Malandro, artist and illustrator, leads a practical workshop focused on observational sketching and illustration. He demonstrates quick-study techniques to capture form, gesture and mood with economy and expressiveness.
After a brief tour of the exhibition that inspired the session, participants explore cafés as motifs, practising composition, line work and shading. The workshop examines how simple marks can reveal atmosphere, social interaction and the character of everyday objects.
Designed for emerging professionals and recent graduates, this workshop explores puppetry through the creation of a short performance. Four to five young artists are supported through a guided process from idea to stage, with mentorship in direction, dramaturgy and construction. Participants develop a compact work presented at a public work-in-progress showcase. The programme also offers the chance to win a fully funded four-week training placement in 2027 at Odradek, near Toulouse.
In French.
An interactive writing workshop that explores how humor can be used to discuss sustainability without moralizing. Through guided exercises, participants write short texts that address ecological, social and economic aspects of sustainability while practising comedic writing techniques such as timing, framing and irony. The session examines strategies to balance critique and empathy and investigates how humour reveals complex issues and fosters constructive public dialogue.
In French.
Les Ateliers Acrylique are a theatrical school that celebrates the strength of group work and the intensity of stage experience. The workshops present performances written especially for participants — children, teenagers and adults — and are led by professional artists. Creators involved include Nathalie Jaggi, Delphine Demeure, Lua Gomes, Léa Ines Batoua, Evelyne Castellino, Basile Campanelli and Luca Léone. The programme emphasises collective creation, practical stage skills and ensemble dynamics.
In French.
Silvia Hopenhayn, Argentine writer and cultural journalist, offers close readings of Jorge Luis Borges’s fiction and its formal strategies, drawing on her experience with Latin American literature and criticism.
She examines Borges’s short stories, focusing on character creation, paradoxes, enumerations and rhetorical devices, and argues that these brief narratives act as inventive gestures. The session explores figures like Pierre Menard, Funes and Emma Zunz and investigates how form and erudition reveal singular subjectivities.
In French.
Anne Emery‑Torracinta examines Switzerland’s role in Rwanda between 1950 and 1994 in this investigative study. She explores Swiss cooperation before and during the sequence of events that culminated in the 1994 genocide, showing that Switzerland, present in Rwanda since independence, often looked the other way and failed to use its influence to pressure the Rwandan regime. The discussion will be moderated by Jean‑Philippe Ceppi. Book published by éditions Slatkine.
In French.
Nicolas Freyre, head gardener, oversees the garden’s living and preserved plant collections and collaborates with scientific teams on conservation and research.
This presentation examines the institution’s mission, activities, and research-driven conservation practices, highlighting a herbarium of over six million specimens, a comprehensive botanical library, and a living collection of more than 11,000 species, many rare or endangered. It explores how curated collections inform biodiversity knowledge and preservation strategies.
In French.
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