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.
Two musicians from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande introduce their instruments and share professional insights into technique, repertoire and their role within the orchestra.
The session explores each instrument’s construction, sound characteristics and historical development, examining how these elements shape orchestral textures. Participants will discover key themes in instrument design and performance practice, and are invited to handle and try selected instruments to connect tactile experience with musical understanding.
Create, print and animate insect friends. Start by imagining and modeling your own fantastic insect in 3D, inspired by real rainforest species. Then print it, paint bright colors, add textures and recycled materials to decorate its body. Place your creature into a shared vivarium that fills with color and tiny movements. Finish with a stop-motion workshop to make your insect walk and buzz on screen, learning about shape, texture and storytelling through hands-on play.
In French. Kids ages 8 and up.
Ainhoa Cayuso, ceramic artist, leads the sculpting and painting sessions, while the NoOps association facilitates a hands-on dismantling workshop to source electronic components.
Across three linked workshops participants disassemble vintage devices, model them in self‑hardening clay, and apply colour to create sculptural memories. The programme examines material reuse, creative reuse of electronic detritus, and the cultural significance of tech nostalgia through practical making and discussion.
In French.
NoOPS leads this first « tech‑nostalgique » workshop, bringing a practical approach to smartphone dismantling and component recovery within the series.
Participants manually disassemble phones to identify secondary materials and pathways for recycling, learning how careful, fine disassembly preserves valuable components. Selected parts will be kept for use in later Tech‑Nostalgie workshops, linking material recovery to creative reuse.
In French.
This two‑afternoon workshop teaches upcycling and basic soldering as participants build creatures from recycled electronic components. Attendees learn soldering techniques, circuit basics and hands‑on assembly while developing personal narratives for their creations. The sessions explore how naming and classification shape our understanding of living forms, prompting reflection on taxonomy, creativity and the relationship between DIY practice, science and art.
In French.
This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.
In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.
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