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Stéphane Bussard, head reporter on international Geneva for Le Temps, Catherine Fiankan-Bokongo, UN correspondent for France 24, Kasmira Jefford, editor-in-chief of Geneva Solutions, and Nina Larson, UN correspondent for AFP, bring frontline experience.
They examine how austerity measures, agency relocations and wide job cuts affect foreign correspondents covering the UN. The discussion investigates changing newsroom practices, the future of international reporting in Geneva, and what stories remain as institutions shrink and coverage models evolve.
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.
Carried by five performers, this circus piece transforms an ordinary waiting area into a cinematic stage where time subtly shifts. Acrobatics, juggling, tightwire and aerial apparatus interweave as bodies lift, fall and catch one another. With a blend of poetry, humour and tenderness, the company explores chance encounters and the small moments that reshape relationships. Created collectively with Maxime Wermelinger (trapeze), Matthias Bruchez (juggling), Ana Clara Hauri (aerial fabric), Europe Fayet (aerial hoop) and Ismaël Robert Flandin. Produced by Cirque à Brac.
It’s La Bâtie’s birthday — and everyone’s invited! On 25 August, La Bâtie celebrates its 50th anniversary by turning the Musée Ariana into a giant birthday party for all of Geneva. Come celebrate with music, performances and a festive atmosphere — because on this day, every Genevan gets to share La Bâtie’s birthday!
Directed by Anka Schmid, Mélodie follows people of diverse origins as they engage with singing, alone and in groups. The film treats voice as a reservoir of resilience and comfort, tracing how song awakens memories and sustains the spirit amid life’s uncertainties. Shot with attentive, intimate framing, its approach blends observational realism and lyrical moments, exploring community, identity and the restorative power of collective voice.
In presence of director Anka Schmid.
Accrochage d’été brings together selected works by Andrea Gabutti, Etienne Krähnembühl, Laurent de Pury and Jean‑Patrice Rozand. The presentation highlights recent investigations in painting, sculpture and mixed media, juxtaposing material textures and sculptural line. Through compact compositions and attention to process, the artists explore perception, the limits of representation and the tactile qualities of surfaces. The selection emphasizes subtle dialogues between form, colour and spatial tension.
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.
Stéphane Bussard, head reporter on international Geneva for Le Temps, Catherine Fiankan-Bokongo, UN correspondent for France 24, Kasmira Jefford, editor-in-chief of Geneva Solutions, and Nina Larson, UN correspondent for AFP, bring frontline experience.
They examine how austerity measures, agency relocations and wide job cuts affect foreign correspondents covering the UN. The discussion investigates changing newsroom practices, the future of international reporting in Geneva, and what stories remain as institutions shrink and coverage models evolve.
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.
Carried by five performers, this circus piece transforms an ordinary waiting area into a cinematic stage where time subtly shifts. Acrobatics, juggling, tightwire and aerial apparatus interweave as bodies lift, fall and catch one another. With a blend of poetry, humour and tenderness, the company explores chance encounters and the small moments that reshape relationships. Created collectively with Maxime Wermelinger (trapeze), Matthias Bruchez (juggling), Ana Clara Hauri (aerial fabric), Europe Fayet (aerial hoop) and Ismaël Robert Flandin. Produced by Cirque à Brac.
It’s La Bâtie’s birthday — and everyone’s invited! On 25 August, La Bâtie celebrates its 50th anniversary by turning the Musée Ariana into a giant birthday party for all of Geneva. Come celebrate with music, performances and a festive atmosphere — because on this day, every Genevan gets to share La Bâtie’s birthday!
Directed by Anka Schmid, Mélodie follows people of diverse origins as they engage with singing, alone and in groups. The film treats voice as a reservoir of resilience and comfort, tracing how song awakens memories and sustains the spirit amid life’s uncertainties. Shot with attentive, intimate framing, its approach blends observational realism and lyrical moments, exploring community, identity and the restorative power of collective voice.
In presence of director Anka Schmid.
Accrochage d’été brings together selected works by Andrea Gabutti, Etienne Krähnembühl, Laurent de Pury and Jean‑Patrice Rozand. The presentation highlights recent investigations in painting, sculpture and mixed media, juxtaposing material textures and sculptural line. Through compact compositions and attention to process, the artists explore perception, the limits of representation and the tactile qualities of surfaces. The selection emphasizes subtle dialogues between form, colour and spatial tension.
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.
Stéphane Bussard, head reporter on international Geneva for Le Temps, Catherine Fiankan-Bokongo, UN correspondent for France 24, Kasmira Jefford, editor-in-chief of Geneva Solutions, and Nina Larson, UN correspondent for AFP, bring frontline experience.
They examine how austerity measures, agency relocations and wide job cuts affect foreign correspondents covering the UN. The discussion investigates changing newsroom practices, the future of international reporting in Geneva, and what stories remain as institutions shrink and coverage models evolve.
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.
Carried by five performers, this circus piece transforms an ordinary waiting area into a cinematic stage where time subtly shifts. Acrobatics, juggling, tightwire and aerial apparatus interweave as bodies lift, fall and catch one another. With a blend of poetry, humour and tenderness, the company explores chance encounters and the small moments that reshape relationships. Created collectively with Maxime Wermelinger (trapeze), Matthias Bruchez (juggling), Ana Clara Hauri (aerial fabric), Europe Fayet (aerial hoop) and Ismaël Robert Flandin. Produced by Cirque à Brac.
