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.

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

Tiran Willemse presents an intense, tension-filled solo. Through a focus on hand gestures, blackmilk complicates a mainstream repertoire of legible identities, evoking ‘black male melancholia’ and examining limiting stereotypes and shifting identities.

TIRAN WILLEMSE
21 October 2025, 8.30 pm
Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds LS2 7PA

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Experience an evening of cross-border celebration with poetry, piano and storytelling in a tribute to concrete poetry pioneers Ian Hamilton Finlay (UK), Ernst Jandl (A) and Eugen Gomringer (CH), featuring performer Florian Kaplick and pianist Erik Satie.

CONCRETE POETRY
22 October 2025, 6.00 pm
Playfair Library, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
 
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Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025) remained active into old age. This photo was taken in January 2020 in his study.

Taking part in Glasgow’s Take Me Somewhere Festival, Antje Schupp explores burnout, our relationship to work and the significance it has in society with the performance You live you learn.

ANTJE SCHUPP
25 October 2025, 4.30 pm
Tramway, Glasgow G41 2PE

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The Swiss women football team are playing Scotland in Dunfermline on Tuesday 28th October.

The Scots, who finished bottom of Nations League Group A1 earlier this year, will play Euro 2025 hosts Switzerland. 

Read about the friendlies in the qualifying for the next World Cup on the BBC >

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 

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.

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.

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