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Directed by Gilles Guénat and written by Roxane Gray, The Wall is a dance-theatre piece that immerses audiences in a musical and choreographic tapestry around the history of the Berlin Wall. Choreographies by Fabrice Martin, Sabine Gross-Collé, Gilles Guénat and Anthony Despras shape a fluid dialogue between a woman and a man, where the personal and the political intertwine. A company of around ten artists navigates intimate gestures and collective movements, evoking memory, rupture and resilient lyricism.
Revealed in 2009 by the hit « Like a Hobo », Charlie Winston, the most francophile of British singers, presents a unique solo acoustic evening. After seventeen years with his band he strips his songs back, offering intimate, raw and tender interpretations of his best-known tracks alongside rare or never-before-played pieces and songs from his sixth album Love Ain’t Easy. The performance balances emotion and surprise, with spontaneous interactions and a contagious energy that brings the artist close to his audience.
Fenêtres sur le Japon gathers two rarely seen Japanese films in a programme that privileges attentive viewing and critical exchange. The screenings foreground intimate storytelling and formal rigour, tracing themes of memory, return and the resonant presence of voice. Each projection is followed by a discussion with specialists, situating the works within cinematic history and contemporary scholarship and inviting a reflective encounter with images, sound and cultural memory.
Paolo Bartolomeo presents a lecture on the links between brain activity, attention and consciousness. Drawing on clinical observations and experimental neuroscience, the talk examines the role of large-scale brain networks, the contributions of both cerebral hemispheres and the main theories of consciousness, evaluating their insights and limitations. The session aims to clarify how neural mechanisms relate to conscious experience and to highlight open questions for research and clinical practice.
In French.
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.
Explore spooky, playful adventures at Hallomania, a Halloween festival designed for families. Children will hunt for treats, solve mystery games, join guided night walks, take part in hands-on workshops, taste seasonal treats, and enjoy themed evenings. Activities combine storytelling, crafts, movement and sensory surprises to spark imagination and cooperative play. The programme encourages creativity, curiosity and shared discovery across a variety of family-friendly formats.
Nicolas Bucher, director of the OCG, brings expertise in programming and performance of orchestral and choral repertoire, drawing on his professional role to situate requiem works in historical and musical contexts.
This lecture examines the theme of death in classical music, focusing on Brahms’s German Requiem and other mass settings. Bucher examines compositional language, textual choices, and liturgical traditions to reveal how requiems negotiate grief, consolation and memory, and what these works tell us about changing attitudes toward death in Western music.
In French.
Directed by Gilles Guénat and written by Roxane Gray, The Wall is a dance-theatre piece that immerses audiences in a musical and choreographic tapestry around the history of the Berlin Wall. Choreographies by Fabrice Martin, Sabine Gross-Collé, Gilles Guénat and Anthony Despras shape a fluid dialogue between a woman and a man, where the personal and the political intertwine. A company of around ten artists navigates intimate gestures and collective movements, evoking memory, rupture and resilient lyricism.
Revealed in 2009 by the hit « Like a Hobo », Charlie Winston, the most francophile of British singers, presents a unique solo acoustic evening. After seventeen years with his band he strips his songs back, offering intimate, raw and tender interpretations of his best-known tracks alongside rare or never-before-played pieces and songs from his sixth album Love Ain’t Easy. The performance balances emotion and surprise, with spontaneous interactions and a contagious energy that brings the artist close to his audience.
Fenêtres sur le Japon gathers two rarely seen Japanese films in a programme that privileges attentive viewing and critical exchange. The screenings foreground intimate storytelling and formal rigour, tracing themes of memory, return and the resonant presence of voice. Each projection is followed by a discussion with specialists, situating the works within cinematic history and contemporary scholarship and inviting a reflective encounter with images, sound and cultural memory.
Paolo Bartolomeo presents a lecture on the links between brain activity, attention and consciousness. Drawing on clinical observations and experimental neuroscience, the talk examines the role of large-scale brain networks, the contributions of both cerebral hemispheres and the main theories of consciousness, evaluating their insights and limitations. The session aims to clarify how neural mechanisms relate to conscious experience and to highlight open questions for research and clinical practice.
In French.
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.
