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Grand Juillet is an itinerant literary festival gathering Swiss and international writers for readings, thematic encounters, workshops and family events. Programming explores contemporary literature, narrative practice and community mediation through participatory walks, readings and creative workshops. Participants investigate forms of storytelling, exchange perspectives and discover practical approaches to writing and reading in public spaces. Sessions emphasize discussion, learning outcomes and cultural exchange, with formats suitable for adults and families.
Spiritual jazz pianist, improviser and musicologist Nduduzo Makhathini channels African spiritual traditions into a deeply immersive sonic ritual. Drawing on his Blue Note recordings and collaborations with figures such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, his repertoire — including the album uNomkhubulwane — weaves improvisation, ancestral cosmologies and the ritual power of sound into expansive, trance-like passages. The performance privileges intuition and communal resonance, inviting listeners into a liberating, meditative listening experience.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Summer! is a group exhibition that brings together artists whose work reflects the energy and atmosphere of summer. Through painting, sculpture and mixed media, the show explores light, movement, transformation and escape, offering varied interpretations of the season as both an experience and a state of mind. Featured artists include Marcella Barceló, Virginia Leonard, Koen Taselaar, Akiko Hirai, Jackie Mulder and Pernille Braun.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Join the community for an open‑air summer programme of free cultural and botanical activities in a beautiful alpine garden setting. Across the season, families and neighbours can take part in exhibitions, botanical and arts workshops for all ages, dance and yoga sessions, story readings and a mobile library. Activities invite hands-on discovery, shared learning and creative exchange — welcoming everyone to spend time together, explore nature and connect with neighbours.
What if words became a stage for expression, rhythm, and emotion? Between poetry, orality and freedom of expression, participants will be invited to play with words, rhymes and emotions through playful writing exercises, voice exploration, and the preparation of short texts to share on stage.
Booking via email: ecole@catalyse.ch
Grand Juillet is an itinerant literary festival gathering Swiss and international writers for readings, thematic encounters, workshops and family events. Programming explores contemporary literature, narrative practice and community mediation through participatory walks, readings and creative workshops. Participants investigate forms of storytelling, exchange perspectives and discover practical approaches to writing and reading in public spaces. Sessions emphasize discussion, learning outcomes and cultural exchange, with formats suitable for adults and families.
Spiritual jazz pianist, improviser and musicologist Nduduzo Makhathini channels African spiritual traditions into a deeply immersive sonic ritual. Drawing on his Blue Note recordings and collaborations with figures such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, his repertoire — including the album uNomkhubulwane — weaves improvisation, ancestral cosmologies and the ritual power of sound into expansive, trance-like passages. The performance privileges intuition and communal resonance, inviting listeners into a liberating, meditative listening experience.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Summer! is a group exhibition that brings together artists whose work reflects the energy and atmosphere of summer. Through painting, sculpture and mixed media, the show explores light, movement, transformation and escape, offering varied interpretations of the season as both an experience and a state of mind. Featured artists include Marcella Barceló, Virginia Leonard, Koen Taselaar, Akiko Hirai, Jackie Mulder and Pernille Braun.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Join the community for an open‑air summer programme of free cultural and botanical activities in a beautiful alpine garden setting. Across the season, families and neighbours can take part in exhibitions, botanical and arts workshops for all ages, dance and yoga sessions, story readings and a mobile library. Activities invite hands-on discovery, shared learning and creative exchange — welcoming everyone to spend time together, explore nature and connect with neighbours.
What if words became a stage for expression, rhythm, and emotion? Between poetry, orality and freedom of expression, participants will be invited to play with words, rhymes and emotions through playful writing exercises, voice exploration, and the preparation of short texts to share on stage.
Booking via email: ecole@catalyse.ch
Grand Juillet is an itinerant literary festival gathering Swiss and international writers for readings, thematic encounters, workshops and family events. Programming explores contemporary literature, narrative practice and community mediation through participatory walks, readings and creative workshops. Participants investigate forms of storytelling, exchange perspectives and discover practical approaches to writing and reading in public spaces. Sessions emphasize discussion, learning outcomes and cultural exchange, with formats suitable for adults and families.
Spiritual jazz pianist, improviser and musicologist Nduduzo Makhathini channels African spiritual traditions into a deeply immersive sonic ritual. Drawing on his Blue Note recordings and collaborations with figures such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, his repertoire — including the album uNomkhubulwane — weaves improvisation, ancestral cosmologies and the ritual power of sound into expansive, trance-like passages. The performance privileges intuition and communal resonance, inviting listeners into a liberating, meditative listening experience.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Summer! is a group exhibition that brings together artists whose work reflects the energy and atmosphere of summer. Through painting, sculpture and mixed media, the show explores light, movement, transformation and escape, offering varied interpretations of the season as both an experience and a state of mind. Featured artists include Marcella Barceló, Virginia Leonard, Koen Taselaar, Akiko Hirai, Jackie Mulder and Pernille Braun.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Join the community for an open‑air summer programme of free cultural and botanical activities in a beautiful alpine garden setting. Across the season, families and neighbours can take part in exhibitions, botanical and arts workshops for all ages, dance and yoga sessions, story readings and a mobile library. Activities invite hands-on discovery, shared learning and creative exchange — welcoming everyone to spend time together, explore nature and connect with neighbours.
