the art market, the event emphasizes innovation in methodologies and digital practices while fostering dialogue around current artistic, cultural, and societal questions. Enriched by exhibitions, visits, and special events across Geneva’s cultural institutions, the congress offers an engaging platform for reflection, collaboration, and the celebration of art history in all its contemporary dimensions.
Romain Girard’s documentary is an intimate immersion into the theatrical creative process, following rehearsals and performance to expose the labour behind a staging of Molière. Through a careful, observant lens it deciphers Tartuffe and the mechanisms of domination the play interrogates, tracing how a director’s intentions shape the actors’ relation to the text. The film privileges close observation and theatrical detail, offering a reflective, textured portrait of language, control and the pulse of live theatre.
In presence of Jean Liermier and Romain Girard, and by producers Chantal Bernheim and Patrick Siegenthaler (Actua Films).
Céline Zufferey, author of the novel Maxence, brings her literary perspective on love and remembrance, exploring how narrative work confronts fragile memory and the desire to suspend time.
She discusses Maxence’s project of recording the everyday—lists, fragments and intimate details—to ward off disappearance. The session examines themes of archival desire, the ethics of witnessing a loved one, and how fragmentary narrative shapes an emotional portrait, offering reflections on why literature investigates memory and attachment.
In French.
The 72nd Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique brings together leading international scholars for an in-depth exploration of the death penalty in ancient Greece and Rome. Through a series of lectures and discussions, the symposium examines the legal, political, philosophical, religious, and social dimensions of capital punishment across the ancient world, offering fresh perspectives on justice, power, gender, rhetoric, and resistance. Organized by the Fondation Hardt, this renowned academic gathering fosters dialogue between specialists while welcoming all those with an interest in classical studies, ancient history, archaeology, and the enduring questions raised by antiquity.
Booking: admin@fondationhardt.ch or +41 22 736 31 04
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects, KEYSHA and SYLVAN, offering a glimpse into emerging musical voices. The performers reveal intimate, exploratory sound worlds, blending raw creativity with disciplined craft. External experts provide focused feedback, framing each set as both presentation and workshop. The programme celebrates a diversity of approaches and the collaborative energy of a training environment, inviting listeners into concentrated, tactile sonic atmospheres.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to light and what shines. Yet what could be more fascinating than shadow? Shadows have enabled many fundamental discoveries: the shape of the Earth, the calculation of its circumference, the identification of electrons, and the understanding of planetary motion. They accompany us and enrich our thinking. Come and explore them to learn more about their role in science.
Exhibition in French & in English.
EXEM aux urnes – 40 Years of Political Posters brings together 40 political posters by Geneva-based illustrator EXEM between 1988 and 2023. Spanning nearly four decades of Swiss direct democracy, the exhibition explores the distinctive language of political posters at the intersection of graphic art, satire, and political commentary.
Through EXEM’s sharp and engaging imagery, the exhibition traces the political issues and communication styles that have shaped Swiss public life, and offers insight into the artist’s creative process and the stories behind his iconic posters.
Opening: Tuesday 1 September, 18:00
Guided visits of the temporary exhibition offer a thematic exploration of heritage and matrimoine through objects, photographs and installations. Curatorial narrative examines material culture, memory and identity, highlighting domestic artefacts, archival materials and contemporary practices. Visits are paced to encourage close looking and discussion, with attention to conservation, provenance and intercultural exchanges. The tours foreground under-represented histories and the material traces of everyday life.
In French.
How do you tell fifty years of a festival in a single song? The BPM Collective takes on that challenge with a participatory musical celebration for La Bâtie’s jubilee. The trio Catherine Büchi, Léa Pohlhammer and Pierre Mifsud, with composer Andrés Garcia, transform collected memories into a homegrown anthem. Everyone is invited to sing, dance and weave together five decades of discoveries, emotions and memorable moments in a joyful, communal karaoke-choir.
Discover the stained-glass heritage of Plan-les-Ouates during a cultural walk on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. The tour highlights the spiritual and artistic heritage of the commune through works by stained-glass artists Jacques Wasem and Paul Monnier. The tour will be led by Elodie Sierro, art historian and cultural mediator.
Departure from Église Saint-Bernard de Menthon
Sweetease is a contemporary performance that explores intimacy, desire and the bittersweet edges of human connection. Through a subtle interplay of voice, movement and light, the piece builds textured atmospheres that shift between tenderness and unease. Staging privileges close-up moments and economical gestures, inviting the audience into an intimate emotional landscape where memory and longing surface in slow, deliberate layers.
