Boli - Gnawa music concert
2024-08-17 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | On the pier
The aim of the Boli group and its singer Anouar Aït Baouna, is to renew the strong cultural and musical links that the Gnawas have with sub-Saharan Africa, and more particularly with the Peuls. By attempting to stitch together the cut caused by the various incidents of history, he aims to recall the common origin of the different African ethnic groups through a musical language that transcends dialects and languages.
“Boli” means “cracks” in Fulani, like those that appear on the ground due to the shrinkage of clay during periods of drought. This name highlights the schism between the Gnawas and the Fulani. Through its compositions, its arrangements of ancestral songs and its musical vocabulary, this group seeks to be part of our times, while paying tribute to this heritage. Improvisation plays a major role, and the different playing styles and traditions are blended with jazz harmonies and a more contemporary musical structure.
This cross-fertilization is reflected in the line-up, where traditional instruments such as the Peul flute, guembri and karkabous rub shoulders with electric guitar and its effects, drums…
The texts, too, call for the unity and renewal of African culture, drawing lessons from the wisdom, farsightedness, sobriety and resilience of the ancestors to meet the challenges facing the continent, namely the fight against desertification, climate change and mass immigration. The group is currently completing the recording of an album with Kitchen Studio and Yvan Bing, due for release in late 2022, which will enable as many people as possible to discover this music and this project.
On the pier.
In the event of rain, the concert will take place at 9pm under the men’s canopy.

Burkina Faso dance and percussion workshop
2024-08-18 17:00 - 18:30
On the eve of the start of the new school year, the Buvette and AUBP traditionally offer activities dedicated to children. This year, between a crossing of the lake and a Blanche Blau concert, the Sini-Yiri association will be offering a musical and artistic discovery workshop for the little ones (who may or may not be accompanied by their parents/carers), focusing on music (discovery of traditional West African instruments), dance (simple choreography) and singing. The team who run this workshop like to end with a calmer moment of storytelling. A great opportunity to get away from it all before heading back to school. Workshop and storytelling for children – Association Sini-Yiri Genève

Concert: Blanche Blau
2024-08-18 19:50 - 21:00 | Platform
Blanche Biau is a solo project based between London and Zurich. Influences of ’80s wave and post-punk with touches of shoe gaze melt into a sad but dreamy sound. This is an artist from the new Zurich scene. Influences of ’80s wave and post-punk melt into a sad but dreamy sound. Concert on the platform.

DJ night: Biggy Bar
2024-08-22 18:30 - 23:30, 2024-08-23 18:30 - 23:30 | On the pier
Come and dance on the Bains pier with the Biggy Bar: DJ evenings from 6.30 pm to 11.30 pm.

Swiss Døds Championship
2024-08-24 13:00 - 18:00 | Waterpolo
The Døds championship will be held at Les Bains on the afternoon of August 24.
On the program:

1:00 pm to 1:55 pm: training
2:00 pm to 3:20 pm: first and second rounds
3:30 to 4:00 pm: Final
4:30 to 6:00 pm: Mini-Tramp session

Details:

3 different døds to perform: one classic and two freestyles
Registration: CHF 15
Limited to 25 participants

Registration:

Telephone: 079 954 63 73
Insta: @alexcentrique_

Concert: La Orquesta La Puntualidad
2024-08-30 18:30 - 20:00 | On the pier
Since 2013 and 3 albums, the salsa group la Orquesta la Puntualidad has been making audiences dance to the sound of its own songs. Bringing together musicians of both European and Caribbean origin, the Pâquis orchestra is like Switzerland itself: cosmopolitan. The concert will take place on the Jetée des Bains.

Mixed watervolley tournament
2024-08-31 13:00 - 18:30
Welcome to our Watervolley tournament, the most refreshing summer event of the year!
Dive into the action with this thrilling game, combining the fun of volleyball with the freshness of water. Assemble your team, challenge your opponents and show off your skills in this unforgettable aquatic tournament. Whether you’re an experienced player or an enthusiastic beginner, Watervolley is open to all.
Get ready for lots of laughs, sliding down the field and friendly competition in an incomparable summer atmosphere!
Registration at 1:00 pm.

