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.

Sport courses for all levels
2026-02-13 12:15 - 13:15 (Europe/Zurich)
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

Yoga & meditation
2026-02-14 10:00 - 11:00
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.

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

Tai-Chi classes
2026-02-15 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

LUNA NOVA OBSCURA
2026-02-16 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.

Cold water swimming lessons
2026-02-16 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-03-02 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.

Come and sit down
2026-02-19 15:30 - 18:30 | On the pier
Viens t’asseoir, je t’écoute is back at the Bains des Pâquis for the 2026 season.
Come and sit down with a stranger, share your dreams or your gripes, talk about the rain or the sun…
Our volunteers will be delighted to offer you a confidential, caring and free listening service!
Looking forward to seeing you again!

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.

Night swimming
2026-02-25 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.

Full Moon Sauna
2026-03-04 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.

Poetic aperitif
2026-03-07 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Pascal Normann
Pascal Nordmann
Capture the information. Grab the thread, then rewind. 2023, 2022, 2021, the years go by with their share of anguish, havoc, disaster and anguish… from one end of the planet to the other. What if all the world’s media and newspapers suddenly began to present this reality, which is losing its meaning, bomb after bomb, in its poetic guise?
In the author’s own words, the Fil info can first and foremost serve as a return to the past. The events mentioned come from our most concrete reality, and each of us still remembers this or that event that made the headlines, before falling back into obscurity just as quickly. Le Fil info responds to this by offering a series of dated, daily prose poems that take these anecdotes and turn them on their head. They offer a way of traveling back in time, questioning what was, at the time, our preoccupying current affairs with humor, shift and irony.
Fil info is a constant poetic experience…
Pascal Nordmann, Swiss writer, visual artist and theatre-maker, will be on hand to read a selection of these texts, published by Les Carnets du Dessert de Lune in June 2025.

Attention: Large sauna out of order
2026-03-10 08:00 - 2026-03-23 17:00
Due to a technical issue, the large sauna will be out of service until midday on Monday, March 23.
Limited seating. Admission $17 instead of $22 until repairs are completed.
Thank you for your understanding.

Exhibition: Des glaciers aux Bains des Pâquis
2026-03-12 17:30 - 19:00 | On the pier
An exhibition that traces the journey of water from the glaciers to the Pâquis baths.
Photographs: Michel Roggo

An exhibition presented by the Mairie de Genève in collaboration with the Maison de la Rivière.

Vernissage with the City of Geneva Municipal Band, March 12 at 6pm, in the presence of Administrative Councillor and Mayor Alfonso Gomez.

Concert: Aï Quartet
2026-03-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Yurt
Agnès sings and saws, Françoise plays accordion, Jean-Elie plays electric guitar and banjo, and Dom plays baritone saxophone. This group is in fact a “side project” of Les Canards des Cropettes, since we’re all part of it! Our repertoire is made up of covers from the last century, from “Nessuno” to “Canzione Arrabiata”, including “Sous aucun prétexte”, “Perfect Day” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. The result is a nostalgic flavour that has been brought up to date, and the joy of revisiting these songs and playing them together.
Concert under the yurt, free admission.

Philo aux Bains: How to respond to the violence of capitalism? with Nicolas Framont
2026-03-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Yurt
How do we respond to the violence of capitalism? And what happens when this violence is no longer merely structural, but provokes irreversible action?
For this Philo aux Bains event, we welcome Nicolas Framont, sociologist and editor-in-chief of Frustration magazine, for a discussion based on two of his books: Parasites and Saint-Luigi: comment répondre à la violence du capitalisme.
In Parasites, Nicolas Framont dismantles a well-honed ideological mechanism: that of designating certain populations as “welfare recipients”, “profiteers” or “burdens” on society. Against this rhetoric, he asks a simple, incisive question: who is really living off whom? Through a sociological and political analysis, he shows how the accusation of parasitism serves to mask the true relations of exploitation and protect the interests of the dominant classes.
With Saint-Luigi, he takes a different approach, more directly rooted in a tragic news item: the murder of Brian Thomson by Luigi Mangione. Based on this event, Nicolas Framont proposes a reflection on political and social violence. What does such an act say about the times in which we live? How can we understand how an individual could commit such an irreparable act in the name of denouncing capitalism? And above all: how can we respond to systemic violence without tipping ourselves into a logic of destruction?
As always at Philo aux Bains, this meeting is intended as a space for collective reflection, taking the time to consider the tensions of our times – and the possible paths towards greater justice.
The meeting takes place as part of the FIFDH.
Under the yurt, free admission.

Poetic aperitif
2026-03-21 11:00 - 12:00
Reading by Patrick Brunet
Actor, director, drama teacher.
Patrick Brunet is also a writer, for plays, short stories and novels.

