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Follow a farm full of surprises, a zebra that changes its stripes, a big-mouthed frog, and mischievous bats. These animated short films open a playful world of fantasy, humour, and poetry. Children and grown-ups can discover seven inventive women filmmakers and enjoy 50 minutes of colourful storytelling, lively images, and curious characters that spark imagination.
In English. Kids ages 5 and up.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Presented in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Concours de Genève, this cycle highlights emerging composers and conductors in a series of high-level performances. Candidates present new works and conduct symphonic programmes, forging a direct dialogue with the orchestra and showcasing contemporary compositional voices alongside established repertoire. The events emphasize craft, mentorship and concentrated insight into compositional technique and conducting interpretation.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Caroline Guignard, deputy curator for graphic arts and precious books at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, and a specialist in Hodler’s graphic work, presents the artist through his 241 notebooks of notes and sketches. Conserved at the MAH, these intimate documents shed light on Hodler’s daily sources of inspiration, his life, and his thought. The lecture also examines his relationship to religion and spirituality, offering a closer look at the inner world behind the work.
In French.
Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
Follow a gentle story that turns an ordinary walk into a shared adventure. As the tale unfolds, children discover how friendship can grow step by step. After the story, they can dive into a small workshop and make their own creation, using imagination, color, and simple materials. It is a cosy mix of listening, exploring, and making, with a calm rhythm that invites young minds to dream.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Follow a farm full of surprises, a zebra that changes its stripes, a big-mouthed frog, and mischievous bats. These animated short films open a playful world of fantasy, humour, and poetry. Children and grown-ups can discover seven inventive women filmmakers and enjoy 50 minutes of colourful storytelling, lively images, and curious characters that spark imagination.
In English. Kids ages 5 and up.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Presented in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Concours de Genève, this cycle highlights emerging composers and conductors in a series of high-level performances. Candidates present new works and conduct symphonic programmes, forging a direct dialogue with the orchestra and showcasing contemporary compositional voices alongside established repertoire. The events emphasize craft, mentorship and concentrated insight into compositional technique and conducting interpretation.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Caroline Guignard, deputy curator for graphic arts and precious books at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, and a specialist in Hodler’s graphic work, presents the artist through his 241 notebooks of notes and sketches. Conserved at the MAH, these intimate documents shed light on Hodler’s daily sources of inspiration, his life, and his thought. The lecture also examines his relationship to religion and spirituality, offering a closer look at the inner world behind the work.
In French.
Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
Follow a gentle story that turns an ordinary walk into a shared adventure. As the tale unfolds, children discover how friendship can grow step by step. After the story, they can dive into a small workshop and make their own creation, using imagination, color, and simple materials. It is a cosy mix of listening, exploring, and making, with a calm rhythm that invites young minds to dream.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Follow a farm full of surprises, a zebra that changes its stripes, a big-mouthed frog, and mischievous bats. These animated short films open a playful world of fantasy, humour, and poetry. Children and grown-ups can discover seven inventive women filmmakers and enjoy 50 minutes of colourful storytelling, lively images, and curious characters that spark imagination.
In English. Kids ages 5 and up.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Presented in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Concours de Genève, this cycle highlights emerging composers and conductors in a series of high-level performances. Candidates present new works and conduct symphonic programmes, forging a direct dialogue with the orchestra and showcasing contemporary compositional voices alongside established repertoire. The events emphasize craft, mentorship and concentrated insight into compositional technique and conducting interpretation.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Caroline Guignard, deputy curator for graphic arts and precious books at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, and a specialist in Hodler’s graphic work, presents the artist through his 241 notebooks of notes and sketches. Conserved at the MAH, these intimate documents shed light on Hodler’s daily sources of inspiration, his life, and his thought. The lecture also examines his relationship to religion and spirituality, offering a closer look at the inner world behind the work.
In French.
Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Dominik Locher’s film arrives as a tense, quietly devastating portrait of power, labour, and attachment. Introduced by the director and the film’s team, it follows a woman working inside a world of privilege, where the polished surface of a famous ski resort hides intimate forms of inequality. Carried by Mercedes Cabral and Alexis Manenti, the story traces the invisible realities of domestic work, migration, and the desperate need to protect a fragile bond with a daughter.
Preview screening, with director Dominik Locher and the rest of the film crew in attendance.
Do you love birds, monkeys, lemurs, and raccoons? Come discover the animals of the park through playful games and curious observations. You’ll learn how to recognise their habits, whether they have fur or feathers, and may even get the chance to feed some of them. It’s a lively way to explore nature, ask questions, and get closer to the animals.
In French. Kids ages 6–12. Meeting point: Genève Gare Cornavin
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Jeremy Crausaz stages a comic yet tender portrait of family life, where laughter collides with reproach and joy sits beside quarrel. The piece moves between nostalgia, jealousy and small, fierce reconciliations; ruined desserts, heated conversations and offhand political arguments sketch a vivid domestic tableau. Intimate and sharply observed, the show examines how family ties persist despite awkwardness and unsaid affection.
In French.
Break dishes, then rebuild them into art. This creative workshop invites kids to explore shape, texture, and surprise as broken pieces meet new forms. They can test ideas, play with materials, and see how fragments can become something new. Inspired by kintsugi, it turns accidents into beauty and imagination into action.
Kids ages 8 and up, accompanied by an adult.
Join a warm, safe, secular and non-therapeutic meeting open to everyone, where we share experiences, emotions and needs with respectful, compassionate listening. Facilitated by Fabienne Regad, a companion for bereaved people, together with a cultural mediator, we create space to speak, be heard and connect. This gathering welcomes all who wish to reflect on loss, exchange stories, and find supportive company in a caring community.
Follow a gentle story that turns an ordinary walk into a shared adventure. As the tale unfolds, children discover how friendship can grow step by step. After the story, they can dive into a small workshop and make their own creation, using imagination, color, and simple materials. It is a cosy mix of listening, exploring, and making, with a calm rhythm that invites young minds to dream.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Follow a farm full of surprises, a zebra that changes its stripes, a big-mouthed frog, and mischievous bats. These animated short films open a playful world of fantasy, humour, and poetry. Children and grown-ups can discover seven inventive women filmmakers and enjoy 50 minutes of colourful storytelling, lively images, and curious characters that spark imagination.
In English. Kids ages 5 and up.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Presented in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Concours de Genève, this cycle highlights emerging composers and conductors in a series of high-level performances. Candidates present new works and conduct symphonic programmes, forging a direct dialogue with the orchestra and showcasing contemporary compositional voices alongside established repertoire. The events emphasize craft, mentorship and concentrated insight into compositional technique and conducting interpretation.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Caroline Guignard, deputy curator for graphic arts and precious books at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, and a specialist in Hodler’s graphic work, presents the artist through his 241 notebooks of notes and sketches. Conserved at the MAH, these intimate documents shed light on Hodler’s daily sources of inspiration, his life, and his thought. The lecture also examines his relationship to religion and spirituality, offering a closer look at the inner world behind the work.
In French.
Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
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