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

Saturday 24 January, 10:00

Watch six wordless animated shorts that follow animals, insects and falling leaves. Feel the rustle of paper and soft music as drawings, origami and puppets bring tiny stories of friendship and help to life. Children will spot bright colors, gentle movements and small gestures. They can imagine voices, tell their own endings and share reactions with family. This quiet, visual storytelling invites curiosity about nature and the small acts that connect us.

Kids ages 3 and up.

Saturday 24 January, 20:00

Sofiane Pamart presents a solo piano programme that blurs classical boundaries with cinematic and urban influences. His expressive playing transforms each piece into a vivid narrative, combining delicate lyricism and contemporary energy. Widely streamed and based in Los Angeles, Pamart bridges filmic grandeur and electronic textures while maintaining accessibility for listeners new to classical piano. The performance highlights his poetic phrasing, dynamic contrasts and collaborations across genres.

13 – 25 January

Nathalie Karibian and Fabrice Lelong bring the opera Nour to La Parfumerie. Nour, a symbol of Armenia, poetically delves into universal themes of displacement, identity, and love through a conversation between a grandfather and his granddaughter, touching on the Armenian diaspora. Created to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, this opera highlights human resilience. The musical direction is led by Fruzsina Szuromi, with staging by Michèle Cart and choreography by Béatrice Nauffray. The performance is supported by the Maîtrise du Conservatoire populaire and the Ensemble instrumental d’Opéra-Théâtre.

In French.

Saturday 24 January, 17:00

Thomas Dobler arranged the project alongside the Ayekoo Drummers—founders of a Ghanaian percussion ensemble (est. 2007) with international festival experience—and the HEMU Jazz Orchestra, a flagship ensemble of master’s performance students.

This masterclass and concert examines the meeting of jazz, classical writing, highlife and ancestral West African rhythms. It explores improvisation, contemporary arranging and rhythmic dialogue, revealing how cross-cultural collaboration shapes new compositional forms and performance practices.

24 January – 1 February

Amid the bustle of city life, five “artist donors” — musicians, singers, poets, performers, and visual and sound artists — offer a timeless, made-to-measure pause created just for you. This intimate and restorative experience invites audiences to slow down, reconnect, and give space to new, bold aspirations.

16 – 25 January

The Black Movie International Independent Film Festival returns for its 27th edition, opening the cultural year with around a hundred bold and independent films from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Featuring both feature-length and short films for adults and children alike, the festival showcases contemporary cinema beyond the mainstream, offering a vibrant journey through today’s most daring international creations.

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Events running for an extended period

9 – 25 January

Nine exiled Afghan actresses and their director turn Sophocles’ Antigone into a luminous act of defiance, weaving their own flight from tyranny into a fluid chorus that moves between whispered poetry and blazing resolve; on a moon-lit set where shadows ripple across a reflective pool, their shared fervour collides with oppression’s darkness, conjuring a present-tense theatre of resistance performed in Dari (with French subtitles) that pulses with the courage, grace and unbroken spirit of women who refuse to fall silent.

In Dari, with french subtitles.  Ages 14 and up. 

17 January – 21 March

Evelyne Brügger, a certified art therapist, leads the workshops with support from Joëlle Mauris, a professional cellist whose music accompanies one session per cycle.

The sessions explore creative practices to support women living with endometriosis, PMS or menstrual pain, addressing emotional expression, body awareness and coping strategies. Participants investigate materials and processes to rediscover inner resources, share experiences, and develop ways to express and regulate sensations through art and sound.

3 workshop cycles:
• Saturdays 17, 24 and 31 January, 10:00–11:30
• Sundays 1, 8 and 15 February, 10:00–11:30
• Saturdays 7, 14 and 21 March, 13:30–15:00

In French.

4 November 2025 – 1 February 2026

Actor Samuel Labarthe turns Nicolas Bouvier’s fever-drenched memoir The Scorpion-Fish into a hypnotic, miniaturist tour de force: marooned in 1950s Ceylon after a headlong road trip from Geneva through the Balkans and Afghanistan, the once-ebullient traveller spirals into tropical delirium, trading human company for buzzing insects, mirage-bright visions and mordant humour that flits between the sublime and the grotesque. Under Catherine Schaub’s finely gauged direction, Labarthe channels both the lush lyricism and the slow-burn torment of this “motionless voyage,” distilling Bouvier’s languid prose into a tactile, rejuvenating elixir that lets the audience feel every bead of sweat, jolt of wonder and sting of isolation.

In French. Ages 12 and up.

20 January – 7 March

Association NoOps (No Planned Obsolescence Switzerland) presents a travelling display that foregrounds the materiality of our phones. Through two vitrines and a selection of recovered components, the exhibition points to the precious metals embedded in devices and to “urban mines” hiding in drawers. Combining didactic panels, curated specimens and small installations assembled from reclaimed circuitry, it examines resource extraction, waste and value in contemporary consumer electronics, asking how reuse, repair and awareness can reframe our relationship to everyday technologies.

6 – 30 January

Frédéric Lecomte investigates the poetic life of discarded mirrors, exploring how fragments of reflection carry invisible memories of urban worlds. The exhibition combines paintings and mirrored objects using églomisé glass, figuration, abstraction and decorative arts to construct and deconstruct perspectives between visible and invisible. Works situate nature at the center of an interior gaze, prompting reflection on perception, memory and the material traces that continue to reflect history even when broken.

17 December 2025 – 7 February 2026

An intimate two-part retrospective of Aimée Moreau presents a focused selection of previously unseen drawings alongside her paintings. The show highlights the artist’s quiet, sustained practice—works on paper that reveal sensitivity, restraint and a poetic attention to everyday objects. Together, drawings and paintings invite a renewed contemplation of ordinary forms and the subtle rhythms of domestic life. The exhibition was organised with the artist’s heirs, Sophie and Barbara Kervaire.

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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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