Intergenerational

When we exchange with our parents or other people from previous generations, it is always exciting to take a journey into the past together and awaken their memories of that time. A cultural tip for such a journey is, for example, the film I'm not there about Bob Dylan. The music star has been shaping the music scene since the 60s - his biography is so unusual that he is played by six different actors in the film. Ten years after the start of Dylan's music career, women's suffrage was introduced in Switzerland. The guided tour of the exhibition History of Switzerland - Women in Focus focuses on the role of women in Switzerland over the last 500 years up to the present day. Who knows, maybe your mother or grandmother has some exciting anecdotes to tell that you haven't heard yet? And if your parents tend to think that everything was better in the past, the historical cabaret with Benedikt Meyer is something for you: The historian presents funny absurdities across human history and proves that our ancestors weren't any smarter than we are.

Cultural visits with our parents are of course not only suitable for journeys into the past, but also for joint discussions of topics of the present and the future. For example, the discussion on the Gretchen question of the "right" gender offers a good opportunity to discuss the diversity of genders together. There is an exciting event on climate change at the Karl der Grosse: the input followed by a discussion on the impact of the climate crisis on Swiss mountain forests takes place in cooperation with the Climate Grandparents, who are committed to preserving the basis of life for future generations. The biodiversity show is a great opportunity to get parents excited about electronic music and raise their awareness of sustainability at the same time: music producer and biologist Dominik Eulberg combines nature and techno in his show and shows how everything is connected. And what opportunities but also potential dangers medical progress and artificial intelligence bring with them is dealt with in the theatre Die Laborantin: The play depicts a dystopian version of the future in which people are evaluated on the basis of their genetic information, thus deciding what status they receive in society.