Create playful poems with movable type and bright letter shapes. Use wooden letters and colorful prints to build poem-images. Cut and arrange words, stamp letters, and press patterns that pop with ink. Hear the rhythm of words, see shapes form, and feel the paper as lines take shape. Work alongside the editor and illustrator to explore how text and image meet. This hands-on workshop invites curiosity and lets language become lively pictures.
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.
This practical course provides an introduction to seed saving and propagation for home gardeners. It explores how to choose easy heirloom and open-pollinated varieties, basic techniques for collecting, cleaning and storing seeds, and simple methods to maintain varietal traits. The session examines crop-specific tips for beans, tomatoes and salad greens, and addresses the ecological and food‑security benefits of seed autonomy, helping participants gain skills to produce and preserve seeds at home.
In French.
This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.
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.
Virginie Jean, a rebouteuse de vaches (cow bone setter), practices an empirical, hands-on tradition of animal care transmitted outside academic veterinary frameworks. Her work relies on close observation, listening to bodies and skilled touch.
This discussion examines tensions between scientific veterinary medicine and traditional practices, exploring whether these methods are an art, popular knowledge, or a form of magic. It addresses legitimacy, coexistence, and what caring for animals reveals about our relation to the living.
In French.
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.
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