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Stretch & chat

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10.15-11.00
Keynote: Dr. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark
Advancing Futures of Children in Multi-Cultural Societies – Educational Potentials of Arts-Integration?

Through examples from an arts-integrated educational project with school children in Cape Town and Copenhagen Charlotte Svendler Nielsen will discuss what the value of such experiences are to children in these different parts of the world. The project includes professionals from dance, the visual arts and design and an endeavor to cross borders of academia and arts practice to develop new strategies both for teaching the arts and for pursuing research of children’s meaning-making processes within educational practice that integrates the art forms. By crossing borders of ways of thinking and working as artists, educators and researchers from different regions of the world and from different art forms ideas are developed of how to give the children tools to focus more on who they are as embodied beings and in creative ways to empower them to question, live and respond to challenges in their lives.

13.00-14.45
Parallel sessions 1
You can participate in one session. There are 1-4 presentations in each session. The session is chosen when registering.

1. Joined forces: culture and education for cultural participation

   Conference room: Duetto 1

   • Mari Jalkanen
     From a Museum Education Project to a Cultural Education Program
     City of Tampere
     The presentation is about starting small and growing big. It will give an idea how a project-funded work done in one museum by two enthusiastic teachers grew to be Art Arc, a vast cultural education programme. Established status in the Tampere city Welfare Services and good grades from the teachers and the children is due to a persistent work in a multi professional method.
   • Anne Karjula
     AvoT – Open Arts Education Model in Early Childhood Education
     Children’s Culture Centre Lastu
     AvoT -Open Arts Education Model’s goals are to enhance well-being of a child, create multi-professional work orientation, activate families in cultural activities and create sense of community. In practice art educator organizes 8 weeks multi-artistic project in kindergarten. Project is based on the needs and wishes of the children and the staff. How this child-centered model works in practice?
     
   • Riku Laakkonen
     Curious Class – A Lempäälä Case Study
     Cultural Centre PiiPoo
     A community artist Riku Laakkonen and teacher Annika Tuominen from Kulju school will tell about their co-operation in a pilot project called a Curious Class. What happened when 10 years old pupils got possibility to try different art methods inside their curriculum and to develop their creativity and critical thinking skills.
     
   • Marc Francesch-Camps
     Planters project
     Conarte internacional
     Seminar about Planter project and the role of artistic education projects in schools for the development of childrens human and cultural capabilities.

2. Inclusive structures and practises for children with special needs

   Conference room: Sopraano

   • Noora Karjalainen
     Building a Solid Path Towards Artistry – Inclusion of Sign Language Children in Art Education
     Ursa Minor
     Finnish children using sign language as their mother tongue or first language are placed in the margin in art education. Access to basic art education and cultural services is unevenly distributed. This presentation will offer concrete procedures and practices to improve the quality of art education and the inclusion of sign language children by illustrating their path through case studies.
     
   • Liesbeth Water
     Visual Thinking Strategies, for young people (15-24) with special needs
     Outsider Art Museum Hermitage Amsterdam
     Creative Twinning is an international project between the De Hermitage Amsterdam museum, the Outsider Art Museum and the Hermitage Museum XXI Century Foundation.
     Visual Thinking Strategy; a research based method to view art on a different way.
     In this workshop you learn all about this method. And how it can work with a group of young people with intellectual disabilities and autism.
     
   • Jeremy Johnson
     Sensory: Please Touch the Art
     University of Nebraska at Omaha
     Individuals with visual impairments are often underrepresented in art classes because of the traditional emphasis on the visual nature of art and the difficulty some educators have making the curriculum accessible. Art workshops were offered to individuals with visual impairments that encouraged participants to explore art concepts. The culmination was a multi-sensory art exhibition.

3. Are children actors in European capitals of culture?

   Conference room: Riffi

   • In this session we will learn how children’s cultural rights will be implemented in European capitals of culture. Our special guest is Kaunas, European Capital of Culture 2022. Finnish ECOC 2026 candidates Tampere, Oulu and Savonlinna present their dreams concerning “children’s capital of culture”. Afterwards, we will have a joined discussion about best practices. This session is hosted by the cities of Tampere and Oulu. 

