Migros Valais Culture Percentage: charter
The principles of the Valais Migros Culture Percentage
The broad aim is to use the Migros Culture Percentage to support cultural life in Valais.
Specific aims
To forge links between organisers, creators and the public.
To encourage professional artists in Valais to launch creative projects.
To help new talents, lesser-known venues and the companies of the future to thrive.
How it works
By encouraging the public to attend regional, national and even international events run by cultural organisations from Valais.
By partnering with regional creative and hospitality institutions.
By providing ad-hoc support to all creative artistic forms (music, dance, theatre, literature, and more) in all of the canton’s regions.
By making our Club Schools’ galleries and our other spaces available for exhibitions.
By showcasing certain events, with extra support for the most stand-out ones, throughout the year.
What we do
Provide financial support.
Buy tickets from institutions and give them away to the public.
Occasionally feature the events we support in the editorial section of Migros Magazine.
Monitor events and offer personalised support.
Hold exhibitions in our galleries.
Apply for funding
With the Culture Percentage, the Migros Valais Cooperative promotes cultural diversity and social commitment in its economic region.
Supported projects
Port Franc
At the foot of the Alps, in a stack of repurposed shipping containers turned into a musical haven, Port Franc is the place to be for contemporary music in Sion. Rock, rap, metal, electro, pop... every season, more than forty concerts make its walls vibrate for all tastes and curiosities. A human-sized..
Exposition Mergers and Acquisitions de Louisa Gagliardi et Adam Cruces, 2026, Olivier Lovey / Ferme-Asile
The Ferme-Asile - a multidisciplinary artistic and cultural center
The Ferme-Asile is a multidisciplinary artistic and cultural center that promotes and develops contemporary creation in Valais and Switzerland. Specialized in contemporary art and music, its multidisciplinary approach allows it to integrate various forms of artistic expression. It offers a rich...
Foto: © Olivier Lovey
The Town Manor of Martigny
The Town Manor of Martigny offers contemporary art exhibitions and a rich cultural mediation program.
The Valais Heart2Heart - 143.ch
Emotional first aid ; Around 700 carefully trained volunteers are available to talk to people in need by phone, chat or email.
The National Final of the Race d'Hérens
Every year in early May, the famous Pra Bardy Arena in Sion plays host to the National Final of the Race d'Hérens Tour, where the queen of queens is crowned.
© Mari Trini Giner. Migros Valais has been supporting the Crochetan theatre in Monthey for a number of years.
Crochetan theatre
The Crochetan theatre in Monthey puts on numerous shows in a range of genres all year round.
Migros Valais has been supporting the La Poste theatre in Visp for a number of years.
La Poste theatre
Most notably, the theatre hosted the musical «Zorro»
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