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Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
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Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Géométries marocaines shows works from Ghizlane AGZENAÏ, Meriam BENKIRANE, Ines-Noor CHAQROUN, Yousef DOUIEB, Yacout HAMDOUCH and Younes KHOURASSANI, exploring geometrical forms and shapes in dialogue with Morocco.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Artists Chloé Delarue, Miriam Laura Leonardi and Gaia Vincensini, curated by Manuella Denogent, present a group exhibition that interrogates systems of representation, value and desire in contemporary society. Through sculpture, installation, photography, video, object-making and light-based interventions, the works reconfigure familiar forms and visual codes to reveal hidden hierarchies and emotional economies. The exhibition emphasises material experimentation and spatial strategies, inviting reflective engagement with how images and objects shape social meanings.
Opening; Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Géométries marocaines shows works from Ghizlane AGZENAÏ, Meriam BENKIRANE, Ines-Noor CHAQROUN, Yousef DOUIEB, Yacout HAMDOUCH and Younes KHOURASSANI, exploring geometrical forms and shapes in dialogue with Morocco.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Artists Chloé Delarue, Miriam Laura Leonardi and Gaia Vincensini, curated by Manuella Denogent, present a group exhibition that interrogates systems of representation, value and desire in contemporary society. Through sculpture, installation, photography, video, object-making and light-based interventions, the works reconfigure familiar forms and visual codes to reveal hidden hierarchies and emotional economies. The exhibition emphasises material experimentation and spatial strategies, inviting reflective engagement with how images and objects shape social meanings.
Opening; Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Géométries marocaines shows works from Ghizlane AGZENAÏ, Meriam BENKIRANE, Ines-Noor CHAQROUN, Yousef DOUIEB, Yacout HAMDOUCH and Younes KHOURASSANI, exploring geometrical forms and shapes in dialogue with Morocco.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Artists Chloé Delarue, Miriam Laura Leonardi and Gaia Vincensini, curated by Manuella Denogent, present a group exhibition that interrogates systems of representation, value and desire in contemporary society. Through sculpture, installation, photography, video, object-making and light-based interventions, the works reconfigure familiar forms and visual codes to reveal hidden hierarchies and emotional economies. The exhibition emphasises material experimentation and spatial strategies, inviting reflective engagement with how images and objects shape social meanings.
Opening; Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
Paul Gasnier, winner of the 2025 Prix Goncourt des détenus, discusses La collision, his powerful investigation into the tragic death of his mother, and the complex web of individual and collective responsibility behind it. Moderated by Aylin Elçi, the conversation will be followed by a children’s storytelling performance and brunch in the courtyard of the Société de Lecture.
Festival Kurai x Gesa gathers leading and emerging electronic artists across two outdoor stages over three days. The programming blends immersive live sets, modular synthesis and DJ performances with curated production design and light textures that shift from late-afternoon warmth to nocturnal intensity. Expect layered soundscapes, rhythmic drive and communal dance energy, framed by careful sound engineering and stage dramaturgy. Free shuttles link festival stages and the late-night club programme.
Choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana and singer-performer Bonnie Banane form a striking duo in this hybrid performance that blends dance, music and live art. Performed on moving treadmills, the piece counters bodily numbness and image saturation with movement, play, metamorphosis and wry humour. Identities shift, roles blur and voices intertwine, producing a poetic pop energy and robust choreographic force. Vulnerability becomes a resource that rekindles imagination and collective feeling.
In English.
Join a lively neighborhood fair where kids bounce, climb and play. Try the inflatable castle, scale the climbing wall, and test basic moves in a friendly combat sports initiation. Explore giant wooden games, dress up with bright face paint, and try circus-style tricks. Hear quirky fanfare and the thumping Batucada drums, feel the rhythms, and dance along. Hands-on moments spark curiosity and teamwork while color, sound and movement keep energy high.
FURTHER AFIELD
présentation des œuvres de trois artistes aborigènes australiens : Abie Loy Kemarre, Janet Long Nakamarra et W. Tjapaltjarri. Un thème qui résonne tout particulièrement avec l’art aborigène, profondément lié à la Terre, aux ancêtres, au vivant et au spirituel.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.
Additional free performances:
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Discover a week of open classes designed to spark imagination and playful learning. Little ones join guided sensory activities, songs and simple drama games that encourage movement, voice exploration and cooperative play. Sessions blend storytelling, musical play and creative staging so children experiment with sounds, colours and gestures while building confidence and social skills. Activities are adaptable to different ages and abilities.
In French.
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Prof Olivier Michielin (SIB, UNIGE & HUG), Prof Pascal Peduzzi (UNIGE) and Prof Samia Hurst-Majno (UNIGE), joined by Geneva State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, bring clinical, environmental and ethics expertise.
They examine how bioinformatics and AI advance precision oncology, epidemic surveillance, food safety, biodiversity monitoring and the ethics of data sharing. A panel will address data sovereignty, responsible AI and international cooperation, highlighting societal benefits and governance challenges.
In French.
Save the date!
Inauguration of Eucaryote, a new public artwork at the Pâquis-Centre school
Over the past few months, a new sculpture has been taking shape behind the barriers and tarpaulins covering the school’s central courtyard. It has now finally been unveiled.
Created by artist Simone Holliger, in collaboration with Ester Alemayehu Hatle, this artwork is the result of an invitational competition organized by the FMAC (Geneva Municipal Foundation for Contemporary Art), the Children’s Services, and the City of Geneva’s Department of Built Heritage, with the participation of representatives from the school, local residents, and neighborhood associations.
Géométries marocaines shows works from Ghizlane AGZENAÏ, Meriam BENKIRANE, Ines-Noor CHAQROUN, Yousef DOUIEB, Yacout HAMDOUCH and Younes KHOURASSANI, exploring geometrical forms and shapes in dialogue with Morocco.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Artists Chloé Delarue, Miriam Laura Leonardi and Gaia Vincensini, curated by Manuella Denogent, present a group exhibition that interrogates systems of representation, value and desire in contemporary society. Through sculpture, installation, photography, video, object-making and light-based interventions, the works reconfigure familiar forms and visual codes to reveal hidden hierarchies and emotional economies. The exhibition emphasises material experimentation and spatial strategies, inviting reflective engagement with how images and objects shape social meanings.
Opening; Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
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