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Sir András Schiff and Evgeny Kissin join at the piano for an intimate programme of pieces for two pianos and four hands. They perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major, KV 448, Schumann’s Andante and Variations, op. 46, and Bilder aus Osten, Smetana’s La Moldau in the four‑hand arrangement, plus selected Dvořák Slavonic Dances. The recital balances classical clarity with Romantic depth, highlighting refined ensemble interplay and the contrasting voices of two towering virtuosos.
Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.
In French.
Gather colorful autumn leaves and explore them up close in a hands-on workshop. Listen to crunching steps, compare shapes and textures, and try to identify where leaves come from. Children will press and arrange specimens to make a simple herbarium and create leaf crafts with paints and pencils. The activity encourages careful observation, creativity, and a love of the outdoors through sensory play with colors, rustling sounds, and soft, papery leaves.
Kids ages from 6 to 13.
Footnotes is a Geneva-based journal devoted to typography and type design, published in English by La Police and printed in Geneva. This launch celebrates its new issue, Footnotes F, with a visual and sonic lecture by Francis Baudevin. He examines the typography of selected albums, exploring how letterforms contribute to the visual identity of music. The programme continues with a record set by Maud Pollien, bringing together sound and graphic culture.
Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.
Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00
Jean Bapteur est documenté de 1423 à 1458–1459 comme peintre établi à Genève, où il tient une place majeure dans le réseau local tout en travaillant pour la cour des ducs de Savoie, entre Chambéry et les résidences lémaniques de Thonon et de Ripaille. Redécouverte à la fin du XIXe siècle et reconstituée au cours du XXe siècle, sa production ne se limite pas à l’enluminure de manuscrits prestigieux — l’Apocalypse de l’Escorial, les Heures de Saluces — ni au singulier tableau de la Crucifixion de Turin. Elle passe aussi par d’autres techniques, du textile au cuir, et par la supervision de grands chantiers de peinture murale. L’ouvrage d’Alix Buisseret reconstruit le parcours du peintre et le replace dans la production genevoise et savoyarde de son temps. Il constitue le huitième volume de la collection des Ressuscités de l’histoire de l’art, issue du programme genevois Peindre en France à la Renaissance.
Directed by Gabriel Sparti, Menace Chorale follows an amateur town choir drawn into a tightening ideological mechanism under a charismatic new conductor. The piece uses vocal textures and staged rehearsals to contrast luminous harmonies with the unsettling meanings behind their repertoire, sketching a miniature society where desire, ambition and collective pressure calcify into authoritarian dynamics. Through subtle disruptions, layered readings and meticulous sound and lighting textures, the production feels at once funny, eerie and incisively political.
In French.
Sir András Schiff and Evgeny Kissin join at the piano for an intimate programme of pieces for two pianos and four hands. They perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major, KV 448, Schumann’s Andante and Variations, op. 46, and Bilder aus Osten, Smetana’s La Moldau in the four‑hand arrangement, plus selected Dvořák Slavonic Dances. The recital balances classical clarity with Romantic depth, highlighting refined ensemble interplay and the contrasting voices of two towering virtuosos.
Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.
In French.
Gather colorful autumn leaves and explore them up close in a hands-on workshop. Listen to crunching steps, compare shapes and textures, and try to identify where leaves come from. Children will press and arrange specimens to make a simple herbarium and create leaf crafts with paints and pencils. The activity encourages careful observation, creativity, and a love of the outdoors through sensory play with colors, rustling sounds, and soft, papery leaves.
Kids ages from 6 to 13.
Footnotes is a Geneva-based journal devoted to typography and type design, published in English by La Police and printed in Geneva. This launch celebrates its new issue, Footnotes F, with a visual and sonic lecture by Francis Baudevin. He examines the typography of selected albums, exploring how letterforms contribute to the visual identity of music. The programme continues with a record set by Maud Pollien, bringing together sound and graphic culture.
Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.
Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00
Jean Bapteur est documenté de 1423 à 1458–1459 comme peintre établi à Genève, où il tient une place majeure dans le réseau local tout en travaillant pour la cour des ducs de Savoie, entre Chambéry et les résidences lémaniques de Thonon et de Ripaille. Redécouverte à la fin du XIXe siècle et reconstituée au cours du XXe siècle, sa production ne se limite pas à l’enluminure de manuscrits prestigieux — l’Apocalypse de l’Escorial, les Heures de Saluces — ni au singulier tableau de la Crucifixion de Turin. Elle passe aussi par d’autres techniques, du textile au cuir, et par la supervision de grands chantiers de peinture murale. L’ouvrage d’Alix Buisseret reconstruit le parcours du peintre et le replace dans la production genevoise et savoyarde de son temps. Il constitue le huitième volume de la collection des Ressuscités de l’histoire de l’art, issue du programme genevois Peindre en France à la Renaissance.