Explore spooky, playful adventures at Hallomania, a Halloween festival designed for families. Children will hunt for treats, solve mystery games, join guided night walks, take part in hands-on workshops, taste seasonal treats, and enjoy themed evenings. Activities combine storytelling, crafts, movement and sensory surprises to spark imagination and cooperative play. The programme encourages creativity, curiosity and shared discovery across a variety of family-friendly formats.
Nicolas Bucher, director of the OCG, brings expertise in programming and performance of orchestral and choral repertoire, drawing on his professional role to situate requiem works in historical and musical contexts.
This lecture examines the theme of death in classical music, focusing on Brahms’s German Requiem and other mass settings. Bucher examines compositional language, textual choices, and liturgical traditions to reveal how requiems negotiate grief, consolation and memory, and what these works tell us about changing attitudes toward death in Western music.
In French.
Directed by Gilles Guénat and written by Roxane Gray, The Wall is a dance-theatre piece that immerses audiences in a musical and choreographic tapestry around the history of the Berlin Wall. Choreographies by Fabrice Martin, Sabine Gross-Collé, Gilles Guénat and Anthony Despras shape a fluid dialogue between a woman and a man, where the personal and the political intertwine. A company of around ten artists navigates intimate gestures and collective movements, evoking memory, rupture and resilient lyricism.
Revealed in 2009 by the hit « Like a Hobo », Charlie Winston, the most francophile of British singers, presents a unique solo acoustic evening. After seventeen years with his band he strips his songs back, offering intimate, raw and tender interpretations of his best-known tracks alongside rare or never-before-played pieces and songs from his sixth album Love Ain’t Easy. The performance balances emotion and surprise, with spontaneous interactions and a contagious energy that brings the artist close to his audience.
Fenêtres sur le Japon gathers two rarely seen Japanese films in a programme that privileges attentive viewing and critical exchange. The screenings foreground intimate storytelling and formal rigour, tracing themes of memory, return and the resonant presence of voice. Each projection is followed by a discussion with specialists, situating the works within cinematic history and contemporary scholarship and inviting a reflective encounter with images, sound and cultural memory.
Paolo Bartolomeo presents a lecture on the links between brain activity, attention and consciousness. Drawing on clinical observations and experimental neuroscience, the talk examines the role of large-scale brain networks, the contributions of both cerebral hemispheres and the main theories of consciousness, evaluating their insights and limitations. The session aims to clarify how neural mechanisms relate to conscious experience and to highlight open questions for research and clinical practice.
In French.
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.
Explore spooky, playful adventures at Hallomania, a Halloween festival designed for families. Children will hunt for treats, solve mystery games, join guided night walks, take part in hands-on workshops, taste seasonal treats, and enjoy themed evenings. Activities combine storytelling, crafts, movement and sensory surprises to spark imagination and cooperative play. The programme encourages creativity, curiosity and shared discovery across a variety of family-friendly formats.
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
Comedian and actor Justine Le Pottier recounts her life on stage in a wry, intimate solo show. She navigates the upheaval of moving to Paris, drama school trials, misfired auditions, and the early YouTube boom with candid humour and vivid anecdotes. Interwoven are personal stories about relationships, her dog and an unexpected encounter with a Formula One driver, creating a blend of confessional storytelling and sharp observational comedy.
In French.
Emergentia 2027 brings together the next generation of choreographers from Geneva and beyond in a two‑week festival of new performance and research. Conceived and produced by three Geneva organizations, the program juxtaposes site-specific creations, international residencies, open studios revealing works-in-progress, and embodied workshops and conversations. Performances feature artists such as Isam Abad Montalvo, Sami Lea Samira Bernath, Oscar M. Damianaki, Efthimios Moschopoulos and Soraya Leila Emery, alongside collaborative projects and emerging voices.
With PavillonADC & TU-Théâtre de L’Usine.
POSITIV comes to Geneva for a specially curated edition, assembling Paul Kalkbrenner, Mind Against, Nicolas Cuer and La Forêt among its lineup. The night is conceived as an immersive world: a monumental strip of staged areas hosts performances, roaming artists, installations, rides and food corners. The production by Village du Soir foregrounds spectacular scenography, marrying pulsing electronic sound with shifting light and visual design to create a disorienting, celebratory atmosphere that lingers beyond the music.
