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Step into a lush jungle garden and explore winding paths under towering leaves. Listen to rustling foliage, feel humid air, and spot bright flowers and strange shapes. A guided walk with the garden team reveals how plants adapt, resist cold winds, and cope with climate change. Kids will ask questions, observe textures and colors, and imagine rainforest stories while learning how experiments help plants survive. This lively exploration mixes discovery, nature science, and playful curiosity.
In French.
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Celebrate the season at a community harvest gathering welcoming everyone. Join neighbors and gardeners to discover this year’s harvest, meet the people who tend the plots, and share a convivial evening together. We’ll enjoy shared food in a potluck-style buffet, swap stories and gardening tips, and celebrate the connections built over the growing season. Whether you’re a regular participant or simply curious, come together with us to mark the end of summer and strengthen community bonds.
Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore guilty pleasures, hobbies and obsessions in an installation-performance for three dancers: Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli and mona mioca felah. Blending gestures and objects, Such a Devoted Bunch examines mechanisms of devotion and collective ritual, turning ancestral and anecdotal practices into material for community and shared enthusiasm. The work gathers a whimsical cluster of bodies and forms that respond, repel and embrace, offering a tactile, intimate theatrical experience.
This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations to support young innovators. The Earth Foundation will convene 30 leaders from foundations, NGOs, companies, and youth-led initiatives for a high-impact collaboration session designed to spark real partnerships across Geneva’s sustainability ecosystem. This is not traditional networking. This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations through curated exchanges engineered to create unexpected collaborations.
In English.
Barlovento Sur celebrates Latin American musical heritage through a contemporary lens. Based in Geneva and formed in 2015 by Josefa Ibarra (voice, bombo) and Jorge Pacheco (voice, guitar), the quartet expands its palette with violinist Luisina Rábago and cellist Beatriz Raimundo. Rooted in new latin folk, their performances weave traditional percussion pulses with open harmonies, intertwining lyrical strings and powerful vocals to tell shared stories and imagine collective futures. The music is at once intimate and expansive, blending tradition and modernity.
Step into a lush jungle garden and explore winding paths under towering leaves. Listen to rustling foliage, feel humid air, and spot bright flowers and strange shapes. A guided walk with the garden team reveals how plants adapt, resist cold winds, and cope with climate change. Kids will ask questions, observe textures and colors, and imagine rainforest stories while learning how experiments help plants survive. This lively exploration mixes discovery, nature science, and playful curiosity.
In French.
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Celebrate the season at a community harvest gathering welcoming everyone. Join neighbors and gardeners to discover this year’s harvest, meet the people who tend the plots, and share a convivial evening together. We’ll enjoy shared food in a potluck-style buffet, swap stories and gardening tips, and celebrate the connections built over the growing season. Whether you’re a regular participant or simply curious, come together with us to mark the end of summer and strengthen community bonds.
Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore guilty pleasures, hobbies and obsessions in an installation-performance for three dancers: Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli and mona mioca felah. Blending gestures and objects, Such a Devoted Bunch examines mechanisms of devotion and collective ritual, turning ancestral and anecdotal practices into material for community and shared enthusiasm. The work gathers a whimsical cluster of bodies and forms that respond, repel and embrace, offering a tactile, intimate theatrical experience.
This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations to support young innovators. The Earth Foundation will convene 30 leaders from foundations, NGOs, companies, and youth-led initiatives for a high-impact collaboration session designed to spark real partnerships across Geneva’s sustainability ecosystem. This is not traditional networking. This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations through curated exchanges engineered to create unexpected collaborations.
In English.
Barlovento Sur celebrates Latin American musical heritage through a contemporary lens. Based in Geneva and formed in 2015 by Josefa Ibarra (voice, bombo) and Jorge Pacheco (voice, guitar), the quartet expands its palette with violinist Luisina Rábago and cellist Beatriz Raimundo. Rooted in new latin folk, their performances weave traditional percussion pulses with open harmonies, intertwining lyrical strings and powerful vocals to tell shared stories and imagine collective futures. The music is at once intimate and expansive, blending tradition and modernity.
