Young Europe IV Writers Lab & Festival

Writing and staging new repertoires in 9 European theaters by and for young people from non-dominant backgrounds

Democracy Unlimited - 'What Country, Friends, Is This?

Challenge young people aged 16 to 18 to write a play on issues of representation, participation and alienation in our democracy.

Inclusive mediation

"HAMO - a place entirely dedicated to cultural education.

Europe's largest contemporary art center announces the creation of a new 600 m2 space: "This new cultural facility, fully dedicated to mediation, artistic and cultural education and well-being through art, will enable us to provide an even better welcome to all our visitors, and to initiate new collaborations in the service of priority audiences," says Tanguy Pelletier, Director of Audiences. HAMO, which is due to open in late 2022 - early 2023, thanks to its founding partner Jonathan KS Choi Foundation, will feature modular spaces: a veritable village on the outskirts of the exhibitions, embodying the art center's civic, inclusive and ecological role. For the programming of this innovative venue, the Palais de Tokyo is inaugurating "Palais Durable", a sponsorship programme in which partner companies of the Cercle Art & Société make a cash contribution to the programme as a whole, and also have the opportunity to make a specific commitment in favor of a typology of audiences according to their values, skills and networks.

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Contact: Tanguy Pelletier, Audience Manager - tanguypelletier@palaisdetokyo.com

Budget: €80,000

Partnership: Jonathan KS Choi Foundation, Cercle "Art & Société

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Become visible

"D'ici et de là-bas" offers a framework for reflection and creation around the museum's works to the migrant population, and spreads its voice in the public space.

Spain, and Málaga in particular, welcomes large numbers of migrants every year. The Picasso Museum wishes to take part in its social responsibility towards these often young and vulnerable populations, by offering them a space for reflection and creation, through a privileged contact with art. In collaboration with associations specializing in the reception of migrants, work is carried out in groups of 15 people, within the framework of periodic on-site or off-site sessions. A dialogue is established with the works of art, then translated into a process of creative practice involving different techniques, engraving, video, ceramics, etc. The project involves a strong commitment on the part of the participants. It proposes several stages in the confrontation with works of art: contemplation, personal questioning and then participation in an exchange and debate of ideas. The benefits are manifold, from strengthening social interaction to fostering a sense of belonging to a community. There's also a question of arousing emotions, enriching cultural capital and boosting self-esteem... Finally, the artistic creations produced during the workshops are exhibited in the public space. This social project, like all those carried out by the museum, stems from the exhibitions organized by the Picasso Málaga Museum. The cohort of the invisible will never again be seen in the same light as before.

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Contact: María José Valverde, Head of the Educational and Cultural Activities Department of the Picasso Museum in Málaga - mvalverde@mpicassom.org

Budget: €80,564

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Art-jouvence

"(B)old Project" provides a response to the malaise, isolation and loneliness of the elderly, particularly those suffering from dementia, through a shared artistic experience.

"I can truly say it changed my life-coming to the sessions, meeting all of you and being a part of it all. I was rotting away, sitting at home, alone, doing nothing, but this brought me back to life." This testimony from a participant in the 2019 edition has the merit of being clear: the (B)old programme is therapy. Born of an eponymous festival created in 2018 to showcase the talents of people over 65, it aims to heal the wounds of age-related malaise (social isolation and loneliness, often correlated with a certain degree of economic poverty), particularly among elderly people suffering from dementia and therefore cognitive impairment. The stakes are high: according to statistics from the Alzheimer Society (2014), more than 1.1 million people will be living with dementia in the UK by 2025. Fine work is carried out with partner associations to reach the most vulnerable public, to whom the Southbank Center then offers a reassuring setting conducive to exchanges. For 9 weeks, participants take part in free creative workshops (dance, writing, choral singing, comedy or film-making), culminating in a concrete project: an exhibition, a poetry collection, a film... Talent is nurtured, social habits are recreated, and confidence is rebuilt, including for future participation in other cultural events.

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Contact: Leke Celaj,Trusts & Foundations Officer - leke.celaj@southbankcentre.co.uk

Budget: €77381

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When art comes naturally to children

A series of playful devices specially designed for young children, for families to try out in the museum.

With "SAVIA", children are free to (re)conquer the museum! Inspired by Rudolf Steiner's pedagogy based on the 12 senses, the workshops offered by the Centro Reina Sofía allow children to step out of the box and have fun without barriers within the museum's spaces, "between freedom and control". "SAVIA is rooted in play, that is, in the primordial way in which children are, remain and communicate with the world", explain Carolina Bustamante Gutiérrez and Camena Camacho Cordovez of La Parcería infancia y familia, the association with which the museum worked on the project. Ephemeral games and playful experiments are specially designed for children aged 0 to 7. The idea? To offer a non-adult language that flows through the museum like a fluid (hence the name sap -savia in Spanish) as part of a collective family learning experience. The methodology is also based on a desire to analyze children's movements: where do they go spontaneously, where do they let their creativity express itself? The museum was mapped to identify the spaces most conducive to their expression. A tool that could also be useful to other institutions.

