HELVETIC CENTRE

Helvetic Centre is the result of the association of people evolving within  London's creative scene, sharing the ambition to support collaborations between cultural actors from Switzerland and the United Kingdom. As promoters, "back and forth" movements between the two countries and cultural environments define our role. Helvetic Centre organises events and exhibitions that will encourage intercultural exchanges, expanding to the fields of architecture, fine arts and applied arts, as well as music and literature. Depending on the different nature of projects, we are able to provide subsidiary spaces to suit the centre's multiple needs.

Helvetic Centre 
1 Corbridge Crescent,
London E2 9DS
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Past Vyner Street present
Launch Party

Featuring:
Lina Lapelyte
Isabel Maria
Raphael Hefti
Melodie Mousset
Nico Hertweck

Outdoor cinema
Free food
Mini disco
Cheap drinks
Fireworks

Entry free
Friday 23rd July 2010
Gates open from 8.30 pm until the early Saturday hours
At 1 Corbridge Crescent London E2 9DS

Clichés and Stereotypes – Truisms and Facts

Seven short films presented by Severin Rüegg and Helvetic Centre as part of the exhibition Switzerland: Design For Life Tuesday,
29 June - doors open at 7 pm,
films start 7.30 pm

A Foundation
Rochelle School & Club Row
Arnold Circus, London E2,
Old Street tube Station
afoundation.org.uk

Severin Rüegg presents a film night, highlighting the variety of clichés of the Swiss cultural heritage and the potentials of Swiss Pop culture. Severin Rüegg specialises in audio-visual history and has compiled a selection of rare short films, ethnographic material, Swiss army propaganda and TV-clippings from 1916 up to today.

With kind support by Cinematheque Suisse, made possible with help from Memoriav:

Cinematheque Suisse
Memoriav

SWITZERLAND Design for Life

June 19th - July 1st, 2010
Private view: June 18th 7pm-9pm
Monday - Saturday 11am-5pm
Sunday Closed


SWITZERLAND Design for Life A Celebration of Swiss design culture. Showcasing 22 young designers and design studios — presenting cutting edge aesthetic innovation from Switzerland.

Artists & Studios: Alexandre Bettler, Bureau Collective, Buero Destruct, Elena Rendina, Régis Tosetti, Grotesk, GVA Studio, ID Pure studio, Juerg Lehni, Kellenberger-White, Kueng Caputo, Laurent Benner, Loris&Livia, Nerves, Stefan Jost, Super Position, Voegeli Voegeli, Urs Lehni & Lex Trueb, Zak Kyes and others

A Foundation
Rochelle School & Club Row
Arnold Circus, London E2,
Old Street tube Station
afoundation.org.uk

NEW HC OFFICE

Come and visit us at
1 Corbridge Crescent, London E2 9DS

books, drinks and sausages

This Saturday, 22 May, 1 to 5 pm at 1 Corbridge Crescent, E2 9DS


Andreas Koller and Helvetic Centre present publications by well established Swiss art book publisher Edition Patrick Frey and 'If You're Into It, We're Out Of It' a recently launched newspaper on art/architecture Please come and join us for books, drinks and sausages. www.editionpatrickfrey.com
intoitoutofit.com

From the Ground to the Sky

Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 May 2010
Opening hours 9am–6pm

Three days only! Don't miss the:
Opening with the artists
Thursday 20 May 2010
6.30pm–9pm

At The Russian Club Studios The Club Room 340-344 Basement Kingsland Road London E8 4DA +44 (0)207 923 8794 therussianclubstudios.com

Fellow Swiss artists Frederic Cordier and Simon Deppierraz collaborate for this exhibition with London-based print designer Richard Rhys, exploring the emptiness and the fullness of a space, from floor to the ceiling, from wall to wall, where art installation meets wall paper. Their shared interest for structures, patterns, in two and three dimensional spaces will evolve on site, according to the exhibition space, where they develop a further step towards a vocabulary of space.

supported by:

Book Design in St Gallen

Thursday 4 to Friday 19 March 2010
Opening hours Monday–Friday 9am–6pm (until 9.30pm on Wednesdays)

