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After 7 years’ experience of providing programmes and workshops oriented around the performing arts, Le Café Vivant has just announced the opening of a new, purpose-built academy center in Gingins for the sustainable development of the human being.
Scheduled to open on 1 July 2017, the academy’s mission is to propose programs for both adolescents and adults that promote the positive evolution of the human being through the practice of:
- Artistic activities: singing, dancing, theatre, musical comedy, choir
- Personal and professional development programs: yoga, pilates, …
- Lifelong learning programs
Open Days / Portes Ouvertes
To inform the public about the center and its activities, Le Café Vivant is running a series of Open Days throughout the summer. You are invited to join them for drinks and nibbles on:
Serena, 2004. © Bob Martin (British, born 1959)
Enter your best photos to win a prize and get your image displayed at The Olympic Museum!
A new series of photographic exhibitions and events has just been launched at The Olympic Museum, exploring sports photography from numerous different angles.
Called “The Art of Sports Photography”, the new program of events runs until 19 November 2017 and includes a special competition in which the public is invited to submit their best photos, showing family, friends and neighbours playing sport in unusual places, in fun, fantastic or acrobatic ways… indeed whatever way you fancy!
Whilst everyone is familiar with the images of sport practiced at official competition venues, not everyone appreciates the many other ways in which sport can be played, in the parks, bedrooms, back yards, beaches, picnic areas, and even bus shelters! So, The Olympic Museum invites you to get creative and think about how you or your friends might like to get more into sport within your neighborhood.
To find out more about the competition, which closes to entries on Tuesday 11 July, visit the official website of the contest here. Prizes range from three different cameras in the Jury competition to headphones, or a watch or book in the Public competition. There will be a prize for the photo with the most likes on Instagram, and another for the most retweeted photo on Twitter!
In addition to the photo competition, The Olympic Museum is also running the following events:
5 double tickets to be won for entry to the Concours d’Élégance Suisse at the Château de Coppet on Sunday, 25 June 2017!
Following the success of his first classic car show in Coppet last year, Mathias Doutreleau, co-founder of the Concours d’Élégance Suisse, is staging a second lap, this year paying homage to the incredible Juke Box era with cars dating from 1945 to 1960. Organised in compliance with the official rules governing the leading classic car shows, this second Concours d’Élégance will once again take up residence in the gardens of the Château de Coppet from 23 to 25 June 2017.
Attracting more than 2,300 visitors last June, the second edition of the Concours d’Élégance Suisse is expected to feature a splendid range of vehicles this year over a three-day period, from 23 to 25 June 2017. To make the event more spectacular, you can give full rein to your creativity by opting for period dress, hairstyle and accessories!
“Always from a perspective of paying tribute to the historical and cultural heritage of the motor industry, and to bring back to life the tradition of the Geneva Concours d’Élégance, we give the public the opportunity to marvel at beautiful examples of automobile engineering that are rarely put on show,” explains Mathias Doutreleau, Director of the event.
After reopening in June 2016, the Alimentarium is launching its first ever annual theme: Food – Vice or Virtue? From the magical qualities attributed to certain nutrients, to the economic constraints of organic farming, and to food safety and nutritional concerns, the Alimentarium invites you to explore the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’, when applied to food and how it is produced. Traversing popular notions and current scientific discourse, this theme adds a new twist to the permanent exhibition. It will evolve throughout the year, with the addition of new content accessible in the Museum itself or 24/7 on its digital platform.
First annual theme since the Museum reopened
With Food – Vice or Virtue? the Alimentarium is launching its first annual theme since reopening in June 2016. This topic adds a sprinkle of seasoning to the three sectors of the permanent exhibition – Food, Society and the Body – as well as to the Museum’s digital content. The Alimentarium invites us to reflect on the notions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’, in the context of food, whether in relation to industrialisation of production methods, aversion to food, the size of food portions or monitoring data from our body. This is a lively, progressive exploration of perceptions and current scientific discourse.
Join now and give yourself a chance of winning a one-to-one coaching session with Michelle!
Professional photographer, Michelle Petersen, has just launched a new online photography club, which will support the new series of Photography courses she is running at her studio in Vinzel, Vaud, this spring.
Featured on our site last year, Michelle Petersen offers a range of courses for budding photographers in the La Côte region, both French and English-speaking, at beginner through to immediate level. You can find more details on her new spring courses at the end of this article.
Asked why she decided to set up this new club for photographers, Michelle told us, “I designed the club after sending a survey to all my former students, to find out what they they were looking for in an intermediate workshop. Most were sad about the lack of practice after my beginner course, so this new club will provide them with all the opportunity they need to practice as much or as little as they want!”
How does it work?
Called Evoke, Michelle’s new Monthly Challenge Photography Club started on 1 April and works on a yearly membership fee of Fr. 115.-. New members can join the club at any time and from anywhere as most of the work is online.
