WINTER 2019 - 2020 Editorial

« Compete, learn and share ! » – that’s the motto for the Youth Olympic Games in 2020. And this win- ter, the whole region will be adopting it. Because every competition – from races on the ski slopes to the hotly contested World Fondue Champion- ships, for instance – is first and fore- 3 most an opportunity for everyone to show the best they can do. Because there’s always something new to learn or discover in our region – the inau- guration of Plateforme 10, Lausanne’s A MOXY AT LAUSANNE new museum complex, for example, CURTAIN UP ON PLATEFORME 10, or the opening of a new designer After New York, San Francisco, London and Berlin, hotel in the city center of Lausanne. LAUSANNE’S NEW MUSEUM COMPLEX this trendy and young hotel chain (a member of And finally, because sharing and hos- the Marriott Group) is coming to the capital. pitality are not just empty words in the The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (mcb-a) opened its doors to the area. In order to realize it, visitors can public on 5 October 2019. This marked the inauguration of the new arts visit the Montreux Christmas Market or dip a slice of bread into a fondue district where the photography museum (Elysée) and the Museum of pot at the Pintes Ouvertes restaurant Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (Mudac) will join the mcb-a in festival. 2021. Andreas Banholzer This is the largest cultural project in the those of Zao Wou-Ki and Rodin as well as CEO, Vaud Tourism Office Canton of Vaud for many decades: in 2021, renowned Swiss artists such as Paul Klee, (Lake Geneva Region) Plateforme 10 – a stone’s throw from the rail Balthus, Félix Vallotton and Louis Soutter. In station – will bring together three Lausanne addition to museum facilities, Plateforme 10 cultural institutions that previously occu- will be spanned by a walkway that forms part pied their own sites: the Cantonal Museum of a larger project to create a “green” link of Fine Arts (mcb-a), the Musée de l’Elysée, between Lausanne’s eastern and western Representation a photography museum, and the Museum sides. From spring 2021 onwards, visitors in the markets of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts approaching this 250-meter ramp will be (Mudac). The Toms Pauli and Félix Vallot- invited to embark on an educational trail Vaud Tourism Office (Lake Geneva ton Foundations will also be housed on the designed by the Cantonal Botanical Museum Region) and its partners participate 2 site. With an area of 25,000 m , Plateforme and Gardens (MJBC). The route will feature It’s no coincidence that the first Moxy*** hotel in will in dozens of promotional activities 10 primarily aims to arouse curios- open in the Flon district at the start of December. The Flon is the throughout the year. Here is a list of ity among the public by offering a hot-spot of Lausanne’s night life, and no visitor should miss its these events : venue for dialogue, discovery and boutiques, bars and restaurants. It is therefore the ideal setting amazement. The new facilities will for this hotel, designed to attract a new generation of travelers – give the institutions better oppor- guests who appreciate design as well as the latest trends and tech- 30 October to 3 November 2019 | tunities to showcase their collec- nologies, but who also want good value for money. The Moxy will Swiss Winter Festival | Beijing tions. The permanent exhibitions offer 113 bedrooms on 4 floors. Since Lausanne is also the Olympic Vaud Tourism Office will have free access. In parallel, capital, the designers have created a sporting ambience. They the museums will also propose have added warmth to the raw materials – concrete and metal – regular temporary exhibits (with with light wood and muted color shades to produce a sense of an entrance fee) that will attract a understated elegance. Each room features a large flatscreen with wide and varied audience. There is streaming TV and high-speed Wi-Fi, free of charge. The reception 25 to 29 November 2019 | no doubt that this site will quickly creates the impression of a living room, with a bar that serves an Sales Calls Tour Summer China | become a must-see for visitors to impressive range of cocktails as the focal point. A small fitness area Shenyang, Chongqing, Changsha, Lausanne as well as for its residents. awaits guests in the basement. Nanjing Plateforme 10 is opening in three moxy-hotels.marriott.com/en Vaud Tourism Office stages, the first of which took place at the start of October 2019. | Following the official inauguration 2 to 5 December 2019 Extravaganza | Montreal, Vancouver, days, the mcb-a has welcomed the MONTREUX CHRISTMAS Los Angeles public since 5 October with a first MARKET TURNS 25 special exhibition, titled “Atlas. A Vaud Tourism Office, Geneva Tourism & Conventions Foundation, Valais Promotions Cartography of Donations”. On For a quarter of a century, the chalets and (LGMR, Lake Geneva Matterhorn Region) display until 12 January 2020, it attractions of this second largest Christmas market presents a mix of recent and older 2 donations on an area of 3,200 m . This urban vegetation and its rich biodiversity, in Switzerland have drawn big crowds. 