Saturday is coming and the kids want a plan. This list refreshes itself every week with the family events on this weekend: theater, circus, concerts, farm days and seasonal festivals. Each card shows the times, the ages it suits and the price, so you can pick one over breakfast and go.
Each fall, Richterswil on Lake Zurich carves about 30 metric tons of turnips into lanterns, and its old village center glows by candlelight. Brass bands play on the squares while families wander between market stalls.
The highlight is the evening parade, when local schools and clubs carry dozens of glowing turnip sculptures through the streets. It suits kids happy to stay out on a cold, dark evening.
Two circus artists, a teeterboard and a stage of nonsense. GUGUS! is a dance piece inspired by Dada, the art movement that started here over a century ago. The performers fly through the air, dance, make music, invent sounds and turn into odd characters.
The name is Swiss German for both "hello" and "nonsense," and the show is pure play that doesn't need to make sense. Good for slapstick fans.
A stage musical of the Swiss picture-book classic by Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet. For Chalandamarz, every child in Ursli's Engadin village rings a bell to chase off winter, and Ursli gets the smallest one. With Mür the mouse, he braves a snowstorm to the family's mountain hut to fetch the big bell.
Staged by Paul Weilenmann of Karl's kühne Gassenschau, it's a warm story about courage and friendship.
Tschüss, Papagei! is a story play with live musicians. Tim, an animal researcher at Zoo Zürich, loses his parrot Einstein after an experiment goes wrong, and only feathers are left in his lab. His friend Mara, a detective who tracks down lost things, joins the search, and the clues send them traveling through space and time.
It suits kids who can follow a spoken story in Swiss German.
The PBZ Express is an exhibition at PBZ Affoltern. It needs no German, so it works for any family.
Circus Monti's new show, Poussière d'étoiles (Stardust), centers on an odd fortune teller who reads the stars with his crystal ball. His big ambitions knock everything off balance: acrobatics fail, routines fall apart and even the most baffling magic tricks go wrong.
The mishaps are the point, turned into laughter and wonder. It suits kids who like acrobatics, magic and comedy.
Selma Lagerlöf's classic, staged as musical family theater. After a prank turns his world upside down, Nils takes off on the back of the gander Martin and joins a flock of wild geese led by Akka of Kebnekaise.
It's performed in Swiss German (Mundart), so it suits kids who follow the dialect, along with the parents and grandparents who come with them.
Picandou, a mouse living quietly in a deli, takes in Gruyère, a rat who has lost its memory and thinks it's a mouse. With the drifter Ernie, they slide through canals and gutters, clash with a rat gang and land in the posh apartment of golden hamster Bertram von Backenbart.
Told with puppets in Swiss German and German, it suits kids who follow German well.
A breaking workshop where kids and their grown-ups learn first moves side by side. Dancers Kwangsuk «Issue» Park and Hyosung «Cho» Joo of eight2one lead simple movement tasks, partner exercises and a short group routine.
It borrows from the upcoming show Das Schwingfest, where a dog, a goat, a cow and a marmot try traditional Swiss wrestling, so moves from breaking, wrestling and the animal world all turn up.
Saturday is coming and the kids want a plan. This list refreshes itself every week with the family events on this weekend: theater, circus, concerts, farm days and seasonal festivals. Each card shows the times, the ages it suits and the price, so you can pick one over breakfast and go.
Each fall, Richterswil on Lake Zurich carves about 30 metric tons of turnips into lanterns, and its old village center glows by candlelight. Brass bands play on the squares while families wander between market stalls.
The highlight is the evening parade, when local schools and clubs carry dozens of glowing turnip sculptures through the streets. It suits kids happy to stay out on a cold, dark evening.
Two circus artists, a teeterboard and a stage of nonsense. GUGUS! is a dance piece inspired by Dada, the art movement that started here over a century ago. The performers fly through the air, dance, make music, invent sounds and turn into odd characters.
The name is Swiss German for both "hello" and "nonsense," and the show is pure play that doesn't need to make sense. Good for slapstick fans.
A stage musical of the Swiss picture-book classic by Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet. For Chalandamarz, every child in Ursli's Engadin village rings a bell to chase off winter, and Ursli gets the smallest one. With Mür the mouse, he braves a snowstorm to the family's mountain hut to fetch the big bell.
Staged by Paul Weilenmann of Karl's kühne Gassenschau, it's a warm story about courage and friendship.
Tschüss, Papagei! is a story play with live musicians. Tim, an animal researcher at Zoo Zürich, loses his parrot Einstein after an experiment goes wrong, and only feathers are left in his lab. His friend Mara, a detective who tracks down lost things, joins the search, and the clues send them traveling through space and time.
It suits kids who can follow a spoken story in Swiss German.
The PBZ Express is an exhibition at PBZ Affoltern. It needs no German, so it works for any family.
Circus Monti's new show, Poussière d'étoiles (Stardust), centers on an odd fortune teller who reads the stars with his crystal ball. His big ambitions knock everything off balance: acrobatics fail, routines fall apart and even the most baffling magic tricks go wrong.
The mishaps are the point, turned into laughter and wonder. It suits kids who like acrobatics, magic and comedy.
Selma Lagerlöf's classic, staged as musical family theater. After a prank turns his world upside down, Nils takes off on the back of the gander Martin and joins a flock of wild geese led by Akka of Kebnekaise.
It's performed in Swiss German (Mundart), so it suits kids who follow the dialect, along with the parents and grandparents who come with them.
Picandou, a mouse living quietly in a deli, takes in Gruyère, a rat who has lost its memory and thinks it's a mouse. With the drifter Ernie, they slide through canals and gutters, clash with a rat gang and land in the posh apartment of golden hamster Bertram von Backenbart.
Told with puppets in Swiss German and German, it suits kids who follow German well.
A breaking workshop where kids and their grown-ups learn first moves side by side. Dancers Kwangsuk «Issue» Park and Hyosung «Cho» Joo of eight2one lead simple movement tasks, partner exercises and a short group routine.
It borrows from the upcoming show Das Schwingfest, where a dog, a goat, a cow and a marmot try traditional Swiss wrestling, so moves from breaking, wrestling and the animal world all turn up.
