Through Pontoise editorial staff
Published on 26 May 21 at 1:48 p.m.
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The city of Mery-sur-Oise regularly offers its elementary schools partnerships in the field of artistic and cultural education: meetings with authors and illustrators, workshops and projects in connection with the digital museum and the fablab of the Microfolie, School and Cinema cycles and shows for young audiences at La Luciole, experimentation with a first-class orchestra …
Recently, Virginie Gimaray, the art history lecturer, has been involved in several classes.
Initiated last year but interrupted by the first confinement, these meetings resumed in 2021, and are the subject of a reinforced dialogue with the educational advisers in charge of supporting artistic awakening at school within the services. Department of National Education.
Provide benchmarks
Volunteer teachers from the five schools of Méry (du Center, Gaston-Monmousseau, Jean-Jaurès, Pablo-Neruda and Vaux, from Cp to Cm2) are mobilizing to host several calibrated interventions in two parts.
“It is a 45-minute interactive intervention with a digital screen to offer reference points on the chromatic circle of colors, or how to express emotions: anger, sadness in a portrait. The other themes revolve around the recovery and diversion of objects. “
Then the children are invited in the last part of the session to put into practice what they have discovered in the works and the concepts presented, the teachers then extending this practical activity in class with their pupils.
Creation process
The next sessions will be held on 4, 11, 18, 25 June and 2 July to close this first year and hope for a new calendar with‘other themes.
“The objective is to develop a production and to enhance the capacity of each (e) to think, to make choices for oneself, to convey an idea, to materialize it through a gesture in the process of creation” , confides the lecturer in the history of art.
Colette MARY
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