Category: Activities & Events
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Break out the band! Geneva’s summer season of free concerts gets underway
Fête de la Musique This weekend, from 19–21 June, Geneva’s most popular music festival, the Fête de la Musique, ushers in the city’s impressive Summer music season with more than 600 free concerts at some 30 locations on both banks of Lake Geneva.
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“Play Me, I’m Yours!” turns Geneva into a “Happy City”
IT’S THAT time of year again, when pianos take over the streets of Geneva and everyone gets a chance to let loose their inner Liberace. Starting today, Monday, 8 June, and ending (to coincide with the last evening of the upcoming Fête de la Musique) on 21 June, Play Me, I’m Yours! brings 60 street pianos to 24 municipalities in Greater…
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May events in the Swiss Romandie are sure to put Spring in your step
AH, MAY! One of the best months of the year in the Swiss Romandy to get out and celebrate everything that is creative: arts and crafts, gardening, music, dance, museums and more. Here is the best of it, short and sweet, to help you squeeze every ounce of pleasure out of the month ahead. UniCréa, Salon de la Création, Yverdon…
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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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