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Basel Life Magazine Staff > INSIDE: Swiss Chocolate • Apassionata • Kids Camps • Swiss Speeding Laws • Sting & Paul Simon Volume 3 Issue 6 CHF 5/€5 A Monthly Guide to Living in Basel March 2015 The World is Watching Basel Ticks with Excitement as Baselworld Begins LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Basel Life Readers: The month of February saw die-hard carnival goers determined to chase away the winter blues until the last “Räppli” (confetti) had fallen—and no March 2015 Volume 3 Issue 6 matter how thoroughly you try to dust, clean, and vacuum, stray Räppli in every nook of your home will remind you for months of this year’s Fasnacht TABLE OF CONTENTS festivities. However, if you haven’t heard enough piccolos and drums for this year, you are in luck—the close of the Fasnacht season is marked annually Events in Basel: March 2015 4-6 on the three Sundays following Fasnacht, when the Cliques rather solemnly march through town playing their instruments. March is always an interesting month, allowing the serious winter sports Fun Outings: Beyond Basel 7 enthusiasts to enjoy the last chances to ski, snowboard, and toboggan in Switzerland’s higher elevations, while signs of spring are popping up around every corner of the city. One sure sign of spring in this part of Switzerland Swiss Traditions: Chocolate—Brown Gold! 8 is the preparation for the over 150,000 visitors that will descend on Basel around the middle of the month to trade in watches, jewelry, and precious gems at Baselworld, the world’s most important show of its kind and Basel’s Did You Know? 10-11 most economically important event. Basel will also host a 4-day wine event on a ship at Schifflände; a spectacular Markets and Fairs 12-14 horse show; the music Clubfestival BScene, where the young-at-heart ex- plore the local music scene; as well as a multitude of new museum exhibits. If you are planning day excursions outside of Basel, you might want to check Information Desk: Slow Down. Take It Easy. 15 out a hot-air balloon festival in Germany, visit the comic festival “Fumetto” in Luzern, or get to know the fabulous Zürich Zoo with its large domed tropical Masoala Rainforest. Calendar: March 2015 16-17 In this issue you can also read all about why Switzerland is so famous for mmmm… chocolate! Peek inside for a list of camps to keep your kids busy Sports and Recreation 18-19 during the Easter break and to get practical information on how to best deal with the rising energy rates, what to do in case you find or lose something in Basel, why you shouldn’t speed, and what you can do to properly prepare Workshops, Tours, and Education 20-23 yourself for that exotic trip you are planning. The month of March also offers entertainment opportunities galore with dance-related events like ballets, tango, a Flamenco festival, and dance Special Report: Easter Camps for Kids 24 parties; wine, gin, and whisky tastings; shows ranging from theater, cir- cus, and opera to English comedy and musicals; photographic journeys; and concerts of all kinds from blues and jazz to Entertainment: Night on the Town 26-31 classical and pop. With all these diverse events to occupy your time, don’t Ticket Office: Get Your Ticket Now! 31 forget to move your clocks ahead for the beginning of Daylight Savings Time on March 29! Wishing you a wonderful start to spring! Mark Your Calendar: April 2015 back page Christine Christine Pesold Editor-in-Chief Basel Life Magazine Staff: [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Christine Pesold COVER: This month, the Baselworld fair is expected to bring Advertising & Subscription Manager / Editor: around 150.000 visitors and exhibitors from all over the globe Susanne Hiller to Basel, including more than 4,000 journalists from over 70 countries. The fair can look back on almost 100 years of history; its beginnings can be traced Art Director: to the first “Schweizer Mustermesse” (MUBA fair) in 1917, which featured a Jon Hoefer watch and jewelry section. The first separate fair just for watches and jewelry took place in 1973. It was initially limited to European exhibitors, but was ex- For more information about subscribing or advertising – please contact us: panded in 1986 to allow admission of non-European exhibitors. In 2003, the fair [email protected] acquired its current branding and official name as “Baselworld, The Watch www.facebook.com/basellifemagazine and Jewellery Show.” From its humble beginnings as part of the MUBA, it has www.basellife.com now grown into the world’s leading event for the luxury goods industry. BASEL LIFE MAGAZINE / BASEL FAMILY GmbH © Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. It is our goal to provide valuable, timely information to our readers. The opinions expressed in the articles in this magazine are those of the contributing authors and do not reflect those of other members of the editorial staff and of any organizations or agencies distributing this magazine. Though we make every attempt to provide accurate information, we cannot be held respon- sible if any event is cancelled, postponed, or modified. We encourage readers to contact the event organizers or their websites to obtain the most current event information. Please note: No part of this periodical may be duplicated in any fashion, or redistributed in any written language, without permission from the executive staff at Basel Family GmbH. If you have any questions, contact Basel Family GmbH staff at: [email protected]. 