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Sign up for their next PaM English-speaking guided tour and workshop at the Musée des Suisses dans le monde on 30 April, 2014
If you would like to introduce your young ones to art and culture, then there is a wonderful association called the Petits amis des Musées (PaM), which can help you do just that!
Created by Cécilia Finet, this active association currently has about 700 subscriber families, who have signed up to receive weekly suggestions on places of interest for children aged 3 to 8 years. Typically these include ideas for attending workshops and visiting exhibitions at the numerous museums and art centers in and around Geneva, most of which are free. Click here to find out more about the association, or click here to sign up and receive your weekly newsletter.
Once a month, on a Wednesday between 16h00 and 17h30, the association also runs a special guided tour and creative tea-time, focusing on a particular local exhibition or activity. Great for parents who want to get involved in an artistic activity with their child, the cost for this special event is Fr. 15.- for each child accompanied by an adult. Since the association was first launched in September 2012, the organization has run 66 activities of this kind for its members. Click here to see the full program of activities.
Temporary exhibition runs from 11 April to 28 September with free activities every Sunday!
The Château de Prangins has just opened a new exhibition devoted to the traditional art of paper cutting. Also known as “Scherenschnitten”, this art form is closely associated with Switzerland’s heritage, and can be seen in different guises in many gift shops throughout the country.
Created by the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz, this temporary exhibition will run from 11 April to 20 September, 2014, and will feature many special events and activities, designed to encourage all ages of the public to find out more about this special craft.
Ten historical paper cuts, including a love letter, silhouettes and Alpine cattle scenes by artists such as Johann Jakob Hauswirth and Louis David Saugy, are presented at the exhibition, alongside approximately one hundred works from artists of the Association of Swiss Friends of Paper Cutting. Ranging from the abstract to the figurative and the dazzlingly colourful to the austerely black and white, these works are a testament to the expressive richness of a medium that enables artists to suggest the beauty of a landscape whilst also casting a critical eye over contemporary society.
The 4th edition of the Genève Futur Hockey Challenge tournament takes place this weekend, 27 – 30 March 2014, at ice sport centers around Geneva.
32 teams, representing over 650 kids aged from 11-14, from 10 nations (Switzerland, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Belarus and Italy) will be in Geneva, representing their hockey clubs and countries.
Combined with a Genève Servette Hockey Club playoff match on Saturday night, this weekend promises to be a festival of hockey in Geneva!
The American International Women’s Club of Geneva has just published a new guide to skiing in the region.
Called “Think Ski” the new 181-page guidebook tells you all you need to know about downhill and cross country skiing at 21 of the most popular local resorts, some of them on our doorstep and others no more than a few hours' drive away.
Written and beautifully illustrated by local author, Eleanor Ormiston, the book is packed with all kinds of tips to ensure everyone, skiers and non-skiers alike, can make the most of their outings to the local ski slopes.
In France, these include ski stations in the Jura, resorts in the Mont Blanc region such as Megève, Combloux and Chamonix, and resorts in the Portes du Soleil and Avaris regions. Several well-known ski areas in Switzerland are also included.
Roads in this desolate region of the Mojave snake between groups of Joshua trees. In the background, light from the casinos of Primm (30 km away) and Las Vegas (80 km away) illuminate the sky.
A former pupil at the International School of Geneva (Ecolint), Julian Kilker is returning to Geneva to introduce visitors at the Cité du Temps exhibition center to the wide, open spaces of the American Southwest Mojave desert. Running from 12 April to 13 May 2012, his “Time in the Mojave” exhibition will document, through a series of photographs, the beauty of decay in hauntingly beautiful landscapes, which are often overlooked or even bypassed by highway travellers. The focus of Julian's work is on the complex interactions between people and artefacts, poignantly mirroring contemporary concerns about the impact of rapid technological change on the environment.
All of the photographs in “Time in the Mojave” are on fabric squares measuring 1.75 metres by 1.75 metres, using dye sublimation printing. By shooting the pictures at night and using moonlight, Julian minimises visual clutter to emphasise his chosen subjects. Enchanting colours have been added to some pieces on location either by nature, or by highly artistic light painting. As a photographer, Julian succeeds in telling a spectrum of stories on the interplay of man and his surroundings: for instance, as the lights of vehicles streak past dilapidated buildings, he draws attention to the driver’s disregard for a place that once could have been called “home”.
