Registration: Saturday 18/09 – 1st meeting of the winners of the Committed Citizen Artist Award

The winners of the Committed Citizen Artist Award : Neïl Beloufa, Patrick Bouchain, Santiago Cirugeda, Julio Jara and Cristina Pato will share their journey and experience with young guests for a unique encounter, but also during a series of artistic impromptus during hikes, evenings and river trips. They will all be together for Le Grand Voyage, an original event dedicated to young people, organized on the occasion of European Heritage Days.

Let’s explore, imagine, transform school: a meeting of possibilities between young people and artists

We created the Committed Citizen Artist Award to highlight and support artistic initiatives that aim at transformations in areas such as education, personal development, urban planning, intercultural dialogue, equal opportunities, etc. In 2020, this Prize rewarded 5 artists who are committed as citizens and transforming established models with remarkable actions in the face of societal challenges. These demanding projects are valuable sources of inspiration that we want to share in order to mobilize and encourage action.

Thus, instead of an award ceremony, we have joyfully accepted the invitation of Patrick Bouchain, to participate in the event Le Grand Voyage by bringing together for the first time all the 2020 winners. Their meeting with our young invité.es. around art as a driver of social transformations, particularly within the school, resonates with the objectives of the Foundation’s Citizen Art axis as well as the theme of the event. The preparation and animation of this meeting is entrusted to Mélanie Bouteloup, independent curator, who worked with the artists on the common thread of the exchanges.

“The winners of the Prize have in common that they have, each in their own way, transmitted and shared their sensitivity and vision with others during collective projects,” says Anastasia Makridou-Bretonneau, Head of the Foundation’s Citizen Art axis. ” On the dance floor of the World’s Smallest Circus, a place of emotions and creation, we will be gathered to cultivate together this other art, the art of conversation, to think about and propose new forms of transmission and learning at school. Conversing on such a subject will be a beautiful “acrobatic” exercise where imagination, courage and the diversity of points of view will make its poetry and strength. »

Differently education, collective strengths, experiments and pedagogies on the margins, shared emotions, unexpected urbanism, cohabitation of difference and crossover with science will be all themes that this meeting will have in common with the work of the “Lycée avant le lycée ” in Bagneux, a place that we will discover at the end of the meeting to the sound of Cristina Pato’s Galician bagpipes, 2020 winner.

Let’s explore, imagine, transform school: a meeting of possibilities between young people and artists
Saturday 18 September 2021 at 3:00 pm at the Plus Petit Cirque du Monde in Bagneux
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Experience European Heritage Days differently with the Grand Voyage

This meeting will take place during the Grand Voyage, an event proposed by Patrick Bouchain, winner of the Committed Citizen Artist Award, who invited the winners to join this original, offbeat, generous and joyful experience. Organised as part of the European Heritage Days, Le Grand Voyage proposes to approach a heritage in motion, in perpetual redefinition under the gaze of young people who necessarily question its value, meaning and use. By surveying the space on foot or by boat, in the company of artists and thinkers, he invites us to experience this transmission in the field.

A counting competition to the point of absurdity by Neïl Beloufa, a performance of A-corriente by Julio Jara, an exhibition by the Recetas Urbanas collective, a musical intervention by Musica et Comunidad by Cristina Pato, a hike and a river trip with Patrick Bouchain… each winner will participate in the program during artistic impromptus imagined in conjunction with the other partner actors: La Preuve par 7, Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, the T2G, the cities of Bagneux, Gennevilliers and the Metropolis of Greater Paris.

Artists, guides and actors of transformation

Placed under the sign of dialogue and creation, this first meeting of the winners during an event open to the public (free admission with registration), explores the Parisian suburbs, rich in talent and promise whose social, urban and cultural issues are found in other territories. It reflects our convictions and values: mobilizing, engaging and encouraging transformations for a better future by involving young people and artists. For Anastassia Makridou-Bretonneau, “A major role of art is to open up to us, sometimes surreptitiously, other paths to understand the tensions and alliances, the visible and invisible relationships that determine the choices of our societies and our relationships with other forms of life. Artists can guide us in this journey in the form of “tracking”, an enriched attention that does not oppose sensitivity to reasoning as described by the philosopher Baptiste Morizot. (Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive, Actes Sud, 2020).

By supporting artists, who are committed as citizens to enlighten, contribute and mobilize in the face of societal challenges, we hope to contribute to building a project for the future that takes into account the needs of human beings but also the fragility of our environment.

Practical information Meeting “Let’s explore, imagine, transform the school”

Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, 1 impasse de la Renardière, 92200 Bagneux

RER access from Paris:
RER B line – Bourg la Reine then buses 390 and 394 – Les Blagis stop
Metro line 4 – Porte d’Orléans then bus 188 – Rue des Brugnaults stop
Metro line 13 – Chatillon-Montrouge then bus 391 – Blagis stop

Bus access:
From Bourg la Reine: line 390 or 394 – Les Blagis stop
From Porte d’Orléans: line 188 – Rue des Brugnaults stop
From Chatillon-Montrouge: line 391 – Les Blagis stop

Mandatory health pass

Registration form

Photo credits Liliana Motta/ La Preuve par 7 – Atelier Neïl Beloufa _ Isaías Griñolo – Michelle Boynton – Luis Polo GaliciadeFoto