{"title": "Dada unlesbar", "start": "2026-11-15T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Strauhof", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "«Dada unlesbar» is an evening of conversation and performance devoted to poem, song and text fragment, held at the Cabaret Voltaire. It features appearances by Ariane von Graffenried and Fatima Moumouni, with inputs from Salome Hohl (Cabaret Voltaire), Magnus Wieland (SLA) and Sandro Zanetti (UZH). The event is listed under the label «More word / literature». 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It asks what happens when we cannot read characters straight away: the illegible irritates, but also awakens curiosity and the allure of decipherment. Each document carries a riddle waiting to be solved, while at the same time developing a visual aesthetic of its own. The exhibition is a journey through time and space, from ancient writing systems via graphic design and unreadable classics to the whirl of signs in today's fast-moving present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unlesbar-59603/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ece1da2b3c056751ee3e1a4f5c1ea26b7d9a1adc143d443c1e75e5a6c0231a6e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "unlesbar", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Strauhof", "address": "", "price": "CHF 10 / CHF 6 reduced; free for children up to 16 and members", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design", "literature"], "description": "Unlesbar is an exhibition about writing that cannot be read at once, which unsettles yet also sparks curiosity. It is shown at the Strauhof and presents 42 documents from the Swiss Literary Archive, hardly legible or altered, enciphered, blacked out and struck through. The exhibition spans ancient writing systems, graphic design and typography up to (un)readable literary classics and the swirling signs of a fast-moving present. It develops a visual aesthetic that fascinates independently of the content.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unlesbar-6296/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccf1f6ed6c2335d08e74155ef7d9c46b75bdc8580d9466fc5f6d289d19e5a197-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dada-Vitrine: Slot 16", "start": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "The Dada-Vitrine is a display-case exhibition in the vaulted cellar of the Cabaret Voltaire, the Zurich birthplace of Dada. The Cabaret Voltaire sees itself as both a site of remembrance for Dada and a project space for contemporary art and gastronomy. The case shows works and ephemera by the Zurich Dadaists, such as texts and invitation cards, and its exhibits change with different focal points. For the exhibition «DadaZwischenSprachen», it presents historical documents from collections including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Hugo-Ball-Gesellschaft of the city of Pirmasens and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/dada-vitrine-slot-16-4794/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6fb76b5ab09952f0d0a1859b51a38366044828bec9a5dc47aa55b0315ad1b717-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dada Showcase: Slot 16", "start": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/dada"], "description": "«Dada Showcase: Slot 16» is a display-case presentation in the Vaulted Cellar of the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dada in Zurich. The Cabaret Voltaire sees itself as both a place of remembrance for Dada and a project space for contemporary art and gastronomy. The showcase presents historical documents by the Zurich Dadaists, such as texts and invitation cards, and sets them beside contemporary contributions in the rotating exhibition held in the same room. For the exhibition «DadaZwischenSprachen», the documents come from collections including that of the Kunsthaus Zürich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/dada-showcase-slot-16-4799/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6fb76b5ab09952f0d0a1859b51a38366044828bec9a5dc47aa55b0315ad1b717-2000.webp"}, {"title": "«Unlesbar»: Von der Kritzelei bis zur Kryptographie", "start": "2026-11-09T10:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität Zürich", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/computer-science", "literature"], "description": "The lecture «Unlesbar»: Von der Kritzelei bis zur Kryptographie explores the phenomenon of unreadable texts. Drawing on examples from the holdings of the Swiss Literary Archive in Bern, it offers a thematic overview. Topics range from old or cryptic handwriting and foreign writing systems to encrypted messages and creative forms of distorting texts and meaning. The lecture also serves as preparation for visiting the exhibition «Unlesbar» at the Literaturmuseum Strauhof.