Huma exhibition
2025-10-02 17:00 - 2025-11-09 17:00 (Europe/Zurich)
And what would you pack in your suitcase?
Opening October 2 at 5pm
The exhibition takes the form of a memory game inspired by the classic “In my suitcase, there are…”: “Look at each panel once, reading the word lists. At the end of your turn, can you remember all the objects? Can you recite the whole list?” A journey for young and old, to immerse, reflect, and perhaps… recognize yourself.
An exhibition by the Païdos association

PâqueBO - a fantastic and unusual lakeside installation.
2025-10-16 - 2026-02-15
Opening : Thursday, October 16, 5 to 9 p.m.
PâqueBO is a cultural, social and inclusive project run by the Fondation Cap Loisirs, in partnership with the Bains des Pâquis and the Bâto collective.
This poetic installation was imagined by people with intellectual disabilities taking part in Cap Loisirs activities, and by scenographers and visual artists.
To be discovered in the pool in front of the Buvette from October 16.
With the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, Champ libre – Culture en tous lieux (culture.ge.ch) and Fonds Mécénat SIG.

Cold water swimming lessons
2025-10-27 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-01-26 12:30 - 13:30 | On the pier
Would you like to start cold water swimming and join a movement of several hundred people who swim all winter at the Bains? Would you like to enjoy the many benefits of cold water swimming (immune defenses, mental well-being, etc.)?
From September 1, Les Bains will be offering classes every Monday between 12:30 and 1:30 pm in groups of up to 8, to give you all the keys you need to get started.
This course is designed for intermediate and advanced swimmers (we don’t teach you how to swim during the course).
Registration at the Rotonde des Bains, CHF 10 per course.

Improclowns
2025-10-30 19:30 - 20:30
4 unpredictable clowns, a charismatic Mistress of Ceremonies and a shower of inspirations: this is the explosive alchemy that will set this season’s first improv performance at La Yourte des Bains des Pâquis alight! Get ready for an avalanche of bright silliness and laughter, punctuated by poetic sparks.
With : Clara Urio, Éléonore Gür, Eva Marlinge, Julie Serrano and Lauriane Naulet

Sport courses for all levels
2025-10-31 12:15 - 13:15
Want to move, breathe and take care of yourself in a unique setting?
David offers outdoor sports classes at the Bains des Pâquis, accessible to all. Through mobility and strengthening exercises, come and (re)discover the benefits of physical activity for body and mind.
The program includes a variety of exercises, a breathtaking view of the lake, and guaranteed motivation!
Schedule: every Friday, 12.15pm – 1.15pm
Bring your own yoga mat. Classes open to all – offered by Les Bains – no registration required
AUBP membership fee: CHF 20.00 per year
Admission to baths: CHF 2.00 during warm season
Teacher : David Collins, coach

Movement & Relaxation
2025-11-01 09:00 - 10:00
With a view over the lake, between the lighthouse’s plane trees, Natacha and Dalia take turns offering a wellness break adapted to the rhythm of the seasons. Caring, regenerating and accessible to all, these sessions invite you to connect with your inner state, take care of yourself and recharge your batteries.
Through movement, conscious breathing and meditation, the practice harmonizes the body, honors the present moment and increases vital energy. Return to sensation, awaken the body, release the breath and relax before or after a swim.
Every Saturday at
From October to April: 10am to 11am
May to September: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Tai-Chi classes
2025-11-02 10:00 - 11:00 | On the pier
Every Sunday at the Spa

June to September: 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
October to May: 10am to 11am

In case of rain or wind: bistro-side shelter
Classes open to all – offered by Les Bains – no registration required

AUBP membership fee: CHF 20 per year
Admission to the baths : CHF 2.00 during the warm season

Tai chi teachers: Laurence Bovay, Careen Croset, Valérie Oppel, Marianne Schweizer
Sense of direction, praise for slowness, muscle tone, breathing, meditation, flexibility, memory, balance

Full Moon Sauna
2025-11-05 08:00 - 23:30 | Sauna
Once a month, when the moon is full, our winter facilities stay open until 11:30 p.m. so you can relax in the baths under the moon’s watchful eye. Braziers, ice cubes, clay and orange wedges add to this moment like no other…
Aufguss ceremonies take place during the evening. This practice of Northern European origin, associated with Finnish and Germanic saunas, consists of an “infusion” of steam flavored with essential oils to increase the humidity level. This purifying collective ritual is designed to intensify the benefits of the sauna through an immersive multisensory experience: intense heat, aromatic scents, sometimes music, for a deep sense of letting go and complete rejuvenation.

