Opening speech at the Paris festival

Ellen Os, project manager and Leif Hernes, member of the project management in Glitterbird

 

Dear all of you!
Welcome to Paris - the last stop on the Glitterbird journey.

Artists, colleagues, friends, - professionals in many areas- all
interested in the subject: Art for the Very Young - knowing
that the child is a professional audience who has the right to
experience art as any other individual.

First of all we want to thank the Major of Paris for hosting the festival and the Norwegian Embassy for kindly supporting the project.

We want also to thank one of our important collaborators in
Glitterbird, Amalys, with Anne-Francoise Cabanis and Marie-Claude
Goudy for taking the initiative and bringing the festival to Paris
- and the organizing of the whole festival.

The reason for the project is meeting between artists and children. Due to the artists breave and great effort s the pieces of art created in the Glitterbird project have really represented meetings.

 

Creating the art could be looked upon as research: What should art for the very young be? But as we saw last year during the festival at Kolibri theatre in Budapest, these pieces of art are indeed very different and does not tell us what art for children under the age of three is. Due to the artistic focus you have proved that for the very young human beings should open for great variety of possibilities.

We hope that this 3rd and last meeting will be a consolidation of knowledge you have
all gathered throughout the project - that's why we in the program have set
ateliers- which is the workshop (kindly mentored by Laurent Dupont) where we want to listen to you, sharing your
experiences with one another, to get better to know you, about your different
processes making art for the very young.

We hope you will have a great time in Paris and that you during these days will open up for even more possibilities when it comes to the meetings between small children and art.

HAVE A GOOD FESTIVAL!