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The Soulitude Urban Expressions is a boutique multidisciplinary festival founded in Geneva in 2016, dedicated to celebrating soul culture and its global influence. Blending music, art, and community, it offers intimate concerts and encounters between emerging talents, legendary artists, and the public. Driven by a deep love for soul and Black music, the SOULITUDE collective has been passionately promoting this culture for over three decades.
Martin Rauch champions the use of raw earth in contemporary architecture as a response to climate challenges and dwindling resources. Trained as a ceramist, he was deeply influenced by local techniques he encountered in Africa. As the founder of Lehm Ton Erde, he has refined the technique of rammed earth and specializes in prefabricating large raw earth elements. His projects blend traditional craftsmanship with technical innovation. An acclaimed award winner, he also teaches at the University of Linz and ETH Zurich.
Caroline de Cornière intertwines autobiography, movement, and words to delve into the transformations of her female body. By invoking the figures of her foremothers, she weaves an intimate and collective narrative. Performing solo within an evolving stage design, she welcomes the audience into an empathetic space where voice, music, and dance interact, balancing introspection and shared experience.
The 2025 Human Rights Week, organized by the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva, focuses on defending the rule of law through a diverse and thought-provoking program. Bridging law, political science, and history, the initiative explores contemporary challenges to the rule of law, including the concentration of executive power, weakening of checks and balances, and questions over the legitimacy of constitutional and supranational courts.
With the participation of students and institutional partners, the week offers around twenty events that invite reflection, debate, and action on legal, institutional, and civic tools to preserve and strengthen the rule of law at both national and European levels.
For the season’s first apéro ballet, the Japanese musicians of “Bal impérial”—Tsubasa Hori, Shogo Yoshii, and Kazutomi “Tsuki”—showcase their collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and dancer Riley O’Flynn. The event takes place at the Foyer of the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Join Marius Micol for the release of his latest project at Catalyse, with Louv opening the evening. Blending French chanson and pop-rap, Micol’s heartfelt lyrics and captivating stage presence explore intimate doubts and universal hopes, while Louv’s eclectic sound and socially conscious themes add depth to the night. This vernissage promises an engaging musical journey through vulnerability, power, and artistic expression.
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The Musée de Carouge showcases the city’s century-long relationship with cinema, highlighting iconic locations, pioneering figures like Alice Guy, local film productions, and the enduring Cinéma Bio, offering a vivid look at how Carouge has shaped and been shaped by the seventh art.
The exhibition is complemented by a diverse program of screenings, concerts, and workshops, allowing visitors to experience iconic films, explore Alice Guy’s world through music, and experiment with early animation techniques for a fully immersive journey into Carouge’s cinematic history and practice.
Guided Tours (in French):
Thursday 23 October and Thursday 20 November, 18:00 (registration required).
Théophile, a successful author, is crafting a poetic tale that provokes paranoid reactions among those around him, as everyone sees themselves in his characters. Directed by Olivier Périat and featuring a talented cast including Carine Barbey and Frédéric Landenberg, this play humorously and thoughtfully delves into the themes of being and seeming. Produced by Cie Interlope, it has been praised for its humor and its insightful exploration of the hidden aspects of our personalities.
In French.
The exhibition “L’avantage du terrain” by Jan Voss at the Sonia Zannettacci gallery showcases the artist’s creative freedom through vibrant paintings and collages. Undulating shapes, intertwined lines, and assorted objects engage in an energetic and poetic dialogue, providing a unique visual experience where each element interacts in joyful harmony.
Opening during the Art en Vieille-Ville collective vernissage on Thursday, November 6, from 16:00 to 21:00.
Lovay Fine Arts presents Wings, an exhibition showcasing the latest works by Sem Lala.
Opening: Thursday 13 November, 18:00 – 21:00
Xippas Gallery in Geneva is hosting, for the first time, a solo exhibition dedicated to the Uruguayan artist José Gamarra. The anthological exhibition, Whispers in the Forest, spans fifty years of his work and presents an exceptional selection of paintings and drawings, curated by Manuel Neves
Apocalypses. What Did You See in Hiroshima? is a powerful exhibition curated by Nicolas Crispini, exploring the devastation and legacy of the atomic bombings through testimonies, photographs, films, objects, and soundscapes. From survivor accounts to cultural echoes and traces of nuclear tests, it confronts the enduring threat of nuclear apocalypse and asks whether humanity has truly grasped the magnitude of Hiroshima.
Guided tours organsied every Sunday, 11:00 & 13:00.
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