Night swimming
2025-11-05 18:00 - 20:00
Here we go again for another winter. Come and wriggle your fins in deliciously icy water under the stars.
6 dates to remember: November 5 and 26, 2025. December 17, 2025, January 28, 2026, February 25, 2026, March 25, 2026, between 6 and 8 pm.

Poetic aperitif
2025-11-08 11:00 - 12:00
Gwendoline Soublin
In conjunction with the SPECIMEN show at Théâtre Am Stram Gram (for teenagers and adults), Gwendoline Soublin offers a new reading in Geneva of her text “Sous la yourte”.

Through the day of Lucy, a supermarket employee whose daily life goes off the rails, we explore, in reverse, the strata of Evolution. Lucy is thrown out of the “capitalocene”, she retraces the eras of life on Earth, changes perspective, and takes a clear look at the Homo sapiens we’ve become. This is the intimate, “prehisto-evolutionary” epic that Spécimen takes us on. Ecology and fantasy are at the heart of this original, poetic text.

Biography of the author
Born in 1987, Gwendoline Soublin trained as an actress at ENSATT in Lyon, before receiving support from ARTCENA for her text, Swany Song. She writes texts for adults, young people and puppets. Spotted and awarded, his texts have won the German Ba-Wü and Kindertheaterpreis 2022 awards, and in France the BMK-TNS 2020 and JATL 2017 awards. They have been selected by the Comédie-Française, Jeunes Textes en Liberté, Eurodram, Prix Armand-Gatti, Collidram and Scénic Youth committees. His first novel, Tout l’or des nuits, was published this spring 2025 by Actes Sud.
OFFER: those attending the reading will receive a voucher for a preferential rate to come and see the show on either Saturday November 8 at 5pm or Sunday November 9 at 5pm.

Improclows
2025-11-13 19:30 - 20:30
“Come and take a bath in clownery on Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Yourte des Bains!
4 clowns and 1 master of ceremonies to make you laugh, move you and make you experience unique moments” Cie TAKE CARE

LUNA NOVA OBSCURA
2025-11-20 09:30 - 13:00
Once a month, at the time of the new moon, the Spa’s wellness area offers quiet, introspective mornings: a suspended moment when we withdraw from the external tumult to reconnect with ourselves. The new moon invites us to take a break and relearn how to listen to silence…
Aufguss ceremonies take place during the morning. This practice of Northern European origin, associated with Finnish and Germanic saunas, consists of an “infusion” of steam flavored with essential oils to increase humidity levels. This purifying collective ritual is designed to intensify the benefits of the sauna through an immersive multisensory experience: intense heat, aromatic scents, sometimes music, for a deep sense of letting go and complete rejuvenation.

Apéro Poétique
2025-11-22 11:00 - 12:00
Stéphane Blok’s reading
Balade avec les esprits, published by Bernard Campiche.
Spirit or spirits

Whatever
The earth is strewn
From what was
And already haunted
Because it will be

Lanterns to remember
2025-11-30 17:00 - 18:30
A moving moment. Launching of lanterns for each feminicide during the year.
Too many, far too many. 25 to date!
The ceremony will be attended by Nathalie Fontanet, State Councillor in charge of the Department of Finance, Human Resources and External Affairs, Alfonso Gomez, Mayor of the City of Geneva in charge of the Department of Finance, Environment and Housing, and the Director of UN Women Geneva.
Event organized by the two Soroptimist International clubs of Geneva and Club Zonta International du Grand Genève.

