Step back to a time long before dinosaurs and explore the strange world preserved in the Burgess Shale. Follow the clues left by ancient creatures, discover how paleontologists study fossils, and meet amazing animals like Opabinia, with its five eyes and claw-tipped proboscis. This journey into deep time shows how scientists uncover secrets hidden in rock and rebuild the story of life on Earth.
Kids ages 7 and up.
Join a colorful costume parade where children and families paint faces and dress as ghosts and heroes. Follow lively jazz musicians through the streets, feel trumpets and drums, and step into a short exhibition visit to spot artworks. Sip warm squash soup, taste sweets, and dance under twinkling lights as the music builds to a final concert. Playful movements, bright colors, and rhythmic sounds make the evening a shared, creative celebration.
In French. Kids ages 0 and up.
Explore a showcase of 84 nominated timepieces and hands-on workshops. Join guided tours with watchmaking experts, listen to ticking mechanisms, and see delicate gears turn. Try beginner watchmaking skills like assembly and bevelling, or join youngsters’ sessions to make a colourful dial, practise engraving, or dismantle and rebuild a clock. Sessions mix sight, sound and fine touch to spark curiosity, creativity and careful observation in young makers.
Kids ages 4–12.
Explore spooky, playful adventures at Hallomania, a Halloween festival designed for families. Children will hunt for treats, solve mystery games, join guided night walks, take part in hands-on workshops, taste seasonal treats, and enjoy themed evenings. Activities combine storytelling, crafts, movement and sensory surprises to spark imagination and cooperative play. The programme encourages creativity, curiosity and shared discovery across a variety of family-friendly formats.
Listen to vivid Greek myths brought to life in a musical reading. A storyteller narrates tales of gods, heroes and journeys while a double bass weaves deep, warm tones. Projected book images flash across the scene as voices shape love, battle, and adventure. Kids will imagine sea winds, thunder, and colorful robes, follow short episodes, and feel the rhythm of epic stories. This shared listening sparks curiosity, language play, and wonder.
Kids ages 5 and up.
Pillowgraphies answers a yearning for lightness. It attempts to escape gravity and unfold a dance in which the body dissolves into a soft, buoyant figure — a ghost. The performance plunges into a nocturnal, joyful world where floating replaces walking, sliding becomes movement and walking turns absurd. The company invites playful participation after the show, opening the stage for collective dancing and shared, exuberant moments.
In French.
Step into Euphonia, an interactive sound installation inspired by Hector Berlioz’s tale Euphonia ou La Ville musicale. Here you don’t just listen: you blow, build, play, probe and invent together. Along the route you create your own instrument before exploring a vast participatory organ. Sounds circulate, answer each other and meet to form a collective composition. No musical training is required — a playful sonic adventure to share with family.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
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