2 Basel Life Magazine / www.basellife.com photo credits: © baselworld (front cover), © michael kors March 2015 3 Events in Basel: March 2015 Ryoji Ikeda Peter Gut. Lifelines Welcome Kids! Until March 29 March 3-June 21 March 7, 14, 21, and 28 The House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK) in Münchenstein is the Swiss The internationally renowned artist Peter Gut (born 1959) from The Brasserie No. 2 at the Volkshaus Basel will be giving parents a national competence center that deals with art forms which address and Winterthur is one of the most famous and eminent illustrators of needed break on Saturday afternoons from 12:00-16:00. Whether you reflect upon new media and technologies. Until the end of March, they German-speaking Switzerland. The Cartoonmuseum Basel shows want to have lunch, enjoy a glass of wine, read a newspaper, have a are presenting the first-ever solo exhibition in Switzerland by Japanese his manifold oeuvre in a comprehensive retrospective. The show conversation with friends, or enjoy the Jazz Brunch (March 28 only), artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. Ikeda is famous for his large-scale in- includes his well-known cartoons for the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” (NZZ), your kids will be actively minded with a variety of activities, including stallations and audiovisual performances, in which he focuses on data “Bilanz,” and “Die Zeit,” as well as—and this is a premiere—illustra- painting, arts and crafts, drawing, and knitting. Call 061-690-9310 to and datascapes as the invisible principle and driving force behind the tions, independent drawings, and paintings. reserve a table. information space. In time for the opening of the exhibit, Ikeda created Peter Gut combines the two most important qualities of a caricatur- http://volkshaus-basel.ch two new site-specific pieces for HeK’s new exhibition space; in addition, ist: He is an alert, sharp commentator and an equally economical and he presents examples of various older series that range from immersive precise illustrator. Urged by personal concern, he brings together Paul Gauguin in the Evening installations to sculptural work. events and faces from politics and society and mixes them into surreal March 13 Ryoji Ikeda’s artistic strategy and combinatorial systems are deeply rooted scenes imbued with an acid cocktail of message, innuendo, and cross- This spring, the Fondation Beyeler is hosting a most dazzling exhibit of in mathematic principles. Aesthetic qualities of mathematics are used in reference. The illustrator is at his best when celebrities step into the works by French artist Paul Gauguin, one of the most fascinating art- their purest form, creating immersive spaces that are based on barcodes firing line of his mockery. In precise strokes, he creates faces, hilarious ists in history. The exhibit includes around 50 masterpieces, on loan or 0/1 binaries to generate an output of visual and sound patterns. Ikeda even without a punch line, simply because of their exposing exaggera- from Gauguin collectors from around the world, making it one of the evokes the universal principle of the electronic world by breaking it down tion. Peter Gut great European cultural highlights of 2015. To accommodate the into pure forms of code. By turning endless flows of data into a poetic puts a lot of expected record numbers of visitors, they will be extending the environment, Ikeda creates immersive datascapes on an overwhelming energy into mor- museum hours until 21:00 on March 13. They are expecting long scale, which confront the viewer with a sensory overload of information as dantly ridiculing lines at the ticket counter, so it may be best to buy your tickets in well as visual and audio input, thus challenging one’s perception. Ikeda’s his victims. But advance online. use of images and sound in immersive installations creates in the viewer he stages their an acute consciousness of the here and now. dismantling with www.fondationbeyeler.ch www.hek.ch great care and affection. Every Puppet Theater—Pinocchio detail fits, and all March 14 and 15 the pictures, even Children’s Theater—Zeit Machine (Time Machine) Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Ghana, and Senegal, which mirror the forward- the quick sketch- The Basler Marionettentheater will be presenting the classic story Until March 29 looking spirit that was dominant in these countries at the time.
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