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Don’t miss out: Events running for less than two weeks

Sunday 10 May, 18:00

Genevan pianist Philippe Boaron presents a recital pairing works by Ernest Bloch and Franz Liszt, tracing a poetic and spiritual trajectory through nightscapes, sea imagery and myth. The program moves seamlessly from La lugubre Gondola and Consolation to Bloch’s In the Night and Poems of the Sea, unfolding as a single breath with nuanced touch and dynamic contrasts. Petrossian’s Cyclades pieces close the program with luminous, island-inspired echoes, emphasizing intimate atmosphere and contemplative sonorities.

Sunday 10 May, 08:15

A riverside walk that lets you leave the city behind and breathe clean air while following the Rhône’s calm banks. The route traces riverbanks and gentle paths bordered by trees and open riverside meadows, offering changing views and birdsong. Walking at an easy, steady rhythm creates a shared energy and a sense of reconnection with the landscape. It’s an outdoor reset that highlights simple natural beauty close to home and the refreshing pleasure of moving together beside the water.

Ages 8 and up. Minors must be supervised by an adult.

9 – 10 May

Join the filming of Les Infiltrés – Le Club and step behind the cameras. Play interactive games, laugh through live sketches, and watch short reports that explore dinosaurs, space, cinema, and the Middle Ages. Feel the lights, hear cameras click, and try out short on-stage moments. Take part in creating media, learn how stories are made, and enjoy lively sounds, bright colors, and movement that spark curiosity.

In French. Kids ages 7–10.

7 – 10 May

GemGenève, an international jewelry show held at Palexpo, brings together creators, dealers, and experts through exhibitions, conferences, and workshops. This unmissable event for gemstone enthusiasts and industry professionals offers a welcoming and cross-disciplinary platform for exchange. It highlights young designers and emerging talents while celebrating the art of jewelry-making and sharing rare skills. The show features thematic exhibitions, insightful conferences, and interactive workshops. Renowned jewelry houses, museums, and institutions showcase historical pieces and masterpieces of fine jewelry.

2 – 10 May

Follow Ugly, a plucky duckling who leaves the farmyard, meets quirky characters and discovers the value of being different in this witty, tuneful musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale. Student actors bring colourful characters to life with songs, movement and gentle humour, creating a warm family theatre experience that celebrates diversity, empathy and belonging.

In English. Kids ages 5 and up.

9 – 10 May

Jump into a neighborhood full of music, games and hands-on fun. DJs, live bands and colorful parades create lively sounds while workshops invite you to build huts, trade toys at a children’s flea market, and try sonic hammocks and quiet siestas. Move, listen and make — discover rhythms, bright colors and playful surprises around every corner. Evenings bring imaginative performances and mapping shows that light up walls, creating dreamlike scenes to explore with friends.

Kids ages 6–17.

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Events running for an extended period

28 January – 23 December

This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.

In French.

29 October 2025 – 31 May 2026

Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.

Guided tour : Sunday 26 April, 14:30 (in English) 

29 January – 25 October

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

6 May – 4 June

Leila Alaoui’s photography presents a humane, boundary-crossing vision that interrogates identity, migration and the lives of migrant workers. This exhibition brings together iconic series, rarely seen photographs and coherent photographic ensembles to reveal the dignity of her subjects and the visual language that frames their stories. Through portraiture and documentary practice, Alaoui explores gender, displacement and cultural interconnection with formal rigor and emotional clarity, forging intimate encounters that bridge histories and territories.

Opening: Wednesday 6 May, 18:30

21 April – 10 May

Chekhov’s Ivanov follows Nikolai Ivanov, a middling Russian landowner crushed by debt and by the slow decline of his wife, Anna Petrovna, who is dying of tuberculosis. Across four acts, his inertia curdles into melancholy and self-destruction, swinging between biting comedy and harrowing despair. Written in a ten-day burst in 1887, when Chekhov was only twenty-seven, the play crackles with youthful urgency as tragedy and humor intertwine.

Director–actor Jean-François Sivadier infuses this new staging with his distinctive theatrical energy, pairing veteran performers with fresh faces to reignite the play’s original heat. Echoing Gustav Mahler’s dictum that “tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire,” the production seeks to keep Chekhov’s raw, combustible spirit blazing on today’s stage.

In French. Ages 16 and up. 

28 March – 10 May

MAMCO presents Dial‑A‑Poem Switzerland, a telephone-based poetic broadcasting project inspired by John Giorno. The installation transforms a decommissioned phone booth into a listening station, gathering recorded voices from across Switzerland’s linguistic regions. The programme features contributions by poets and artists exploring language, public space and oral transmission, alternating recorded and live readings. Conceived with Giorno Poetry Systems, the project foregrounds voice as material and communal listening as a poetic practice.

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Geneva Classics

Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain)  has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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