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Fête de la musique

21.06.2025 – DJ set

12:00-12:00

To celebrate this year’s Fête de la Musique, La Becque is joining forces with Céleste (Vevey) to transform the garden into a festive open-air stage. From noon to 10pm, enjoy […]

To celebrate this year’s Fête de la Musique, La Becque is joining forces with Céleste (Vevey) to transform the garden into a festive open-air stage. From noon to 10pm, enjoy a full day of music by the lake — featuring DJ sets, in a laid-back and vibrant atmosphere by:

 

1000 balles

DJ Sundae
Ivan Liechti
Julia Widmann
Julien Dechery
Ronny Hunger

 

Food and drinks will be available on site, and the event is, as always, free and open to everyone. Swimming welcome.

La Becque turns 5, 2024, photo Emilien Itim

Modern Nature, part 6

19.07.2025 – Festival

15:00-00:00

Launched in 2019, Modern Nature is a public program paying tribute to English filmmaker, writer, activist, and gardener Derek Jarman. Inspired by his life and his iconic Prospect Cottage garden […]

Launched in 2019, Modern Nature is a public program paying tribute to English filmmaker, writer, activist, and gardener Derek Jarman. Inspired by his life and his iconic Prospect Cottage garden in Dungeness, the event explores intersections between ecology, transmission, experimental artistic practices, and queer thought. Each year, Swiss and international artists are invited to create performances, installations, screenings, and sound interventions designed for La Becque’s gardens on the shores of Lake Geneva.

 

The 2025 edition draws inspiration from Jarman’s only known work of short fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping—a poetic, surreal road story that blurs memory, prophecy, and drift. Curated by Vanessa Cimorelli, this year’s program features works that feel like transmissions from liminal zones: ghost frequencies, sonic mirages, flickering signals.

 

With performances by Aho Ssan & ASIA, Damsel Elysium, Erell Le Pape & Loréleï Nelle, Nkisi & Tiran Willemse, Time is Away, and Will Ballantyne-Reid.

 

Full program coming soon.

Modern Nature, La Becque, 2024, photo Julien Gremaud

Open Studios Summer

26.07.2025 – Project presentations

12:00-18:00

La Becque is pleased to invite you to the summer session of the traditional Open Studios on Saturday, July 26 from noon to 6 pm. During this open day, the […]

La Becque is pleased to invite you to the summer session of the traditional Open Studios on Saturday, July 26 from noon to 6 pm. During this open day, the residents will exceptionally open the doors of their studios and apartments for presentations of their current projects.

 

Come discover the work of Alfatih, Loucia Carlier, Diambe, Invernomuto, Phoenix Atala, Sorour Darabi and Gary Zhexi Zhang, and enjoy installations and performances created especially for this event.

 

A unique opportunity to meet these artists and share a moment around a drink and some food.

 

The event is free and open to all. No parking on site, please use public transport or the Parking des Remparts in La Tour-de-Peilz.

La Becque turns 5, 2024, photo Emilien Itim