It’s La Bâtie’s birthday — and everyone’s invited! On 25 August, La Bâtie celebrates its 50th anniversary by turning the Musée Ariana into a giant birthday party for all of Geneva. Come celebrate with music, performances and a festive atmosphere — because on this day, every Genevan gets to share La Bâtie’s birthday!
Directed by Anka Schmid, Mélodie follows people of diverse origins as they engage with singing, alone and in groups. The film treats voice as a reservoir of resilience and comfort, tracing how song awakens memories and sustains the spirit amid life’s uncertainties. Shot with attentive, intimate framing, its approach blends observational realism and lyrical moments, exploring community, identity and the restorative power of collective voice.
In presence of director Anka Schmid.
Accrochage d’été brings together selected works by Andrea Gabutti, Etienne Krähnembühl, Laurent de Pury and Jean‑Patrice Rozand. The presentation highlights recent investigations in painting, sculpture and mixed media, juxtaposing material textures and sculptural line. Through compact compositions and attention to process, the artists explore perception, the limits of representation and the tactile qualities of surfaces. The selection emphasizes subtle dialogues between form, colour and spatial tension.
Bazartifices celebrates twenty years of Ensemble Vortex in a communal sonic feast. The evening mixes sound installations and workshops with a concert programme: Benoît Morel (prepared snare and video), Patrick Schleuter (Reactable), Daniel Zea (Desplaza_2 and Chin!), Anne Gillot (radiophonic confessional), plus new works by Fernando Garnero and pieces for electric guitars by John Menoud, Arturo Corrales and Antoine Läng. The programme blends electroacoustic creation, live electronics and participatory scores, creating a tactile, magnetic soundscape that invites improvisation and collective play.
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.
Home/Land is a participatory installation inviting reflection on the idea of home through intimate narratives and testimonies from people forced to flee. Visitors move through a miniature epic of audio testimonies, texts and tactile objects, listening, reading and exchanging with others. The work foregrounds memory, loss and the belongings we would choose to carry in an urgent departure, using simple scenography and everyday materials to create a sensitive, poetic experience.
Authors from éditions Zoé present a programme of short readings that explore contemporary voices from the publisher’s catalogue. Two curated reading parcours offer compact, focused sessions of literary texts, while two practical writing workshops investigate craft and narrative technique: one aimed at adults led by Max Lobe, the other for adolescents led by Sandy Monney. The programme examines editorial practices, authorial approach and the interplay between text and performance, inviting attentive listening and writing practice.
In French.
Performed by Olivier Martin-Salvan, Panique! conjures a hybrid, half-man half-goat figure whose subtle grotesquerie probes idleness, solitude and melancholy. Conceived and staged by Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre, the piece mixes sculptural elements and choreographic impulses: sudden, sometimes ribald outbursts, a reed-like flute motif and brief dance gestures that evoke a primitive, pastoral theatre. The work balances tenderness and comic unease, offering a ritualised, tactile encounter with myth and animality.
In French.
How We Come Together is a one-day workshop led by the Asian Futures Collective that brings together interventions on cultural and community practices of Asian diasporas. Through workshops, performance-lectures, research sharing, listening rituals and a film screening, the programme explores ancestral memory, embodied knowledge, more-than-human kinship and collective learning. Sessions propose varied formats and lengths; some include an online discussion and a screening in Thai with English subtitles.
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.
Stéphane Bussard, head reporter on international Geneva for Le Temps, Catherine Fiankan-Bokongo, UN correspondent for France 24, Kasmira Jefford, editor-in-chief of Geneva Solutions, and Nina Larson, UN correspondent for AFP, bring frontline experience.
They examine how austerity measures, agency relocations and wide job cuts affect foreign correspondents covering the UN. The discussion investigates changing newsroom practices, the future of international reporting in Geneva, and what stories remain as institutions shrink and coverage models evolve.
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.
Carried by five performers, this circus piece transforms an ordinary waiting area into a cinematic stage where time subtly shifts. Acrobatics, juggling, tightwire and aerial apparatus interweave as bodies lift, fall and catch one another. With a blend of poetry, humour and tenderness, the company explores chance encounters and the small moments that reshape relationships. Created collectively with Maxime Wermelinger (trapeze), Matthias Bruchez (juggling), Ana Clara Hauri (aerial fabric), Europe Fayet (aerial hoop) and Ismaël Robert Flandin. Produced by Cirque à Brac.
It’s La Bâtie’s birthday — and everyone’s invited! On 25 August, La Bâtie celebrates its 50th anniversary by turning the Musée Ariana into a giant birthday party for all of Geneva. Come celebrate with music, performances and a festive atmosphere — because on this day, every Genevan gets to share La Bâtie’s birthday!
Directed by Anka Schmid, Mélodie follows people of diverse origins as they engage with singing, alone and in groups. The film treats voice as a reservoir of resilience and comfort, tracing how song awakens memories and sustains the spirit amid life’s uncertainties. Shot with attentive, intimate framing, its approach blends observational realism and lyrical moments, exploring community, identity and the restorative power of collective voice.
In presence of director Anka Schmid.
Accrochage d’été brings together selected works by Andrea Gabutti, Etienne Krähnembühl, Laurent de Pury and Jean‑Patrice Rozand. The presentation highlights recent investigations in painting, sculpture and mixed media, juxtaposing material textures and sculptural line. Through compact compositions and attention to process, the artists explore perception, the limits of representation and the tactile qualities of surfaces. The selection emphasizes subtle dialogues between form, colour and spatial tension.
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