4. Children as agents and co-creators

   Conference room: Duetto 2

   • Joanna Orlik
     Very Young Culture. Successful systemic program for culture education
     Malopolska Culture Institute in Krakow
     In 2016 a new program for making bridges between formal education and culture field was launched in Poland. The program had a structure, based on the idea of finding 16 operators for 16 Polish regions and 4 key concepts: diagnosis, workshops, micro-granting and evaluation. In the presentation the Małopolska region example will be used in details.
   • Lígia Ferro, Inês Barbosa
     Is the city children’s business? Thinking about the implementation of children’s rights to urban culture
     Arts Faculty, Porto university
     Starting from the results of a research project on the uses and perceptions of urban public space by children (Cri-City; FCT), we will try to discuss how is being implemented the children’s rights to urban culture and participation in the community, in Portugal. Co-author João Lopes.
     
   • Riina Hannuksela
     Who includes and who’s included? Towards active agency through movement and dance
     Zodiak
     The aim of this presentation is to articulate the possibilities of dance and movement practices in supporting the agency of children and youth with difficulties in verbal communication, by reflecting on two co-creative artistic processes implemented in Finnish comprehensive school.
     

5. Children’s cultural rights – whose business are they?

   Conference room: Small auditorium, Pieni sali

   • Jolita Bečienė
     Culture Passport – an instrument for the development of children cultural competencies
     Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
     The main goal of the seminar is to present The Culture Passport – an innovative instrument that is designed to provide students at Lithuanian schools (grades 1-12) with cultural experience and develop their cultural competencies.
     
   • Aron Weigl
     Worldwide cultural rights for children. Arts education as a challenge of transcultural relations
     EDUCULT, Austria
     The paper analyses how civil societal actors can contribute to promote children’s cultural rights in a global system of “soft power”. The challenges of arts education activities in a context of transcultural relations and the chances for promoting children’s cultural rights are discussed. Finally, the question is raised, how arts education approaches can change the idea of cultural exchange.
     
   • Collette Brownlee
     “Cool,very fun and kind.” Children’s views matter in museums.
     Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum
     A presentation of two films aimed at attracting children into the museum. Based on views and comments of children the “Flaxie” animation is aimed at under 5s and their families and the pre-service film at children aged 10-13. These are the result of EdD research with two children’s research groups and four focus groups with children- helping to develop a sustainable museum child rights approach.

6. Children’s rights with children

   Conference room: Opus 3

   • Beatriz Barreiro Carril
     The Charter of Cultural Rights of Children: Law, Arts and Literature
     Rey Juan Carlos University
     Through a mixed methodology developed in the context of the project “A Tunisian-Spanish bridge to counteract violent extremism and xenophobia through the right to participate in cultural life” I will develop a participative explanation of this charter, making ressource to movement, stories (through Rodari literature), drawing, and reflection on human rights issues. Workshop, together with a group of children.

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14.45-15.15
Coffee break

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15.15-17.00
Parallel sessions 2
You can participate in one session. There are 1-4 presentations in each session. The session is chosen when registering.

1. Joined forces: culture and education for cultural participation

   Conference room: Small auditorium, Pieni sali

   • Sian James, Bethan Millett
     Creative learning through the arts – an inclusive entitlement for all children in Wales
     Arts Council of Wales
     Through case studies of innovative arts and creative practice, we will share the impact our programme is having on children and young people who face disadvantage in schools due to deprivation and disability, specifically learning disabled pupils. We will also set the success of the programme in the wider context of children’s rights to arts and creative learning and the new curriculum in Wales.
   • Auni Tuovinen
     Children with disabilities and participation in Cultural Education Plan; case Saarinen Special School
     Childrens culture center ARX
     Childrens culture center ARX has provided targeted art workshops for children with disabilities as part of the Cultural Education Plan since academic year 2017 – 2018. Workshops have highlighted the importance of multisensory, non-verbal communication, new media and applications and the unique movement of children in an innovative way. The seminar presents a case from the Saarinen special school.
   • Sinikka Rusanen
     Art pedagogy in Vantaa – how has it been possible to enhance the development, wellbeing and cultural competence of children with special needs?
     Research group “Visual culture, art and skills”
     The TAIKAVA project of the city of Vantaa, in 2014-2016, constructed new forms for the administrative co-operation of the cultural and early childhood services facilitating the children with special needs. Now, when the art pedagogues have worked for five years, will be asked how the professional co-operation has worked and which kinds of art pedagogical means have been successful.

