A Guide to Living in Basel
Weekly Highlights
Bier Basel
Experience beer from numerous microbreweries and much more at this beer festival
Weekly Highlights
It’s The Real Thing — Basel Documentary Platform
This festival of documentary and propaganda arts illustrates how reality can be represented and fabricated in different spheres
Weekly Highlights
Regio Messe
At this trade fair in Lörrach, you can find around 500 exhibitors presenting goods and services from a wide variety of fields
Hella Jongerius — Whispering Things
Vitra Design Museum's new exhibition focuses on this influential designer
Flowers, Flowers Everywhere!
Read about where in Basel and surrounding areas you can enjoy gorgeous flowering plants and trees
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Did You Know?
- Call for English-Language Book Donations!The GGG Stadtbibliothek Basel West will be holding a book sale for pre-loved English-language books and is looking for book donations.
- Blues Festival BaselThe Blues Festival Basel will once again be taking place this spring where you can immerse yourself in the unique atmosphere at the Atlantis.
- Free German Tutoring for Students With Migration BackgroundsAll students in secondary and higher education with a migration background are invited to free German language tutoring at St. Johann Library—JUKIBU
- The Low-Down on the 2026 FasnachtBasel’s Fasnacht, referred to by locals as the “drei scheenschte Dääg” (three most beautiful days), came to an end at 4:00 on Thursday morning.
- Jazz Festival BaselSpringtime in Basel is also Jazz Festival time! This year’s edition will present a diverse, complex, and stylistically open musical firework.
- Donate Your Unwanted Bicycles to VelafricaThe nonprofit organization Velafrica that collects old bicycles, repairs them, and ships them to Africa now has a campaign to collect bikes at your doorstep.
- Sell Your Items Hassle-Free While Supporting a Good CauseIf you have items to sell that still have value, the social initiative Project Restwert can help you sell them and simultaneously support social projects.
- The 2026 Fasnacht Badge Has Been RevealedOn December 28, 2025, Basel’s Fasnacht Committee, revealed the design of the “Plakette” (badge) and the motto ("Blyyb verspiilt," "stay playful") of the 2026 Fasnacht.