Category: Activities & Events
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Go behind the scenes with master artisans during Les Journées Européennes des Métiers d’Arts 2015 in Geneva, Vaud & Jura
HAVE you ever wondered how wig makers create hair pieces and makeup artists apply cosmetics to transform actors into the characters they portray onstage? How marionnettes are made and manipulated at puppet theatres? Or what techniques are employed to restore precious books at public libraries? Ever wanted to take a sneek peak at an actor’s dressing room or…
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Swing along with Jazz & Co. at Château de Coppet
Boogie Woogie, Swing and Blues in the 2015 lineup The schedule of concerts organized last year by “Jazz and Co.” for its annual jazz season in the caves at the Château de Coppet was a stellar one. We went along for two of the four events — the first, with superb Swedish jazz guitarist Gustav Lundgren, backed by The Swingstation…
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Get “Ugly” with press cartoonist Gérald Herrmann at Creative Mornings Geneva
This Friday morning, 30 January 2015, from 8:00 to 9:30am, Creative Mornings Geneva hosts Gérald Herrmann, a Swiss-born caricaturist who since 1987 has contributed press cartoons to numerous Swiss publications including the Courrier de Genève, L’Hebdo, La Liberté de Fribourg and the SonntagsZeitung. For the past 15 years, he has been drawing principally for La Tribune de Genève.…
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Le Renard: for need-to-know addresses in Geneva
WHEN I passed through Gare Cornavin in Geneva last week I noticed that there are still copies available at the TPG office of the sixth edition of Le Renard sur la Lune, ed. 2014, in which the area’s favorite little fox sniffs out more than 1200 indispensable addresses in the Geneva area for us to explore…
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Geneva decks its halls for Christmas with inspired works of visual poetry
WHEN it comes to decking its halls for Christmas, Geneva commissions artistic installations that never fail to distinguish the city as one that celebrates this special time of year in an original and often inspired way. Again this year, the city has decorated its squares, streets, and bridges with the same magical installations that so captivated its citizens…
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