Clown improv
2026-03-26 19:30 - 21:00
“Four unpredictable clowns, a charismatic master of ceremonies, and a shower of inspiration: this is the explosive alchemy that will set this new improv clown evening in the yurt alight. Get ready for an avalanche of brilliant nonsense and bursts of laughter, punctuated with poetic sparkles. Come and immerse yourself in clowning on Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Yourte des Bains!”Cie TAKE CARE

Dial-a-poem Switzerland
2026-03-28 - 2026-05-10
To mark the inauguration of the DIAL-A-POEM SWITZERLAND project, MAMCO, in collaboration with the Bains des Pâquis, invites you to a festive evening to discover the exhibition dedicated to the poet John Giorno and his poems by telephone.
In 1968, the American poet John Giorno (1936-2019) launched Dial-A-Poem. He integrated poetry into everyday life: it was broadcast by telephone, and performed rather than written. Almost 60 years after that first version, MAMCO, in collaboration with Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS), is organizing Dial-A-Poem Switzerland, bringing together voices from Switzerland’s different linguistic regions. Poets, writers, thinkers, theater and film personalities, lyricists: all have forged their means of expression from the word, its meaning and its sound.
The project was launched in the open air of the Bains des Pâquis, where a telephone was installed in an old telephone booth. Alongside the jetty, an exhibition on John Giorno is being held. It evokes the literary and artistic currents that ran through his career: the Beat Generation, visual poetry, the underground scene, Pop Art and the technological experimentation of the New York art scene. One of Geneva’s most popular venues thus becomes the stage for these literatures of yesterday and today, and offers as many gifts to those who pick up the phone or call the Dial-A-Poem Switzerland number.
From March 28 to May 10, daily from 8am to 8pm.

Poetic aperitif
2026-03-28 11:00 - 12:00
As part of the Festival Histoire et Cité, Philippe Constantin will give a reading of his text “Le Tarot de la Vie”, accompanied on cello by Francesco Bartoletti.

Philo aux Bains: Science, knowledge and mysteries of the animal body with Virginie Jean
2026-03-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Yurt
What if certain practices escaped the all-too-simple categories of “science” or “superstition”?
What if, between technical gesture and intuition, between accumulated experience and mystery, there were another way of inhabiting the world?
As part of the Festival Histoire et Cité, whose theme for 2026 is “Comme par magie” (As by magic), Philo aux Bains is delighted to welcome Virginie Jean, cow whisperer.
In contrast to a strictly technical vision of animal care, his work is part of an ancient tradition: that of the “rebouteux” and “rebouteuses”, who, through touch, close observation, listening to the body and empirical knowledge often transmitted outside academic frameworks, relieve, heal and rebalance.
Is it folk knowledge? An art of gesture? A form of magic?
What does it mean to “care” when you’re working with living beings, in close proximity to the body?
How can we think about these practices in a world dominated by scientific veterinary medicine? Opposition, complementarity, cohabitation?
This meeting will be an opportunity to explore the tensions – but also the possible dialogues – between rationality and belief, tradition and modernity, the visible and the invisible.
In the course of the discussion, we’ll also question our contemporary relationship with living things: what does caring for animals say about our way of being in the world? What is legitimate knowledge? Who decides what’s science and what’s folklore?
The meeting will take place at the Bains des Pâquis, on the pier, under the yurt. Free admission.

The springs of the imagination always end up forming a lake
2026-03-29 14:00 - 18:00 | On the pier
PERFORMANCE
Flash training – Guardians of Lake Geneva stories
Maryne Lanaro
Continuous 30′ storytelling on the pier
Supported by the E.S.I.M. association, this flash course is an immersion in the ecology of storytelling. At the crossroads of neuroscience, mythology and life sciences, it explores a simple yet powerful idea: when stories stop circulating, places become impoverished. Through a founding myth of Lake Geneva, collective practices and ritual gestures, participants become guardians of stories – responsible for their transmission, transformation and symbolic power. An intergenerational experience, joyful and engaging, to relearn how to listen to places and tell stories in a different way.

Introduction to the notion of wave epidermis by Jeska Kaola
Paul Courlet
Perfomance, storytelling, music 40′ around 4:00 pm
In this mini-conference, Paul Courlet immerses us in the work of Jeska Kaola, an avant-garde intuitive researcher who evoked the notions of brain waves, synchronization and trance in her 1808 essay Épidermes ondulatoires (Kaola, Jeska, Epidermes ondulatoires Édition Solaris, 1808). Disappeared from the radar and reviled by the scientific community, she was in her time a precursor of therapeutic hypnosis and anticipated the discoveries about brain function made later through brain imaging. She was also close to the famous international trader Jaklos Bariolez Igwan (1755-1816), renowned for his audacity and divinatory powers.

The lake lamp
Diederik Petters
Performance, installation, narrative 25′ continuous in the Yurt
What do luminous objects have to say when we finally give them a voice? In this sound installation, it’s light that plays the leading role: a simple electric bulb on a stand. It flickers. But even more astonishing: it speaks. Could it be that this lamp has emerged from the abyssal depths, from the compact blackness at the bottom of Lake Geneva? A ghostly lamp that seems to carry sunken stories – tales of wrecked ships, missing scenes, lives or voices that have sunk into the lake – but also, the tale of its own invention.

A MOBILE EXHIBITION WITH
MATHILDE TINTURIER, HENRY DELÉTRA HANNA, STEPHANIE PFISTER

AND A LISTENING LOUNGE WITH
ERIC DESJEUX, JEAN-BAPTISTE MOLINA, MARYNE LANARO, EVA ZORNIO, PAUL COURLET, DIEDERIK PETEERS
Program: IIRRM