31 January to 7 February 2020 | exceptional presentation is conceived as a focusing on the key issue of greenery in city From 21 November until STE GCC / Middle East kind of atlas of the institution’s collections, environments. The trail, already known as the 24 December, 172 artisans Lausanne Tourism, Montreux-Vevey currently comprising some 10,000 works. “fourth museum”of Plateforme 10, will be an and retailers will welcome Tourism It establishes a dialogue between differ- outstanding showcase for the MJBC’s activ- 550,000 visitors in a festive ent eras and formal approaches, with works ities. Anyone wishing to know more about setting on the shores of Lake from major contemporary artists ranging the plant world is invited to visit the Botani- Geneva. This year, in addition | from Pierre Soulages and Anselm Kiefer to cal Museum, less than 10 minutes’ walk away. to the 170 chalets extend- 15 to 21 February 2020 STE China | China Giuseppe Penone and Anish Kapoor. On region-du-leman.ch/en/Z11270 ing for nearly a kilometer the mcb-a’s walls, their works mingle with between the Market Square Vaud Tourism Office and the 2M2C Convention Centre, a brightly lit covered News in brief area will add a magic touch At Echallens, the Discover local products The International and protect visitors from 24 to 28 February 2020 | Museum of Wheat and in traditional restaurants Olympic Committee (IOC) bad weather. A must-see: STE South East Asia | Bangkok, Bread focuses on gluten The Pintes Ouvertes festival is going green with its a replica of Moscow’s Red Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore What is gluten? What is will run from 5 to 7 December, new headquarters Square as a reference to Vaud Tourism Office it used for? And why are when over 100 restaurants June saw the inauguration Russia, this year’s guest of people wary of it? This will offer typical menus to of the Olympic House at honour. The event will also exhibition, titled “The truth celebrate the heritage and Lausanne, nestled amid feature a concert of Russian folk music as well as culinary highlights about the gluten case”, values of the region. For greenery just a stone’s throw from the country. And Santa Claus will, of course, appear everyday More news on our Media Corner : answers these questions and CHF 20, guests can savor from the lake. Adults will on his flying sleigh. At the log cabin in the lumberjack village, visi- media.lake-geneva-region.ch others until 22 March. The delicatessen, fondue and appreciate its original and tors can warm themselves up over tea and delicious pizza. Several program is completed by bread accompanied by a ecological architecture. new features are planned for the weekends, including a costumed workshops, panel discussions glass of Chasselas wine. Children will like the outdoor race (Santa’s Run, 8 December) and a sledge event at Les Avants (15 and guided tours for region-du-leman.ch/en/P27215 facilities open to the public: December). Children can ride up to Rochers-de-Naye, located at participants of all ages. wooden modules shaped like 2,042 m, to visit the real Santa Claus, who will welcome them with his maison-ble-pain.com birds, climbing walls, tubular Russian counterpart, Grandfather Frost. slides and water games. region-du-leman.ch/en/P54228 region-du-leman.ch/en/P1141 AN EXHIBITION AT THE ELYSÉE FONDUE IS GOING OUT OF THE MUSEUM FOCUSES ON AMERICAN RESTAURANT IN THE CANTON OF VAUD PHOTOGRAPHER JAN GROOVER Vaud Tourism Office The Swiss national dish can now be sampled in many The first ever retrospective of her work is on show until unexpected settings. Avenue d’ 60 Case postale 1125 5 January 2020. 1001 Lausanne - Suisse Lausanne’s renowned photography they outline the notions of seriality and museum, which will move into new sequence on which other contempo- Tel. +41(0)21 613 26 26 premises at Plateforme 10 in 2021, rary artists were to focus. In 1978, Jan is staging the first retrospective of Groover set off in a radically new direc- [email protected] the work of Jan Groover (1943-2012) tion as she turned to still life. The exhi- www.lake-geneva-region.ch entitled “Laboratory of Forms “. The bition presents selected archives from museum has held this American artist’s the collection that portray her evolu- personal collection since 2017. In the tion. Documents contextualize the facebook.com/lakegenevaregion early 1970s, abandoning her earlier works, which were mostly created in instagram.com/myvaud vocation as a painter, Jan Groover New York but also during her years in turned to photography. She soon France – a phase of her artistic produc- began to attract attention with her tion which is generally unrecognized. first works, photographic polyptychs The admission to the museum as well This document was printed on 100% recycled and FSC certified constructed around the motifs of the as the exhibition is free of charge. paper by an Imprim’Vert road, cars and the urban environment : region-du-leman.ch/en/P52755 Dipping bread in melted cheese while an altitude of 3000 m, facing a superb printshop. gliding across the waters of Lake panorama. Geneva is a unique experience offered Last option : the cheese train that by the Lake Geneva General Naviga- carries passengers from Montreux tion Company (CGN). Cruises depart to Château-d’Œx, the homeland of Events from Lausanne or Morges every Friday fondue, in Pays-d’Enhaut. A selec- evening until 13 December, and from 7 tion of cheeses can be tasted on calendar February to 22 May 2020. board during the rail-borne excursion. Water again – but this time in the form Upon their arrival at the restaurant Le of ice at Leysin in the Vaud Alps. In Chalet, visitors can witness a demon- 20 November to 31 December 2019 Bô Noël the resort, the famous delicacy can be stration of the traditional production Lausanne savored all winter in igloos with Scan- on a wood fire by a costumed cheese- region-du-leman.ch/en/P7822 dinavian furnishings and decor. At maker. Of course, the outing ends Glacier 3000 above Les Diablerets, up around a fondue pot in the same 20 November to 31 December 2019 it can be enjoyed in the restaurant restaurant. Lausanne Festival of Lights Lausanne designed by architect Mario Botta at lake-geneva-region.ch region-du-leman.ch/en/P1142

