For International Museum Day, the League of Nations Museum proposes free guided tours to its exhibitions. RSVP required by phone or email.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.cooperationinternationalegeneve.ch/e…
Date: 20 May 2012
Start time: 10:00
The International Very Short Film Festival (Festival des Très Courts), it’s an event without borders, with screenings held during three days simultaneously in nearly eighty cities in Switzerland, France, and 14 other countries.
Location: Auditorium Arditi, Avenue du Mail 1, 1205 Genève
Link out: http://www.trescourt.com/geneve
Start date: 11 May 2012
Start time: 19:30
End date: 12 May 2012
End time: 23:30
Young Hungarian artist, Nóra Soós creates bold jewelry with colour superimposed over translucent objects and human figures.
Public and private viewing available.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.ideandoda.com/norasoos/
Date: 20 May 2012
The gallery, SAKS presents the first solo exhibition in Switzerland of the New York artist Ruby Sky Stiler: A Punch, a Blade, a Pointed Hammer.
Opening with the artist on 3 May.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.saks.ch
Start date: 3 May 2012
End date: 28 Jun 2012
Feel like you’re visiting the Southwest of the US by visiting the free exhibit in the heart of Geneva.
Location: Pont de la Machine, Geneva, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.citedutemps.com/newsletters/298/news…
Start date: 12 Apr 2012
End date: 13 May 2012
“Meditation Creativity Peace” is David Lynch Foundation Television’s compelling new documentary film featuring exclusive, candid footage from David Lynch’s 16-country tour around the world when he spoke to government leaders, film students, and the press during 2007 and 2008. Free.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.mt-geneve.ch/
Date: 30 Apr 2012
One Day on Earth is a grassroots film project that, once a year, captures the human experience in every country on earth on the same day. The first feature-length documentary film premiers on Earth Day, April 22, 2012 and will be screened in over 160 countries around the world, including CERN in Geneva. Free.
Location: Meyrin, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.cineglobe.ch/onedayonearth
Date: 22 Apr 2012
An exhibition showing the intellectual property (IP) behind Steve Jobs’ innovations opens to the public at WIPO on March 30, 2012 and will run through to World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2012. The exhibition ties in with this year’s World Intellectual Property Day theme – Visionary Innovators.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/…
Start date: 16 Apr 2012
End date: 26 Apr 2012
The Beirut Experience project brings together ten international artists in architecture, urban planning, memory, history or cultural identity, relevant to Beirut and Lebanon.
Open on Sundays.
Location: Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Link out: http://villabernasconi.ch/beirut_experience.htm
Start date: 20 Apr 2012
End date: 10 Jun 2012
Opening on 18 April. Gallery open on Sunday.
Location: 9, rte de la Chapelle, 1212 Grand-Lancy
Link out: http://www.fermedelachapelle.ch/Intro.html
Start date: 18 Apr 2012
End date: 16 May 2012
The collective Tendance Floue, comprised of fourteen photographers, present works “based on freedom and solidarity.”
Location: Meyrin, Geneva
Link out: http://www.forum-meyrin.ch/node/1011
Start date: 25 Apr 2012
End date: 2 Jun 2012
Nyon hosts an important international documentary film festival every April, with a great collection of films open to the public, much of the focus on documentaries
Location: Nyon
Link out: http://www.visionsdureel.ch/en.html
Start date: 20 Apr 2012
End date: 27 Apr 2012
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhs/agenda.php
Start date: 19 Apr 2012
End date: 31 May 2012
Brunch at 10:00 at the Coffee Shop followed by a guided tour of the exhibition at 11:15.
Sunday 15, 22 and 29 April.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.fondation-hermitage.ch
Start date: 15 Apr 2012
End date: 29 Apr 2012
A free exhibit at Cite du Temps in Geneva.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.citedutemps.ch/site.php?lang=en
Start date: 28 Mar 2012
End date: 29 Apr 2012
A free exhibit at Cite du Temps in Geneva.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.citedutemps.ch/site.php?lang=en
Start date: 28 Mar 2012
End date: 7 Apr 2012
The great Red is the story of a birth at The Red Barn, a birthing house the Nyon area where couple looking for “alternative” options for intimacy, go to.
In French with English subtitles.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.facebook.com/events/341599515890371/
Date: 20 Mar 2012
The best of the modern Spanish cinema.
