{"title": "NZZ Quantensprung Live - Pioniergeist in den Alpen • Podcast", "start": "2026-10-26T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaufleuten Festsaal", "address": "Pelikanstrasse 18, 8001 Zürich", "price": "ab CHF 34", "price_from": "34.00", "price_to": "89.00", "tickets_url": "https://kaufleuten.ch/events/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/aviation", "science/technology"], "description": "This is a live recording of the podcast \"Quantensprung\" in the Festsaal at Kaufleuten. It deals with the 1946 emergency landing of an American military aircraft on the Gauligletscher glacier, the birth hour of alpine air rescue. Lena Waltle, an editor for science and technology, moderates a discussion with aviation journalists Andreas Spaeth and Jürgen Schelling. 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Speakers include Patagonia ambassador Sofie Paulus, fresh from Chile's Cochamó Valley, Sebastian Moos (Forum Wildnis Schweiz), Maren Kern (Mountain Wilderness Switzerland) and Timo Rhyner (Greina Foundation). The programme offers an inspirational keynote, a panel conversation, Q&A, film clips from Cochamó, plus coffee and vegan croissants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/patagonia-storytelling-breakfast-wild-spaces-20846/", "official_url": "https://zurich.impacthub.ch/event/patagonia-storytelling-breakfast-wild-spaces-12-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c322fb72ad5a19fc72591c38d2c36bb45e50dbb623c4ee3d17895cba4920fc3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kindervorlesung: Vom Amazonas in den Weltraum", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "A children's lecture for kids aged 7 and up that takes them on a journey to the European spaceport and brings a rocket launch up close. Behind it is aerospace engineer Deborah Müller, who works at ETH Zürich Space and is the Swiss delegate to the European Space Agency (ESA), assisted by ETH researcher Elias Mulky. It explores how rockets, satellites and people work together to make a space mission succeed, and what can go wrong along the way. 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Behind the format are Timo and Christoph, the podcast hosts and counsellors for men and violence, who have been engaging with masculinities for years and bring experience from counselling, academia and their own biographies. The show is aimed at men who want more than the traditional image served to them, as well as FINTA* people who still have hope. Admission works on a solidarity basis with freely chosen prices and reduced options with Kulturlegi or AHV.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/wurst-kase-salat-live-show-20730/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/233c6a63f006c78d21e33537df76c2b44aec2e66fc65367ace5629dc4fe65fd1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nächster Halt: Mond", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "A talk titled «Nächster Halt: Mond» takes place as part of the wow² event series at ETH Zurich. Dr. Anna Mittelholz, a lecturer in ETH Zurich's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Principal Investigator of the LunarLeaper mission, speaks about the Moon as a returning focus of spaceflight. Topics include NASA's Artemis programme, ESA's Terra Novae programme and other international missions, as well as the state of our knowledge of the Moon, what lies beneath its surface and what a permanent human presence there would require. The talk lasts 45 minutes, is in German with English translation via Accessify, is suitable for adults and teenagers, and researchers will be available for questions for about 15 minutes afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/nachster-halt-mond-68929/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/naechster-halt--mond.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6eb24f3017d96ba0802b951cbeb4aaa5b8b5c988db4ff8659bae0c12f891120b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alle an Bord! Nord-Nordost - eine Flucht vor dem europäischen Blockout", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Evangelische-methodistische Kirche Zürich 4", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "stage"], "description": "A reading from a text about the collapse of Europe: when the lights go out, the engineer Heiner flees northwards in a small sailing yacht, out onto the sea. Together with his friend Karl he battles storm, exhaustion and uncertainty, hoping above all to find his wife Eve again. On the open sea a quiet chamber piece emerges, with conversations about responsibility, truth and the failures of the modern world – a journey through darkness and light that puts their comradeship to the test.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/alle-an-bord-nord-nordost-eine-flucht-vor-dem-europaischen-b-69475/", "official_url": "https://www.zuerich-kultur.ch/eventdb/show_event.php?id=177402", "image": ""}]}