28 November to 7 December 2019 30th Montreux Comedy Festival Montreux Event montreuxcomedy.com/en

READY, STEADY, GO FOR LAUSANNE 2020 www.lausanne2020.com 1 January to 28 February 2020 51st Music and Snow Festival From 9 to 22 January 2020, the Canton of Vaud will host the third Youth Olympic Games (YOG). This sporting event will bring together Les Diablerets musique-et-neige.ch athletes aged between 15 and 18 from about 70 different countries. 25 January to 2 February 2020 In the region, competitions will be used later as student accommoda- heart of Lausanne’s Flon district. In Christened the “Diablerets Express”, 42nd International Hot Air Balloon staged at four sites: Lausanne, Villars tion. The competitions on ice (speed the Vaud Alps, barely an hour from it will serve the Jorasse piste where Festival - Château-d’Œx - Les Diablerets, Leysin - Les Mosses skating, ice hockey and figure skating) Lausanne, the resort of Villars will host the Alpine skiing competitions will chateau-doex.ch/en/Z4237 and Vallée de Joux. The Olympic will be staged in the new “Vaudoise the ski mountaineering, ski and snow- be held. The program at Leysin Village will be housed in the Vortex, a Arena” at Malley on the outskirts of board cross contests. Its neighbour features snowboard (halfpipe and 13 to 15 February 2020 Béjart Ballet Lausanne circular building built for the occasion Lausanne. Athletes will receive their Les Diablerets has installed a new slopestyle) as well as freestyle skiing. Lausanne on the university campus; it will be honors at the Medals Plaza in the ultra-fast gondola lift for the event. A halfpipe measuring 160 meters in bejart.ch/en length and 7 meters in height has been erected. These new infrastruc- 18 to 23 February 2020 tures are intended to be permanent Villars Classics, music festival and will be open to the public after Villars classiques.ch the YOG. The cross-country skiing competitions will be held in the Jura, 27 February to 1 March 2020 at Vallée de Joux. At Le Sentier, the Les Hivernales (pop-rock music festival) Espace Horloger watchmaking centre Nyon is dedicating an exhibition to the region-du-leman.ch/en/P22878 history of timekeeping. Finally, in Lausanne itself, the 29 February to 1 March 2020 50 MARA (cross-country ski race) is staging an exhibition titled “We are Sainte-Croix /Les Rasses Olympians, and you?” Open until 15 ski-mara.ch/en March 2020, it traces the origins of the Olympic spirit through athletes’ 29 February to 1 March 2020 stories and experiences. International Dog Sled Race Les Mosses aigle-leysin-lesmosses.ch/en/P3307 region-du-leman.ch/en/Z10386

Picture credits : Matthieu Gafsou • OTV V.Dubach • Montreux Noël • Localarchitecture • Roman Tyulyakov, Proalps • Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne Fonds Jan Groover • YouthOlympicGames • Sibylle Pumann • Matthias Lehmann

Top tip Package deals SKI AND STAY AT VILLARS–LES DIABLERETS 3RD WORLD FONDUE COMPETITION IN TARTEGNIN

The « Ski & Sleep » package invites visitors to discover the Vaud Alps for two days. This cheese-fondue competition is held every other year and brings together leading experts in the field. Valid outside school holiday periods, this offer enables visitors to stay for two nights in one of the eight participating hotels in the This unique event will take place between 15 and 17 November 2019 resorts of Les Diablerets or Villars for CHF 230 per person. The offer in the charming village of Tartegnin, situated in the heart of La Côte includes breakfast as well as a pass that can be used throughout the winegrowing area, between Morges and Nyon. Professionals and ski area (including the glacier 3000 in Les Diablerets) during the stay. amateur cooks will demonstrate their skills at the caquelon (fondue At altitudes ranging from 1,200 to 3,000 meters, the ski slopes are pot) and create their own mixture consisting of at least 50% Gruyère suitable for all levels. This is a chance to try out the new gondola lift AOP. For out-of-town visitors, eight hotels in the region will offer a that sweeps skiers in moments to the start of the piste for the Youth package deal. The offer includes one overnight stay and a “Fondue Olympic Games in 2020. World Championship Pass” (one fondue, one glass with holder and region-du-leman.ch/en/P38153 content) for CHF 99.– per person in a 3-star hotel (CHF 119.– in a 4-star establishment). region-du-leman.ch/en/P22560