A Team ready to start working
On Tuesday 21 July 2015 we met with our wonderful participants outside the museum next to the Fontaine Stravinsky. They came from Franconville (Paris’s suburbs) thanks to our local partner Mission Locale de Franconville & Point Information Jeunesse.
It’s Tuesday and that means that the museum it’s close to the visitors and we got to live the amazing experience of wondering around and empty huge museum … BUT before let us share our “get to know” each other morning:
Art Session Team (young volunteers of Pompidou Center) welcomed us in the back door of the museum and took us to this lovely training room when we played games to learn everybody’s name and that’s how we met: Zhanna, Ishak, Haroom, Karim, Frinas, Kesie, Katia, Mena, Lina, Lamine, Aftab, Neliana, Samson, Sophia, Alain and Adéle. We procede with the Identity Triangle activity and then we work on expectations and presentation of the program for the following days.
Then came the discovery of the 6th floor of the museum with the magnificent viewpoint. Try to orient ourselves though the identification of some emblematic buildings of Paris.
During this first morning together we discover that this was the first time ever of our participants in a Museum and we felt their enthusiasm, we were looking forward to our dance workshop this same afternoon.
Through this activity we were aiming to create group cohesion, learn other ways of communication, give value to diversity, reclaiming the belongingness to the museum, letting it go and enjoy the experience using the notion of full coordination, stretch, support and backing, the importance of the look, be listening, body volume and movements, space, contact, counterweigh, balance and collaboration.
On Tuesday 21 July 2015 we met with our wonderful participants outside the museum next to the Fontaine Stravinsky. They came from Franconville (Paris’s suburbs) thanks to our local partner Mission Locale de Franconville & Point Information Jeunesse.
It’s Tuesday and that means that the museum it’s close to the visitors and we got to live the amazing experience of wondering around and empty huge museum … BUT before let us share our “get to know” each other morning:
Art Session Team (young volunteers of Pompidou Center) welcomed us in the back door of the museum and took us to this lovely training room when we played games to learn everybody’s name and that’s how we met: Zhanna, Ishak, Haroom, Karim, Frinas, Kesie, Katia, Mena, Lina, Lamine, Aftab, Neliana, Samson, Sophia, Alain and Adéle. We procede with the Identity Triangle activity and then we work on expectations and presentation of the program for the following days.
Then came the discovery of the 6th floor of the museum with the magnificent viewpoint. Try to orient ourselves though the identification of some emblematic buildings of Paris.
During this first morning together we discover that this was the first time ever of our participants in a Museum and we felt their enthusiasm, we were looking forward to our dance workshop this same afternoon.
Through this activity we were aiming to create group cohesion, learn other ways of communication, give value to diversity, reclaiming the belongingness to the museum, letting it go and enjoy the experience using the notion of full coordination, stretch, support and backing, the importance of the look, be listening, body volume and movements, space, contact, counterweigh, balance and collaboration.
A surprise was waiting for all of us as the Museum Team got a special permission to allow us to go dancing with the art pieces in the museum, a speechless experience for all of us :
On the second day we discover the “Artistic Drift” in small groups of 4 youngsters (a methodology created by Art Session the young volunteer team of the museum, walking around the museum talking in peers and let their attention guide them through).
As we were not present (allowed) during the Artistic Drift between peers we dedicate quite a while to the debriefing. We wanted to know how the youngsters felt during their fieldtrip on the museum and if they were able to express and learn from their peers. We got a very good feedback from them; they expressed having built a certain trust and privacy during the drift. They got to visit the art pieces and the structure of the museum that appeared more attractive to them.
With the team of Centre Pompidou, we decided to visit the Mona Hatoum exhibit as it was “world” related. Museum’s team explained to us a little bit about her history and her art. We used this exhibition to introduce the Complex Identity concept related to the diversity axe we chose.
With the team of Centre Pompidou, we decided to visit the Mona Hatoum exhibit as it was “world” related. Museum’s team explained to us a little bit about her history and her art. We used this exhibition to introduce the Complex Identity concept related to the diversity axe we chose.
On our last day at Pompidou museum the youngsters started the day with an Art Craft workshop leaded by Art Session where they proposed two activities during the morning: Create your own pins and customize your Centre Pompidou Tod bag. At the end of the workshop they present it to us as an exhibition.
n the afternoon we went inside the permanent collection of the museum to see a selection of art pieces chosen by the young volunteers following our suggestions on respecting the subjects below:
. “The otherness” when we arrive on a new environment we often feel lost and without any orientation, we lack tools to cope with what is happening around us.
. “Emotions” linked to mobility (stress, anxiety of the new thing but also from the opportunity of new discovering.)
. “Learn” from the new environment, we become again students to learn a new language, new behaviors etc …
. “Identity changes” how do we see ourselves, how others see us
We ended the day with evaluation in Brancusi’s Workshop garden
. “The otherness” when we arrive on a new environment we often feel lost and without any orientation, we lack tools to cope with what is happening around us.
. “Emotions” linked to mobility (stress, anxiety of the new thing but also from the opportunity of new discovering.)
. “Learn” from the new environment, we become again students to learn a new language, new behaviors etc …
. “Identity changes” how do we see ourselves, how others see us
We ended the day with evaluation in Brancusi’s Workshop garden