Chess tournament
2024-09-08 13:30 - 18:30
Sunday, September 8
Registration from 1:30pm.

Sausage festival
2024-09-14 18:00 - 22:30
The daily special at Bains de Pâquis offers a tasting of sausages with various percentages of vegetable and animal protein. Discover it with the desire to explore new tastes and habits. Plus, music in the water with Timour Nigolian and Mono Tone. Two contemporary music sets presented by L’ABRI.

Sauna opening and new opening hours
2024-09-15 | Sauna
You may have noticed it when you come to the Bains these days: the Bains have begun their almost end-of-summer makeover… David, Mike and Bimbi have begun reassembling the saunas. Three weeks of intense work will culminate in the opening of the saunas, steam rooms and Turkish bath on Sunday, September 15! And as of September 15, we’re extending our sauna opening hours: you’ll be able to lounge in the baths for an extra hour in the evening!

Race around the lighthouse
2024-09-15 14:00 - 17:00
Please note: Due to weather conditions, the race around the lighthouse is cancelled.

Poetry in the City
2024-09-21 - 2024-09-29
POETRY IN THE CITY
From September 21 to 29 at various venues in the city: Bains des Pâquis, Ciné 17, Le Temps d’un Livre bookshop, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Alhambra, Centre d’Art Contemporain.
FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS
All the authors’ books are available at Le Temps d’un Livre.
For full program details, visit www.poesie-en-ville.ch
During the festival, the Buvette des Bains is open for drinks and food.
TPG buses 6, 8, 9, 25: “Mont-Blanc” stop
Mouettes genevoises: M1, M2, M3: “Pâquis” stop

Petanque. tournament
2024-09-22 09:00 - 17:00
Sunday September 22, mixed triplet boules tournament.
Registration from 9am.

poetry in the city
2024-09-23 08:00 - 2024-09-29 21:00
September 21-29 Here and elsewhere… For further information, visit https://poesie-en-ville.ch/

Exhibition: Botanical snapshots
2024-09-24 12:15 - 13:30 | On the pier
Present in Geneva for 200 years, the Botanical Conservatory will be revealing its hidden treasures, its unsuspected missions and its key role in the conservation of the plant and fungal world. Immerse yourself in a never-before-seen photographic immersion! Closely linked to the Botanical Garden, but less well known, the Botanical Conservatory abounds in little-known and exceptional treasures. Through the talented photographs produced by Studio Fédéral and Flying Focus, discover the herbarium and library collections studied by botanists from all over the world. Discover also its different facets in research and conservation. Immerse yourself in this institution which, along with the Botanical Garden, is a key player in providing answers to the current global biodiversity crisis.
Public opening: September 24, 12:15 p.m.

Tribute to Lou Reed
2024-09-24 19:00 - 22:30
Tribute to Lou Reed
Lou Reed, the prince of night and anguish as Andy Warhol called him, has left a lasting imprint on our imagination through his lyrics, the way he sings them and the way he sets them to music. To pay tribute to him, Poésie en Ville invites you to an evening of readings, performances and a musical tour of his emblematic songs.
8:00 pm Doors open
8:30-10:00 pm Entertainment: performance by La Ribot, poetry readings by Lou Reed; in English by Katherine DeLand, in French by Philippe Constantin, concert by Rodolphe Burger.
Find out more about Poste en Ville on : https://poesie-en-ville.ch/

