Jean-Quentin Haefliger, co-director of the International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva, brings curatorial expertise on Reformation-era artifacts and material culture.
This lecture examines hourglasses as both instruments and symbols, exploring major changes in Geneva’s horology through close study of an object specially removed from reserves. Haefliger investigates technological, social, cultural and religious dimensions of timekeeping during the Reformation period.
In French.
This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.
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.
This class blends dynamic yoga practices with functional conditioning, emphasizing breath, alignment and mobility. Participants work through flowing sequences and targeted strength exercises to improve posture, flexibility and core stability. The session examines movement principles and sequencing strategies that support sustainable progress and injury prevention. It is preceded by a short presentation of an artwork, offering a cultural frame for embodied practice.
In French.
An intensive workshop exploring the craft of comedic writing, focusing on voice, timing and comic structure. Participants analyse humorous texts, practise joke construction and develop short pieces with guided feedback. Practical exercises emphasise observation, rhythm, word choice and narrative surprise, and include iterative drafting to sharpen comedic effect. The programme highlights techniques for performance and written formats, encouraging revision, peer critique and strategies for sustaining a distinctive comic voice.
In French.
An interactive workshop that brings people together to prepare tamales collaboratively, exploring cooking as a space of oral transmission and collective practice. Participants will share techniques, stories and memories while learning the hands-on process of preparing and wrapping tamales and related regional variants. The session examines how recipes transform through migration and considers communal systems like the milpa—shared cultivation of maize, beans and squash—to reflect on food, identity and cultural memory.
Stéphane Ducret, artist, leads hands-on workshops inspired by various renowned contemporary artists (painters), focusing on figurative or abstract painting, depending on the theme of the day’s workshop. The foundation is self-expression: opening oneself up to experimentation, even without (thinking one knows how to) draw. Participants also explore composition, the layering of colors, and the application of paint—whether acrylic or oil—on primed canvas.
In French.
This summer, join us for workshops every Sunday, preceded by a barbecue and salad lunch starting at 12:00.
Sunday 28 June, 14:00 : Katherine Bradford
Sunday 5 July, 14:00: Henry Taylor
Sunday 12 July, 14:00: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Sunday 19 July, 14:00: Mamma Andersson
Sunday 2 August, 14:00: Rose Wylie
Sunday 9 August, 14:00: Ida Ekblad
Sunday 16 August, 14:00: Henry Ward
Sunday 23 August, 14:00: Richard Prince
Sunday 30 August, 14:00: Nicolas Party
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