Join us for the final SBS Coffee Morning of 2025, part of our Wellbeing Events series!

This year, we have chosen the theme of “Change and How We Manage It” as a focus for our discussions. Over the course of three sessions throughout the year, we will explore how change—whether small daily adjustments or major life transitions—affects us and how we can navigate it effectively.

Final series session: Wednesday 29 October 2025 (Zoom, 10.30 AM)

Register at: info@swissbenevolent.org.uk to receive the Zoom link.

Read more about the event in our latest blog post—link in bio! 

Let’s reflect, share, and grow together!

We have launched a new initiative for Monthly Afterwork Drinks! Meet friends and colleagues informally for a social evening.

Visit https://linktr.ee/newhelveticsociety for the latest info >

29 Oct - location tbc

26 Nov - location tbc 

Jali Film Weekender 2025 will open with Memory of Princess Mumbi, Swiss-Kenyan director Damien Hauser’s groundbreaking new afro-futurist film, world premièred at Venice Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with cast member Luisa Wolf who features as a psychiatrist in the film.

DAMIEN HAUSER - MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI
30 October 2025, 8.30 pm
Filmhouse, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
 
More info & tickets

The universe of painter Nicolas Party comes alive in his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London. Featuring 15 new treescapes and portraits in pastel, this exhibition celebrates and challenges longstanding and cherished conventions of representational painting through Party’s signature style.

More info

NICOLAS PARTY: CLOTHO
14 October – 20 December 2025
Hauser & Wirth, London W1S 2ET
 

The Written Face was directed and written by Daniel Schmid in 1995, as a co-production with Japan. This screening marks its UK première and will be presented in a new 4K restoration in collaboration with Cinémathèque Suisse and introduced by curator Yuriko Hamaguchi as part of her graduation film season and in association with the National Film and Television School.
The film offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star, Tamasaburo Bando. Japanese with English subtitles.

Opening Night: 1 November at 6:30pm ICA
UK Premiere: The Written Face + Introduction

Book now: https://ica.art/films/in-the-realm-of-acting-uk-premiere-the-written-face directly through the ICA.

A fantastical exploration of performance, The Written Face drifts through the twilight between reality and dreams, drawing out the artistic philosophies of kabuki star Bando Tamasaburo V and other legends such as Haruko Sugimura, Kazuo Ohno, Han Takehara, and Tsutakiyokomatsu Asaji, captured with Schmid’s singular aesthetic vision.

Daniel Schmid on The Written Face (translated from the brochure published in Japan at the film’s original release in 1995): “This film is not a documentary. It is fiction. I am trying to create a story about twilight, in other words, a film about film. I have witnessed the miracle that is Bando Tamasaburo many times. Yet I do not wish to unravel that mystery, that secret. This work is a film made with the secret that is Bando Tamasaburo, a film made with the secret that is Japan.”

The UK premiere of The Written Face screens as part of In the Realm of Acting: Performance On and Off Screen, presented in a new 4K restoration in collaboration with Cinémathèque suisse.

Screening at the ICA. Book now: https://ica.art/films/in-the-realm-of-acting-uk-premiere-the-written-face directly through the ICA.

We celebrate two morning services per month, one on the first and one on the third Sunday of the month. Services begin at 11am. 

2025 Sunday Services Schedule: 

Sunday 2 November, 11am – Reformation Sunday, with choir and communion

Sunday 16 November, 11am – Remembrance Sunday, with choir and commemoration of the dead

Sunday 7 December, 11am – 2nd Advent, with choir and communion. Followed by Swiss Family Christmas

Sunday 21 December, 5pm – Christmas carol service

Visit the Swiss Church London website for more information - we would love to see you here. 

You can easily and safely donate to the Swiss Church in London online by clicking here.

The next webinar in the series tailored to the Swiss living abroad is on November 4, 2025 with the topic Political rights.

Full detail and previous webinars can be found on the SwissCommunity.org website's dedicate webinars https://www.swisscommunity.org/en/offers-events/webinars page.

This year artists from Switzerland have been selected to perform at Voila! Theatre Festival (3–23 November) as part of a vibrant, border-crossing programme of 110 shows in 70 languages across London venues. 

SWISS ARTISTS AT VOILA!
5 – 20 November 2025
The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
 
5 and 6 November: Imprints by The Palimpsest Project (Elmira Oberholzer)
18 and 19 November: June by Zoetrope (Elmira Oberholzer)
19 and 20 November: Les Beaux - Enfantillages (Perspective Productions)
 
Visit the full Voila! Theatre Festival programme here. 

The Swiss Stammtisch is a regular event where Swiss people in and around Edinburgh together informally for a drink and discussions on topics that are of interest, including living abroad, politics and culture.

The Stammtisch currently takes place every first Wednesday of the month at Le Di-Vin Wine Bar. For the latest information on the Stammtisch, please visit our Facebook page.

All are invited to attend, you don't have to be a member of the Swiss Club Edinburgh to join the Stammtisch.

Please contact us if you have comments or questions.

TIME

7.30pm ​

LOCATION

Le Di-Vin wine bar

9 Randolph Place, Edinburgh EH2 4EL

Portal Project presents Stories at the Seams, an exhibition by 14 artists with lived experience of homelessness.

6 – 9 November 2025 @ Swiss Church London

Artists: Daiga, John, John J Sheehy, Johnny B, Lewis EM, L (el), Lui Saatchi, Mary Vallely, Matt, Peter, Peter H, Ricaso, Richard Fletcher

Opening hours: Fri 7 Nov – Sun 9 Nov, 12 – 6pm

Private view: Thurs 6 Nov, 5 – 8pm (all welcome)

Free admission (RSVP)

These artists find portals into inspiration where others might not look—in the arteries of the underground, the shadows beneath flyovers and in recollections of a night bus journey. Broken systems leave people living in the margins. Doorways, stations and buses become temporary sanctuaries, with many tracing invisible pathways through cities mapped differently. These are routines where resilience is not mere endurance, but survival through cycles and radical ability to change. Though shaped by hardship, such experiences can also open into deeper wisdoms.

Alongside individual artists’ works in the exhibition is a bronze Green Man plaque that has been collaboratively made by the Portal Project artists for Stories at the Seams. For centuries, the Green Man has reappeared across the world, symbolising the threshold between wildness and order. He is woven into aural and written tales, depicted in paintings and still carved into the architecture of sacred buildings in the city. Foliage spills from his mouth and ears, a reminder of cycles, endurance and renewal.

As a witness, the Green Man observes from the fringes of society. In our streets, where people rough sleep, he lingers still. Homelessness is not an individual failure but a collective forgetting that compassion is essential and that our walls are thin against the wilderness we all share. In

Stories at the Seams, through art making as an act of defiance and an affirmation of life, the edges of these worlds become stitched together, revealing that our bond with the wild—and with each other—is closer than we imagine.

Stemming from the artists’ own journeys, the works in Stories at the Seams explore entanglements of lived experience and mythology. Spanning drawings, paintings and ceramics, they weave together folklore and memory, cityscapes and ancient deities, bodies and plant ecologies. The exhibition maps the artists’ personal and creative accounts of living between worlds. Here, at the junction of wildness and home, exclusion and belonging, where the known world begins to fray, thresholds emerge into the fantastical.

Find out more about Portal Project.

Visit the Swiss Church London website for more information - we would love to see you here. 

You can easily and safely donate to the Swiss Church in London online by clicking here.