Christmas in December
2025-12-01 - 2026-01-04
Every evening, from December 1 to 23 at 7:00 pm, we open the door of an Advent cabin to discover the world of an artist on the theme “Sauvage”, in a festive musical atmosphere, accompanied by mulled wine and fondue. The cabins remain on display until mid-January.
At 8:00 pm, Les Bains presents 25 shows under the yurt: music, cabaret, storytelling, clown shows, performances… there’s something for all tastes and ages. And because December isn’t enough, we’re extending the shows to January 4!
– See the full Christmas program in December –

Conte un Jean
2025-12-03 20:00 - 21:30
From the Big Bang to Big Data, via Big pharma, Neanderthal and his genes, science and Cern, Fomme and the future of Sapiens, a rat who recounts his escapade, Conte un Jean is a little of all this in one hour on stage.

Written and performed by Steven Matthews. Lighting by Cécilia Olivieri.

Poetic aperitif
2025-12-06 11:00 - 12:00
Martine Ruchat, accompanied by Lorette Andersen.
An exchange of letters between Romain Rolland and Helena de Kay, the source of Martine Ruchat’s story Sensations océaniques, published by Encre Fraîche, read by the author and storyteller Lorette Andersen.

A researcher and university lecturer in the history of education, Martine Ruchat has also published biographical accounts since 2008, including Marc Solon, enfant placé, voleur de métier (Marc Solon, a foster child and thief by trade ), published by Antipodes, which was the subject of a Solon comic strip by Elisabeth Voyame in 2021. He was followed by La passions selon Charles-Henri Rapin, also published by Antipodes, Edouard Claparède. The purpose of education . Then, Élisabeth H. Une femme comme les autres (Slatkine) and Sensations océaniques en 2024 (Encre Fraîche). She edited No. 25 of the Revue d’histoire de l’enfance (now L’Irrégulière), “Professionnelles de l’enfance. Portraits croisés” in 2023, published by Anamosa, Paris.

Lorette Andersen, a Franco-Swiss storyteller, has practiced́ various trades: ethnologist, actress, worker, teacher of French for foreigners, early childhood educator, schoolteacher, writing workshop leader. All the threads of her diverse career paths have helped her weave her storytelling word. Eclectic by taste, she is as interested in contemporary legend as she is in marvellous tales or stories from faraway lands. Her first repertoire was the tales of French-speaking Switzerland.
A professional storyteller since 1993, she divides her time between performances and training courses in the art of storytelling and writing. She performs in theaters, cultural centers, libraries, hospitals and schools.

Escalade Jass Tournament
2025-12-13 08:00 - 15:00
Friendly “Disguised” Escalade jass tournament. Registration from 7.30 a.m., tournament starts at 8 a.m. Entry fee CHF 10 per person. Choose a team name, your best disguise and off you go! There will be a prize for the team with the best disguise!
Matches will go up to 1500, ads will be counted / double spade. Aperitifs, fondues and marmite sharing will be on the menu! Cool prizes for first-timers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Apéro Poétique
2025-12-13 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Albert Anor
I was born in Barcelona in 1955 (Sagittarius) and am a deliberate poetry dilettante. I taught visual arts in Geneva for four decades. Married with two grown-up children… I started writing poetry after devouring Antonin Artaud’s work at the age of 17. I share with the Surrealists the precept written by André Breton: ” Transform the world, said Marx. Change life, said Rimbaud. For us, these two watchwords are one and the same. “But I don’t recognize any ancestors when it comes to revolt. In my texts, I strive to deconstruct preconceptions in an attempt to create new images, or to disguise them to such an extent that they seem to give rise to a language that is paradoxical in that it is “new” and yet specific to us all, since it comes close to our weak inner selves.
The aim of this Apéro-poétique program is to present a limited selection of poems written over a period spanning almost fifty years. It is impossible to retrace the full extent of the texts written here, as it is the nature of an “anthology” to make more or less arbitrary choices, always subjective and subject to regret.
While being burns on the other side of thought, on the other side of words and silences.
To risk making known a sensitive opposition to an already too nauseating zeitgeist. Another epic way of remembering myself for others.
To date, I have published five collections of poetry(Pièges à convictions 2001; Le Chaos en devenir 2002; Éclats d’usure 2009; Pas pressé 2015; Ouvert pour inventaire 2018).
I have also initiated and co-created collective works: Le Poisson fumée montre son nez, Cercle des Parfumeurs, Geneva 2006; Limites hors-limites, Boîte poétique, 2019-2022, donated to the Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie de Genève (May 25, 2022); Heureusement que l’on va vers l’été, experimental text in collaboration with 24 other creators (2022-25).
In progress: Fragments du labyrinthe no.1 and Sourire salle d’attente.
Other cultural achievements: participation in the organization of Poésie en ville in September 2024, organization of a disrespectful commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism (October 3-27, 2024), readings at Printemps de la poésie since 2020 with Poètes de la Cité and co-organization of Apéros poétiques at Bains de Pâquis since 2024.