Venue
Exhibition Room St Bride Library Bride Lane, Fleet Street London EC4Y 8EE United Kingdom stbride.org/

Programme
Two evening talks Thursday 4 March 2010: Jost Hochuli Wednesday 17 March 2010: Richard Hollis, Robin Kinross, Roland Frueh
Book tickets here

Merry Christmas & a Happy 2010

Launch with me & my friends

Friday, 27 November, 6-9 pm
SPACE, 129-131 Mare St.
Hackney, London E8 3RH
www.spacestudios.org.uk

The most beautiful Swiss books 2008 in London

Cafe Oto, Dalston 25–29.10.2009
Hosted by Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture

Sunday, 25 October, 7 pm
Opening party
Guest speaker Laurenz Brunner

Thursday, 29 October, 7.30 pm
'Superlatives in book design'
Round table discussion with Rick Poynor, Sarah Gottlieb, Paulus Dreibholz and Roland Früh

Featuring a presentation of the British Book Design and Production Awards 2008

Café Oto
22 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL
www.cafeoto.co.uk

The catalogue 'The most beautiful Swiss books 2009 – The present issue' will be for sale during the exhibition

with kind support by

© ® ™

Le Corbusier © ® ™
The launch of a lecture series discussing copyright and intellectual property in design.

Thursday, 1 October, 7 pm at 2 Columbia Road
London E2 7NN

Speaker
Margaret Briffa, founding partner of Briffa, Intellectual Property and Information Technology Lawyers
Creative or Copy: A walk around the legal landscape

Due to limited space, only 30 seats are available. For reservation email in advance to Email

The starting point was the observation of a growing market for replicas of classic furniture. We want to question the need of copyrights for design work, ask for ways to protect intellectual property, and discuss possible alternatives. The first evening of the series ©®™ will focus on furniture design.

Pour les Alpes

'Pour les Alpes' is going to be exhibited during the London Design Festival (19.09. - 27.09.2009), at the Mint Gallery, 2 North Terrace, London SW3 2BA. It will be part of the Mint Escapes series. Opening: September 24 from 6:30 onwards at the Mint Gallery.
More info here

The Clowns in London

Please meet The Clowns on their first London tour, bringing finest guitar driven garage soul from the city of Zurich. Definitely as original as Zirkus Knie and as loud as the fireworks at the Monte-Carlo circus festival.
Friday 11 September at The Spice of Life, 9.30 pm, Leicester Square, more here
Saturday 12 September at Club Cool, Resistance Gallery 9 pm, Bethnal Green, more here
Meet The Clowns here

Full Dinner Bread Workshop

Saturday 1st of August (Swiss National Day!) at the Dalston Mill, off Dalston Lane, starts at 3 pm Bakerman Alex Bettler is baking bread. The event is part of Barbican Art Gallery’s current exhibition Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 The Dalston Mill was created by the experimental architectural collective EXYZT. More info here

Saturday 1 August 2009

5.30pm until 10.30pm
£5.00 (under 16’s FREE) Chelsea College of Art and Design Banqueting Hall, 45 Millbank London SW1P 4JU Next to Tate Britain (Tate Gallery)

"THE ART OF HUNTING" BOOK LAUNCH IN LONDON

Cafe Oto, Dalston 26.05.2009 8.00pm — 1.00am
Régis Tosetti in collaboration with Donlon Books cordially  invites you to the launch of his book "L'Art de la Chasse"  ("The Art of Hunting") published by JRP|Ringier (Zürich)  on Tuesday 26 of May at 8.00pm at CAFE OTO. The book launch will be followed by a slideshow screening  and a DJ set by toot!. Accompanying the book will be two  posters designed specifically for the launch.

Link

Severin Rüegg,

Severin Rüegg is a Zurich based historian and filmmaker. While his own productions are short documentaries, where he approaches political or socio-cultural topics through a set of precise observations, interviews and access to the material in archives of various kinds; his theoretical interest focuses on non-fictional films or 'ephemeral films'. Read more.

Dorade,

Brilliant and sinuous, collector of photographic discoveries and forms of criticism, Dorade is an artistic periodical where mermaids admit to their slightly fishy odour. Read more.