An intimate aerial encounter, Une rencontre suspendue brings together hair suspension, acrobatic play, guitar harmonies and a textured singing voice. Conceived by the collective Association VOILÀ VOILÀ, this short creation features aerial acrobat Lili Parson Piguet and musician Jeanne Pâris. The piece mixes fragile physicality and musical intimacy to trace a delicate complicity between movement and sound, where everyday materials become instruments of tension and tenderness. Presented as a compact, sensory performance within the festival context.
Three organ recitals offering intimate portraits of the instrument through contrasting programmes by Damien Desbenoit, Stéphane Mottoul and Jan Lehtola. Each recital balances baroque, romantic and contemporary repertoire, emphasizing registration, timbral contrasts and the acoustic dialogue between instrument and space. Performances favour attentive, contemplative listening and showcase the performers’ interpretive finesse. Programme notes and detailed PDFs are available for each recital.
Festival de piano 2026 presents a programme of concentrated virtuosity and lyrical depth. The Orchestre de Chambre L’Orange Bleue joins pianist Marc Pantillon for Jean‑Sébastien Bach’s D minor concerto, pairing baroque clarity with romantic expressivity. Later, pianist Katherine Nikitine undertakes Chopin’s complete 24 études, an intense, poetic survey of technique and sound. The evening balances orchestral colour and solo introspection, promising refined ensemble interplay and performances of intense emotional focus.
Organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva’s Institute of Art History, the congress highlights the vitality and diversity of contemporary art historical research through a dynamic program of roundtables, thematic sessions, academic presentations, and interdisciplinary exchanges. Exploring the evolving relationship between universities, museums, heritage institutions, and the art market, the event emphasizes innovation in methodologies and digital practices while fostering dialogue around current artistic, cultural, and societal questions. Enriched by exhibitions, visits, and special events across Geneva’s cultural institutions, the congress offers an engaging platform for reflection, collaboration, and the celebration of art history in all its contemporary dimensions.
Romain Girard’s documentary is an intimate immersion into the theatrical creative process, following rehearsals and performance to expose the labour behind a staging of Molière. Through a careful, observant lens it deciphers Tartuffe and the mechanisms of domination the play interrogates, tracing how a director’s intentions shape the actors’ relation to the text. The film privileges close observation and theatrical detail, offering a reflective, textured portrait of language, control and the pulse of live theatre.
In presence of Jean Liermier and Romain Girard, and by producers Chantal Bernheim and Patrick Siegenthaler (Actua Films).
Céline Zufferey, author of the novel Maxence, brings her literary perspective on love and remembrance, exploring how narrative work confronts fragile memory and the desire to suspend time.
She discusses Maxence’s project of recording the everyday—lists, fragments and intimate details—to ward off disappearance. The session examines themes of archival desire, the ethics of witnessing a loved one, and how fragmentary narrative shapes an emotional portrait, offering reflections on why literature investigates memory and attachment.
In French.
The 72nd Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique brings together leading international scholars for an in-depth exploration of the death penalty in ancient Greece and Rome. Through a series of lectures and discussions, the symposium examines the legal, political, philosophical, religious, and social dimensions of capital punishment across the ancient world, offering fresh perspectives on justice, power, gender, rhetoric, and resistance. Organized by the Fondation Hardt, this renowned academic gathering fosters dialogue between specialists while welcoming all those with an interest in classical studies, ancient history, archaeology, and the enduring questions raised by antiquity.
Booking: admin@fondationhardt.ch or +41 22 736 31 04
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects, KEYSHA and SYLVAN, offering a glimpse into emerging musical voices. The performers reveal intimate, exploratory sound worlds, blending raw creativity with disciplined craft. External experts provide focused feedback, framing each set as both presentation and workshop. The programme celebrates a diversity of approaches and the collaborative energy of a training environment, inviting listeners into concentrated, tactile sonic atmospheres.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to light and what shines. Yet what could be more fascinating than shadow? Shadows have enabled many fundamental discoveries: the shape of the Earth, the calculation of its circumference, the identification of electrons, and the understanding of planetary motion. They accompany us and enrich our thinking. Come and explore them to learn more about their role in science.
Exhibition in French & in English.
EXEM aux urnes – 40 Years of Political Posters brings together 40 political posters by Geneva-based illustrator EXEM between 1988 and 2023. Spanning nearly four decades of Swiss direct democracy, the exhibition explores the distinctive language of political posters at the intersection of graphic art, satire, and political commentary.
Through EXEM’s sharp and engaging imagery, the exhibition traces the political issues and communication styles that have shaped Swiss public life, and offers insight into the artist’s creative process and the stories behind his iconic posters.
Opening: Tuesday 1 September, 18:00
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