2. Inclusive structures and practices for children with special needs

   Conference room: Opus 3

   • Tommi Nevala
     Stop motion animation as a tool for self-expression among children with special needs
     City of Oulu, Valve Film School for Children
     How to use stop motion animation as a tool for self-expression and creativity among children with disabilities and special needs? The presentation will share the pedagogical decisions, aims and means and all other good practises. Art and culture belong to every child and creating audio visual texts is a fundamental right that children with special needs should also have.
   • Marianna Lehtinen, Aura Linnapuomi
     Every child’s right – Case project SATA2
     City of Tampere, Culture for all
     SATA2 (Accessible art hobbies 2) is a nationwide project in Finland. It aims to increase equality in participation in cultural events and art education among children with disabilities. In this presentation we talk about the main obstacles in participation, and how we tackle them in the project.
   • Tiia-Mari Mäkinen
     Chickenshed Theatre – Theatre Changing Lives
     Chickenshed Theatre, United Kingdom
     This seminar will take a look into Chickenshed Theatre’s inclusive practice.
     Chickenshed Theatre is an inclusive theatre company based in London, UK, that first began its work in 1974. They’ve been making pioneering and inclusive theatre for over 40 years.
     Chickenshed’s mission is to create entertaining and outstanding theatre that celebrates diversity and inspires positive change.

3. Perspectives on international cooperation

   Conference room: Riffi

   • Ulla Hokkanen
     ‘Wires crossed – A Balancing Act for Europe’
     Galway Community Circus
     Wires Crossed is a large-scale participatory circus project produced by Galway Community Circus, in partnership with Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture and European Funambulism Network. Young people aged 10-30 yrs are the learners, creators and performers in this project that promotes physical and mental well-being, safe risk-taking and social inclusion through the art of highwire walking.
   • Annina Ylikoski
     Binding together the past and the present
     The Ostrobothnian Children’s Culture Network BARK
     The Time Travel method is an educational method, using local heritage in a learning process to create reflection on current issues. The Time Travel event is a dramatization of an historical event, to create reflection on contemporary issues, role-played at a local site within the community.
     How can this method be used in education and culture as a tool to work with both the past and the present?
   • Kaisa Kettunen & Mihye Lim
     Partnership under construction – Developing arts education together in Helsinki and Seoul
     City of Helsinki, Annantalo Arts Centre & Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
     In our joint presentation we will describe the premises, goals and plans of the partnership between the City of Helsinki and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. The goal of the partnership is to promote and develop the art education policies and services of both cities.
     

4. Diversity in children’s culture

   Conference room: Duetto 1

   • Analía Capponi-Savolainen
     Children’s singing, identity and the sense of belonging: A narrative study in culturally diverse lower level school in Finland
     ArtEqual research initiative
     The focus of this presentation is on children’s perspectives on singing and on how children can ‘gain voice’ in and through singing. This doctoral research project explores the roles singing can play in upholding the educational ideal of equality in fast-diversifying Finnish schools through supporting students’ individual identities and cultivating a sense of community.
     
   • Anna Rastas
     Safer spaces for all the children. Cultural production and the neglect of children’s perspectives in multiethnic societies.
     University of Tampere
     The concept of “safe space” is used here as a metaphor for places and encounters in which also children who identify with minoritized communities can feel comfortable and welcomed. My presentation is based on my studies on children´s experiences of racism and on my projects focusing on literature for children, African diasporic music, and museums and exhibitions in different countries.
   • Brechtje Van Bel
     Palace of mirrors. Theatre in a diverse city: diversity in the theatre
     Hetpaleis
     51% of the Antwerp (BE) citizens has a migration background. Hetpaleis is a performing art center for children and youth with respect and an open attitude towards everyone. Within this multicultural environment, hetpaleis wants this demography to be visible in the audience, on stage and in the staff .The presentation will focus on the sustainable ways and tactics to make these shifts.

