Festivals and cultural events Switzerland

International comics festival with exhibitions, film program, book signings and author presentations. This eventful festival attracts more and more fans every year. Authors come from several countries for the occasion. The program for each edition includes round tables, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and, of course, meetings with talented and promising authors.

A fine initiative where the inhabitants of Geneva take the reins of the animation of their district. They are entrusted with the keys to the public space for the setting up of a popular festival where the aim is to bring people together and create proximity between neighbours. This citizen dynamic gives rise to a convivial entertainment with magic shows, concerts, creative workshops, etc. The whole neighbourhood is mobilized and of course invites passers-by and travellers to discover their program. Good moments of sharing and local encounters!

Heading for South American culture with this festival which succeeds every year in the challenge of making Latin American cinema discoverable, put forward during more than two weeks in various places in French-speaking Switzerland and neighbouring France. The main screenings take place in Geneva cinemas such as the Cinéma Grütli, Cinéma Bio in Carouge.... A programme with the discovery of independent authors as well as committed films and documentaries highlighting human rights.

The 7th art holds a beautiful place in Geneva, that of bringing together all the professionals of the moment. This atypical festival of international renown unites cinema, television and new forms of digital creations. Audiovisual art in all its splendour ensures you during a week of discoveries and sensory experimentation. The often professional festival-goers are projected in a universe that can be fantastic, playful, dreamlike by the 3D projections in which they become actors. A plunge and a total immersion in visual creativity and the first to discover short films in preview. Meetings with professionals, filmmakers and new talents await audiovisual enthusiasts at the Tous Écrans Festival. A technological and above all an artistic escape.

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Showcase of Swiss cinema in various genres of national production and even international co-productions to which Switzerland collaborated. Parallel sections featuring the creations of film students, foreign films, television films, and a retrospective in personal tribute are added to the programme.

History of popular music (250 instruments) and customs from all over Switzerland, exhibition of musical devices (phonograph, jukeboxes, etc.).

Festival of contemporary music in the open air, every year on the first weekend of July in an idyllic location. One of the most important in this part of Switzerland, known beyond the borders.

An Italian theatre built in 1837, the Théâtre populaire romand has a hall decorated in a Louis XV style, with masks of the Comédie in particular. The programme is varied: classical and committed theatre, comedy, song, dance, humour, young audiences..

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The Floss Festival is a stage on the Rhine with an eclectic programme of excellent music. For more than twenty years, Basel has been alive with concerts for three weeks at the end of July. The floating stage is in motion, while the audience sits on the riverbank. On stage, the bands play to hundreds of spectators who stroll and stop along the banks of the Rhine. The Floss Festival is free of charge: all you have to do to contribute is throw a few coins into the sailors' nets at the collection.

In early September, Elisabethenstrasse becomes the vibrant heart of the Flâneur Festival. Explore Basel's diversity in three days of exchange, creativity and warm encounters. New brands, innovative and creative workshops, culinary delights and an exceptional musical program on six stages with thirty-five local bands and musicians. Meet one hundred and forty local businesses, from restaurants to boutiques, museums, clubs and theaters. It's a colorful, lively and incredibly beautiful festival. Come and discover Basel in a different way!

Geneva's music festival goes beyond boundaries. It is the event of Grand-Geneva for which makes every one travels as the programme is rich! The Music Festival is a real institution and an event which makes Geneva move. Organised by the town and the Culture department, this great popular festival gathers all the generations who have come to share a moment around world music. Hundreds of concert of every style and for every one are organised in the streets of Geneva, near the harbour in various places, from the simplest to the most prestigious ones during 3 days full of emotions on the two banks with numerous events and musical animations. The atmosphere is unparalleled. You can eat everywhere at stands of the Village of associations (profits going to cultural, social, educational and humanitarian works), with specialities from across the world. This event forms part of sustainable development and actions are set including waste management with drink pumps and eco-friendly flasks; cups are prohibited.

Popular, convivial, cheerful and familial, the fanfares remind us of beautiful ceremonies, large gatherings, processions and parades. Organized by several entities, during the second half of the month, Mai en Fanfares offers a multiple programme of concerts in different places in the city and wandering onto the streets. It is possible for walkers, lovers of popular or scholarly music, to listen to two or even three concerts held by different musical groups in the evening, the same day, at the same place.

The Zürcher Theater Spektakel is an international theater and performing arts festival that has been held every summer in the Landiwiese Park since 1980. For several weeks from mid-August to the beginning of September, street artists from all over the world take to the stage outdoors to enchant you with their shows. It is one of the most important European festivals of its kind! A must-see event for the whole family if you are visiting Zurich during this period.

Every year, the Basel Theatre opens at 17 pm to celebrate Christmas in its own way. Every evening, a musical or literary surprise awaits the curious. In the programme: stories, poems, songs, classic or completely twisted, funny or not… Let yourself surprise!

The outdoor scenes, spread over the right bank, invite you to get out and mix with the crowd, on the shores of blues of local and international interpreters. It's Summerblues time!

The Jazz Festival Suzanne Bebbi Sy Jazz marks the end of school holidays in Basel every year. On several scenes in the city centre, dozens of musicians make tens of thousands of jazz fans vibrate.

For book-makers, the book fair BuchBasel brings together an impressive number of publishers from all over Switzerland and is organising a prize discount. Several exchange forums are held around different themes. Part of the exhibition is devoted to comics. Some authors of French origin are present.