{"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. - Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/psychedelic-art", "occasion/festival", "society/drugs"], "description": "On 12 November, the festival \"Substanzen Jetzt.\" opens with a special event at the venue. It marks the start of the festival programme running from 12 to 29 November. The festival offers a wide range of formats: exhibitions of psychedelic art, panel discussions, tables with experts, concerts, films, workshops and a party on the middle weekend. These open up new perspectives and create altered states of consciousness entirely without substances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-116458/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/eroeffnung?ansicht=chronologisch&ereignis=eroeffnung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9992dc377bb8164dd775aa26ce6b8838614445e4104d3a9249fa49f2b632fa97-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei, 3. 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A joint party takes place on the middle weekend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-123006/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b33aeb2b0422ba307cf0881c0cff762ecbd3bb631bf293e360f3e75f88a5eace-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Eröffnung", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "The opening of the festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» kicks off two and a half weeks of exhibitions, events and encounters at the Photobastei in Zurich. From 12 to 29 November 2026, the Photobastei Zurich devotes itself to the multi-layered topic of psychoactive substances. With exhibitions, panels, concerts, films, workshops and regulars' tables, the festival sheds light on psychedelics from different perspectives and creates space for discourse, knowledge sharing and the exchange of experiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/eroffnung-97607/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0edb175530556dff8022e0aa223a3cb2e834154de96b2c7f6aa25440c7a6ec09-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hörstationen von Substanzielles.ch", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs"], "description": "The listening stations of Substanzielles.ch are a special exhibition in which people speak openly, in a differentiated way and without judgment about their personal experiences with psychoactive substances. They are part of the festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» at the Photobastei in Zurich and run from 12 to 29 November 2026. They can be heard from Wednesday to Sunday. The festival brings together various programmes on the topic of substances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/horstationen-von-substanziellesch-97625/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0edb175530556dff8022e0aa223a3cb2e834154de96b2c7f6aa25440c7a6ec09-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. – Stammtisch", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "prix libre", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs"], "description": "The «Substanzen Jetzt. – Stammtisch» is a new, informal format where anyone can ask their questions about psychoactive substances. It is run by the «Substanzen Jetzt.» festival; in an intimate setting and with expert guidance, participants exchange ideas with like-minded people and experts such as doctors, therapists and safer-use specialists. Topics range from set and setting, trip preparation and integration to microdosing, combined use, psychedelics in older age, and how parents can talk to teenagers about drugs. The experts are met at an apéro at the start, and entry is on a pay-what-you-wish basis with a bar service.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-stammtisch-116464/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/stammtisch-14-november", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d241b431c6cd3e73bc02104cbfefb84badda7615cc5217115e46e5afc2c91943-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kokain", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs"], "description": "\"Kokain\" is a special exhibition on the subject of cocaine use in Switzerland, shown at Photobastei 2.0. It was created by the association permeable and is part of the festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» at Photobastei Zürich. The exhibition runs from 12 to 29 November 2026. More information can be found on the festival's page.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kokain-97624/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hörstationen von Substanzielles.ch", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei, 3. Stock", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "Listening stations invite visitors to pause and hear people speak openly, nuanced and without judgement about their personal experiences with psychoactive substances. Behind the project stands substanzielles.ch, co-initiator and co-organiser of the festival in which the stations are embedded. At four screens with two headphones each, portraits show people from addiction physicians to dealers, members of parliament to bus drivers, revealing that consumption spans all professions and social strata. Three stations are in German, one in French, and the stories can be heard throughout the whole festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/horstationen-von-substanziellesch-123018/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5bec70237c4cad7d45df704882c3ca622ddac04ee0ff377f858fd8ed8774ac1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "H.R. Giger: Der Weg des Magiers (Passagen)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The special exhibition shows H.R. Giger's four-part group of works «Passagen – Tempel», which appears as a series of monumental transitional spaces. Its themes lie between birth and death, technology and body, as well as fear and transformation. The exhibition is part of the festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» at the Photobastei in Zurich and runs from 12 to 29 November 2026. It is open every Wednesday to Sunday.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/hr-giger-der-weg-des-magiers-passagen-97623/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Unterwasserfestival", "start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "nature/environment/oceans"], "description": "The Unterwasserfestival.ch 2026 is an event at the Photobastei in Zurich. Behind the festival stands the association Unterwasserfestival.ch. Admission is free. The event runs until 29 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unterwasserfestival-116460/", "official_url": "https://unterwasserfestival.ch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/041e885a6facda53b59d504defe6376295ebdca6cf3fc91cc8e358c5b5a52413-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "«Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase» is a philosophical and cultural-studies panel discussion. On the panel are historian Helena Barop, psychiatrist and philosopher Daniel Strassberg and philosopher Susanne Schmetkamp, with Michael Herzig moderating. The discussion asks what ecstasy is, how it relates to intoxication, and why sober ecstasy is often considered less blameworthy than drug-induced ecstasy. The panel takes place as part of the festival «Substanzen jetzt».", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aus-sich-heraustreten-uber-rausch-und-ekstase-116469/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/rausch-und-ekstase", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0152c8da6a2a331ae6ca0a919d5cde5ef14c9a017db97a2cc58b36d0578a3c3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bigeneric Live - Psychedelische Klang Performance \"Rio…", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei · Eventraum 3. Stock", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/ambient"], "description": "«Rio Buritaca» is a three-hour Bigeneric live set by Marco Repetto – a psychedelic sound journey through floating ambient textures, broken rhythms and warm, physical bass. Repetto, co-founder of Glueams and Grauzone, is one of the defining boundary-crossers of Swiss electronic music. He developed the material from a set first performed in March 2026 at the Bonanza Festival in Buritaca, Colombia, which also gives the upcoming album its name. Further developed for «Substanzen Jetzt – Das Festival», the performance can be experienced at the Photobastei for the first time in Switzerland.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/bigeneric-live-psychedelische-klang-performance-rio-124088/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abb4931d8fe4718624e1e93b704794c3c685bcc2cdcc4772a625e17baa4b7f5c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "H.R. Giger: Der Weg des Magiers (Passagen)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition as part of the «Substanzen Jetzt.» festival shows the four-part group of works «Passagen – Tempel» by H. R. Giger from 1974–75, including the central picture «Tempel, der Weg des Magiers». The monumental pictures appear like transitional spaces between birth and death, technology and body, fear and transformation. Giger's biomechanical temples recall inner landscapes and archetypal images of the hero's journey, the passage through darkness and the confrontation with the unconscious. Created in a time of intense engagement with consciousness expansion, psychology and psychedelic experience, the works touch imagery of dissolution, rebirth, merging and boundary crossing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/hr-giger-der-weg-des-magiers-passagen-116456/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0dafd9ab502d61f4a91b47e6dcc0fafc44e7cec86b84855b166dd8b30cb3b51e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Silent Zurich - A festival to discover silence", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus Helferei Zürich", "address": "Kirchgasse 13, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Most of the more than fifty events are free of charge. Registration or a ticket is required for indi", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "\"Silent Zurich\" is a festival inviting people to experience silence together in the city. Held for the fifth time, it takes place across three festival venues, including the Kulturhaus Helferei. A dense program of workshops, meditations and talks, with film, music and movement, shows a variety of ways to find peace even in a hectic city. Most of the more than fifty events are free of charge, while individual events require registration or a ticket.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-zurich-a-festival-to-discover-silence-59626/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8b72fa015900776dc7a70c62a42d5d2b903c5b8cb63e330a4197f58dbaf40bb-1200.webp"}]}