Join us for a community Halloween night celebrating Afro sounds, dance, and shared energy. Everyone is welcome to come dressed up, enjoy the costume contest, and move together to a lineup of Afro, shatta, dancehall, bouyon, amapiano, and kuduro rhythms. It is a night for meeting new people, celebrating different cultures, and enjoying an inclusive dancefloor where everyone can feel at ease, have fun, and be themselves in a respectful atmosphere.
An intimate atelier-concert exploring the poetic voices in György Ligeti’s music and the verses of Sándor Weöres. Program includes Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel for mezzo-soprano with four percussionists and 3 Chants de Weöres for soprano and piano, framed by commentary from William Blank and Fruzsina Szuromi. Performances by Eudoxie Mottironi, Borbála and Fruzsina Szuromi, percussion students of the HEM (class of Philippe Spiesser) and Laurence Mekhitarian, offering a vivid, chamber-scale insight into textural and timbral contrasts.
Led by Ahmed Madani and a troupe of young performers, this vibrant, joyful performance gathers choir, intimate video narratives, dance, live music and the sonic textures of protests in an interactive agora. The staging blends collective singing, personal testimony and physical theatre to explore youth engagement, solidarity and the emergence of shared pathways. The piece is electrifying and tender, inviting audiences into an energetic communal experience.
In French.
Nicolas Bucher, director of the OCG, brings expertise in programming and performance of orchestral and choral repertoire, drawing on his professional role to situate requiem works in historical and musical contexts.
This lecture examines the theme of death in classical music, focusing on Brahms’s German Requiem and other mass settings. Bucher examines compositional language, textual choices, and liturgical traditions to reveal how requiems negotiate grief, consolation and memory, and what these works tell us about changing attitudes toward death in Western music.
In French.
Directed by Gilles Guénat and written by Roxane Gray, The Wall is a dance-theatre piece that immerses audiences in a musical and choreographic tapestry around the history of the Berlin Wall. Choreographies by Fabrice Martin, Sabine Gross-Collé, Gilles Guénat and Anthony Despras shape a fluid dialogue between a woman and a man, where the personal and the political intertwine. A company of around ten artists navigates intimate gestures and collective movements, evoking memory, rupture and resilient lyricism.
Revealed in 2009 by the hit « Like a Hobo », Charlie Winston, the most francophile of British singers, presents a unique solo acoustic evening. After seventeen years with his band he strips his songs back, offering intimate, raw and tender interpretations of his best-known tracks alongside rare or never-before-played pieces and songs from his sixth album Love Ain’t Easy. The performance balances emotion and surprise, with spontaneous interactions and a contagious energy that brings the artist close to his audience.
Fenêtres sur le Japon gathers two rarely seen Japanese films in a programme that privileges attentive viewing and critical exchange. The screenings foreground intimate storytelling and formal rigour, tracing themes of memory, return and the resonant presence of voice. Each projection is followed by a discussion with specialists, situating the works within cinematic history and contemporary scholarship and inviting a reflective encounter with images, sound and cultural memory.
Paolo Bartolomeo presents a lecture on the links between brain activity, attention and consciousness. Drawing on clinical observations and experimental neuroscience, the talk examines the role of large-scale brain networks, the contributions of both cerebral hemispheres and the main theories of consciousness, evaluating their insights and limitations. The session aims to clarify how neural mechanisms relate to conscious experience and to highlight open questions for research and clinical practice.
In French.
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.
Explore spooky, playful adventures at Hallomania, a Halloween festival designed for families. Children will hunt for treats, solve mystery games, join guided night walks, take part in hands-on workshops, taste seasonal treats, and enjoy themed evenings. Activities combine storytelling, crafts, movement and sensory surprises to spark imagination and cooperative play. The programme encourages creativity, curiosity and shared discovery across a variety of family-friendly formats.
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An intimate museum in the heart of Geneva, the Musée Tatiana Zoubov presents the refined collection assembled by its namesake collector. Paintings, furniture, porcelain, silverware and decorative objects evoke the atmosphere of a private European collection, offering a glimpse into the tastes and art of living of another era.
In the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the International Museum of the Reformation traces the history and legacy of the Protestant Reformation from the 16th century to the present day. Historical objects, artworks and immersive displays explore a movement that profoundly shaped Geneva and influenced societies around the world.
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