Experiencing wonder at the Salamander Festival

Theme(s)

  • Education, Environment

Challenge

  • Man-Nature relationship

Partners

Les Amis de la Salamandre

Duration

2024-2027

Locations

Switzerland – Vaud

Project funding

  • MALOM Fund

Context

The growing disconnection between people and nature is weakening public awareness of the living world and its protection. In response, the Salamander Festival—held annually for over 20 years—has become the unmissable nature event in French-speaking Switzerland.

Objectives

  • Raise public awareness of the richness and fragility of nature
  • Offer an immersive, artistic, and educational experience around an annual theme
  • Strengthen human, environmental, and regional connections
  • Foster synergies between local and national partners
  • Promote more sustainable lifestyles and ecological transformation

Actions

  • Exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and talks with renowned speakers
  • Educational workshops for children and youth
  • Artist gallery and naturalist creative space

Contexte

Context

The growing disconnection between people and nature is weakening public awareness of the living world and its protection. In response, the Salamander Festival—held annually for over 20 years—has become the unmissable nature event in French-speaking Switzerland.

Objectives

  • Raise public awareness of the richness and fragility of nature
  • Offer an immersive, artistic, and educational experience around an annual theme
  • Strengthen human, environmental, and regional connections
  • Foster synergies between local and national partners
  • Promote more sustainable lifestyles and ecological transformation

Actions

  • Exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and talks with renowned speakers
  • Educational workshops for children and youth
  • Artist gallery and naturalist creative space
© Yann André
© Carlo Derosa
© Salamandre
© Yann André
© Salamandre
© Laure N Pasche

Contexte

Context

The growing disconnection between people and nature is weakening public awareness of the living world and its protection. In response, the Salamander Festival—held annually for over 20 years—has become the unmissable nature event in French-speaking Switzerland.

Objectives

  • Raise public awareness of the richness and fragility of nature
  • Offer an immersive, artistic, and educational experience around an annual theme
  • Strengthen human, environmental, and regional connections
  • Foster synergies between local and national partners
  • Promote more sustainable lifestyles and ecological transformation

Actions

  • Exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and talks with renowned speakers
  • Educational workshops for children and youth
  • Artist gallery and naturalist creative space

Partner

Les Amis de la Salamandre

The Festival Salamandre is organized by the Association of Friends of the Salamander. A must-attend autumn event in French-speaking Switzerland, the Festival Salamandre is a friendly nature festival for curious minds of all ages, entirely dedicated to an ethical cause: raising public awareness about the richness and fragility of the natural world around us.
Over three days, the festival offers a magical and emotionally rich program: an exceptional 350 m² exhibition, high-quality nature films, discovery labs to better understand nature, an artists’ gallery, an association forum, storytelling sessions, and a craft market… A true hub for exchange between visitors and volunteers!