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Variations Musicales de Tannay presents a ten-day classical music festival offering a series of tented concerts featuring invited soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestral projects and family-friendly performances. Programmes range from intimate recitals and chamber music to larger ensemble and orchestral works, with one free family concert aimed at young audiences. Concerts are staged regardless of weather, and the festival emphasizes artistic variety, lyrical expression and accessible programming that invites listeners of all ages into the world of classical music.
Thirty days of walking across Scotland: two longtime friends trek six hundred kilometres through the Scottish Highlands to reconnect with each other, renew their bond with nature and recover parts of themselves they had lost. Shot in expansive, luminous landscapes and driven by subtle, naturalistic performances, the film offers a careful, contemplative portrait of time’s passage, friendship and the small, telling details of everyday life. A meditative road movie that privileges atmosphere, silence and quiet emotional shifts.
This original comedy piece by Compagnie Tandem brings together performers Aurélia Loriol, Elie Souarit and Emile Rock after a year of collaborative writing and ensemble rehearsal. Drawing on crossed authorship and collective improvisation, the trio opens a chamber-like world of obsessions and playful surrealities, stretching short sketches into twenty-minute scenes that explore intimacy, identity and scale. The staging favours tight ensemble work and rapid shifts in tone, balancing sharp wit with human vulnerability.
In French.
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
Curated by the collective L.E.M.M.O.N., this immersive listening salon presents a programme of electroacoustic and experimental pieces staged on a dedicated sound platform. The collective and its Laboratoire d’Expérimentation Musique et Mapping Organique et Numérique explore spatialised textures, timbral detail and subtle mapping of acoustic space. The event foregrounds attentive listening, collaborative curation and local artistic practice, offering an intimate, sensory experience that blurs boundaries between performance, installation and communal listening.
In French.
Variations Musicales de Tannay presents a ten-day classical music festival offering a series of tented concerts featuring invited soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestral projects and family-friendly performances. Programmes range from intimate recitals and chamber music to larger ensemble and orchestral works, with one free family concert aimed at young audiences. Concerts are staged regardless of weather, and the festival emphasizes artistic variety, lyrical expression and accessible programming that invites listeners of all ages into the world of classical music.
Thirty days of walking across Scotland: two longtime friends trek six hundred kilometres through the Scottish Highlands to reconnect with each other, renew their bond with nature and recover parts of themselves they had lost. Shot in expansive, luminous landscapes and driven by subtle, naturalistic performances, the film offers a careful, contemplative portrait of time’s passage, friendship and the small, telling details of everyday life. A meditative road movie that privileges atmosphere, silence and quiet emotional shifts.
This original comedy piece by Compagnie Tandem brings together performers Aurélia Loriol, Elie Souarit and Emile Rock after a year of collaborative writing and ensemble rehearsal. Drawing on crossed authorship and collective improvisation, the trio opens a chamber-like world of obsessions and playful surrealities, stretching short sketches into twenty-minute scenes that explore intimacy, identity and scale. The staging favours tight ensemble work and rapid shifts in tone, balancing sharp wit with human vulnerability.
In French.
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
Curated by the collective L.E.M.M.O.N., this immersive listening salon presents a programme of electroacoustic and experimental pieces staged on a dedicated sound platform. The collective and its Laboratoire d’Expérimentation Musique et Mapping Organique et Numérique explore spatialised textures, timbral detail and subtle mapping of acoustic space. The event foregrounds attentive listening, collaborative curation and local artistic practice, offering an intimate, sensory experience that blurs boundaries between performance, installation and communal listening.
In French.
Variations Musicales de Tannay presents a ten-day classical music festival offering a series of tented concerts featuring invited soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestral projects and family-friendly performances. Programmes range from intimate recitals and chamber music to larger ensemble and orchestral works, with one free family concert aimed at young audiences. Concerts are staged regardless of weather, and the festival emphasizes artistic variety, lyrical expression and accessible programming that invites listeners of all ages into the world of classical music.
Thirty days of walking across Scotland: two longtime friends trek six hundred kilometres through the Scottish Highlands to reconnect with each other, renew their bond with nature and recover parts of themselves they had lost. Shot in expansive, luminous landscapes and driven by subtle, naturalistic performances, the film offers a careful, contemplative portrait of time’s passage, friendship and the small, telling details of everyday life. A meditative road movie that privileges atmosphere, silence and quiet emotional shifts.
This original comedy piece by Compagnie Tandem brings together performers Aurélia Loriol, Elie Souarit and Emile Rock after a year of collaborative writing and ensemble rehearsal. Drawing on crossed authorship and collective improvisation, the trio opens a chamber-like world of obsessions and playful surrealities, stretching short sketches into twenty-minute scenes that explore intimacy, identity and scale. The staging favours tight ensemble work and rapid shifts in tone, balancing sharp wit with human vulnerability.