Bellerive Festival presents a programme of chamber and orchestral music exploring repertoire from Classical to late Romantic and early 20th-century voices. Evenings feature works by Beethoven, Dvořák, Schubert, Mahler and Mendelssohn alongside evocative programmes centred on Grieg, Tchaikovsky and American classics. A New York-themed matinée offers lighter, rhythmic contrasts. A concurrent photographic exhibition by Michel Juvet creates a visual dialogue with the music. The festival highlights refined ensemble playing, expressive phrasing and an intimate atmosphere.
Imarhan, from Timbuktu, channels the Saharan blues with hypnotic electric guitars and interwoven vocal dialogues. Led by singer-guitarist Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane (Sadam), with Tahar Khaldi on bass, Hicham Bouhasse on drums and guitar, Abdelkader Ourzig on guitar and Haiballah Akhamouk on percussion, their music blends traditional Tuareg riffs with rock and contemporary textures. Long spiralling riffs and patient rhythms evoke travel, landscapes and communal bonds; Imarhan—‘those who love each other’—creates an expansive, wind-swept atmosphere.
Co-created by Primala Casse, La Cantine de Nasreddine stages a mobile kitchen as a theatrical set where cooking and storytelling intertwine. Three performers — Sophie Lebrun, Redwan Reys and Atakan Tan — inhabit new incarnations of Nasreddine Hodja, turning everyday situations into unexpected twists that reveal quiet wisdom. Vicky Althaus’s lighting and an intimate, communal mise en scène frame moments of humour, ritual and shared eating, inviting audiences into a warm, inventive collective experience.
In French.
Join a playful builder who improvises a strange home in a garden. With brave, clever ropes and found objects she moves from one idea to the next, sometimes wild, sometimes stubborn, slowly assembling a surprising structure. Children will watch materials cooperate or resist, feel the rhythm of making, and wonder whether everything will collapse or turn into accidental genius. A lively, physical performance that celebrates imagination, trial and joyful experimentation.
In French. Ages 6 and up.
An energetic country and bluegrass festival programme that showcases a mix of roots, contemporary country and high-energy rockabilly performances. Line-up includes The Bluegrass Parkway, New Country Rain and Brothers on the Run alongside The Cactus Candies, The HillBilly Rockers Band and Tobey Lucas Band, with Luke Bayne Band and Tuff Enuff Band closing the weekend. Expect tight musicianship, vocal harmonies and lively stagecraft that foregrounds storytelling and danceable grooves.
An evocative concert-homage exploring the songs and spirit of Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. A tight ensemble reimagines iconic standards such as “Fly Me to the Moon” and “What a Wonderful World”, blending jazz phrasing, brass warmth and intimate vocal interpretation. The programme balances faithful nods to the originals with fresh arrangements that highlight swing, nuance and emotional resonance, inviting listeners into a warm, sophisticated evening of classic American song.
Charlotte Qin and Tessel van der Putte present an exhibition of porcelain installation and paintings that treats water as both element and metaphor. Curated by Frédéric Elkaïm, the works shift the focus from control and extraction toward ecological, emotional and feminine inquiry. A central porcelain installation evokes aquatic creatures and the fluid forms of coral and blossom, while paintings explore the body as a permeable landscape, probing materiality, vulnerability and collective care.
Opening: Thursday 7 July, 18:00 – Performance of Charlotte Qin
What if words became a stage for expression, rhythm, and emotion? Between poetry, orality and freedom of expression, participants will be invited to play with words, rhymes and emotions through playful writing exercises, voice exploration, and the preparation of short texts to share on stage.
Booking via email: ecole@catalyse.ch
Grand Juillet is an itinerant literary festival gathering Swiss and international writers for readings, thematic encounters, workshops and family events. Programming explores contemporary literature, narrative practice and community mediation through participatory walks, readings and creative workshops. Participants investigate forms of storytelling, exchange perspectives and discover practical approaches to writing and reading in public spaces. Sessions emphasize discussion, learning outcomes and cultural exchange, with formats suitable for adults and families.
Spiritual jazz pianist, improviser and musicologist Nduduzo Makhathini channels African spiritual traditions into a deeply immersive sonic ritual. Drawing on his Blue Note recordings and collaborations with figures such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, his repertoire — including the album uNomkhubulwane — weaves improvisation, ancestral cosmologies and the ritual power of sound into expansive, trance-like passages. The performance privileges intuition and communal resonance, inviting listeners into a liberating, meditative listening experience.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Summer! is a group exhibition that brings together artists whose work reflects the energy and atmosphere of summer. Through painting, sculpture and mixed media, the show explores light, movement, transformation and escape, offering varied interpretations of the season as both an experience and a state of mind. Featured artists include Marcella Barceló, Virginia Leonard, Koen Taselaar, Akiko Hirai, Jackie Mulder and Pernille Braun.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Join the community for an open‑air summer programme of free cultural and botanical activities in a beautiful alpine garden setting. Across the season, families and neighbours can take part in exhibitions, botanical and arts workshops for all ages, dance and yoga sessions, story readings and a mobile library. Activities invite hands-on discovery, shared learning and creative exchange — welcoming everyone to spend time together, explore nature and connect with neighbours.
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