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Titi Robin and Roberto Saadna, iconic figures in the world of Gypsy music, reunite for a new show as part of the Plan-les-Ouates Cultural Season 2025-2026. Their collaboration, which dates back to the 1990s, has been instrumental in ushering in a new wave of Gypsy music. Joined by the ensemble Ma Gavali, they present an original repertoire sung in Catalan Gypsy and Spanish, reflecting the essence of their albums “Gitans” and “Un ciel de cuivre.”
Echoes of Freedom brings together Palestinian and Sudanese voices through art, music and communal creation. Workshops, a market, talks, live performances and DJ sets invite artists, activists and neighbours to share practices, debate and build solidarity. All proceeds are donated to Palestinian and Sudanese associations fighting colonisation, gender-based violence and imperialist dynamics. This inclusive event welcomes everyone to connect, create and stand together in community.
Nicknamed “the man with singing fingers,” Rəhman Məmmədli blends mugham traditions, Karabakh folk influences and psychedelic electric guitar into a hypnotic, singular sound. Joined by Tural Məmmədli on keys and Elshad Abdulrahimov on percussion, he promises an intense evening of Eastern melodies and blazing solos.
An intimate acoustic set by a guitar-and-voice duo that revisits Uruguayan and Brazilian song traditions. The programme blends gentle rhythmic motifs, warm nylon-string textures and close-harmony vocals, moving between breezy candombe-tinged grooves and reflective ballads. The staging favors simplicity: sparse sonorities, intimate lighting and close listening that foregrounds nuance and phrasing. The performance invites quiet conviviality and transportive nostalgia, offering a delicate, sensual listening experience that highlights the melodic and rhythmic richness of South American popular traditions.
Choreographed by Jeremy Nedd and featuring a new creation by Jolie Ngemi, this graduation programme brings together the young performers of La Manufacture’s Bachelor in Contemporary Dance. Nedd’s work probes racial and collective questions, exploring how communities form amid social and political tensions. The evening showcases ensemble pieces performed by the graduating cohort and framed by attentive technical support, offering a vivid, physical investigation of identity, belonging and shared resilience.
Barbara Smits and Florence Vial create a captivating dialogue between painting and sculpture, bringing together two distinct artistic practices united by a shared sensitivity to form, material, and expression. Through the interplay of colour, texture, volume, and gesture, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the relationships between abstraction and representation, movement and stillness, imagination and perception. Celebrating the richness of contemporary artistic creation, this encounter offers an engaging visual experience where each artist’s work enhances and resonates with the other, opening new perspectives on the dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00.
Directed as an in situ promenade, this performance follows two protagonists, P. and B., through the city’s hidden seams. B. conspires to seed an exuberant vegetal uprising, mastering invasive plants to unsettle urban order. P. slips into the city’s blind spots, picking locks and slipping through barriers to reveal alternative ways of inhabiting public space. The show mixes physical theatre, poetic staging and ecological imagination to explore rewilding, intimacy and civic subversion.
In French.
Titi Robin and Roberto Saadna, iconic figures in the world of Gypsy music, reunite for a new show as part of the Plan-les-Ouates Cultural Season 2025-2026. Their collaboration, which dates back to the 1990s, has been instrumental in ushering in a new wave of Gypsy music. Joined by the ensemble Ma Gavali, they present an original repertoire sung in Catalan Gypsy and Spanish, reflecting the essence of their albums “Gitans” and “Un ciel de cuivre.”
Echoes of Freedom brings together Palestinian and Sudanese voices through art, music and communal creation. Workshops, a market, talks, live performances and DJ sets invite artists, activists and neighbours to share practices, debate and build solidarity. All proceeds are donated to Palestinian and Sudanese associations fighting colonisation, gender-based violence and imperialist dynamics. This inclusive event welcomes everyone to connect, create and stand together in community.
Nicknamed “the man with singing fingers,” Rəhman Məmmədli blends mugham traditions, Karabakh folk influences and psychedelic electric guitar into a hypnotic, singular sound. Joined by Tural Məmmədli on keys and Elshad Abdulrahimov on percussion, he promises an intense evening of Eastern melodies and blazing solos.
An intimate acoustic set by a guitar-and-voice duo that revisits Uruguayan and Brazilian song traditions. The programme blends gentle rhythmic motifs, warm nylon-string textures and close-harmony vocals, moving between breezy candombe-tinged grooves and reflective ballads. The staging favors simplicity: sparse sonorities, intimate lighting and close listening that foregrounds nuance and phrasing. The performance invites quiet conviviality and transportive nostalgia, offering a delicate, sensual listening experience that highlights the melodic and rhythmic richness of South American popular traditions.