Exceptional closing on Wednesday December 24 and 31 at 6 p.m.
2025-12-24 - 2026-01-05
Exceptional closing on Wednesday December 24 and 31 at 6pm.
Last admission at 5 p.m.

WARNING!
2025-12-24 08:00 - 20:00

Poetic aperitif
2026-01-10 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Huguette Junod
Huguette Junod will read love poems from fifteen of her collections, 2015-2025: 50 years of poetry.
Love is much needed in these sad times…

Huguette Junod, born in Geneva, has been writing and publishing since the age of twelve. With a degree in literature, she taught French and literature at Geneva high school from 1968 to 2001, and has been running writing workshops since 1987.
Passionate about Greece, the poet interprets Greek myths by putting herself in the place of the heroines. Huguette Junod won the Prix des Ecrivains Genevois for Ceci n’est pas un livre and Le Choix de Médée.

Poetic aperitif
2026-01-24 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Caroline Despont, accompanied by Loussona Ground

Caroline Despont, poetess of intimacy and movement, explores landscapes
with a sensual, sober, vibrant language. She writes as one
walks on a ridge: on the edge of the visible and the invisible, between flesh and silence.
Her words are born of listening to the world, to the elements, to beings.
Through readings, performances and encounters with music and voice, she
offers words that invite us to feel, to connect, to open up, to understand.
Based in French-speaking Switzerland, her texts have been published in several collections
and magazines in Europe and Africa.
Her latest collection La Femme qui attendait la pluie (Tarmac Éditions, France) has
received the FETKANN Literary Prize! Maryse Condé 2025 – Poetry.
The text Errances inspires the harp and electronic duo AVELUNE in their album
Errer, a voluptuous, nuanced sonic journey (2024, Claves Records, CH).
She collaborates with Loussona Ground, sound designer & out of genre musician, who
dresses his words in dreamy notes, creating a unique universe in the image of
their respective approaches, on the edge of the visible and the invisible.
Their laboratory found its first setting in February 2025 at the Public Readings.
La Galerie in Geneva, with a reading of previously unpublished extracts from La Femme qui attendait
the rain.

Loussona Ground explores the introspective world through hypnotic textures and layers of sound, creating a dreamlike abundance.
Her performances combine tape, ribbon and semi-modular synthesizers. She combines electronics with music boxes, for which she writes conceptual scores.
Her musical journey began in 1975 with the classical violin, which she quickly brought to life with the discovery of microcontact and effect filters. From her classical days, Loussona Ground has retained an immoderate love of JS Bach, which she takes to new heights in her current sets.
His music is compared with the Ambient and Experimental movements of the 70′-80′.
Loussona Ground has recently given several concerts at Festivals and also likes to do happenings in unexpected places with a minimalist set.
She has collaborated with Swiss artists such as Consor, Sam Frank Blunier and Claudia Renna, and with the Collectif I+, of which she was the violinist.
Among her many projects, she is currently working with Caroline Despont, adding a particular sound dimension to the poet’s words, an invitation to a unique sensory journey, on the edge of the visible and the invisible, in the image of their respective artistic approaches. Their laboratory found its first setting in February 2025 with a reading of previously unpublished extracts from the collection “La Femme qui attendait la pluie” at the Lectures Publiques de La Galerie in Geneva.

