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Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Malte Marten, handpan virtuoso, returns with Bummela and percussionist Conrado Molina for an intimate, atmospheric set. Marten’s decade-long devotion to the handpan shapes meditative compositions that slow time and invite deep listening. Conrado Molina adds virtuoso rhythms and world-music vocal colours, while multi-instrumentalist and producer Bummela layers rich textures and subtle electronic touches. Together they weave a warm, contemplative soundscape where melody and rhythm dissolve boundaries between players and listeners, fostering moments of quiet connection and shared wonder.
Historian Johann Boillat presents a historical perspective on Geneva’s watchmaking and its transformations in the early twentieth century. He frames the discussion through a study of a work from the collection.
The session examines how crisis and regulatory responses reshaped Geneva’s watchmaking branch, investigating industrial reorganization, labour and production changes, and the role of regulatory frameworks in stabilizing the sector. It reveals how material culture and archival objects illuminate broader economic and social shifts.
In French.
Choreographed by Catol Teixeira, Baby Teeth is a ten-dancer work that inhabits the mouth as a site of taste, biting and contagion. The piece weaves song, movement and tactile materials into a polyphonic choreography where pleasure and pain coexist. Collaborating with visual artists, poets and lighting designers, the ensemble explores memory, transmission and the birth of language through shifting textures and intimate gestures. The multinational creative team brings a collective, ritual quality to a sensory, transformative journey.
This Swiss documentary by Antshi von Moos follows a poetic inquiry into the hidden chemistry and quiet intelligence of the plant world. From Zurich laboratories to living gardens, it brings together scientific research, ecological thought, and artistic imagination. Biologist Florianne Koechlin traces communication between plants, fungi, insects, and microbes, while Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger shape surreal installations from their living garden. The result is a sensorial reflection on the bonds linking nature, art, and human perception.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Malte Marten, handpan virtuoso, returns with Bummela and percussionist Conrado Molina for an intimate, atmospheric set. Marten’s decade-long devotion to the handpan shapes meditative compositions that slow time and invite deep listening. Conrado Molina adds virtuoso rhythms and world-music vocal colours, while multi-instrumentalist and producer Bummela layers rich textures and subtle electronic touches. Together they weave a warm, contemplative soundscape where melody and rhythm dissolve boundaries between players and listeners, fostering moments of quiet connection and shared wonder.
Historian Johann Boillat presents a historical perspective on Geneva’s watchmaking and its transformations in the early twentieth century. He frames the discussion through a study of a work from the collection.
The session examines how crisis and regulatory responses reshaped Geneva’s watchmaking branch, investigating industrial reorganization, labour and production changes, and the role of regulatory frameworks in stabilizing the sector. It reveals how material culture and archival objects illuminate broader economic and social shifts.
In French.
Choreographed by Catol Teixeira, Baby Teeth is a ten-dancer work that inhabits the mouth as a site of taste, biting and contagion. The piece weaves song, movement and tactile materials into a polyphonic choreography where pleasure and pain coexist. Collaborating with visual artists, poets and lighting designers, the ensemble explores memory, transmission and the birth of language through shifting textures and intimate gestures. The multinational creative team brings a collective, ritual quality to a sensory, transformative journey.
This Swiss documentary by Antshi von Moos follows a poetic inquiry into the hidden chemistry and quiet intelligence of the plant world. From Zurich laboratories to living gardens, it brings together scientific research, ecological thought, and artistic imagination. Biologist Florianne Koechlin traces communication between plants, fungi, insects, and microbes, while Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger shape surreal installations from their living garden. The result is a sensorial reflection on the bonds linking nature, art, and human perception.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Malte Marten, handpan virtuoso, returns with Bummela and percussionist Conrado Molina for an intimate, atmospheric set. Marten’s decade-long devotion to the handpan shapes meditative compositions that slow time and invite deep listening. Conrado Molina adds virtuoso rhythms and world-music vocal colours, while multi-instrumentalist and producer Bummela layers rich textures and subtle electronic touches. Together they weave a warm, contemplative soundscape where melody and rhythm dissolve boundaries between players and listeners, fostering moments of quiet connection and shared wonder.
Historian Johann Boillat presents a historical perspective on Geneva’s watchmaking and its transformations in the early twentieth century. He frames the discussion through a study of a work from the collection.
The session examines how crisis and regulatory responses reshaped Geneva’s watchmaking branch, investigating industrial reorganization, labour and production changes, and the role of regulatory frameworks in stabilizing the sector. It reveals how material culture and archival objects illuminate broader economic and social shifts.
In French.
Choreographed by Catol Teixeira, Baby Teeth is a ten-dancer work that inhabits the mouth as a site of taste, biting and contagion. The piece weaves song, movement and tactile materials into a polyphonic choreography where pleasure and pain coexist. Collaborating with visual artists, poets and lighting designers, the ensemble explores memory, transmission and the birth of language through shifting textures and intimate gestures. The multinational creative team brings a collective, ritual quality to a sensory, transformative journey.
