Artists in the making : Art and early Childhood Erasmus Project

Project Title

Artists in the making : Art and early Childhood

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The reflection on early childhood and contemporary artistic languages ​​was initiated thanks to founding initiatives that brought together the defendants of the need for art for toddlers from the 90s, artists finding in this search for fundamentals for the use of toddlers and in the meeting with them and adults accompanying them to feed their own work. At the same time, they consider the toddler as a spectator in his own right, finally recognized as being thinking. In spite of this interest, the question of the address to the young public still remains very little present in the initial French training of the artists, the schools to aim professional take only too rarely into account this dimension, while forgetting its stakes!
The artists who take on this challenge are in need of recognition, accompaniment, experiences of territories and enriching and concrete meetings, sharing on the European scene. Multiplying points of view and approaches – here at European level – allows us to compare policies, methods and to advance the reflection on the relationship of artists, art and young children in their places of daily life.
Artists must also confront the most relevant artistic languages ​​in this period of the beginnings of language. Nonverbal disciplines are rich in meaning, without language barriers.
This also allows the organizing structures, involved in these practices for several years, to discover and train themselves in new methods and strategies for connecting and supporting artists, to be closer to the stakes to be able to accompany to the better the artists they wish to encourage in this direction with their local early childhood partners.

Participants:
3 Scottish artists Kim Donohoe, Brian Hartley and Matt Addicott added to the project as residencies progressed, 1 Starcatchers member (Rhona Matheson, chief executive) and a university researcher Ben Fletcher Watson from the University of Edinburgh to enrich the reflections of artists from his research on theater Young Audience and Very Young Audience
2 Dutch artists, Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Jasmin Hasler and 1 member of Stichting 2+ (Ingrid Wolff, Artistic Director)
3 French artists, Aurore Cariou, Judith Bouchier-Vegis and Léa Noygues who joined the project as the residencies progressed, 1 ACTA member (Laurent Dupont, artistic director or Sylvaine Durivault, administrator), 1 person accompanying person (Sylvie Rayna, trainer and university researcher who accompanies the artists on the stages of the training), and 6 professionals of the early childhood.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 94240 Eur

Project Coordinator

Assoc Création Théâtrale Audiovisuelle & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Starcatchers Productions Ltd
• Stichting 2+