This weekend the Blonay-Chamby steam train museum holds it annual steam train festival. Running for 30 years the festival starts on 3 June 2017 and runs for three days. The event includes five working steam trains with extra trains running between Vevey and the museum in Chamby. Click here for this weekend’s timetable. For more […]
The sometimes weird but wonderful Valais Festival of New Music – 1 to 5 June 2017
By Peter Hulm Music from helicopters, a Swiss men’s choir swinging back and forth on hydraulic pistons in a church, a political Tibetan pop-rock group — ForumWallis’s excursions into experimental music might sound more weird than wonderful, unless you’re there. In fact, the Festival of New Music has developed a reputation over the past 11 […]
Wine cellars in Valais open their doors this weekend
By Peter Hulm The icy weather of 19th of April 2017 launched catastrophe week in Switzerland’s finest wine growing region. The Valais “wine village” of Salgesch/Salquenen will probably lose 80-90% of its harvest, growers predict, as a result of frost damage to the vines (and apricot trees). Nevertheless, the canton’s wine cellars will be open […]
Museum night – Geneva opens its museums for a night of festivities
20 – 21 May 2017 One Saturday evening a year, Geneva opens its museums, workshops, and gardens until midnight. This year, the event starts on the evening of Saturday 20 May 2017, runs into the night, and continues on Sunday the 21st. The event is spread over 31 locations, together offering 240 activities. Not to be missed, the event […]
COMEDY: Michael McIntyre – described as the world’s most successful standup comic
Brought to you by International Comedy Club. Britain’s biggest comedian Michael McIntyre embarks on his Big World Tour this year and arrives in Switzerland in June 2017. McIntyre has hosted his own BBC One comedy show, has featured at the UK comedy show Live at the Apollo and was a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. In 2012, […]
A walk in the park with the man behind a film festival spanning 5 continents
This week Renu Chahil-Graf takes A Walk in the Park with Hervé Gransart, Director, Cinema of 5 Continents Festival. Only someone with very broad shoulders would take on a film festival covering five continents! This someone is Hervé Gransart, director of a festival now in its 12th year. This year it runs from 17 to […]
Change is coming. Are you ready? TEDxLausanne presents: Braving New Worlds
Brought to you by TEDxLausanne. Change is coming whether we like it or not. We can choose to adapt or face risk, confusion, uncertainty and fear. Braving New Worlds, the subject of this Friday’s TEDx presentations in Lausanne, aims to prepare the audience for change. This Friday 21 April 2017 at 14:00, TEDxLausanne presents 11 […]
COMEDY: Ross Noble – ranked one of the world’s 100 greatest stand-ups
Brought to you by International Comedy Club. After sell-out runs in both the UK and Australia, award-winning comedy legend Ross Noble will be bringing his hit show Brain Dump to locations across Europe. Famed for being the comic master of surreal tangents, the British household name will be touring mainland Europe and Scandinavia this Spring […]
Paleo music festival announces 2017 line up
Nyon’s much awaited outdoor music festival recently announced this year’s lineup. The festival, which takes place from 18 to 23 July 2017 in a field outside the Swiss town of Nyon, will include artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Midnight Oil, Jamiroquai, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Justice Live, Black M and […]
Switzerland’s spectacular dams and their uncertain future
Switzerland’s 604 hydroelectric plants aren’t just powerhouses for clean energy. Some dams are also dramatic destinations. But their source of fuel is literally drying up. By Bill Harby Switzerland’s glaciers are shrinking. In 2015, of 99 Swiss glaciers measured, 92 were retreating, 3 were stationary and 4 were advancing. Global warming doesn’t just threaten Switzerland’s […]
