Situated at the base of the Old Town, The Bibliothèque de la Cité is one of the city’s municipal libraries, featuring a substantial collection. Notably, it boasts a significant children’s section. The library is actively engaged in the community, regularly organizing a diverse range of events such as talks, exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and workshops.
Meet local writers across many floors and genres in a lively, friendly gathering. Talk with novelists, poets, essayists and travel writers, ask questions, and hear about how stories and ideas begin. Explore colorful book covers, the sound of pages turning and voices sharing ideas. Kids can listen, discover new worlds, and let curiosity lead them into stories and characters through short conversations and gentle encounters.
Featuring Pascal Michel, Dan Sloutskovski, Coralie Devars and Delphine Gosseries, this lunchtime concert presents the OCG Cello Quartet in a programme that moves from Romantic intimacy to contemporary pulse. The quartet traces lyrical lines from Brahms, Fauré and Schumann to Piazzolla’s bandoneón rhythms, alongside surprising arrangements of ABBA, Apocalyptica and film music. Warm, chamber textures and careful balance invite focused listening, offering restorative moments of resonance and cinematic sweep.
This lecture explores musical composition for silent cinema, focusing on director and actress Musidora and the interpretive role of music in early film. Film-music specialists examine how scores are created, how motifs evoke emotion and support narrative, and the creative choices behind synchronising live sound with images. The session combines live performance, film excerpts and moderated discussion to reveal practical techniques and historical perspectives on scoring silent-era films.
Authors Annelise Bergmann‑Zürcher (Récits du bas seuil. Parcours d’une infirmière, 2024) and Anouk Hutmacher (Il faudra que je m’habitue, 2025) present perspectives grounded in nursing and caregiving experiences.
They examine how relationships and the concept of care shape responses to illness, discussing encounters in asylum seeker centres and oncology wards. The discussion explores ethical tensions, emotional labour, and narrative forms that connect caregivers, patients and communities, and situates these reflections within the exhibition Hello, How Are You? Short Stories to Build Connections.
In French.
Explore picture books and portraits in a playful story-and-museum session. Children hear short readings about different faces and bodies, point at bright colors, and feel paper textures while adults read. Together they look closely at painted portraits, noticing expressions, clothing, and tiny gestures. Simple questions and movement games invite little ones to name parts of the body and make expressive faces. This gentle adventure builds curiosity, language, and observation in a colorful, sensory way.
Kids ages 2–4.
Nicolas Bucher, director of the OCG, brings expertise in programming and performance of orchestral and choral repertoire, drawing on his professional role to situate requiem works in historical and musical contexts.
This lecture examines the theme of death in classical music, focusing on Brahms’s German Requiem and other mass settings. Bucher examines compositional language, textual choices, and liturgical traditions to reveal how requiems negotiate grief, consolation and memory, and what these works tell us about changing attitudes toward death in Western music.
In French.
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