Wednesday 18 February, 19:30

Antigel Festival – Earl Sweatshirt

Performances

Alhambra

Booking Required

Earl Sweatshirt stands at the center of a stripped-back concert that foregrounds intimacy and introspection. Performing material from his 2025 album Live Laugh Love, he turns doubts, scars and the contradictions of fatherhood into hushed, razor‑sharp verses. Minimal, lo‑fi arrangements and a raw, candid delivery create a hypnotic atmosphere where silence and texture matter as much as rhyme. The result is an immersive, confessional evening revealing a more vulnerable, inventive side of a singular artist.

Rue de la Rôtisserie 10,
1204 Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

5 February – 1 March

Festival Antigel

Cool Stuff Performances

Multiple locations

Festival Antigel transforms Geneva into an experimental cultural playground each winter, a three-week laboratory of innovation. Programming mixes renowned and emerging artists across music, performance and visual projects, revealing unexpected sites and blending disciplines. The festival foregrounds diversity and social engagement, bringing together varied audiences through bold curations. Lighting, sound and staging often shape intimate, cinematic atmospheres, while collaborative projects emphasize discovery, collective energy and the thrill of shared, ephemeral encounters.

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5 – 15 February

LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR

Performances

POCHE /GVE

Directed by Geneviève Pasquier and performed by Vincent Babel, LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR stages Eugène’s cathartic gesture of writing to Nicolae Ceauşescu. The production blends intimate monologue with archival echoes, folding fragments of Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue into a jazz-tinged score that punctuates memory and revelation. The creative space favors spare tableaux, tactile sound textures and a nimble rhythm that offsets historical weight with mischievous warmth, transforming personal trauma into a tender, witty coming-of-age confession.

In French.

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11 – 22 February

Simple Machines

Performances

Théâtre des Marionnettes

Choreographer Ugo Dehaes replaces his human troupe with extravagant robot-dancers endowed with an artificial intelligence that invents their own choreography. Intimate and unsettling, the performance invites the audience to sit around a table as the mechanised performers execute an uncanny, rhythmic ballet. Marie Peeters’ dramaturgy frames questions about labour, profit and the place of culture, while Wannes Deneer’s scenography and musical composition shape a tactile, immersive atmosphere. The piece blends humour, critique and physical precision.

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12 November 2025 – 13 May 2026, some Wednesdays

Jazz Night Latina | Edwin Sanz

Performances

Le Chaudron – EMA

The Jazz Night Latina offers an evening featuring a concert by percussionist Edwin Sanz and his musicians, followed by a jam session open to all musicians. Bring your instruments and join this celebration of Latin jazz.

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11 – 13 February

Chiara Bersani — Sottobosco

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Choreographer Chiara Bersani invites the audience into the undergrowth of an imagined forest, performed in duo with dancer Elena Sgarbossa and a group of workshop participants. The piece stages bodies limited by disability to probe movement, survival and collective care. Inspired by confinement and the inequalities revealed by the pandemic, it turns the stage into an ecosystem — a vibrating floor, layered soundscape and a shared spatial attention — where small gestures, bodily memory and vulnerability become transformative forces and the basis for a newly imagined community.

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Wednesday 11 February, 19:30

Pom Pom Pom Pom

Performances

Victoria Hall

Under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann will join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) for a concert at Victoria Hall. The program features Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” Overture, Frank Martin’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,” and Beethoven’s iconic “Symphony No. 5.” This evening offers a captivating journey through pieces that evoke nature, enchantment, and dramatic power, with a total duration of about 1 hour and 40 minutes, including an intermission.

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Antigel Festival – Earl Sweatshirt