This Swiss documentary by Antshi von Moos follows a poetic inquiry into the hidden chemistry and quiet intelligence of the plant world. From Zurich laboratories to living gardens, it brings together scientific research, ecological thought, and artistic imagination. Biologist Florianne Koechlin traces communication between plants, fungi, insects, and microbes, while Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger shape surreal installations from their living garden. The result is a sensorial reflection on the bonds linking nature, art, and human perception.
FURTHER AFIELD
An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Join a snowy adventure when Santa catches a cold! Mrs. Claus and the mischievous elf Gus flip through a magic grimoire, sing playful songs and try curious remedies to get Santa back on his feet. Children will laugh at silly antics, join in rhythmic tunes, and watch colorful scenes unfold as the story mixes humor, warmth and a sprinkle of holiday magic. Interactive moments spark imagination and gentle lessons about caring for others.
In French.
Directed by Guy Cassiers and starring Valérie Dréville, this stage adaptation of Camille de Toledo’s novel blends documentary and fiction. Through photographs, letters and manuscripts, the performance traces a family’s history across generations as a man seeks rebirth amid loss. The staging mixes intimate memory, myth and collective history with a restrained visual language and careful dramaturgy, inviting a delicate, atmospheric encounter with grief, identity and transmission.
In French.
Join a warm, safe, secular and non-therapeutic meeting open to everyone, where we share experiences, emotions and needs with respectful, compassionate listening. Facilitated by Fabienne Regad, a companion for bereaved people, together with a cultural mediator, we create space to speak, be heard and connect. This gathering welcomes all who wish to reflect on loss, exchange stories, and find supportive company in a caring community.
Join the ADC community for a warm celebration of its 40th anniversary. Everyone is invited to share in an evening of performances, music, cake and small surprises. Come as you are, curious and enthusiastic, to connect with artists, neighbours and fellow participants. The event is a chance to celebrate collective history, exchange stories and enjoy informal encounters that highlight our shared creative spirit.
An adaptation of Jusque dans nos bras, this theatrical staging follows Alice—half Kabyle, half Norman—and Mad, her childhood friend returned from Mali, as they confront hostile immigration procedures and social exclusion. The play blends narrative, direct address and collective performance: voices multiply, perspectives intersect and an ensemble becomes a space of solidarity, joy and resistance. Intimate choices become political acts, exploring identity, belonging and youthful refusal to resign.
In French.
Elodie Arnould is back with a brand new show. With humor and tenderness, she explores everything that shapes us: the heritage we receive, the values we pass on, family, long-term relationships, positive parenting… or almost, and those little wounds we learn to transform into strengths.
P.S. Her partner doesn’t know about the jokes Elodie makes about him, so come quickly before they get censored.
In French.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Malte Marten, handpan virtuoso, returns with Bummela and percussionist Conrado Molina for an intimate, atmospheric set. Marten’s decade-long devotion to the handpan shapes meditative compositions that slow time and invite deep listening. Conrado Molina adds virtuoso rhythms and world-music vocal colours, while multi-instrumentalist and producer Bummela layers rich textures and subtle electronic touches. Together they weave a warm, contemplative soundscape where melody and rhythm dissolve boundaries between players and listeners, fostering moments of quiet connection and shared wonder.
Historian Johann Boillat presents a historical perspective on Geneva’s watchmaking and its transformations in the early twentieth century. He frames the discussion through a study of a work from the collection.
The session examines how crisis and regulatory responses reshaped Geneva’s watchmaking branch, investigating industrial reorganization, labour and production changes, and the role of regulatory frameworks in stabilizing the sector. It reveals how material culture and archival objects illuminate broader economic and social shifts.
In French.
Choreographed by Catol Teixeira, Baby Teeth is a ten-dancer work that inhabits the mouth as a site of taste, biting and contagion. The piece weaves song, movement and tactile materials into a polyphonic choreography where pleasure and pain coexist. Collaborating with visual artists, poets and lighting designers, the ensemble explores memory, transmission and the birth of language through shifting textures and intimate gestures. The multinational creative team brings a collective, ritual quality to a sensory, transformative journey.
This Swiss documentary by Antshi von Moos follows a poetic inquiry into the hidden chemistry and quiet intelligence of the plant world. From Zurich laboratories to living gardens, it brings together scientific research, ecological thought, and artistic imagination. Biologist Florianne Koechlin traces communication between plants, fungi, insects, and microbes, while Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger shape surreal installations from their living garden. The result is a sensorial reflection on the bonds linking nature, art, and human perception.
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An intimate museum in the heart of Geneva, the Musée Tatiana Zoubov presents the refined collection assembled by its namesake collector. Paintings, furniture, porcelain, silverware and decorative objects evoke the atmosphere of a private European collection, offering a glimpse into the tastes and art of living of another era.
In the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the International Museum of the Reformation traces the history and legacy of the Protestant Reformation from the 16th century to the present day. Historical objects, artworks and immersive displays explore a movement that profoundly shaped Geneva and influenced societies around the world.
Located in the historic heart of Carouge, the Musée de Carouge explores the artistic and cultural heritage of this distinctive town. Its collections and temporary exhibitions bring together fine and decorative arts, local history and contemporary creation, reflecting Carouge’s unique identity and creative spirit.
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