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Opening the season, the Peace Philharmonic joins pianist and conductor Nikolay Khozyainov for an evening devoted to Mozart. Khozyainov’s virtuosic touch illuminates the drama and lyricism of the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, while the orchestra delivers the grandeur and contrapuntal brilliance of the Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’. The programme balances intimacy and orchestral power, offering refined phrasing, transparent textures and radiant elegance that bring Mozart’s expressive contrasts to life.
FURTHER AFIELD
Directed by Jean‑François Sivadier, this blistering staging of Thomas Bernhard’s Maître dissects a privileged couple’s corrosive vanity and the ideological masks that sustain them. The production balances bitter comedy and dark drama, driven by a terse, language-centred aesthetic and an intense ensemble: Nicolas Bouchaud, Norah Krief, Frédéric Noaille, Juliette Bialek and Valérie de Champchesnel. The staging foregrounds verbal rhythm and theatrical momentum to unsettle and provoke reflection.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
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.
Claire Guanella presents a series of works titled Getting Robotic that anchors her practice in filiation and networks. Using a metaphor rich in polysemy, the works examine our real connections, sustaining living memory and an attentive regard for the always-terrestrial roots of technological transformation. The exhibition considers the interplay between inheritance, collective memory and invention, prompting reflection on how human ties and grounded origins shape our evolving relations with machines.
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
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.
Opening the season, the Peace Philharmonic joins pianist and conductor Nikolay Khozyainov for an evening devoted to Mozart. Khozyainov’s virtuosic touch illuminates the drama and lyricism of the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, while the orchestra delivers the grandeur and contrapuntal brilliance of the Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’. The programme balances intimacy and orchestral power, offering refined phrasing, transparent textures and radiant elegance that bring Mozart’s expressive contrasts to life.
FURTHER AFIELD
Directed by Jean‑François Sivadier, this blistering staging of Thomas Bernhard’s Maître dissects a privileged couple’s corrosive vanity and the ideological masks that sustain them. The production balances bitter comedy and dark drama, driven by a terse, language-centred aesthetic and an intense ensemble: Nicolas Bouchaud, Norah Krief, Frédéric Noaille, Juliette Bialek and Valérie de Champchesnel. The staging foregrounds verbal rhythm and theatrical momentum to unsettle and provoke reflection.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
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.
Claire Guanella presents a series of works titled Getting Robotic that anchors her practice in filiation and networks. Using a metaphor rich in polysemy, the works examine our real connections, sustaining living memory and an attentive regard for the always-terrestrial roots of technological transformation. The exhibition considers the interplay between inheritance, collective memory and invention, prompting reflection on how human ties and grounded origins shape our evolving relations with machines.
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
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.
Opening the season, the Peace Philharmonic joins pianist and conductor Nikolay Khozyainov for an evening devoted to Mozart. Khozyainov’s virtuosic touch illuminates the drama and lyricism of the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, while the orchestra delivers the grandeur and contrapuntal brilliance of the Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’. The programme balances intimacy and orchestral power, offering refined phrasing, transparent textures and radiant elegance that bring Mozart’s expressive contrasts to life.
FURTHER AFIELD
Directed by Jean‑François Sivadier, this blistering staging of Thomas Bernhard’s Maître dissects a privileged couple’s corrosive vanity and the ideological masks that sustain them. The production balances bitter comedy and dark drama, driven by a terse, language-centred aesthetic and an intense ensemble: Nicolas Bouchaud, Norah Krief, Frédéric Noaille, Juliette Bialek and Valérie de Champchesnel. The staging foregrounds verbal rhythm and theatrical momentum to unsettle and provoke reflection.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
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.
Claire Guanella presents a series of works titled Getting Robotic that anchors her practice in filiation and networks. Using a metaphor rich in polysemy, the works examine our real connections, sustaining living memory and an attentive regard for the always-terrestrial roots of technological transformation. The exhibition considers the interplay between inheritance, collective memory and invention, prompting reflection on how human ties and grounded origins shape our evolving relations with machines.
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
Photographer Jörg Brockmann and ceramist Youlichka Fioramonti present a joint exhibition that transposes the human body onto porcelain through cyanotype processes. Brockmann’s images are photographed and printed onto film, then transferred onto light-sensitive porcelain plates before firing. Fioramonti’s ceramic practice engages this material translation, emphasizing the interplay of light, chemistry and fire. The works probe material transformation, the role of chance within analogue techniques and a dialogue between photographic form and crafted surface.
Festival des 5 Continents presents a curated panorama of world cinema: competitive and out-of-competition films, special screenings and a section for emerging voices. The programme highlights auteur cinema, daring narratives and diverse perspectives, favouring bold visual styles and intimate storytelling. Through screenings, talks and encounters, the festival offers a space to discover new talents and reassess cinematic traditions, celebrating cross-cultural dialogues and the emotional power of film.
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.
Geneva Brass celebrates its identity and journey in a portrait-like concert led by Antoine Courvoisier. The first half honours works that shaped the quintet, blending major repertoire pages and emblematic pieces for brass. The second half plunges the audience into a cabaret world inspired by the Roaring Twenties, mixing energy, humour and theatricality. The programme is virtuosic and festive, rooted in collective joy and sharing, staged with careful mise-en-scène.
Frank Martin’s opera La Tempête, after Shakespeare with a libretto by August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Johann Ludwig Tieck, returns in a new French-language production. Conductor Thierry Fischer leads the score while director Netia Jones stages a striking conception that makes electricity the source of Prospero’s powers. The cast brings poetic intensity to the island’s drama—Miranda, Caliban and the spirit Ariel—blending vocal nuance, atmospheric design and inventive staging to revisit exile, magic and reconciliation.
In French.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
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.
Opening the season, the Peace Philharmonic joins pianist and conductor Nikolay Khozyainov for an evening devoted to Mozart. Khozyainov’s virtuosic touch illuminates the drama and lyricism of the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, while the orchestra delivers the grandeur and contrapuntal brilliance of the Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’. The programme balances intimacy and orchestral power, offering refined phrasing, transparent textures and radiant elegance that bring Mozart’s expressive contrasts to life.
FURTHER AFIELD
Directed by Jean‑François Sivadier, this blistering staging of Thomas Bernhard’s Maître dissects a privileged couple’s corrosive vanity and the ideological masks that sustain them. The production balances bitter comedy and dark drama, driven by a terse, language-centred aesthetic and an intense ensemble: Nicolas Bouchaud, Norah Krief, Frédéric Noaille, Juliette Bialek and Valérie de Champchesnel. The staging foregrounds verbal rhythm and theatrical momentum to unsettle and provoke reflection.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
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.
Claire Guanella presents a series of works titled Getting Robotic that anchors her practice in filiation and networks. Using a metaphor rich in polysemy, the works examine our real connections, sustaining living memory and an attentive regard for the always-terrestrial roots of technological transformation. The exhibition considers the interplay between inheritance, collective memory and invention, prompting reflection on how human ties and grounded origins shape our evolving relations with machines.
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
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