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Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Directed by Jérôme Bel, this collectively created theatre piece is written and performed by children aged 8 to 14. The work unfolds through improvisation, playful imagination and a celebration of creative freedom, inviting an immediate, joyful stage presence. The ensemble’s spontaneous scenes and open-ended dramaturgy emphasize collaboration and risk, offering spectators an intimate encounter with youthful authorship and theatrical experiment.
In French.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects by Esteban and Gabriel, each revealing distinct musical universes. The performances foreground intimate songwriting, experimental textures and collaborative staging, framed by feedback from external experts. The creative process is visible on stage: tentative gestures, bold sonic choices and moments of quiet intensity that invite close listening and reflection, offering a snapshot of emerging artists at a formative moment.
Tabarak Allah Allas’s film is the first feature-length motion picture entirely hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Using a painterly animation approach, it stages a singular encounter between cinema and painting. After Van Gogh’s death, a young man investigates the circumstances of his disappearance by meeting those who knew the painter. Beyond biography, the film meditates on artistic creation, perception and how an artwork continues to live after its author, revisiting the artist’s life through his canvases.
English and Polish with French subtitles.
Preceded by Mawtini (2024, 13′), Allah Tabarak Allas, in the presence of the director.
Screening in collaboration with the Animatou festival.
Featuring invited speakers Wajdi Mouawad, Dominique Eddé, Nathalie Piégay and Agnès Giard, the series gathers voices from literature, theory and cultural research to reflect on love’s complexities.
Presentations examine the courage of not loving, love as a life‑force, literary and theoretical discourses, and contemporary forms of attachment including artificial loves in Japan, probing how public dialogue and interdisciplinary inquiry sustain critical humanist perspectives.
In French.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Directed by Jérôme Bel, this collectively created theatre piece is written and performed by children aged 8 to 14. The work unfolds through improvisation, playful imagination and a celebration of creative freedom, inviting an immediate, joyful stage presence. The ensemble’s spontaneous scenes and open-ended dramaturgy emphasize collaboration and risk, offering spectators an intimate encounter with youthful authorship and theatrical experiment.
In French.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects by Esteban and Gabriel, each revealing distinct musical universes. The performances foreground intimate songwriting, experimental textures and collaborative staging, framed by feedback from external experts. The creative process is visible on stage: tentative gestures, bold sonic choices and moments of quiet intensity that invite close listening and reflection, offering a snapshot of emerging artists at a formative moment.
Tabarak Allah Allas’s film is the first feature-length motion picture entirely hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Using a painterly animation approach, it stages a singular encounter between cinema and painting. After Van Gogh’s death, a young man investigates the circumstances of his disappearance by meeting those who knew the painter. Beyond biography, the film meditates on artistic creation, perception and how an artwork continues to live after its author, revisiting the artist’s life through his canvases.
English and Polish with French subtitles.
Preceded by Mawtini (2024, 13′), Allah Tabarak Allas, in the presence of the director.
Screening in collaboration with the Animatou festival.
Featuring invited speakers Wajdi Mouawad, Dominique Eddé, Nathalie Piégay and Agnès Giard, the series gathers voices from literature, theory and cultural research to reflect on love’s complexities.
Presentations examine the courage of not loving, love as a life‑force, literary and theoretical discourses, and contemporary forms of attachment including artificial loves in Japan, probing how public dialogue and interdisciplinary inquiry sustain critical humanist perspectives.
In French.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Directed by Jérôme Bel, this collectively created theatre piece is written and performed by children aged 8 to 14. The work unfolds through improvisation, playful imagination and a celebration of creative freedom, inviting an immediate, joyful stage presence. The ensemble’s spontaneous scenes and open-ended dramaturgy emphasize collaboration and risk, offering spectators an intimate encounter with youthful authorship and theatrical experiment.
In French.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects by Esteban and Gabriel, each revealing distinct musical universes. The performances foreground intimate songwriting, experimental textures and collaborative staging, framed by feedback from external experts. The creative process is visible on stage: tentative gestures, bold sonic choices and moments of quiet intensity that invite close listening and reflection, offering a snapshot of emerging artists at a formative moment.
Tabarak Allah Allas’s film is the first feature-length motion picture entirely hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Using a painterly animation approach, it stages a singular encounter between cinema and painting. After Van Gogh’s death, a young man investigates the circumstances of his disappearance by meeting those who knew the painter. Beyond biography, the film meditates on artistic creation, perception and how an artwork continues to live after its author, revisiting the artist’s life through his canvases.
English and Polish with French subtitles.
Preceded by Mawtini (2024, 13′), Allah Tabarak Allas, in the presence of the director.
Screening in collaboration with the Animatou festival.
An energetic night celebrating videogame culture where competition and play collide. Expect a giant Super Smash Bros tournament with live commentary from Kuma Sensei, a full-size Just Dance arena with official scoring, racing simulators, virtual reality initiations and an area for experimental indie games. Try a typing contest, hop on free-play stations for Mario Kart, GeoGuessr and Chronophoto, and enjoy retro consoles amid festive, starlit party vibes.
