Festival Les Créatives

What Festival Les Créatives does

Festival Les Créatives is a Geneva-based non-profit association founded in 2005, recognized as being of public utility, that produces an annual multidisciplinary feminist cultural festival each November alongside a portfolio of year-round gender-equality resources for the cultural sector. The organization's flagship event — the 22nd edition scheduled for November 17–29, 2026 — spans concerts, theater, exhibitions, panels, workshops, screenings, and club evenings across roughly a dozen venues in the Canton of Geneva (Alhambra, Théâtre Forum Meyrin, Cinémas du Grütli, Théâtre du Loup, La Gravière, MEG, Maison Rousseau et Littérature, among others), with programming exclusively featuring artistic and intellectual work by women and gender minorities. The association is positioned as the only European festival of this scale with that mandate.

The resource portfolio includes Le Carnet Rose, a bilingual practical guide published in 2021 addressing harassment, pay equity, programming diversity, and work-life balance in cultural institutions; Le Baromètre, a 12-question interactive diagnostic tool launched with illustrator Emma Serafin; structured 2-hour and 4-hour institutional workshops designed by Sidonie Atgé Delbays and Noëmi Grütter; Vote 71-21, a symbolic voting project; and 'Sous les radars, le vacarme', a podcast co-produced with BERN13. Distribution and engagement channels include a WordPress website with Infomaniak and Seetickets ticketing, physical points of sale at Migros and Balexert, a Mailchimp newsletter, Instagram/Facebook/X social presence, Spotify curated playlists, Affichage Vert outdoor poster campaigns, and partnerships with La Blogothèque and BERN13.

The revenue model combines three streams: transactional revenue from tiered event tickets and festival passes (Pass Full Créatives at CHF 150/120 reduced, Pass Flex at CHF 80/50 reduced); institutional and foundation grants (Ville de Genève, État de Genève, Association des Communes Genevoises, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia, Migros pour-cent culturel, Fondation Jan Michalski); and nascent professional services fees for workshops and institutional training. The 9-person team is led by co-directors Ermela Haile and Nevena Puljic, with a governance committee chaired by Maude Bittar. The Creative BPM hip-hop platform was operated by Les Créatives from 2018 and spun off into an independent association in 2025 while retaining collaborative ties.

Name

Festival Les Créatives

Legal name

Association Les Créatives

Website

https://lescreatives.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Festival Les Créatives is a Geneva-based non-profit association, founded in 2005, that produces an annual November feminist cultural festival and year-round gender-equality resources (Carnet Rose guide, Baromètre diagnostic, workshops) for cultural institutions and artists across the Canton of Geneva.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Festival and Arts Events

NAICS

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), Other Performing Arts Companies (711190), Musical Groups and Artists (71113)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural Festivals & Events Organizations (BPAGAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Music Festival Organizers & Promoters (MPAGAAAB), Cultural & Community Festivals (Ticketed) (THAJAFAI)

Keywords

• Feminist cultural festival
• Gender equality workshops
• Arts and culture events
• Cultural programming
• Hip-hop platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Geneva

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Festival Ticketing and Passes: Revenue from individual event tickets (with tiered pricing: full, reduced, youth, Carte 20ans20francs) and festival passes (Pass Full Créatives at CHF 150/120 reduced, Pass Flex Créatives at CHF 80/50 reduced). Tickets sold online via Infomaniak and Seetickets, at physical points, and at venue box offices.
2. Institutional Funding and Grants: Funding from public institutions including Ville de Genève, État de Genève, Association des Communes Genevoises, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia, Migros pour-cent culturel, and various foundations. Recognized as private association of public utility, making donations tax-deductible.
3. Workshop Services: Workshop fees for 2-hour and 4-hour gender equality training sessions offered to cultural institutions, teams, festivals, schools, or collectives. Contact: [email protected] for pricing and quotes.

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Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Festival Les Créatives organizes an annual multidisciplinary feminist cultural festival each November in Geneva featuring concerts, theater, exhibitions, panel discussions, workshops, performances, and screenings exclusively by women and gender minorities. Beyond the festival, the association provides year-round gender equality tools for the cultural sector, including the Carnet Rose practical guide, the Baromètre diagnostic quiz, gender equality workshops for cultural institutions, and the Plateforme Creative BPM hip-hop platform. Revenue is generated through ticketing, festival passes, fee-based workshops, and institutional grants.

