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Mike Nichols’ The Graduate is a sharp, satirical drama that captured the unease of 1960s America. Combining ironic wit, precise editing and an evocative Simon & Garfunkel-infused score, the film follows a young man’s disillusionment after college as he navigates desire, moral ambiguity and generational conflict. Subtle performances and Nichols’ crisp direction create a melancholic, comic tone that explores alienation, identity and the complicated rites of adulthood without revealing its twists.
In French.
An energetic country and bluegrass festival programme that showcases a mix of roots, contemporary country and high-energy rockabilly performances. Line-up includes The Bluegrass Parkway, New Country Rain and Brothers on the Run alongside The Cactus Candies, The HillBilly Rockers Band and Tobey Lucas Band, with Luke Bayne Band and Tuff Enuff Band closing the weekend. Expect tight musicianship, vocal harmonies and lively stagecraft that foregrounds storytelling and danceable grooves.
Bellerive Festival presents a programme of chamber and orchestral music exploring repertoire from Classical to late Romantic and early 20th-century voices. Evenings feature works by Beethoven, Dvořák, Schubert, Mahler and Mendelssohn alongside evocative programmes centred on Grieg, Tchaikovsky and American classics. A New York-themed matinée offers lighter, rhythmic contrasts. A concurrent photographic exhibition by Michel Juvet creates a visual dialogue with the music. The festival highlights refined ensemble playing, expressive phrasing and an intimate atmosphere.
Grand Juillet is an itinerant literary festival gathering Swiss and international writers for readings, thematic encounters, workshops and family events. Programming explores contemporary literature, narrative practice and community mediation through participatory walks, readings and creative workshops. Participants investigate forms of storytelling, exchange perspectives and discover practical approaches to writing and reading in public spaces. Sessions emphasize discussion, learning outcomes and cultural exchange, with formats suitable for adults and families.
Charlotte Qin and Tessel van der Putte present an exhibition of porcelain installation and paintings that treats water as both element and metaphor. Curated by Frédéric Elkaïm, the works shift the focus from control and extraction toward ecological, emotional and feminine inquiry. A central porcelain installation evokes aquatic creatures and the fluid forms of coral and blossom, while paintings explore the body as a permeable landscape, probing materiality, vulnerability and collective care.
Opening: Thursday 7 July, 18:00 – Performance of Charlotte Qin
Co-created by Primala Casse, La Cantine de Nasreddine stages a mobile kitchen as a theatrical set where cooking and storytelling intertwine. Three performers — Sophie Lebrun, Redwan Reys and Atakan Tan — inhabit new incarnations of Nasreddine Hodja, turning everyday situations into unexpected twists that reveal quiet wisdom. Vicky Althaus’s lighting and an intimate, communal mise en scène frame moments of humour, ritual and shared eating, inviting audiences into a warm, inventive collective experience.
In French.
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HiFlow launches Quand le vivant nous fait agir, a year-long programme that explores how living systems can inspire new ways of thinking and acting. Bringing together artists, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and thinkers, HiFlow becomes a space for experimentation and dialogue around more sensitive and sustainable futures. The first chapter, “Hybridations fertiles”, transforms the venue into a living laboratory through a collective exhibition, off-site projects, conferences, performances and workshops at the crossroads of art, design, life sciences and hybrid technologies.
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
Etienne Francey and Onoko present a collaborative exhibition exploring the mirage as visual and psychological phenomenon. Francey’s photographic practice treats landscapes as memory, rendering familiar scenes with a soft, recollected quality. Onoko contributes more abstract works that distill atmosphere and luminous degradation into colour fields and ephemeral surfaces. Together their pieces interrogate perception, illusion, and the shifting boundary between apparition and documentation, using photography, colour studies and light to destabilize what the eye assumes to know.
This exhibition brings together archival photographs, historical medical objects and contemporary works to examine how illness is represented and embodied. Through photography, installation and mixed-media pieces, artists probe how bodily experience resists language and is translated into image, narrative and presence. The presentation includes a new work by Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem and is curated by Sara Petrucci with scenography by OnLab, creating a dialogue between archives and recent artistic responses.
Join us this summer in the Catalpa courtyard for seven cult classics under the stars. Enjoy unforgettable soundtracks, iconic stories, and the unique atmosphere of outdoor movie nights in Carouge. Original version with subtitles.
The screenings start at dusk, but come around 21:00 to enjoy a drink beforehand!
Screening Schedule:
July 2 — Persepolis
July 8 — Trainspotting
July 16 — The Rocky Horror Picture Show
July 30 — Moulin Rouge!
August 6 — The Royal Tenenbaums
August 13 — The Blues Brothers
August 20 — Arizona Dream
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
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Geneva Classics
Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.
Located in the heart of Geneva’s international district, the Portail des Nations is a space dedicated to dialogue, cooperation, and global issues. Through exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, it offers visitors an entry point into the major challenges shaping our world and Geneva’s role as a hub for international governance.
Nestled in the Geneva countryside, the Collection du Crest showcases a remarkable selection of modern and contemporary art. Through temporary exhibitions and its private collection, this unique venue offers an intimate encounter with artistic creation, in dialogue with the history and landscape of the estate.
Discover one of the world’s most remarkable libraries and museums, home to an exceptional collection of manuscripts, rare books, and historical documents spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Located in Cologny overlooking Lake Geneva, the Fondation Martin Bodmer offers a unique journey through literature, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts, bringing together some of humanity’s most significant written treasures.
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