‘Discover contemporary art' workshops

With the Vieux Lille - Godeleine Petit Community Centre

During the first half of 2021, artconnexion designed and led monthly sessions with two groups from the Maison de Quartier du Vieux-Lille. The 6-8 year olds and the 11-17 year olds were initially supposed to come to meet us every month to discover the exhibition programme of 9 rue du Cirque. Given the COVID 19 situation, the workshops took place at the school and the community centre.

Each one-hour session was based on the discovery of one of artconnexion's main activities: art residencies, public commissions, research, exhibitions, etc. The sessions were generally divided into two parts: a discussion and exchange around the works and concepts, followed by a time of creative activity. The young people were thus able to discover the behind the scenes activities of a contemporary art organisation and a variety of art practices.

artconnexion has developed a gradual and playful art programme, adapted to the needs of the community centre: understanding and grasping a theme, analysing one's own practice and that of one's peers, expressing one's emotions and sensibility, experimenting with different mediums and creating independently or collectively.