May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

What is visible? And what remains hidden? Comic theatre tells of identities and perceptions. With movement and physical expression, we create moments of concealment and revelation. In the process, feelings and stories become visible that lie beyond language and conventions.

The production combines universal expressiveness with a creative narrative style that touches and inspires deeply. In an intense combination of space and movement, images of poetic power and unimagined depth unfold. Every situation is an artful interplay of closeness and distance, sensations and perspectives.

Join the ensemble on a journey that explores the boundaries of inclusion and artistic expression, experimenting with the theme of the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Nine wedding musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians have been showing how joie de vivre works for almost 25 years. For centuries, Ukrainian Ruthenians, Roma, Jewish, Romanian and Hungarian people have lived house to house in their homeland, each family for itself and yet together.

The result was an independent music that does not require notes – a music of elementary human emotional outbursts, of joy and sorrow, love and betrayal. It sounds for days and nights at the weddings of the mountain villages and everyone sings and dances to it. The Hudaki Village Band plays a variety of music on traditional instruments and is not afraid to give the old songs a humorous and virtuoso fresh shine.

In the first half of 2025, the band's new, sixth CD will be released, which reflects exactly this multi-ethnic culture of the native Transcarpathia. The musicians of the Hudaki Village Band continue to live and work in Ukraine. They support their family members and friends at the front as well as refugees in western Ukraine.

This year's Advent concert of the choir viril Domat will again take place in the Ems parish church and will be performed by the Ems men's choir together with the St. Gallen brass band formation "Die fidelen Humpenspatzen". The choir viril will perform a varied song program, performed in different languages. As a musical point of contrast, the brass band formation, which is entirely dedicated to Bohemian-Moravian music, will perform. The "Fihuspa Blechrunde" - as it is also called - has proven its high level of skill several times by participating in the meeting of the best Swiss brass music formations. It has already been chosen by the audience as the best brass band. In the final part of the concert, some works performed together by the choir and brass band can be heard.

Divine service with musical, liturgical rays of hope.
Afterwards we end the Sunday evening with a cozy summer aperitif.

Divine service with Pastor Simone Straub

Ecumenical prayer service with Pastor Gisella Belleri