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Access to culture for all, from an early age, is a major objective of the City of Paris' cultural and educational policy. One example is the Art to grow program.
An educational and artistic program to bring young people closer to cultural establishments, which is celebrating its 12th anniversary this year.
Providing all children, and in particular those most removed from culture, with artistic and cultural education programs, promote cultural democratization through local facilities, allow each child to discover and learn about artistic practices are priorities and a daily commitment for the municipality.
To develop artistic and cultural education on a Parisian scale, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of School Affairs have mobilized the actors who intervene in the cultural and animation sector in order to build together a specific device making it possible to culture a shared good. It is in this context that “Art to grow” was born in 2009.
Since then, this device has developed by bringing cultural institutions closer to schools and leisure centers, allowing children and young people from kindergarten to college to multiply the time of discovery through artistic practice and to promote attendance of works. of art and places of cultures. The links thus created give children the opportunity to visit several times in a theater, a concert hall, a museum or an exhibition space to familiarize themselves with the places of production and creation.
Art for growing up made it possible to forge new relationships between cultural services and educational and animation teams, to offer children artistic practices and at the end of the year to bring together children and families around a restitution. .
The objectives of the program
Familiarize children with cultural places
Regularly going to a museum, a theater, a concert hall or a cinema makes it possible to make children - and their parents - aware that these are places open to all and that they are a gateway to an exceptional universe.
Design long-term projects
The children benefit from the contribution of the various actors mobilized around each project (teachers of the city of Paris, teachers, director of leisure centers, animators, mediators, artists, professionals).
Valuing the work of the child
All the projects include a phase of restitution of the actions carried out, as often as possible in a cultural establishment in the City in the form of an exhibition, a theatrical performance or a festival.
Welcome all children
Art pour Grandir forges links with school centers in hospitals (Armand Trousseau, Necker and Robert Debré) and also involves cultural places welcoming children with disabilities and leisure centers on an equal basis.
The L'Art pour Grandir label identifies all of these actions. The Art for Growing program received the Territoria Prize, in the Culture category.
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