Step into a lush jungle garden and explore winding paths under towering leaves. Listen to rustling foliage, feel humid air, and spot bright flowers and strange shapes. A guided walk with the garden team reveals how plants adapt, resist cold winds, and cope with climate change. Kids will ask questions, observe textures and colors, and imagine rainforest stories while learning how experiments help plants survive. This lively exploration mixes discovery, nature science, and playful curiosity.
In French.
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Celebrate the season at a community harvest gathering welcoming everyone. Join neighbors and gardeners to discover this year’s harvest, meet the people who tend the plots, and share a convivial evening together. We’ll enjoy shared food in a potluck-style buffet, swap stories and gardening tips, and celebrate the connections built over the growing season. Whether you’re a regular participant or simply curious, come together with us to mark the end of summer and strengthen community bonds.
Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore guilty pleasures, hobbies and obsessions in an installation-performance for three dancers: Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli and mona mioca felah. Blending gestures and objects, Such a Devoted Bunch examines mechanisms of devotion and collective ritual, turning ancestral and anecdotal practices into material for community and shared enthusiasm. The work gathers a whimsical cluster of bodies and forms that respond, repel and embrace, offering a tactile, intimate theatrical experience.
This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations to support young innovators. The Earth Foundation will convene 30 leaders from foundations, NGOs, companies, and youth-led initiatives for a high-impact collaboration session designed to spark real partnerships across Geneva’s sustainability ecosystem. This is not traditional networking. This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations through curated exchanges engineered to create unexpected collaborations.
In English.
Come and celebrate the opening of SaSA (Site archéologique Saint-Antoine), a new space in Geneva dedicated to art, culture and community. Join us for a welcoming event to discover the venue, meet the team, and enjoy a festive moment together.
Otis Thaïs Martin performs a solo trapeze piece that turns acrobatic balance into a metaphor for living with anxiety. On a rigging that oscillates and resists, Martin mixes aerial performance, spoken testimony and musical improvisation by Camille Garcia‑Rennes to explore exhaustion, survival strategies and the tenderness of queer kinship. Formerly associated with L’Abri, the artist transforms the stage into a political space for collective care and witness, crafting moments of tension that open onto surprising tenderness and fragile joy.
In French.
Bonnie Banane blends elegance, self-mockery and surprise in a uniquely unpredictable pop-chanson-R&B universe. Trained in theatre, she treats the concert as playful staging: every song becomes a character, each entrance a small mise-en-scène. Her magnetic charisma, sharp groove and candid humour bring both emotional depth and whimsical flair. For this evening she appears accompanied on piano by longtime collaborator Joseph Schiano di Lombo; together they released the adventurous 2025 album Orguasme.
In French.
Nonante’s Lausanne quartet crafts an elegant, nocturnal new wave: enveloping synthesizers, wave-like guitars, precise rhythms and a clear, centered vocal. Around singer Nicolas Roussi the music builds by contrasts — suspended moments that give way to stronger pulses and open refrains. The band’s sound evokes calm, slightly melancholic urban nights pierced by flashes of light. Line-up: Adrien (bass, synths, drum machines), Ritz (synths), Nico (vocals, guitar), Sebastian (guitar).
Primeurs Musicales is a dynamic classical music festival dedicated to discovering and supporting the next generation of musical talent. Showcasing outstanding young performers from conservatories and music academies, the festival creates meaningful opportunities for emerging artists to share the stage, collaborate with established musicians, and engage with new audiences. Through a diverse programme of concerts, chamber music performances, artistic encounters, and contemporary creations, Primeurs Musicales combines excellence, transmission, and innovation while making classical music more accessible, vibrant, and connected to today’s cultural landscape.
