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Mae presents songs from her new six-track EP ‘+ belle en blues’, a pop project that reads like a personal diary. Her voice navigates moments of doubt and affirmation, vulnerability and the search for identity, voicing a generation’s questioning. The set favors intimate, direct arrangements with piano and subtle textures, framed by a clear artistic direction that privileges sincerity and emotional clarity, inviting listeners into close, confessional moments.
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
This session begins with a brief presentation of an artwork, then leads into a yoga class suitable for all levels. The practice emphasizes breath, alignment and fluid sequencing to build strength, flexibility and body awareness. Guided cues will address posture modifications and injury prevention, while fostering mindful presence and stress reduction. Participants explore accessible techniques to deepen personal practice and integrate movement with mental focus.
In French.
Geneva Watch Days brings together independent watchmakers and established maisons to present contemporary horology as a field of craft and design. The exhibition assembles over 150 timepieces, including mechanical movements, artisanal finishing and experimental prototypes, ranging from handcrafted complications to concept pieces. Emphasizing materiality and mechanical ingenuity, the presentation explores the tension between tradition and innovation and how makers negotiate identity through movement, dial design and the aesthetics of measurement.
Written, directed and performed by Adrien Buensod and Maxence Marmy, Le vol des mouettes is an absurd tragicomedy about isolation and the ritualisation of bureaucracy. Two government agents stranded on a remote island decode confidential messages as routine and procedure acquire surreal weight. Actor director Martine Corthésy shapes the performers’ delicate balance between precision and bewilderment; Lam Do sculpts the world with spare lighting and technical design. The piece unfolds with dark humour and lingering unease, attentive to timing and silence.
In French.
The Pachamama Connexion Festival is a warm, community-focused celebration that brings people together through music, visual arts and world cuisine. Open to everyone, it mixes concerts, international flavors, art installations and convivial encounters to create an inclusive, creative atmosphere. Families, neighbours and newcomers are invited to connect, exchange stories and share activities that nurture community bonds. The seventh edition is announced with programming to come.
Directed by Sophie Perez for the Compagnie du Zerep, Sturbzep turns the stage into a machine of collective hallucinations. Drawing on hoaxes, cryptids and literary impostures, the piece mixes haunted-manor atmospheres, neon-free fairground textures and prophetic nightmares. Sophie Lenoir, Stéphane Roger, Erge Yu, Adrien Castillo and Baptiste de Laubier embody a controlled chaos of creatures and smoky visions. Text by Pacôme Thiellement and music by hackedepicciotto shape an uncanny, theatrical odyssey.
In French.
Mae presents songs from her new six-track EP ‘+ belle en blues’, a pop project that reads like a personal diary. Her voice navigates moments of doubt and affirmation, vulnerability and the search for identity, voicing a generation’s questioning. The set favors intimate, direct arrangements with piano and subtle textures, framed by a clear artistic direction that privileges sincerity and emotional clarity, inviting listeners into close, confessional moments.
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
This session begins with a brief presentation of an artwork, then leads into a yoga class suitable for all levels. The practice emphasizes breath, alignment and fluid sequencing to build strength, flexibility and body awareness. Guided cues will address posture modifications and injury prevention, while fostering mindful presence and stress reduction. Participants explore accessible techniques to deepen personal practice and integrate movement with mental focus.
In French.
Geneva Watch Days brings together independent watchmakers and established maisons to present contemporary horology as a field of craft and design. The exhibition assembles over 150 timepieces, including mechanical movements, artisanal finishing and experimental prototypes, ranging from handcrafted complications to concept pieces. Emphasizing materiality and mechanical ingenuity, the presentation explores the tension between tradition and innovation and how makers negotiate identity through movement, dial design and the aesthetics of measurement.
Written, directed and performed by Adrien Buensod and Maxence Marmy, Le vol des mouettes is an absurd tragicomedy about isolation and the ritualisation of bureaucracy. Two government agents stranded on a remote island decode confidential messages as routine and procedure acquire surreal weight. Actor director Martine Corthésy shapes the performers’ delicate balance between precision and bewilderment; Lam Do sculpts the world with spare lighting and technical design. The piece unfolds with dark humour and lingering unease, attentive to timing and silence.
In French.
The Pachamama Connexion Festival is a warm, community-focused celebration that brings people together through music, visual arts and world cuisine. Open to everyone, it mixes concerts, international flavors, art installations and convivial encounters to create an inclusive, creative atmosphere. Families, neighbours and newcomers are invited to connect, exchange stories and share activities that nurture community bonds. The seventh edition is announced with programming to come.
Directed by Sophie Perez for the Compagnie du Zerep, Sturbzep turns the stage into a machine of collective hallucinations. Drawing on hoaxes, cryptids and literary impostures, the piece mixes haunted-manor atmospheres, neon-free fairground textures and prophetic nightmares. Sophie Lenoir, Stéphane Roger, Erge Yu, Adrien Castillo and Baptiste de Laubier embody a controlled chaos of creatures and smoky visions. Text by Pacôme Thiellement and music by hackedepicciotto shape an uncanny, theatrical odyssey.
In French.
Mae presents songs from her new six-track EP ‘+ belle en blues’, a pop project that reads like a personal diary. Her voice navigates moments of doubt and affirmation, vulnerability and the search for identity, voicing a generation’s questioning. The set favors intimate, direct arrangements with piano and subtle textures, framed by a clear artistic direction that privileges sincerity and emotional clarity, inviting listeners into close, confessional moments.
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
This session begins with a brief presentation of an artwork, then leads into a yoga class suitable for all levels. The practice emphasizes breath, alignment and fluid sequencing to build strength, flexibility and body awareness. Guided cues will address posture modifications and injury prevention, while fostering mindful presence and stress reduction. Participants explore accessible techniques to deepen personal practice and integrate movement with mental focus.