In French.
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
Directed by Thierry Piguet, La Colère du Tigre explores the deep friendship between Georges Clemenceau and Claude Monet, framing their complex bond and the gesture behind the Nymphéas. Performed amid impressionist paintings, the intimate staging relies on a small ensemble — Jean Pierre Gos, Daniel Nasr, Caroline Cons and Sonia Müller — whose precise acting balances wit and tenderness, drawing the audience into a meditative, often comic portrait of artistic loyalty.
In French.
Mitsune brings together four musicians wielding the shamisen, blending ancient Japanese folk song with psychedelic textures and rock energy. Powerful vocals, near-ritual rhythms and vivid arrangements transform traditional narratives into a contemporary sonic ritual. Based in Berlin and composed of artists from several countries, the ensemble circulates Japanese traditions through an amplified, visually charged sound. Line-up: Shiomi Kawaguchi (shamisen, shinobue, voice), Youka Snell (shamisen, voice), Daigo Nakai (bass, voice), Petros Tzekos (percussion).
Join the organising team for a warm season-opening celebration welcoming everyone in the community. The evening features presentations of the year’s programme, a shared apéro, musical surprises from the Duo N’imPorte Quoi and a hip-hop dance piece, “On Joue Ensemble” by Rafael Smadja. Families, neighbours and newcomers can meet the artists, discover upcoming shows and enjoy convivial moments together. The gathering invites connection, conversation and collective celebration of the season ahead.
Acid Coco blends Caribbean rhythms and tropical Andean currents into a vibrant live set that crosses cumbia, champeta, reggaeton and electronic music. The group layers propulsive percussion, warm melodic lines and shimmering electronic textures to summon a festive yet nuanced sound world. The performance favours danceable grooves, call-and-response vocals and sudden dynamic shifts, moving between intimate, rhythmic passages and exuberant collective bursts that invite movement and shared celebration.
Festi’Terroir is a community food festival celebrating local producers and artisans. Everyone is welcome to meet farmers, artisans, restaurateurs and craft producers, taste regional specialties, and discover sustainable food traditions. Together we share stories, sample products, and support local craftsmanship in a friendly, inclusive atmosphere. Participants will leave with new connections, a deeper appreciation of local flavours, and inspiration to explore Geneva’s culinary heritage.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
J-Pat is a likable schlaps in this one-man show that blends humour and lightness. Written by Blaise Granget and Marc Zucchello and directed by Marc Zucchello, the performance features Blaise Granget and Damien Naïmi. Through virtuosic violin, rap and a taste for fine cars, the character oscillates between erudition and pop culture—from Seneca to Frida Kahlo and Frozen—building sharp social observations and personal struggles.
In French.
Curated by the collective L.E.M.M.O.N., this immersive listening salon presents a programme of electroacoustic and experimental pieces staged on a dedicated sound platform. The collective and its Laboratoire d’Expérimentation Musique et Mapping Organique et Numérique explore spatialised textures, timbral detail and subtle mapping of acoustic space. The event foregrounds attentive listening, collaborative curation and local artistic practice, offering an intimate, sensory experience that blurs boundaries between performance, installation and communal listening.
In French.
Variations Musicales de Tannay presents a ten-day classical music festival offering a series of tented concerts featuring invited soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestral projects and family-friendly performances. Programmes range from intimate recitals and chamber music to larger ensemble and orchestral works, with one free family concert aimed at young audiences. Concerts are staged regardless of weather, and the festival emphasizes artistic variety, lyrical expression and accessible programming that invites listeners of all ages into the world of classical music.
Thirty days of walking across Scotland: two longtime friends trek six hundred kilometres through the Scottish Highlands to reconnect with each other, renew their bond with nature and recover parts of themselves they had lost. Shot in expansive, luminous landscapes and driven by subtle, naturalistic performances, the film offers a careful, contemplative portrait of time’s passage, friendship and the small, telling details of everyday life. A meditative road movie that privileges atmosphere, silence and quiet emotional shifts.
This original comedy piece by Compagnie Tandem brings together performers Aurélia Loriol, Elie Souarit and Emile Rock after a year of collaborative writing and ensemble rehearsal. Drawing on crossed authorship and collective improvisation, the trio opens a chamber-like world of obsessions and playful surrealities, stretching short sketches into twenty-minute scenes that explore intimacy, identity and scale. The staging favours tight ensemble work and rapid shifts in tone, balancing sharp wit with human vulnerability.
In French.
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
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