Choreographed by Jeremy Nedd and featuring a new creation by Jolie Ngemi, this graduation programme brings together the young performers of La Manufacture’s Bachelor in Contemporary Dance. Nedd’s work probes racial and collective questions, exploring how communities form amid social and political tensions. The evening showcases ensemble pieces performed by the graduating cohort and framed by attentive technical support, offering a vivid, physical investigation of identity, belonging and shared resilience.
Barbara Smits and Florence Vial create a captivating dialogue between painting and sculpture, bringing together two distinct artistic practices united by a shared sensitivity to form, material, and expression. Through the interplay of colour, texture, volume, and gesture, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the relationships between abstraction and representation, movement and stillness, imagination and perception. Celebrating the richness of contemporary artistic creation, this encounter offers an engaging visual experience where each artist’s work enhances and resonates with the other, opening new perspectives on the dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00.
Directed as an in situ promenade, this performance follows two protagonists, P. and B., through the city’s hidden seams. B. conspires to seed an exuberant vegetal uprising, mastering invasive plants to unsettle urban order. P. slips into the city’s blind spots, picking locks and slipping through barriers to reveal alternative ways of inhabiting public space. The show mixes physical theatre, poetic staging and ecological imagination to explore rewilding, intimacy and civic subversion.
In French.
Titi Robin and Roberto Saadna, iconic figures in the world of Gypsy music, reunite for a new show as part of the Plan-les-Ouates Cultural Season 2025-2026. Their collaboration, which dates back to the 1990s, has been instrumental in ushering in a new wave of Gypsy music. Joined by the ensemble Ma Gavali, they present an original repertoire sung in Catalan Gypsy and Spanish, reflecting the essence of their albums “Gitans” and “Un ciel de cuivre.”
Echoes of Freedom brings together Palestinian and Sudanese voices through art, music and communal creation. Workshops, a market, talks, live performances and DJ sets invite artists, activists and neighbours to share practices, debate and build solidarity. All proceeds are donated to Palestinian and Sudanese associations fighting colonisation, gender-based violence and imperialist dynamics. This inclusive event welcomes everyone to connect, create and stand together in community.
Nicknamed “the man with singing fingers,” Rəhman Məmmədli blends mugham traditions, Karabakh folk influences and psychedelic electric guitar into a hypnotic, singular sound. Joined by Tural Məmmədli on keys and Elshad Abdulrahimov on percussion, he promises an intense evening of Eastern melodies and blazing solos.
An intimate acoustic set by a guitar-and-voice duo that revisits Uruguayan and Brazilian song traditions. The programme blends gentle rhythmic motifs, warm nylon-string textures and close-harmony vocals, moving between breezy candombe-tinged grooves and reflective ballads. The staging favors simplicity: sparse sonorities, intimate lighting and close listening that foregrounds nuance and phrasing. The performance invites quiet conviviality and transportive nostalgia, offering a delicate, sensual listening experience that highlights the melodic and rhythmic richness of South American popular traditions.
Choreographed by Jeremy Nedd and featuring a new creation by Jolie Ngemi, this graduation programme brings together the young performers of La Manufacture’s Bachelor in Contemporary Dance. Nedd’s work probes racial and collective questions, exploring how communities form amid social and political tensions. The evening showcases ensemble pieces performed by the graduating cohort and framed by attentive technical support, offering a vivid, physical investigation of identity, belonging and shared resilience.
Barbara Smits and Florence Vial create a captivating dialogue between painting and sculpture, bringing together two distinct artistic practices united by a shared sensitivity to form, material, and expression. Through the interplay of colour, texture, volume, and gesture, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the relationships between abstraction and representation, movement and stillness, imagination and perception. Celebrating the richness of contemporary artistic creation, this encounter offers an engaging visual experience where each artist’s work enhances and resonates with the other, opening new perspectives on the dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00.
Alejandro Vaccaro, collector and biographer of Jorge Luis Borges, appears with Alejandro Roemmers (poet and entrepreneur) and Roberto Alifano (author, poet and essayist) to present their research and collections.
The roundtable examines how collecting practices shape narratives around Borges, exploring notable objects, metonymic extensions of the writer, and the philosophical stakes of preserving literary heritage. Vaccaro will show selected items from his private collection and speakers reflect on memory, curation and literary legacy.
In Spanish.
Barbara Smits and Florence Vial create a captivating dialogue between painting and sculpture, bringing together two distinct artistic practices united by a shared sensitivity to form, material, and expression. Through the interplay of colour, texture, volume, and gesture, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the relationships between abstraction and representation, movement and stillness, imagination and perception. Celebrating the richness of contemporary artistic creation, this encounter offers an engaging visual experience where each artist’s work enhances and resonates with the other, opening new perspectives on the dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00.
“Wasted Land” by Ntando Cele at the Maison Saint-Gervais combines song, music, dance, and multimedia to tackle the climate crisis. The performance shifts between dynamic and contemplative multidisciplinary sequences, highlighting the destruction wrought by fast fashion and the often hypocritical ecological responses, contrasting impoverished nations with Western powers.
