L’École à l’œuvre : La boîte-paysage
In school artist residency with Marie-Eve Fontaine
In school
Ages 10-14
*Available Winter 2023*
Receive an artist in residence in your classroom!
The imagination knows no bounds. With it, we explore, we invent, we fly away, we solve, we dream. Imagination allows us to escape the boundaries of time and place, the constraints of reality. It’s also a muscle that can become weak and atrophied. Yes, it’s true: you have to train yourself to dream in colour! In pandemic times, when our freedom is restricted by a virus, it’s especially important to train our imagination. The boîte-paysage (landscape box) is a tool that allows us to go on a dream journey and reinvent ourselves. As the poet Vasko Popa would say, “Now in the little box / You have the whole world in miniature”.
Led by artist Marie-Ève Fontaine, this series of workshops is a kind of boot camp for the imagination, where your students will be encouraged to generate new ideas, reinvent themselves and navigate unexplored landscapes. Once their imaginations are well engaged, their mission will be to illustrate their visions by creating their own landscape box, which will become a key tool for them to tell their own dream stories!
Session content
Workshop 1: Brainstorming
Workshop 2: Fine-tuning your story
Workshop 3: The banner and the box
Workshop 4: Assembling the landscape box
Workshop 5: Presenting the landscape box
Space is limited, so book early! If you have any questions, please contact Véronique Lavoie-Marcus, Coordinator, Youth Programming, NAC French Theatre.
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