Sunday 5 April, 14:00

Weaving and Crochet Workshop

Booking Required

This hands-on workshop explores basic weaving and assembly techniques using recycled textiles. Participants learn thread preparation—cutting, sorting and winding—and are introduced to lirette weaving with strips of recycled T‑shirts, plus crochet techniques for assembling pieces and creating texture. The session examines practical methods for transforming waste into functional objects and offers an educational takeaway to support continued practice at home, while emphasising textile reuse, slow making and material potential.

Avenue de la Paix 17,
1202 Genève

Photo Credit: ©Borlò

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Photo Credit: ©Borlò

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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Sunday 29 March, 14:00

BiblioWeekend 2026: Play, Pray, Collect

Lectures & Workshops

Bibliothèque du MEG

During BiblioWeekend 2026, a public conference explores the multifaceted nature of toys beyond their basic play function. Taking inspiration from Japanese and East Asian examples, the talk highlights how these objects transform into subjects of devotion and hold sentimental or religious significance, at times even being honored with funeral ceremonies. The presentation is led by Damien Kunik, curator in the Asia Department of the MEG.

In French.

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Sunday 29 March, 14:00

BiblioWeekend: Plant Play

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

Join a lively afternoon of storytelling, plant-themed games, puzzles and colouring inspired by biodiversity. Play in small groups or solo while exploring shapes, colours and textures of leaves and flowers. Listen to stories that bring gardens to life, try hands-on puzzles and fill bright pages with greens and blooms. Gentle movement games and curious questions spark imagination and nature curiosity, inviting kids to observe, play and create with plant friends.

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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Sunday 29 March, 11:00

BiblioWeekend 2026: Let’s Play

Kids Lectures & Workshops

Bibliothèque du MEG

For BiblioWeekend 2026, the MEG library hosts events centered around the theme “Play,” with a special focus on Japan and East Asia. The lineup includes a continuous toy-making workshop throughout the day, a talk by Damien Kunik, a guided tour highlighting toys from the permanent collection, and a screening of “Little Nemo” as part of the Sunday cinema feature.

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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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