As part of the Société de Lecture’s NextGen programme, journalist and author Ambre Chalumeau joins bookseller and writing facilitator Typhaine Marc to discuss becoming a writer today. Drawing on her debut novel Les vivants (2025) and her literary podcast Liste de lecture, she reflects on writing as a vital, transformative practice shaped by contemporary culture and personal experience.
Welcome drinks from 19:00.
In French.
Through mystery, belief and wonder, magic has threaded through societies since ancient times. For its 11th edition, this festival explores shifting boundaries between science and the supernatural, reason and the marvelous. Lectures, screenings, guided visits and hands-on workshops invite everyone to discover the history of magical practices from past to present and to reflect on our ongoing fascination with the unknown and the afterlife.
Discover a lively weekend of storytelling, hands-on creativity and playful discovery across Geneva’s public libraries and partner institutions. Families will find musical readings, creative workshops, participatory animations, book-based games, treasure hunts, toy-making ateliers, guided visits, film screenings and a varied youth programme. Children can explore sounds, colours and movement, make things with their hands and spark their imagination through shared stories and playful activities designed to inspire curiosity and creativity.
Four prominent members of the Geneva Magic Club present expertise in illusion, sleight of hand and mentalism, drawing on performance practice and historical knowledge.
The lecture examines continuities and transformations in stage magic from the early twentieth century to today, exploring how so-called ‘white magic’ entered the performing arts and how illusionists negotiate the term’s ambiguities. Live demonstrations illuminate techniques and thematic shifts within the discipline.
In French.
La Cour des Contes is a storytelling festival held each spring in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva), celebrating oral narration as a vital force for social connection and cultural dialogue. Since 1995, the festival has brought together storytellers from across the world, and the 2026 edition invites audiences to journey through epics and great narratives spanning continents and centuries — from Ireland, Mali, Algeria and Australia to closer shores. Blending classic tales with contemporary voices, performances, family shows and workshops, the festival affirms storytelling as a shared, intimate and deeply human art form.
Echo is a transdisciplinary festival devised by Compagnie sturmfrei that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses through 250 shifting myths. Artists, poets, philosophers and participants inhabit an experimental, two‑level environment transformed into evolving ECHO‑scenographies. The programme assembles performances, participatory formats and workshops that blur genres and invite improvisation, collective dramaturgy and sensory encounters. The work foregrounds mythic transformation, live experimentation and porous collaboration across disciplines.
In French.
A cultural mediator experienced in heritage interpretation presents the library’s historical collections and conservation work, explaining professional roles and practical approaches to preserving written artifacts.
This session examines the history of book production, reveals behind-the-scenes conservation processes, and explores principles guiding conservators and restorers. It addresses material challenges, documentation, strategies for sustainable preservation, and promotes public access and stewardship of rare and fragile texts.
In French.
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