Product overview

Festival Les Créatives is a multidisciplinary feminist cultural festival organization offering primarily a flagship annual festival event, complemented by year-round tools and services for gender equality in cultural settings. The core portfolio includes: the annual Festival Les Créatives (November, 22nd edition 2026) featuring concerts, theater, exhibitions, and discussions; Le Carnet Rose (2021 practical guide for gender equality); Le Baromètre (interactive 12-question quiz for workplace gender assessment); and Ateliers (workshops on gender equality in cultural institutions). Additional offerings include the Plateforme Creative BPM (independent since 2025, hip-hop culture platform), Vote 71-21 symbolic voting project, bimonthly feminist Newsletter, podcast series 'Sous les radars, le vacarme', festival passes (Full and Flex), ticketing services, and Team Care support services. The organization operates as a non-profit association promoting women and gender minorities in cultural and artistic fields.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Le Carnet Rose: A practical guide elaborated to fight gender inequalities in the cultural sector, addressing sexual harassment, equality in programming and teams, salary equality, and work-life balance
• Le Baromètre
• Ateliers Carnet Rose
• Vote 71-21

Products and services

• Festival Les Créatives Annual multidisciplinary feminist cultural festival in Geneva featuring concerts, theater, exhibitions, panel discussions, workshops, performances, screenings, and festive events exclusively by women and gender minorities.
• Le Carnet Rose Practical guide covering equality and diversity in programming and teams, work-life balance, pay equity, and sexual harassment in cultural settings. Available in French and German.
• Le Baromètre Interactive quiz tool with 12 questions designed to assess gender equality in professional environments, particularly in artistic and cultural sectors. Provides anonymous self-assessment without collecting personal data.
• Ateliers Carnet Rose (Workshops) Workshop offerings of 2 hours or 4 hours focused on gender equality issues in cultural institutions, based on the Carnet Rose guide. Designed by Sidonie Atgé Delbays and Noëmi Grütter, providing spaces for collective reflection and practical strategies.
• Plateforme Creative BPM Year-round platform celebrating hip-hop culture (Beat, Parole, Mouvement) while promoting visibility of young women, trans, and non-binary people. Includes workshops, artistic residencies, battles, and a 'Tremplin' competition. Became an independent association in 2025.
• Vote 71-21 Symbolic and performative voting project inviting only women and gender minorities to vote on feminist and societal issues, created in 2021 for the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage in Switzerland.
• Newsletter Bimonthly feminist newsletter providing cultural recommendations, feminist actions, festival updates, and curated Spotify playlists. More frequent during festival season from September to November.
• Sous les radars, le vacarme (Podcast) Podcast series in coproduction with BERN13 revisiting the Festival's 20-year history and questioning representativeness in music, featuring voices from the field across generations.
• Team Care Care team present at certain festival events to provide listening support and assistance to victims or witnesses of sexist, sexual, and gender-based violence, identifiable by purple 'Team Care' t-shirts.