Clown show
2026-01-24 20:00 - 21:00
“Par le Boudu”
Solo clown by Bonaventure Gacon
His heart’s a bit sore, he’s had too much to drink… probably the liver, the little beers or maybe the heart itself, his poor ogre’s heart, or maybe it’s that damn rust that inexorably acts on everything, on stoves, hearts and so on… Anyway, you’ve got to get back to work, go and see the good little boys and girls, sip a few drinks, watch the sunsets, have a little gueuletons and then be mean as best you can. You’ve got to live…
For adults and children aged 12 and over

Poetic aperitif
2026-02-07 11:00 - 12:00
Suzan Samanci reading
Suzan Samancı was born in Diyarbakır, Kurdistan, and published her first poems in the magazine “Sanat Olayı” in 1985.
She was a columnist for the newspapers Demokrasi, Gündem, Özgür Politika and Taraf from 1995 to 2011. She has also written political articles on art, aesthetics, women’s rights and the Kurdish question. Her first book of stories “Eriyip Gidiyor Gece” was published in 1991 under her own steam. She made her real debut with her storybook “Resin Smelled Hêlîn”. Her stories and novels have been published by Turkey’s leading publishing houses. Her stories have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Flemish, Swedish, French and Kurdish, and have been included in anthologies in English and Japanese.
As the language of her school and education was Turkish, for a long time she wrote almost exclusively in Turkish, the official language. Since 2015, she has been writing novels and stories in her mother tongue, Kurdish. In 1997, at the Orhan Kemal Literature Prize competition with her storybook “Kıraç Dağlar Kar Tuttu” (Kıraç Dağlar Kar Tuttu: Kıraç Dağlar Kar Tuttu), she was awarded first prize, but after a controversy, she was awarded second prize. After this incident, she decided not to take part in any further competitions.
Suzan Samancı has published books of literary analysis of her stories and novels.
While she is convinced that literature and art will heal and cleanse the polluted world, she also believes that without art and aesthetic awareness, human beings cannot achieve true freedom.

Spa closed February 9 and 10
2026-02-09 - 2026-02-10
Please note that the Baths will be exceptionally closed (and inaccessible) on Monday February 9 and Tuesday February 10 for the installation of the new gates.
It will therefore not be possible to eat, swim or enjoy the winter facilities during these two days!

Clown show: Par le Boudou
2026-02-14 20:00 - 21:00 | Yurt
Solo clown by Bonaventure Gacon
About the show :
His heart’s a bit sore, he’s had too much to drink… probably the liver, the little beers or maybe the heart itself, his poor ogre’s heart, or maybe it’s that damn rust that inexorably acts on everything, on stoves, hearts and so on… Anyway, you’ve got to get back to work, go and see the good little boys and girls, sip a few drinks, watch the sunsets, have a little gueuletons and then be mean as best you can. You’ve got to live…
For adults and children aged 12 and over

Come and sit down
2026-02-19 15:30 - 18:30 | On the pier
Viens t’assis, je t’écoute returns to the Bains des Pâquis for the 2026 season.
Come and sit down with a stranger, talk about your dreams or your gripes, talk about the weather…
Our volunteers will be delighted to offer you a confidential, caring and free listening service!
Looking forward to seeing you again!
Upcoming dates, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. :

Thursday, April 16
Tuesday, April 28
Tuesday, May 12
Thursday, May 28
Sunday, June 28
Sunday, July 26th
Sunday, August 9th
Sunday, September 27
Sunday, October 11th

https://www.jetecoute.org/geneve

Poetic aperitif
2026-02-21 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Nathalie Piegay
Nathalie Piégay is a French teacher and literary critic born in Lyon in 1965. A specialist in modern and contemporary French literature, she is also a well-known author of numerous works of fiction.
