CULTURE
Issu d’une famille polygame de 38 enfants, Aboubacar Doumbia nait à Divo (Côte d’Ivoire) en décembre 1974. Son père, commerçant, estimait que ses filles étaient plus vulnérables et qu’il était donc important de les « armer » en les scolarisant. Concernant ses fils, sa...
Grand spécialiste du théâtre espagnol contemporain, explorateur de l’autofiction familiale, Borja Ortiz de Gondra, dont les œuvres sont traduites et jouées dans de nombreux pays, a travaillé dans les organisations internationales comme traducteur indépendant de 1998 à...
This edition of UN Today aims to approach the issue of disability from a different angle. On this occasion, we intend to merge the challenge of having certain special abilities and apply them to the possibility of engaging and communicating good examples through art....
This, amongst others, was a legacy of the concept of “weaker sex” or “imbecillitas sexus”, derived from Roman law, literally meaning the weakness of female mental power, and had a lasting influence on the role assigned to women. Society severely limited female civil...
It is a two-volume anthology of 58 articles selected from the Courier’s archive that showcase the magazine’s role as UNESCO’s window to the world and its contributions to the Organization’s laboratory of ideas. Highlighting the ‘thinkers’ (volume 1) and ‘creators’...
The experience was first to discover the singular photographer, then the singular man. Why singular? Because he breaks the mould of what one expects when trying to discover what lies behind a talented eye, two hands to hold a camera, and a finger to press a button. To...
There are few people in history like Charlie Chaplin. His talent has remained intact throughout the ages as he has attracted fans from all generations: past, present and no doubt future. There is nothing more to add about Chaplin’s genius, which is why we thought it...
Lorsqu’en 2019, la Ville de Genève demande à ses institutions culturelles de définir leurs engagements futurs, le Musée Ethnographique de Genève (MEG) entame une réflexion critique sur son identité. Son premier constat est qu’avec ses 195’00 visiteurs par an, des...
Dan Acher uses cities the world over as playgrounds. Very big playgrounds, in which large-scale installations bring thousands of people together. His work taps deep into shared emotion, a magical space which enables all kinds of citizens to connect with each other and...
CULTURE
The experience was first to discover the singular photographer, then the singular man. Why singular? Because he breaks the mould of what one expects when trying to discover what lies behind a talented eye, two hands to hold a camera, and a finger to press a button. To...
There are few people in history like Charlie Chaplin. His talent has remained intact throughout the ages as he has attracted fans from all generations: past, present and no doubt future. There is nothing more to add about Chaplin’s genius, which is why we thought it...
Lorsqu’en 2019, la Ville de Genève demande à ses institutions culturelles de définir leurs engagements futurs, le Musée Ethnographique de Genève (MEG) entame une réflexion critique sur son identité. Son premier constat est qu’avec ses 195’00 visiteurs par an, des...
Dan Acher uses cities the world over as playgrounds. Very big playgrounds, in which large-scale installations bring thousands of people together. His work taps deep into shared emotion, a magical space which enables all kinds of citizens to connect with each other and...
Dans un monde chaque jour plus instable et interdépendant, nous avons plus que jamais besoin de coopérer sur tous les plans et entre les territoires. Si les instances des Nations Unies s’emploient à rétablir l’esprit et les pratiques du multilatéralisme, certaines...
Patrick Chappatte was born in Pakistan, he spent time in Singapore before his family settled in Geneva when he was five. He publishes in Le Temps, NZZ, Le Canard Enchainé, Der Spiegel and the Boston Globe. Until recently he also worked for the New York Times, but...
Opened to the public in 1964, the History of Science Museum is located in a magnificent mansion from 1830, in the heart of the Perle-du-Lac park, on the shore of Lake Geneva - a few steps away from the international organisations. Its charming decoration, inspired by...
Its director, Jacques Berchtold, who also heads the Geneva Association of Museums and Art Centres (AMCAG), explains how the right bank of Geneva has nothing to envy its elder sister, the left bank, in terms of cultural offerings and perspectives. What does the public...
Quels sont les secteurs culturels les plus impactés par la crise sanitaire? La crise met en lumière et exacerbe ces difficultés préexistantes. Les arts de la scène sont parmi les secteurs les plus touchés ainsi que les artistes et acteurs culturels dont le statut...
To write about music is to give words a sound they do not have. Let’s hope that the following paragraphs will swing into song, since music is what this day, this article and this interviewee are all about. International Jazz Day has been created and recognised by...
