Events

Students on the Master’s programme «Music and Scene in Transformation» at the Basel Academy of Music are presenting their final projects as part of a mini-festival. The concerts will take place over several days in various formats and with different ensembles. In this performance, Emilė Ribokaitė presents her final project.

As part of the lecture series Vortragsreihe «Ein Haus...», Lütjens Padmanabhan Zurich-based architects will present the ambassador’s residence in Algiers, Algeria, which they designed and realised in collaboration with an Algerian firm.

Gare du Nord opens the 26/27 season with «Schweben». The evening brings together two music theatre works which, using different methods, follow a similar movement: the attempt to suspend gravity for a moment. Somewhere between virtual weightlessness and the search for a way out of the digital downward spiral the VR opera «Ascension» meets the hand-crafted, lo-fi music theatre «Exercises in Levitation». Two distinct forms of music theatre that also leave the audience feeling as though they are floating a little.

Gare du Nord opens the 26/27 season with «Schweben». The evening brings together two music theatre works which, using different methods, follow a similar movement: the attempt to suspend gravity for a moment. Somewhere between virtual weightlessness and the search for a way out of the digital downward spiral the VR opera «Ascension» meets the hand-crafted, lo-fi music theatre «Exercises in Levitation». Two distinct forms of music theatre that also leave the audience feeling as though they are floating a little.

In this workshop participants will learn the key basics of touring abroad, with a focus on the EU and the UK. Topics covered include travel planning, transport and logistics, fee settlements, withholding tax, visas, insurance, and customs and VAT issues.

In «Allotria, Allotria! A Mouse Drama» by gare des enfants two mice seek refuge with the hermit Willibald and turn his quiet life completely upside down. A poetic musical theatre piece featuring puppetry and live music, exploring friendship, jealousy and solidarity.

J. A. Baker’s poetic work «Der Wanderfalke» («The Peregrine») takes on an extraordinary form that blends musical theater, a reading, and a concert: actresses and percussionists follow the rhythm of the text using instruments built specifically for this production. An evening celebrating the infinite diversity of nature.

J. A. Baker’s poetic work «Der Wanderfalke» («The Peregrine») takes on an extraordinary form that blends musical theater, a reading, and a concert: actresses and percussionists follow the rhythm of the text using instruments built specifically for this production. An evening celebrating the infinite diversity of nature.

As part of the «Ein Haus…» lecture series organised by the Institute of Architecture at the FHNW, the TEN collective is presenting a residential building for five women in Bosnia. Striking a balance between a sheltered retreat, communal living and social participation, the building translates a delicate social fabric into architecture.

What if the era of humanity were over and turtles—slow, friendly, ancient—were to populate the Earth? Would they dream of these strange primates who had their chance and failed so miserably? Witty, funny, and bordering on the absurd, «Dreaming Turtles» is a musical theater piece in which a glimmer of hope for humanity shines through its dreamlike world.