Directed by Gabriel Sparti, Menace Chorale follows an amateur town choir drawn into a tightening ideological mechanism under a charismatic new conductor. The piece uses vocal textures and staged rehearsals to contrast luminous harmonies with the unsettling meanings behind their repertoire, sketching a miniature society where desire, ambition and collective pressure calcify into authoritarian dynamics. Through subtle disruptions, layered readings and meticulous sound and lighting textures, the production feels at once funny, eerie and incisively political.
In French.
Sir András Schiff and Evgeny Kissin join at the piano for an intimate programme of pieces for two pianos and four hands. They perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major, KV 448, Schumann’s Andante and Variations, op. 46, and Bilder aus Osten, Smetana’s La Moldau in the four‑hand arrangement, plus selected Dvořák Slavonic Dances. The recital balances classical clarity with Romantic depth, highlighting refined ensemble interplay and the contrasting voices of two towering virtuosos.
Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.
In French.
Gather colorful autumn leaves and explore them up close in a hands-on workshop. Listen to crunching steps, compare shapes and textures, and try to identify where leaves come from. Children will press and arrange specimens to make a simple herbarium and create leaf crafts with paints and pencils. The activity encourages careful observation, creativity, and a love of the outdoors through sensory play with colors, rustling sounds, and soft, papery leaves.
Kids ages from 6 to 13.
Footnotes is a Geneva-based journal devoted to typography and type design, published in English by La Police and printed in Geneva. This launch celebrates its new issue, Footnotes F, with a visual and sonic lecture by Francis Baudevin. He examines the typography of selected albums, exploring how letterforms contribute to the visual identity of music. The programme continues with a record set by Maud Pollien, bringing together sound and graphic culture.
Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.
Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00
Jean Bapteur est documenté de 1423 à 1458–1459 comme peintre établi à Genève, où il tient une place majeure dans le réseau local tout en travaillant pour la cour des ducs de Savoie, entre Chambéry et les résidences lémaniques de Thonon et de Ripaille. Redécouverte à la fin du XIXe siècle et reconstituée au cours du XXe siècle, sa production ne se limite pas à l’enluminure de manuscrits prestigieux — l’Apocalypse de l’Escorial, les Heures de Saluces — ni au singulier tableau de la Crucifixion de Turin. Elle passe aussi par d’autres techniques, du textile au cuir, et par la supervision de grands chantiers de peinture murale. L’ouvrage d’Alix Buisseret reconstruit le parcours du peintre et le replace dans la production genevoise et savoyarde de son temps. Il constitue le huitième volume de la collection des Ressuscités de l’histoire de l’art, issue du programme genevois Peindre en France à la Renaissance.
Wright Colloquium 2026 brings together interdisciplinary inquiry to rethink what we call intelligence. The program examines intelligence across scales — from artificial systems and ant colonies to neurons and engrams — and considers cognitive, neurological and philosophical perspectives. Participants will explore how different forms of intelligence shape societies, knowledge and our worldviews, with discussions, panels and workshops aimed at advancing conceptual and practical understanding.
In French and in English.
An evocative staged reading of excerpts from Murielle Szac’s serialized retellings of Greek mythology, performed by Katerina Apostolopoulou with musical accompaniment by Noëlle Reymond on double bass. Projected images drawn from the books accompany the narration, creating a vivid visual and sonic atmosphere. The programme highlights Le feuilleton d’Artémis and blends storytelling, music and illustration to introduce mythic tales to young and adult audiences.
In French.
Pillowgraphies answers a yearning for lightness. It attempts to escape gravity and unfold a dance in which the body dissolves into a soft, buoyant figure — a ghost. The performance plunges into a nocturnal, joyful world where floating replaces walking, sliding becomes movement and walking turns absurd. The company invites playful participation after the show, opening the stage for collective dancing and shared, exuberant moments.
In French.
