There aren’t many places that tick all the boxes for a day out with the family, but the Parc Pré Vert at Signal de Bougy appears to do just that.
Located on the hillside half way between Geneva and Lausanne, several hundred meters above Lake Geneva, the park covers an area of about 110 acres, of which 40 are dedicated to welcoming children and their families. Among the park’s visitors you can also count on diners looking for fine food with a view, as well as business people who recognize the excellent value of the “forfait seminaire” when booking a meeting place for their work colleagues.
Once of the first things you notice when you drive up to Signal de Bougy is the outstanding vista! There can be few places in Vaud where you get such a great vantage point looking down the lake in one direction towards the fountain at Geneva, back again in the other direction towards Montreux and Le Bouveret, and of course straight ahead towards the Alps and Mont Blanc.
An additional 20% discount for each new friend you bring along (see conditions below)!
A new photographic club has just been set up for the English-speaking community of Geneva.
Launched officially in March 2015, the new Geneva Photo Club provides a range of training courses for amateur photography enthusiasts, including beginner classes for owners of DSLR or equivalent cameras, training sessions on how to take better photos with a smartphone, and street photography workshops. The club also plans to introduce shortly more advanced courses for portrait/studio photography, night/landscape photography, and software training for Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop. Click here for more detailed course descriptions.
Running the Geneva Photo Club are 3 Geneva-based photographers: Oguzhan (Osan) Altun, a freelancer specializing in landscape, beauty, and portrait photography; Eugene Theodore, an experienced international reportage and fashion photographer; and Jeremy Spierer, an awarded freelancer specializing in street photography. You can find more information on each of the photographers on the club website here.
A season outside, 1998, Amar Kanwar © Amar Kanwar
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has just opened a new temporary exhibition entitled “Experiments with Truth: Ghandi and the Images of Nonviolence”.
Organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, the exhibition features a selection of around one hundred works of art, documents and photographs tracing Ghandi’s personal, spiritual, ethical and political path. From the origins of his thinking to the extent of his legacy, the exhibition promotes a dialogue between cultures, arts and techniques: tantric paintings, extremely rare Koranic parchments and Jain sculptures feature alongside works by contemporary artists such as Yves Klein, Dan Flavin, Ai Wei Wei and Amar Kanwar.
In partnering The Menil Collection, one of the most important private collections in the USA, founded by Jean and Dominique Menil, the aim of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum is to encourage reflection on the nature of nonviolence and to create space for dialogue between the exhibits, which come from a wide range of historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts.
The popular notebynote music center in Divonne-les-Bains, France, has just announced a series of new initiatives designed to make music more accessible to the international community of Geneva, Vaud, and neighbouring France.
Following its recent relocation to larger premises on the Rue Fontaine, the notebynote music center is now able to offer a much wider range of group activities for both adults and children, as well as private instrument lessons, which have been available at the centre for many years.
A professional musician in her own right, notebynote founder, Sue Lake, told knowitall.ch: “I’m really excited to be taking my school into the next phase of its development. It started with just a few private lessons for children nearly 10 years ago, but is now growing into something that can serve the musical needs of the entire English-speaking community, both children and adults, at all levels from amateur novices through to experienced musicians.”
© Swiss National Museum
Throughout 2015, the Swiss National Museum is reappraising three dates in Swiss history in the light of recent research: 1315 at the Forum of Swiss History in Schwyz, 1515 at the National Museum in Zurich, and 1815 at Château de Prangins.
As part of this reappraisal, the Swiss National Museum – Château de Prangins is presenting a new temporary exhibition entitled “Switzerland reshaped. From Napoleon to the Congress of Vienna”. Running from 13 March to 13 September 2015, the exhibition is using innovative and original materials such as vox pops and specially recorded interviews with historians, to explore the creation of a new Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815). It also links to issues of contemporary relevance, such as the meaning of neutrality and independence for a Switzerland at the heart of Europe.
