As part of the Société de Lecture’s NextGen programme, journalist and author Ambre Chalumeau joins bookseller and writing facilitator Typhaine Marc to discuss becoming a writer today. Drawing on her debut novel Les vivants (2025) and her literary podcast Liste de lecture, she reflects on writing as a vital, transformative practice shaped by contemporary culture and personal experience.
Welcome drinks from 19:00.
In French.
Week of events in Geneva bringing people together to confront racism through talks, roundtables, screenings, theatre, workshops, marches and guided visits. Activities are designed for all community members and include performances, film screenings, literary encounters, a human library, youth workshops and participatory theatre. The programme encourages listening, dialogue and collective reflection, offering multiple ways for neighbours and organisations to connect, learn and act together for a more inclusive city.
Four prominent members of the Geneva Magic Club present expertise in illusion, sleight of hand and mentalism, drawing on performance practice and historical knowledge.
The lecture examines continuities and transformations in stage magic from the early twentieth century to today, exploring how so-called ‘white magic’ entered the performing arts and how illusionists negotiate the term’s ambiguities. Live demonstrations illuminate techniques and thematic shifts within the discipline.
In French.
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.
François Bost, specialist in simulated magic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, researches conjuring, performance practices and historical archives related to illusion.
This lecture reexamines the 1856 mission of Jean‑Eugène Robert‑Houdin to Algeria, investigating its psychological and geopolitical aims to discredit marabouts. Bost uses previously unused archives and unpublished documents to propose new hypotheses and a revised interpretation of colonial tactics and public influence.
In French.
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.
Through mystery, belief and wonder, magic has threaded through societies since ancient times. For its 11th edition, this festival explores shifting boundaries between science and the supernatural, reason and the marvelous. Lectures, screenings, guided visits and hands-on workshops invite everyone to discover the history of magical practices from past to present and to reflect on our ongoing fascination with the unknown and the afterlife.
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