Exhibition: Cataracts
2024-10-02 - 2024-11-08
The “Cataracte” exhibition will run from October 2 to November 10, 2024, with a vernissage on October 1, 2024 at 6pm at the Bains des Pâquis, accompanied by readings of Philippe Constantin’s poetic text and a talk by Dr. Tawfik Chamaa of UOSSM. A café-philo will also be organized. This work was presented at the ON/OFF festival in Arles in 2023 and at the Leica Galerie in Geneva. These exhibitions raise public awareness of humanitarian issues while offering a visual immersion in this essential mission. Cataracts, a scourge that indiscriminately affects young and old alike in Africa, were recently the focus of a campaign of ophthalmological operations carried out by the NGO UOSSM in Mozambique. This project was documented by Geneva-based photographer Denis Ponté, whose in-depth knowledge of Africa, acquired through many years of reporting, was brought face to face with a reality as unthinkable as it is harrowing.

Philo aux Bains: birth, what does it change?
2024-10-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Yurt
“We arrive in the midst of a conversation begun before us”, wrote Ricoeur, whose pupil and friend Olivier Abel was. Birth throws us both into history and into the vagaries of chance. The splendor of incarnation, which presents the newborn with the possibility of playing his or her own part, sometimes turns into the anguish of incarceration, of being trapped within oneself and doomed to death. But the desolation of our finitude finds consolation in the marvel of the plurality of existences and forms of life. Each of us is obliged to be born, and through our existence transforms raw chance into consented chance.

By making birth the perpetually renewed root of democracy, Olivier Abel offers us a superb existential and political meditation in which every birth changes something, not only for oneself (obviously!) but also for the world.

In the company of Olivier Abel, professor of philosophy and ethics at the Protestant theology faculty in Montpellier, and author of “La Naissance, qu’est ce que ça change?”, we’ll take a closer look at the term to understand its meanings, uses and imaginations.

Following the approach of the Qu’est ce que ça change? collection, which invites us to reflect freely on a vast subject that concerns us all, the idea is to share the philosopher’s viewpoint and to explore together what this notion evokes.

In collaboration with Labor et Fides Philo aux Bains invites you to question a simple yet complex notion: birth.

Cold water swimming lessons
2024-10-07 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 October 7, 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.

Poetic aperitif
2024-10-12 11:00 - 12:00
Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. Resumption of the apéros poétiques with a carte blanche by Editions A côté de cela Reading of texts from the works of :
Francesco Micieli, Carin Caduff,
Pablo Jofré, Philippe Constantin,
Didier Jordan, Marcel Burger, Paul
Verlaine.

Fête du Théâtre: Band(e) à part
2024-10-13 15:00 - 17:00
Band(e) à part is constructed as a theatrical documentary, with the audience taking on the role of the camera. We follow a pop rock band as they go about their daily business and tour Europe.
Between interviews with band members, live concert scenes and backstage footage, Collectif Duncan explores in music the social mechanisms that govern the evolution of individuals within a group. What remains of each individual in a shared project? A comic and sensitive show, full of disagreements and unison.
A creation by Collectif Duncan
Text, musical composition, direction and acting: Paul Berrocal, Boris Degex and Coralie Vollichard
Artistic collaboration: Alain Borek
Sound: in progress
Photo credit: Aurélia Thys 50 free tickets Reservations: 022 908 20 31 / fetedutheatre.ch From age 12 Running time: 55 min

Apéro Poétique
2024-10-19 11:00 - 12:00
Apéro poétique with a tribute to the centenary of Surrealism.

Philo aux Bains: Humanitarianism, a surge of solidarity or a field of contradictions?
2024-10-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Yurt
Does humanitarian aid create more dependency than it solves problems? Are the motivations of humanitarian actors always as altruistic as we think? How can we prevent humanitarian aid from becoming a vehicle for neo-colonialism? Come and discuss this fascinating topic at our next café-philo with Tawfik Chamaa. Together, we’ll explore the profound motivations behind humanitarian commitment, as well as its paradoxes and sometimes unexpected consequences: dependence, new colonialism, good intentions that backfire… This café-philo is an invitation to reflect on the ethical challenges of international aid, through questions that concern us all. Come and share your ideas, thoughts and doubts in a convivial atmosphere open to dialogue. Dr. Chamaa is currently Director of the Service Medical Junction (multidisciplinary medical group) which he founded in 1997 and which serves a large number of people in the center of Geneva. In September 2011, following the Syrian uprising, he co-created the Geneva-based association Syrian Democrats (DS) to support Syrians in their demand for democracy and freedom. He is also a board member of UOSSM International, HRI and President of GLOCA (Global Organisation for Civil Society Advancement _ Shabab Pro project). The café-philo is organized as part of the Cataracte exhibition, and will take place under the yurt on the Bains pier.
Free admission.

