Project for artists and artistic mediators travelling around Europe to transform early childhood spaces into creative oasis
🎉 The call for applications is open until January 26, for further information, click here 🎉
CARAVAN is a small-scale cooperation project funded by the Creative Europe programme, which radically places the professional practice of artists in the immediate environment of early childhood (0-3 years old). CARAVAN proposes an “artistic caravan” made up of artists and artistic mediators traveling across Europe, transforming early childhood spaces into true creative oases where art and babies coexist in perfect harmony and freedom.
Through CARAVAN, artists and artistic mediators can develop new strategies for creation and mediation in early childhood environments through residencies. The project uses a cross-sectoral strategy and an interdisciplinary approach, placing artists and their innovative practices at the heart of socially marginalized and often multicultural communities, working collaboratively with early childhood professionals (social, childcare, and educational). This innovative artistic practice enhances socially inclusive capacity building in the three territories where the partners work.
🎯Main objectives
1. Develop new artistic strategies for creation and mediation in early childhood environments through artistic residencies.
2. Foster transnational exchange and reflection among partners, artists, and artistic mediators.
3. Enhance social inclusion capacity in the three regions where the partners work, placing artists at the heart of socially marginalized and often multicultural communities.
📃Methodology
CARAVAN will use a cross-sectoral strategy and an interdisciplinary approach. Six artists and artistic mediators, two from each country, will participate in five residencies during the course of the project. These residencies will take place alongside international performing arts festivals organized by the three partners in their respective countries.
Impact and dissemination
The project aims to gather shareable knowledge and build a practical model that can inspire arts organizations, mediators, and artists in other European territories. Dissemination will take place during the international performing arts festivals organized by the three partners, focusing on cultural health through artistic and cultural awakening.
CARAVAN represents a significant step towards integrating art into the core of the social, healthcare, cultural, educational, and childcare sectors, aligning with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We are excited to embark on this artistic journey and look forward to sharing the results and experiences with our community throughout the project.
Partners
– 2turvenhoog/Stichting 2+ (Netherlands)Â Â 2turvenhoog.nl
– Cie ACTA (France)Â Â compagnie-acta.org
– laSala | Festival elPetit (Spain) lasalateatre.cat
The project builds on the success of our previous collaboration in the Erasmus+ project “Arts & Early Childhood,” where we developed a theoretical, practical, and advocacy manifesto for the protection and implementation of artistic awakening in early childhood across all European regions.
🔗 You can follow this transformative project on the social media and websites of the partners. Together, we imagine a Europe where artistic awakening is a fundamental right from birth.