Pour les alpes,

Tina Stieger and Annina Gähwiler, two young product designers, both living and working in Zurich, direct the project 'Pour les Alpes'. Initially an award-winner of the ‚echos’ competition by the Swiss Arts Council ‚Pro Helvetia’ in 2008, their collection is a furniture series, consisting of three cabinets. Read more.

Tobias Nölle,

Tobias Nölle, attends Liceo artistico, Zurich and later 1999-2003 School of Visual Art, New York. Works as independent director since 2003. Read more.

Bottlefed,

Bottlefed is a physical theatre company founded in 2006 by co-artistic directors Kathrin Yvonne Bigler (writer/director) and Rebeca Fernandez Lopez (choreographer/performer). Read more.

LORIS&LIVIA,

A series of prototypes by LORIS&LIVIA presented during the London Design Festival 2008. Read more.

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From the Ground to the Sky

Christian Marclay's Christmas Tales

MBSB2008 Catalogue

MBSB2007 Catalogue

MBSB2007 Invitation

From the Ground to the Sky
20.05.2010

books, drinks and sausages
22.05.2010

BOOK DESIGN IN ST.GALLEN OPENING + TALK
04.03.2010

MBSB2008 OPENING + TALK
29.11.2009

CINÉPHILIA MID-LENGTH FILM JAM

Vibe Live, Brick Lane Sunday 26th April 1.00pm-11.15pm
A unique event featuring eleven contemporary mid-length films along with panel discussions as part of the East End Film Festival. Also screening Tobias Nölles award winning film René.
£10 for a day ticket
Link

HOLD ME UNTIL YOU BREAK

Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 April 2009, 8pm Preview performances @Jacksons Lane, Highgate, London

NEW ISSUE OF FANZINE "ME & MY FRIENDS"

LAUNCH WED MARCH 4TH 6-8PM
Goldsmiths College, Laurie Grove Bath Building,Viewing Room, New Cross, London
New issue of the fanzine series "Me & My Friends" #7 by Athene Galiciadis "Insomniac In Forma". Dimitris Papadatos and Melodie Mousset will also present their new zines and Dimitri will perform his live act "Static Runs the River Low/Love Will Not Dry"

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
19-30.11.2008
Cafe Oto, Dalston
Please join us for following talks and discussions:

'SOMETHING TO SAY AND THE NEED OF THAT FORM TO SAY IT'
Saturday 29 November, 2 to 4 pm a talk held in the exhibition with Jost Hochuli, Ron Costley, James Goggin and Laurent Benner.

'JUST WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES TODAYS BOOKS SO DIFFERENT SO APPEALING?'
Wednesday 26 November, 12 to 1.30pm, with Sean Murphy and Corina Neuenschwander from Value and Service.

'LOREM IPSUM'
Friday 28 November, 12 to 1.30pm, with Roland Brauchli from Graphic Thought Facility.

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
19-30.11.2008
Cafe Oto, Dalston

The Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture would like to invite you to the opening on the 19 November 2008 at 7pm. Hans Muster, director of Helvetic Centre will have a few words and guests from Switzerland will introduce the competition and the catalogue.
For further information come back to the website as more details of the complete program will be announced here. Read more.

Please reserve also following date: On Thursday 27 November at 7 pm Jost Hochuli will give a lecture on 'Systematic book design?' at the St Bride Foundation. For more information, go here Link

MBSB2007 OPENING
19.11.2008

MBSB2007 TALKS
26,28,29.11.2008

OPEN & MUSIC
16.08.2008

"GlocalPing" is a table designed by the CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchatel / Switzerland) that provides a setup for interaction between two different places.

GLOCALBANG
08.08.2008

SWISS BREAD, SWISS FRIENDS
01.08.2008
Cafe Oto, Dalston

You are invited to celebrate the Swiss National Day with an aperitif at Cafe OTO.
GlocalPing is a table designed by the CAN that will provide an interactive setup for presenting the 'Bread Friend Map'. At this occasion, friends, friends of friends and maybe friends of your friends will be connected at once in two different places. This event is organised in collaboration with the CAN, Davy Courvoisier & Joel Vacheron.

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Swiss National Library
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