Journal des Bains no 31
2024-10-21 08:00 - 17:00
Summer/Fall 2024

Poetic aperitif
2024-11-02 11:00 - 12:00
Saturday, November 2 poetry reading with André Petitat
Red-footed kisses
André Petitat’s first passion was the social sciences, in Geneva, Montreal and Lausanne. But throughout his career as a researcher and teacher, exploring themes such as education, the gift, secrecy, narrative and interpretation, he has never forgotten the other voice. The voice of emotion and surprise, the one that goes straight to the heart of the matter or wraps itself around it, the one that, picoti and picota, dances and makes the other words, held for a few moments in silence, tremble.

Philo aux Bains: Café mortel
2024-11-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Yurt
Philo aux Bains invites you to join us in the Yurt on the pier for a Café mortel, where you can share your experiences of death in a convivial atmosphere.

The brainchild of Bernard Crettaz, sociologist, founder of the Société d’études thanatologiques and fervent Christian, who wanted people to “talk about death in the bistro”, these Cafés were created to free up discussion about death and dislodge the strongest taboos.
Today, Rita Bonvin is one of the people who have taken up the torch with the association Envie de dire la mort and who is perpetuating these special exchange spaces, whose objective is: “living orality”, i.e. an exchange in the presence of others that invites encounters – “civic orality”, which concerns everyone – “non-specialized orality”, which recognizes experience, lived experience. In this sense, to encourage non-judgmental exchanges between full-fledged human beings, we ask you to express yourself without “professional posture (…) without theory (…) or therapy”.
The anthropologist’s latest work will be available on site thanks to the collaboration of Labor et Fides, who have republished it and whom we thank for their participation.

Night swims
2024-11-06 18:00 - 20:00
Come and share the pleasure of swimming in cold water at night, in an atmosphere like no other! Les Bains offers food and drink to warm you up, and lifeguards are on hand to help. Night swims resume on November 6. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dates to follow :

November 27
December 11
January 22
February 26
March 26

Full Moon Sauna
2024-11-15 20:00 - 23:30 | Sauna
On full-moon evenings, the saunas are open until 11:30pm.
Enjoy the magic of the Night Baths with a brazier, clay to spread on your body, ice cubes and orange pieces.
Dates: October 17, November 15, December 15, January 13, February 12, March 14, April 13 and May 12.

Poetic aperitif
2024-11-16 11:00 - 12:00
Saturday, November 16, 11 a.m., with Xochitl Borel
Born in 1987, Xochitl Borel is a French-speaking writer. She is the author of L’alphabet des anges, (L’Aire, 2014) for which she won the Prix Lettres Frontière 2015 and the Prix du Roman des Romands 2016, Les oies de l’Ile Rousseau(L’Aire, 2017), a soft thriller set in Geneva, and Le siècle des couronnes (Dashbook, 2022), a short contemporary story in which she depicts an irrational and poetic universe that is ironically reminiscent of the “covidélirant” world. August 2024 saw the publication of her first collection of poems: Trognes (L’Aire).
She currently lives in Vevey (Switzerland), where she founded the Maison suisse de la Poésie.
A lover of words and mother of three children as beautiful as the singularity of each being, she continues to write the world to understand a little of this humanity capable of great cruelties and infinite tenderness.
