We wrote about Reptile Expo back in February when it was being hosted near Neuchâtel. We just found out that the exhibit of these live reptiles and friends will be set up the day after Christmas through 14 April 2024 in Sierre! And the exhibitors have kindly offered one of our readers a "pack famille" including 4 tickets! Read below to enter the competition.
The array of species that many have never seen in real life are set up in this temporary, mobile vivarium located in Sierre, at the Centre COOP Rossfeld. The museum is open daily from 10h-18h (even on Sundays).
The aim of this exhibition is to teach young and old alike to get to know these much-feared animals better, while at the same time enabling them to experience an unforgettable moment through a family-friendly, educational activity. Nowadays, it's vital to inform people and help them discover the little-known world of reptiles and their danger of extinction. "Better knowledge, better protection".
New this year!
This year, for the first time in Switzerland - and practically UNIQUE IN THE WORLD, as the only other place to find it in captivity is in a zoo in the Czech Republic - you'll be able to discover an exceptional snake that was officially discovered fairly recently in Iran (2006): the spider viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides), top photo. It has the most elaborate lure of all snakes, with a protrusion at the end of its tail that resembles a small spider, making it a formidable lure for foraging birds.
Visitors will be able to observe more than 250 animals, including 80 different species, in their natural habitat over an area of 1,200 m2.
©MHS exposition 2023 Par la Force des Choses
Catching your feet in the carpet, losing your balance, trying to catch yourself and, finally, falling and rolling on the floor. It's probably happened to you. But do you know what causes it, apart from clumsiness? Well, a physical phenomenon that's omnipresent in our lives: the force of gravity.
How can we explain the cause of falling bodies? Our understanding of gravity has evolved since Antiquity, under the guidance of the great names in the history of science, from Aristotle to Einstein. These scientists have accompanied their thinking with famous experiments: Galileo and his inclined plane, Newton and his apple, Foucault and his pendulum, and it's through these that the exhibition invites you to explore.
The exhibition offers visitors the chance to explore the history of gravitation through the notion of force: a force applied to an object causes it to react.
Visitors are invited to engage in a fascinating interaction between movement and illustrative models. Inclined planes, pendulums, gyroscopes and spinning tops are at the heart of the exhibition, illustrating the forces that make people fall, turn or roll.
If you are looking for something to do during the upcoming October holiday, then make sure to put Vallorbe and nearby Sainte Croix on your map. Juraparc is a wildlife park boasting bears and wolves in cohabitation, which replicates the most exacting conditions found in nature.
The wildlife park where brown bears and wolves live side by side, in the Jura vaudois, between Le Pont and Vallorbe, at the Mt d'Orzeires pass situated at 1000m.
Juraparc is not only a wildlife park with bears, wolves and bison, it's also an entertainment and leisure park for children, with a large playground and direct contact with goats, ponies, donkeys and Alpacas! The restaurant that sets itself apart from the alpine inn with its refined cuisine and many specialities and a large sunny terrace.
In fact, under natural conditions, wolves and bears have large territories that they share with other species. Mont d'Orzeires have reproduced conditions similar to and proportional to the natural territories of these 2 species.
The park also leave stumps, fallen trees, clumps of bushes, pebbles etc. for this purpose. The aim of the park is to offer the animals a space similar to freedom.
The park is bounded on one side by the visitor footbridge (over 3m50 high) and on the other by nature with an imposing rock face.
Are you, or do you know, a director with a flair for storytelling on stage? The Village Players of Lausanne are seeking experienced directors to present their vision to Lausanne audiences!
If you have a play in mind, they invite you to submit it for consideration for the 2024 season. Email the VPI committee and briefly share your experience and an overview of the play you have in mind.
Not a director? But have a play you’d like to see on the VPI stage? Drop them a line with your recommendation.
About The Village Players of Lausanne
The Village Players was founded on 11 November 1981 in La Conversion by a group of enthusiasts of English language theatre led by Zelda and John McKillop. The group’s first event was a theatre workshop held in December 1981 and the first “production” was a play reading of “Lovers” by Brian Friel in February 1982.
The society’s first full-length production was “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder, staged in Lutry in May 1982. The society was formally established with a written Constitution in June 1982.
Since that start The Village Players have produced a wide range of shows in various theaters and halls in and around Lausanne and elsewhere in Europe.
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