Students from the schools of Meyrin-Village, Bellavista, Champs-Fréchets, Boudines, De-Livron and Cointrin present collective visual work created for the 30th anniversary of the forum. Inspired by Nicolas Faure’s 1995 portrait series Meyrin, citoyens du monde, the works revisit civic identity through portraits, self-portraits and imagined futures. Guided by visual-arts teachers, roughly six hundred pupils contribute a wide range of approaches and materials that explore memory, community and the evolution of the cité.
Kesbara is the intimate duo of Dida Guigan (voice and riq) and Romain Luder (guitar and voice). Born from a creative urgency in response to the 2023 crisis in Gaza and the wider Middle East, their music offers a soulful, poignant homage to lives lost. Drawing on Cham region classical and popular repertoire alongside contemporary compositions, their songs weave Arabic and French phrases, building fragile cultural bridges. The result is a tender, evocative musical remedy—coriander as metaphor—for a troubled world.
Lambda’s inaugural edition explores Afro House, Deep House and Melodic House through an evening of poised, immersive sound. A curated lineup of local and guest DJs weaves energetic grooves and refined textures, inviting both seasoned clubbers and curious listeners into a warm, dance-centered atmosphere. The concept privileges musical flow and communal connection, where attention to sonic detail meets a convivial, shared experience—Lambda: where music, people and energy connect.
Conceived by pianist and composer Alain Roche, this intimate performance unfolds around the fragile threshold between silence and light. Roche’s piano creates a contemplative, enveloping soundworld that privileges listening and resonance over virtuosity. Between contemporary composition, performative gesture and sensory experience, the piece invites inward attention through subtle dynamics, resonant decay and the careful interplay of sound and space.
Directed as an in situ promenade, this performance follows two protagonists, P. and B., through the city’s hidden seams. B. conspires to seed an exuberant vegetal uprising, mastering invasive plants to unsettle urban order. P. slips into the city’s blind spots, picking locks and slipping through barriers to reveal alternative ways of inhabiting public space. The show mixes physical theatre, poetic staging and ecological imagination to explore rewilding, intimacy and civic subversion.
In French.
Titi Robin and Roberto Saadna, iconic figures in the world of Gypsy music, reunite for a new show as part of the Plan-les-Ouates Cultural Season 2025-2026. Their collaboration, which dates back to the 1990s, has been instrumental in ushering in a new wave of Gypsy music. Joined by the ensemble Ma Gavali, they present an original repertoire sung in Catalan Gypsy and Spanish, reflecting the essence of their albums “Gitans” and “Un ciel de cuivre.”
Echoes of Freedom brings together Palestinian and Sudanese voices through art, music and communal creation. Workshops, a market, talks, live performances and DJ sets invite artists, activists and neighbours to share practices, debate and build solidarity. All proceeds are donated to Palestinian and Sudanese associations fighting colonisation, gender-based violence and imperialist dynamics. This inclusive event welcomes everyone to connect, create and stand together in community.
Nicknamed “the man with singing fingers,” Rəhman Məmmədli blends mugham traditions, Karabakh folk influences and psychedelic electric guitar into a hypnotic, singular sound. Joined by Tural Məmmədli on keys and Elshad Abdulrahimov on percussion, he promises an intense evening of Eastern melodies and blazing solos.
An intimate acoustic set by a guitar-and-voice duo that revisits Uruguayan and Brazilian song traditions. The programme blends gentle rhythmic motifs, warm nylon-string textures and close-harmony vocals, moving between breezy candombe-tinged grooves and reflective ballads. The staging favors simplicity: sparse sonorities, intimate lighting and close listening that foregrounds nuance and phrasing. The performance invites quiet conviviality and transportive nostalgia, offering a delicate, sensual listening experience that highlights the melodic and rhythmic richness of South American popular traditions.
Choreographed by Jeremy Nedd and featuring a new creation by Jolie Ngemi, this graduation programme brings together the young performers of La Manufacture’s Bachelor in Contemporary Dance. Nedd’s work probes racial and collective questions, exploring how communities form amid social and political tensions. The evening showcases ensemble pieces performed by the graduating cohort and framed by attentive technical support, offering a vivid, physical investigation of identity, belonging and shared resilience.
Barbara Smits and Florence Vial create a captivating dialogue between painting and sculpture, bringing together two distinct artistic practices united by a shared sensitivity to form, material, and expression. Through the interplay of colour, texture, volume, and gesture, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the relationships between abstraction and representation, movement and stillness, imagination and perception. Celebrating the richness of contemporary artistic creation, this encounter offers an engaging visual experience where each artist’s work enhances and resonates with the other, opening new perspectives on the dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00.
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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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