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Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Commune de MeyrinStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Original partner in Creative BPM project launched in 2018. Hosts CBPM programming and events including Week-end CBPM in November 2025.
• Commune de VernierminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partner commune hosting Creative BPM workshops from September-December 2025 as part of neighborhood programming.
• Inès Mauricio and Angélique TahécoreOthers · 1 January 2025Directors leading Creative BPM association continuing CBPM project activities from 2025 as independent organization.
• KeychangecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network and global movement working for complete restructuring of the music industry. Les Créatives participates in this network advancing gender equality in music at international level.
• HelvetiarocktcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwitzerland-wide association working for women and trans, intersex, non-binary and agender people in contemporary music. Offers many programs to facilitate music access and raise awareness about gender equality issues.
• Rider·eminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipatory and collaborative project bringing together cultural stakeholders to evaluate and rethink professional practices regarding inequalities and homophobe, sexual and sexist violence.
• We Can Dance iTcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation promoting equality, preventing and raising awareness about sexist and sexual violence in cultural environments, public spaces and night life. Provides Team Care for festival evenings.
• La Colline – Théâtre nationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational theater producing Virginie Despentes' Romancero Queer, coproduction partner for the show hosted at Théâtre Forum Meyrin.
• InouïeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMusic agency partnering with Les Créatives for Camille concert on November 21, 2026 at Alhambra, as unique Swiss date.
• Emma SerafinminorOthersIllustrator and scientific assistant who created the Baromètre diagnostic tool with Les Créatives.
• Sidonie Atgé Delbays and Noëmi GrütterminorOthersCreators of the Atelier Carnet rose workshop program on gender equality for cultural institutions.
• BERN13coreGTM or Marketing PartnerCoproduction partner for the podcast 'Sous les radars, le vacarme' retracing Les Créatives' 20-year history and questioning representativeness in music.
• La BlogothèquecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for Les Créatives 20th anniversary Take Away Show live sessions capturing artist performances in iconic Geneva locations.
• Université de Genève - Global Studies InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Semaine des droits humains organized by Global Studies Institute, hosting Leslie Mannès movement workshop residency.
• Wallonie-Bruxelles à GenèveminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSupports Leslie Mannès residency and movement workshop as part of collaboration with Semaine des droits humains.
• Ville de GenèvecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerMajor institutional partner and funder of the Festival Les Créatives. Supports festival programming and Bastions de l'égalité annual event.
• État de GenèvecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCantonal government institutional partner and funder supporting festival operations and initiatives.
• Genève TourismeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTourism promotion partner supporting festival activities including venue hosting for La Blogothèque sessions.
• AlhambracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey festival venue hosting major concerts including First Aid Kit and Camille performances.
• Théâtre Forum MeyrincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoproduction partner for Virginie Despentes' Romancero Queer, hosting the theater performance during festival.
• La GravièrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFestival club venue hosting Club evenings with free access for Pass holders, blind test events, and dancing programming.
• Maison Rousseau et Littérature (MRL)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoproduction partner for DJ Paulette encounter podcast series, literary and cultural programming.
• Canton and City of Geneva - 25 November Campaign CoalitionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of 41 institutional and associative partners including Les Créatives working to prevent sexist and sexual violence.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Montreux Jazz Festival: One of the world's largest and longest-running music festivals, held annually on Lake Geneva. Comparable Swiss annual ticketed music festival with multi-venue programming and public-sector support, but operates at vastly larger scale across all genres without the gender-minority curatorial focus of Les Créatives.
• Comédie de Genève: Geneva's publicly subsidized theater producing and presenting a broad performing-arts season including contemporary and feminist work. Overlaps with Les Créatives on Geneva theater programming and audience development but operates a year-round institutional season rather than a focused feminist-curated festival.

Direct peers

• Festival Les Émancipées: Annual feminist cultural festival in the French-speaking world mixing music, performance, debate and workshops with a focus on women's and minority voices. Closest international peer to Les Créatives in terms of explicit feminist curatorial lens, multidisciplinary format and festival-as-activism positioning.
• Helvetiarockt: Swiss association supporting women and trans, intersex, non-binary and agender people in contemporary music through training programs, advocacy and visibility initiatives. Already a core strategic partner of Les Créatives and one of the closest mission-aligned peers operating a year-round program rather than a single festival.
• Festival de la Cité: Lausanne-based multidisciplinary arts festival mixing theater, dance, music, performance and public-space programming across the city. Comparable Swiss multidisciplinary festival model, public-sector funding profile and intimate urban-scale format.
• La Manufacture: Lausanne theater and live performance venue producing contemporary performing arts and hosting touring companies. Comparable Swiss performing-arts venue/institution dependent on public subsidy, with similar audience-development challenges and feminist-curated programming.
• We Can Dance iT: Swiss association promoting equality and preventing sexist and sexual violence in cultural environments, public spaces and nightlife; provides Team Care at festival events. Mission-aligned peer and existing core partner, with overlapping programming on safe cultural spaces and gender-based violence prevention.
• Festival Antigel: Annual multidisciplinary arts festival held each winter in Geneva across multiple venues, combining music, dance, theater, performance and visual arts. Most direct geographic peer to Les Créatives given shared city, multidisciplinary scope, multi-venue model and dependence on public/cantonal funding.
• Festival Belluard Bollwerk International: Annual contemporary arts festival in Fribourg combining music, performance, visual art and discursive programs in an unusual heritage venue. Comparable Swiss multidisciplinary festival with public funding, multi-genre programming and year-round association structure.

Emerging players

• Keychange: International network and movement campaigning for gender equality in the music industry through festivals, talent development and advocacy. Existing core partner of Les Créatives and a peer in curating women/non-binary artist lineups at festivals, though operating as a coalition rather than a single producing organization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

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