Centred on Sami Bernath’s embodied memories, this performance mixes Swiss popular songs, rhythmic gestures and the traditional Löffelä spoon percussion to transform everyday motions into sound. Through repetition, deformation and rhythmic saturation, familiar motifs become permeable, revealing buried and repressed memories beneath the Swiss mountains. The staging is intimate and ritualistic, alternating fragile vocal fragments and percussive textures to probe memory and collective inheritance.
In French.
Directed by Eléonore Bonah and staged by scenographer Maria Clara Castioni, CHRÜSIMÜSI transforms Adelheid Duvanel’s terse, poetic fragments into a multilingual theatrical tapestry. Performers Eléonore Bonah and Maria Clara Castioni inhabit hypersensitive, marginal characters whose everyday gestures oscillate between absurdity and tenderness. Sparse staging and a careful interplay of voice and silence highlight Duvanel’s Kafkaesque intimacy, while language shifts (French, German, Italian) create a fragile, dreamlike atmosphere that balances humour and quiet despair, celebrating stubborn acts of resistance.
With a beguiling blend of electronics, art pop, saudade and Latin alternative rock, Ão has become one of Belgium’s most vibrant acts. Rooted in Mozambican and Portuguese heritage, vocalist Brenda Corijn sings in Portuguese and English with a warm, magnetic tone, supported by Siebe Chau’s guitar, Jolan Decaestecker’s electronics and Bert Peyffers’ percussion. Their new album Malandra deepens their sound with greater rhythm and rougher textures, brought to life in dynamic live performances.
An evening in three parts showcasing emerging jazz and electro-acoustic projects. Louis Billette’s 6tet plays generous, jubilant and comforting modern jazz with a pronounced groove. Mohs, featuring Fanny Martin, blends acoustic instruments and electronic effects to shape powerful, luminous soundscapes. Arthur Hnatek, joined by Sophie Le Meillour, unfolds an audiovisual set that oscillates between electronic music, contemporary drumming, improvisation and club-like energy.
Directed by Gabriel Sparti, Menace Chorale follows an amateur town choir drawn into a tightening ideological mechanism under a charismatic new conductor. The piece uses vocal textures and staged rehearsals to contrast luminous harmonies with the unsettling meanings behind their repertoire, sketching a miniature society where desire, ambition and collective pressure calcify into authoritarian dynamics. Through subtle disruptions, layered readings and meticulous sound and lighting textures, the production feels at once funny, eerie and incisively political.
In French.
Sir András Schiff and Evgeny Kissin join at the piano for an intimate programme of pieces for two pianos and four hands. They perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major, KV 448, Schumann’s Andante and Variations, op. 46, and Bilder aus Osten, Smetana’s La Moldau in the four‑hand arrangement, plus selected Dvořák Slavonic Dances. The recital balances classical clarity with Romantic depth, highlighting refined ensemble interplay and the contrasting voices of two towering virtuosos.
Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.
In French.
Gather colorful autumn leaves and explore them up close in a hands-on workshop. Listen to crunching steps, compare shapes and textures, and try to identify where leaves come from. Children will press and arrange specimens to make a simple herbarium and create leaf crafts with paints and pencils. The activity encourages careful observation, creativity, and a love of the outdoors through sensory play with colors, rustling sounds, and soft, papery leaves.
Kids ages from 6 to 13.
Footnotes is a Geneva-based journal devoted to typography and type design, published in English by La Police and printed in Geneva. This launch celebrates its new issue, Footnotes F, with a visual and sonic lecture by Francis Baudevin. He examines the typography of selected albums, exploring how letterforms contribute to the visual identity of music. The programme continues with a record set by Maud Pollien, bringing together sound and graphic culture.
Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.
Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00
Jean Bapteur est documenté de 1423 à 1458–1459 comme peintre établi à Genève, où il tient une place majeure dans le réseau local tout en travaillant pour la cour des ducs de Savoie, entre Chambéry et les résidences lémaniques de Thonon et de Ripaille. Redécouverte à la fin du XIXe siècle et reconstituée au cours du XXe siècle, sa production ne se limite pas à l’enluminure de manuscrits prestigieux — l’Apocalypse de l’Escorial, les Heures de Saluces — ni au singulier tableau de la Crucifixion de Turin. Elle passe aussi par d’autres techniques, du textile au cuir, et par la supervision de grands chantiers de peinture murale. L’ouvrage d’Alix Buisseret reconstruit le parcours du peintre et le replace dans la production genevoise et savoyarde de son temps. Il constitue le huitième volume de la collection des Ressuscités de l’histoire de l’art, issue du programme genevois Peindre en France à la Renaissance.
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