Location: Annecy, France
Link out: http://www.annecinespagnol.fr/
Start date: 17 Mar 2012
End date: 27 Mar 2012
Exhibit of the work of some of the most important Francophone cartoonists: Cabu (F), Patrick Chappatte (CH), Florent Chavouet (F), Étienne Davodeau (F), Catherine Meurisse (F), Riss (F), Joe Sacco (Malte), Mathieu Sapin (F), Riad Sattouf (F).
Location: Morges, Vaud
Link out: http://www.maisondudessindepresse.ch/page.php?l…
Start date: 15 Mar 2012
End date: 31 May 2012
From March to November 2012: At the initiative of the Musée Alexis Forel and the Fondation Bolle in Morges, A Tribute to Audrey Hepburn who lived and died in the Lake Geneva region.
Location: Morges, Vaud
Link out: http://www.morges-tourisme.ch/en/page.cfm/cultu…
Start date: 19 Mar 2012
End date: 31 May 2012
Open to short film creators from around the world, the CinéGlobe festival will show 50 short films.
In addition to the two short film competitions, the festival will showcase an invited feature documentary, “A beating heart” winner of the last edition of the Paris Science Film Festival, as well as a program of Swiss films by the Cinematéque Suisse and panel discussions with local school students all surrounding the theme of cinema inspired by science.
Free entrance.
Location: Meyrin, Geneva
Link out: http://www.cineglobe.ch/calendar
Start date: 27 Mar 2012
End date: 1 Apr 2012
“The Road We’ve Traveled” screening in Geneva
Obama supporters gather to watch a new documentary about the first three years of the Obama administration.
“The Road We’ve Traveled,” produced by Davis Guggenheim, is a look at the progress made and the people who have led throughout.
Also, find out how to get involved in the re-election campaign.
At the Wings Bar, 4 Rue du Lievre, 1227 Acacias, Geneva; Tram 15.
Location: 4 Rue du Lievre, 1227 Acacias
Link out: http://www.democrats.ch
Date: 28 Mar 2012
Start time: 19:00
End time: 20:30
The festival will feature unscreened films and debates on crucial current issues such as the future of the Arab revolutions; Europe’s neo-populist drifts; opposition to the dictatorship of financial markets; international justice in action; peace-builders and reconciliators working behind the scenes to promote human rights, including in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.fifdh.org/?lan=en&rubID=1
Start date: 2 Mar 2012
End date: 11 Mar 2012
Is it possible to predict the future and chance? If yes, to what degree of certainty? Find out during this temporary exhibit.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhs/expo_2012_jeux.php
Start date: 1 Mar 2012
End date: 27 May 2012
On its seventh year, the Festival showcases its “green” films and invites the public to discover dcumentaries on current ecological topics, some of them quite “obscure” as described by the organizers.
In several cities including, Ferney-Voltaire in neighbouring France and Aubonne, Belmont, Biel/Bienne, Châtel-St-Denis, Chexbres, Cossonay, Delémont, Echallens, Fribourg, Genève, La Neuveville, Lausanne, Martigny, Moudon, Neuchâtel, Nyon, Orbe, Oron, Ouest-Lausannois, Yverdon, Lausanne-Agrobiorama.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.festivaldufilmvert.ch/
Start date: 9 Mar 2012
End date: 18 Mar 2012
One of the world’s top car shows, noted for its world premiers, has 260 exhibitors for 2012 – expect huge crowds!
Location: Palexpo
Link out: http://www.salon-auto.ch/en/
Start date: 8 Mar 2012
End date: 18 Mar 2012
A nine-day extravaganza mixing artsy, international films and dancing soirées.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://blackmovie.ch/2012/eng/films/liste_films…
Start date: 17 Feb 2012
End date: 26 Feb 2012
Major exhibit at the Musee de la Main on skin – beauty marks, tatoos, scars and how cultures decorate their skin.
Location: musée de la main | rue du Bugnon 21 | 1011 Lausanne
Link out: http://www.verdan.ch/
Start date: 12 Feb 2012
End date: 29 Apr 2012
At the Geneva Art and History Museum
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mah
Start date: 24 Feb 2012
End date: 26 May 2012
Leman Events: “Over the Collections, from Tiepolo to Degas” offers a new look at the collection – rarely shown – from the Fondation de l’Hermitage. Structured around the masterpieces of the museum. Optional dinner after.
Location: Fondation de l’Hermitage, 2, route du Signal
Link out: http://www.lemanevents.ch/Events/Hermitage-Guid…
Date: 16 Feb 2012
Start time: 18:45
