Thursday 2 April, 17:30

Labyrinths: Workshop Tour for Teens

MAH

Booking Required

An interactive visit-workshop for adolescents that explores museum spaces through the theme of labyrinths. Participants will navigate exhibitions, encounter unusual objects, and investigate the stories behind them while reflecting on pathways and symbolism. The workshop component guides teens in designing and constructing their own personal labyrinths, emphasizing creative problem-solving, material experimentation, and narrative thinking. Adults may join the visit but the hands-on creation session is dedicated to adolescents.

In French. Ages 13 to 18.

Rue Charles-GALLAND 2,
1206 Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

Saturday 28 March, 14:30

Pakatrap: A street art discovery walk

Kids Lectures & Workshops

Barrage du Seujet

Graffiti artist Amikal presents an in-depth exploration of Geneva’s street art scene through murals, tags and public interventions. The narrative situates tagging and graffiti within contemporary urban culture, unpacking origins, symbolism, authorship and networks among practitioners. Works range from large-scale painted murals to intimate tags and site-specific interventions, while discussions address techniques, materials and the codes that shape this subversive visual language. The project reveals how street practices negotiate public space and cultural visibility.

In French.

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28 January – 23 December

Create Your Own Rousseau-Style Herbarium

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.

In French.

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24 – 29 March

La Cour des Contes Festival

Kids Lectures & Workshops

Multiple locations

La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.

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Saturday 28 March, 14:00

Histoire et Cité : The Magical Scrolls of Christian Ethiopia

Lectures & Workshops

Bibliothèque du MEG

Anaïs Wion, historian and research director at the CNRS, studies Ethiopian Christian spiritual medicine, manuscript traditions, and their social role.

This lecture examines Ethiopian magical-religious scrolls—parchment talismans made by dabtara—combining prayers, spells and images to protect and heal. Wion examines their production, iconography and historical role in spiritual medicine, revealing how textual and visual practices mediate healing and belief in Christian Ethiopian communities.

In French.

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19 – 29 March

ECHO Festival

Art & Exhibits Lectures & Workshops

Le Commun

Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.

In French.

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Saturday 28 March, 09:30

Seed Saving and Propagation for Beginners

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

This practical course provides an introduction to seed saving and propagation for home gardeners. It explores how to choose easy heirloom and open-pollinated varieties, basic techniques for collecting, cleaning and storing seeds, and simple methods to maintain varietal traits. The session examines crop-specific tips for beans, tomatoes and salad greens, and addresses the ecological and food‑security benefits of seed autonomy, helping participants gain skills to produce and preserve seeds at home.

In French.

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Labyrinths: Workshop Tour for Teens