ABOUT PAINTING WITH HAPPINESS
As a child, we have a singular and plural world, filled with personal references.
As a child, we consider the other as a potential companion, someone we invite in our dreams of the moment, that we choose to follow in his: generosity, shares, curiosity. Desire: to create, to share, transmit, convince, to live and be. To achieve. That's the point of being Human. And if each one opens, we all grow up.
And what about the pleasure of living and growing with a new personality beside oneself? What about the transmission, the time that requires to help a new being to become itself?
When and why the benevolence which we have for the children becomes mistrust as they are adults? Can't we just consider that we quite simply have lost the contact with our own inner child: listening round ourself, how many times do we hear "the children are like that" instead of "when I was a child, I was like that"?
It is essential and necessary to give back to the children their own place: someone desired, loved and loving, somebody who is today the future of planet. This future on which each one has a concern, without to connect it to those which will cross it: "Which children will we leave to the planet?" (Pierre Rabhi, french philosopher).
Very quickly, our children will have to become aware of the state of planet but, to give a healthier direction to it, they will be supposed to respect each other's, to be filled by their differences, their complementarities.
Because it is essential and necessary to give support a child most important qualities: a human being desired, loved and loving. It is our responsibility, as adults and parents to take their hands and show them the way.
Art is an answer, as one of the best way of bringing human beings closer, out of pulverizing stereotypes, prejudices, distances and differences.
Our children need enthusiasm, energy, encouragement and to be pushed to the top with their curiosity nourished and stimulated.
Let's break the doors of the conventions somewhat, to show them they can arrange the colors and the forms according to their own sensitivity.
Colors, hesitations, discoveries, and surely a lot of smiles: that's the way PAINTING WITH HAPPINESS is.
Jean-Philippe Agnese
WHAT IS IT?
It is a mobile round-the-world series of a free expression art workshops. Each workshop will be followed by the production of a web interview focused on listening to the children.
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Offer children a space of free expression, to develop their own sensitivity and creativity.
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Focus children's attention on their own value and creativity and on the others as individual parts of a global human being.
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Train children in Art with a passionate and bona fide artist, a reliable reference.
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Train local teachers in this particular methodology, so they can continue after we leave.
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Provide the new generation with new tools to reinforce their roots and embrace the world of tomorrow with their personality, generousness and kindness.
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Promote a creative and alternative learning curriculum.
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Become the early actor of a future without fear, where the other’s interests count, where you can learn from your mistakes, where you are not controlled or judged.
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Consider human kind’s greatest strength: our children.
Along with the brushes, the video interviews will give children a worldwide and universal voice through the internet as international media content. A few questions, their answers.
In the end, there will be portraits, testimonies, and works: this gathering will constitute a kaleidoscope, a radiography of the childhood on the planet, a representation of the universes which live in it at present time, a glance on what the children hope for tomorrow.
WHERE DO WE GO?
All over the world!
The first year will be focused on a large vertical geographic corridor across Central Europe. We'll meet children from Armenia, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Slovenia and Finland.
With these 8 destinations, we'll propose paint brushes to around 1,500 children, and train about one hundred teachers. Then, we'll rely on those new teachers to train 2,500 children with identical workshops on their own, on a yearly basis.
Afterwards, to meet educative, cultural and financial objectives, every new year will be focused on another region of the planet, repeating the proven model, making minor modifications so it gets better and better.