The universe of painter Nicolas Party comes alive in his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London. Featuring 15 new treescapes and portraits in pastel, this exhibition celebrates and challenges longstanding and cherished conventions of representational painting through Party’s signature style.

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NICOLAS PARTY: CLOTHO
14 October – 20 December 2025
Hauser & Wirth, London W1S 2ET
 

We celebrate two morning services per month, one on the first and one on the third Sunday of the month. Services begin at 11am. 

2025 Sunday Services Schedule: 

Sunday 2 November, 11am – Reformation Sunday, with choir and communion

Sunday 16 November, 11am – Remembrance Sunday, with choir and commemoration of the dead

Sunday 7 December, 11am – 2nd Advent, with choir and communion. Followed by Swiss Family Christmas

Sunday 21 December, 5pm – Christmas carol service

Visit the Swiss Church London website for more information - we would love to see you here. 

You can easily and safely donate to the Swiss Church in London online by clicking here.

The next webinar in the series tailored to the Swiss living abroad is on November 4, 2025 with the topic Political rights.

Full detail and previous webinars can be found on the SwissCommunity.org website's dedicate webinars https://www.swisscommunity.org/en/offers-events/webinars page.

This year artists from Switzerland have been selected to perform at Voila! Theatre Festival (3–23 November) as part of a vibrant, border-crossing programme of 110 shows in 70 languages across London venues. 

SWISS ARTISTS AT VOILA!
5 – 20 November 2025
The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
 
5 and 6 November: Imprints by The Palimpsest Project (Elmira Oberholzer)
18 and 19 November: June by Zoetrope (Elmira Oberholzer)
19 and 20 November: Les Beaux - Enfantillages (Perspective Productions)
 
Visit the full Voila! Theatre Festival programme here. 

The Swiss Stammtisch is a regular event where Swiss people in and around Edinburgh together informally for a drink and discussions on topics that are of interest, including living abroad, politics and culture.

The Stammtisch currently takes place every first Wednesday of the month at Le Di-Vin Wine Bar. For the latest information on the Stammtisch, please visit our Facebook page.

All are invited to attend, you don't have to be a member of the Swiss Club Edinburgh to join the Stammtisch.

Please contact us if you have comments or questions.

TIME

7.30pm ​

LOCATION

Le Di-Vin wine bar

9 Randolph Place, Edinburgh EH2 4EL

Portal Project presents Stories at the Seams, an exhibition by 14 artists with lived experience of homelessness.

6 – 9 November 2025 @ Swiss Church London

Artists: Daiga, John, John J Sheehy, Johnny B, Lewis EM, L (el), Lui Saatchi, Mary Vallely, Matt, Peter, Peter H, Ricaso, Richard Fletcher

Opening hours: Fri 7 Nov – Sun 9 Nov, 12 – 6pm

Private view: Thurs 6 Nov, 5 – 8pm (all welcome)

Free admission (RSVP)

These artists find portals into inspiration where others might not look—in the arteries of the underground, the shadows beneath flyovers and in recollections of a night bus journey. Broken systems leave people living in the margins. Doorways, stations and buses become temporary sanctuaries, with many tracing invisible pathways through cities mapped differently. These are routines where resilience is not mere endurance, but survival through cycles and radical ability to change. Though shaped by hardship, such experiences can also open into deeper wisdoms.

Alongside individual artists’ works in the exhibition is a bronze Green Man plaque that has been collaboratively made by the Portal Project artists for Stories at the Seams. For centuries, the Green Man has reappeared across the world, symbolising the threshold between wildness and order. He is woven into aural and written tales, depicted in paintings and still carved into the architecture of sacred buildings in the city. Foliage spills from his mouth and ears, a reminder of cycles, endurance and renewal.

As a witness, the Green Man observes from the fringes of society. In our streets, where people rough sleep, he lingers still. Homelessness is not an individual failure but a collective forgetting that compassion is essential and that our walls are thin against the wilderness we all share. In

Stories at the Seams, through art making as an act of defiance and an affirmation of life, the edges of these worlds become stitched together, revealing that our bond with the wild—and with each other—is closer than we imagine.

Stemming from the artists’ own journeys, the works in Stories at the Seams explore entanglements of lived experience and mythology. Spanning drawings, paintings and ceramics, they weave together folklore and memory, cityscapes and ancient deities, bodies and plant ecologies. The exhibition maps the artists’ personal and creative accounts of living between worlds. Here, at the junction of wildness and home, exclusion and belonging, where the known world begins to fray, thresholds emerge into the fantastical.

Find out more about Portal Project.

Visit the Swiss Church London website for more information - we would love to see you here. 

You can easily and safely donate to the Swiss Church in London online by clicking here.

Join as Trade & Media or visit one of the Masterclasses during the Swiss Wine Week London running from 6 - 12 November 2025 at various London locations. Visit the Swiss Wine Week London 2025 website for the full diary. 

10 November activities take place at St James's Room, 67 Pall Mall, London SW1.

Masterclass - 100 years of Syrah in the Valais

• 10 November: 9:00am - 10:30am

Masterclass - Swiss Wine Vintage Award 2025 - Best of 2015

• 10 Noember: 11:30am - 1:00pm

Walk-around tasting for Trade & Media

• 10 November: 2:30pm - 5:30pm

 Walk-around tasting for 67 Pall Mall Members & Guests

• Taste around 100 wines from all six Swiss regions, paired with fine Swiss cheeses.
  Single ticket £65 (TBC) | Non-members: contact simon.hardy@fittingwines.com

• Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

The second edition of Swiss Wine Week London brings together tastings, masterclasses and events across the city to celebrate Switzerland’s rich wine heritage. Organised with local partners, the programme aims to raise awareness and appreciation of Swiss wines in the UK.

All are welcome to join UK Chapter Committee members and colleagues from the Embassy of Switzerland in the UK for drinks and networking at The Larrik - no need to register - just turn up.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

Visit one of the Masterclasses or Walkabouts during the Swiss Wine Week London running from 6 - 12 November 2025 at various London locations.

11 November 2025 - Masterclass at WSET London School

• Where: WSET London School, London SE1

• Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

The second edition of Swiss Wine Week London brings together tastings, masterclasses and events across the city to celebrate Switzerland’s rich wine heritage. Organised with local partners, the programme aims to raise awareness and appreciation of Swiss wines in the UK.

Visit the Swiss Wine Week London 2025 website for the full diary. 

Family Law Insights – A Practical Session for the Swiss Community

We warmly invite you to an informative evening in partnership with Dawson Cornwell LLP, a leading specialist family law firm based in London.

This session will provide practical guidance for Swiss nationals and friends of Switzerland navigating divorce, separation, child arrangements, and other family matters under English law.
Our hosts will share key legal insights and address questions from attendees.

Register here > 

The evening will include:

• A short introduction to New Helvetic Society, Unione Ticinese, and SwissCommunity UK
• An overview of Dawson Cornwell and its international practice
• A presentation on matrimonial and financial aspects of divorce in England (by Jennifer Brockington-Belli)
• A presentation on child issues arising from divorce or relationship breakdown (by Floriane Laruelle)
• Q&A session
• Networking drinks and light refreshments to close the evening

Date: Wednesday 12 November
Time: 18.15–20.30
Location: Dawson Cornwell, 11 Staple Inn (WC1V 7QH)
Language: English
Cost: Free (registration required) Register here > 

Please register in advance to help us manage numbers — spaces are limited. Further practical details will be shared with confirmed participants closer to the event.

Any questions? Please do not hesitate to email us! We look forward to seeing you there! 

The NSH Committee