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unlesbar-von-der-kritzelei-bis-zur-kryptographie-97564/", "official_url": "https://vhszh.ch/kursangebot/detail/unlesbar-von-der-kritzelei-bis-zur-kryptographie/26W-0380-22/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0d198ede7ba85b11436ff3a53e08385963ae67c398e7dbc2c102ac1def74ee1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "«DadaZwischenSprachen»", "start": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/dada"], "description": "«DadaZwischenSprachen» – Künstler*innenkneipe is the artists' bar in the entrance area of Cabaret Voltaire, the Zurich venue where the Dada movement began in 1916. It takes up the spirit of the «Künstlerkneipe Voltaire», as the Dadaists first opened the place during the First World War, and is taken over by one artistic position for a year at a time. It belongs to the exhibition «DadaZwischenSprachen», which explores Dada's language experiments, such as sound poems and simultaneous poems.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/dadazwischensprachen-4793/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ff67f9f1d8dadf418d0a5e41249bdd910d8691bc680777c4d2157aea4a39f56-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Silent Reading Rave", "start": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung notwendig", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A silent reading rave: a crowd reads side by side in the reading room of the Literaturhaus, a space otherwise open to members only. It is run by the Zurich association Silent Reading Rave, which brings people together to read all over Switzerland. You bring your own reading matter – comics, Goethe, pulp fiction – or pick a book from the book table provided by the Literaturhaus. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-reading-rave-642/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/silent-reading-rave-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c07644628ed4260b208c95661665d124d8f30469d39ddf866a6459de19697e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "KUNST ALS EXIL", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schiffbau", "address": "8005 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "KUNST ALS EXIL is a reading and conversation series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Schauspielhaus Zürich. The edition on 18 October presents Nr. 2: HEIMAT/HOME 2.0, a polyphonic scenic reading drawn from the anniversary issue «heimat/home 2.0» of the magazine zwischentext. It is a collaboration of the zwischentext-kollektiv with the Zürcher Institut für Interreligiösen Dialog ZIID and Schauspielhaus Zürich. The reading combines personal texts, collective writing and performative elements to explore how home can be rethought when belonging is constantly negotiated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kunst-als-exil-787/", "official_url": "https://www.schauspielhaus.ch/de/spielplan/38402/kunst-als-exil", "image": ""}, {"title": "Bar: «La-Di-Dada-Dunnstig» with Picicletta", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/electronic/house"], "description": "«La-Di-Dada-Dunnstig» is a bar evening in the Historical Hall of Cabaret Voltaire, all about getting together for a glass and listening to good music. This time Picicletta, usually found at Villa Mare and behind his Zurich-based label Pajama, plays a special and tender set of long-forgotten B-sides for house, ambient and disco lovers. The idea is to fill the place with people, music, open conversations and good times spent together. Thursday is to become the new start of the weekend, since people tend to work a little too much anyway.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/bar-la-di-dada-dunnstig-with-picicletta-4788/", "official_url": "https://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/#node-134242-en", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5774d3ba4e08dccd273e828f530d6612bbca51ed57897b587cec935994780f4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Traumlesung", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater Stok", "address": "Hirschengraben 42, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, Kollekte", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Traumlesung is a literary and musical evening of stories and poems about dreaming. It is staged by the Zurich authors' group die aus zürich, whose members read, with musical interludes on the flute by Ivan Denes. The stories carry listeners from the workplace to the South Seas, and from the dream academy to an apple paradise. Entry is free with a collection, and a book table is on hand.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/traumlesung-59390/", "official_url": "https://die-aus-zuerich.ch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49b5a1820b5d36d43fa3694f3e06183e25af82786cba018d7f0582e4b714be0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gastveranstaltung: «Literarischer Club Zürich» mit Peter Stamm – Als alles mit «Agnes» begann / Der Anfang", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "A guest event by the Literarischer Club Zürich at Cabaret Voltaire. The writer Peter Stamm reads under the title «Als alles mit «Agnes» begonnen» on the theme «Der Anfang»; the evening is moderated by Annette König. Tickets are available at the box office, no reservations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/gastveranstaltung-literarischer-club-zurich-mit-peter-stamm-82735/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/110ea66a1132bbc5a003c2e743a3e05f300f3f92aa2c7bba92b563f39bf59da1-2000.webp"}]}