Set off to find the extraordinary plants of the forest! Meet a curious woman hidden in her woodland cabin and help her search for plants that could heal the world. Wander among tall trunks, listen to rustling leaves, and spot bright blossoms and strange shapes. Touch soft moss, smell herbal scents, and learn how each plant works. This playful quest mixes storytelling and exploration to spark curiosity and imagination.
In French. Kids ages from 6 to 12.
Patricia Plattner guides a lyrical portrait assembled from texts, interviews and testimonies drawn from the books L’Âme du cochon and Le Bazar de la sirène. The film enters the artist’s world and follows her singular journey through voices of collaborators and performers, woven with projections and music. Intimate and textured, it privileges layered testimony over linear biography, exploring memory, creativity and the rhythms of artistic life. Sensory framing and a measured, observational rhythm make the work both personal and quietly revelatory.
In French.
Barlovento Sur celebrates Latin American musical heritage through a contemporary lens. Based in Geneva and formed in 2015 by Josefa Ibarra (voice, bombo) and Jorge Pacheco (voice, guitar), the quartet expands its palette with violinist Luisina Rábago and cellist Beatriz Raimundo. Rooted in new latin folk, their performances weave traditional percussion pulses with open harmonies, intertwining lyrical strings and powerful vocals to tell shared stories and imagine collective futures. The music is at once intimate and expansive, blending tradition and modernity.
Step into a lush jungle garden and explore winding paths under towering leaves. Listen to rustling foliage, feel humid air, and spot bright flowers and strange shapes. A guided walk with the garden team reveals how plants adapt, resist cold winds, and cope with climate change. Kids will ask questions, observe textures and colors, and imagine rainforest stories while learning how experiments help plants survive. This lively exploration mixes discovery, nature science, and playful curiosity.
In French.
Luis Marques presents DEEP BLUE and INTERMITTENCES, two series of drawing-based works that transform line into landscape, rhythm and breath. DEEP BLUE offers expansive fields of blue where delicate marks build textured, contemplative seascapes. INTERMITTENCES reworks reclaimed screen-print test papers, letting traces, stains and accidents enter a patient process of repeated lines. Using pens, markers and even sewing thread, Marques negotiates control and chance, producing intimate topographies that meditate on time, repetition, memory and material transformation.
Opening: 2 September, 18:00
Closing: 13 September, 18:00
Festival Alternatiba brings people together to explore local climate and social initiatives through workshops, roundtables and a lively actions village. Over several days we gather residents, associations and activists to share skills, discuss solutions and build community projects. Workshops offer hands-on learning, while roundtables foster dialogue across generations. The village showcases local actions and invites everyone to connect, collaborate and take part in collective steps toward a more sustainable, caring neighbourhood.
Celebrate the season at a community harvest gathering welcoming everyone. Join neighbors and gardeners to discover this year’s harvest, meet the people who tend the plots, and share a convivial evening together. We’ll enjoy shared food in a potluck-style buffet, swap stories and gardening tips, and celebrate the connections built over the growing season. Whether you’re a regular participant or simply curious, come together with us to mark the end of summer and strengthen community bonds.
Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore guilty pleasures, hobbies and obsessions in an installation-performance for three dancers: Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli and mona mioca felah. Blending gestures and objects, Such a Devoted Bunch examines mechanisms of devotion and collective ritual, turning ancestral and anecdotal practices into material for community and shared enthusiasm. The work gathers a whimsical cluster of bodies and forms that respond, repel and embrace, offering a tactile, intimate theatrical experience.
This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations to support young innovators. The Earth Foundation will convene 30 leaders from foundations, NGOs, companies, and youth-led initiatives for a high-impact collaboration session designed to spark real partnerships across Geneva’s sustainability ecosystem. This is not traditional networking. This is Speed Dating for the Planet, a structured, fast-paced format where participants will connect with other mission-aligned organizations through curated exchanges engineered to create unexpected collaborations.
In English.
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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.
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