This round table examines domestic photographs as intimate archives shaped by family memory, local history and social media. Anne Delrez works with La Conserverie, while Chrystel Mukeba is a visual artist and Caroline Recher is a historian and archivist. Moderated by Claire-Lise Debluë, the discussion explores how family albums, pinned portraits and shoebox collections become material for storytelling, intergenerational links and artistic creation.
The Department of Ancient Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (UNIGE) is offering a series of public lectures dedicated to interactions, exchanges, and cultural dynamics in the ancient world. Faculty members and researchers will explore diplomatic relations, the movement of objects, religious and linguistic influences, and issues of identity at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.
In French.
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.
Break dishes, then rebuild them into art. This creative workshop invites kids to explore shape, texture, and surprise as broken pieces meet new forms. They can test ideas, play with materials, and see how fragments can become something new. Inspired by kintsugi, it turns accidents into beauty and imagination into action.
Kids ages 8 and up, accompanied by an adult.
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.
To mark the closing of Pauline Coquart’s exhibition Short Ass Attention Span #3, Debbie Alagen presents her first book, Qu’arrive-t-il aux pigeons morts dans la rue ?, published by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Written entirely on her phone, between on-the-spot notes and deliberate fiction, the text traces an intimate route through everyday life, gender, and the ordinary violence of cities.
The reading is followed by a conversation between Alagen and Coquart, author of the afterword. In French.
Ari Hoenig, widely recognized as a rhythmic innovator and pioneer of ‘melodic drumming’, leads the masterclass with his trio featuring guitarist Tom Ollendorff and bassist Conor Chaplin.
Drawing on the trio’s collective experience and musical chemistry, the session explores developing and expanding rhythmic vocabulary, improvisational language, and composition and arrangement skills, while offering practical approaches to interacting creatively with fellow musicians on stage.
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