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5 – 13 March

Festa Mediterranea — Celebration of Southern Italy

Performances

Festa Mediterranea gathers musicians, dancers and tradition-bearers from Southern Italy in a celebration of communal ritual and seasonal renewal. Rooted in popular cultures, the program threads fervor, humour and virtuosic technique through concerts, a communal bal and dance workshops. Textures of voice, percussion and folk stringed instruments conjure pastoral landscapes, proposing an ecology of sound where heritage is continuously reinvented. The experience is both exuberant and intimate, inviting shared movement and attentive listening.

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6 – 8 March

Astral Festival

Cool Stuff

Multiple locations

Astral Festival gathers international DJs and local collectives for three nights of immersive electronic music and club-based performances. Curated sets move from dense, textured soundscapes to pulsing dancefloor drivers, framed by scenographic light and visual design that evoke a cosmic, nocturnal journey. The event foregrounds collaborations between producers, visual artists and venues, creating a communal, kinetic atmosphere that blends rave energy with curated sonic exploration.

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6 – 15 March

FIFDH – Geneva International Film and Forum Festival on Human Rights

Independent Cinema Lectures & Workshops

Multiple locations

Since 2003, FIFDH has combined cinema with the promotion of human rights, presenting socially conscious films alongside debates and discussions that engage activists, journalists, artists, diplomats, and the public. Held across multiple venues in Geneva, including the UN, theaters, museums, and hospitals, the festival showcases feature films and documentaries that highlight human rights struggles worldwide, encouraging dialogue, reflection, and action. FIFDH has welcomed Nobel laureates, renowned filmmakers, and leading voices in activism, making it a unique platform where art and advocacy intersect.

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3 – 17 March

L’imposture

Performances

Théâtre Alchimic

Created by Aurélie Hubeau and Lucie Hanoy, L’IMPOSTURE is a comic and poetic exploration of doubt, self-image and belonging. The piece follows a woman who describes herself as too small, obese, ugly and a tomboy, and recounts how she forged an identity in today’s world. Using objects, clothing and puppets manipulated with inventive choreography, the performance weaves humor, poetry and music — from Patrick Bruel to gospel and karaoke — to celebrate difference and question social norms, delivering warmth and poignancy.

In French.

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6 – 15 March

FIFDH: Oya – Clima Yaakaar

Art & Exhibits

Théâtre Pitoëff

Senegalese artists Mao Sidibé and Def Mama Def, together with dancers from École des Sables, present Oya – Clima Yaakaar, a collective project responding to the climate crisis. The work merges music, contemporary African dance and photography to foreground the health impacts of environmental change on vulnerable communities. Photographer Sylvain Cherkaoui contributes a visual layer that links performance with lived experience and humanitarian realities. The project evokes resilience and calls attention to collective hope and urgent care.

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Friday 6 March, 19:00

Anti-Nymphs | Five short films | Screening + conversation

Independent Cinema

Centre d'Art Contemporain

Curated as a cycle of five short works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Maria Klonaris and Katherina Thomadaki, Laure Prouvost, Mathilde Rosier and Josèfa Ntjam, Anti-Nymphs stages feminist rereadings of Greco‑Roman myths. These video essays and experimental shorts foreground body metamorphosis—gender, age and vegetal transformations—centering non‑conforming female bodies that unsettle dominant imaginaries. Textural imagery, fragmentary rhythms and tactile close-ups create a liminal, often uncanny atmosphere. The program proposes a subversive mythography that remaps ancient figures through contemporary, bodily poetics.

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Friday 6 March, 18:00

Let’s Be Woke

Lectures & Workshops

Librairie du Boulevard

Pierre Tevanian, philosopher, essayist and activist, presents his new book published by éditions Divergences. Drawing on philosophical argument and political engagement, he reclaims the stigma attached to ‘wokism’ and proposes a constructive reading: if wokism does not exist as a unified movement, it must be invented. Tevanian examines how claims for social justice shape public debate and invites affirmative strategies.

The discussion will be moderated by Valérie Opériol, lecturer at the University of Geneva, and will investigate questions of identity, political language and collective mobilisation.

In French.

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5 – 13 March

Festa Mediterranea — Celebration of Southern Italy

Performances

Multiple locations

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6 – 8 March