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Featuring a bold blend of synthesized textures and orchestral breadth, Synthony delivers a cinematic live music experience. The performance favors layered soundscapes, sweeping dynamics and rhythmic intensity, creating moments of quiet reflection and powerful catharsis. Staging emphasizes immersive audiovisuals and sculpted lighting to amplify emotional shifts, while the ensemble’s precision balances spontaneity and grand gestures. The result is a striking, atmospheric concert that foregrounds texture, momentum and communal energy.
Join Destination Vingt-Sept for a warm evening celebrating ten years of the project, looking back at the journey and the people who keep it alive. The programme brings together an official ceremony, a live performance by Gilles Furtwängler, a shared community meal and a musical night with DJ Schmögel. Open to everyone, the event invites neighbours, collaborators and newcomers to reconnect, share stories and renew their commitment to accessible culture together.
Directed by Marika Dreistadt, Halte gives voice to eight young adults formerly in child protection, tracing the fragile passage from placement to adulthood. Non-professional performers — Zakaria Attoumani, Melanda Bertrand-Avebe, Celina Chraiet, Maël Do Nascimento, Alexis Limacher Abreu, Natalia Nguba Ekela, Clémentine Polly Care Pache and Léon Trolliet — blend testimony, courtroom scenes and moments of defiance. The staging mixes documentary realism and theatrical composition to reveal generation Z perspectives and intimate questions about authority, belonging and the future.
In French.
French rapper Oxmo Puccino headlines a season-opening concert, bringing his poetic texts, magnetic presence and intense charisma to a singular musical journey. The evening opens with rising lyric star Valérie Eickhoff, who performs the Wesendonck Lieder, one of the great song cycles devoted to love. The programme blends rap and classical song in a reflective, emotionally charged programme. The event supports Fondation CANSEARCH as part of Septembre en Or.
La Princesse eSt le Chevalier is a playful and visually captivating family show combining shadow theatre, acting and live music. Follow Maylis, a curious princess who challenges the beliefs imposed by her kingdom and sets off in search of answers. A joyful celebration of curiosity, science and freedom of thought.
In French.
With razor-sharp wit and neon-pink hair, comedian Sarah Mottet questions whether looking woke and queer is enough to be a good person. This debut solo show mixes personal stories, quick improvisation and pointed social satire to include everyone — except cyclists and property managers. Touring stages from Romandie to Quebec, Mottet blends warm vulnerability and biting humour to turn identity politics into intimate, laugh-out-loud reflections.
In French.
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Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.
An intimate retrospective devoted to director Patricia Plattner, presenting a selection of her films alongside a reading-performance and a small exhibition. Plattner’s cinema favors close human encounters and observational compositions, blending subtle humour with poignant emotional truth. The programme highlights her attentive direction and narrative economy, tracing recurring themes of identity, everyday intimacy and the passage of time. Screenings offer a chance to rediscover the quiet intensity and warm, lyrical realism of her work. An event presented by the association Le Bazar de la Sirène in collaboration with Luna Films and the City of Carouge.
On the program:
– Special screenings at Cinéma Bio
– An inaugural staged reading on September 5, at the Théâtre des Amis
– An exhibition, Le Petit Bazar de Patricia, at Place du Temple
The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.
Join a series of five community game nights for people aged 16 and up. Together we’ll discover and share a wide selection of tabletop games, with helpful hosts on hand to introduce new releases and beloved classics. Players of all experience levels are warmly welcome to play, learn, and connect in a friendly, social atmosphere. Expect relaxed play, meeting others who enjoy games, and chances to try different styles and strategies while enjoying convivial company.
An exhibition titled The Unbearable Lightness investigates themes of transience, memory, and perceptual fragility through a diverse range of visual practices. Works include painting, sculpture, photography and installation that play with materiality, light and absence. The presentation favours subtle textures, layered compositions and spatial interventions to encourage contemplative viewing. Emphasis is placed on process and material experimentation, inviting reflection on how delicate gestures and ephemeral forms shape emotional and historical resonance.
Opening: Friday 25 September, 18:00
For his final production as a theatre director, Jean Liermier revisits Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical classic about memory, longing and family. Set in the 1930s American South, the staging gathers a company around Laura, here embodied by Aurélia Thierrée, with Cyprien Colombo, David Gobet and Clotilde Mollet completing the ensemble. Liermier’s direction emphasises fragile interiors and poetic movement, offering a liberating, weightless atmosphere that balances tenderness and uneasy nostalgia.
In French.
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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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