Aldo Locatelli presents a diverse body of work spanning decades, rooted in experimentation and improvisation.
Paintings in oil, mixed-media pieces, ink drawings, sculptures, floral assemblages under plexiglas and repurposed objects converse through a tactile visual language. His practice moves between abstraction and figuration, privileging matter, color and gestural mark-making to explore observation, the living world and unexpected material affinities. The show reveals a restless creativity driven by curiosity, collage-like associations and continual recomposition.
Opening: Wednesday, 16 September, 18:00
Closing event: Sunday, 27 September, 17:00
CrabCore Fest is a Swiss rock and metal festival championing the local scene. Across two days it gathers a diverse lineup of bands from Switzerland and neighbouring France, spanning heavy riffs, melodic metal and experimental rock. Emphasis is on community-driven programming, energetic live performances and a grassroots atmosphere where emerging artists share the bill with seasoned acts. Stalls and food options accompany the stages, creating a convivial frame for loud, visceral music.
Geneva Brass celebrates its identity and journey in a portrait-like concert led by Antoine Courvoisier. The first half honours works that shaped the quintet, blending major repertoire pages and emblematic pieces for brass. The second half plunges the audience into a cabaret world inspired by the Roaring Twenties, mixing energy, humour and theatricality. The programme is virtuosic and festive, rooted in collective joy and sharing, staged with careful mise-en-scène.
Peter Evans Extra brings together three of contemporary music’s most daring improvisers in a high‑velocity sonic pursuit that redefines the jazz trio. The band fuses Evans’s sculptural trumpet vocabulary with Petter Eldh’s hyperactive bass and Jim Black’s unpredictable rhythmic bursts, producing a kinetic, ever‑shifting soundscape where silence and noise collide. Their 2024 debut, EXTRA (We Jazz Records), was praised as one of the year’s best jazz records for its technical daring and anarchic spirit.
Explore the sounds of a full orchestra in this playful musical journey. Hear lively brass, whispering strings, glittering woodwinds and bold percussion as each family of instruments takes a turn. Follow themes and clever variations that show how notes can change into animals and characters. Imagine bears, butterflies, giants and fairies guided by bright melodies and shifting rhythms. Listen closely, spot different timbres, and let curiosity lead your questions and discoveries.
Kids ages 6 and up.
Festival des 5 Continents presents a curated panorama of world cinema: competitive and out-of-competition films, special screenings and a section for emerging voices. The programme highlights auteur cinema, daring narratives and diverse perspectives, favouring bold visual styles and intimate storytelling. Through screenings, talks and encounters, the festival offers a space to discover new talents and reassess cinematic traditions, celebrating cross-cultural dialogues and the emotional power of film.
Featuring invited speakers Wajdi Mouawad, Dominique Eddé, Nathalie Piégay and Agnès Giard, the series gathers voices from literature, theory and cultural research to reflect on love’s complexities.
Presentations examine the courage of not loving, love as a life‑force, literary and theoretical discourses, and contemporary forms of attachment including artificial loves in Japan, probing how public dialogue and interdisciplinary inquiry sustain critical humanist perspectives.
In French.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Directed by Jérôme Bel, this collectively created theatre piece is written and performed by children aged 8 to 14. The work unfolds through improvisation, playful imagination and a celebration of creative freedom, inviting an immediate, joyful stage presence. The ensemble’s spontaneous scenes and open-ended dramaturgy emphasize collaboration and risk, offering spectators an intimate encounter with youthful authorship and theatrical experiment.
In French.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro student projects by Esteban and Gabriel, each revealing distinct musical universes. The performances foreground intimate songwriting, experimental textures and collaborative staging, framed by feedback from external experts. The creative process is visible on stage: tentative gestures, bold sonic choices and moments of quiet intensity that invite close listening and reflection, offering a snapshot of emerging artists at a formative moment.
Tabarak Allah Allas’s film is the first feature-length motion picture entirely hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Using a painterly animation approach, it stages a singular encounter between cinema and painting. After Van Gogh’s death, a young man investigates the circumstances of his disappearance by meeting those who knew the painter. Beyond biography, the film meditates on artistic creation, perception and how an artwork continues to live after its author, revisiting the artist’s life through his canvases.
English and Polish with French subtitles.
Preceded by Mawtini (2024, 13′), Allah Tabarak Allas, in the presence of the director.
Screening in collaboration with the Animatou festival.
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Located in the heart of Geneva’s international district, the Portail des Nations is a space dedicated to dialogue, cooperation, and global issues. Through exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, it offers visitors an entry point into the major challenges shaping our world and Geneva’s role as a hub for international governance.
Nestled in the Geneva countryside, the Collection du Crest showcases a remarkable selection of modern and contemporary art. Through temporary exhibitions and its private collection, this unique venue offers an intimate encounter with artistic creation, in dialogue with the history and landscape of the estate.
Discover one of the world’s most remarkable libraries and museums, home to an exceptional collection of manuscripts, rare books, and historical documents spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Located in Cologny overlooking Lake Geneva, the Fondation Martin Bodmer offers a unique journey through literature, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts, bringing together some of humanity’s most significant written treasures.
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