5. Children’s cultural rights – whose business are they?

   Conference room: Sopraano

   • Gerhard Jäger
     Implementation of Children’s Cultural Rights : Whose Responsibility ? Plea for an Arts-Integrated Curriculum
     Art Basics for Children / ABC – Belgium
     “It would never occur to me to consider Art as a subject apart from any other in the curriculum. I see art education as a kind of thing that threads its way through every facet of academic work” (Eames, 1957). 60 years later are Governments and the academic educational field still not taking their responsibility on this count. In this plea i will try to offer concrete ideas how this could be done.
   • Hanna Kamensky, Hanna Backer Johnsen
     Enhancing the fulfilment of children’s cultural rights in Finnish Basic Education in the Arts
     The University of the arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy
     We will offer a presentation of our doctoral studies that are part of the ArtsEqual Research Consortium.We will offer also an analysis of ongoing ‘Floora’ project. Project’s aim is to enhance accessibility of socially and/or economically marginalized students to publicly funded Basic Education in the Arts music schools.
     
   • Anu Laukkanen
     Discourses of accessibility in art education and health services
     University of Turku
     In Finland, some child health centers co-operate with cultural services in order to make arts and culture a natural part of life from the very beginning and even to improve the wellbeing of families at risk. The research shows what kinds the discourses of access take place in the art education practices arranged in co-operation with the public health care.

6. Children’s cultural rights in art

   Conference room: Duetto 2

   • Malena Janson
     Is children’s cinema really every child’s cinema? Representation and ideology of contemporary Swedish children’s cinema
     Stockholm University
     This seminar examines representation within contemporary Swedish children’s cinema. By focusing on the young protagonists, the paper will offer an insight into how cinema reflects – or fails to reflect – today’s diverse society. The theoretical framework is profoundly interdisciplinary, deriving from cinema studies as well as childhood studies with an intersectional perspective.
   • Kaisa Laaksonen
     Children’s right to culture in children’s fiction in Finland
     Lastenkirjainstituutti / Finnish Institute for Children’s Literature
     Do children have the right to participate in cultural events and practices in books written and illustrated for children? The theme of children’s participation on culture and children’s cultural rights in children’s novels and picture books (for ages 4–10) will be analyzed based on Kirjakori-statistics from 2015–2019 and by analyzing the books where participating cultural practices is taken up.
   • Edvald Stefansson
     Children’s rights project in Iceland
     Ombudsman’s Office, Iceland

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18.15-19.00
Art Walk in the center of Tampere

This year, Tampere’s anniversary will be celebrated by displaying public artworks along the new shore route by Tammerkoski Rapids. Tampere 240 – Art along the Tammerkoski Rapids will be exhibited for 240 hours from 27 September to 6 October 2019, during which the shore route by Tammerkoski Rapids will offer special experiences for local residents and visitors.

The event will display eight Finnish and international works of contemporary art. Furthermore, the Dancing Fountains water and light show will be performed in Tammerkoski Rapids. The show combines sprays of water, lights and music.

Check the locations of the artworks along the banks of Tammerkoski Rapids from the attached map. The artworks will be at their best after 6 p.m. when it is getting dark.

N.B.! The route can also be taken independently along the riverside to the Vapriikki Museum Center.

We meet in front of the Culture House Laikku (address: Keskustori 4) at 18:15. The Art Walk trail is 700 meters along the Tammerkoski waterfronts and scenic trails to the Vapriikki Museum Center. On the way you will learn about the environmental works of Tampere 240. Participants are advised to dress according to the weather. Duration of the walk approximately 45 minutes. The guides will be Taina Myllyharju, Director of the Art Museum, Jaakko Laurila, Development Manager, and Aliisa Piirla, Tampere 240 Art Coordinator. There are two sets of stairs along the route. Accessible guidance is organized as a separate group from the same starting point.

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19.00-21.00
Informal reception, City of Tampere
Location: Museum centre Vapriikki, Alaverstaanraitti 5, Tampere

In the Museum Center the participants have the opportunity to visit the Postal Museum, the Game Museum and the 1918 and Tammerkoski exhibitions on the history of Tampere. The reception is hosted by Deputy Mayor Aleksi Jäntti and Director of Culture and Leisure Services Lauri Savisaari. A musical greeting will be presented by the Cultural Cooperative of Uulu.
As you leave Vapriikki, please make sure you check out the waterfall show at 21:00 in Tammerkoski.
Salad and snack buffet.

The Forum reserves the right to make changes and update the program.