Contact: Francisco Mateo Martinez Cabeza De Vaca, Head of Community Projects in the Education Department - francisco.martinez@museoreinasofia.es

Budget: €76,450

Partnership: The European Union's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan Associación La Parcería Infancia y Familia

Comics as an educational medium

L'intégration sociale à travers la bande dessinée" ("Social integration through comics") aims to promote the reintegration of minors under the jurisdiction of the French Youth Judicial Protection Agency (Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse), through a program of artistic and cultural initiation based on comics. Between January and June, between 400 and 800 young people take part.

The project is ambitious and daring! Comic books are very popular with young people, and are no exception in prisons and rehabilitation centers. As part of the "Bulles en fureur" event, aimed at encouraging young people in rehabilitation centers and prisons to read, the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image has devised an educational program to support educators. Produced in2020 in 100 copies, these kits contain resources for setting up reading workshops and activities around comics. In 2021, 16 prisons were equipped with these kits. Expectations on the part of the judicial protection service are now pressing to extend this system - which has proved its worth as a lever for learning to read, preventing illiteracy, resocialization and so on - to the whole of France. -La Cité would also like to go beyond the borders of France. La Cité would also like to go further and imagine artist residencies, traveling exhibitions, even within penitentiary or prison environments and, ultimately, double its distribution to reach all 140,000 minors under supervision and 5,000 agents.

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Contact: Jean-Philippe Martin, Scientific Advisor - jpmartin@citebd.org

Budget: €110,000

Partnership: Ministry of Justice / Youth Judicial Protection Department

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Photography for everyone!

"Soho Photography Quarter" is a monumental open-air exhibition of photographs accompanied by events designed to raise awareness of the medium among a wide audience.

Here's a project imagined in a post-Covid context to put art back at the heart of the city, in public spaces open to all, without risk of contamination. Starting in summer 2022, The Photographers' Gallery in London, an institution specializing in photography that has been based in the Oxford Street district near Soho since 2012, will be offering two commissions a year for a vast open-air installation of monumental photographic works, the first edition of which has been entrusted to Australian multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson. Thompson is renowned for his work exploring notions of identity and cultural hybridity. By initiating the Soho Photography Quarter, the institution aims to attract not only amateurs to the medium, but also passers-by, tourists and local residents. Its location near the busy shopping street of Oxford Street is expected to attract a total of 300,000 people to a place they would not otherwise visit spontaneously. The pedestrianization work carried out by the local council is giving the area a new appeal, in which culture can play a key role. This commission will be accompanied by a wide-ranging public programme of events, workshops and immersive digital projects or projections on the district's buildings.

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Contact: Brett Rogers OBE, Director, The Photographers' Gallery - brett.rogers@tpg.org.uk

Budget: €134650

Partnership: Westminster City Council

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Rehabilitation through knowledge

"Come back with a new history": lectures and historical workshops are offered to inmates of the Alicante Prison Center, with the aim of raising their awareness of history but also restoring their confidence for their future reintegration.

"What I liked best were the teachers' teachings, and what I liked least was how little time there was." In prison, time is often very long. But during the workshop organized at the Alicante Penitentiary by the MARQ Foundation, which manages the province's archaeological museum, the inmates, for once, found time too short... For the participants in the Wednesday lectures and historical workshops organized twice a month (90 minutes in total) inside the penitentiary center, on very specific themes such as "Symbolism, religion and art in prehistory"; "The Middle Ages, eight centuries of coexistence" or "The feudal era", the desire to learn proved stronger than the rest...Following an initial experiment in 2019, a second edition has been launched for 2021-22, introducing a number of new features, such as "the lecture of the month", organized one afternoon a month, during which various professionals (journalist, doctor, heritage specialist, archaeologist or actor) endeavor to get inmates thinking about how to use "their time spent in prison constructively". Another project would be to organize a visit to the museum for students whose penal and penitentiary situation allows them to envisage a one-off outing. While more work needs to be done to achieve greater interaction with the inmates, the initial results show a real gain in self-esteem among the students. A major asset for any reintegration project.

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Contact: Josep Albert Cortes I Garrido,Director of the Fundación CV MARQ

ja.cortes@diputacionalicante.es

gerenciamarq@diputacionalicante.es

Budget: €79,618

Partnership :

Fundación Comunitat Valenciana MARQ Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante (España)

Centro Penitenciario de Fontcalent(Alicante)

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