Holiday Blues

Cold feet but warm hearts - according to this motto, the Xenix cinema organises an open-air cinema with woollen blankets and mulled wine every year on 24 December in the evening, this time showing the film "Drifting Clouds" . Afterwards, it continues in the heated cinema hall with "Im Juli".

For 25 December, Exil has a danceable contrast programme to the family circus in store: techno by Somewhen for everyone who wants to stretch their legs to hypnotic to atmospheric sounds.

Gender fluidity is an invention of the 21st century? Far from it! The astonishingly contemporary baroque opera Eliogabalo tells the story of the first queer emperor of the empire - a recommendable and not entirely youth-friendly opera experience for 26.12.

What does it actually mean to become a "real boy"? The family theatre Pinocchio reinterprets the well-known story and takes both children and adults into a fantastic world of movement, poetry, virtual reality and music on 27 December.

Her huge, colourful and cheerful female figures were revolutionary! We are talking about the French-Swiss artist Niki de Saint Phalle. The Kunsthaus Zürich is dedicating its current exhibition to this extraordinary artistic personality and invites all those interested to a guided tour on 28 December.

Die for life - an examination of the tragicomic peculiarities of existence. Is life a waiting room and should you actually practise your own funeral? These big questions about life and death are addressed in the play on 29 December.

Women in focus: The guided tour of the History of Switzerland exhibition on 30 December will focus on Swiss women. On the one hand, the past, such as the late introduction of women's suffrage, is discussed, and on the other hand, the focus is on the current situation and the future.