Dans quel monde JE VIS ? Dialogues sans frontières Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dans quel monde JE VIS ? Dialogues sans frontières

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

« What kind of world do I LIVE in ? Dialogues without borders » is a collaborative artistic and cultural education project, which focuses on the writing process. It associates in France, Belgium and Great Britain schools and cultural institutions: collège Jean Gay and collège Maurice Becanne in Toulouse, Greenford school and Sydenham school in London, Marie Immaculée Montjoie Institute and Athénée Léon Lepage in Brussels, The ThéâtredelaCité, The National Theatre of Brussels, Nelson Dumont Company and Boundless Theatre Company.
To answer the question « what kind of world do I live in ? » British, Belgian and French classes, gathered in « writing committees, » have co-written dialogs. So as to apprehend this creative process during the course of a semester, the teenagers were guided by their teachers and by published playwrights : Henri Bornstein, Sylvain Levey, Aurélie Namur and Estelle Savasta in France, Geneviève Damas and Thomas Depryck in Belgium, Luke Barnes, Yolanda Mercy and Jessica Sian in the United Kingdom. Their works were handed over to professional translators, after which the students started discovering the dialogs written by the other classes, in French and English, with their literature, drama, and foreign language teachers. Staged readings of the dialogs were then shown in the schools and the associated theatres.
Beyond the writing process, this work is a human experience, a confrontation of points of views and stakes pointed by European teenagers.
The different steps of the project lead the pupils to experiment and appropriate four social roles: the author privileging a cognitive and intimate engagement, the performer stimulating the physical and emotional engagement, the stage director provoking a critical engagement about the direction choices, and the spectator allowing to identify, justify and appreciate.
This project meets the need for operators, mediators and educators to stimulate individual expression of the student within a project linked to language, writing, and all the semantic fields explored by the pupil in his everyday life. « What kind of world do I LIVE in ? Dialogues without borders » apprehends the various ways and means invented by professional authors in order to guide and co-build dialogs based on the concerns of the youth, so that the language doesn’t become a sanctified, unreachable fortress.
To think artistic and cultural education in terms of cultural rights lays the foundation of a recognition of reciprocal dignity of each, children and adults. It’s in the framework of this shared ambition that the partners have conceived this project.
The 240 pupils involved during two years in this project have developed linguistic, cultural and artistic skills as well as their ability to concretely commit themselves with others in a collective production.
This collaborative project has facilitated the pupils’ autonomy and initiative, encouraged individual and collective skills, and constructive complicity between them and their teachers.
« What kind of world do I LIVE in ? Dialogues without borders » has been a way to include young people with less opportunities in our society, by supporting humanist values and the development of a non-discriminatory attitude.
This project has contributed to the mutualisation and co-construction of positive European practices in artistic and cultural education, helping teachers and cultural mediators to improve their abilities in leading European projects, and building together a European identity.
Overall, this project has raised, within educative, cultural and artistic European communities, a common reflexion on the relationship between young people and culture, the importance of crossing disciplines in education, and the collective construction of a cultural Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95478,15 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre Dramatique National Toulouse Occitanie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• COLLEGE MAURICE BECANNE
• Collège Jean GAY
• Sydenham School
• BOUNDLESS THEATRE
• Compagnie Nelson Dumont
• Greenford High School
• THEATRE NATIONAL DE LA COMMUNAUTE FRANCAISE DE BELGIQUE