In French.
Geneva Watch Days brings together independent watchmakers and established maisons to present contemporary horology as a field of craft and design. The exhibition assembles over 150 timepieces, including mechanical movements, artisanal finishing and experimental prototypes, ranging from handcrafted complications to concept pieces. Emphasizing materiality and mechanical ingenuity, the presentation explores the tension between tradition and innovation and how makers negotiate identity through movement, dial design and the aesthetics of measurement.
Written, directed and performed by Adrien Buensod and Maxence Marmy, Le vol des mouettes is an absurd tragicomedy about isolation and the ritualisation of bureaucracy. Two government agents stranded on a remote island decode confidential messages as routine and procedure acquire surreal weight. Actor director Martine Corthésy shapes the performers’ delicate balance between precision and bewilderment; Lam Do sculpts the world with spare lighting and technical design. The piece unfolds with dark humour and lingering unease, attentive to timing and silence.
In French.
The Pachamama Connexion Festival is a warm, community-focused celebration that brings people together through music, visual arts and world cuisine. Open to everyone, it mixes concerts, international flavors, art installations and convivial encounters to create an inclusive, creative atmosphere. Families, neighbours and newcomers are invited to connect, exchange stories and share activities that nurture community bonds. The seventh edition is announced with programming to come.
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.
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.
Performed and directed by Eve Aouizerate, this incisive solo creation blends autofiction and faux stand-up to turn fairy-tale promises into a sharp satire. Using humour and precise stagecraft, Aouizerate interrogates reactionary online imaginaries and the contemporary allure of tradwives, exposing tensions between domestic idealisation and feminist inheritance. The piece mixes intimate confession, comic timing and critical observation to probe identity, boredom and the pressures shaping women’s lives.
In French.
Choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana and singer-performer Bonnie Banane form a striking duo in this hybrid performance that blends dance, music and live art. Performed on moving treadmills, the piece counters bodily numbness and image saturation with movement, play, metamorphosis and wry humour. Identities shift, roles blur and voices intertwine, producing a poetic pop energy and robust choreographic force. Vulnerability becomes a resource that rekindles imagination and collective feeling.
In English.
Directed by Aurélia Lüscher, Au Grand Passage stages a tender and questioning dialogue with her paternal grandmother and the spectral traces that linger among the living. Combining documentary inquiry and poetic dramaturgy, Lüscher conjures the voices of those who engage with the beyond amid a wax and mist décor that blurs visible and invisible. Drawing on readings like Magali Molinié and Vinciane Despret, the piece explores what cannot be resolved, using theatre’s spectral dimension to imagine passage between forms.
In French.
Three organ recitals offering intimate portraits of the instrument through contrasting programmes by Damien Desbenoit, Stéphane Mottoul and Jan Lehtola. Each recital balances baroque, romantic and contemporary repertoire, emphasizing registration, timbral contrasts and the acoustic dialogue between instrument and space. Performances favour attentive, contemplative listening and showcase the performers’ interpretive finesse. Programme notes and detailed PDFs are available for each recital.
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.
Directed by Sophie Perez for the Compagnie du Zerep, Sturbzep turns the stage into a machine of collective hallucinations. Drawing on hoaxes, cryptids and literary impostures, the piece mixes haunted-manor atmospheres, neon-free fairground textures and prophetic nightmares. Sophie Lenoir, Stéphane Roger, Erge Yu, Adrien Castillo and Baptiste de Laubier embody a controlled chaos of creatures and smoky visions. Text by Pacôme Thiellement and music by hackedepicciotto shape an uncanny, theatrical odyssey.
In French.
Mae presents songs from her new six-track EP ‘+ belle en blues’, a pop project that reads like a personal diary. Her voice navigates moments of doubt and affirmation, vulnerability and the search for identity, voicing a generation’s questioning. The set favors intimate, direct arrangements with piano and subtle textures, framed by a clear artistic direction that privileges sincerity and emotional clarity, inviting listeners into close, confessional moments.
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
This session begins with a brief presentation of an artwork, then leads into a yoga class suitable for all levels. The practice emphasizes breath, alignment and fluid sequencing to build strength, flexibility and body awareness. Guided cues will address posture modifications and injury prevention, while fostering mindful presence and stress reduction. Participants explore accessible techniques to deepen personal practice and integrate movement with mental focus.
In French.
Geneva Watch Days brings together independent watchmakers and established maisons to present contemporary horology as a field of craft and design. The exhibition assembles over 150 timepieces, including mechanical movements, artisanal finishing and experimental prototypes, ranging from handcrafted complications to concept pieces. Emphasizing materiality and mechanical ingenuity, the presentation explores the tension between tradition and innovation and how makers negotiate identity through movement, dial design and the aesthetics of measurement.
Written, directed and performed by Adrien Buensod and Maxence Marmy, Le vol des mouettes is an absurd tragicomedy about isolation and the ritualisation of bureaucracy. Two government agents stranded on a remote island decode confidential messages as routine and procedure acquire surreal weight. Actor director Martine Corthésy shapes the performers’ delicate balance between precision and bewilderment; Lam Do sculpts the world with spare lighting and technical design. The piece unfolds with dark humour and lingering unease, attentive to timing and silence.
In French.
The Pachamama Connexion Festival is a warm, community-focused celebration that brings people together through music, visual arts and world cuisine. Open to everyone, it mixes concerts, international flavors, art installations and convivial encounters to create an inclusive, creative atmosphere. Families, neighbours and newcomers are invited to connect, exchange stories and share activities that nurture community bonds. The seventh edition is announced with programming to come.
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