Photo above outside Angelika Chollet, the stylish gift and home accessory shop on Nyon’s Rive. The posters and signs are now up around Nyon for Visions du Réel. This is an international documentary film festival which opens on the 20th April and runs through until the 27th, and is a major event in the Nyon calendar. Not only does the festival bring representatives from TV stations […]
The Specials, Gorillaz Sound System, 2 manydjs, and more at this year’s Caribana
Photo above: Caribana 2012 logo reflected in the merchandising. Caribana Festival revealed its full 2012 music programme today March 28 with, (according to Pascal Vuistiner, press officer for the festival) “an explosive cocktail of music”. This cocktail includes a mix for all music lovers, from the calm acoustic sound of Lucy Rose from the UK playing on the beach stage on the […]
The Parenthèse – Nyon’s small but influential music club
Photo above: Courtesy ©Les Hivernales 2012 / Niall Macpherson) of The Bianca Story, performing at the club. The barefoot writer is back! Regular readers of Living in Nyon may remember the great reviews of both the atmosphere and the music from Paléo 2010 written by Jonas Parson (a.k.a “the barefoot writer“). Last year Jonas went travelling to Australia and to India and for […]
Chocolate Festival this weekend, Professional Opera comes to Nyon in July.
It’s the annual chocolate festival in Versoix this Saturday 24 and also on Sunday 25 March. This festival is hosts to lots of chocolate makers and open for the public to try out, and buy all sorts of chocolate. There are workshops for children, there’s an egg hunt on Sunday, a choco train, and lots more. This festival is a great day […]
Two fund raising events coming up – Raclette evening in Nyon and a Poetry reading in Geneva
Fund raising event on 24th March in Nyon for reconstruction of schools in Haiti Fund raising “Raclette Evening” at 18:30 with wine, a live band (jazz and rock), good food and a tombola. The event is being held in Nyon on the 24th March at the Uni Global building on avenue Reverdil 8-10 (very near Nyon railway […]