PEGASE 2019/2020 – Hats off to all!

Bringing together nearly 3,000 students, 85 teachers and 44 cultural structures in 5 schools, PEGASE had a second year rich in projects. The teams have innovated: the creations and exchanges at a distance during the lockdown, the continuation of evaluation and the diversity of the projects carried out have made it possible to deepen this program of generalization of the arts in schools.

When artistic and cultural education irrigates the school

PEGASE, a name that invites the imagination for a programme of actions bringing together students, teachers and cultural partners. Promoting the generalization of artistic and cultural education, PEGASE places student success at the heart of its ambitions, but also civic engagement, transdisciplinarity and the fluidity of living together at school.

In each school, the teaching teams are supported in the realization of multiple projects. Mixing several disciplines and teachers on various cultural themes, these projects encourage the development of a sensitive and critical look at the world, and enrich the teaching through encounters and original and curious collective adventures. This 2019/2020 edition encourages dreaming, discovery, from flamenco to the feminism of Ancient Rome, through navigation and the life of insects.

PEGASE reflects our conviction: education and mediation are two essential levers to take diversity into account and strengthen the place of art in the construction of the individual and the collective. A multi-year program launched in 2018, it is the result of a close collaboration between the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and the Academy of Versailles, the leading academy in France in terms of the number of students and particularly interesting in its diversity.

Despite the lockdown, teaching teams and students mobilized

” 34 projects in all 5 schools were carried out this year with new committed cultural partners, motivated and involved students, and a strong mobilization of teachers who are increasingly taking ownership of the challenges of this program ,” says Marion Desmares, Program Manager – Citizen Art at the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. For Mathieu Rasoli, Program Coordinator at the DAAC of the Academy of Versailles, ” the PEGASE program serves as a pedagogical and artistic laboratory for the deployment of artistic and cultural education in the Academy of Versailles. In this regard, the commitment of the teaching teams and stakeholders has helped stabilize arts education in a very difficult context, and thus strengthen the success of students and their attachment to the School .”

During this trying year, marked by a prolonged lockdown in the spring, some projects were unfortunately not able to be carried out as planned. But ingenuity and imagination were there. Artists and teaching teams have set up alternatives: videoconference workshops, drawing and photo sharing platforms or an online escape game. There are many ways to express themselves: short films, posters, culinary rap, juggling acts, shots of stained glass windows and gardens, fashion accessories, comics, choreographies… which we are happy to share in the Year’s Logbook.

Exploring the riches in each establishment

Placed under the sign of evaluation, PEGASE has integrated, from its inception, the measurement of its effects. Objectives? Promote the actions carried out, disseminate good practices and model this program which could be replicated in other academies. It reveals our state of mind: to continue to learn and to develop our practices.

Even when it was disrupted, this year was an opportunity to discover and work with the different establishments. ” The methods of implementation and the content are very different from one area to another, and it is therefore important to take the time to understand the specificities and strengths of each territory. This work is essential to understand the specificity of this system, the way in which the PEGASE referents and the children apprehend it ,” explains Benjamin Moignard, University Professor and member of the International University Observatory on Education and Prevention (OUIEP), in charge of the evaluation of the program. ” The rest of the evaluation will allow us to enter into a more systematic approach, to work over the long term on the modalities and perceptions around the program and its implementation .”

See you in the fall!

Given the health context, we have had to rethink the annual seminar of artistic practices, meetings and exchanges between the partners and the actors of the program. We have maintained links by inviting the Culture Referents during videoconferences to explore together but also to present the results and perspectives of the programme. “ Scripting an interdisciplinary pedagogical progression has allowed us to better perceive the work carried out within the framework of the programs, which will allow us to better organize artistic and scientific interventions and meetings next year ,” says Juliette Beillard, Culture Referent at Ariane College in Guyancourt. ” The dialogue with the artists has evolved during this confinement and we are co-constructing future projects with great pleasure .”

Welcome to PLANEA in Spain

Committed and established in Spain since the beginning, in 2019 we launched PLANEA, sharing the same ambition and objectives as the PEGASE program. Implemented in the Autonomous Communities of Valencia, Madrid and Andalusia, PLANEA operates through 15 pilot centres, veritable laboratories for experimenting with and promoting the arts in schools. Operating as a network, the programme provides a framework for collaboration between artists, teachers, mediators and cultural institutions. From artists’ residency at school, to the creation of a choir or a school theatre company, to the design of a pedagogical training course open to families, or exploring the teaching of mathematics with art as a resource… these spaces imagine and test innovative educational practices around Citizen Art.

PEGASE key figures in 2019/2020

2,894 students

85 teachers

44 cultural partners

around 34 projects

Learn more about the PEGASE program

Learn more about the assessment

Learn more about the 2018-2019 Exchange Day

Thank you to the students, the teaching teams and the partner cultural structures

Association Les Pincées Musicales; Green City Association; Science Workshop; Basilica Cathedral of Saint-Denis; BNF; Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission; Ciné 7 ; Cinema Le Scarron; Cinema Truffaut; Cinémathèque Française; Cinessonne ; Kinestamps; BKE Collective; Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d’Argenteuil; Orsay Optronic School; Espace d’Art Camille Lambert; Bel Ebat farm; Flamenco in France; Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines leisure island; Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics/Music; Poetic itineraries; Jeu de Paume; The boiler room; The BAL; The White Fig Tree; The Plan; The Silo; Les Bords de Scène; House of Music and Dance; Maison de la Photographie de Bièvres; Maison des arts de Bagneux; Maison du Geste et de l’Image; Guyancourt Media Library; House of Initiation and Awareness in Science; Museum of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; Museum of National Antiquities; Museum of Decorative Arts; Louvre Museum; Réseau des Musiques Actuelles en Ile-de-France, Sarah Clark Academy; Brétigny Theatre; Théâtre de Gennevilliers; Théâtre de l’Agora; Théâtre des Sources; Théâtre Paul Eluard and the University of Orsay.

Photos: © All rights reserved Collège Ariane Guyancourt / Collège Eugénie Cotton Argenteuil / Écoles de Chalo-Saint-Mars et Saint-Hilaire / Lycée polyvalent Marguerite Yourcenar Morangis / Lycée professionnel Léonard de Vinci Bagneux